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

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evilmindcz wrote:

I just finished both Sirus 8 and Maven fights, with almost all changed equip. I loved my old wand/shield 7k hp setup, but it was just not enough damage for harder Maven bosses, and i'm not good enough to dodge all mechanics and runnig around for 10 minutes there, so I needed more brutal force... :-) And shield charge, even if i still think its the best movement spell for maps, cant jump through beams in these fights without triggering their effects.

So new setup is double wand (thats the only thing i bought after failing so many attempts, everything else is selfcraft), Lioneys Vision for 7L, and i still have almost 6500hp with 68/54 block. I had to drop Vitality and Profane Proxy, to have enough mana/resists. I really like fire Hydrosphere for EE/curse, but i wanna test Frost Bomb too, even if i'm still not sure if it can beat Maven overhealing Uber Atziri.

Amulet/Rings still need lot of work on Harvest...

That armor is a great idea - it provides more damage than my (sucky) +2 duration gem armour. About 6% more damage (actually I think this is about 16% more damage as POB doesn't show 10% resistence penetration from elemental army). Plus way more armour and a good amount more health

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LONGWOODIIII wrote:

Level 86 on tier 10 and 11 maps. Not sure what to do with gems to put in my chest. Any advice? Is there better options as people played this build?

check out my character and hit me with some advice.

I think you can make a lot of upgrades on your gear. For example, you can get a Alberon's Warpath for cheap, that's 1 extra skele.
You can check my profile for my chest/other setup.

Also recommend poe ninja to sort top mage skele builds.

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evilmindcz wrote:

I just finished both Sirus 8 and Maven fights, with almost all changed equip. I loved my old wand/shield 7k hp setup, but it was just not enough damage for harder Maven bosses, and i'm not good enough to dodge all mechanics and runnig around for 10 minutes there, so I needed more brutal force... :-) And shield charge, even if i still think its the best movement spell for maps, cant jump through beams in these fights without triggering their effects.

So new setup is double wand (thats the only thing i bought after failing so many attempts, everything else is selfcraft), Lioneys Vision for 7L, and i still have almost 6500hp with 68/54 block. I had to drop Vitality and Profane Proxy, to have enough mana/resists. I really like fire Hydrosphere for EE/curse, but i wanna test Frost Bomb too, even if i'm still not sure if it can beat Maven overhealing Uber Atziri.

Amulet/Rings still need lot of work on Harvest...

This is similar to what I have, excited to see it can go far! Man, how many chromatics to get 6B on that chest? That's nuts!

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tpendragon wrote:

This is similar to what I have, excited to see it can go far! Man, how many chromatics to get 6B on that chest? That's nuts!

It can go as far as possible in this league, i finished the Chayula/Shaper/Cortex/Uber Atziri/Elder fight yesterday, even if it was kinda close call, because i suck at game mechanics... :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNRPUqDZPfc

Not so many chromes actually. I always started with mastercraft 120 for 3 blue, then spaming harvest craft "blue/green" randomly, hoping to get more blue. Whe you choose "socket color" in harvest, you can usually have lot of these. When i hit 4B, i used Vorici 1-3L. I have shaped my syndicates setup to farm Vorici very fast - it is easy with new syndicate map mods. I was actually crafting 2 chests at the same time, another one is +1 gem shaper astral plate where i wanted 5B1G, but its pretty much the same situation. I was really unlucky, failed like first 5 rotations, and then the last attempt i hit 2w on 2r, and i finished the second body armor aswell.

There is fastest way to do that too, you can just buy "turn non-blue socket to blue" craft from other people, these are only like 30c. I didnt do that, because i have trust issues... ;-)

Best FRICKIN build ever. Ive been playing for several years and have never gotten this far into after campaign content ever. So far its been nearly effortless. It took me a while to get reckoning but man after that this build really took off. I want to thank you soooo much for your work. I am finally have a good time playing and not sitting frustrated getting killed at every corner I turn.

BLOCK!

The key defense in my build is block.

Mistress of Sacrifice + Bone Offering + Glancing BLows + some spell block on tree.

You have NONE of that.

Read the section in my guide "DEFENSES"

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LONGWOODIIII wrote:

Level 86 on tier 10 and 11 maps. Not sure what to do with gems to put in my chest. Any advice? Is there better options as people played this build?

check out my character and hit me with some advice.

Your build is so different that what I have in my guide it's hard to know where to begin.

BUT

OFFERING
Offering of some sort is needed.
I like Bone OFfering + Mistress of Sacrifice for defense.

Golems
You use Lightning and Carrion.
Lighting does little for your build.
Carrion offers some offense.

I like DEFENSE chaos and stone.

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Bochita wrote:

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Bochita wrote:

So I have Skitterbots and vitality on, but if I turn zealotry on then I don't have enough mana left over to even cast summon skeletons. I have zealot and skitterbots linked to a lvl 3 enlighten. Am I missing something here?

You need to set your profile to public.
I cannot see your characters otherwise.

Just guessing....Did you spend 4 passive points into the Soverinty cluster? This gives 14% reduced mana reserved.

The other possiblility is you have something inadvertantly linked to an aura, that is increasing the amount of mana it reserves.

I updated my profile.

PASSIVE SKILL TREE!
You need the Sovereignty Cluster.
This provides 14% reduced mana reserved.

Find the 4 points somewhere.

BTW talking about defence, if you use cluster jewels, i recently added this one to the build, i saw the idea on some streamer video.




"Gain 1 Endurance charge every second, if you've been hit recently."

I tested different ways of generating charges in a last few days, but this one is just the best, you basicly have max charges the whole map, especially if its juiced map with a lot of monsters.

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Jobiality wrote:

Best FRICKIN build ever. Ive been playing for several years and have never gotten this far into after campaign content ever. So far its been nearly effortless. It took me a while to get reckoning but man after that this build really took off. I want to thank you soooo much for your work. I am finally have a good time playing and not sitting frustrated getting killed at every corner I turn.

Same :)

The highest level I have ever been 85 and it was a massive struggle losing XP when dying.

I'm at 82 and still fooling around with T3's. Doing some deeper delves for the first time ever. Clearing Alva missions in their entirety and going back to the time portal manually with time to spare :) that's never happened before.

Can't even remember the last time I died. L50 maybe. 3 or 4 times in the entire game time this season.

I haven't been trading in a while but got back into it - funding the options to buy some easy upgrades early. The entire thing is running on all eight cylinders quite smoothly.

Not entirely sure why I'm building two Infernal Legion gems still but it was in there somewhere :)