[3.13] The Moaning Witch | Evasion based SRS MI Bomber (SSF viable, League Starter)

I really like playing evasion based characters with evade and dodge as the main defense. I also love Minion Instability mechanic, because it makes the boring and lazy playstyle of summoners so much fun.
Summon Raging Spirits are powerful, automatically guided missiles that go boom! Fun!
But I didn't find any build. So I created my own. And because I find it really fun I decided to share it with you.

As I mostly play Standard SSF, I want to keep my build SSF viable. The basic guild line will also be league-free. If there is anything special in the league I will point it out.

There are 3 commonly known ways to make SRS Minion instability builds viable:
1) +# level of minion/fire/all gems on our wands
2) +#% Minion Damage modifiers anywhere
3) +#% Minion Life modifiers anywhere

But there are also other hidden ways to make it even better:

1) The more minions you summon, the more pops they do resulting in higher DPS
2) The faster a Raging Spirit die, the more of them you can summon resulting in higher DPS

Therefor our DPS is:
DPS = (Casts_per_second) * (Damage_per_pop) * [((Fight_length) - (Time_to_pop)) / (Fight_length)],
where (Casts_per_second) * (Time_to_pop) must be less or equal than 20

So lets say you can summon 5 Raging spirits per second, they go pop after 3 seconds, every Raging spirit do 500k damage and you will steadily summon them
for 6 seconds until the boss dies (and we expect every Raging Spirit to hit it) Then our DPS is
5 * 500k * (6-3 / 6) = 1.25M DPS and we did 7.5M damage.

Ok, this is not a good example because the fight was really short and only half of our Raging spirits actually did any damage due to the long 3 seconds wind up.
So lets say the boss is really beefy and it takes 30 seconds to kill it while summoning Raging Spirits steadily. Then our DPS is
5 * 500k * (30-3 / 30) = 2.25M DPS and we did 67.5M damage.

So what's out *ideal* DPS?
1) Ideally we want (Casts_per_second) * (Time_to_pop) -> 20
where (Casts_per_second) -> inf.
and (Time_to_pop) -> 0

Now, realistically we can push (Time_to_pop) to somewhere between 1 and 2 seconds, but we also need some travel time for our Raging Spirits.
The ideal time for (Time_to_pop) is somewhere around 1.5 seconds (1 screen).
Therefore our ideal (Casts_per_second) is 20/1.5 = 13.3

Come on, what *is* the DPS then?

With the +3 helmet, 1 Raging Spirit should have around 46000 Health
Minion Instability causes 33% of our minions' Health as Fire damage => 15180 Damage / Spirit
My Damage modifier is around 500% => 75900 Damage per / Spirit
Let's say our (Time_to_pop) is 2 seconds, so we can deal 20 * 75900 every 2 seconds => 20 * 75900 / 2 = 759000 DPS
Now, we have to add modifiers from debuffs. This is a bit harder, because it depends on the total Fire resistance of mobs. If the target had 0 fire resistance, our fire penetration
support wouldn't do anything. But let's pretend *all* our debuffs work, so:
- Fire Penetration 38%
- Exposure on Hit 10%
- Flammability 49%
- Elemental Equilibrium 50%
So it's basically another 150% damage modifier.
That means: 113850 / Spirit => 20 * 113850 / 2 => 1138500 DPS
Is it too low? Well, it's DPS, not burst damage. I don't kill Conquerors in 1 hit, but they are still fast enough.

League Starter?


SSF viable?


HC viable?


Pros, Cons?

Wands:


Helmet:


Chest:


Gloves:


Boots:


Rings:


Amulet:


Belt + Jewel:


Jewel:


Flasks:

Wand #1


Wand #2


Helmet


Chest


Gloves


Boots


Unset Ring


Swap weapon

Recommended general setup:
Major God: Soul of Lunaris
Minor God: Soul of Ryslatha

Use whatever you like, I prefer the setup above.

Kill all or help Lord Kraityn (until maps)

Lord Kraityn has 3 useful bonuses. Later, its better to exchange it for a jewel slot with minion damage/life.

With 1 cast of Flame Dash we get (apart from the other passive buffs):
+20% cast speed for 4 seconds
+30% Mana regeneration for 4 seconds

So it's best to use flame dash at least once in 4 seconds. While mapping, this is not an issue, but keep this in mind in boss fights.

- Steelskin level 21 provides a shield of 2403 points. 70% is taken from it when hit. 2403 * 0.7 = 1682
- Life shield Kintsugi lowers the hit by 20%. Assuming we run 5k health, this is additional 1000 Life shield

Effective Health pool (approx.) = 5000 + 1682 + 1000 ~ 7500 Life.
Maybe it's more if you count other reductions. I don't know. The point is you won't die unless you screw up mechanics :)

You will hardly get hit. And if you don't get hit you can't die.
See? We turned to "Just don't get hit, bro" pros :)

Add the layer from Steelskin and Kitsugi and now you can see where all the tankiness comes from. High movement speed and fast recovery on movement skills also helps.

- Get Arcane Surge Support from the big chest on the beach at the beginning of the game. Fight the beach and take Raise Zombie as a reward.
- Keep using it with fireball together. Don't level up Arcane Surge Support.
Go to Tidal Island and finish the quest Mercy Mission. Take Quicksilver Flask and Elemental Proliferation Support as a reward. Link it with Raise Zombie gem.
- Get Summon Raging Spirit as a reward from Breaking Some Eggs and put it instead of Raise Zombie gem.
Stop using Raise Zombies and Fireball skills.
- Buy Steelskin and Dash from Nessa. You will need +Str and +Dex somewhere on the gear to use them.
- Go to The Prison and take Minion Damage Support as a reward. Buy other gems from Nessa: Added Cold Damage Support,
Added Lightning Damage Support. Use them as you see fit (or store them for later).
- Return to the prison, finish first ascendancy trial and kill Brutus.
Take Summon Skeletons as a reward and buy other gems from Nessa: Flame Dash, Clarity, Infernal Legion. Start using Infernal Legion even without
Minion Instability keystone. Your SRS link should be: SRS - Infernal Legion - Minion Damage.
- Go to Marveil's Cavern and back to town. Take Flesh Offering as a reward.
- Finish Act 1.

- Go to The Broken Bridge and Help Kreytin. Go to The Crypt and solve 2nd trial. Progress the quest there.
- Go to The Chamber of Sins and solve another trial. Progress the quest there. Take Desecrate from Greust as a reward.
- Go to The Western Forest and progress quests there. Visit Weaver's Chambers and kill the beast there. Take Elemental Focus Support as a reward and buy Minion Life Support from Yeena.
- Finish Act 2.

- Go to The Crematorium, finish the quest and also solve another trial there. Take Flammability as a reward.
- Go to The Catacombs and solve another trial there.
- Go to The Solaris Temple Level 2 and progress the story.
- Go to The Ebony Baracks and finish the quest Sever the Right Hand. Take raise spectre as a reward. You can start using them, but they will probably be useless for now.
- Progress through the story, then go to The Imperial Gardens. Solve the trial there and claim the Waypoint.
Now go the Labyrinth and finish it. 3-link is enough to do it. Take Necromancer ascendancy.
- Return to The Imperial Gardens and go to The Library. Solve the quest there and take Fire Penetration Support as a reward. Buy all available gems from the vendor:
Feeding Frenzy Support, Elemental Army Support, Ice Bite Support, Hypothermia Support, Grace, Frenzy, Flesh and stone.
- Finish Act 3.

- As you progress to Acrobatics keystones, start getting evasion based equipment. But don't off-color yet. Prefer sockets before evasion. But you should get evasion based armor with 4 link (for spectres) asap.
- Go to The Dried Lake and finished the quest. Take Summon Stone Golem as a reward.
Progress through the mines and kill both Kaom and Daresso. Take Spell Echo Support as a reward. Buy Chain Support and Curse On Hit Support from Petarus and Vanja.
- Now you have all the required gems for the build.
- Finish Act 4.

- Do the quest The Key To Freedom and take Stibnite flask as a reward.
- Finish Act 5.

- Go to the Twilight Strand and do the quest. Now you have access to all gems in the game (except drop-only obviously). If you followed the guide you wouldn't need that, but sometimes our gear doesn't allow us to use what we want, so it's nice to be able to buy any gem for replacements.
- Go to The Prison and solve the trial there.
- Finish Act 6.

- Go to The Broken Bridge and finish the quest The Silver Locket. Take Jade flask as a reward.
- When you hit level 54, start chancing every Coral Amulet you find or buy to have change to get Tavukai (especially for SSF). It may take a while to get it, so keep using Infernal Legion until you get it or buy it.
- Also start vaaling every crimson jewel for the chance to get Efficient Training jewel.
- Go to The Crypt and to The Chamber of Sins (level 2) and solve the trials there.
- Finish Act 7.

- Firstly, go to the second Labyrinth.
- Enter Sewers and kill Doedre. Take Unset Ring as a reward.
- Go to The Bath House and solve another trial there.
- Go to The Lunaris Temple to get Frost Sentinel Spectres. You should be able to have two spectres. If they don't freeze check your links. The most effective 4-link for freezing is Raise Spectre - Elemental Proliferation Support - Ice Bite Support - Chain Support.
- Finish Act 8.

- Go to The Blood Aquaduct and farm Tabula Rasa chest. 4-link is enough for early mapping, but if you don't get anything better, this is the way to progress through yellow maps.
- You also want to start farming Immortal Syndicate members to get "Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" craft.
- Go to The Tunnel and finish another trial. Other then that there is nothing in this act to focus on.
- Finish Act 9.

- Go rescue Bannon and take Quartz Flask as a reward. Now you should have all three utility flasks if you haven't got them yet. Use beast crafting to craft appropriate suffixes to your flasks. Try to focus on getting decent equipment, because 3rd Labyrinth and mapping is near. - Get evasion based gear, cap resistances and off-color the good ones.
- Go to the mines for the socket and colors recipes.
- Go to The Ossuary and finish the last trial.
- Finish all the areas until the very last quest - An End to Hunger.
- Enter the third Labyrinth. If you have all resistances 110%+, you can take Mistress of Sacrifice first.
- Finish Act 10.

- Farm Immortal Syndicate to get the craft "Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill".
- Farm prophecies to get Deadly Rivalry V and Kintsugi armor.
- Farm Elder influenced maps and craft 6-link helmet for SRS.
- Farm Atziri for the unique boots.
- Farm better gear a level up gems.
- Have fun.

Act 1
- Arcane Surge Support, lvl 1, get at the beginning of the game
- Elemental Proliferation Support, lvl 1, get as a reward from the quest Mercy Mission
- Summon Raging Spirit, lvl 4, get as a reward from the quest Breaking Some Eggs
- Steelskin, lvl 4, buy from the vendor (Scroll of Wisdom) after the quest Breaking Some Eggs
- Minion Damage Support, lvl 8, get as a reward from the quest The Caged Brute
- Flame Dash, lvl 10, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Transmutation) after the quest The Caged Brute
- Clarity, lvl 10, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Transmutation) after the quest The Caged Brute
- Summon Skeletons, lvl 10, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Transmutation) after the quest The Caged Brute
- Added Cold Damage Support, lvl 8, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Transmutation) after the quest The Caged Brute
- Added Lightning Damage Support, lvl 8, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Transmutation) after the quest The Caged Brute
- Flesh Offering, lvl 12, get as a reward from the quest The Siren's Cadence
Act 2
- Desecrate, lvl 16, get as a reward from the quest Intruders in Black
- Elemental Focus Support, lvl 18, get as a reward from the quest Sharp and Cruel
- Minion Life Support, lvl 18, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Alteration) after the quest Sharp and Cruel
Act 3
- Flammability, lvl 24, get as a reward from the quest Lost in Love
Raise Spectre, lvl 28, get as a reward from the quest Sever the Right Hand
- Fire Penetration Support, lvl 31, get as a reward from the quest A Fixture of Fate
- Feeding Frenzy Support, lvl 31, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Chance) after the quest A Fixture of Fate
- Elemental Army Support, lvl 31, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Chance) after the quest A Fixture of Fate
- Ice Bite Support, lvl 31, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Chance) after the quest A Fixture of Fate
- Hypothermia Support, lvl 31, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Chance) after the quest A Fixture of Fate
- Grace, lvl 24, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Alteration) after the quest A Fixture of Fate
- Frenzy, lvl 16, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Alteration) after the quest A Fixture of Fate
- Flesh and stone, lvl 16, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Alteration) after the quest A Fixture of Fate
Act 4
- Summon Stone Golem, lvl 34, get as a reward from the quest Breaking the Seal
- Spell Echo Support, lvl 38, get as a reward from the quest The Eternal Nightmare
- Chain Support, lvl 38, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Alchemy) after the quest The Eternal Nightmare
- Curse On Hit Support, lvl 38, buy from the vendor (1x Orb of Alchemy) after the quest The Eternal Nightmare