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Kay,

Thank you for the build guide. I have been following for last couple of leagues. I have always played SSF this is my first time playing on Trade league. I am still learning the balance of trying to make $$$ versus progression and playing. A Bottled Faith drop from a Zana Cortex map really helped out.

I just purchased my first Megalomaniac. With this build, they don't seem to help with DPS unless you can find two useful DPS passives. Big $$$ at this point.

The gain to Crit damage multiplier is less than the Hatred aura loss. Also the well rolled Life based Small clusters you have to give up are way more efficient than the tree Life nodes.

Quick YouTube of Simulacrum Level 20 just under 60 second kill.
https://youtu.be/c7RXQewZ7Z0

Conquerors and Sirus with Redemption Sentry
https://youtu.be/T1nytn8Lles


POB: https://pastebin.com/Xc9ERyZ5




I know that I still have a few gear areas that need improvement. I had really good luck with my Glove corruption and Spirit Shield craft. Shield was crafted on my first attempt and I just couldn't go back to Block mode after acquiring it.

A couple of comments.

- Disipline and Training over Tireless gives more HP. Any reason you are going for Tireless unless you need the reduced mana to skills?

- Don't sleep on Commandant of the Grave glove enchant. POB shows over 400k DPS each. Nice bonus to clear speed with AG buffs.

- Plaguebringer Ascendancy and Righteous Army will give additional 1 million DPS with ~300 HP loss

- Helmet +3 Level to minions instead of socketed Life would be another 1 million DPS according to POB.

- I wish I had the $$$ for Awakened GMP. :(

Thanks again and I look forward to your build updates for next league. We all appreciate your continued work here!

Never played a minion build and was looking to try one for the upcoming league. I normally rush to maps in the fastest way possible, generally takes 4 hrs. I can't seem to find any guides/vods on speed leveling with minions.

Preceding act 5 I was told to use srs, while your guide mentions holy flame totem and zombies. I know there isn't one way to level but I'm looking for the most optimal way to get to maps in the least amount of time for a league start summoner.

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Walrusky wrote:

Never played a minion build and was looking to try one for the upcoming league. I normally rush to maps in the fastest way possible, generally takes 4 hrs. I can't seem to find any guides/vods on speed leveling with minions.

Preceding act 5 I was told to use srs, while your guide mentions holy flame totem and zombies. I know there isn't one way to level but I'm looking for the most optimal way to get to maps in the least amount of time for a league start summoner.

The last few leagues I've league-started with minion builds, and I plan to do it again next league too.

I love leveling with zombies and spectres, it's super fast because you can literally just run through zones and your minions will do all the killing for you, don't even have to cast anything except on bosses.

However, you can't start with them because they will die really fast without high gem level and some passives that give extra life to minions.

I usually use freezing pulse + frost bomb until about level 30. At that point my Zombie gem is about level 9 and I have taken enough passive skills to boost minion HP that they can start to carry me. I think it's about level 35-40 that I can start using spectres (Slave Drivers), and from that point on it's a breeze!

I think everyone levels from 30+ about the same (zombies + spectres). It's the levels 1-30 that everyone is a little different in what skill they want to use.

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wasabexx wrote:

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Walrusky wrote:

Never played a minion build and was looking to try one for the upcoming league. I normally rush to maps in the fastest way possible, generally takes 4 hrs. I can't seem to find any guides/vods on speed leveling with minions.

Preceding act 5 I was told to use srs, while your guide mentions holy flame totem and zombies. I know there isn't one way to level but I'm looking for the most optimal way to get to maps in the least amount of time for a league start summoner.

I think everyone levels from 30+ about the same (zombies + spectres). It's the levels 1-30 that everyone is a little different in what skill they want to use.

I want to change the levelling guide. I was thinking of watching the racers do early levelling for ideas. As you said early levelling is the hard/slow part because early minions are terrible. After you get Slave Drivers, you just fix resists and run to maps.

Edit: I'm play testing some Act 1 options. It looks like SRS is pretty good now, so I think I'll switch back to SRS for main damage dealer. Holy Flame Totem + Phastasms is secondary damage and healing aura.

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kayella wrote:

Sorry forgot to reply! I tested these, so they will work.

Double cluster: https://pastebin.com/bpQWRTJ6
Single cluster: https://pastebin.com/D71npGB1
No cluster: https://pastebin.com/sLRF8M35

Double cluster and single cluster are about the same damage and hp (150k per spider / 6.7k life). Both cluster build have cold-blooded killer for 2% life recovery per kill.

No cluster has less damage, more life, more attack block (95k per spider / 8k life / +8% from Solidity). It only has Cinderswallow Urn for life recovery.

These might become the actual build for 3.11?. It doesn't look like Harvest will have big powercreep items. But GGG said there will be changes to passive tree - just hope it's adding keystones and not changing pathing.

Double cluster is a big DPS increase over single cluster, just more for the spectres and not as much on spiders (but still more).

Your double cluster tree is missing 2x Vengeful Commander which is why the spiders are only equal to the single cluster. They're in the jewel but unallocated. Fixing this makes the spider DPS / player life:

No Cluster: 96k / 8.0k life
Single Cluster: 151k / 6.6k life (+57% vs none)
Double Cluster: 171k / 6.5k life (+13% vs single)

But that's leaving out the most important part which is the spectre DPS since Vicious Bite doesn't apply the crit damage multiplier to spiders. For the spectres it's:

No Cluster: 453k
Single Cluster: 839k (+85% vs none)
Double Cluster: 1147k (+37% vs single)

Also, you left frenzy charges off, not sure if this was intentional or not given you are using Vic's Charity but I left it alone for all the above.

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ShmooDude wrote:

Your double cluster tree is missing 2x Vengeful Commander which is why the spiders are only equal to the single cluster. They're in the jewel but unallocated.

Thank you for spotting that! I have a lot of problems with exporting pastebin (too many custom spectres), so I remade the tree and forgot it. I'll edit the original post so people don't get confused.

When I test this gem combo, map monsters die so quickly so I can't get frenzy charges. I can only get them with map bosses.

Well all...I finished up my gear (some gem leveling still). I took whispers of doom temporarily until i could afford awakened curse on hit, but likely won't happen before league end. I feel REALLY squishy. I guess I figured I'd be safer with all the cold damage and blind (AG has Mask of the Stitched Demon, a blind chest with 10% health as ES, kingmaker, 2% regen boots if hit, and southbound). I have about 7500 ehp 6412 hp, 1066 es. Resists are 75/75/75/-20. I'm almost thinking I need to switch over to Bone offering I'm getting smacked so hard.

Profile should be public. I don't have the Redemption Sentries added to my POB, so if anyone had any idea what their damage is on my build currently I'd be interested.

Thoughts? (Also, I bricked both redeemer slams for minion damage. I double bricked one of them with cold damage to chilled enemies. I redeemed (lol) with a lucky annul). This is also why they don't have quality yet. I forgot (lol) that slamming will remove the quality and just like that almost 1ex of fertiles went away.

Character is AzureStonedGolem (respec'ed from stone golems ofc!)

Double Cluster...Renewal/Feasting Fiends, 4 first among equals/vengeful commander, 2 surging vitality, 1 fettle, 1 kitava's.

first of all you can look at my gear and see the difference i am not even close to min-max and i got only 5900 hp and 400 es but i melt everything->every boss:shaper, uber. sirius.

second: get-> awakened elemental damage with attack and
switch deathmark to pierce.
third: increase the vermilon rings to 8% with fertile
fourth: in the large cluster jewel you should have: vicious bite/renewal or vicious bite/renewal/feasting fiends-> get vicious bite
fifth: you can think about allocating aegis and getting a shield with +2 frenzy +2 power charge for minions
six: try to raise your chaos resistance to at least 0

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rhapsodieinblue wrote:

Well all...I finished up my gear (some gem leveling still). I took whispers of doom temporarily until i could afford awakened curse on hit, but likely won't happen before league end. I feel REALLY squishy.

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I guess I figured I'd be safer with all the cold damage and blind (AG has Mask of the Stitched Demon, a blind chest with 10% health as ES, kingmaker, 2% regen boots if hit, and southbound). I have about 7500 ehp 6412 hp, 1066 es. Resists are 75/75/75/-20. I'm almost thinking I need to switch over to Bone offering I'm getting smacked so hard.

Profile should be public. I don't have the Redemption Sentries added to my POB, so if anyone had any idea what their damage is on my build currently I'd be interested.

Thoughts? (Also, I bricked both redeemer slams for minion damage. I double bricked one of them with cold damage to chilled enemies. I redeemed (lol) with a lucky annul). This is also why they don't have quality yet. I forgot (lol) that slamming will remove the quality and just like that almost 1ex of fertiles went away.

Character is AzureStonedGolem (respec'ed from stone golems ofc!)

Double Cluster...Renewal/Feasting Fiends, 4 first among equals/vengeful commander, 2 surging vitality, 1 fettle, 1 kitava's.

From my Point of View on your Gear and Tree you mixed it a bit to much up between how these Guide here on first Page is written and some Things are suggested in last few Pages.

Little side Node from my Expirience i had made Yesterday. I use CwDt with Steelskin on my Shield and was really hyped as my awakened Curse on Hit finally hit lvl 5 in Weapon Swap and try to changed to it. I took Frostbite, cause why not i thought but it was a huge Mistake. Right after first Map i vaaled that shitty awakened Curse on Hit and switched back to CwDt-Steelskin. It was only much Overkill for me and never needed really cause most Mobs i see Ingame are frozen. That alone is an huge DefenseLayer you should aim first for.
Your Helmet is really good enough as it is i think and you missed the most Importent Node on your ClusterJewels. Vicious Bite is a must for me on both Large Cluster Ones right Together with Renewal and Feasting Fiends to scale the Crit of your Redemption Sentry´s to a Point there most Mobs get frozen as soon as your Spectres hit em.
Thing with Defense is simply use every Layer you can afford and it will change the feeling pretty much.
I switched my Quicksilver Flask out for
and never looked back. If your Movementspeed is high enough to do it, give it a Try!-) Also try out an Small Cluster Jewel with Enduring Composure instead of Kitava´s Teachings and enjoy free Endurance Charges while playing that adds more PhysDamReduction.
I see you took Elemental Equilibrium on Tree but might have overseen that these Jewel you use in your Belt negates it with its "Minions deal X amount of Light Damage" . That should really easy be fixed with changing it to One without.
I suggest looking for an Astral Plate like most People use, they are not that Expensive at these Point in League. Look for One with with 25+ ChaosResis and do not bother to influence it further! As arikshkol already suggested, Chaos Resis are importent and i think 0 is an good start to aim for but really smooth it feels for me at 20+. It´s not needed to invest more in it as 30 Positive Ones from my Expirience. As arikshkol also already suggested, give an double Charges Shield a try to improve Crit of your Spectres further. But here i like to say its much much cheaper to awaken an Shield yourself as buying an Ready One!-)
Another Layer of Defense you could add after that all is an Watchers Eye with both Haste Mods for PermaPhasing and Spellblock. But could be Expensive!
Overall i think your Pathing in Tree is not really good but might be wrong. My Profile is open and there you can see how i did.

After the most recent performance against Sirus, I'll be scrapping the char.

Hopefully someone's interested in buying some of the gear (mainly the hat and wand I'd guess).