3.14 KING OF ALL SUMMONERS. Zombies & Skeletons & Spectres on STEROIDS! | League-Start to End-Game

selling my Elegant Hubris 77300 4x 80% Minion Dmg and 37% Chaos Res.

https://imgur.com/a/trhe7yr

is fortify on weapon better than +1 strength gems (for the extra empower and support levels)?

Just did some testing now...

Did some respecting towards more damage without giving much in defenses and came up with this:

dropped my 240% minion damage jewel and replace it with 160% one to free some points to put in other places: gravepact, ravenous hoard(via thread of hope), sovereignty and Elemental Equilibrium.
Using hatred with EQ is an excellent damage boost(got some lightning damage on ring to trigger it).

I am still very tanky with Geoffri @ 14kEHP, 1502 str, 50 chaos res and 16 zombies.

lost ~1400 EHP and 10 chaos res.
Had to drop phase run and skitters for hatred but added vaal haste while keeping vaal molten shell for those boss fights


Also tried using phys to lightning gem in phys reflect maps- you still lose zombies and need to free an aura to re summon them but it's manageable

Any Idea what I can make better?
I have problems at t16 maps and also cant run any of the special t16 maps with the boss at the end (hydra, minotaurus etc). the minotaurus 1-shoots me with the rock hail haha

Also I dont have enlighten lv4 and cant activate the banner aura.
How much dmg am I missing because of that?
(The timeless jewel on my tree gives me 5% strenght and 4% max life)

can i swap aul to astramentis in balanced build?

Hello

Can someone pls have a look at my char and suggest some improvements? Im rippin too often and cant finish my lvl 92. Weapon is expensive AF (10ex for linked multimodder 100% inc minion dmg and +1 socketed gem??) - I am running femurs of the saint. For armor I found victario and auras to be just ok with damage and if I go geoffrys sanctuary I have only + 1.5 es compared to victario and so shit damage that takes so much time to kill something and i rip even more often..

What changes about the Saqwall's setup if you don't have Pride Aul?

Those don't seem to exist in the current league.

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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee wrote:

Whats the interaction of stampede with temporal chains and freeze/chill?

No effect at all. These effects reduce action speed and the stampede only sets movement speed so you can still be slowed, stunned (not while cycloning of course) and frozen. This is no https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Kaom%27s_Roots or https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Unstoppable

I've tried the boots on a cyclone slayer and I was quite disappointed.

While you do move a bit faster while cycloning, you feel rather slow while not. 150% simply isn't enough.

Since you dont need speed flasks you can use a set of stibnite flasks and never run out of charges. But charges were hardly a problem, and again you'll miss the speed in between fights.

The extra anointment is awesome but that's basically the only mod you'll get on the boots since everything else is meaningless.

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spammmm wrote:

I'm running the speed variant and dying a lot on t16's even with spirit offering and bone barrier i can only cap cold res. should i just upgrade my rings for max res?

You need to cap your resists before you do anything else. So if you need to sacrifice a bit of speed to do so, then that's where you should focus first and later, after you've farmed currency, you can buy some expensive gear.

So dump that belt and get resists, strength and life in that order. Ideally you want Chaos resists as well as I believe yours are negative and this league is punishing with Chaos damage. Make sure you pick up the Soul of Shakari in the Pantheon to help there a bit too.

Are you at 1000 Strength yet? I would be surprised if you were given your gear and tree. So if you don't have 1000 Strength you won't be getting life leech from your Zombies which is essential to keep you alive. Particularly as the aforementioned Chaos damage is flying straight past your ES.

You need to pick up Might in the tree. Three points will net you 70 Strength plus 8% strength increase which is massive. Respec the two nodes near Sacrifice and one from somewhere else. You shouldn't need those two anyway as your Zombies should be Lvl 28 which gives them a massive life pool. If you're already at 1000 Strength then you don't need these nodes, but strength is life, extra dexterity and extra ES so consider grabbing them anyway.

Your flasks are a mess. At the stage of the game all your flasks should be 20% qual for extra uptime. Don't try and roll them, just buy them or beast craft them as it will be cheaper. You won't need a mana flask so replace that with something more useful like a Basalt or Amethyst flask.

Get a Quartz flask - Phasing is so underrated! You get 10% dodge for attacks and spells, but also enemies have a reduced likelihood to target you. You just run through, everyone goes "huh, what was that?" and then your Zombie Army runs over the top of them. This is my favourite flask for this build: Phasing, faster movement and increased duration all in one performance enhancing bottle. You can roll up to 30% move and 40% duration which would be magic.

In one of your Jewel slots you are using From Dust.... but you don't have summon Skellies anywhere so this is a complete waste. It's a waste anyway considering what else you could put in there. You should really have a leech jewel to help your Zombies survive, plus something to give them some extra damage like additional Phys damage, Minions deal x% increased damage if you've used a minion skill recently, minions have chance to Taunt on hit, or some additional protection for them like elemental and chaos resists. Something basic like this would do.

You don't have Death Attunement annointed on your amulet yet which would instantly give you an extra Zombie and Spectre. You can also use Intrinsic Catalysts to add up to 20% quality to Amulets and Rings, which with Astramentis will boost all your attributes by 20% from the amulet. So suddenly your amulet goes from 100 all attributes to 120 all attributes. You can keep Divining till you get better rolls too. You might be able to respec that 30 dex node and use that for something else.

In summary:
1. Cap Resists
2. 1000 Strength
3. Quartz Flask for Phasing!

If you do nothing but those three you should find your survival increases significantly.

Thank you so much aldora! this is my first season of poe so i'm still trying to figure a lot of this stuff out. Much appreciated advice!!! and my str is only 576 but ive been following the path of building where to put my points im really struggling in that area as well. The gem i still have socketed for skeletons is from the budget version i just made the switch today to the speed variant so ill work on that as soon as i can. Life leech in general is applied to my zombies attacking and ill get the benefit? How could i boost my str besides passive skill points i know you said the belt i can get some str ther. once again thank you so much for the info!