[3.16 updated] BRO, DO YOU EVEN SUMMON? Life/ES Dark Pact Skeleton Caster League Starter

I'm in a priv league, so we only have 1 void battery, is it worth running 1 rare and 1 void ? or just stick with 2 rare wands?
Doing occultist.

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veenarm wrote:

I'm in a priv league, so we only have 1 void battery, is it worth running 1 rare and 1 void ? or just stick with 2 rare wands?
Doing occultist.

Can you test it out on PoB?

My guess is that 2 GG rare wands will often out-perform Void Battery, if they have Minion Life + Cast Speed + Gem Levels + other mods.

It really depends what you're comparing:

if pretty decent, but not as good as a Void Battery would be. A better wand might be.

BTW, you can fairly easily get to the point you can rely on Mana Regen to sustain DP, even with great cast speed:

Gear:


POB = https://pastebin.com/mLCxc0tW

I don't have Empower yet, nor Gloomfang, this is SSF after all, but this build rocks hard!
8 Mil Shaper DPS, 9k Pool, great regen and leech, that's insane.

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CantripN wrote:

Can you test it out on PoB?

My guess is that 2 GG rare wands will often out-perform Void Battery, if they have Minion Life + Cast Speed + Gem Levels + other mods.

It really depends what you're comparing:

It's really hard to find a wand that's better than VB, thing about VB is you will commit for the nodes that give Spell/Crit Multy/AoE and so on per PC. Timeless jewels will give ES/SD/CM etc per PC and 9 PC is not the limit at all, scaling could be massive if you dare to try ;)

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zoNiklv wrote:

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CantripN wrote:

Can you test it out on PoB?

My guess is that 2 GG rare wands will often out-perform Void Battery, if they have Minion Life + Cast Speed + Gem Levels + other mods.

It really depends what you're comparing:

It's really hard to find a wand that's better than VB, thing about VB is you will commit for the nodes that give Spell/Crit Multy/AoE and so on per PC. Timeless jewels will give ES/SD/CM etc per PC and 9 PC is not the limit at all, scaling could be massive if you dare to try ;)

For sure, if you go like 11 PC, it's gonna be hard to beat :)

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CantripN wrote:

For sure, if you go like 11 PC, it's gonna be hard to beat :)

Even at 9 it is so, but idk if even possible at 13 charges ;)

Anyways, if someone still needs help/hints on how to deal with Awakener, here's my latest kill with Vortex:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/532095677

It's not pretty and that stupid death to visual clutter forced me to fight last stage on the stairs. But you get the general idea how to dodge his mechanics and force the arenas on your terms :)

Vortex is kinda okayish for the endgame still, but that's probably a bar where all the builds should be. Not less :)

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zoNiklv wrote:

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CantripN wrote:

For sure, if you go like 11 PC, it's gonna be hard to beat :)

Even at 9 it is so, but idk if even possible at 13 charges ;)

Anyways, if someone still needs help/hints on how to deal with Awakener, here's my latest kill with Vortex:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/532095677

It's not pretty and that stupid death to visual clutter forced me to fight last stage on the stairs. But you get the general idea how to dodge his mechanics and force the arenas on your terms :)

Vortex is kinda okayish for the endgame still, but that's probably a bar where all the builds should be. Not less :)

I got Sirus with DP already, deathless. It's not hard at all once you learn to kite the storms a bit. I still hate the storms and bugs, but it's not hard.

It got a lot easier once I got some Chaos res on gear, and swapped Intensify for Conc Effect for the fight. Still need a bunch of upgrades, but passed 10 mil dps already.

Sweet MTX, man!

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CantripN wrote:

It's not hard at all once you learn to kite the storms a bit. I still hate the storms and bugs, but it's not hard.

Well, If you seen my video I don't even try to kite them. Point is when the storm spawns if you are far then it doesn't move, Sirus moves to the west slowly instead. You just wait a bit and trigger the Arena that will push all the storms away, that's all to it.

Although, I've seen people using Decay Totem to make storm move away from Sirus while they wait to enable next phase. That's an even easier strat, but I feel it's too cheesy and might get fixed.

Did both Sirus and UE today... Sirus feels like a walk in the Park in comparison, people just need time to get acquainted.

Is this build ssfiable?

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TheRebirthed wrote:

Is this build ssfiable?

Sure, just look at my char in Metamorph-ssf.
12 mil dps atm with Empower not fully leveled and a shitty chest. Will be 15 when I finish 6 linking my new chest and leveling Empower. Not even using Vaal skills for fake dps bumps.

9k pool and so on.