[3.15] Broodmother: Summon Spiders Necro | THE NEW OP SUMMONER | 8m DPS | 11k EHP

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Paintherapy wrote:

Am I gonna have a hard time if I start next league with this build as my first char? since it needs specific uniques that might not be available/cheap?

Not really. What I did was play the build as SRS + Zombies + Carrion Golem until I had the money to buy an Arakaali's Fang. SRS transitions very well into spiders because the tree is very similar.

I'm good at making money at the start of the league, so it took me by day 3 or 4 to buy Arakaali's Fang. If you aren't good at making money at the start of the league, that's ok because you can continue to just use SRS, or you can do a different build and make a spidermancer later, but it's definitely possible to do it as a league start because I did it in Blight and Legion.

Fair enough, thank you ^^

Hello

I need some help before the new league starts. This is how my build looked at the end of Blight: https://pastebin.com/0PGZYNiv

Am I doing something wrong? How should I improve it?

On a side note, I swapped Devouring Diadem for Speaker's Wreath and that solved the issue of no wolves spawning. Wolves actually appear on PLAYER kill, so no wonder almost none appeared when spiders did all the killing. Since the helmet makes minions only able to kill ignited enemies, what finishes the monsters is the spider's POISON, and wolves pop out like shrooms after rain.

What's best is that wolves perpetuate spider spawning, so I basically have to pop Writhing Jar only once per map :)

Sure, I do lose some survivability but all my deaths were my fault for not paying attention anyway.

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sqvirel wrote:

Hello

I need some help before the new league starts. This is how my build looked at the end of Blight: https://pastebin.com/0PGZYNiv

Am I doing something wrong? How should I improve it?

On a side note, I swapped Devouring Diadem for Speaker's Wreath and that solved the issue of no wolves spawning. Wolves actually appear on PLAYER kill, so no wonder almost none appeared when spiders did all the killing. Since the helmet makes minions only able to kill ignited enemies, what finishes the monsters is the spider's POISON, and wolves pop out like shrooms after rain.

What's best is that wolves perpetuate spider spawning, so I basically have to pop Writhing Jar only once per map :)

Sure, I do lose some survivability but all my deaths were my fault for not paying attention anyway.

You should not be using Speaker's Wreath. You're trading a minor quality of life buff for losing out on an aura and Eldritch Battery, as well as the corpse eating from the helm. Wolves do 10k DPS, there is no reason to center the build around spawning as many of them as possible. There's a reason why my guide uses Devouring Diadem, because it's simply the best helmet for the build. If you want to use something else then you can go ahead, but I can't help you with it because then you're basically making a different spidermancer build.

Well, the main point why I was so fixated on large amount of wolves was because they made blights (and blighted maps) extremely easy. Now in 3.9 I'm rather gonna go with Devouring Diadem since this league is more focused on bossing anyway.

Helmet aside, the thing I'm most confused about are jewels:
- should I focus on minion physical or chaos damage?
- regarding the one jewel to be socketed into belt (the one with blind or mov speed) is getting one with both mods fine?

Also:
- is Aul's Uprising a good amulet or is it just a QoL thing? Envy seems useful.
- same for one unset ring - Carrion Golem good or not?
- how am I supposed to use that War Banner thing? Do I just carry it around or do I place it when it reaches 50 stacks? (I guess saving it for bossess)

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sqvirel wrote:

Well, the main point why I was so fixated on large amount of wolves was because they made blights (and blighted maps) extremely easy. Now in 3.9 I'm rather gonna go with Devouring Diadem since this league is more focused on bossing anyway.

Helmet aside, the thing I'm most confused about are jewels:
- should I focus on minion physical or chaos damage?
- regarding the one jewel to be socketed into belt (the one with blind or mov speed) is getting one with both mods fine?

Also:
- is Aul's Uprising a good amulet or is it just a QoL thing? Envy seems useful.
- same for one unset ring - Carrion Golem good or not?
- how am I supposed to use that War Banner thing? Do I just carry it around or do I place it when it reaches 50 stacks? (I guess saving it for bossess)

-Minion physical damage above all
-Yes both are fine but you only need 1 blind and 1 movespeed jewel mod out of all your jewels
-Envy sucks
-Carrion golem will kill worms and is not even needed
-Just use the aura don't need to place it

Any update for POB link?
Because i tried to import your 1st page POB code but got errors.

Anyway thank you for your build :)

Got my Arakali's Fang for this league. :)
Devouring diadem is ~2ex lol. Fenumus shroud nowhere to be found. Any other alternatives for the mean time ??

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korynx wrote:

Got my Arakali's Fang for this league. :)
Devouring diadem is ~2ex lol. Fenumus shroud nowhere to be found. Any other alternatives for the mean time ??

You don't need Fenumus' Shroud, just use a rare chest. It's more of a min/max item.

Vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30FJsYhC9Sg

Feelings with the build:

Used this as started, used skeleton mages in the beginning till I could afford a fang. Switched. Now it's pretty chill but the beginning was hard. I found switching to hybrid and giving ES and especially vaal discipline a more prominent role in the build, very needed. Very lacking defensive wise in my opnion. DPS is more than enough. Anyway I played around a bit and my gear is far from perfect. I did introduce some sweet MF. Obviously not going EB route with my path. Having 6.1k HP + Spirit Offering + Bone Barrier + Chaos golem seem to be doing the trick.

Since I play with aurabot I don't really have the mana problem you would have when playing solo. I can afford to just run Aspect Of The Spider. And man this build rocks with an aurabot. Speed is awesome.

Current gear: