[3.14] Odif's Old Obsolete Skel Mage Guide, New one is in a new thread

Now you are my "Master Yoda" - Molten Strike is in your build for bosses?

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Noreczka wrote:

Evilmindcz - You definitely need to do a tutorial with a step-by-step on leveling your build :)

I don't know how Kay's builds are supposed to work but it doesn't work for me. They're too complicated (though that's not the right word) - I just get tired playing her builds, and Odif's build was so nice, simple. I was able to make a bigger map tier on regular items and his tree than on Kay's. But I can't adapt the old version to the new tree and general changes in game mechanics.

Thanks man, but i dont think my english is good enought to write some guides, or longer texts in general, it would just look lame.

I think leveling summoner as a summoner from the start is easy, and even if Odifs guid is two league outdated and the tree is different now, there is still just a few nodes that you wanna go to. And there are youtube videos with some good general tips. And thats pretty much it, you'll end up with some generic necro tree (Enduring Bond/Death Attunement/Sovereingty/HP nodes), and they you can start doing changes that suits your current build/playstale, or addressing some problems. It is a process, for example my tree changes every day, as i'm testing new things, not everything works, but thats the fun in it, looking for answers! :-)

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Noreczka wrote:

Now you are my "Master Yoda" - Molten Strike is in your build for bosses?

I dont have Molten Strike, i have Molten Shell, if thats what you mean? Thats just another layer of defence, and Bone Barrier replacement on left click. I usually use vaal version of it when i'm swapping to nightmare scourge, to tank initial hits.

Indeed, I had a mistaken first look at this gem

BTW is anyone using AG with fleshcrafter, with what equip? I cant get POB to show me some number i could trust...

The theoretical issue i have with it, is that chest CONVERTS hp to ES, that means with good chaos resist it basically turns him in CI build, and that would kill him. Probably instantly. And i wanna have some generic huge hp pool/huge regen with Mask/Garb. There is actually solution this league, as i can decrease his chaos resists with corrupts, this way he can benefit from extra ES from Grave Intentions, but dont lose life from Fleshcrafter. So the goal is to have cpped elemental resists, and close to zero chaos resist.

EDIT: ok, i've found my answer, looks like i just dont know how to work with minions in POB :-)

Looks like i'm almost at the end of the road, after i spend like 1500+ chaos worth bound fossiles on my new helmet, and ended with nothing, i've decided i'll just use the old one with AG. If something will hit hard in Simulacrum, it will most likely kill me first anyway. And... it worked like a charm! :-)

I did Wave 30 of Simulacrum on yesterdays stream, first try. It was the ultimate goal/defence test of this build for me. Video of the last wave:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1202842923?filter=highlights&sort=time

Then i did The Feard for a this league challenge right after it, when Maven releases all bosses at once, with just one really stupid death. You can skip discussion about tactic in czech at the start, fight starts at 2:25:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1202850498?filter=highlights&sort=time

6k HP, 75/75 block caped without Glancing Blows, immune to shock and freeze, Garb from AG also helps with most slowing things in the game. It even beats the scourge movement speed debuff, but its not really usefull without convocation, which i dont have (and you can use Stampede boots for it, as Kaoms dont work).
There are still little things i wanna change on equip, but tree is the final version - unless i hit spell block suffix on helmet, in which case i can respec two more points to life nodes.

I subbed you on twitch because youre a good skelli mage Player and builder also i dont understand czech except kurva.🤣🤣 Hahaha
Greetz from your neighbour country🇩🇪👍👍😝😝😝

Kurva... no way, its a Polish kurwa... :D

Evilmindcz - i like the block based build you have with the skellies, and being new to this build wanted to know if there was any early map gear you'd recommend, no where near being able to get stuff similar to your current gear, so didn't know if you had any good recommendations until i get a bit more currency for upgrades.

Thanks, and love your build and its tankiness so far.

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Zythixx wrote:

Evilmindcz - i like the block based build you have with the skellies, and being new to this build wanted to know if there was any early map gear you'd recommend, no where near being able to get stuff similar to your current gear, so didn't know if you had any good recommendations until i get a bit more currency for upgrades.

Thanks, and love your build and its tankiness so far.

Actually, tankiness is cheap. You get 75/75 just from tree, which is free, tempest shield, free aswell, enchant for bone offereing thats really cheap unless its on some endgame elder bone helmen 86+. Even the additional block chance from watchers eye is cheap, if you dont want multiple determination/zealotry rolls (40-50c currently). And thats it.

If you open my character on poe.ninja, and use their time machine feature, you can see my equip at week 1 if the league, when i had pretty much nothing of these expensive things, and i was already farming T19 maps for bases.
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/evilmindcz/Skellygeddon?time-machine=week-1
Point is, you dont really need anything expensive, its just luxury/QoL for endgame. And regular red maps are not endgame now, so you can just do it with eqiup like this.