[3.6] Zombiemancer - High Survivability - End Game Viable

i do it hc and shield charge is great. otherwise i would be 10 times dead. perfect movementskill and u can easily dodge most of the bighits from the syndicatmembers... when u got ur chiftains up and allways run +3 frenzy ur awesome fast for just be a summoner. Clearspeed is rly good.

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Dasidarius wrote:

Can someone check my gear?

I feel like I need to replace the ring with fire damage as well as the shield enchant? I'm probably only proccing EE for cold right now?

Still leveling gems but this feels very beefy and faster in maps than Jugg. Still need a 6L Geoffri's but one step at a time...

Having fire damage on the gear is not a big problem, zombies only deal fire damage when they kill something. This wont be the case against bosses, where you actually want the extra damage.

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Grunak wrote:

I think my profile is opened right now, so feel free to check, I thought it was public. Anyway, I will check the passives, but... strange, I basically copy the build, so not really sure. Let me know if you see something wrong. Thx in advance.

Your characters on the PoE site are still set to private.
If you have 1200 strength, then you are missing a passive tree node somewhere.

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meesternibbles wrote:

Okay, what am I missing about this using EE? Your hit has lightning dmg from the ring, cold dmg from hatred, so EE buffs mob resists to the cold damage, but weakens them to the fire explosions. Great for clearing, but this doesn't seem effective for single target. Am I overthinking this or should EE be dropped if you're going to bossfarm?

Great and fun build by the way, I'm finally starting to gear up after RL crippled the start of the season for me. Thanks a ton for a great guide!

You dont do cold damage yourself when you use Hatred with Generosity.

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Jamhand wrote:

This is HC Viable? Or some changes for HC.

I dont really enjoy the idea to Shield Charge to packs in this league.. I'd rather manually cast offering and apply Elementel eq with ball lightning.

Your thoughts?

After the upcoming syndicate nerf it's probably HC viable again.
Dont really need to make changes, im not a HC player but my build guides focus on survivability enough.

Easy 15% as enchant :D
First on league with it (maybe)
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Level 4 Empower currently costs 5 Ex any cheaper alternatives before i get that much currecny?

In the text of the guide you mention Zealot's Oath for ES regen, but in the passive tree provided Zealot's Oath is not allocated.

Should I pick up Zealot's Oath in exchange for some other node or is that not a thing anymore?

Aside from that nice guide, having a lot of fun letting my zombies slay everything, after getting some of the gear it works out really well, thank you!

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DrAkek wrote:

In the text of the guide you mention Zealot's Oath for ES regen, but in the passive tree provided Zealot's Oath is not allocated.

Should I pick up Zealot's Oath in exchange for some other node or is that not a thing anymore?

Aside from that nice guide, having a lot of fun letting my zombies slay everything, after getting some of the gear it works out really well, thank you!

It comes from the recommended chest gear, the geofri's.

And thanks for the answer clooney, totally brainfarted that.

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Dasidarius wrote:

Can someone check my gear?

I feel like I need to replace the ring with fire damage as well as the shield enchant? I'm probably only proccing EE for cold right now?

Still leveling gems but this feels very beefy and faster in maps than Jugg. Still need a 6L Geoffri's but one step at a time...

You need to only proc lightning from shield charge, because your weapon makes your zombies do fire explosion damage, and your hatred makes them do cold damage, therefore the only elemental dmg coming from you needs to be only lightning and nothing else (i think chaos/physical is fine, obviously)

and thanks @clooney for the reply, i thought so too that at this stage only corrupted gear can further my gear progressions.

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holylasers wrote:

Level 4 Empower currently costs 5 Ex any cheaper alternatives before i get that much currecny?

farm syndicate memebrs in Aque/Harbour, and farm Tora in leader of Research. I leveled 2 pieces of empower to level 3 (both didn't go to level 4 unfortunately) last night. I also have 5 pieces of empower on my offhand weapon (last slot for Portal) to vaal them later

Okay I need to come back and give my thanks again for introducing me to what is definitely an incredible build.

I just tried Hall of Grandmasters for the first time ever, and I managed to complete it solo thanks to this build. It's not like the build even seemed tailored to it (the invocations die all over the place, I even lost my animate guardian in the first few minutes), although vitality helps with both survival and reinvoking zombies.

But it offers both so much power and so much resistance that it makes the build incredibly versatile. Everything I've tried with it, it managed to do despite my inexperience.

Grandmasters was the hardest thing I've ever tried in this game by far (I still haven't done Shaper/Uber Elder/Uber Atziri/Aul so there's room for even more terrifying stuff xD) but the build was up to it. The very last fight was incredibly tense as there was one grandmaster left who annhilated my invocations instantly with a sort of multi-shot technique and I had 0 portals left but it worked out in the end.

Now I have to buy back items for my animate guardian though and never ever do grandmasters again xD Thanks once more for this great guide!

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Grunak wrote:

I think my profile is opened right now, so feel free to check, I thought it was public. Anyway, I will check the passives, but... strange, I basically copy the build, so not really sure. Let me know if you see something wrong. Thx in advance.

I have no idea if the issue comes from you or me, but I don't see your characters. When clicking On Clooney's profile, the last three tabs are "Challenges, Characters, Badges" and when I look at yours I only see "Challenges, Badges" and the characters tab is missing.

Maybe I'm the one doing something wrong though. But yeah, my best advice is to check every passive one by one to make sure you get the full +7 from them. Someone earlier remarked that one of the passives (Gravepact) might be hidden by the ascendancy circle when it's open so maybe that's where you missed one?

Yeah, it was that one, gravepact, hidden by ascendancy nodes... thx to you and clooney.

I'll try to check my profile, don't know what's happening.