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

Ancient Wrath fire EK projectiles which curse enemies with Enfeeble on hit. They have +1 to additional curse so their curse wont overwrite player's. Basically what people've been doing with Profane Proxy, but this way the curse doesn't take up 1 ring slot. And it's Enfeeble, not Ele Weakness.

There's also Ancient Suffering with Temp Chain and + 1 curse. The mob is rather hard to get if you dont delve.

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camapngu133 wrote:

Ancient Wrath fire EK projectiles which curse enemies with Enfeeble on hit. They have +1 to additional curse so their curse wont overwrite player's. Basically what people've been doing with Profane Proxy, but this way the curse doesn't take up 1 ring slot. And it's Enfeeble, not Ele Weakness.

There's also Ancient Suffering with Temp Chain and + 1 curse. The mob is rather hard to get if you dont delve.

Thanks for the info, appreciated.

Managed to get this Vision, problem is the blue sockets are too few..



With my previous chest piece I used LMP & Pierce when mapping/Ultimatums and swapped to Slower Projectiles & Hypothermia for bosses. Here I decided to add Hypo for all occasions. Any thoughts for better results?

PS- Redemption Sentries -I use 2 atm- seem to perform well.

Hello and thank you for detailed guide! Im noob to summoners, never played before, and have few questions: how to increase number of skeletons and whats the total number of not vaal skeletons in this build? why not using GMP? and what about "From dust" jewel? all i wanted to ask so far thank you

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NaineNoire wrote:

It's refreshing to see build/gear variants popping up. The effort to raise % block chance to a point where one can ditch Glancing Blows is intriguing but hardish to achieve.

@ evilmindcz - Saw you dropped Cascade for BB. How do you proc EE?

@ camapngu133 - How does Ancient Wrath play out in our build?

Thats because i wanted more reliable way to use Unnerve (other then AG gloves), thats basicaly 10 more dmg on bosses. I proc it with jewell with cold dmg to spells. It started when I was short 10 dex after last equip change, so i needed to take it on jewell, and when i knew suffix is already wasted then i was like whatever, i can just sacrifice the whole jewell for support... :-) Because there is nothing else usefull DPSwise on hypnotic anyway, even if you can take cold damage on either preffix or suffix there.

I kinda like it this way, it already passed my usual DPS check today - wipe Maven HP after just 1 memory game in final phase. I needed three memory games just a few days ago, so its a visible upgrade.

Would be glad if you tell me guys how you handle Sirus with this build? Reached it 1st time, eat a lot of chaos damage.

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BrightButHeavy wrote:

Would be glad if you tell me guys how you handle Sirus with this build? Reached it 1st time, eat a lot of chaos damage.

Pretty much everything Sirius has is avoidable, but chaos resist helps. Take time to learn mechanics, only real incidental damage is during last phase you might have to run through beams to dodge death lazer.

Make sure you have corrupting blood immunity on a jewel, flask isn't reliable since you cant refill - it will help alot.

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BrightButHeavy wrote:

Would be glad if you tell me guys how you handle Sirus with this build? Reached it 1st time, eat a lot of chaos damage.

Done and deathless with -31% chaos resist. I swapped out a ghastly for some random corrupted blood jewel. Just dont let those storm hit you and let skelly friend do the rest.

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evilmindcz wrote:

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FarVision wrote:

Remind me of the reasoning behind not leveling Convocation past 9?

More important question is - why use it at all? You dont need it for skeletons, and i dont think its wort it for the rest of the summons neither.

To me, it's more of a Get out of jail free card for damage. None of my minions really take any damage but locking it at 1.25 percent life regen I don't get.
CWDT and IC make sense for the damage trigger.

Why did i bought a +2 duration Tabula? There seems no duration gems in the sekeletton setup? :(

Skeletons itself is a duration gem