[Tentative 3.21]Dconnic's Occultist/Necro Poison Skeleton Mages

Hello fellow Exiles, This is my Poison skeleton mages build for people who like having a minion army or miss classic high dps minion builds in the current league. I recommend going Occultist for a cheaper damage spike than necro while also maintaining layers of defense with Aegis ES on block(capped attack block chance), Vile Bastion ES regen on kills and 4k hp, 2k ES. Necro version on the other hand would Have more survivability and would need Forbidden Flesh/Flame of Profane Bloom.

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Looking forward to hearing how this build performs for others.

P.s As we don't know how strong the league mechanic would be there are lots of possible changes I have in mind for the build, like switching to a rare minion wand if the passive trees are strong enough etc. so the build will be updated as I complete tests in the new league which you can always watch and ask questions about at twitch.tv/dconnic

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I like the build. There are currently only 5 phantasmal vaal skel gems in trade and personally I like to play ssf. Will it work with regular vaal skels? What can poor people use if they don't have The Covenant or Aegis Aurora (which are not farmable)? I like that you're not using a crazy crafted helm or too many unattainable awakened gems, but this build will still be difficult for plebs like me to put together.

For the shield, if you don't have access to Aegis I'd recommend a fossilized spirit shield with level to minion gems and as much minions deal increased damage as you can get, any stats other than those mentioned are bonuses. You can definitely make it work without phantasmal, we just use phantasmal to increase dps by increasing number of skeletons making use of support gems like volley and pierce. Without the covenant the dps would decrease but running added chaos damage in place of Void Manipulation/vicious projectile would probably be the go to in those cases. All the non awakened gems can of course be bought at the gems vendor and would still be a comfortable play style so even ssf should be able to run it (I presume the vendor is in ssf but never played it so not sure).

Am i missing something here, if you are gonna make a minion and poison build, isn't SRS a better option to pick over Skeles?

Hello,

I followed your build (and it's very nice !), so I check your profile, and I want to know why did you use "Vicious Projectiles Support" for your Vaal Skeletons ? It shows me that it is incompatible with it. Is it normal ?

Thanks and sorry for my english :)

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WardenStranged wrote:

Am i missing something here, if you are gonna make a minion and poison build, isn't SRS a better option to pick over Skeles?

SRS is better in theory but this build feels better in maps (skeletons being meat shields with Blessed Rebirth and applying wither with Skeletal Atrophy), and is more in tune with my ideal summoner playstyle than srs is, less spammy etc.

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TheShaady7 wrote:

Hello,

I followed your build (and it's very nice !), so I check your profile, and I want to know why did you use "Vicious Projectiles Support" for your Vaal Skeletons ? It shows me that it is incompatible with it. Is it normal ?

Thanks and sorry for my english :)

I went vicious projectile support because in maps, enemies don't live long enough for the extended duration for "unbound ailment support" to be better, so the bigger "MORE" damage number on vicious projectile is better. As for it showing incompatible I believe it's because regular summon skeletons are seen as melee which cant use "projectiles" but as we use skeleton mages it is used as shown by vaal summon skeleton being compatible

Thanks for your answer, have a good day :)

Hi, i used this build and it's sucks skeletons dies directly and survivalibility is also poor for character i just wasted my time to play with this build