👻3.20👻 Kay's Summoner💥SRS Bomber💀Poison SRS💀Melee SRS🕷️Spiders💀Skeleton Mages

Hello exiles, I have been running T8 maps as necro at lvl85 and getting one shot. It really isn't fun watching my xp bar disappear. This one boss in Plaza map ( I think T7 or T8 ) killed me before I could run away. So my sincere request - please take a look at my setup and advise me on how to not get one shot ( or two/ three shot for that matter).

https://pastebin.com/NvrKFAmG

My tree isn't as recommended by the guide as I came upon this guide later. Also, this is my first character and I didn't think to consult a guide before levelling.
I had a plan to deal only lightning damage with Triad gloves ( cannot get 4 green sockets yet ) and buffing that with conductivity. Also I read/ heard somewhere that physical damage is hard to scale and impulsively got the Triad gloves.
I have many questions which I have been unable (too lazy) to find answers to so I copy pasted all of them in here.

Triad Gloves with 4 blue sockets converting all damage to lightning ( Curse - Conductivity by skitterbots) of minions - Skeleton WARRIORS (From Dust).

1a. How do these gloves work with Anger, Hatred or Wrath if at all? If not, I will have to use something other than vengeful commander on medium jewels if I stick with these gloves.

1b. OR do I use
Vixen's Entrapment with two curses ( Pride and Vulnerability for physical damage skele warriors or Conductivity/ Elemental Weakness + Zealotry/ Anger/ Hatred/ Wrath for skele mages) if I go the skele mages route?

2. Especially stupid question - Can conductivity and elemental weakness stack to reach near Fleshcrafter levels if I go Vixen's? This is stupid because I wouldn't have Triads to deal lightning damage even if they did stack. Or is there some way to deal only lightning damage with 2 curses stacked?

About defenses..
I'm running Determination + Dread Banner for +60% phys damage reduction.
Tempest shield for spell block and it looks nice.
No Evasion. No endurance charges yet ( need 3 levels for enduring composure). Do not have either Bone Armour (hate running the labyrinth) or Mistress of Sacrifice for block. Presently using Spirit offering for minions and Molten Shell linked to CWDT for myself. I feel that Immortal Call's duration is too low even with increased duration. Have not tried it out though. And Determination + Dread Banner has synergy with Molten shell. The spirit offering is for chaos resist for minions. Maybe I will use bone offering after getting Mistress of Sacrifice. Someday... definitely.
Total Life 3.7k unreserved
Life is at 2.6k with 30% reserved by Midnight's Bargain wand (+61% minion damage, +1 to skeles, spectres, zombies) . Cannot find trigger wand with minion damage at less than hundreds of exalts and do not yet know the crafting recipe for Trigger. If I drop this wand for a basic no minion modifier trigger wand, I will gain 1.2k life and lose the dps. I do not yet have Death Attunement anointed on amulet. Planning on getting the oils but not really sold on my amulet.
I expect everyone to laugh at me for taking this wand and getting one shot but I just cannot drop this 61% minion damage and Death Attunement on my wand. You know how you do not want to back off? Yeah stupid again.

Any advice on defenses will be greatly appreciated exiles.

3. How to account for the dps of phantasms summoned by zombies? ( 10 phantasms with piercing projectile spell dealing physical damage which is then converted to lightning)

4. How important is life regen for minions when they already have 1% life leech? Specifically the Renewal notable in cluster jewel. I feel life regen for minions is viewed as important but it is only me that have been dying and not my minions.

5. How good or useless is overcapping resists? If I have 30% fire resist above the cap and am cursed to take additional 30% fire damage then these will balance out, yes?

6. Is life recoup basically damage reduction? Taking Infused Flesh will give me 30% of damage taken recouped as life. This is over 4 seconds so not as good as flat damage reduction but it is effective if I do not get one shot. Does this work before armour / resists or after?

7. Lastly, I'm really not sure if I have the PoB damage calculation and skills set up right for it to reflect the dps correctly. Does PoB automatically know that I'm dealing only lightning damage with conductivity always on? Also, I'm not sure if I'm reading the PoB correctly. Any advice?

Thanks for going through this Great Wall of texts. If Kayella is reading this then please have mercy on the soul of this damned and dispense wisdom, O Lady of Minions!

Hello all,
is there any recommendation for the right Spectres for Delve-Run?

Some good build for delve event ?

nvm

So, I am interested in the tanky spider build has anyone ran it with success? Id like to have some stress free mapping along with safe consistent bossing.

One thing I am unsure of is how does she summon the spiders during a boss fight where there are no ads beforehand? Sorry if that is a dumb question with an obvious answer.

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JohnBirk wrote:

So, I am interested in the tanky spider build has anyone ran it with success? Id like to have some stress free mapping along with safe consistent bossing.

One thing I am unsure of is how does she summon the spiders during a boss fight where there are no ads beforehand? Sorry if that is a dumb question with an obvious answer.

I'm playing a tanky spiders build.
See my post on page 57 for a budget friendly option. If you're using Carnage Chieftain spectres, you can use a shield that helps your survivability. I used this one, until I got The Squire:

High armor, Elemental Aegis (1000 hp shield vs elemental dmg), some hp, with CWDT+Molten Shell socketed in it (lvl 1 gems), was quite immortal in maps.

Here's a video with it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_1fPo2294 (HOGM clear deathless)

You can check my character Ytara for skill tree, or import in PoB, the only changes are the shield, and that I no longer have gem slots for CWDT setup.

To summon spiders, if you use Gravebind gloves, all you need to do is cast desecrate, and pop the worms flask. Your minions will kill the worms, and since the kills are credited to you, they will summon the spiders.
1 x Desecrate = 10 spiders, 2 x Desecrate = 20 spiders.
I recommend to start the map with 8-12 spiders, then let the rest be summoned automatically, when spiders kill something. If you summon 20 spiders at once, they will all expire at same time, as their duration does not refresh.

Will it be better to switch two of the demon harpies to carnage/host chieftain for Frenzy Charges and power chages on Carrion golem build?

Hey all, first time doing a necro build and REALLY enjoying it. I decided to go the skelly mage route, so far having good success with maps, have the odd wipe but nothing too major. Now that I am getting deeper into the game I thought it was time to look for suggestions on where to improve my build. I haven't done the last trial yet as I still need some more portals. Hopefully these links work. I appreciate any feedback!

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/HankHell/characters

https://pastebin.com/9Pc0Kfh9

Hi. It's my first time playing Carrion Golemami. I put quite a lot of currency into the build and I don't feel I'm doing enough. I have neither dps and survi. I followed the guide and poe ninja. Anyone help what to change?
https://pastebin.com/d43hikSC
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/woda1992/characters

Hi all, I dunno If this has been covered, but it cost me several exo till my stupid ass figured out what was happening.. so Im running skelly mages, pretty close to Kays guide, and decided to add an ag onto a hungry loop. well,, it went fantastic for a bit.. finally got to sirus and decided to upgrade ag gear a bit.. the last piece I put on was crafted gloves with chaos resist. and POOF! ag is dead.. wtf,, did it all again.. last piece was gloves again.. and Poof.. dead AG.. (around 6 exo was poofed in the span of about 5 minutes)

Thats a lot for me btw.. :)

Rage quit for the season and went to bed.. Today,, turned on the game and was studying build, and realized what was happening.. my flesh crafter was killing my ag when I added gloves with chaos resist.

Just thought Id post,, maybe save some other pour sole this frustration!

hf gl
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