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

Currently trying out Divine Flesh in my build and while I can say that it has become more tanky, it does not feel like too crazy of an upgrade (maybe because I was already on 80 max elemental res)
Fitting it in basically cost me the Minion Duration wheel and a bunch of int (to the point where I couldn't equip my wand anymore lol)
Took me 3 divines to get a decent Glorious Vanity, but I didn't bother to min max it
I get a bunch of chaos res from my large cluster setup but if I didn't have that, I don't know how to reasonably get chaos res capped since we are so starved for suffixes anyways.
All in all I'm pretty pleased with it though and I'm thinking of switching my brass dome for an EE skin to improve my damage

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CAKE wrote:

I dualwand now, i wonder how much dps i lose due to this compared to 2-2 shield with 8% cold to chaos (i sold my before looking at the difference in pob). I'm also curious about tree edits or other stuff that comes to your mind guys to try with this more exotic setup.

But I gotta tell you one thing, the aggressive on wand is worth any dps lost, clearspeed is on another level in maps now. Meanwhile before this my spectres were pretty much ignoring monsters and phantoms too and only golems did the job because of

and zombies because of agressivity gem.

This frees 1 jewel slot, 1 gem slot, makes anime guardian actually provide the bonuses where it matters because he is with minions instead of standing on top of you. Even if you are not interested in dual wielding i recommend to sacrifice hatred aura effect for this suffix.


I tried to run 1x host and 1x carnage, they never die because i got minion life on helm

BUT 2x crab 2x so feels much better in maps. So it seems i'll give up on the charges. Could try something like 2x carnage 2x so or 2carnage 1host 1so and other combinations in future but now i m just chilling in heist spending my build up markers.

Thanks for the simulacrum feedback, i did not realize that build change is so important for it, i guess i got lucky doing it on 1. try (with few deaths ofcourse) I also did some cheese by hiding and dash spam behind objects in double boss phases which surely helped with surviability.

Interesting, might look into that wand. The question is whether the additional damage from an additional Eminence + Aggresive Spectres can compete with the 40% hatred effect.

Phantasms are already super aggresive so they don't need the aggresive mode I've found. I think spectres are fine too but there are times when they just stand around afk during bosses if you're too far away which is annoying.
I like the idea of aggresive AG the most, having him seek out packs to procc inpulsa instead of being dependant on me convocating him sounds great.

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dylanloud wrote:

Haven't played this build in a few leagues and got to the point where I wasn't sure what to do next to improve. My dude is definitely a little squishy and gets one shot occasionally. Damage seems kind of low. Any input would be helpful.

https://pastebin.com/Z1xD40tp

Thanks!

Need more information to help you.
What spectres are you using and what items do your animate guardian have?
One glaring problem is that you're running Minion Damage support on your spectres when your helm already gives minion damage.
You have Carnage Chieftains and Crushclaws displayed for your spectres but you're running to SO setup which is confusing me.

Also, you don't have the required mana to trigger your offering skill it seems.
Is this the case in game?

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Drathy1508 wrote:

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CAKE wrote:

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Drathy1508 wrote:

I'm very confused at the moment...in a T6 map my SO spectres and my golems died...the first time ever... I have absolutely no idea why and I can't raise them in my hideout again, although I didn't logout the whole evening...

Is it a bug or do you know what the problem is?

Elemental reflect destroys this build, i tried a lot of stuff to prevent it but looks like you'll need ring+pantheon for that.

That is at least what instantly deletes my minions that are not reflect immune from gem or item.

Ok, thanks, for the information, but my problem is not that they died (my gear isn't vrey good at the moment), I don't understand, why I couldn't raise them again in my hideout. I thought they are in the spectre table of my hideout, unless I logout...

Unfortunately I didn't find anybode who shared SO spectre with ne again... :-(

GGG for some reason decided to shaft Spectre players this league and make it so your spectres are removed from the desecrate pool when you change zone.

This means, that if you have your spectres in a map with desecrate ready, your spectres will be saved to that desecrate.

When you swap to your hideout, your desecrate pool resets and checks for your spectres. If you have SOs and Crabs when you enter your hdieout, they will be saved to your desecrate.

However, if you lose your spectres and enter your hideout. Desecrates resets and searches for your spectre gem. You don't have any spectres so your desecrate only spawn skeletons.
To get your spectres back you have to go back into the map because the desecrate of that map has your spectres saved into it.

This is complete bogus.
To solve this issue, level up a new character to 28 and make it a spectre bank. Or join /global 6666 and try to search for spectres there.

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Skyhigh87 wrote:

Okay so couple of things - What is everyone else using for their AG items?

I currently have kingmaker, ephemeral, eye of malice, victario's flight, southbound.... just want to make sure he's setup properly (he's not losing HP's like ever and the bonuses he's giving is good), mostly just curious if there's a better setup atm.


Secondly, I just tried my first A9 Sirus with this build and he just wiped the floor with me... can someone check out my build and lmk if there's somehting wrong / or something I need to change/swap out while doing sirus?

Lastly, and this is simply an overall question - what are y'all finding is the best thing to farm this league?

Get rid of Eye of Malice quickly. We can't use that helm any longer.
With the combination of old EE and Exposure gone we can't reduced bosses health enough to make it a dps increase. In most cases, it will increase monster and boss resistances instead nerfing your damage.

Get a -9% cold res helm.

If you're not gonna run the Inpulsa explodey thing on him, I suggest you get rare gloves with Elemental Weakness corrupted instead of Southbound.
Also get Windscream boots. If you incorporate those 2 items with a -9% cold res helm aswell you will see much better dps.

Also, I would swap Garb of the Ephemeral for a Doppleganger Chest to make your AG unkillable instead. I think Garb is overhyped. It doesn't really do much. Most of the time you're out of range from his crit immunity aura.

Sirus is though, you need to be on your toes and dodge all of his abilities or he will clap you. The best solutions to make him easy either is to just bust out +40 million shaper dps and oneshot him or go a tankier route to survive his spells. Going tankier might be the better budget option.

What you want to do is look at my Simulacrum PoB to see how I manage my mana and auras there.
The basic principle is to add Tempest Shield and Bone Offering to the build to get spell block capped aswell as shock immunity. You then add a corrupted blood immunity jewel.

Running all of these together will allow you to tank Sirus die beams which makes the fight way easier. Just have to keep up bone offering by running desecrate in your gloves instead of second wind.

Best way to farm money for me so far:
- When weak: Heist
- When decently strong: Legions in Glen or Metamorphs/Essences in Haework while doing Awakened cycles.
- When strong: Simulacrums

Some other things I would consider is farming Blighted Maps in Valdo's Rest and then simply run the blighted maps. Watchstons are like 3 ex each though.

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Deadandlivin wrote:

GGG for some reason decided to shaft Spectre players this league and make it so your spectres are removed from the desecrate pool when you change zone.

This means, that if you have your spectres in a map with desecrate ready, your spectres will be saved to that desecrate.

When you swap to your hideout, your desecrate pool resets and checks for your spectres. If you have SOs and Crabs when you enter your hdieout, they will be saved to your desecrate.

However, if you lose your spectres and enter your hideout. Desecrates resets and searches for your spectre gem. You don't have any spectres so your desecrate only spawn skeletons.
To get your spectres back you have to go back into the map because the desecrate of that map has your spectres saved into it.

This is complete bogus.
To solve this issue, level up a new character to 28 and make it a spectre bank. Or join /global 6666 and try to search for spectres there.

Thanks for that explanation! I already supposed something like this... :-( I even tried to desecrate them in map but I didn't find them...obviously I wasn't patient enough. :-(

After this mess yesterday I decided already for myself to level a spectre bank, after I got them back. I'll try it in /global 6666 again this evening (yesterday nobody answered). I hope, if no one reacts it would be ok, if I send you a whisper to beg you to share them...

And again: Thanks for this absolutely great guide, your work and incredible endurance to answer everyone's questions!!

Hello!

I'm following your intermediate budget "SO's Full Block" build, and it's going great! Thank you so much for this build guide. This has been one of my best characters in many leagues.

I'm now in late red maps, T14-15ish, and while I can complete these maps, I can feel that my DPS is starting to noticeably slip.

It's time for a DPS upgrade, but it feels like I've hit a wall where there's no more low-hanging fruit, and every upgrade is 5-7ex. Getting s Skin of the Lords with the right sockets, for example, or a big boy helm.

Here is my build:

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Slench





My AG has a Kingmaker, but otherwise just the low budget gear you recommended. He hasn't gotten close to dying yet, so I haven't focused on him much besides getting the Kingmaker aura.

Does anything stand out to you as the next big upgrade I should focus on? Maybe something in the 2-3ex range I can afford, or have I just reached the point where my only path forward are major expenses?

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Drathy1508 wrote:

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Deadandlivin wrote:

GGG for some reason decided to shaft Spectre players this league and make it so your spectres are removed from the desecrate pool when you change zone.

This means, that if you have your spectres in a map with desecrate ready, your spectres will be saved to that desecrate.

When you swap to your hideout, your desecrate pool resets and checks for your spectres. If you have SOs and Crabs when you enter your hdieout, they will be saved to your desecrate.

However, if you lose your spectres and enter your hideout. Desecrates resets and searches for your spectre gem. You don't have any spectres so your desecrate only spawn skeletons.
To get your spectres back you have to go back into the map because the desecrate of that map has your spectres saved into it.

This is complete bogus.
To solve this issue, level up a new character to 28 and make it a spectre bank. Or join /global 6666 and try to search for spectres there.

Thanks for that explanation! I already supposed something like this... :-( I even tried to desecrate them in map but I didn't find them...obviously I wasn't patient enough. :-(

After this mess yesterday I decided already for myself to level a spectre bank, after I got them back. I'll try it in /global 6666 again this evening (yesterday nobody answered). I hope, if no one reacts it would be ok, if I send you a whisper to beg you to share them...

And again: Thanks for this absolutely great guide, your work and incredible endurance to answer everyone's questions!!

You can join the chat "global 6666". It is the proper channel for ppl who are interested in share and get all kinds of Spectres.
If that doesn't work for you, add me up and whisp me whenever. I have a level 28 witch just for banking my Crushclaws and SO, i'll help you.

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SutCractus wrote:

You can join the chat "global 6666". It is the proper channel for ppl who are interested in share and get all kinds of Spectres.
If that doesn't work for you, add me up and whisp me whenever. I have a level 28 witch just for banking my Crushclaws and SO, i'll help you.

I tried yesterday, but I'm not sure if got the right channel. I'm playing in german language and I believe I joined the german version of the channel...at least the name said something with "german". I'll check that later in english language and if it makes a difference.

In any case thanks for your offer to whisp you - that's really kind and my ermergency plan! :-)

Decided to test doing Simulacrum with Crabs aswell. It went fine :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B6Ng6LZ_OA&ab_channel=HenrikSwanstr%C3%B6m

Done a couple of them with the Crushclaws. It feels worse than SOs because it's too many melee minions. In alot of cases Kosis and Omniphobia just stands around in really tight spots. This creates situation where the minions are blocking eachother and half of them don't do anything.

Pretty stupid.