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

Hey thanks for the amazing guide! I've been following all the updates so far (page 230+) and I bought a 3B3R Skin of the Lords with EE. How would you suggest I fit in Determination with that setup since I can't just replace Elemental Army with Awakened Cold Pen since I don't have any green sockets on chest? I have been thinking of switching from SOs to Primal Crushclaws soon to give it a try.

Is boss-killing like with Sirus A8, Guardians going to be an issue? Feels like survivability against those fights will be an issue.

Thanks!

Hello everyone!

I just got to 97 solo playing by delving now at depth ~360ish and decided it was time to do my Maven invitations. I've wanted to try to Crabs for bosses for some time but have been putting bossing on hold until I leveled up. Unfortunately, Delve is not a very safe place to level, atleast at deeper depths so there was alot of back and forth the last 2 days.

I've now acquired 2 decent endgame items for the intermediate budget, including both a proper minion wand and a decent minion helm. I got both items for 15 exalted orbs each. I also bought an Auls Uprising for 5 exalted orbs.

I wanted to post a video of what kind of damage you can expect running this build with those bigger ticket items. Some people seem to be having damage problems when going into the higher budgets so I wanted to see if there was something wrong with the build or just issues that could be fixed with the gear.

Eventhough I have two pretty expensive items, there's alot of huge upgrades left for the build and I have alot of scaling left to go through. For example, I don't have any clusters, I'm still running Victario's Charity, a literal 1 chaos unique, no + levels to spectre on boots and just using bare minimum rings right now. I'm also missing a curse on my animate guardian because he haven't bothered buying EW corrupted Gravebind gloves yet.

If you're done with the medium budget and starting to look into getting higher budget items like the wand and helm, this is the type of damage you can expect:

[3.16] Carrion & Crushclaws vs The Twisted

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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Asuto wrote:

I was wondering how everyone does with surviability with the latest build using crushclaws. I'm not sure if I'm missing something very critical to the build or if I have unrealistic expectations of the build itself. Currently, I'm effectively unable to do any T15/16 maps, even white/non-alched. The bosses can instant kill my AG and golems in most circumstances. I've had to replace 5 AG from doing white T15 maps so far. I also find that it feels impossible to get close to enemies to use blade vortex for frostbite / EE proc. I mostly just want to make sure that I'm not missing something critical to the build or maybe I just need to try to stack more life overall.

Well, that doesn't sound fun. I was quick to assume your AG was like level 15 or something but seeing how he's 21 and dying is puzzling me.

What bosses have you lost him to?
If you don't oneshot bosses you need to always de summon him vs Veratania and Sirus. There are some other niche cases too with bosses who oneshot AGs with 110k hp.

Your Convoking Wand has cold damage to spells on it. This bricks your Elemental Equilibrium. You need to sell that wand ASAP and get a new one as you're actually INCREASING monster cold resistance right now.

As with most builds I've gone through you're putting too low emphasis on your gems. You really want your skill gems to be lvl 21 and your supports to be 20/20 atleast. Doing this aswell as getting a new wand would drastically your damage alot.

As for minion survivability, I can't think of what your issue is. I've lost 1 Zombie when delving at depth 400, that's it. And ofc, consistently losing a zombie here and there against Veratania and Sirus.

Something you should try out is getting 8% max Elemental res as a defensive minion mastery node instead of 40% convocation reduction.
Also get a Ghastly Eye Jewel with 10% minion Elemental Resistance to cap them out. Losing your minions suck pretty badly and hopefully this could help.

Thank you so much for the reply! I just wanted to make sure to clarify one quick thing before I start taking the actionable advice. The wand I have states "Adds 13 to 22 cold damage" which I understand adding cold damage is a problem. However, when I look at the tooltip for Blade Vortex, it doesn't explicitly say that cold damage is added somewhere. Should I still get a new wand without the cold damage on it? I just want to make sure before I spent the rest of my currency on it!

https://imgur.com/a/P1FiMuq

Im not really going for this Cold Convertion build. but just simply stay Carrion golem Physical. Im around 8Mil DPS on POEB. No idea how I could get much higher... Im struggling hard with 1 shots and dieing often with 4.4k Life. Need always 3-4 Portals for Maven or Sirius atm. Tried Simulacrum and was Impossible to clear Wave 21 Boss, getting 1 shot everywhere, and my golems feel like they dont do enough damage fast enough.

Anyone got tips or a build to clear the uber content?

Thanks

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Jennyfer9270 wrote:

Im not really going for this Cold Convertion build. but just simply stay Carrion golem Physical. Im around 8Mil DPS on POEB. No idea how I could get much higher... Im struggling hard with 1 shots and dieing often with 4.4k Life. Need always 3-4 Portals for Maven or Sirius atm. Tried Simulacrum and was Impossible to clear Wave 21 Boss, getting 1 shot everywhere, and my golems feel like they dont do enough damage fast enough.

Anyone got tips or a build to clear the uber content?

Thanks

Yeah, don’t go pure phys.

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Jennyfer9270 wrote:

Im not really going for this Cold Convertion build. but just simply stay Carrion golem Physical. Im around 8Mil DPS on POEB. No idea how I could get much higher... Im struggling hard with 1 shots and dieing often with 4.4k Life. Need always 3-4 Portals for Maven or Sirius atm. Tried Simulacrum and was Impossible to clear Wave 21 Boss, getting 1 shot everywhere, and my golems feel like they dont do enough damage fast enough.

Anyone got tips or a build to clear the uber content?

Thanks

You will need spell supression or other way to mitigate spells


also this to get evasion with grace. (discipline is also good but there is no slot for it in cold version because of 4 greens)

There are no slots to just bruteforce hp rolls in this build, with really god rolls you could get 6.5k hp and that is just not enough and would involved t1 life t1 str rolls +t1 hybrid

Mitigation is our only hope at low pool.

I'm at 5k hp (0 evasion at the moment because i still need stun immunity from ) and died in simulacrum too.

You could also grab the chaos resistance tree and get -chaos dmg taken from pantheon to see if that is not source of your death.

But honestly when i see my 40k hp golems and 80k guardian getting deleted instantly i gotta say you will need to get used to few deaths here and there with this build. it does not seem solvable, perhaps with magebane or hh? but that is really out of my budget to try.

edit: Also the cold damage is actually large defense layer, because monsters are slowed or stopped completely(frozen) that would help too.

Hi everyone,

I'm doing the leveling build and trying to follow the item build and gem links prescribed in the leveling POB. But I can't reserve mana for both skitterbots and hatred. Am I doing the links wrong? Also how do I get enough strength/dex on this build? I'm using Carnage Heart for now.

Finally upgraded my wand that I bought from character that had name like OP has account name
I paid my arm and leg for this, got 0 currency now not single chaos orb, i really wanted it because it allows use of Tyrant crown with cold damage without worrying about screwing things up with elemental notable for when i eventually switch to that from unwavering stance. So I think with this "krangle" it will hold its value pretty well.

Now i will grind chaos orbs and eventually get nice helm, would it be cheaper on average to craft the helm myself? 7 to 20ex for it seems like a lot of money.

Cost for the bone helm base is like 4ex with the influences
so basically how realistic is to fossil craft it, or perhaps just awaken slam it for cheaper than it is sold at?

Should I not test my luck and just save up for it? Tell me your experiences about that.

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CAKE wrote:

Finally upgraded my wand that I bought from character that had name like OP has account name

I paid my arm and leg for this, got 0 currency now not single chaos orb, i really wanted it because it allows use of Tyrant crown with cold damage without worrying about screwing things up with elemental notable for when i eventually switch to that from unwavering stance. So I think with this "krangle" it will hold its value pretty well.

Now i will grind chaos orbs and eventually get nice helm, would it be cheaper on average to craft the helm myself? 7 to 20ex for it seems like a lot of money.

Cost for the bone helm base is like 4ex with the influences
so basically how realistic is to fossil craft it, or perhaps just awaken slam it for cheaper than it is sold at?

Should I not test my luck and just save up for it? Tell me your experiences about that.

If you haven't already, you should really familiarize yourself with craftofexile. Ghazzy has a good introduction on it.

https://www.craftofexile.com/?b=56&bi=7647&m=fossil&f=|3|7|19|&i=|3|2|&ob=both&v=d&a=e&l=a&lg=8&bp=y&as=1&req={%221763%22:{%22l%22:68,%22g%22:2},%221994%22:{%22l%22:86,%22g%22:1},%222121%22:{%22l%22:68,%22g%22:2}}&bld={}&ggt=|&ccp={}

If you spam bound + frigid + sanctified fossils, you'll need 44 tries on average to hit +3 minion and any tier of damage and hypothermia together. That's around 910c, so together with the base you're looking at an 11.5 ex investment on average.
This does not take into account that you can sell imperfect crafts for more than the base cost and restart with a new base, so you might get away cheaper.

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Liberatorist wrote:

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CAKE wrote:

Finally upgraded my wand that I bought from character that had name like OP has account name

I paid my arm and leg for this, got 0 currency now not single chaos orb, i really wanted it because it allows use of Tyrant crown with cold damage without worrying about screwing things up with elemental notable for when i eventually switch to that from unwavering stance. So I think with this "krangle" it will hold its value pretty well.

Now i will grind chaos orbs and eventually get nice helm, would it be cheaper on average to craft the helm myself? 7 to 20ex for it seems like a lot of money.

Cost for the bone helm base is like 4ex with the influences
so basically how realistic is to fossil craft it, or perhaps just awaken slam it for cheaper than it is sold at?

Should I not test my luck and just save up for it? Tell me your experiences about that.

If you haven't already, you should really familiarize yourself with craftofexile. Ghazzy has a good introduction on it.

https://www.craftofexile.com/?b=56&bi=7647&m=fossil&f=|3|7|19|&i=|3|2|&ob=both&v=d&a=e&l=a&lg=8&bp=y&as=1&req={%221763%22:{%22l%22:68,%22g%22:2},%221994%22:{%22l%22:86,%22g%22:1},%222121%22:{%22l%22:68,%22g%22:2}}&bld={}&ggt=|&ccp={}

If you spam bound + frigid + sanctified fossils, you'll need 44 tries on average to hit +3 minion and any tier of damage and hypothermia together. That's around 910c, so together with the base you're looking at an 11.5 ex investment on average.
This does not take into account that you can sell imperfect crafts for more than the base cost and restart with a new base, so you might get away cheaper.

Wow, nice wand! How much did you pay for it? I would probably have paid 80 ex or more for it in past leagues!

Btw, you don't need Unwavering stance if you want Stun immunity. Do what I did and get corrupted Primordial Jewels with 25% stun avoidance.
I simply run 75% stun avoidance on my primrodial jewels and 25% on my Thread of Hope. I also run corrupted blood immunity on one of my Emminences.

As for the Helm, crafting it is pretty cheap and consistent.
I never craft wands, bad experience with it.
But helms are fine. Majority is paid for with the base and awakened Orbs.
Once you have the base and Enchant settled, just pump Bound + Frigid fossils into it and you will consistently hit 7-link helms.