[3.22] SadPanda's Summon Crit Mage Skeletons Guide | All the Uber Uber content done/Deep delver

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faytte wrote:

Follow up question: is enduring cry to give minions onslaught with 50% uptime really better than a minion dps medium cluster?

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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faytte wrote:

Follow up question: is enduring cry to give minions onslaught with 50% uptime really better than a minion dps medium cluster?

Minion builds don't have any medium cluster options for dps unfortunately.
Best we can get is Renewal on a medium cluster which isn't worth it. Minion mediums are mainly used for defensive purposes for our minions with Blessed Rebirth and Life from Death.

I think the main purpose of this medium cluster is for defensive purposes.
It basically gives a 100% armour increase with 100% uptime which is kinda crazy.
Onslaught also feels pretty good, even if it only has a 50% uptime. The movement speed is good for mapping and on average, it's still a 10% Attack speed increase for minions(Onslaught is 20% total).

The only thing I dislike is that warcries have a casttime which makes it feel clunky to use. I personally can't play with Enduring Cry unless I have Call to Arms. Having it instant allows you to Numlock it autocasting it off CD too which feels great.

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faytte wrote:

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Deadandlivin wrote:

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faytte wrote:

Follow up question: is enduring cry to give minions onslaught with 50% uptime really better than a minion dps medium cluster?

Minion builds don't have any medium cluster options for dps unfortunately.
Best we can get is Renewal on a medium cluster which isn't worth it. Minion mediums are mainly used for defensive purposes for our minions with Blessed Rebirth and Life from Death.

I think the main purpose of this medium cluster is for defensive purposes.
It basically gives a 100% armour increase with 100% uptime which is kinda crazy.
Onslaught also feels pretty good, even if it only has a 50% uptime. The movement speed is good for mapping and on average, it's still a 10% Attack speed increase for minions(Onslaught is 20% total).

The only thing I dislike is that warcries have a casttime which makes it feel clunky to use. I personally can't play with Enduring Cry unless I have Call to Arms. Having it instant allows you to Numlock it autocasting it off CD too which feels great.

Since I see you are using the warcry, how are you getting around the cast time for it?

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Revoltbr wrote:

Sorry if this question is repeated (Don't know how to search inside this thread).

How do you reach enough mana to summon your skeletons while having Determination, Zalotry(+Generosity), Tempest Shield and Defiance Banner up?
When I activate all of the auras mine remaining mana goes to 10, and thus I can't summon skeletons (wich cost 42 mana).

By the way, just killed Sirus with 0 deaths, awesome build!

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faytte wrote:

Thank you for your insight so far. Wondering if you could take a peak at my character and advise me on my next upgrade? Not sure if I should target some shield before I can afford an aegis aura, or go for a +1/+1 wand or something else first? Still working on some levels to fix in covenant/fortress. Have about 4.5 EX to spend.

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MrsDeath_ wrote:

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Revoltbr wrote:

Sorry if this question is repeated (Don't know how to search inside this thread).

How do you reach enough mana to summon your skeletons while having Determination, Zalotry(+Generosity), Tempest Shield and Defiance Banner up?
When I activate all of the auras mine remaining mana goes to 10, and thus I can't summon skeletons (wich cost 42 mana).

By the way, just killed Sirus with 0 deaths, awesome build!

We need all the mana reservation nodes we can get from Templar side,
on left top we get the whole wheel + mastery and then we go down from templar to get a determination reservation mastery and for the last touch we need mystic bulwark on the upper side of the witch area which gives us increased mana regen based on our block and provides us with extra mana pool which is very much needed.

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Revoltbr wrote:

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MrsDeath_ wrote:

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Revoltbr wrote:

Sorry if this question is repeated (Don't know how to search inside this thread).

How do you reach enough mana to summon your skeletons while having Determination, Zalotry(+Generosity), Tempest Shield and Defiance Banner up?
When I activate all of the auras mine remaining mana goes to 10, and thus I can't summon skeletons (wich cost 42 mana).

By the way, just killed Sirus with 0 deaths, awesome build!

We need all the mana reservation nodes we can get from Templar side,
on left top we get the whole wheel + mastery and then we go down from templar to get a determination reservation mastery and for the last touch we need mystic bulwark on the upper side of the witch area which gives us increased mana regen based on our block and provides us with extra mana pool which is very much needed.

I checked my points again and spotted a silly mistake.
Had chosen the wrong mastery (Auras have increased effect) instead of Mana Reservation Efficiency xD.
Now it's setup and working propperly ^^.

Oh, I forgot to mention. Had beaten Sirus with 0 deaths and wasn't even 6linked LOL.