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Saltan wrote:

Hi Kay, thank you very much for your build !

I had a lot of fun with spiders last league, and I am now on the "full spectres" build with syndicate operative and one cluster jewel. It's great so far, thank you very much for you work.

I have a question on it : I'm only level 93, what nodes should I skip on the tree until level 100 ?
I have a hard time choosing between them, what could you recommand ?

Thank you again for all your work !

I recommend skip one side of medium cluster. That's about 7 or 8 points actually.

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gabriella88 wrote:

Hey Kay! I'm doing your minion bomber build and so far im enjoying it!
I just made this helmet

and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to improve it? How do i get increased elemental damage to socketed gems to it? Or is it better with crit?

Another question is how do i improve the gear for endgame :D?

Wow interesting helmet!

Elemental Damage to gems is essence craft. So you need to start with it actually. The basic way is spam horror essence or use enchanted fossil craft. Can't use harvest to add/remove. :(

You can try add/remove fire and get burning damage support. Then change ele focus to predator. This will give you same single hit damage and ignite dot as well!

Oh you need to change your amulet!! You have +10% chaos res, but actually you need minus chaos. SRS will take much longer time to explode +10% chaos (maybe 4 or 5s). Should be like this:

You can change the belt to this. 75% more effect for jewels so you get about 60% increased damage.


Don't forget seal mender large jewels!

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kayella wrote:

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Jedijax wrote:

Would love an updated Pure Specters Frost Auto-Scout!

OK! I can do that next (short update)

I'm also working on golem build now :)

The Breathstealer config does wonderfully well with rituals, and pretty much any other high-density mechanics like harbinger or breach. It's like having a HeadHunter while stationary. If you are lucky and get an immortality spore, you're unstoppable! Would love to see your golem approach as well, K!

Got no response last time so will post again:

"Hi Kay,

so after 7 years I reinstalled PoE and started with ritual SSF league. Right now I'm still in the process of learning all the new additions to the game from early 2014 when I stopped playing.

I had no luck with finding gen to use a skeleton mage build and with melee skeletons i Started dying around tier 8-9 rare maps. Switching to your League Start & SFF build was a breathe of fresh air. The mapping is faster, all goes smoother and right now I'm in the process of getting through T11,12 rare maps and most of the time it's pretty easy if I wont roll a horrible mod. I use 3 Frost Auto Scouts and have an eye for boots and possibly better wand roll or vaal gem that will get me to those 4 spectres.


Right now I am wondering:

- What gems should I try to get to +20% quality or vaal first, to benefit the most?

- Is there any point in trying luck with crafting gear or better wait for at least ilvl 83 gear? And in general should I just push to T16 with the gear I have or try to farm/craft specific gear.

Cheers"

Also right now I'm at T13-14 still with 3 Frost Auto Scouts. No luck in getting the gear necessary for 4 of them. I can slowly feel the lack of damage on bosses.

Wha?! You feeling the lack of damage against bosses in red maps with 3 specters?! My dude, I have had 5 specters since white maps and already felt the need for upgrade since the first yellows. I guess you must not be playing Ritual/Maven empowered bosses, then! As a rule of thumb, you 21 your main skillgem and its links. As for gear, once resistances are capped (nowadays chaos is a HUGE risk) add max gem level follows. Unless you're very VERY lucky or very VERY rich, you should buy rather than craft.

Well I play SSF so everything I get on my own. Also with 3 specters I had my first problems with killing Redeemer after T14 map. She just killed my specters/minions and me in the end and I had to get her after revival. So the -10% exp is quite panful, as one wrong step or a bit of lag can kill me. Most of the time the empowered bosses and rituals are quite doable but sometimes risky and slow. I gess I should target specific gear locations to drop it before going much further.

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NatgothTheGrim wrote:

Well I play SSF so everything I get on my own. Also with 3 specters I had my first problems with killing Redeemer after T14 map. She just killed my specters/minions and me in the end and I had to get her after revival. So the -10% exp is quite panful, as one wrong step or a bit of lag can kill me. Most of the time the empowered bosses and rituals are quite doable but sometimes risky and slow. I gess I should target specific gear locations to drop it before going much further.

My bad. You made it clear in your previous post you were SSF.

what are you doing for spectre survivability aside from passive tree nodes ?
i just hit lvl 90 and starting to do T13+ maps and having a hard time keeping my spectres alive.
Gems are almost all at 20/20.

Hey Kay!!

Thank you for this awesome guide.

I'm a new player and I just finished the game for the first time following your guide (after tried others).

I loved to play with necro, there is a lot of things to learn yet.

Thank you again <3

Hey Kay! Loving the crab build so far!

I'm pushing t14 maps for the first time in this game and once in awhile getting instakilled which is probably just me needing more health on items here and there so that'll just come with time.

Since it was my first run through though I didn't chase after the "anomalous" or "divergent" or "corrupted" versions of specific gems. Would that be a notable increase in damage and personal survivability overall? Looking to maybe make this char a decent end-game farm char so I can use her to fund other chars w/ relative ease. Currently stuck at lvl 88 cause I keep dying in high level maps >.< Thanks for the help!