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

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https://pastebin.com/w5Ci6M3W
This is with 2 wands(setup which i run at the moment)
https://pastebin.com/N6fud2K7
This is with shield, ring changed to assassin mark from frostbite and tree change to Necromatic Aegis, i took the 3 points from life nodes to not affect the resulting damage with it.

I suck at pob big time :^D thanks

This PoB shows your dual wand setup:
https://pastebin.com/4fuSrTXw

This PoB shows the Shield setup:
https://pastebin.com/yn5Hqk52

Some comments:
You're missing Feeding Frenzy on your zombies and AG.
I would advise you to try get an Unset Ring and put your AG there instead. This opens you up to using feeding frenzy on zombies for the dps increase, it's pretty large. I would also probably use Vaal Molten shell instead of minion life, but seeing you have no minion survivability from the tree, maybe zombies are too squishy.

Also, you should use Vaal Grace, it allows you to reach close to Evasion cap and has a ~80% uptime.

You absolutely can NOT run Crown of the Tyrant on your AG.
He gives you cold damage which applies to your BV. This disables your Elemental Equilibrium.

I would also drop Fearsome Force. Area of effect doesn't do anything for SOs or Phantasms and you're not running Melee Splash on Carrion Golems.

This is how I would change your PoB:
https://pastebin.com/Zsjfegug

I honestly would drop the second cluster. I don't think it's worth it due to how much points you need to make it work.

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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https://pastebin.com/w5Ci6M3W
This is with 2 wands(setup which i run at the moment)
https://pastebin.com/N6fud2K7
This is with shield, ring changed to assassin mark from frostbite and tree change to Necromatic Aegis, i took the 3 points from life nodes to not affect the resulting damage with it.

I suck at pob big time :^D thanks

This PoB shows your dual wand setup:
https://pastebin.com/4fuSrTXw

This PoB shows the Shield setup:
https://pastebin.com/yn5Hqk52

Some comments:
You're missing Feeding Frenzy on your zombies and AG.
I would advise you to try get an Unset Ring and put your AG there instead. This opens you up to using feeding frenzy on zombies for the dps increase, it's pretty large. I would also probably use Vaal Molten shell instead of minion life, but seeing you have no minion survivability from the tree, maybe zombies are too squishy.

Also, you should use Vaal Grace, it allows you to reach close to Evasion cap and has a ~80% uptime.

You absolutely can NOT run Crown of the Tyrant on your AG.
He gives you cold damage which applies to your BV. This disables your Elemental Equilibrium.

I would also drop Fearsome Force. Area of effect doesn't do anything for SOs or Phantasms and you're not running Melee Splash on Carrion Golems.

This is how I would change your PoB:
https://pastebin.com/Zsjfegug

I honestly would drop the second cluster. I don't think it's worth it due to how much points you need to make it work.

Thanks for feedback, i'll get right to fixing it. my ee actually works with the cold because of my krangle. It deletes the cold bonus from AG from my character (tested it already) so i recommend this krangle to others.

Big ouch... the difference is 30mil dps shield vs QoL wand *tears*

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Skyhigh87 wrote:

Hey dead, I noticed you said you'd look at someone elses PoB - do you mind doing the same for me? Also if you wouldn't mind giving my some details on how to make the thing work properly that'd be awesome that way I wouldn't have to rely on someone else doing it for me.

https://pastebin.com/GncSddRk

I currently have an open slot for a gem. My wand currently is 2b1g and I have a ring that's without a slot....


Things I'm debating on doing:
Adding Elemental Weakness to the wand and moving tempest to the ring, giving me EW curse, but I do believe that means frostbite on my ring wouldn't be affected anymore?

Adding vaal haste or vaal molten shell to the ring?

Maybe even taking out phase run and added both.

Add Molten Shell to the ring.
Use numlock trick to Autocast it.
Use Vaal Molten Shell whenever things are getting hairy. Example is when you go into Scourge Zone or when all mobs have spawned in a Simulacrum. If you watch my Sim videos you will see that I always pop a 20 sec Vaal Molten Shell about ~10 sec into a Simu when most mobs are up. This is when you turn quasi immortal.

Don't use Elemental Weakness yourself. Let your AG cast it with a double curse setup. You can only cast 1 curse and that's frostbite.

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CAKE wrote:

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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https://pastebin.com/w5Ci6M3W
This is with 2 wands(setup which i run at the moment)
https://pastebin.com/N6fud2K7
This is with shield, ring changed to assassin mark from frostbite and tree change to Necromatic Aegis, i took the 3 points from life nodes to not affect the resulting damage with it.

I suck at pob big time :^D thanks

This PoB shows your dual wand setup:
https://pastebin.com/4fuSrTXw

This PoB shows the Shield setup:
https://pastebin.com/yn5Hqk52

Some comments:
You're missing Feeding Frenzy on your zombies and AG.
I would advise you to try get an Unset Ring and put your AG there instead. This opens you up to using feeding frenzy on zombies for the dps increase, it's pretty large. I would also probably use Vaal Molten shell instead of minion life, but seeing you have no minion survivability from the tree, maybe zombies are too squishy.

Also, you should use Vaal Grace, it allows you to reach close to Evasion cap and has a ~80% uptime.

You absolutely can NOT run Crown of the Tyrant on your AG.
He gives you cold damage which applies to your BV. This disables your Elemental Equilibrium.

I would also drop Fearsome Force. Area of effect doesn't do anything for SOs or Phantasms and you're not running Melee Splash on Carrion Golems.

This is how I would change your PoB:
https://pastebin.com/Zsjfegug

I honestly would drop the second cluster. I don't think it's worth it due to how much points you need to make it work.

Thanks for feedback, i'll get right to fixing it.

my ee actually works with the cold because of my krangle. It deletes the cold bonus from AG from my character (tested it already) so i recommend this krangle to others.

Oh, I missed that Krangle. It's a 5Head move, wish I had such a krangle haha.
Yeah, with that wand Crown of the Tyrant is actually incredibly strong.

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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Skyhigh87 wrote:

Hey dead, I noticed you said you'd look at someone elses PoB - do you mind doing the same for me? Also if you wouldn't mind giving my some details on how to make the thing work properly that'd be awesome that way I wouldn't have to rely on someone else doing it for me.

https://pastebin.com/GncSddRk

I currently have an open slot for a gem. My wand currently is 2b1g and I have a ring that's without a slot....


Things I'm debating on doing:
Adding Elemental Weakness to the wand and moving tempest to the ring, giving me EW curse, but I do believe that means frostbite on my ring wouldn't be affected anymore?

Adding vaal haste or vaal molten shell to the ring?

Maybe even taking out phase run and added both.

Add Molten Shell to the ring.
Use numlock trick to Autocast it.
Use Vaal Molten Shell whenever things are getting hairy. Example is when you go into Scourge Zone or when all mobs have spawned in a Simulacrum. If you watch my Sim videos you will see that I always pop a 20 sec Vaal Molten Shell about ~10 sec into a Simu when most mobs are up. This is when you turn quasi immortal.

Don't use Elemental Weakness yourself. Let your AG cast it with a double curse setup. You can only cast 1 curse and that's frostbite.

Awesome thank you, I'll change the ring to a red socket - it's also nice that's it's a 3lvl so maybe I'll get some added shit to it as well

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Merodeador2017 wrote:

Hello!

Thanks a lot for this wonderfull guide! really is spectacular. Dont understand how a new player dont follow it and make sure that reach to the max levels of the game.

For me, that I have another character witch, was a nice suprise.

One peticion: look at my "coldmancer" (Bellamujer) and let me know some improvements that I can do.

Again, thanks for your work

Hi!

Nice to see that you're trying the build out on Standard, hope it's going well :)

You've got most of the "core" stuff right on the gear and gems but there are some things you should look into.

I don't know about standard prices so some of this stuff might cost more or less than in Scourge League:

1. If you can, get a 4red-2blue or 3red-3blue Skin of the Lords with EE.
If you can't that's okay, but swap Icebite for Divergent Hypothermia. Our minions can't stack more than 3 Frenzy's so Icebite isn't very good unfortunately.

You want to run:
- Awk Minion Dmg
- Empower4
- Awk Melee Phys
- Multistrike
- Awk Elemental dmg with attacks/Increased Crit Dmg

2. Get an Auls Uprising.
I see where you're going but the +1 doesn't really do much for us.
Spectres get VERY little dmg from levels for some reason, that's why I don't + levels on my boots. It's an extreme luxury to get levels for spectres for marginal dps increases.
Golems are like lvl 32 or something with Empower.
At lvl 30 and above + to levels get diminishing returns and add much less.
From level 20-30 Golems get ~10% dmg per level. 30 and above golems get ~5% dmg per level.

By running Auls you can fit another Aura in the build instead.
This allows you to run either Vaal Grace to cap evasion or Vaal Haste for alot higher dps and better clear in lower maps.

3. Since you're running an Elemental Weakness ring I'm assuming you're only running 1 curse in your setup.
You want to look into getting a Frostbite ring so you can run Elemental Weakness on your Animate Guardian instead.

If you're running Frostbite synthesis implicit on your AG, then disregard this. However, I highly advice you to get another Unset Ring.
This allows you to run Vaal Molten Shell aswell which is a massive survivability boost. You can put Molten shell on Numlock to have it autocasted.

4. Remove Second Wind, it does nothing in your gloves if you don't have Dash there. You don't get additional charges for Phase Run since it's instant cast.
Either run Enhance support or simply put Dash in again.

5. Bonechill should provide a bigger dps increase than Awakened Unbound Ailments on your Skitterbots.

6. Fix some alternate quality on your gems. In particular:
- Divergent Bone Offering for more block
- 20% quality on BV for increased AoE size on BV.
- 21/20 Animate Guardian (Divergent if you have money)
- Divergent Bonechill and Skitterbots
- Quality on Phase Run
- 1/20 on Desecrate so it cost less mana.

7. You should try to hit 2 white and 2 blue colors on your helm with Vorici if possible. Vicious bite unfortunately doesn't do anything on Phantasms or the Crab so you shouldn't be running it.
If you have to run 2 greens, replace Vicious Proj with Awakened Added Cold instead for single target. Use Faster Projectiles for clearspeed in maps.

8. Your flasks are all over the place. I suggest you copy my flask and run the same setup I have. You also want to put instilling orbs on all of them so they autocast when they reach full charges.

This is the setup I recommend:
- Life: Remove bleed and increased recovery rate (Recovery rate is very important)
- Granite: Rumis
- Jade: 60% increased armour and either increased duration or inreased flask charges gained.
- Quicksilver: 14% movement speed and either Increased duration or increased flask charges gained.

The last flask is up to you. I prefer either a Silver flask for runspeed or a Basalt flask to tank up. Mods should be the same.
- Mods: 55% chance to avoid Ignite (Get x2 Ignite avoid corruptions on Jewels for 100%) and either increased duration or increased flask charges gained.

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Deadandlivin wrote:

Oh, I missed that Krangle. It's a 5Head move, wish I had such a krangle haha.
Yeah, with that wand Crown of the Tyrant is actually incredibly strong.

My tree is now 99% changed and I'm about to annoint.
I see that you put a lot in minion survivability, can i use anime guardian at sirus with this setup? There is also Grave intentions, which could help with AG resist, but i think i remember you mentioning few pages back that what kills AG is him moving at speed of light with bleed on him(corrupted blood perhaps)

I also have triad gloves with elemental weakness so i think i'll end up using whisper of doom annoint for 3 curses but that is far in future, would give me resist issues atm.

edit: tree change fully done, could not take the 2x 16% dmg nodes because of my lack of dex and str but otherwise it is the same.

lost 600hp, likely gained around 30mil dps sounds like fair trade off.

Thanks for opening my eyes, i got fooled by the magic stick but now i see the truth.

I got anomalous feeding frenzy "recover 1% life on hit" hope it will help zombos and guard stay alive while providing the dmg buff

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CAKE wrote:

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Deadandlivin wrote:

Oh, I missed that Krangle. It's a 5Head move, wish I had such a krangle haha.
Yeah, with that wand Crown of the Tyrant is actually incredibly strong.

My tree is now 99% changed and I'm about to annoint.
I see that you put a lot in minion survivability, can i use anime guardian at sirus with this setup? There is also Grave intentions, which could help with AG resist, but i think i remember you mentioning few pages back that what kills AG is him moving at speed of light with bleed on him(corrupted blood perhaps)

I also have triad gloves with elemental weakness so i think i'll end up using whisper of doom annoint for 3 curses but that is far in future, would give me resist issues atm.

edit: tree change fully done, could not take the 2x 16% dmg nodes because of my lack of dex and str but otherwise it is the same.

lost 600hp, likely gained around 30mil dps sounds like fair trade off.

Thanks for opening my eyes, i got fooled by the magic stick but now i see the truth.

I got anomalous feeding frenzy "recover 1% life on hit" hope it will help zombos and guard stay alive while providing the dmg buff

You definitely want to run Indomitable Army somehow. It's the best defensive nodes for minions in the tree.

You need it to cap resistances on your minions or they will die to random alot. You should check your Calculations tab in your PoB and check stats for your minions to see how much resistances they have.

If you run +8% max res defensive node and Indomitable Army I'm pretty sure your AG can't die right now. My AG only has 61k life.
The lowest he's gotten is to 70% life when getting gangraped by both Kosis and Omniphobia on a wave 30 when they did some Earthquake AoE stuff. That attack killed both my Carrion Golems (Before Empower4) and all zombies.

I never despawn my AG any longer, not for Sirus either. I don't think my AGs health has moved to Sirus in a very long time.
The only important thing for yoru AG is that you need to make sure that he's overcapped on resistances. He has 40% base ele res and 20% base chaos.
Chaos is whatever but he gets like 25% from Gravebind which is enough.
Indomitable Army gives 15% and Windscream gives 15% so that puts him at 70% ele res. The last 15% will have to come from his Helm.
Could be hard since you're running Crown of the Tyrant though, so might want to look into some Krangles on an Inpulsa or Crown et.c. to give him some Ele resistances.

Also, you'd probably want to get a Eye Jewel with +10% to minion elemental resistances in your belt. Honestly though, maybe the best option simply is to just pick the entire Indomitable Army wheel and remove Decay Ward. Then you simply can Annoint Decay Ward instead. This should put your minons at 25% + 18% + 12% = 55% attack block and 30% spell block which might be good enough for proccing Brittle. But not sure.

If you're gonna run Tripple Curse you need to run +1 on yourself and +2 on your AG(Boots + Chest)

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Big ouch... the difference is 30mil dps shield vs QoL wand *tears*

If you want to improve your clearspeed alot, instead of running aggresive on your wand, simply put in Faster Attacks support on your helm.

Then you simply run GMP, Faster attacks, Spectre and Phantasms in the head.
It's insane how much it improves your clear speed.

Phantasms are already aggresive, i'm 99% sure of it.

Try to get 2 white sockets + 2 blue sockets on your helm so you can swap between gems easily.

Also, regarding the magic stick..
The thing with endgame PoBs and scaling is that small changes to a build introduce massive differences in numbers. More than most people actually think.

For example, my build is currently at ~100 million clearing DPS. Simply putting 1 point into 16% increased minion dmg adds like 2 million dps which is massive.

To put it into perspective.
Most people say that you need ~5 million dps to clear most content in the game.
This means I can invest 2 skill points to get 4 million meaning my 2 skill points are as valuable as an entire build that can clear the game?

Thanks for the guide so far my best season. Do you have any tips for my next upgrade?

https://pastebin.com/iGAPF1p2

Also I feel like i die too often and getting oneshotted randomly. Is this because of my chaos resistance?