[3.14] Odif's Old Obsolete Skel Mage Guide, New one is in a new thread

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SisterBlister wrote:

Hiya! Thank you very much for the build. My very first summoner is fun, though I'm not even in act 6 yet.

Just a question regarding EE and storm brand: Wouldn't wintertide brand be better? It allows us to use frost bomb on regen enemies and the extra chill should be a nice defensive bonus, no?

Wintertide brand does not HIT right away, we need HITS to proc stuff.

Oh, and to people wanting more damage.

Buy a 21/23 Vaal Summon SKeleton gem, if you have not already done so. (not cheap)

A +2 duration tabula is also key for dps on the cheap.


And to those who are at t15 and find the damage is not enough, there comes a point in this build where you have to ask your self, am I doing this as a league starter to fund other builds, or do I want to see how far it goes?

You can scale it up further, but the cost is going to be more than some other builds. This build DOES scale with investment, but you wont get as much out of 100 ex investment as you would with some other builds.

This guide was designed to smoothly and easily take newbies to endgame.

I believe it does that REALLY WELL.

You can Try somethink like this for endgame:

https://pastebin.com/9e0ET2vh

It's still a setup without Awakening gems, only Skeletons and Zombie are 21 lvl rest support are normal 20/20, no GMP or LMP here.

719 716.2 Lightning Projectile
725 565.6 Fire Projectile
215 338.3 Cold Projectile

So taking the average it,s 553 540 DPS per skeleton, we have maximum 14 Skeleton give us around 7M Shaper DPS of course, you have to take into account that not every projectile will hit the Boss if this one is with adds e.t.c, so we count that we have about 5 million. In addition, we have 9 Zombie in 6L that together add more than 2 million Shaper DPS. It seems to me that you can done the entire content with such a setup, I do not know there is much sense in playing under 1h weapons in this build.

Which gems should I first concentrate on for quality?

Also I have enough to buy either a 21/23 Vaal Summon Skeleton (I already have a 21/0) or an anointed +1 intelligence gem. Which would give me the best bang for the buck?

This build saved this league for me. Thank you.

Okay.
I'm not very experienced player, but i like experiments.
Skeletons are cool, but at one point I wanted to have strong zombies. So I decided to buy a 6-link staff.

To this I decided that it is not bad to have ghosts, because Frost Auto Scout should work well on 4 links.

For movement I wanted to use the leap slam, but I also need a phase run for easy movement in the delve. It came out of the boots.

Then I realized that I had nowhere to put the bone offerin and desecrate. The choice fell on the glove - I combined immortal call, desecrate, bone offering and cast when damage taken. It's worse than "trigger socketed spell when you use a skill", but better than nothing.

In rings, I decided to use profane proxt with elemental weakness and ring with socket for skitterbots.

This is also a test version: D I plan to buy better armor and gloves Breathstealer Hydrascale Gauntlets

Do you think this is the case or did I do something stupid?

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Odif wrote:

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SisterBlister wrote:

Hiya! Thank you very much for the build. My very first summoner is fun, though I'm not even in act 6 yet.

Just a question regarding EE and storm brand: Wouldn't wintertide brand be better? It allows us to use frost bomb on regen enemies and the extra chill should be a nice defensive bonus, no?

Wintertide brand does not HIT right away, we need HITS to proc stuff.

Ah, got it. Thank you! I'm still trying this way, because frost bomb does hit, and is a nice buff against hard enemies.

I picked up one of these

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/gVqXR8OIQ

Thoughts on moving Boot items to this and swapping a wand for a shield?

I'm not sure how to link my exact one. It has 10% increased effect for auras on myself and another line item for the 10% for minions.

It's +2 to minion gems - problem is that I have a few 50% minion damage essences for wands, and each wand is something like 42 percent


So I'm not sure of +2 minion gems plus the aura boost - is better than the 40 something percent minion damage increase.

Running a 21/0 skelly gem. Priced the 21/23 earlier today starting at 100 c, which is far more than I have after earlier investments. Bought a 1/23 for 8c and will run it up, athough if prices stay at 100 c......

My life is about 3800 and running level 7 right now. Someone mentioned in an earlier post that had gotten to over 6000 life. What is a good life target ?

Need some clarification on this I guess because I got a Dead Reckoning Jewel and never summon anymore than 6 skeletons no matter the circumstance do I have a broken gem?

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Odif wrote:

What order should I prioritize for getting the above gear?

1) Dead Reckoning unique Jewel (enables Skeleton Mages)

Now I'm only level 12 atm so maybe that has something to do with it but so far I have everything to be in order 40 Int In Radius and a Raise Skeleton gem socketed. Not trying to be a !$%k but how do I do the thing lol.