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Would the gem that turns skeletons into skeleton mages work with this as some of the mages do lightening I think. I'm sure this has been answered somewhere in this thread but i'm hoping I won't have to read through all 260 pages.

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irighti wrote:

Would the gem that turns skeletons into skeleton mages work with this as some of the mages do lightening I think. I'm sure this has been answered somewhere in this thread but i'm hoping I won't have to read through all 260 pages.

if you play COLD damage, you can proc EE not only with lightning, but with fire.
or you can pick Avatar of Fire keystone and your ball lightning will do fire damage :)

If you use a vaal regalia chest piece with +1 to raised spectres, how would you craft? Would you focus your crafts on ES or life? If you craft for both, which mods? Seeing as +1 to Spectres is a prefix you only have 2 prefixes available. So either both must be ES or both must be life or 1 ES, 1 Life.

What would you guys recommend?

Hey guys, what would be a good pendant for this build, also, HeadHunter is recommended? or what belt should i use

I am having a hard time understanding the gem link set up. looking in the update portion of the build what you have in your gear vs what you recommend to have in the gear is different .

I'm not going to give up on the build I do like it and this is my first summoner.

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Veraclus wrote:

If you use a vaal regalia chest piece with +1 to raised spectres, how would you craft? Would you focus your crafts on ES or life? If you craft for both, which mods? Seeing as +1 to Spectres is a prefix you only have 2 prefixes available. So either both must be ES or both must be life or 1 ES, 1 Life.

What would you guys recommend?

Just so everyone knows that mod can only drop pre-rolled on items from delve. Right now the cheapest ones that aren't 6L or already annulled are 1ex. If you want 6L and pre-annulled with white sockets they are 5.5ex+.

It's a really good question though because this is a hybrid build. I think I would go for flat life and "Gain (9–10)% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield" as the other two prefixes. I checked adding a stock vaal regalia to my current build in PoB with just one of: flat ES, %max ES, and the mod above and the mod above won out by a very wide margin. That way your flat life craft also works towards ES.

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FunestedKillah wrote:

Hey guys, what would be a good pendant for this build, also, HeadHunter is recommended? or what belt should i use

Is good. Also Aul's Uprising with a useful free mana aura affix. Other than that life/ES/dex/resists. Some people like +1 min. Endurance charges and other useful rolls as well.

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MochaDragon wrote:

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Veraclus wrote:

If you use a vaal regalia chest piece with +1 to raised spectres, how would you craft? Would you focus your crafts on ES or life? If you craft for both, which mods? Seeing as +1 to Spectres is a prefix you only have 2 prefixes available. So either both must be ES or both must be life or 1 ES, 1 Life.

What would you guys recommend?

Just so everyone knows that mod can only drop pre-rolled on items from delve. Right now the cheapest ones that aren't 6L or already annulled are 1ex. If you want 6L and pre-annulled with white sockets they are 5.5ex+.

It's a really good question though because this is a hybrid build. I think I would go for flat life and "Gain (9–10)% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield" as the other two prefixes. I checked adding a stock vaal regalia to my current build in PoB with just one of: flat ES, %max ES, and the mod above and the mod above won out by a very wide margin. That way your flat life craft also works towards ES.

Thanks Mocha! You are awesome!

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Veraclus wrote:

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MochaDragon wrote:

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Veraclus wrote:

If you use a vaal regalia chest piece with +1 to raised spectres, how would you craft? Would you focus your crafts on ES or life? If you craft for both, which mods? Seeing as +1 to Spectres is a prefix you only have 2 prefixes available. So either both must be ES or both must be life or 1 ES, 1 Life.

What would you guys recommend?

Just so everyone knows that mod can only drop pre-rolled on items from delve. Right now the cheapest ones that aren't 6L or already annulled are 1ex. If you want 6L and pre-annulled with white sockets they are 5.5ex+.

It's a really good question though because this is a hybrid build. I think I would go for flat life and "Gain (9–10)% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield" as the other two prefixes. I checked adding a stock vaal regalia to my current build in PoB with just one of: flat ES, %max ES, and the mod above and the mod above won out by a very wide margin. That way your flat life craft also works towards ES.

Thanks Mocha! You are awesome!

Works like a charm. I recommend everyone do this once they are able to. :D

@ everyone:
Just a heads-up, but I'm doing my best to catch up on my Reserved posts:

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I try to nab the first post on a new page, just so it sticks out more, then I go back and fill in what I intend to respond to. Sometimes the replies come in too fast, and these Reserved posts get buried.

The risk with this approach is it's very easy for people to overlook when the post is finally updated. So I'll be calling attention to them like so.

I also plan to start a 3.8 Reply Index, which will eventually be merged into the FAQ's Reply Index. This helps me and anyone else find my previous posts without manually going back page-by-page. I wish this forum had a View Staff Posts button for topic authors, or allowed searching within a specific thread, but oh well.

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@ irighti:

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skeleton mages

Yeah, it's been asked a few times before. Mages are more of a clear skill, which is the opposite of what we need Skeletons for.

Basically, their base damage is significantly weaker than Warriors, projectile supports are also weaker than melee supports, they cast slower and their projectiles are slow, their damage is further weakened by LMP/GMP/Faster Proj just to make them feel good, Pierce is okay but Melee Splash can deal exponential damage to clustered enemies (like Blight lanes), their random elements are harder to scale, EE can only benefit 2/3rds of them, and Skeleton dash eliminates their biggest advantage over Warriors. And you lose a jewel socket.

I should test to see if even Frostbolt is faster than their projectiles.

I kinda wish GGG would give them built-in AOE or something that aligned with their damage type. Like, Fire Mages = Explosion, Lightning Mage = Chain, Cold Mage = Pierce. AKA, Minion Wild Strike. Then maybe something like Combat Focus so you can determine which types will spawn. Or at least some kind of bonus crit chance so they benefit from using all three elements. And, GGG, give their projectiles an actual respectable speed, please.

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@ FunestedKillah:

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good pendant for this build

It's a free slot, so anything is fine. DEX, life, %ES, resistances, and anything defensive are best. +1 Skeleton is an option. +1 Minimum Endurance Charges (craftable) becomes really good when you stack up phys reduction.

For unique amulets, Jinxed Juju (mitigation), Bloodgrip (recovery), and Aul's Uprising (free aura) are good.

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also, HeadHunter is recommended?

If you can afford one, sure. You won't benefit from every rare mod, but auras and anything defensive or movement related will be great.

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@ gxtro2002:

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what you have in your gear vs what you recommend to have in the gear is different

Go by what's written. The items were examples from before 3.8 released.

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@ Veraclus:

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vaal regalia ... 2 prefixes available ... ES or life?

10% of Life as Extra ES craft = ~1000 ES.

100% ES with 100 ES = 789 + 660 ES = 1449 total.

100% ES without flat ES = 489 ES.

100 ES without %ES = 360-384 ES (20-28% quality).

100 life = ~300 life + 75 ES (Spirit Offering) + 50 ES (10% craft) = 425 total, plus benefit of more ES heal per second.

Thus, the best with:
2 prefixes = 1425 from Life and 10% craft.
3 prefixes = 2449 from ES, %ES, and 10% craft.