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

i put desecrate in wand for auto cast ( not need lifetap ), I have 300 mana left with hatred/grace/skitterbot, I can even replace second wind with desecrate in glove and put vitaly in wand to get 4 auras

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Rizzelo wrote:

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Optimal single target setup is:
Minion dmg, Predator, Melee Phys, Multistrike, Elemental dmg with Attacks.

Hmm i see divergent hypo is mostly useless for bosses right as we can't consistently freeze them right?

Hypothermia is still a pretty big dmg multiplier.
Running divergent hypothermia is stronger when we link them to spectres since they're our AoE centric minions. This requires them to be in the chest and will increase their chance to freeze stuff with their aoe abilities aswell as helping with dps through the added cold penetration.

The quality component of Hypothermia does not work against endgame bosses like Sirus or Guardians though. But it works against things like Metamorphs, tanky rares and regular map bosses.

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Skua99 wrote:

Ok I have now just hit level 43 and have switched over to the Carrion Golems and SO's. But now I have a couple of questions.

1) At this time I can only have 2 specters and am taking it for granted that I want them to both be SO's. If this is correct, when do I add in a single Crab? Is 'Primal CrushClaw' the one I want to use?

2) When I am just running around do I want to just curse a mob to have my guys target it or just keep everyone close with Convocation? Also I am guessing that Predator is basically for single bosses, is this correct?

At your level you can basically run anything and breeze through the acts.

1. Go with 2 Syndicate Operatives. When you get 3 spectres, include a Crushclaw.

2. You want to get into the habit of:
- Running around
- See a large pack of Monsters -> Cast Curse on top
- Dash into pack instantly followed by Convocate.

If you don't feel safe, just curse + convocate but dashing in like a maniac increases the general clear alot.

I'm currently doing the low budget scourge build. Just wondering. With the golems do I want 3 carrion golems or also a stone golem. Also I'm struggling with dex in the build. Even in path of building it says the dex is 90 but needs to be 150.

Is that a problem? Am I doing something wrong? For now I have an amulet that is unique and gives me 110 dex and I just have enough including with spending 2 passives to get 30 dex. But this is stopping me being able to get death attunement and so only have 2 spectres.

Is grace on the shield an option? Determination costs 6+ ex grace only a few chaos.

IF we're switching carrion golems to our chest can we still run SO/phantasm in our helms? And if so, with what 2 support gems (hypothermia and minion damage on the helm)?

hey all..

i've now changed my build to the "highest" pob and i went back to much of my old gear..exept the amu, i now manage to get to wave 22 on sim, the bosses dies veery slow tho.. anyone got some tips on how i can increase dps now, but not lose any defence?

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Knuddelbearli wrote:

Is grace on the shield an option? Determination costs 6+ ex grace only a few chaos.

It technically works but you won't really gain too much. The nice thing about Grace is that it's a Green Socket so you can put it in your Triad Grips. There still won't be any place to put Determination unfortunately.

What you can do to fit another socket however, is to Anoint Charisma.
This leaves you with ~160 mana and you can remove lifetap from weapon and put Determination there instead.
This requires you to path to Death Attunement in the tree though.
You can check my tree to see roughly how I'm using my points.

So I recently changed my my build to your latest PoB for medium budget no cluster from the clayshaper version and I just fought A8 veritania. She decided mid fight I didnt need any minions. So point is my minions aren't surviving anything and also wanted to point out the change that was made to "Trigger socketed spell when you use a skill" having an 8 second cool down automatically so BV cant be up indefinitely anymore. Also the Veritania fight was a non-alc'd map. I could really use some help here for minion survivability.

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Melonmonkey wrote:

IF we're switching carrion golems to our chest can we still run SO/phantasm in our helms? And if so, with what 2 support gems (hypothermia and minion damage on the helm)?

You can check my character or any of the new PoBs on the front page.

Short answer though, yes, you move Phantasms and SO to helm.

For clear you run:
Spectre - Phantasm - GMP

The last socket depends on what you got going.
If you don't have Elemental Equilibrium in your build, you will need exposure and can run either Elemental Army or Awakened Cold Penetration on lvl5.

If you have EE on your chest Hypothermia (+3 Helm with Minion dmg) is best.

If you have a 7-link helm your dps will be looking good and you want to run Faster Projectiles support.

So basically:

- No EE: GMP + Awk Cold Pen/Elemental Army
- EE but 6-link: GMP + Predator
- EE + 7-link: GMP + Faster Proj

For single target you will run:
2b-2g: Awk Cold Pen + Hypothermia
3b-1g: Predator + Hypothermia
BiS: Predator + Awakened Elemental Focus

If you're running a cheap 6-link helm with +3 and minion dmg I suggest running 3blue and 1 green. It's the most flexible balance between bossing and clear.

Here you simply will run:
Clear: GMP + Elemental Army
Single target: Predator + Hypothermia

If you have a 7-link helm i HIGHLY urge you to get 2 white sockets from Vorici turning it 2blue and 2 white.
This allows you to run both the BiS clear and single target setups.