[2.2] Scion Clone Generator - Mirror + Blink Arrow Army (100K++ DPS) [Easy Atziri kills]

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tobiazl wrote:

Yes, for me its the same expire is enough to proc poison clouds. But I have the feeling that the minions dont explode Minion Instabilty.

It only procs if the minion reaches 33% life and dies. I suspect that it will explode and also leave a poison cloud. Needs to be tested.

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divineness wrote:

Cool replies! Minion instability will only trigger when the clone's HP drops below 33%. With such a short amount of active time (3s), clones do expire before their HP drops, so the poison clouds from beacon of corruption will trigger. Either way, both damage sources add supplementary damage and help with clearing trash packs (BoC) and blues/rares/bosses (MI).

@174nana

You are playing necro with elemental or poison+chaos? Which damage source is more effective in clear speed?

I am currently running Necro with elemental damage version of clones via Anger + Generosity and Wrath on its own so that I get the Commander of Darkness +20 all resist bonus (will generosity it later once I get better gear). No chance to test poison as that would need a 5link for maximum damage via poison + added chaos damage.

Damage was quite good while running around with Death's Opus. I recently swapped to Lioneye's Glare after getting one with a good 330 dps for a low price. Everything seems to be going as planned.

Running a simple curse on hit Elemental Weakness and still lacking Elemental Equil for now until I finalize my gearing, so there is a huge chunk of elemental damage that I yet to unlock for my clones.

Next milestone will be doing Merciless Malachai at level 71 or 72 with around 3.8k to 4k life, should be doable.

This league, I am going to try again the Infractem - Drillneck combo.

It is cheaper than the Lion's eye glare and I really like the increased movement speed of the Infractem.

Also, the pierce helps spreading the curses.

For those that go the poison route. Did you consider this combo. It will not always hit, but I think that it contributes more to the poison damage.

The misses from not using a Lioneye's Glare bugs me sometimes as it causes to clones to not be able to clean up packs properly and consistently. But I guess Infractem's 100% pierce might help.

Malachai killed in Merciless at level 71 with slightly under 4k life. Only died once thanks to stupid lag spikes each time he does his hentai tentacle move. Damn prophecy lag spikes are real...

Here is a screenshot of it.

Let me know if anyone interested on the video then I will upload it.

Once I hit level 80, I will probably move this post to Witch section and update it accordingly.

The amount of damage and minion benefits from Necromancer far outweighs that of Ascendant.

Glad to hear that necromancer is a viable alternative for mirror/blink arrow clone build. Can't wait for your witch guide to materialize and bring fun to my PoE grinding once again

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divineness wrote:

Glad to hear that necromancer is a viable alternative for mirror/blink arrow clone build. Can't wait for your witch guide to materialize and bring fun to my PoE grinding once again

Necromancer is not only a viable alternative, it makes gearing far easier due to the free 20% all resist, more excess to Minion Damage Nodes, free Poison Cloud upon clone death/expiry, some physical damage mitigation via Zombies and Chaos Resist.

What I did was not link Wrath to Generosity so it also affected me, but the downside is weakened Elemental Equilibirum. Will be removed once I am better gear so that I can give my clones max ele dps via EE.

With all the extra Minion Damage, Sidhebreath may not even be needed which can be replaced with a life and resist amulet.

Exp is flowing smoothly at around 120million exp per hour, should hit 90 easily.

The 20% from necromancer don't work with generosity, because you have no Aura for yourself then .
But anyway it's the best ascendancy.

The resistance shouldn't be a Problem to gear since you need only life and resi.

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174nana wrote:

Once I hit level 80, I will probably move this post to Witch section and update it accordingly.

The amount of damage and minion benefits from Necromancer far outweighs that of Ascendant.

Plz upload new build.

There's a roundabout for the generosity concern. I have a lvl 1 clarity gem slotted on another gear. This way, you can benefit from having the +20% ele resist bonus while having both wrath and anger linked to generosity. Also, another 10% increased damage to boot. Once I have sufficient points allocated to reserved mana nodes, I will switch to discipline for the added energy shield or heralds to add some damage. More auras means more damage. Wouldn't it be better to have alpha's howl equipped so that you can have increased damage from additional auras?

I tried this build and think it's a nice boss killer.

However, it sucks (atm) vs trash / groups of monsters. I need way too long to clear.

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Rhareg wrote:

I tried this build and think it's a nice boss killer.

However, it sucks (atm) vs trash / groups of monsters. I need way too long to clear.

You need to try and get +1 arrow on your quiver at least to help with the clear speed for packs, if not it might feel slow, but it should be that bad though as I rush through packs even before I got my +1 arrow quiver.