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

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Made quite a few changes to POB including adding enduring composure and Veteran's awareness.

DPS is at a really satisfactory point but I've got a big problem with tankiness. Not too sure what I'm doing wrong but I get one shot every 13 maps on average, and the formed took all 6 portals to try complete.

Im thinking maybe I replace vicatrios with an aegis and melding of the flesh. That combined with veterans would give me 90% max res during molten uptime, but then i'd need to change everything to fit purity of elements in, additionally spectres would need to be chieftains for charge generation

Idk.. just kinda lost on how to increase build tankiness rn.

edit; also got the fully decked out 21/20 AG, with crown of tyrant, legacy of fury, gravebind with ele weak, kingmaker and inpulsas.

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TheRebirthed wrote:

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Made quite a few changes to POB including adding enduring composure and Veteran's awareness.

DPS is at a really satisfactory point but I've got a big problem with tankiness. Not too sure what I'm doing wrong but I get one shot every 13 maps on average, and the formed took all 6 portals to try complete.

Im thinking maybe I replace vicatrios with an aegis and melding of the flesh. That combined with veterans would give me 90% max res during molten uptime, but then i'd need to change everything to fit purity of elements in, additionally spectres would need to be chieftains for charge generation

Idk.. just kinda lost on how to increase build tankiness rn.

edit; also got the fully decked out 21/20 AG, with crown of tyrant, legacy of fury, gravebind with ele weak, kingmaker and inpulsas.

Wtf is your flask setup ?

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TheRebirthed wrote:

https://pastebin.com/B3aXuVYq

Made quite a few changes to POB including adding enduring composure and Veteran's awareness.

DPS is at a really satisfactory point but I've got a big problem with tankiness. Not too sure what I'm doing wrong but I get one shot every 13 maps on average, and the formed took all 6 portals to try complete.

Im thinking maybe I replace vicatrios with an aegis and melding of the flesh. That combined with veterans would give me 90% max res during molten uptime, but then i'd need to change everything to fit purity of elements in, additionally spectres would need to be chieftains for charge generation

Idk.. just kinda lost on how to increase build tankiness rn.

edit; also got the fully decked out 21/20 AG, with crown of tyrant, legacy of fury, gravebind with ele weak, kingmaker and inpulsas.

Since you're running the Leash of Oblation setup you could swap Skin of the Lords for a 6-link Brassdome instead. Should help you with tankiness. You'll lose a bit of dps but gain 5% max res and crit immunity which is very strong.

When you're dying it's most probably because either Spirit Offering is down or because Molten Shell is down. Or both.

I've noticed with the Offering setup that the only times I die is when I'm looting or when I get back into a map after emptying my inventory.

During these times I don't have any offerings up, all corpses are gone and I forget to Desecrate. Then some random monster oneshots me because I have 30% ele resist.

You should get a Basalt Flask btw. Don't run Bismuth.
If you're dependant on capping your res with both Bismuth and Spirit Offering you're gonna have a VERY bad time. Especially against bosses.

The reason you struggled with The Formed most likely was because you got caught without resistance cap and died. Or simply, you got oneshot withotu molten shell up.

If you're not already doing it, you gotta use the Numlock trick on Molten Shell to make sure you have a good uptime.

OO yeah just realised the offering caps my resistances by itself lol. Swapped it out for a basalt. Doing the num lock molten shell which is working nicely.

Just about the formed, iirc i had all offerings up and molten shell, but the minotaurs rock fall thing would one shot me, might try brass dome to try combat that.

Damage is pretty nice so far, just did my fist solo sirus, killed shaper and elder a couple times today too.

Prepping for uber elder.. but Im scared lol

Update; maven and uber elder cleared.

I like the dps on this build.

The one gripe I do have is with the veterans awareness, like it is a nice budget way of achieveing pseudo immortality for a few seconds, but because I have a bit more currency to my name, Im thinking of going CI + Aegis + Melding for very big dick defense. Gonna have to do some omega POB planning though..

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TheRebirthed wrote:

Update; maven and uber elder cleared.

I like the dps on this build.

The one gripe I do have is with the veterans awareness, like it is a nice budget way of achieveing pseudo immortality for a few seconds, but because I have a bit more currency to my name, Im thinking of going CI + Aegis + Melding for very big dick defense. Gonna have to do some omega POB planning though..

You can check out the 3.16 PoBs we used which were designed to farm Wave30 Sinulacrums.

It uses Auls Uprising to fit Vaal Grace and Tempest Shield + Bone Offering to cap spell block. It's a super tanky version that don't sacrifice too much dps.
It sacrifices speed though as you lose Flesh Offering, Silver Flask et.c. which reduces your clear speed and in turn, currency generation.
But some people prefer to be tankier to level up rather than farming money so it's perfectly suitable.

As you said, Veterans Awareness is primarly for low budget survivability. You're supposed to build out of it at higher budgets. It's super strong during league start as it's a 1 chaos jewel.

I made a few updates to my gear, gems and skill tree. I‘m pretty confident with everything, except my mana problems. That is the reason why I have problems with the uptime of the offerings. I think I have ~160-170 mana left. Is the solution for the problem to get a tainted oil for charisma on the amulet or is there something else, I should do?

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Drathy wrote:

I made a few updates to my gear, gems and skill tree. I‘m pretty confident with everything, except my mana problems. That is the reason why I have problems with the uptime of the offerings. I think I have ~160-170 mana left. Is the solution for the problem to get a tainted oil for charisma on the amulet or is there something else, I should do?

To fix your mana issues you need mana regen. I solve this by running Mystic Bulwark for 75% mana regen and Arcane Will for flat mana regen. This makes sure I always have mana to cast everything.

I suggest that you remove your points in Sanctuary and get Glancing Blows + Mystic Bulwark. Try it out. Not sure if it messes up your resist though.

For your AG. Do you think a shaper helmet with nearby enemies take more elemental damage better than Crown? You can craft 10% area of effect for your AG too. I use Anomalous AG. The AOE of exploding feel way more better

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Deadandlivin wrote:

To fix your mana issues you need mana regen. I solve this by running Mystic Bulwark for 75% mana regen and Arcane Will for flat mana regen. This makes sure I always have mana to cast everything.

I suggest that you remove your points in Sanctuary and get Glancing Blows + Mystic Bulwark. Try it out. Not sure if it messes up your resist though.

Ok, thanks, I'll try that. I have to get new boots and a new ring with resis either, so it should be possible to fix resis with it...