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

Thanks Dead for the update. I'm still not clear on:

- What's causing corpses to despawn? I'm not manually desecrating...

- Current low-budget is so squishy that my AG dies, my Spectres die, it feels like the bridge bt low-budget and intermediate-budget w/ survivability is really challenging

- I'm not sure about the aura setup, and your comment about Generosity - could you take a look at my boots setup and lmk? You have Generosity listed in the boots in the low-budget PoB, so I'm wondering where I went wrong? Do I manually cast these and as a result they buff my minions? Seems like a - lot - of key smashing.

Tks,
BLH

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sickness84 wrote:

is there a chance to keep my 3r 2b 1g EE chest even for endgame build?
Can't find a proper one

You can keep using it, but your dps will be lower than running optimal support gems. With your current colors you want to run:
Carrion Golems - Vaal Skellies - Empower(3 if you're poor) - Multistrike - Awakened Melee Phys - Divergent Hypothermia

It's not like running this will break the build. But if I had to guess, that setup would have ~15% less dps than a proper colored setup.

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solomanstone wrote:

Thanks Dead for the update. I'm still not clear on:

- What's causing corpses to despawn? I'm not manually desecrating...

- Current low-budget is so squishy that my AG dies, my Spectres die, it feels like the bridge bt low-budget and intermediate-budget w/ survivability is really challenging

- I'm not sure about the aura setup, and your comment about Generosity - could you take a look at my boots setup and lmk? You have Generosity listed in the boots in the low-budget PoB, so I'm wondering where I went wrong? Do I manually cast these and as a result they buff my minions? Seems like a - lot - of key smashing.

Tks,
BLH

Our minions do cold damage and at times they will freeze and shatter monsters leaving no corpses behind. This causes corpses to despawn sometimes.

Are you squishy or your minions?

Your minions are squishy because you don't have Indomitable Army. This point is a priority point and a must at ALL levels of the game. You also NEED the 8% max resistances mastery.
Your minions aren't resistance capped, that's most likely why they die.
Another reason could be because they die to corrupted blood. Indomitable army protects against that aswell.

You have zero points invested into minion survivability being the reason why your minions are dying.

As for your AG, he's missing a level from a skill gem. You want a 21/0 AG gem if you can afford. Might be too expensive for you though.

As for your skill tree, you're missing some levels to get all you need.
You will have to make some sacrifices to get more important things in the tree until you get some more levels. Specc your tree like this:

https://poeplanner.com/b/JUU
If I've counted it correctly this should be your skill tree at level 85.
You're missing 15 skill points which should put you at 108 skill points total.
15 skill points will be allocated in your Cluster Jewel and 5 points for your Thread of hope leaving 88 skill points for the tree.

Also, for your medium cluster, I'm assuming you can't afford a cluster with Life From Death and Blessed Rebirth. If that's the case, run a medium cluster with Life From Death instead of Blessed Rebirth. It's essential to keep your minions at full health at all times. We run very little life regen for our minions. Life from Death will make it so you always keep your minions at full life.

As you level up, spend more points into life.

You're supposed to ONLY have generosity linked to Hatred.
Generosity makes your Auras stronger but only affect your minions.
We want determination and Purity of Elements for ourself, not only our minions. This is what makes us tanky.

The links are supposed to be:
1. Hatred - Generosity
2. Determination - Purity of Elements

As for your auras, you're missing Grace in your gloves.

You have to refresh those 3 auras (Hatred, Determination, Purity of Elements) every ~25 seconds or so.
This is how your actionbar is supposed to look:


You have Phase run on your walk button so you autocast it while walking around. Then you automate your Molten Shell and either Enduring Cry or Convocation depending on what you run with the Numlock trick. (I run Enduring cry and Molten shell on numlock as you can see).

You need to show Determination, Hatred and Purity of Elements on your action bar to see that they're up. If the auras are highlighted and glowing that means the auras are active like in the picture above. So every 25 sec or so you press those 3 skills once each.

With all of that covered you have 3 skills left that you actively use:
1. Dash
2. Skeletons
3. Arcanist Brand

Skeletons and Arcanist Brand are barely needed for clearing and mapping, only for bosses or very juiced content like wave 20+ Simulacrums.

So for the playstyle, what you basically do is:

#1. ALWAYS keep those 3 Auras in March of the Legion up by refreshing them every 25 seconds.
#2. Use Skeletons and Arcanist Brand when needed for bosses and tanky single target monsters.
#3. Use Dash when needed

Everything else should be automated.

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Deadandlivin wrote:

GGG nuked my build in the beginning of 3.16 so I had to quickly salvage what was left and try to push out playable builds in 3 days.

As the league has progressed I've regulary been updating the build by adding new things I've found that makes the build stronger.
This has been an "on the fly" approach where I simply add things to where I'm currently at and write about it as a post and those who've been following the build can read about it too.



Instead, I'm gonna work on perfecting the build now and rewrite the entire guide for 3.17 and pray that GGG don't destroy my build again.

This is the latest PoB you should follow for low budget:
https://pastebin.com/mbZA7ViA

Everything else is outdated.

Really looking forward to playing this in 3.17

Appreciate all your hard work and the fact that you have shared your new discoveries.

I think we can expect Hydrosphere to be nerfed next league

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Swaggmann wrote:

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Deadandlivin wrote:

GGG nuked my build in the beginning of 3.16 so I had to quickly salvage what was left and try to push out playable builds in 3 days.

As the league has progressed I've regulary been updating the build by adding new things I've found that makes the build stronger.
This has been an "on the fly" approach where I simply add things to where I'm currently at and write about it as a post and those who've been following the build can read about it too.



Instead, I'm gonna work on perfecting the build now and rewrite the entire guide for 3.17 and pray that GGG don't destroy my build again.

This is the latest PoB you should follow for low budget:
https://pastebin.com/mbZA7ViA

Everything else is outdated.

Really looking forward to playing this in 3.17

Appreciate all your hard work and the fact that you have shared your new discoveries.

I think we can expect Hydrosphere to be nerfed next league

Thank you :)

And yes, I also think the Hydrosphere + Melee splash interaction will get nerfed next league. It's broken and clearly not intended being the reason why I'm designing my builds without it.

However, if it doesn't get nerfed I might have to rethink things a little.

This is really helpful, thanks for taking the time to respond. I will keep on keepin' on, one node at a time. A little slow going but it's a fun playstyle and I don't mind.

Cheers,
BLH

I don't know where I'm ever going to find / or how to make a March of the Legion with two separate link pairs, one of which is red and green.

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solomanstone wrote:

I don't know where I'm ever going to find / or how to make a March of the Legion with two separate link pairs, one of which is red and green.

It's extremely easy. Just use your crafting bench.
March of the legion are int & strength boots which means it's extremely easy to get the colors you need.

Start of by going to your crafting bench and use the 2-link crafting recipe. This will instantly create two seperate link groups in your boots seperate from eachother.

Then use the crafting recipe: "Atleast 1 green socket" which costs 4 Chromatics.
Do this until you get a group that's 1g-1r and one that's 1b-1r.

just got a 3/2/1 EE Skin of the lords for 20c :D
last ones i saw were all around 5-10 ex

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Nidary wrote:

just got a 3/2/1 EE Skin of the lords for 20c :D
last ones i saw were all around 5-10 ex

That's lucky :)

Looking through your gear there's some minor things you need to implement now.
1. craft Lightning and fire dmg on one of your rings (Not lightning and fire to attacks, but flat) so you can procc your EE.
Your ring has lightning damage to shocked enemies which works with skitterbots but may be inconsistent. It's just better to get flat lightning/fire at all times. (BV is a spell. not an attack btw)
You can also get the 1-160 lightning damage on boots lab enchant.
2. Get Awakened Melee Phys lvl 5 in your helm instead of Crit dmg support.
You need Intimidate in the build.

You also want to fit Molten Shell and Convocation in the build most likely.