3.11 - Stress-Free PoE! SLOW-MO ZOMBIES: No Required Items! 1-Button Play! SSF League Start-End!

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Penecho83 wrote:

What Flasks are you guys using? I'm almost lvl 80 and still run around with my standard Life Flasks...

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AndyLovesHisBge wrote:

Please share your opinions of the end game bosses with your build so far.

Shaper Guardians: No problems, but have not faced many
Elder Guardians: Enslaver gave me an issue once but since that time no issue

Veritania: Easier than most map bosses

Drox: Takes a while to kill but does not present any danger. Just clear any nearby banners as you don't want them overlapping his bubble.

Baran: Pretty easy. Just deathmark and stay out of his mana runes.

Al Hezmin: he is annoying. If you can't burst him instantly down, when he hops away his friends in the moat can damage you since they are not taunted. Convocation is huge in this fight since I can usually get to him faster than my minions when he starts hopping.


I won't comment on Sirus since I suck too badly at the game to give an opinion. The deaths have nothing to do with the build, it is all lack of skill with mouse.

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M_atrix wrote:

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This league I went quite a different route with this build. And since I'm playing SSF my build progress is a bit limited at this time (still need several hard to get items). Good thing that harvest is amazing and I can craft every single item the way I want without any difficulty.

But I have a 6 link 2-hander and a 6-link chest. Zombies and Spectres (Redemption Sentries) are my main damage dealers this time while skeletons are a supporting cast mainly (until I get a Hungry Loop, which doesn't want to drop for me this league haha)

My spectres alone DELETE all map content in a blink, easily. Zombies help with taking care of bosses and other stuff.

I managed to achieve incredible clearing speed. I'm basically limited to my quicksilver potion speed right now ^^

I still run 2 curse auras, but I switched Temporal Chains for Vulnerability (insane damage buff). And since temporal chains effect is very minimalistic on bosses - vulnerability is really noticeable. Also temporal chains does nothing for me, because I kill most trash monsters even before they get to me.

And still. I eventually want to switch curses to curse on hit setup (this could free up quite a bit of passive nodes for me and bump up my total life) while putting in the good old Hatred (and Elemental Equilibrium) in their place (this could double my damage) with my new love - skitterbots. I switched to skitterbots instead of flesh and stone even before mapping. Not only they are quick as hell, but they should give a bigger damage boost than Flesh and Stone (at least it feels this way). + I don't have to be close to monsters for my minions to benefit from skitters.

With this setup I already managed to get to lvl 96. Completed all 140/140 maps. Killed Mastermind easily with 0 deaths. Killed Atziri 3 times in 3 different places. Killed all Elder and Shaper dudes. Only Awakener 8 Sirus is still undefeated. Damage is not an issue at this point. I panic too much in that fight. And 20+ minions on the screen doesn't help either, since it's super hard to see where that mothertrucker teleports before he deletes me with that lag beam.

This build laughs at Blight encounters (super easy right now) even with 10 map modifiers on T14-16, Breach is a piece of cake. And even Legion is easy, because I can actually pop more of the rewarding enemies and chests like never before.

Delve is also much more fluent and quicker.

Last 2 leagues I went with the "trigger a socketed spell" double wand setup, but this one is just easier (especially maps) to play and I wonder how strong this build could have been in 3.9 patch before all these damage and quantity nerfs to skeletons and zombies and Spectre levels.

Anyway, I just wanted to share my findings so far. Maybe it will open up more ideas for others.

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Caligula_Exile wrote:

"Reduced the frequency that Raised Zombies play their idle audio."
(from the patch notes)

Less groaning for the zombies? I would appreciate it. They sound so continously unpleased and as a good zombie mama I don't want my minions to be unhappy.

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AndyLovesHisBge wrote:

based on some advice in this thread and through some experimentation on my own, my boss killing has improved significantly the last two days. Here are the two easy changes I made.

1) swapped temp chains for vulnerability. Bosses simply die faster.

2) dropped meat shield, added empower and added jewels that blinded and taunts enemies on minion hit.

The second has multiple effects. I can quickly curse and death mark the enemy and then go hide in a corner while my guys swarm. By dropping meatshield, the zombies stay engaged on the boss instead of coming to hide with me in the corner. And Empower added DPS per zombie amd gave me another zombie, which gets me to 11 now.

Once I add in a level 21 summon phantasm, I will get my 11th phantasm as well.

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Caligula_Exile wrote:

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My witch just has been destroyed by an Elder guardian. No chance at all. I guess these are the occasions where you don't want your minions to be by your side because you are rather busy doging the bosses attacks.

I will have my revenge one day. Elder guardian, you haven't seen the last of me. You will pay for this embarassing defeat.



With just one portal left, when I knew the fight could't be won anymore, I made this screenshot just for you. To let you know where it took place.

The map mods weren't so brutal... ~ 24 % extra life, ok, not nice, but no additional damage/increased critical strike chance & multiplier, no lower player's resistances/regeneration. Nevertheless, the lightning attacks simply wiped me away.

Now I'll be levelling Deathmark in my second weapon slot. I will need it for the next date with Drox anyway.

Zombie on everyone!

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M_atrix wrote:

This beauty finally dropped for me today.

So much damage! Like a mini Hatred.

Got to level 97 and I think I will not go for 98. I have enough passive points to play with.

Veritania dropped this and it's actually useful for my spectres, I use the normal version quite a lot.

And, finally, I just killed Sirus on Awakening level 8 for the first time this league. Cost me 2 deaths only.