[3.21] Cold Conversion Summoner | Build guides for all budgets | (Ghazzy Zoomancer)

I have an old summoner carrion golem/zombies/ auras stacker, I need to transition, is this the new meta summoner?

Build works great on a budget (10c) till reds

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judikator wrote:

Hey, is there any guide how do we get Syndicate Operative spectres?
I am 81 already but I haven't found a single one. Are they available only in the research hideout path?(After getting 100% progress) That looks quite a lot of time. Also I wonder how to reliably raise them if I run cold build already and everything just shredded into pieces without corpses...

Thanks

You should go to /global 6666 (summoner's global channel) and ask someone to share them there. Don't try to find one manually.

Thanks everyone for help, got my operatives :)

Btw, what item would the the most beneficial to buy first? Anima stone or skin of the lords? Or smth else?

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judikator wrote:

Thanks everyone for help, got my operatives :)

Btw, what item would the the most beneficial to buy first? Anima stone or skin of the lords? Or smth else?

Def Skin. Anima is overpriced AF rn, while you can snipe a nice Skin for less than an ex (mine was 50c). Skin is an incredible offensive-defensive slot filler.

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judikator wrote:

Hey, is there any guide how do we get Syndicate Operative spectres?
I am 81 already but I haven't found a single one. Are they available only in the research hideout path?(After getting 100% progress) That looks quite a lot of time. Also I wonder how to reliably raise them if I run cold build already and everything just shredded into pieces without corpses...

Thanks

Are you SSF? If you are it's extremely hard to raise them because the corpses despawn in 1 second after you kill them.

It's super hard for minion builds to raise them because you need to first locate them and be ready to raise them. Problem is minions just kill everything before you see them and then the corpse despawn.

You need to remove all your minions and link some other skill you can control so you're ready to instantly raise them.

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judikator wrote:

Thanks everyone for help, got my operatives :)

Btw, what item would the the most beneficial to buy first? Anima stone or skin of the lords? Or smth else?

In your case I would probably buy a normal 6-link with high life first and wait for skin prices to drop.
Ppl are just getting to Chayula farming and will flood the market with Skins in the coming week. We can then scavenge and try to get our hands on some juicy ones. A normal 6-link to fix resistances and life is the first thing you should go for.

After that, aim for a +3 minion helm. They are overpriced right now because they require ilvl86 bases and ppl just got to maps.
So wait a little and you will be able to buy +3 helms for like 10 chaos. Getting them with resistances is great, then you can just benchcraft 70 life.

Anima Stones are very expensive this league unfortunately. When Spectres died Carrion Golem became the meta minion again so price skyrocketed compared to last league. Still though, not too bad. Used to be like 300 chaos for Primordial Might during Ritual et.c.

Hi everyone!
Hope the league is going good for everyone and you're enjoying the build.

Just some heads up for you guys who haven't gotten to Red maps yet.
I've gotten pretty deep into reds now and finished my Atlas basically and I've noticed some weaknesses with leveling PoB when we get to the later game.

We're INCREDIBLY squishy against the new league mechanic.
I had to find solutions to this so I could continue leveling. I basically got hardstuck on 87 for an entire evening and died multipile times in my maps.

So I'm giving you some tips ahead of time so you can get ready for when you hit that point and how to solve it.

Unfortunately, most of us are still poor so we can't really invest into too much defenses but one thing we can do is get close to block capped with Glancing Blows.

I simply swapped Flesh Offering for Bone Offering, bought a Rumis Concoction and specced into glancing Blows. This stopped majority of oneshots and the increases in tankiness was substantial. After this change I could continue leveling.

I'm starting to feel my dps drop slightly though, bosses can take a solid 10 sec to kill. Things like Metamorphs and juiced T14 conquerors can take 30-60 sec.
(Keep in mind I haven't updated my gear much since I finished the campaign)

Another tip is to literally IGNORE the league mechanic.
Majority of my deaths comes from this league mechanic and unfortunately it seems poorly balanced.
The league mechanic is both undertuned and extremely unprofitable in my opinion.

Majority of the time I'm investing 4 of my portals pulling my hairs out to get showered in 30 corrupted rares hidden by my loot filter.
I got a "Tainted Exalted Orb" today which baited me completely when I saw it was worth 3 chaos Orbs.

GGG will most likely nerf the Scourge monsters because they're like 3 times harder than normal map mobs. They will also have to buff the rewards from it. The league mechanic literally doubles the time you're in your map and you get close to nothing back in return.
My tip simply is to skip it until GGG buffs it, in my opinion it's not worth it right now.

Just started doing some low level heists to farm up currency (Spent almost all I've gotten buying red maps to finish atlas) and had completely forgotten how it feels to get currency. Heist contracts literally showers you in money and they're really easy.

Good luck to you all :)

Probably a dumb question, but do you use the stone golem at all? or just run 3 carrion?

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Shamrock5647 wrote:

Probably a dumb question, but do you use the stone golem at all? or just run 3 carrion?

I don't run a Stonegolem anylonger.
Used to use it before for regen but don't really need it anylonger.
Flask + Vitality should be enough.
You want to maximize amount of golems for maximum dps.