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Otherdeath wrote:

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I'm a bit curious on what you'll do for the specters. I should go for this build on Endless Delve but not sure what to do about them without access to most of the decent ones specially at late level.

Thanks for the build btw!

That's a really good point Otherdeath! I haven't considered Delve monsters for Spectres before this event. So I'll likely just pick the first three enemies (if I can actually select them) that take a long time to die. ;) If you find something specific, let us know. Something from the Temple places would likely be strong. Or those Phantams that look like big versions of Summon Phantasms.

Have you found any worth while specters to use during this endless delve event?

Also, how does the Hatred aura given by Scar of fate in this event affect the damage done by my zombies that have brutality support gem? I'm still pretty new and these two together have a lot of words I don't quite understand yet, lol.

Hey Zuuule!

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Zuuule wrote:

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Have you found any worth while specters to use during this endless delve event?

I actually started using Deadly Turong and Gorul Alphas. They are the dog looking things that breathe fire and also spin their tails around is circles lots. There are a few versions that give Frenzy Charges. They don't do phsycial damage as far as I can tell, but they're good.

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Zuuule wrote:

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Also, how does the Hatred aura given by Scar of fate in this event affect the damage done by my zombies that have brutality support gem? I'm still pretty new and these two together have a lot of words I don't quite understand yet, lol.

Good question. Hatred and Brutality do not work together. You have to choose one or the other. If you were to choose Hatred, which is a really strong choice, there's no point with the other auras we have as well. You'd want something else, like Frostbite and Blasphemy. But there's nothing wrong with going the full physical version too. I ended up going pure physical once I unlocked the auras.

Good questions. Let me know if there's anything else.

Hey WoD, We meet again!
So Dwaine hit a wall with his RF CWDT (EDIT: Your RF CWDT, I forgot! I think he hit 93)about mid league and said "I think I'll try Wrecker's Necro again". Holy crap, it was sooo amazing to watch. Then he got frustrated with no skeletons so he fired up a hungry loop!
He's 95 now and we had a very great league!
He got his first deathless Sirus with this girl too!
He actually spec'd out of bone armor because he said he never had to hit it!
(sadly on the psycho content we run, we are either dead in one hit, or alive and rich!) He took commander of darkness instead, and I may as well. She is crazy strong.

Anyways, I was sitting on PS4 and thought, let's see how strong she is this league! MAN I am impressed! Life and resists on gear and GO!
I am still running all minions, zombies, phantasms, SRS totems, Vaal Skellies, specters and carrion. But I will start moving into your build soon.
I just rolled into Act 7 deathless and honestly, I have barely been hit!
I LOVE how you managed to get almost EVERY minion node on the tree :)
I think I am going to work on making a tank, because I already see that the weakest link in this build... will be ME!

Thanks again, it's making Flashback easy and effortless and fun!

And blood magic on specters, I shoulda saw that LEAGUES ago!
Man, so many green orbs, I can't even see my minions! LOL GREAT TIMES MY FRIEND :) This is also the FIRST time I have noticed the skeletons "Dashing", I feel like I am cheating... and I LOVE it!

Sorry, endless delve... whoops

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GrunkleBob wrote:

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Hey WoD, We meet again!
So Dwaine hit a wall with his RF CWDT (EDIT: Your RF CWDT, I forgot! I think he hit 93)about mid league and said "I think I'll try Wrecker's Necro again". Holy crap, it was sooo amazing to watch. Then he got frustrated with no skeletons so he fired up a hungry loop!
He's 95 now and we had a very great league!
He got his first deathless Sirus with this girl too!
He actually spec'd out of bone armor because he said he never had to hit it!
(sadly on the psycho content we run, we are either dead in one hit, or alive and rich!) He took commander of darkness instead, and I may as well. She is crazy strong.

Anyways, I was sitting on PS4 and thought, let's see how strong she is this league! MAN I am impressed! Life and resists on gear and GO!
I am still running all minions, zombies, phantasms, SRS totems, Vaal Skellies, specters and carrion. But I will start moving into your build soon.
I just rolled into Act 7 deathless and honestly, I have barely been hit!
I LOVE how you managed to get almost EVERY minion node on the tree :)
I think I am going to work on making a tank, because I already see that the weakest link in this build... will be ME!

Thanks again, it's making Flashback easy and effortless and fun!

And blood magic on specters, I shoulda saw that LEAGUES ago!
Man, so many green orbs, I can't even see my minions! LOL GREAT TIMES MY FRIEND :) This is also the FIRST time I have noticed the skeletons "Dashing", I feel like I am cheating... and I LOVE it!

Hey GrunkleBob!

Awesome to hear from you :)! It's always a pleasure!

93 is still an awesome level to "cap out" at! Nice job Dwaine! By My CwDT RF build, are you referring to 3.12's Righteous Golems? Or did I miss a reference?

I'm glad you and Dwaine are liking Bone Zombies so much! You always modify the build in fun and efficient ways so I'm glad you shared and updated! Next league, if GGG doesn't change anything with this build, I'll be giving people the option in the 6-link of either Predator, Meat Shield, or Skeletons for that specific socket. I've been playing with Meat Shield and it's glorious. I'll also have a section that'll give the "curse link" an option to go with Shield Charge, Fortify, Hextouch, Curse.

Thanks again for your post. You're always very encouraging. Thank you!

Hello WoD,

I finally made your build. I am level 82 in flashback league. The build makes a lot of fun, but it feels very squishy, I die often, even in low level t3 maps. My gear should be fine, at least for low tier level maps. I constantly activate the bone armor skill as soon as I can. I have 4,5k life, 900 ES,2608 Armor, 578 Evasion and all elemental resis are at 75%. I have all 4 ascendancy nodes. Maybe you have an idea of what I am doing wrong with my bad survivability? I actually wanted to go to level 90, but with all the deaths I don't feel like getting there.

Here is my skill Tree: https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/sony/AAAABAMDAAQHBLMGOQZJCPQLYQ3NEJcRLRZvGh0aOBzOHNwdFB4IHtoi9CSaJKolsicvKPorUCycLR8y0TbpOQs6WDrYOuk9D0VHRZ1Kn0yzTblTUlXGVi5akWKGY0FmnmdxaPJqQ2qsa9tsC20ZcfNyxXfCeX98g3y7fRiD24VgiECLZYt2jxqPRpAzkFWTJ5UgmuCbIZuKm6GevaDmogCnCKh9qsStSK9sr6e4k7zqvkm-T7-XwGbB88WKyT3MvNOP0_vZC9le2t3fiuNq6QLr7uyD7IrwH_Ie-tL7qv5U?accountName=Afura_33&characterName=ZombieDancer


And here are my items (with gems in it): You have to click here to see them https://www.pathofexile.com/account/sony/view-profile/Afura_33/characters and then on ZombieDancer or you click on my name, then on character and then on "ZombieDancer" to see the items, unfortunately I can not link my items, somehow linking them is not working or bugged.


Another question I have is the levels of the CWDT setup from "stonegolem+culling+frenzy suppport". What are the levels of those gems? I guess cwdt stays at 1? Stonegolem at level 3? And frenzy and culling can go to level 20(as long as I have enough dex and int)?

Happy Xmas

So, I have tested out a bit yesterday and now I feel little bit less squishy, but still lol. I totaly forgot to activate my war banner ^^. I leveled all my cwdt setup to the level you suggested and now I feel a bit more tankier. I changed predator gem for minion speed, after testing I find minion speed support not so usefull for this build (compared to other gems) and it's true the command you can give with predator is very useful and gives you some kind of safety if you are surrounded by minions. But I am going to try fortify for predator (I only have a 5L), to see how that works, just need to change the colours of my armor.
I was using my golem before with spectres+minonLife+blood+blood magic, now I use it like you with frenzy support, culling and cwdt, but I am still not sure which level every gem should be :D

For being more tankier, would it makes sense to use only Strength items for high armor? Or better to use items with Armor+Energy shield? I still feel a bit squishy, the things that mostly kill me are explosions or when lighting strikes come from the sky. Whereas bosses are very easy with this build. I don't get 1 shotted by stuff, but I get often several shots from far, they are so quick that I can't react ^^

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Afura_33 wrote:

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Hello WoD,

I finally made your build. I am level 82 in flashback league. The build makes a lot of fun, but it feels very squishy, I die often, even in low level t3 maps. My gear should be fine, at least for low tier level maps. I constantly activate the bone armor skill as soon as I can. I have 4,5k life, 900 ES,2608 Armor, 578 Evasion and all elemental resis are at 75%. I have all 4 ascendancy nodes. Maybe you have an idea of what I am doing wrong with my bad survivability? I actually wanted to go to level 90, but with all the deaths I don't feel like getting there.

Here is my skill Tree: https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/sony/AAAABAMDAAQHBLMGOQZJCPQLYQ3NEJcRLRZvGh0aOBzOHNwdFB4IHtoi9CSaJKolsicvKPorUCycLR8y0TbpOQs6WDrYOuk9D0VHRZ1Kn0yzTblTUlXGVi5akWKGY0FmnmdxaPJqQ2qsa9tsC20ZcfNyxXfCeX98g3y7fRiD24VgiECLZYt2jxqPRpAzkFWTJ5UgmuCbIZuKm6GevaDmogCnCKh9qsStSK9sr6e4k7zqvkm-T7-XwGbB88WKyT3MvNOP0_vZC9le2t3fiuNq6QLr7uyD7IrwH_Ie-tL7qv5U?accountName=Afura_33&characterName=ZombieDancer


And here are my items (with gems in it): You have to click here to see them https://www.pathofexile.com/account/sony/view-profile/Afura_33/characters and then on ZombieDancer or you click on my name, then on character and then on "ZombieDancer" to see the items, unfortunately I can not link my items, somehow linking them is not working or bugged.


Another question I have is the levels of the CWDT setup from "stonegolem+culling+frenzy suppport". What are the levels of those gems? I guess cwdt stays at 1? Stonegolem at level 3? And frenzy and culling can go to level 20(as long as I have enough dex and int)?

Happy Xmas

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Afura_33 wrote:

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So, I have tested out a bit yesterday and now I feel little bit less squishy, but still lol. I totaly forgot to activate my war banner ^^. I leveled all my cwdt setup to the level you suggested and now I feel a bit more tankier. I changed predator gem for minion speed, after testing I find minion speed support not so usefull for this build (compared to other gems) and it's true the command you can give with predator is very useful and gives you some kind of safety if you are surrounded by minions. But I am going to try fortify for predator (I only have a 5L), to see how that works, just need to change the colours of my armor.
I was using my golem before with spectres+minonLife+blood+blood magic, now I use it like you with frenzy support, culling and cwdt, but I am still not sure which level every gem should be :D

For being more tankier, would it makes sense to use only Strength items for high armor? Or better to use items with Armor+Energy shield? I still feel a bit squishy, the things that mostly kill me are explosions or when lighting strikes come from the sky. Whereas bosses are very easy with this build. I don't get 1 shotted by stuff, but I get often several shots from far, they are so quick that I can't react ^^

Hey Afura_33!

Unfortunately, your profile on the PoE website is set to private so I can't specifically see anything for your character except for your tree you sent. In regards to the tree, I'd start heading to Constitution instead of more block chance. The life as you level will help substantially. You'll be close to 6K life with those nodes.

In regards to the Gem links of CwDT and the golem, the guide states that if there isn't a gem level written beside the specific gem, then you level it fully. We fully level CwDT and the golem so that we can get the golem's full buff along with them having decent life/survivability. Culling Strike isn't worth upgrading past level 1 to be honest but the guide says don't go higher than level 8. It's just for the "cull" and that happens at all gem levels.

One thing you can do to really improve survivability is swap Predator with Meat Shield. So on a 5 link go with Zombies-Minion Damage-Meat Shield-Brutality-and then either of the other ones (including Predator if you want). Zombies taunting non-stop really helps.

This build has no investment in Armour. So I only care about base types for the sake of easy colour socketing. Our physical damage mitigation comes from a golem (if you choose), Bone Barrier (ascendancy node), and our Pantheon choices. Blocking is a huge part of our build so ensure that Bone Armour is properly linked to a level 1 or 2 CwDT with Desecrate.

You can always add Enfeeble as your curse instead as well.

This build is more of a "close quarters" build. You want to be close to enemies to be sure that all your auras and such are actually on enemies. You'll find the closer you get, the safer the build makes you.

You could even change the Curse 4-link to Shield Charge-Fortify-Hextouch-Curse. That way you'd get Fortify into the mix (but lose the life regen).

I hope that helps a bit. Sorry I couldn't see your character before Christmas.

Feel free to take a look at my personal setup with the link at the top of the guide. Survivability is great for me (you're welcome to check my recent zombie sessions too. It may help seeing what's what.)