[3.21] Cold Conversion Summoner | Build guides for all budgets | (Ghazzy Zoomancer)

Welcome to the Crucible League!

Unfortunately, I'm not updating the entire buildguide for 3.21 due to time restrictions and will most likely do that for 3.22 instead. Ghazzy, a huge minion creator in the community learned about this build recently though and has created his own updated version of the build. So if you're interested in running a Cold Conversion Summoner(Zoomancer) you can check out his guide and Youtube video going through the build.

Ghazzy's Zoomancer:
Zoomancer Buildguide
Ghazzy Youtube Video

He does most of the things similar to me but there are some differences, especially during the leaguestart which is why I've decided to release a PoB for my version of the build if anyone is still intrested in how I'm running it. The biggest difference is that I now recommend everyone to run as an Occultist during league start. Getting Explosions from Profane Bloom just feels too good to pass on. I then suggest pivoting to Necro later on when the AG is setup. Since Ghazzy's buildguides are more for the general public he doesn't think it's a good idea to tell newer or inexperienced players to swap ascendencies so he runs Necromancer all the way.

I agree with him, ascendence swapping creates alot of questions for new players. So I decided to leave this PoB out for more experienced players who're confident in their understanding in the game and will be able to swap Ascendencies later down the line.

The tradeoff running Occultist is that the mapping and clearing experience feels really good early on. We lose the ability to cap out block and Physical damage becomes a problem since you can't fit Determination. But I think it's worth it.

Videos:

[3.21] Path of Building:

[3.21] My League Start Atlas Tree:

Good luck with your league start!

This build:
After making massive changes in the 3.16 build apocalypse I'm certain we've come out stronger than ever. While our dps numbers will never rival that of 3.13 before the massive nerfageddon to support gems in 3.15 and removal of pre-nerf harvest crafting we are still able to achieve enough dps to oneshot all content in the game except for specific Uber bosses. The biggest changes is that we're now a pretty tanky build as well as boasting over a 100 million dps for the minmaxed version.

The biggest changes though is for the lower ends where the low budget version of the build comfortably can do content like juiced up The Feared rotations. My new low budget version is even able to do full 30-wave simulacrums if played properly. (You can read more about the lower budget options in the low budget section of the guide)

The purpose of this build is to be a highly versatile build that can do everything in the game. Be it Bossing, mapping, Deep Delve, various forms of AFK farming et.c. To obvious downside is that it turns to a jack of all trades kind of build that can do everything but doesn't really excell at anything.
At higher budgets it's an excellent bosser but will never rival something like a minmaxed bossing build with billions of dps. Even if we can kill Sirus in 1 second there will always be minmaxed builds like trappers or Generals Cry builds that do it in 0.3 seconds. This build is still a strong mapper, but unfortunately never will come close to dedicated mapping builds designed around having 30+ Headhunter stacks scaling clearspeed with screen wide explodey mods and a billion projectiles. We happily sit somewhere in the middle being able to do everything but not excelling at anything.

The strength aside from our versatility predominantly lies in how easy the build is to play. My goal always is to make my build as simple to play as possible minimizing the amount of button inputs required. In the beginning of the build you will be pressing alot more skills since we don't have access to the more high end budget items. But as the build progress most of it will go away leaving us with very few abilities to maintain. This allows you to focus more on just dodging abilities and picking up loot while constantly being on the run.

If you follow this build through to the end you can expect to:
- Comfortably clear all content in the game
- Clear the hardest bosses and Maven invitations
- Farm full wave-30 Simulacrums (Afkable up to wave 23ish)
- Deep Delve past 1000 depth
- Farm 100% delirius maps
- Have enough clearspeed fullclear things like Legions
- AFK fully juiced T16 normal Blighted Maps

- Extremely strong league starter with massive dps and tankiness on a low budget.
- Fast mapper and excellent bossfarmer.
- Clears all the content in the game.
- Great bosser due to high dps and tankiness
- Very flexible build. It's easy to move certain parts around for more tankiness, dps or speed if you want to.
- Easy to play. Only press mobility abilities and summon Skeletons.
- Mostly automated build. Curses, Offerings and Debuffs are applied entirely through triggers which allows you to focus on positioning.
- Heavy reliance on movespeed which makes dodging abilities and clearing smooth and easy.

- Endless scaling, you're never done with the build.

- When Molten Shell is down we're vulnerable so you have to keep that in mind.
- Can be pricey during league start due to the price of primordial Jewels early on. The prices of these jewels taper off though.
- This build has alot of chase items once you've finished the medium budget version like 8-link helmets, +2 trigger wands and Elemental Equilibrium Skin of the Lords.
- Very hard to minmax, especially hitting the 160 Dex requirement and all resistances while keeping your EHP and damage modifiers high enough. It's a very finetuned build.
- Due to the 25% reduced health nerf to Minion Damage Support Golems and Zombies can get shotgunned at lower budgets. Especially annoying on bosses like Veritania early on.
- Endless scaling, you're never done with the build.

3.17 Gameplay Videos:

High Budget Videos:

Medium budget Videos:

Low budget Videos:

All Path of Buildings:


If you don't have Path of Building community fork on your computer, download it here: https://pathofbuilding.community/

Beginner instructions to PoB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGs1jkHatE

Offensive capabilities, mechanics and scaling:

Defensive capabilities:

Mobillity:

Skilltree and Point Allocation:

Ascendancy, Bandits, Annointments and Pantheon:

Helmet - Carrion Golems & Skeletons for single target:
Our helmet is our primary dps item reserved for the centerpiece of the build, the Golems & Skeletons

My Links:

Summon Carrion Golem - Vaal Summon Skeletons - Increased Critical Damage Support - Awakened Multistrke Damage Support

- Summon Carrion Golem: We use the normal quality gem here. Make sure to get a lvl 21 gem fast.
- Vaal Summon Skeletons: lvl 21 gem is a priority.
- Increased Critical Damage Support The biggest multiplier we can find. Normal version adds 148% Critical strike Multiplier.
- Awakened Multistrike: Very high dmg multiplier.

If you're on a budget:
Get a 21/0 Carrion Golem gem and the non awakened versions of the support gems.

Disclaimer: In my 3.18 PoBs I'm running Melee Splash for both single target and clear. This is because the unintended interaction of Melee Splash cleaving on Hydrosphere still is possible cause of a balance oversight. Since it will be removed in the future, I'm not including Melee Splash in my links in the forum guide but a different support gem instead. You can read more about this interaction in IV. General Build Mechanics -> Offensive Capabilities. To make I clear, follow the PoB links. The links listed here is intended for when this interaction is later removed.

Chest - Spectre setup for AoE clear:
This is our secondary damage link containing the either Primal Crushclaws & Zombies linked together or Hyrri's Watch & Phantasms.

My Links:

Primal Crushclaws & Zombies:
Anomalous Raise Spectre - Awakened Minion Damage - Raise Zombies - Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks - Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support - Awakened Multistrke Damage Support

- Raise Spectre: Since we're running Primal Crushclaws the Anomalous version of the gem the best version.
- Raise Zombies: I personally prefer running 21/20 normal Zombies for the added life and movement speed. Phantasmal Zombies provide higher dps though.
- Awakened Minion Damage: One of the biggest damage multipliers. At level 5 it also grants +1 to socketed minion levels which is very strong.
- Awakened Melee Physical Damage: A big multiplier but more importantly, also adds intimidate to the build which increases physical damage taken by 10%. This is converted into cold damage meaning a flat 10% increased damage boost to the build.
- Awakened Multistrike: Simply the strongest multiplier for the build.
- Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks: Also one of the strongest multiplier for the build. Divergent Predator would be a dps increase if you can bother to mark enemies.

If you're on a budget, get 21/0 Raise spectre and simply 20/20 of the non awakened versions of the gem.

Alternative support gems:

Disclaimer: In my 3.18 PoBs I'm running Melee Splash for both single target and clear. This is because the unintended interaction of Melee Splash cleaving on Hydrosphere still is possible cause of a balance oversight. Since it will be removed in the future, I'm not including Melee Splash in my links in the forum guide but a different support gem instead. You can read more about this interaction in IV. General Build Mechanics -> Offensive Capabilities. To make I clear, follow the PoB links. The links listed here is intended for when this interaction is later removed.

Weapon - Trigger setup:
The wand contains our primary method for spreading curses and other debuffs. A key component for this build to work is through the use of a crafted trigger wand which allows for all socketed skill gems to be casted automatically when we use Dash or Phase Run. We also run Bone Offering and Tempest Shield in here aswell.

My Links:

Bladevortex - Divergent Flesh Offering - Determination

- Bladevortex: We use the normal BV because it gives additional Area of effect to the skill. 20/23 gem is enough because the skill recieves +1 from a proper trigger wand which adds +1 additional weapon range compared to a basic level 20 BV.
- Divergent Flesh Offering: The Divergent version of the gem provides even more attack speed and is a large dps bonus.
- Determination: Determination is put in the wand cause we have nowhere else to put it.

Shield - Skitterbots + Convocation:
In our shield we simply link our Skitterbots with Bone Chill and Convocation. Keep in mind that Bonechill and Skitterbots absolutely have to be linked together.

My Links:

Divergent Summon Skitterbots - Divergent Bonechill Support - Anomalous Convocation

- Divergent Skitterbots: We choose to use Divergent skitterbots as it ads 10% increased effect of the shock and chill provided by them. This basically translates into more damage compared to other skitterbot alternatives.
- Divergent Bonechill: Divergent Bonechill causes targets chilled by abilities linked by bonechill, meaning skitterbots, to have a 10% increased chill effect. This basically empowers to slow effect of your skitterbots slows. Appears to not increase damage according to PoB so only has an effect on the chill slow, not the chill effect.
- Anomalous Convoation: It's either this or normal convocation. Anomalous provides our minions with 40% additional movespeed which increases the mobility of our minions. Normal convocation gives 20% increased CDR which also is decent if you find yourself pressing Convocation alot. Ashes of the Stars increases this bonus to 100% movement speed on our minions.

Bonechill and Skitterbots Interaction:


Gloves - Mobility Setup:
All mobility abilities in the build are linked together in the gloves since they all hve green colors.

My Links:

Phase Run - Divergent Dash - Second Wind - Vaal Grace

- Divergent Dash: Our gapcloser/creater. Used to get out of dangerous AoE effects or away from enemies or to close the gap. I personally like to initiate combat by dashing into enemies and convocating my minions ontop of them. Dash triggers all our wand gemlinks aswell. Running Divergent dash for permanent Phasing is the optimal choice. Even if Phase Run provides phasing it will be down alot of the time. This gem alone ensures 100% uptime on phasing and is the best solution for clowny dashes into large packs where you might otherwise get bodyblocked.
- Phase Run: One of our primary mobility skills. Provides us with a massive movement speed buff and phasing. We basically want to press this ability off cooldown. Run this on your left mouse button to press it off cooldown.
- Second Wind: We run second wind to grant our dash 2 charges. It increases the fluidity of the build alot. Make sure it's only linked to Dash and no other gem in the gloves. Reason is because it has a big mana multiplier which otherwise increases the manacost of Phase Run or Grace without adding anything. Second Wind linked to Grace increases the mana so much that you can't use it either.
- Vaal Grace: For an additional defensive layer we run Vaal Grace in the build. Coupled with a Jade Flask and Skin of the Lords it allows us to reach close to Evasion cap to help against physical damage.

Alternatively you can run Vaal Haste instead which opens up for increased clearspeed and higher dps. However, it makes you more vulnerable to physical damage while mapping.

Boots - Aura + Utility:
The boots has our Hatred Aura and Molten Shell linked together.

My Links:

Hatred - Awakened Generosity Support - Molten Shell - Increased Duration Support

- Hatred: One of our primary tools for scaling our damage. We use the normal version of Hatred which gives it a bigger AoE so it covers our minions better.
- Awakened Generosity Support: Causes hatred to grant a bigger buff to our minions, have a bigger AoE and also gives it 1 additional level. If you're poor, start of with normal generosity.
- Molten Shell: Molten Shell adds a tremendous defensive layer to the build, especially when combined with a The Frontline small cluster jewel. We want to have as close to 100% uptime on this as possible. To do so we invest into increased duration for it and use the Numlock trick on it to effectively autocast it off cooldown. We run normal Molten Shell for better uptime.
- Increased Duration: Its only purpose is to extend the duration of Molten Shell.

Ring1 - Animate Guardian:
This build requires additional sockets from Unset Rings. In here we put our Animate Guardian. In 3.17 I've started to use a Hungry Loop ring for our Animate Guardian to save up on socket slots in our gear. This allows our AG to be far tankier, frees up Feeding Frenzy from our secondary minions and increase his Area of Effect for massive clearspeed advantages due to how large his Explosions from his gear will be.

My Links:

Anomalous Animate Guardian

- Anomalous Animate Guardian: Our Animate Guardian will have an entirely own section. For the skillgem the priority is to get a level 21 animate guardian gem forthmost. If you got currency to spare, try to find a level 21/20 Anomalous Animate Guardian. These gems are very rare and pretty expensive. The Anomalous Animate Guardian gives him 60% increased Area of Effect. This synergizes very well with his equipped explodey giving him 60% larger explosions when enemies die. Against harder high density content like 100% delirius maps or wave 30 Simulacrums the explosions also inflict Elemental Weakness in an AoE which increases clear speed further. Items like Ashes of the Stars increase his AoE by an additional 90%.

Ring2 - Optional:
The last socket slot in our gear is highly variable and depends on what type of budget your currently at. In my high budget version, I'm running an Elementalist version of the build so I'm using a Stone Golem here to massively boost my Health Regen. This gives me 1300 passive HP regen and also allows me to run a Bottled Faith instead of a life flask.

Other options to put here include Assassin's Mark, Hydrosphere or Tempest Shield. It all depends on what you want to do with the build.

If you're running Assassin's Mark, you want to use the regular version as it allows your minions to get the last third Power Charge. Divergent Tempest Shield provides additional spell block if you decide to build a block version of the build. Anomalous Hydrosphere gives it increased cast speed so there's less friction when using it.

My Links:

Anomalous Stone Golem

- Stone Golem: I run an Anomalous Stone Golem to drastically increase my Health Regen as an Elementalist.

My 3.17 Gear:



Minmaxed Gear:


Helm:


Body Armour:


Weapon:


Shield:

Gloves:


Boots:


Belt:

Amulet:


Rings

My personal Jewels:



My personal Cluster Jewels:



Jewel Enchants and Corruptions:
I highly advice to try and obtain 25% bleed avoidance on all of our Primordial Jewels. These jewels are usually pretty cheap to get and 100% bleed avoidance is huge for survivability. This also includes Corrupted blood. For the rest of your jewels you're looking to get either Stun Avoidance or Ignite Avoidance.
You want to focus on one of them. We're able to get 50% avoidance from our Frontline Cluster Jewel and our Thread of Hope. We don't really want to corrupt our Cluster Jewels so they can provide us with 15% from Harvest crafting enchants resulting in 45% avoidance. This allow us to get a total of 95% additional avoidance to one ailment from the remaining Jewels.

The very high budget version of the build runs as an Elementalist which is the reason why I'm running Forbidden Jewels with Unnatural Strength to increase our minion level, thus increasing damage and minion survivability. There are also valid Forbidden Jewels for Necromancer versions of the build aswell but these items are extremely expensive.
Skill Tree Jewels:


Cluster Jewels:

Low Budget flasks:



Life Flask:
Our Life Flask of choice is an Eternal Life Flask with a increased recovery rate prefix. This prefix causes the entire flask to heal its effect over the duration of 1.1 seconds which feels amazing. For a suffix we run bleed removal as. If you have bleed immunity from Jewel corruptions, either Ignite or Poison removal are the best options.

Granite Flask:
We run a magic Granite Flask with chance to avoid Ignite/Stun/Shock/Curse as one of our armour sources. The mod you run on your flask depends on what you feel that your build is lacking.

Jade Flask:
We run a Jade Flask with increased Charge Recovery and Increased Armour during flask effect. The Evasion from the Jade flask gets multiplied from our Grace aura and our Skin of the Lords allowing us to reach very high evasion values without any evasion gear whatsoever. Increased charge recovery is used as it's the only prefix that increases our flask uptime which scales with our use of Instilling Orbs. Increased Duration also feels pretty good.

Quicksilver Flask:
For movement speed we're running a quicksilver flask with increased charge recovery and 14% increased movement speed. This results in a flask that increases movement speed by 54%. In some instances, increased flask duration gives better uptime than increased charge recovery rate.

Basalt Flask:
Our last Flask option is a Basalt Flask to further increase Armour and juice up pur Molten Shell. We also want increased charge recovery or Increased Duration here to maximize flask uptime. The Suffix option can be somewhat flexible and you can choose whatever your build lacks for avoidances.

If you want to sacrifice survivability in favour of more speed you can swap the Basalt or Jade Flask for a Silver Flask instead to provide you with Onslaught. This is what I personally prefer.


Mageblood flasks:

Lets talk about the Animate Guardian, a central piece to any high tier proper Summoner build. First of all, what is an Animate Guardian?

The Animate Guardian is a skill gem you acquire which allows you to Summon a minion equipped with the gear of your choice. To summon an Animate Guardian, you must first create one. This is done by using your Animate Guardian skill on an item that's lying on the ground. Once you've used the actual skill on an item, your AG has been created and you'll see a flying item circling around you. As you start equipping more items the you finally will see a minion fully decked in the gear you've given him.

The Animate Guardian can equip 5 items:
- Head
- Chestpiece
- Twohanded Weapon or 1-hand + Shield
- Pair of boots
- Pair of Gloves

His role in your minion army is to act as a buffer rather than a source of actual DPS. Our goal is to equip him with several Aura-like buffing items so amplify the damage of our minions. And there is several incredibly powerful items we have access to in the game that makes the Animate Guardian a central piece of all minion builds.

Before we start talking about what gear to use on him. Lets start of by discussing when to actually acquire one. A massive drawback with the animate guardian is that: When he dies - All gear on him is lost.

For that reason I would recommend a person to never start building an animate guardian unless you have a minimum of lvl 20 skill gem.
If you're gonna build a higher budget animate guardian, you will want to obtain a 21/20 skill gem. For the most expensive Animate Guardians you want a 21/20 Anomalous Animate Guardian as the alternate quality version adds 60% increased AoE for him. The goal is to make your AG as beefy as possible by capping his resistances and buffing up his healthpool through levels.

How do we make our Animate Guardian tanky enough to feel safe:
By raising his levels, acquiring increased life nodes in our tree and lastly, by giving him a ton of % life regeneration.

In the past we used to run the animate guardian in a +3 Unset Ring but nowadays we're running a new setup having him placed in a Hungry Loop. This makes him far tankier and increases the dps of the build.

In our Hungry Loop we're looking to use these support gems:

Minion Life Support - For survivability
Feeding Frenzy - For the Feeding Frenzy buff.
Awakened Increased Area of Effect - For better clearspeed
Enhance Support - For even more clearspeed

If you're afraid of your Animate Guardian dying you can also run Elemental Army on him instead of Enhance. This gives him +2% to maximum ele resistances, overcaps his Elemental resistance and increases his explosion damage by 20%. Meatshield Support could also be a very strong option to make him tankier.

As mentioned earlier, life regeneration is also one of the AGs primary defenses. Since minions have such large healthpools % of life regeneration mechanics are extremely strong on them. In the case of my Animate Guardian who has close to 80 000 health, 1% life regeneration translates into 800 life per second. Our goal here is gear up our guardian whith as much % of life regeneration as possible making him outregen all damage in the game.

The animate guardian has 40% base elemental resistances and 20% base Chaos Resistance. That means that we need 35% Fire/Cold/Lightning and 55% Chaos Resistance to cap out our AG. Running my build, the AG also recieves 23% Elemental Resistance from our skill tree and 30% elemental from our Necromancer Ascendency which actually makes him overcapped at 93% elemental resistance. The only reason we get additional resistance from his helm and boots is for the rare occurances where our AG runs out of range from our Auras and don't get affected by the Necromancer ascendency.

Animate Guardian Gear
Lets talk about the gear and our options for the Animate Guardian. I'll start by showing the type of items I use on my guardian.

My Gear:

Animate Guardian Regeneration:
One of the biggest fears to any summoner is losing their animate guardian and all money they've invested into it. For this reason, one of the best ways to scale his defenses is by maximising his health and % health regeneration.

For this reason, alot of other build creators like to run things like The Dopplegangers Guise chest which gives him a flat 10% life regen making him really tanky and borderline immortal. I value the Inpulsa explosions too much to ever run any other chest however.

This undoubtably reduces our AGs recovery rate since all he gets is 2% from his boots, 1% from Renewaland 1% from the skill tree resulting in 4%.
However, since we're running a Life From Death notable on one of our medium cluster jewels that cluster jewel alone provides immensive amounts of regen to our Animate Guardian constantly outhealing all damage he's taking. Whenever you see your AG health dropping you can "spamheal" him by casting skeletons healing him for over 30% life per second effecitvely outhealing most damage in the game.

Budget Animate Guardian Setup:

How to put Animate Guardian into your PoB:

Medium Budget PoB:


Point allocations and Skilltree:

Skillgems and support links:

Equipment Guide:

Jewel Guide

Flask Setup:


Animate Guardian Setup:

Ascendancy:

Low Budget PoB

Point Allocations and Skilltree:

Skillgems and support links:

Equipment Guide:

Jewel Guide

Flask Setup:

Animate Guardian Setup:

Conclusion:
The budget version of this build is a very strong league starter and allows us to clear alot of content in the game on a budget of only a couple of exalted orbs. We're able to clear all red maps without a problem, kill all guardians, all endgame bosses and Maven invitations.

Path of Building:

Twink Gear:

Key leveling Uniques:

General leveling Strategy and Tips:

Full walkthrough:
For the actual campaign playthrough I will be providing the information needed for you to finish each act running this specific build. You will be able to see how to allocate your skillpoints during every section. I'll also be guiding you through which skill and support gems to pick or buy at which moments. Generally, this playthrough is divided into two main portions:

Act-1 to 4: This is the early game from Act1 to the beginning of Act5. We don't have access to our key component minions and skills during this portion so we have to play around it a bit. In the early playthrough of the game we will focus on running Zombies and Summon Raging Spirits as our primary damage dealers. We will also include Summon Skeletons if we have socket links to spare.

Act-5 to maps: Once we finish act 4 we will transition away from summoned minions into running permanent ones instead. The leveling experience becomes disgustingly easy once we get here, especially if we've gotten our hands on the recommended unique items mentioned earier. Once here we'll finish our skill setup and links. You will basically run this setup until you transition into the low budget version of the build. This is where we replace our duration based minions with permanent minions like Spectres and Golems.




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Interlude: Converting to the Cold Conversion minion setup:

Items and Gemlinks:
From this point when you go into act 5 we won't be modifying our gem and links any longer apart for some minor improvements in Act 6. When it comes to gear, keep looking for upgrades that allow you to keep the same gemlinks throughout the campaign. These links will always have a massive priority over any item you find. As always when it come to upgrades, look for resistances and Life in addition to keep the integrity of the gem links we've chosen.






Early Mapping:

As you should already know before reading this buildguide, fitlers are an integeral part to this game. This game is literally unplayable without a wellmade filter. In here you will find the filters I personally make for myself when I play the game and when to upgrade your filter.

[3.18]Initial Filter:

[3.18]Early Game Filter:

[3.18]Mid Game Filter:

[3.18]Late Game Filter:

Early currency farming:

Atlas farming Strategies:

This build utilizes the Numlock Trick to automate certain abilities and smoothen the playstyle. This includes Molten Shell and for some players convocation. The Numlock Trick is what enables us to autocast instant cast abilities on cooldown without having to think about it.

What is the Numlock Trick?
The numlock trick is a technique that only works on keyboards with a Numpad. It's the block of keys on the right side of a keyboard with numbers ranging from 0-9, some additional buttons for calculus and a Numlock button.
What you're able to do with the numpad is Lock button on the numpad to Numlock. Once a Numpad button from 0-9 is locked to Numlock it constantly press the keybind without fail. This allows us to automate up to 10 abilities in PoE if we want to since you can run several instances of Numlock at the same time.

How to perform the technique:
Performing the Numlock Trick is very simple and requires nothing more than a keyboard with a numpad. This is an inbuilt feature of all keyboards so no third party programs are used.

To perform the button you need to:
1. Keybind the ability you want autocasted to a numpad button ranging from 0-9.
This ability needs to be instant cast or else it wont work. Abilities with a cast time can't be performed by the Numlock Trick.
2. Press the button and Hold it Down. So for example, if I've bound my Molten Shell to Numpad4, press Numpad4 and keep the button pressed down.
3. Press and hold Numlock while still holding down your numpad keybind.
4. Release both buttons at the same time.

If you followed each step correctly, your ability of choice will now be autocast on cooldown via the numlock command.

Additional Information:
The numlocktrick resets everytime you change zone.
So everytime you leave and re-enter a map or when you enter a new map, you will need to setup the command once again. After doing it a couple of times it turns into a habit though.

Here's a video of the numlock trick:
[urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkfnEJAZIOc&ab_channel=LordFluffy[/url]
It's a Diablo3 video but this doesn't matter. The numlock trick is universal for all keyboards and work in all games.

Why aren't we running any Primordial Harmonies?
We only run 2 golem types in this build which means each jewel only adds 40% Golem damage per jewel and not 60% as with builds including a Chaos Golem. We also don't need the CDR on golem abilities as it's mainly used for clear as it speeds up the recovery rate of Leap Slam and Cascade on the carrion. We don't want our golem to use these skills though as they slow down their single target dps. Remember, we use the golems for single target and spectres for clear speed. Purly focusing on Eminences gives higher PoB dps for the golems and grants us 30% buff effect which buffs our spectres more and gives us additional health regen from the stone golem.

How do I get Syndicate Operative Spectres?
The easiest way is to go type - /global 6666 which is the official spectre sharing channel in trade. Go there and ask someone if they can share their spectres politely. You could do that or whisper me in game @Otroligdojps.

If you're a solo self find player, the SO spectre is obtained in Syndicate safehouses. They're extremely hard to get though as you can't raise them with desecrate there. You have to locate them, kill them and immediately raise their corpse. The corpse despawns in less than 1 second so you need to be really quick. I highly suggest that you disable all minions if you want to raise one yourself as locating one before your minions kill it and then quickly raising it requires godlike reactions.

Why Skin of the Lords)?
Skin of the Lords is basically a glorified Tabula Rasa for our build.
The primary reason we get this armor early on is because it provides us with +2 to socketed skills which is a huge damage boost. The chest also grants us 100% increased global defenses which help scale our Armour from Determination and Evasion from Grace to make us tanky versus physical damage.

Higher budget Lords also allow us to get Elemental Equilibrium increasing our damage even further.

Can this build do afk blighted maps:
Yes, but requires some gem swaps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-W7Udj4ID4&ab_channel=HenrikSwanstr%C3%B6m

I have trouble surviving, what do I do?
If you find yourself dying alot it simply means you need to start scaling your defenses. I like to segment defensive upgrades in 3 layers:

1. Fit Determination and Molten Shell into the build.
2. Fit March of the Legion and Vaal Grace into the build.
3. Run The Front Line small cluster and scale duration on it.

These are the 3 basics for becoming tanky with this build and everything is cheap to implement.

How do you summon Golems to activate the Primordial Might effect:
You don't, that effect is for other types of builds. Since we're reserving mana and using two different types of golems we can't utilize this. We use Primordial might because it makes our Golems aggresive.

What am I supposed to upgrade next:
I've included upgrade priority orders in all PoBs.
Read the notes in the correct PoB your currently at.