3.14 KING OF ALL SUMMONERS. Zombies & Skeletons & Spectres on STEROIDS! | League-Start to End-Game

tl;dr: I messed up. Should I start a new character or keep playing until I have enough regrets to follow your new 3.9 build?

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Hi. Filthy Casual here. I mucked up trying to be 'smart'.

I played this build in 3.8 and it was good. Smoothest play into 80+ I have ever gotten. One of the few times I actually considered continuing onto Standard (but the number of remove-only tabs... screw that).

I was worried about Zombies being unable to "carry" me into endgame in 3.9 because of the nerfs (I suck at playing and only ever try super-"meta" builds and still have not even tried normal Atziri... ever) so I thought I use the idea of Zombies as part meat wall and general mob clearing. DPS would come from SRS Minion Instability.

The first 30-40 levels (with generally crap drops, although I did get an Exalt so that's nice), I thought I was on the right path because my zombies were die-ing (again?) all over the place.

But now, I am forcibly reminded that I sux. It's hard enough for me to try dodging. Now I have to cast SRS AND dodge. Silly me. The nice thing is that I get to nuke non-stage (is that the word?) bosses immediately.

used that today to speedlevel some gems in blighted maps from T7 to T9 - it was as smooth as in 3.8 even with Gems between Level 1 and 10 in average.

I'm still in the leveling phase (Act 9 currently) and wanted to give a little feedback.

In the beginning the nerf hit kind of hard. The Zombies kept dying all the time but with some progression that problem cased to exist.

Right now, even with shit gear, all the bosses and metamorphs go down without any problems. I'm running Zombies, Skelletons (just found a Vaal Skelletons gem and swap tonight), a carrion golem, SRS, and specters.

My main worry at the moment is to gear the character. Everything is far to expensive (looks like the build is still played very much). With just twentysomething chaos found and earned so far, there is no way to afford the right jewels, and prophecys to at least 5 link a body armor and the Queen's Decree that droped for me.

I might play around with the gem setup tonight. Droping SRS and adding some auras. I hope to finish the acts by wendsday and then we'll see how the gear progression goes. That part looks dark right now.

Overal my impression so far is, that this build still goes strong and I'm looking forward to mapping and endgame encounters.

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Mentoya wrote:

Man, I decided to try this build, but maybe I need to go back to kay's because I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong :(.....I can't even kill Dominus without all of my zombies AND both of my spectre's dying, before I even get to him :(, and I never had that problem in 3.8.........I figure since it's only act 3, I don't need much in the way of gear, etc, but they don't stay alive longer than about 10 seconds, and my spectre's have died about 5 times so far....Maybe I should have tried Arc instead :(


My character is public if someone wants to take a look...

You've got no gems :)

try getting 3-4l even crap gear but put there Zombies and Skelies with some gems, I'm absolutely smashing thru this league for now, dying sometimes but usually because I was to lazy to move when boss was attacking :)
Also pick Sacrifice from passives, my zombies stopped dying then, just for now, maybe later I will respec.

If you are struggling a bit with the currency needed to get to 1000 strength and dismayed at watching Astramentis shoot up in cost one move I made that helped me get over the hump was buying a cheap amber amulet with a t1 strength roll. If you can craft +all attributes on it that gets you over 80 strength for a just a few chaos.

Is it better to use Geofri's or a 6l Astral Plate if I don't have the shaper's touch gloves?

Also, is it better to use another gem on my zombies instead of empower if my empower gem is only level 2?

thanks for guide solid build for beginers

ive never really been a fan on animate guardian (mostly because of budget restraints and dont really really know how to use it effectively) do you have a league starter budget animated guardian set up or maybe i can just drop it completely and throw something in there to boost spectres. Really i was just wondering because you said not to use it till gem level 19 so when leveling i could i throw it in an off hand to level while i put a extra support gem in the 4 link head or am i just being crazy?

So I can easy go to 1200 str. I still dont have the jewels + I will buy a nice belt this week. Was lucky enough and pulled 2 exalted orbs so I might get the 6l weapon? Still far from geared and linked all the skills. Missing phase run etc, cyclon setup etc.

I have a question, does the animated guardian gem buff the other minions? Particularly these 2 things:

Minions' Attacks deal (22-56) to (34-84) additional Physical Damage
Minions deal (0-76)% increased Physical Damage with Melee Attacks

Also does the additional physical damage stack with carrion golem?

Just started going through the maps with relatively weak gear. No problems.