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

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kebal wrote:

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?

You use regular skeletons during mapping. Vaal Skellies is for bosses or DPS boost.

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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?

Swap weapons/items in town and it won't despawn your spectres.
As long as you put the items/gem back exactly where they were before entering the town.

Edit:
Supposed to be safe to swap gems in town and not HO!

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Grixzen wrote:

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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 am using Discipline and Skitter bots while leveling before MoM.

I am considering continue using auras + more ES instead of MoM.

MoM doesnt seem that beneficial considering what you lose.

What mana level do a casual necro have at middle of mapping?

Considering metamorphs are on crack, i better stay with mom. It doesnt feel even remotely safe with 6 k hp

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mezmery wrote:

Considering metamorphs are on crack, i better stay with mom. It doesnt feel even remotely safe with 6 k hp

I have been wrecking all metamorphs so far, I died more to the early game ones than the map ones, so far they have been really easy to handle and die rather quick

Is it possible to get a non-path of building skill tree? My old laptop slows down a lot if even one other program is running at the same time, so I don't feel comfortable running path of building on my laptop at the same time i am playing poe

Is there anything Super end game you could think would be a good item? or is this pretty much reliant just on rares?

Really Enjoying the build - First time playing it in SSF.


Current gear :



I know I need a lot of improvement on my gear. If anyone see's any easy improvement or tip's on what would be best for me to improve next I would appreciate it!

I've been dumping most of my crafting materials to try to get a second +1 minion wand currently.

I'm missing another +1 minion gems on my wand so still running with 3 Spectres. Currently doing 2 frenzy charge and the curse Spectre. Looking to add the power charge spectre soon!

First time playing this build and it's insane how easy it was to level and do mapping.

Honestly my favorite build I've played over the years.

My Current gear in Normal Metamorph league:




Edit: I added banner in my ring because it's like 4k DPS boost per skele and only reserves 10% mana. Pride is like 3k DPS more but also reserves 5x more mana so it's not really worth it imo.

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neoblackheart wrote:

Is there anything Super end game you could think would be a good item? or is this pretty much reliant just on rares?

minions in general don't really need a specific unique, unless it's something you want to play around like the baron and such

whatever you get that it's better to what you have will do

you can all the way up to uber elder (rip) with a tabula and some decent rares, I did just that past league