💀3.15💀 iLL3aT’s Cold Skeleton Warriors/Archers/Mages ❆ League Starter ❆ All Content ❆

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iLL3aT wrote:

Hi Guys,

Sorry for the slow replies lately - it's been very busy IRL and I haven't had a lot of time to play PoE. I'll be more free after April 10th or so, but until then haven't had a lot of time to play (still on AW5 even though I'm very efficient) nor have I had a lot of time to write. I have been meaning to update the PoB, levelling section, tier 1 gear, update Sirus, etc. but that will probably have to wait until mid April. Might do a mini-write up on spectres when I get the chance - there's some cool ones in 3.10.

@injonil - I say 21/0 Vaal skellies just because it is super easy to get early league (6x The Bones Cards), and super cheap. One level is about 10% more damage though, so it should be better than the 20% increased damage

For the helm question, it works, but is not ideal. Each support gem is worth about 50% more damage, while +2 is only about ~20%, so you're losing about 30% damage. Nothing wrong with it, but it's not as good as in a six link unless you're looking for more flexibility for links. Zombies don't really do a lot - if anything, run six link specres in the chest instead (I've been playing with slave drivers instead of chieftains, it's more fun).

@K4P0T - I don't think blast freeze will work. The wording says "you" and not "your minions" or "your allies," meaning it will likely only work if your necro is freezing - which it isn't. Same logic as Secrets of Suffering - I was super excited about that one too, until someone pointed out that minions can't do the freezing. :(

Grats on that wand. If you're rich enough, you can metacraft that one to try to get the one I crafted at end of league last league - it costs a LOT of money though. For the meantime, you can craft "prefixes cannot be changed," scour, and then multimod attack speed and trigger.

Grats on Sirus too! I haven't invested in an AG yet but I probably should.

Instead of vicious bites (crit is a trap I think), I would run renewal x 2, blessed rebirth, and call to the slaughter between the medium and large jewels. Then a second renewal or vicious commander medium could be added to the other arm. This would be a mass summoning variant but could be promising.

@Senserazer - Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately we do not really scale chaos in the guide. I thought that the 30% of phys as chaos from spirit offering would add a lot of DPS at first...but it did not, so the Vis presumably would also have the same problem. We also have an issue with getting enough life, and the chest is one of the best places to get it.

@Vulgarny - Unfortunately the 1 small cluster Voices jewels are like 100 ex, otherwise I would love to run three mediums off of one of those.

@Duindain - looking at your PoB, but not quite sure what you mean. Is it the configuration that you are talking about? You have to change a few like enemy is a boss, etc. You need elemental equilibrium for bosses by the way - it reduces their elemental resistances by 50 if you hit them with a lightning or fire attack, so your cold skellies hit for more.

@the_Arkain - you only need one - on the other one with an open suffix, I would probably craft mana regen and run skitterbots/bonechill. You would have to give up on other links to get all of that in there.

Mana is a bit of an issue, but in theory we shouldn't be overspamming skellies since if they have chieftain buffs, they disappear upon re-summon.

@K4P0T - I would probably aim for a +1 level (warlord) and +25% offering (hunter) awakening orb craft. If there's an open prefix, you can craft life from there. Awakener orbs are really expensive right now though I believe. 6 hunters is way too many.

@the_Arkain - yep. Can't afford a chest right now. I'm also planning to just play without triple offering to experiment with other things. On the 3.9 body armor, that mod is now legacy - you can't craft skellies onto a chest anymore.

@BaltierX - Impale only works on phys damage, which we do zero of.

@yvonnars - The player can cast a lightning or fire based spell to proc elemental equilibrium on an enemy, increasing their lightning or fire resistance by 25, but lowering the other two by 50. Since minions do not proc EE but use it, it means that our negligible brand damage allows for minions to deal a lot more damage for little investment.

@wrajjt - yep. Storm, armageddon brand, or frost bomb depending on playstyle.