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iLL3aT wrote:

@copsinyourcomputer - It's less due to not giving 4-7% of max life as extra ES, however, you do get a belt slot which can get up to 139 life (abyss belt + jewel), 140 (darkness enthroned), or a lot of utility (torrent's reclamation). I'm running a replica on my meme iron mass character and am having horrible resistance problems (still using a goldrim). It's a very viable end game belt though, and I am glad they added it, especially with GV being 2 ex+!

Thanks for the insight. Yeah the more I thought about the more I thought it would be useful to have a belt for resists and open up other slots (+1 amulet, frostbite ring). I think once I focus on getting 1 more passive point and redo my gear around glorious vanity it'll work in my favor.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the great guide- following a few over the last year and this was one of the best.

Good luck!

I'm starting to feel really strong with the current gear I have. I found a nice unset ring today too with perfect chaos resist to replace an older one with some slight modifications. Now I can have 4x syndicate spectres, 9 zombies, guardian, car gollum and the 11 skeles. Spent ~200Cish on two really good taunt/blind jewels too. I instantly noticed the survivability change with these - easily completing 5x'd delirium t16s now.

Hi. First of all, thank you so much for the guide. I am having a lot of fun with it and I can easily clear T16 maps, elder guardians & co deathless.

I have a couple of questions about rings:
1) [UPDATE: this question was answered in a post yesterday: EE does trigger it! I also bought a cheap ring with it and tried it myself :)] as somebody previously asked in this thread, how does frostbite on hit work? We are not hitting anybody in this build. Does it work when I attack somebody with the brand?

2) Why not use a ring with +35% minion damage? The guide suggests for resistances and life (which make sense, but res cap easily). Wouldn't damage be a good addition?

Finally, my profile is public and I would welcome any suggestion to further improve my build.

FYI, I already have a +1 skeleton amulet and a +1 intelligence amulet (just need to buy an awakener orb to merge them). The next gear I am planning on upgrading are my wands (to +1/+1, but they are expensive) and the rings (hence my frostbite/damage minion questions). I know the guide suggests to go for the +2 to duration on chest, but those are still so rare and I think it would be much easier to get the wands.

Finally, I would like to change frostbite on wand for skitterbots, but when I do that I literally have no mana left to summon skeletons. So, I guess I need to increase my mana pool and buy some gems to reduce mana reservation.

I finally got +2 socket gem duration chest today, cost me 12ex but hitting 10% max life with the +2 corruption this league is nuts. got super lucky hitting 3 red 3 blue after 1r spam hit on first try. Would also appreciate guidance on rings, feels like we can juice some more damage on them.

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dmodolo87 wrote:

Hi. First of all, thank you so much for the guide. I am having a lot of fun with it and I can easily clear T16 maps, elder guardians & co deathless.

I have a couple of questions about rings:
1) [UPDATE: this question was answered in a post yesterday: EE does trigger it! I also bought a cheap ring with it and tried it myself :)] as somebody previously asked in this thread, how does frostbite on hit work? We are not hitting anybody in this build. Does it work when I attack somebody with the brand?

2) Why not use a ring with +35% minion damage? The guide suggests for resistances and life (which make sense, but res cap easily). Wouldn't damage be a good addition?

Finally, my profile is public and I would welcome any suggestion to further improve my build.

FYI, I already have a +1 skeleton amulet and a +1 intelligence amulet (just need to buy an awakener orb to merge them). The next gear I am planning on upgrading are my wands (to +1/+1, but they are expensive) and the rings (hence my frostbite/damage minion questions). I know the guide suggests to go for the +2 to duration on chest, but those are still so rare and I think it would be much easier to get the wands.

Finally, I would like to change frostbite on wand for skitterbots, but when I do that I literally have no mana left to summon skeletons. So, I guess I need to increase my mana pool and buy some gems to reduce mana reservation.

1. Brand activates frostbite and EE.

2. This is tricky, because minion deal X damage is either a Reedemer prefix or Delve suffix. If it's a delve suffix then you would be force to have only one resistance on the ring because the second one needs to be chaos res if you want to cap it for Glorious Vanity. Also you would want the ring to have frostbite on hit which is again a suffix on either redeemer or delve mod. So a perfect ring by your standards would be a a Delve ring with frostbite on hit, with Redeemer influence with minion damage as a prefix , life , chaos res and one normal res , which would be pretty insane but hard to hit without Harvest. Or a Delve suffix with minion damage, with redeemer influence frostbite as suffix and chaos res + an open prefix for life craft or native life, which is again, very hard to hit with the current crafting methods. Would be insane but not really easy. +to that the damage is additive and not really worth for summoners compared to life / res / chaos res. Since you won't be able to hit the exact godlike comp. Benchcrafting only gives you minion speed.

https://ibb.co/YcXQ3hk <---- Just a small sample, look at the price, and it's still not a good ring for this build as it will screw your EE when you have frenzy charges from the spectres.

3 " FYI, I already have a +1 skeleton amulet and a +1 intelligence amulet (just need to buy an awakener orb to merge them)." - careful on the reroll when using the awakener orb.

4 "Finally, I would like to change frostbite on wand for skitterbots" - Frostbite should be on ring with hit. You hit with brand activate EE and trigger the curse.


Check out my gear. I have skitterbots + bonechill which increase the mana reservation of my skitter bots to I do not know 49% or something and it leaves me with 83 mana for now ( skeletons use like 68-70 if I remember correctly). I use a to dust to summon more skeletons per one cast so that I do not have mana issues and I do not recast them like a mad man.

One thing that I would consider in the future, would be a hatred mana reduction corruption on the ring if possible or a better amulet with reduced hatred mana reservation to change the To dust jewel.

I do have some mana issues , this is why I use a mana flask that doesn't end on full mana. This makes maps with no regen easier for me so maybe you should consider.

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Vendetta wrote:

3 " FYI, I already have a +1 skeleton amulet and a +1 intelligence amulet (just need to buy an awakener orb to merge them)." - careful on the reroll when using the awakener orb.

Careful how? I mean, it's pure RNG what comes out, isn't it? ps. My two rings are magic rings with a single mod (+1 skel and +1 int). I made those myself with alteration orbs.

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Vendetta wrote:

One thing that I would consider in the future, would be a hatred mana reduction corruption on the ring if possible or a better amulet with reduced hatred mana reservation to change the To dust jewel.

That is an awesome suggestion. Thanks!

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dmodolo87 wrote:

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Vendetta wrote:

3 " FYI, I already have a +1 skeleton amulet and a +1 intelligence amulet (just need to buy an awakener orb to merge them)." - careful on the reroll when using the awakener orb.

Careful how? I mean, it's pure RNG what comes out, isn't it? ps. My two rings are magic rings with a single mod (+1 skel and +1 int). I made those myself with alteration orbs.

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Vendetta wrote:

One thing that I would consider in the future, would be a hatred mana reduction corruption on the ring if possible or a better amulet with reduced hatred mana reservation to change the To dust jewel.

That is an awesome suggestion. Thanks!

Yes it's pure rng this is what I was saying :D.

Good build !

Let it be known I've completed the atlas w/ my current gear + this build (slight modifications in the skill tree...) currently almost 40 awakened bonus done too. This build WILL clear the game for you - thanks OP and contributors