3.11 - Stress-Free PoE! SLOW-MO ZOMBIES: No Required Items! 1-Button Play! SSF League Start-End!

wow, you guys were not kidding.

Out of interest, I tried a Tier 7 alched map with Physical reflect. This is a higher tier than I should be at and neither I nor my minions had any problems with survival.

All zombies made it through, I did not even see their health dip. Golem made it through clean. The only minion that died was the little Holy Relic and he was easy enough to resummon. :)

This is going to save a lot of chaos not re-rolling phys reflect maps :)

Thanks Wrecker!

I have been playing since 2013 and I just got the Behold My Army achievement to pop today :)

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Raigalia wrote:

Great build!

The only thing I would change is maybe your passive tree large cluster positioning, there is a large cluster slot with +Mana in the East Wing instead of +Elemental Damage you are using. It would benefit the build a little more, for those who follow religiously a build.

Peace !

Hey Raigalia,

I've been thinking more about your post. I'll be changing the Large Cluster Jewel socket to your suggestion. I like it. Thanks for pointing it out!

I have some interesting news to share.

Based on our earlier discussion about how useful the Queen's Hunger would be, I picked one up for 1c today because I had a prophecy that 5 linked any item.

I have been using this now as my main armor, and it looks to be very very good.

I am level 78, so I chose a really hard tier 8 map with a ton of mods on it to test it out. I even got lucky in that I was able to find a delirium mirror in the map.

I cruised through the map. It was awesome! I got Delirium up to level 4 and then cleared the rest of the map with ease.

One of the offerings was up pretty much 100% of the time and at full effect on my character. It felt great and refreshing because every offering does something different.

The only down side to this is that the 6 link is very expensive. But I have a feeling this has a chance to be BIS for some builds if you can afford the 6 link eventually.

1) You get near 100% offering up time at 100% effectiveness
2) You can freely choose Commander of Darkness as the last ascendancy
3) You can remove Bone Offering entirely from the CWDT setup and replace it with something else

I noticed on our tree that we skip nodes that increase Minion Attack speed.

Is this stat not useful for Zombies?

Wrecker, I have one small suggestion for the guide.

You spend some time talking about how Bone Armor will cause another key press and when and how to use it in the Gameplay section of the guide.

In the spirit of the stress free play style of the guide, I would recommend removing that verbiage and simply tell people to bind Bone Armor to the left mouse key and never worry about it again.

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AndyLovesHisBge wrote:

I noticed on our tree that we skip nodes that increase Minion Attack speed.

Is this stat not useful for Zombies?

They are good, but not as impactful as other choices. You can always just use a minion speed gem to get massive attack and movement speed for them.

Whew, I was a busy boy today.

1) I got the 4th ascendancy finally (the last trial was alluding me). I picked Commander of Darkness since I am still loving Queens Hunger.

2) Commander of Darkness opened up some budget upgrades for me as I did not need to worry as much about resists:

a) Picked up a Convocating Wand with some minion stats
b) Fixed my dex so that I could free up a point on the tree
c) Bumped my zombies from 8 to 10

3) Anointed Grave Pact on amulet

4) Got my effective life over 5500


This should see me easily into early red maps. Every penny I save from this point on will go towards hopefully getting a 6 link Queens Hunger, which I am going to need to progress into the late red tier maps.

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AndyLovesHisBge wrote:

Thanks Wrecker!

I have been playing since 2013 and I just got the Behold My Army achievement to pop today :)

Wow AndyLovesHisBge! 2013! Nice! Congrats on the achievement! Minion achievements are my favourite ;).

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AndyLovesHisBge wrote:

I noticed on our tree that we skip nodes that increase Minion Attack speed.

Is this stat not useful for Zombies?

Minion Attack speed has it's value for sure! But there were only so many nodes to go around. So I went with Damage over Attack Speed. It gave more global damage since we have such a variety of minions.