[3.9] Pure Phys Skeletons & Friends Necromancer — Beginner/SSF/Budget Build

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Psycomantje wrote:

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Grixzen wrote:

have you considered using one of your specters as a curse specialist and freeing the curse gem? I did that in another build once and it was very reliable, right now I am using a diabolist to apply enfeeble and it's working fine and for now I have a free gem

Following this... im now have 2 frenzy and one powercharge spectre. Maybe as the 4th an enfeeble caster?
Or one of each and as 4th a second frenzy charger? Im playing hc, so this seems usefull?

I would highly recommend, specially since this build uses only lvl1 enfeeble and since the specter is using the curse for you, that leaves you with more time to think about not dying

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FrodoFraggins wrote:

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Grixzen wrote:

all map bosses have a soft instance aka you don't get a loading screen, so all the souls you collected stay with you in the boss room that means that yes, if you have the vaal skill soul meter full you just pop it when you are in the boss room

One last question - as the guide suggests putting spectres on a 3L - it causes an issue when i want to access the gems I'm leveling on my weapon swap.

Swapping to the other set of weapons despawns my spectres and i have to get them again when i swap back. Do i need to either place spectres on a 4L or reget them whenever i swap? or is there a place i can wep swap without despawning them?

while you are swapping items around when mapping and leveling that will be an issue yes, you have to live with that until you get you final weapon

the good thing is that desecrate will give you the corpses in your hideout, you don't have to go around hunting the specters if you swap

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engelswut wrote:

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MillenniumDH wrote:

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Psycomantje wrote:

Following this... im now have 2 frenzy and one powercharge spectre. Maybe as the 4th an enfeeble caster?
Or one of each and as 4th a second frenzy charger? Im playing hc, so this seems usefull?

Reanimator Spectre casts super Enfeeble, it's better than any enfeeble setup you can have as gem.

What would be a good replacement for enfeeble gem?

I am still leveling but I placed a pride aura there for my specters, when I swap to MoM I will see what I can put there

and cheaper option that reserves less mana is flesh and stone for the blind component


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and this is another setup that will simplify your life and it's for desecrate + offering combo

you can craft a "triggers a socketed spell" in your wand to make that happen everytime you summon ytour skellies

you need to place them in order since the trigger happens from top to bottom

Desecrate (green) > Flesh Offering

every time you use summon skeleton one of the two will trigger, and then the other, it will also trigger when you use flame dash and such and if there are corpses around already the offering will use those, this will give you a permanent offering pretty much which will buff you damage a lot since if you are like me, you forget that a lot

the recipe is not hard to find, you just have to unveil weapons from the syndicate and it appears quite often

have fun my dudes :D

played this last league and loved it.

playing it this league in ssf and loving it.

great work op :)

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Grixzen wrote:

and cheaper option that reserves less mana is flesh and stone for the blind component

Using this at the moment. Adds a small but nice defence layer. Thanks for your input.

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engelswut wrote:

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Grixzen wrote:

and cheaper option that reserves less mana is flesh and stone for the blind component

Using this at the moment. Adds a small but nice defence layer. Thanks for your input.

I am also considering dropping MoM completely and swapping Mistress of sacrifice for Commander of Darkness since it's an amazing damage and defensive option

but this is something I am considering, since I don't want to be squishy

but I consider Commander of Darkness a better option to Mistress of Sacrifice

and yeah, here is another specter suggestion

replace one of your chieftains for a ruins hellion (you find them in the Quay in act 8)

see it like this

hellion uses rallying cry that gives you 10% (assuming it uses lvl 1 cry) increased damage + the damage increase from the enemies surrounding you, this is for all your minion party

having 3 frenzy charges only increases your damage a rough 12% and you still have to get the 3 charges, this is a spam every 8 seconds roughly plus the manage regen that always come handy and you can still get 2 chieftains if we go with 4 specters and that means you get even more damage getting hellion + charges

So i see people use the flesh and stone and take the 25% mana reservation for an extra layer of defence? I was allreafy thinking anout that so i will give it a shot.

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Psycomantje wrote:

So i see people use the flesh and stone and take the 25% mana reservation for an extra layer of defence? I was allreafy thinking anout that so i will give it a shot.

I mean the only reason why this builds doesn't get more auras is because it uses brutalize for 100% no ele no chaos damage and the aura selection for that is very limited, you either go blood and sand or pride for damage and the other auras are only to patch things like accuracy and such and you don't need that a lot with minions

I don't quite understand, you have Vaal Summon Skeletons as the source of your damage, but to activate this skill it requires some kills. So when you start a map you can't use Vaal Skill, because it hasn't accumulated yet?