💀3.15💀 iLL3aT’s Cold Skeleton Warriors/Archers/Mages ❆ League Starter ❆ All Content ❆

is the archer set up better?

OP I thought you might find this funny - doing ilvl86 maps w/ watchstones I found this beauty today. If only she had +3 to skills prefix!

ill list her for 8ex still see if any biters.

Made some final changes to the build 2 fit in 2 clusters, have barely enough mana to cast summon skeleton once, and had to give up about 800 hp on the tree. Divined doryani's to find %hp and %ms, which were nice. I think last step for me will be to fertile catalyst everything, get the max life implicit on the gloves, and add expensive AG set-up. Not sure how I feel about using cobalt jewels with %hp and minion damage, they give a lot more hp than generic ghastly jewels, but not sure if they are worth the dps decrease.


Curious what my total damage is per skeleton, if someone is good with configs in POB, the link is below. For my AG set-up I currently just have the cheap-setup but with elemental weakness gloves. Damage feels quite a bit higher than before, but not too sure.

https://pastebin.com/HM4jR4Xf

@shaob - The damage helmets for skeletons would be +3, minion damage, and hypothermia: unfortunately these will be expensive due to being shaper/elder. To craft that particular helm you need to awakener orb a shaper and elder helmet together, and then use frigid and bound fossils.

Nice helm! Second one is definitely not worth 8 ex though.

@mrbawjangles - Phys and cold are more or less equal in the early game, with phys coming out on top due to being cheaper. During the mid (so like tier 2-3 gear), cold should pull ahead somewhat. Due to you playing hardcore, I see your gear is more defensive in nature and thus closer to early game gear for a softcore player.

Lioneye's Vision is a great chest for archers come to think of it - good choice!

Cold does have one major upside for hardcore though (gif I prepared for the guide):


@Nihilum12345 - I haven't tried 100% deliriums this league unfortunately - PC is nearing the end of its life. The monsters in those maps have absurd damage though. Awakened multistrike is about 20% more damage if I recall correctly - but you'd use melee splash in 100% maps anyways.

Looked at your PoB: Witch start:
-Pathing from the right may be better since you don't need the 20 int, and the starting node is mana regen.
-Recoloring a 6% life triad grip would be a good idea (1 ex total maybe?)
-Generosity: if the awakened version is too expensive, the anomalous version is 5% increased aura effect and cheap
-Divergent Predator is nice upgrade for a crit build.
-Check out Oskarm for the AG

Your build looks really good!

@ap0y - It's a bit lower in terms of damage, and hard to get a vaal version, but it's better for map clear. I'm enjoying them for sure!

Two new videos.

Uber Elder – Skeleton Archers
Mastermind – Skeleton Archers

Thanks for the fun league. Deciding to sell off most of my gg items in hopes to buy a headhunter / fun items as I've never had one.

Let me know if anyone in this thread wants to make some deals - These are the items i'm parting with

Sir should i go with archer 21/20 or 20/20(vaal)?

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shaob wrote:

cool chest i got today that was 6L'd already. Vaal'd it and got +2 duration lol

some how sold this for 16ex today FYI op lol i neeever thought that would sell for more than 1 ex. I had to update you on that thought you might get a kick out of it. Take care.

It's late and I might be tired, but I really don't understand why my build (https://pastebin.com/MmNc8uUn) achieves a per-skeleton DPS of 1.2M, while the one in the build description gets to 2.3M.

Can somebody have a look and see what I am doing wrong?

The only differences I see between my build and the one in the description are:
1) My awakened gems are only at level 1-2, as opposed to 5
2) I don't have the flask that increases minion damage
3) Ghastly jewels are a bit different
4) One of my +1/+1 wands only have +30% increased minion damage instead of +60%.

But none of these have a big impact on the DPS (all together, less than 100k-200k). Where am I missing 1M? LOL

Thanks

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dmodolo87 wrote:

It's late and I might be tired, but I really don't understand why my build (https://pastebin.com/MmNc8uUn) achieves a per-skeleton DPS of 1.2M, while the one in the build description gets to 2.3M.

Can somebody have a look and see what I am doing wrong?

The only differences I see between my build and the one in the description are:
1) My awakened gems are only at level 1-2, as opposed to 5
2) I don't have the flask that increases minion damage
3) Ghastly jewels are a bit different
4) One of my +1/+1 wands only have +30% increased minion damage instead of +60%.

But none of these have a big impact on the DPS (all together, less than 100k-200k). Where am I missing 1M? LOL

Thanks

Configured your PoB(https://pastebin.com/qjvuA9g4). Didn't even check mark 'enemy is chilled' from our skitterbots, spectre buffs such as frenzy charges and animate guardian buffs etc.

Add a feeding frenzy support gem to either zombies or golems, its a pretty decent dps boost.

And make sure you are using the PoB fork.