I can't defeat Twisted Synthete, my Slave Drivers always get oneshotted. Even Maximum delirium T16 maps are impossible for this reason. Are slave drivers too squishy or spectres in general?
SD are too squishy. They're fine if you have highend gear and they delete everything first. But you should probably switch to Scale of Esh if you want to keep all gems the same.
Some people prefer Baranite Thaumaturge, but you need to swap a gem for GMP to help with clear speed.
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Hey Kay, I've been fiddling around with my gem links after reading your suggestions to add in Flesh And Stone and Dread Banner, and this is the setup I came up with for a Devouring Diadem + MoM build. I haven't tried it live yet, but on paper, it should be pretty good. Inside spoilers to hide the big wall of text.
Helmet:
-Generosity
-Wrath
-Flesh And Stone
-Dread Banner
Removed Skitterbots and Zealotry. Added Sand Form and Dread Banner for significant accuracy debuffs and ranged attack protection, as I got gibbed too many times by these. I have, however, no means to get banner stages for Fortify, and SDs cannot impale, so it's really just for the survivability. Maybe EVFs or RS could make better use of the impale aura?
Gloves:
-Immortal Call (lvl 16)
-Cast When Damage Taken (lvl 15)
-Vaal Haste
-Increased Duration
Haste has replaced Zealotry removed on the helmet. The DPS loss is minimal according to PoB, and I still get access to Vaal Haste for a crazy boost when needed. It will not be triggered by CwDT but still benefits from Increased Duration nicely! The Jewel with Phasing is a nice addition assuming I can get it. As for mana reservation, I get exactly 100% if I take the full Sovereignety cluster.
Boots:
-Stone Golem
-Animate Guardian
-Minion Life
-Feeding Frenzy
I consider golem's life regen mandatory, so it stays there. Zombies have been removed to make way for Minion Life, and I pray that the AG will have enough health as it should get Kingmaker for Fortify aura. I have considered Meat Shield or Empower instead of Feeding Frenzy, but who would apply the buff then? No room for a Zombie + Feeding Frenzy elsewhere.
Nothing new here. I'm personally not a big fan of Bone Offering, but permanent block chance + regen is pretty sick in HC. Might keep the AG up and running without Empower?
Shield:
-Armageddon Brand
-Curse On Hit
-Elemental Weakness
Typical EE and Ele Weakness setup. Removed Flame Dash to make room for others skills, and I'm still not sure if that was the smartest move.
Personnal thoughts:
This leaves us with some skills I haven't found the sockets for, namely, Phase Run, Convocation and Flame Dash. Phase Run is the least of my worries thanks to Vaal Haste. As for Convocation and Flame Dash, I could slot them in Unset Rings instead, but is it worth the health and resistances I could get with different rings? I am tempted to say yes thanks to the added survivability from Dread Banner and Sand Form, but you probably know more about it than I do.
SDs could be replaced with melee spectres instead, like EVFs or RSs, to make better use of Dread Banner's impale aura? In that case, I'd switch Wrath to Hatred, but that's pretty much it.
The addition of Vaal Haste also ramps up the Dexterity requirements significantly. I could leave it to a lower level, the buffs are still pretty decent at a lower level anyway.
Ideas and suggestions to improve on my current setup are more than welcome.
If you have phasing/haste eye, you could try cast when damage taken 1 + frost wall 10/20. This is what I use actually. It will completely block monsters from moving. It blocks almost all ranged monster attacks. Spectres can shoot through it. You have perma phasing, so you won't get deathtrapped :)
Convocation is important. You'll understand if you run Simulacrum. Ranged spectres will shoot from leash range. So they can be far away from your necro. They will only teleport to you when they are outside leash range. You want them to be shooting froom close to your necro, so convocation is important. You also need it to pull them out of danger, like standing in degen.
EVF hit with 100% elemental and won't proc impale. RS can though!
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I want to ask something about the Redemtion Sentry in Redeemer Influenced map. I have been running a few Redeemer but i cant seem to find them from desecrate somehow. Are they random spawn? Or you have to run specific map for them?
I recently started using Redemption Sentry but lost it and now dont have the Redeemer. Can anyone come into my hideout and let me raise one for theirs? I also didnt do the Spectre bank that was posted on youtube.
Much appreciated.
Hi Kay,
I am using your spiders build (with RS spectre). I have been following the thread for some time now. These are my items:
Simulacrum waves 19 and 20 don't seem possible with this spider build. (tried twice)
On the offensive sido how do I insert more damage in the build without losing too much. I've been slow and I've killed Sirus yesterday on awk7 and it was a very close kill on last portal after like 7-10min battle. The difference of Sirus awk6 to awk7 was huge, and I think awk8 is going to be very hard. So what can I do ? What am I doing wrong ? For Sirus I swap out my helmet to this:
, as I don't need the spiders, and I'm thinking of investing into crafting a good wand to boost the minion dps that way, but do you think thats going to be enough?
Also on the defense side, is a STR armor base body armor better than other picks? Should I go for that to try and increase my survivability ?
One final question, awakened curse on hit support dropped, do you think for damage I should keep it and insert another curse like proj weakness or vulnerability? I'm not sure it will help me for my situation, also ball lightning spread could be too slow.
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Simulacrum waves 19 and 20 don't seem possible with this spider build. (tried twice)
On the offensive sido how do I insert more damage in the build without losing too much. I've been slow and I've killed Sirus yesterday on awk7 and it was a very close kill on last portal after like 7-10min battle. The difference of Sirus awk6 to awk7 was huge, and I think awk8 is going to be very hard. So what can I do ? What am I doing wrong ? For Sirus I swap out my helmet to this:
You could get an animated guardian - and use the Kingmaker for nearby allies have fortify + 50% multi crit. And if you're dying too much in simulacrum, you could change the feeding frenzy for meat shield on zombies.
Another thing is your immortal call is way too high level to actually help on your most needed moments.
Also, I wanna know if you're using Necromantic Aegis for your victario's charity otherwise, you need a better shield or use holy flame totems with totem gem support for +2 totems.
I've been running S&S with EVFs, but I suppose i'll move on to EB MoM with RSs, but finding RS is damn too hard, I couldn't get them in Veritania's citadel...
