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one dump queston the animate guardian's equiments do i need to upgrade +20 quality for all items ?

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brbdinner wrote:

hey, feel like mixing it up so decided to try the goatmen for a bit instead. was just wondering should i try to fit feeding Frenzy into the goatman set up and if so what gem should i replace it with? was thinking of taking out concentrated effect but dunno whether it will gimp my damage too while mapping. then when doing bosses swap out the 2 mapping gems and leave it in still to save swapping 3?

you don't really need feeding frenzy for any spectre that has a big range/aoe. so with goatmen and guards you are better off skipping it. it helps with slave drivers because they move up to the mobs and start attacking but other spectres offscreen so you won't notice a big difference, imo

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allanw wrote:

How useful is Empower on helmet? My Animate Guardian has never been close to dying, with the endgame equipment (except for the high life regen weapon). I was thinking of replacing it with Carrion Golem/Dread Banner or something else that improves survivability. Any suggestions for survivability gem?

not really useful at all. the main reason to use empower is when you are playing the POH variant. you don't have a +gems helmet so you use empower with zombies and guardian in the chest to boost their survivability a little.

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crazypearce wrote:

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brbdinner wrote:

hey, feel like mixing it up so decided to try the goatmen for a bit instead. was just wondering should i try to fit feeding Frenzy into the goatman set up and if so what gem should i replace it with? was thinking of taking out concentrated effect but dunno whether it will gimp my damage too while mapping. then when doing bosses swap out the 2 mapping gems and leave it in still to save swapping 3?

you don't really need feeding frenzy for any spectre that has a big range/aoe. so with goatmen and guards you are better off skipping it. it helps with slave drivers because they move up to the mobs and start attacking but other spectres offscreen so you won't notice a big difference, imo

ah thanks makes sense. In terms of the 4th slot in my helm what should i replace phys to lightning with seeing as the - res isnt useful anymore? ive gone with combustion so far but no sure if thats a good choice or not

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彡kiss丿灬夏日 wrote:

one dump queston the animate guardian's equiments do i need to upgrade +20 quality for all items ?

Your AG benefits from his gear just like you, including armor/eva/es from the items which go up with upgrading them to 20%.
And like on your gear it might not be needed 99% of the time but you will be grateful when it does that 1%.

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ChrissCat wrote:

If I summon spectre on off-hand with level20 gem, and switch back to pledge of hands with level21 gem on it, does the spectre now scale to level21 or level20 gem?

They seem to scale pretty much instantly now.
I use a Rampage weapon for my weapon swap and the difference between those two weapons after swapping is really impressive. Im pretty sure you only need a lvl 18 gem (with +3 global levels to your spectres) for the weapon switch, even lower would be fine if you dont need all of your spectres.

Came across this guide and wanted to switch to POH from wand/shield. I'm also currently using Solar Guards and seems like I should switch to Slave Drivers.

Any suggestion on what item to upgrade first? 6 link POH or chest or Devouring Diadem helm.

Thanks!

@Kay
Thanks so much for this guide! Just beat Uber Elder on SSF for the first time with the only guide pieces of gear being Victarios and a flask. I pretty much insta phased him and lost my specs once because I let them eat a beam or two.

Great guide! Hoping to get a POH to juice it up but beggars can't be choosers in SSF.

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poeGT wrote:

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evilmindcz wrote:

My current setup - wand/rare shield, 7k hp, 3 auras, 3 curses (one will be replaced with Poachers when i'll upgrade gloves). I'm way too lazy to let the trigger wand version go, so i'll just stick with 1hand till the end of the league, and i'll only tweak it more. My goal now is a setup for easy farming of Blight maps, because lets be honest, everything else is just laughable easy now, and doing all the anti-summoners encounter challenges myself, for fun... :-)

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I'd hope it's easy, your gear is ridiculously good. ;) But yeah, there's really no point for your to swap over with that sort of 1h+shield gear.

What pantheons are you using?

Are you diying alot? Because you have no CWDT setup and lifepool is medium.

Gonna just echo the sentiment here that as PoH slave drivers build, spectres and AG die very easily during Uber Elder. Did my first Uber Elder of the league - I convocate as much as I can and I still had to use two portals just to raise more spectres. Damage and survivability otherwise wasn't much of an issue, although having to dodge everything and keep an eye on your spectres is a bit of a pain.

I've noticed people running wand and shield don't seem to have this issue, perhaps the added minion stats from not running PoH is the difference here?

Do you see benefit in using Impresence Onyx Amulet with conductivity and additional curse rather than blind in the glove set up? Would this improve minion damage?