Disco Minions (26+ mil sDPS, No Six Link, League Starter, Beginner Friendly)
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 ___________Changelog 3.13 Updates Since GGG slammed spectres and carrion golem and cozied up with skeleton mages, I decided to league start with phantasms and skeleton mages. And damn, it's quite the light show. Latest Changes: - Added tanky end-game PoB with 5.3k ES, Chaos Innoculation and Fortify. Bye-bye disco mages.
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Changes
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- Added with Arcanist brand. Added use of minion life for spectre life nerf. Added usage of Hungry loop ring. Key Ideas of the Build
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1. Use the absurdly broken Soulwrest staff that takes 10 max phantasm limit to 21. That's more than a 2x damage boost from a single support gem!
2. Deal with high mana reservation requirements using the weirdly broken Victario's Influence and purity cluster jewels. 3. Say f*** no to six links, since Victario's influence and Soulwrest work without links. 4. Scale damage through easily available Vengful commander clusters. Tala Moana, friend. If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I'll try to address them as soon as I can. Build Stats Offense - 20-30+ Million Sirus DPS (No awakened gems, No alt quality gems, No cluster jewels) - Phantasm have built-in pierce projectile for great clear. Defense - 5.3k ES - 82% elemental resistances - 60-65% Chance to Evade - 2k Bone Barrier Shield Misc - Undead Secret Service (With 34 minions out on the field enemies better invest in pierce) - 10% Spell/Attack Dodge Chance - 10% Spell/Attack Dodge Chance - 20% Attack Block Chance Pros + Very cheap. No six links. + High single target DPS + Great clear. Cons - Squishy minions. Need to manage re-summons. - Arcanist brand version requires landing brands on enemies and casting desecrate seperately for boss fights. - Not giga tanky. Pushing delirium maps gets tricky. ___________  ___________Deafening Essence of Build: Low time investment and game knowledge requirement. I mostly play on the weekends and I only really started playing this game since Delirium. So I'm making this build for casual filths like me. - High number of cheap uniques and rares. Beginners can buy gear with guaranteed rolls. No six links for high tier mapping or expensive cluster jewels. Easily to play. - Build doesn't topple over because your minions ate a sirus explosion or got bum rushed by aura stacked rare or unique monsters. - Phantasm AI is a bit more aggressive. Kills without knowledge of game mechanics. Bosses (need to test it on A8 Sirus) will phase or melt in seconds. - Highly useful in the 3.13 boss killing meta. Path of Building, PoB, TL;DR
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Install link for Path of Building (PoB) Community Fork: : https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/releases End of Campaign (Look at levelling section): https://pastebin.com/6TwRrBnn End game, Cyclone CwC Summons: https://pastebin.com/t6QbisLf End game, Arcanist Brand Summons: https://pastebin.com/hbqJEP6x Gear
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Note for Beginners For every gear, I've provided trade site links which'll show you the gear you want to target. These links will search for the minimum stats you want on gear to make the build function smoothly. For every gear, I've also provided a written list of minimum stats you want on the gear. For better rolls and optimization, you might want to follow the priorities assigned to each stats. The links don't filter based on socket colors, no of links, corruptions. Please choose those to your liking. Gear List
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Helm, Rare (20 chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/904OeBmHK Optional: Enchant: 100-150% increased Effect of the Buff granted by your Carrion Golems Priority 1, 5% Mana Reserved Priority 2: 90% increased Energy Shield Priority 3: 8% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage Note: Such a helmet probably won't exist on the market, but can be easily crafted by spamming Deafening Essence of Loathing on a Enchanted helmet, then bench crafting the physical damage taken as fire. Body, Victario's Influence (1 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/L2q96ZSn Priority 1: Increased non-curse aura effect Priority 2: Increased AoE of aura Priority 3: Increased Evasion and ES Guaranteed: Socketed Gems have 30% reduced Mana Reservation Guaranteed: Socketed Gems are Supported by level 30 Generosity Weapon, Soulwrest (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/g20v2vdFQ Guaranteed: Trigger Level 20 Summon Phantasm Skill when you Consume a Corpse Doesn't Matter: (100-140)% increased Spell Damage Priority 1: Minions deal (45-51) to (66-78) additional Physical Damage Priority 2: (25-30)% increased Cast Speed Priority 3: (80-100)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate Guaranteed: If you Consumed a Corpse Recently, you and nearby Allies regenerate 5% of Life per second Gloves, Triad Grip (1 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/rPlbP7gSQ Doesn't really matter: 94% increased Armour and Energy Shield Doesn't matter: Minions have 5% chance to Freeze, Shock and Ignite Sockets can be easily gotten to off colors using bench craft. Please look up a video if you're confused about it. There's a ton of online resource about it. Belt, Darkness Enthroned (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/rmwggHQ Stygian Vise Guaranteed: Implicit: Has 1 Abyssal Socket Guaranteed: Has 1 Abyssal Socket Guaranteed: 75% increased Effect of Socketed Jewels Boots, Sin Trek Boots (10 chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/v4odaBCE Priority 1: +28 to Intelligence Priority 1: +140 to maximum Energy Shield Priority 2: +(20-30) to Dexterity Priority 2: (80-100)% increased Evasion Rating Guaranteed: 30% increased Movement Speed Guaranteed: Enemies Cannot Leech Life From You Amulet, Rare (30-40 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/w0L2XMjIb Annoint: Allocates Champion of the Cause Priority 1: 6% reduced Mana Reserved Priority 1: 20% increased Energy Shield Priority 1: +40 to Energy Shield Priority 2: +30 to Strength Ring, Rare Moonstone Ring (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/VOjybQgSp Priority 1: Implicit: +25 to maximum Energy Shield Priority 1: +40 total maximum Energy Shield Priority 1: Any 2 of elemental resists: +35% to Fire Resistance, +35% to Cold Resistance, +35% to Lightning Resistance Priority 1: Benchcraft the missing elemental resistance from above Ghastly Jewel, ES Minion AllRes
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/904OQVmHK Ghastly Eye Jewel Priority 1: +30 to Energy Shield Priority 1: Any of the following - Minions deal #% increased Damage if you've used a Minion Skill Recently (Get multiple of these) - Minions have #% chance to Blind on Hit with Attacks (Get on only 1 of the ghastly jewels) - Minions have #% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks (Get on only 1 of the ghastly jewels) Priority 1: +10 to All Elemental Resistances My Gear (Gear might be reused for other builds later, so please don't use this as a reference)
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Flasks
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Bandits
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Kill all
Pantheon
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Major: Soul of Lunaris
Minor: Soul of Garukhan, Soul of Shakari (Your choice) Levelling Guide
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Look at Early and Mid Campaign passive skill trees in the End of Campaign PoB: https://pastebin.com/6TwRrBnn to learn about the order in which to allocate passive skill points. For gem choices and levelling walkthrough, I'm going to recommend Kay's excellent videos until Act 4. ACT 1 + ACT 2 + ACT 3 + ACT 4 For Act 5 and after, use the skill gems mentioned in the End of Campaign PoB in the PoB section. Skeletons with melee splash support provides good clear but still keeps good single target DPS to phase Act 10 Kitava.  How to Gear up to End-game, Upgrades Priority Section
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Campaign can be finished simply using rares due to insane DPS output of Slave Driver Spectre + Skeletons + Zombies + Carrion Golem, with defense carried by Vitality aura. View levelling section or PoB section for more details. Until you have enough currency to buy a Soulwrest your main damage link will be Summon Skeletons (or Vaal). Keep using that if you get 5 link or 6 link drops. As you gather some currency in white maps, I would recommend getting any and every of the following items when someone posts them for the recommended price on the guide. 1. Victario's Influence (Boosts damage for your existing phys minions (Skeletons, Zombies) using Haste, Pride and if possible dread banner) 2. Soulwrest (At this point phantasm will do physical damage) 2. Careful planning (For managing dex requirements of Haste as it levels) 3. Jinxed Juju (Until you can afford the mana reserved amulet) 4. Higher res and ES rares (Ring and boots) 5. Triad Grip (Don't use it yet) At this point, you have the basic gear to go into elemental damage. Take Elemental Equilibrium on the passive skill tree and equip Triad grip. At this point, if you have enough chaos for a annoint, then annoint the amulet. Otherwise, drop Wrath or Hatred until you can afford the annoint. After annoint get the rest of the gear on PoB in any order you see fit. Last edited by kkhode#5003 on Feb 3, 2021, 4:27:38 AM Last bumped on Feb 3, 2021, 4:33:35 AM
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Heh, you beat me to it. I was planning to do a Victario's focused skeleton mage variant as well (currently running zealotry & wrath with plans to add hatred later). Luckily that seems to be the only intersecting point and the builds will be different enough.
Good luck! 3.15 ❆ Cold Skeletons guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2774965
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Strong league starter but the piano play style is extreme:
7-active buttons not including the permanent minions which may die with the life-changes. |
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What spectres do you think suits this build best?
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" Oh cool. I just found it real hard to scale the damage with dipping into only one element. That's why Hatred and Wrath. Plus EE can give exposure to both elements at the same time + the new hydrospheres provide exposure to both those elements. How did you scale damage with just Wrath? PS: I really liked your skele archer build last league definitely gave it a try before giving into the sydicate operatives madness. " Absolutely on point. When pushing into T16s, doing the manual desecrate flesh offering rotations started feeling awful. Specially with a thousand aura boosted rares rushing you inside the ritual. I'm almost done fixing that issue with arcanist brand. Then it's, 1. Arcanist brand to automate Flesh offering (hence summon phantasm) and hydrosphere 2. Skele mage self cast 3. Sniper and Signal prey self cast for single target So then it should be a 3 button playstyle. I'll update the build as soon as I've tested it out. " Carnage and Host chieften. Last edited by kkhode#5003 on Jan 20, 2021, 5:22:12 PM
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Which movement skill do you plan to use with this build?
Last edited by maxineji#4157 on Jan 21, 2021, 1:35:01 AM
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" I'm doing two elements as well in this variant, lightning (primary) & currently cold (secondary) - think that's the only way to scale mages properly unfortunately and I think most have come to this conclusion. The primary element (lightning) is just scaled harder. I really like the idea for hydrosphere - I'll be going another route, but hydro's definitely a good one. PS: Thanks! Always good to play the broken build for one league before they kill it. :) 3.15 ❆ Cold Skeletons guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2774965
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Converted a work in progress necro I was playing into this build because it looked fun and was a build I wanted to make a league or two ago. Feels good so far and is very enjoyable to play. Looking to see what it can do later on in the game (level, maps, etc) but as for now just cleared Uber Lab at level 76 on this and it was really smooth. Took it a little slow due to trap day and was too lazy to swap flasks but it turned out nice at the end! Looking forward to seeing what adjustments you find fit for it.
Here's a video showcase of me running said Uberlab with gear/gem levels earlier if anyone is interested. |
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Any news on automating the phantasm spawn ? I'm very interested on the results :-)
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" The red maps PoB uses the Disciple of Kitava jewel/Keystone, which should automate the spawning while clearing trash. When going against bosses, there's Arcanist Brand - Desecrate - Flesh Offering as well. Last edited by Dragei#6882 on Jan 22, 2021, 8:48:02 AM
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