[3.13] SRS Necromancer (2021 Edition) Build - 5M DPS on 1EX budget! Uber Elder DEATHLESS in 3 days!

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Skua99 wrote:

A few more question and I will stop bothering you for a while. I am trying to figure out my next steps. One thing that I am thinking about doing is trying to 6 socket my elder staff. To do this I would switch over to my 5 link 'Relm Ender' and then just old school my way to a 6 link Elder with jewels and links. Depending on my luck with RNG, it will be close before I go broke.

First, how far will a 5-link 'Relm Ender' take me (may take awhile to successfully 6-link my Elder)?

Second, At level 70 should I really be concerned about a 6-link Elder and instead spend my Chaos on raising my Life (2300) and ES (2100 ES with Discipline)?

Third, I have been trying to over-cap my resistances by 29 to handle elemental weakness maps. This makes it tough to use items with Stygian sockets such as belts and 'Command of the Pit'. It seems that I will have a better chance to equip equipment with more life and ES if I just hold the resistances at 75. So my question is, do I need to over-cap my resistances?

Last question, I have been using the 'Conqueror's Potency' jewel, should I replace it with a Ghastly?

As I am writing this, common sense tells me to hold off on the 6-link and stop with the resistance at 75 (I do have a flask with Warding) and drop the 'Conqueror's Potency', but I thought that I would make sure and ask the master.

One of the things that I like about playing this build is its simplicity and how well it just flows. Very Zen like.

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Skua99 wrote:

Have had a lot of fun leveling this build and it seems to perform as advertised. Currently I am at level 82 and have no problems with level 10 yellow maps, but need to take it slow in the red ones. Have not tried any of the end game bosses.

Here is my current gear:

Just to give you an idea on the cost, when I started this build I had around 450c in the bank and currently have 200c.

My major expenditure was the 6-socket Victario's Influence (40c) and the cost of crafting my staffs. Plus I spent a bit getting 20q gems to support my SRS. I still have not got them all to level 20 and I am still doing 19K average damage with SRS (according to POB).

I did get lucky with a couple of trades. My helm cost 15c, the boots 7c and the belt 3c. I already had the 'Taste of Hate' and I think the Astramentis was around 12c. Not sure what I paid for the rings as I was buying and selling them while trying to balance out my resistances. Plus I used some that I had in my stash. There is no way I paid over 15c for them and probably under that. I did make a conscious effort to try and get some chaos resistance when I could get it.

I followed the guide and started using the Victario's chest at level 52 along with a 5-link Relm Ender (5c plus 25 silver for the Jeweler prophecy).

At this time I also purchased an item level 80 Elder Staff to do some crafting (4c plus the Jewler prophecy). I was hoping to apply a couple of 'Shrieking Essence of Rage' and have my 5-link staff with +2 Fire gems and Fortify. Well this is where things turned sour, it took me around 30-40 tries before I got the needed attributes. The trick was not to be in a great hurry to craft the staff, I just kept watching trade and picking up the Shrieking Essences once I found them for 3c or less. The other thing I learned is that there are a lot of 'Screaming Essence of Rage' to be had for 1c or less. Most of the Shrieking's I got were from combining 3 Screaming's.

When I hit the low 70's I had some excess Jeweler's and Fuses in my stash and decided to see if I could get lucky in 6-linking a staff. Bought a level 81 staff and after 200 jewels and 100 fuses I got lucky (the RNG gods had to bless me sometime). Well the RNG gods giveith and then they taketh away. It took me over 60 tries with the essences to get the correct attributes. The good news is that I was able to sell my 5-link elder for 200c which helped offset the cost of the 6-link one (plus I got 30c for my 5-link Relm Ender).

I am sure that I could have done this build a lot cheaper if I stuck with the 'Relm Ender' a lot longer and not started out with a 6-socket 'Victario's Influence'.

Once I had gotten the prescribed Mana Reduction Nodes, I was able to use Hatred, Haste, Anger, Precision and Discipline. This left me around 200 un-reserved mana. Once the build had got to the point where I felt safe (2.7k Life, 3.2k ES with Discipline and resistances over caped by 24), I 5-linked the chest and added a level 3 Enlighten. This allowed me to add Wrath and I did see a noticeable jump of 15K to 19K damage on POB (not taking into consideration adjustment for Elemental Equilibrium which I only use on bosses anyway). The downside is that now I only have 125 unreserved mana with SRS using 76 mana a pop. This has really not been a problem as my style of play is to cast SRS once then bob and weave for a second before I fire it off again. I don't think that the low mana has really affected my play. Worse case is that I shut off Wrath if mana becomes an issue.

The other thing is that I am very selective on which Legions I release. If I am in an indoor map such as dungeon or cells I just skip it. Also I make sure that when the armies come alive, I am in a position where I can't be trapped (the majority of my deaths have been due to this). I also skip the temple (to many to fast) and delving.

In the future I plan to add in a couple more jewel sockets and some more increase ES nodes. I am not sure about changing my gloves and belt to get some more Abyss jewels, but who knows. I think that this would come at a cost of losing my resistance cap and having to shuffle around a lot of gear to get the required resistances. I definably have no plans to shell out the 30ex for one of the Watcher's Eye jewels.

Last thing is to get some quality on my remaining gems and get my SRS to level 21.

I know that it is a little late in the league, but this is a fun build to level and play if you are looking for something to finish our the league.

I plan to do this build again next league as long as there are not any major changes to SRS. But not as my league starter as I feel that you do need a couple of leveling uniques to make this workable.

Also a big shout out to Angry Roleplayer for all the work he does on these guides and seems to still have time to field some questions.

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Skua99 wrote:

Quality on an Aura gem seems to add 'Increase Radius of Affect'. In regards to SRS does this mean the little guys can go farther out and still be affected by the aura? For this build, does the quality on the aura gems make that much difference?

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GhostwheelX wrote:

Are there plans to update this for Blight once the skill info comes out?