👻3.20👻 Kay's Summoner💥SRS Bomber💀Poison SRS💀Melee SRS🕷️Spiders💀Skeleton Mages

Seeing a few having success with Skelly Mages. You think this is just due to having good gear and understanding, or do you think the nerf may not of been as bad due to how much minion gear drop now?
Hey Kay!

As I'm patiently waiting for your end-game SRS bomber build, my damage is falling kinda behind when starting doing T14+ maps.
I'd like to know if we're using the same cluster jewels set-up from 3.18 so that I can upgrade my character a little bit.

Thanks a lot!
Edit: thought he was talking about skeletons so removed quote
I've not done the expensive stuff yet so I cant say anything about that but im doing the regular one with a few minor tweaks and it seems to be working out. mainly like the Bone ring. I can run T10 with no issues not sure about corrupted T11+ but they should be fine aswell

https://pastebin.com/aQtasfRk -- Pob link

this is what I did. I think the main changes are that I take an additional minion offence node, Fearsome Force. and the Ascendancy order is different because I dont believe unholy might works with casters. new order at least for me was;
Mindless Agression >>> Commander of Darkness >>> Mistress of Sacrifice >>> Plaguebringer

hope this helps. and might help Kay too when he gets round to some of the other builds
Last edited by minermaster0904 on Aug 24, 2022, 2:18:28 PM
I posted the Endgame SRS Guardian.



>>> Watch 3.19 Endgame SRS Guardian build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Endgame SRS Guardian

ABOUT

Endgame version of my Summon Raging Spirit Guardian.
This build scales up the damage and clear speed with special gear, awakened gems and cluster jewels.
It will feel a lot better to play, but it won’t be cheap. And you will probably need to self-craft some items.



Gearing

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/RAWfDzh0R9uY


MASTERY
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
+1 maximum Unleash seals
Determination 25% increased efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Call to the Slaughter, Raze and Pillage and Renewal
Medium: Blessed Rebirth and Life from Death
Medium: Feasting Fiends and Renewal
Small: Enduring Composure
Small: Fortress Covenant




JEWELS

Ghastly Eyes: Minion damage, Attack speed, Added Fire damage




ASCENDANCY

Radiant Crusade
Unwavering Crusade
Bastion of Hope
Time of Need



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)


Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
You will need to self-craft some items with fossils and essences.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.



HELMET

For the helmet, you want +2 to all minion gems, reservation efficiency and minion movement speed.

I crafted this with Bound, Sanctified and Shuddering fossils.

You can also use Faceted, but it's very expensive.

The gems are: Raise Spectre, Carrion Golem, Meat Shield and Increased Duration.

Increased Duration is for increasing the duration of the spectre buffs.
And for the spectres, I like using: Xoph’s Favoured, Xoph’s Loyal and a Pale Seraphim.



BODY

For the body armour, use Fleshcrafter so your SRS can ignore elemental resistances.

The gems are: Summon Raging Spirit, Awakened Unleash, Awakened Minion Damage, Awakened Predator, Awakened Elemental Focus and Divergent Melee Splash.

Swap Melee Splash to Multistrike when you fight Pinnacle bosses.

Divergent Multistrike is 90% the damage of Awakened.



GLOVES

For the gloves, I recommend Grip of the Council while mapping, and SRS duration gloves for Pinnacle bosses. You can get them in Delve.

The gems are: Hatred, Generosity, Anomalous Convocation and Flame Dash.

Hatred scales a bit better than Anger, but if you have Dex problems just use Anger.
Anomalous Convocation gives your minions a big speed boost.



BOOTS

For the boots, I like to have regen per Endurance Charge and Brittle Ground.

The gems are: Determination, Tempest Shield, Poacher’s Mark and Enlighten.

You will only need Enlighten 3, if you have mana efficiency on your helmet.



WEAPON

The wand should have +1 to all spells, +1 to minions, and trigger.

The gems are: Desecrate, Divergent Flesh Offering and Life Tap.




SHIELD

For your shield, I recommend +1 to all Fire Spells and life recovery on block.

I crafted this with Scorched and Pristine fossils on a Shaper Int base.

It's easier/cheaper to roll +1 fire than +1 minion.

The gems are: Molten Shell, Vaal Summon Skeletons and Feeding Frenzy.

I just use Vaal Skeletons for boss fights or other dangerous encounters. They will body block the boss and proc Feeding Frenzy buff.
You could use an Animate Guardian instead, but he can die easily.



AMULET

For the amulet, look for +1 to all skill gems. You can also try to get +1 to all fire gems as well but it's very expensive.

Anoint the amulet with Arcane Guardian for extra spell block.



RINGS

Use your rings to get lots of life and resistances.

You can also craft Minion Speed with an Essence of Fear.

If you have mana problems, you should craft “Non-Channelling Skills have reduced cost”.



BELT

For the belt, use a good Stygian Vise with a nice Ghastly Eye jewel.

You can also use a Darkness Enthroned if you want more DPS.



RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Quartz with poison immunity
• Rumi's Concoction

🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
Last edited by kayella on Aug 24, 2022, 2:09:15 PM
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elaineong613 wrote:
Hey Kay!

As I'm patiently waiting for your end-game SRS bomber build, my damage is falling kinda behind when starting doing T14+ maps.
I'd like to know if we're using the same cluster jewels set-up from 3.18 so that I can upgrade my character a little bit.

Thanks a lot!


I think on Saturday I can finish it! but it's very similar to 3.18 build actually so just follow that for now :)

🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
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this is what I did. I think the main changes are that I take an additional minion offence node, Fearsome Force. and the Ascendancy order is different because I dont believe unholy might works with casters. new order at least for me was;
Mindless Agression >>> Commander of Darkness >>> Mistress of Sacrifice >>> Plaguebringer


I'm using Mindless, Bone, Mistress, Plague.
🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
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Khurune wrote:
Seeing a few having success with Skelly Mages. You think this is just due to having good gear and understanding, or do you think the nerf may not of been as bad due to how much minion gear drop now?


It's terrible now. Exactly the same build. I imported from newest POB to POB I didn't update.
Left POB is 3.18
Right POB is 3.19

🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
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kayella wrote:
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Khurune wrote:
Seeing a few having success with Skelly Mages. You think this is just due to having good gear and understanding, or do you think the nerf may not of been as bad due to how much minion gear drop now?


It's terrible now. Exactly the same build. I imported from newest POB to POB I didn't update.
Left POB is 3.18
Right POB is 3.19




Oh, that is terrible, very disappointing changes by GGG.

Thank you for looking at your skeleton mages build, I picked up the recent Kirac's Vault Pass that had the Shrouded Dead Reckoning jewel cosmetic, I wanted to use it this League with your skeleton mages build, which has been one of my favorite PoE builds.
Hello kay
I'm using your build and i wanted to upgrade from minion army to Melee SRS Necromancer but the build disapearred. why did it dissapear and where can i find this build again ?
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Weriаn wrote:
Hello kay
I'm using your build and i wanted to upgrade from minion army to Melee SRS Necromancer but the build disapearred. why did it dissapear and where can i find this build again ?


Oh, I'm so sorry! I replaced it with the new guardian build! But here is the necro version you following. The build doesn't really work in 3.18 because of Ashes drop rate nerf and some other changes to PoE..

But you can actually use the Guardian build and build from witch start instead! You need to change to Bone Offering to get block cap though!




>>> Watch 3.17 Melee SRS Necromancer build guide video on YouTube <<<


About the build: Melee SRS Necromancer

ABOUT

This build is a direct upgrade from my league starter, where you say goodbye to the minion army and focus on scaling the raging spirits for fast map clearing as well as boss killing power.

The build is easy to play with good survivability and a medium overall cost, depending on the market.


SRS

The Summoned Raging Spirits are aggressive flying minions that attack any nearby enemies and will naturally spread out and hunt for enemies until their duration runs out.

They are also good for bossing, as they do not body block each other like other melee minions, and will completely surround any boss.

To improve quality of life, unleash is used to summon multiple raging spirits in a single cast, and Replica Bones of Ullr lets them refresh their duration when they hit a boss.


SUPPORT MINIONS

The build also uses the following support minions:
• 1 carnage chieftain spectres for frenzy changes,
• 1 host chieftain spectres for power charges,
• 1 tukohama's vanguard to reduce enemies' fire res,
• 1 xoph's favoured to gain additional fire damage,
• 1 animate guardian with Kingmaker.


SURVIVABILITY

For survivability, the build stacks armour to reduce physical damage and block chance to avoid attacks and spells. There is also life recovery when you block, as well as fortify from the Animate Guardian.


Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pastebin.com/RxEXdjS3

MASTERY
Minion Masteries
1. Minions have 100% increased Critical Strike Chance
2. Minions penetrate 8% of Cursed Enemies’ Elemental Resistance
3. 20% increased effect of Offerings

Life Masteries
4. +50 to Maximum Life
5. 10% increased Maximum Life / 10% reduced Life Recovery

Mana Mastery
6. 15% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency

Armour Mastery
7. Determination has 25% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency

Shield Mastery
8. +1% Chance to Block Attack Damage per 5% Block on Shield

Caster Mastery
9. Skills supported by Unleash have +1 to Maximum Seals



CLUSTER JEWELS

• 2x Large: 8 points. Call to the Slaughter, Raze & Pillage, Rotten Claws (Don't allocate!)
• 1x Small: Fortress or Quickening Covenant
• 1x Small: Surging Vitality
• 1x Small: Enduring Composure
• 1x Small: Second Skin




JEWELS

• Ghastly Eyes
Player Life, Minion Damage and Attack speed.




ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

HELMET

The helmet is for your support minions, so I recommend +2 or +3 to minion gem level.
You can also try to get enemies take increased elemental or fire damage.

Enchant: SRS Damage



If you’re worried about your AG dying, swap combustion to minion life.


You can check my Animate Guardian guide for details on his equipment.



BODY

The body armour should have +2 to SRS.
For example: a rare armour with +1 int and +1 active, or a unique with a +2 duration corruption.




For endgame bosses, swap Melee Splash to Multistrike for more damage.



Alternative body:

Level 10 Added Fire damage is 25% phys gained as fire. It's better than +2 to gem level! But base is evasion, so can be difficult to get 4b2r (use Harvest colour craft)



GLOVES

The gloves are Vixen’s Entrapment to get a second curse.

Enchant: Reflection/Light/Grave



The gloves auto-cast Assassin’s Mark, when you self-cast Punishment, which is socketed in the shield.



BOOTS

For the boots, I recommend Replica Bone of Ullr, which lets the SRS refresh their uptime in boss fights.

Enchant: Life regen or Movement speed





WEAPON

For the wand, the important mods are: +1 to minions and spells.
You can also get minion damage and cast speed.
It also needs an open suffix to craft trigger.



Keep desecrate and lifetap at level 1!



SHIELD

For your shield, the important mod is ‘recover life when you block’. And try to get extra block chance.



We just need Covered in Ash, so keep Infernal Cry at level 1.



AMULET

For the amulet, the important mods are: +1 to fire skills and +1 to intelligence gems.
Anoint your amulet with Death Attunement to get an extra spectre.





RINGS

Use the rings to stack life, resistances and dex if you need it.





BELT

Use a darkness enthroned to socket more ghastly eye jewels.





RECOMMENDED FLASKS



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal
Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's

Basalt: extra armour
Quicksilver: extra speed
Quartz: remove freeze/chill
Rumi's Concoction (extra block)


🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
Last edited by kayella on Aug 24, 2022, 3:13:47 PM

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