Stress-Free PoE! BONE ZOMBIES: No Required Items! 1-Button Play! SSF League Start-End! 3.12

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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AeronarDremar wrote:

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Been using your slo-mo zombies for several leagues now and love them. Very well written and thought out guides. Wondering if you could kindly explain the choice of the glancing blows keystone? What's the reasoning and logic behind it? Maybe I don't understand what the keystone does, but it doesn't seem super useful?

Thanks again for all you do.

Hey AeronarDremar!

Thanks for your kind words! That's very encouraging to hear. Thanks for taking the time :).

Glancing Blows...Normally when a character blocks a hit, the character takes 0 damage. For a character to cap their block chance against both spells and attacks, it takes a lot of investment on the tree. So Glancing Blows gives characters a chance to max their block chance with much less investment but at the cost blocking no longer mitigating 100% of the blocked hit's damage. Now, with Glancing Blows, the character, with minimal investment has their current block chance doubled. So the consequence is that we only mitigate 35% of the damage. Bone Offering gives us (with Glancing Blows) about 30% block chance for both spells and attacks. So as long as Bone Offering is up, it gives us a 30% chance to takes 35% less damage than we normally would have. Now, that's without gear. As soon as you add any shield with any attack block chance, you're capping your Attack Block at 75%. All of a sudden, the Keystone is really powerful because you can do whatever you want with any item (flasks, shields, crafts...). So it's a TON of mitigation for one node; even if you don't focus on block chance at all with your gear.

Does that help?

Thanks again for your kindness :).

Again, explained so, so well. Thank you!

Hey, Wrecker!
Didnt find any information about amulet oiling or im blind? :)
Which node would be best to annoint?

Hallo i have a general question:
wanna start a SSF heist charakter and i see 3 different ssf builds for witch.
vortex, raise spectres and this build here.
Most people play spectres.

now i wanted to ask how is this build in ssf this legue compared to the other witch builds? Can it melt endgame content in ssf?

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BeDarkAndy wrote:

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Hey, Wrecker!
Didnt find any information about amulet oiling or im blind? :)
Which node would be best to annoint?

Hey BeDarkAndy!

Nope. You're not blind. Anoint whatever you like. The options are endless, just like all other gear. It depends if you want to go with an offensive minion focus, minion defence, defence or survivability for you...then it depends on which oils you have. There are tons of options. I'd go cheap until you're in the triple-digit T16s. Then, once you're there, you'll know the build well and it's pros and cons based on your playstyle. Then spend your golden oils on what you think is appropriate.

I personally like Redemption. It's not too pricey and gives movement speed with other good minion offence.

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gangwars90 wrote:

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Hallo i have a general question:
wanna start a SSF heist charakter and i see 3 different ssf builds for witch.
vortex, raise spectres and this build here.
Most people play spectres.

now i wanted to ask how is this build in ssf this legue compared to the other witch builds? Can it melt endgame content in ssf?

Hi gangwars90!

I haven't played any builds besides my own but all three of my Witch guides are pure SSF that can clear the game no problem. No specific gear is required so you can use what you find and improve as you go along.

I'll have videos out at some point by league's end but yup! This ticks all your boxes. Just make sure you like Zombies, RF, or Animate Weapon.

I am really enjoying the build. Leveling was abreeze. I changed a few things. I replaced purifying flame with convocation. Convocation is great for offense and defense. I use carrion golem instead of stone. He never dies, so I took off the CWDT. I did carrion golem +minion damage+ feeding frenzy+multistrike instead. He seems to do a ton of damage and adds some flat physical damage to the zombies. Also, I went for unnatural strength first for more damage.

Anyway, I've been very pleased with my zombie buddies. Thank you for making the guide Wrecker, I appreciate it.

Sounds great, started this build on ssf

Hi !

So far i have to say i am loving this build.
I do have a question though...

It seems like withering step or purifying flame never get triggered..

CWDT is at 2 and the other gems almost where they should be..

Is there anything i am missing?

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DullestBerry850 wrote:

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I am really enjoying the build. Leveling was abreeze. I changed a few things. I replaced purifying flame with convocation. Convocation is great for offense and defense. I use carrion golem instead of stone. He never dies, so I took off the CWDT. I did carrion golem +minion damage+ feeding frenzy+multistrike instead. He seems to do a ton of damage and adds some flat physical damage to the zombies. Also, I went for unnatural strength first for more damage.

Anyway, I've been very pleased with my zombie buddies. Thank you for making the guide Wrecker, I appreciate it.

Awesome DullestBerry850!

I'm really glad you're liking the build. You've made some good changes! I think they'll go a long way. Good things for others to tinker with. Thanks for taking the time to be kind and encouraging. I appreciate it!

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gangwars90 wrote:

Sounds great, started this build on ssf

Sweet gangwars90!

Thanks! I hope you enjoy it. I love SSF.