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

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Drathy wrote:

Thanks for your work again and the update for 3.18...looking forward to the league and to play this build again! :-)

Concerning your Atlas Skill Tree I understand, that Essences are easy mobs to kill, but to be honest, I never understood the worth of them unless they are upgraded to max level. Do you sell them or do you use them somehow?

And a short question, I played with three offerings until the end of 3.17, what is the disadvantage of this? Isn't it a reasonable alternative?

I'll make a PoB for the tripple offering again cause I liked it too. Won't include it in the general guide though.

It was very strong but really annoying to have your Resistances predicated on Spirit Offering. This meant that you just got oneshotted whenever you "forgot" to refresh offerings with Desecrate which was super annoying for bosses and when looting (Offscreen mobs you missed) imo cause it lead to some unecessary deaths.

Might experiment more with that setup this league, but it was so damn hard to fix the resistances. If we could cap resistances without Spirit Offering I'd probably make it the official low budget setup.

I always sell my essences. Essences are one of those currencies that you want to sell in bulk as it increases the value alot. Certain Deafening Essences sell for over ~12 chaos each in bulk. Lesser ones for ~7 chaos. The worst Deafening go for around 3 chaos in bulk.

The reason why Essence will be cracked this league is because Essence is on the map device so we can guarantee 5 essences on every map.
You'll also be using Remnants of Corruption to corrupt essences. I always use them on all Purple (MEDS) Essences and every essence that has x1 Shrieking and x1 Screaming atleast.

I think every single person will be running Essences this league. It's just too good to pass. Requires close to no investment, is very easy and takes no time at all.

Are you single, dead?

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Melonmonkey wrote:

Are you single, dead?

Haha, I'm not.
How come? :-)

How does the build stack up against something like chaos animate weapon or phys animate weapon? Played animate weapon last league but the constant ramp up on map start is annoying. also dieing on bosses makes recovery very painful.

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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Melonmonkey wrote:

Are you single, dead?

Haha, I'm not.
How come? :-)

Because I think I love you <3

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Levv wrote:

How does the build stack up against something like chaos animate weapon or phys animate weapon? Played animate weapon last league but the constant ramp up on map start is annoying. also dieing on bosses makes recovery very painful.

I started working on Animate Weapon last league when I was finished with the league. Got all the gear and leveled up to 80 with to test it out.
Then I discovered that you summon 1 Weapon per cast. It felt HORRIBLE imo :)

Animate Weapon is good cause it has pretty good numbers and it's very cheap to gear.

But honestly, I much more prefer my own build cause it's mostly passive minions.
The dps is probably much higher too and if you want to be tanky you can just invest into block and be immortal.

You can watch some of the 3.17 low budget videos to see how the build plays.
Clears most content in the game at ~5 ex investment, including all Maven Invitations.

Wave 30 sims are hard on a budget but possible.
I think the new Uber bosses might be too hard and will most likely requires very good gear.

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Melonmonkey wrote:

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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Melonmonkey wrote:

Are you single, dead?

Haha, I'm not.
How come? :-)

Because I think I love you <3

I love my followers too <3
Looking forward to the league? :D

Dear god animated weapon is 1 weapon per cast? I thought it be like skelly lol no thanks XD

Also for league start lvling would absolution work with the tree or just lvl with skelly and zombies? Thanks!

So far this build is exactly what I love about minions, a bunch of passive summons, I never like spectre because you only ran like 4 of them. I want a massive army lol.

What is the Pro and Con about the difference Spectre?

In my Eyes
Hyrr + Phantasm
Offer more Clear but have a ramp up --> Phantasms needs to Ramp up the Power Charges too after Summon
But Ranges --> "safe" DPS dont block our real DPS Boys

Zombie + Crush

More Singe Target + Debuff
Melee the mass blocks our real DPS Bois?


What is the difference about Hyrr and Syndicate Operators?

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RexZShadow wrote:

Dear god animated weapon is 1 weapon per cast? I thought it be like skelly lol no thanks XD

Also for league start lvling would absolution work with the tree or just lvl with skelly and zombies? Thanks!

So far this build is exactly what I love about minions, a bunch of passive summons, I never like spectre because you only ran like 4 of them. I want a massive army lol.

Yeah, Animate Weapon are easily the clunkiest minions in the game.
You first got to cast Bladefall on the ground to spawn weapons. Then you gotta individually cast Animate Weapon 5 times to spawn them. After that, you need to cast Bladefall again to spawn new Blades to animate.

I played one map with it. My weapons ran out midmap and I had to run away and summon new blades to continue. I logged out from PoE instead :D

Leveling with Absolution is actually an excellent idea. I had never thought of it before. For the first 4 Acts you can definitely level with Absolution and I will probably do that too this league.

We'll simply replace SRS with Absolution instead and run Skeletons, Zombies and Absolution during the first acts. SRS feel fine too, but they despawn too fast and you have to recast them too much.
It'll probably feel much better with Absolution where we just resummon a couple of Sentinels every now and then while casting Skellies elsewhere.

I wont have time to change the leveling guide for this league but will most likely change it for next league, assuming it's better (Which it should be since Absolution does Bonkers damage).

I'm not sure what Links to run though. But I think I'll be going Absolution - Minion Damage - Added Cold - Added Lightning
Skeletons would then have Melee Splash instead of SRS I think.

Once you hit Act5 though we'll swap to the actual Mass Summoner build and ditch Absolution.