haste aura for summoners

Most of the time Anger is more usable than Hatred. If you're picking the best of specters you should want its corpse safe. But if it gets frozen and breaks, its corpse cannot be summoned. Thats my best explanation why I pick Anger over Hatred. But if your not choosy over specters and summoning almost anything you see, its up to you.

Hi,

my 84 summoner is running Vitality, Purity, Haste as did alot of map base building ( running 66 - 69 ) with a friend (so we tried to complement each other), but while its nice to have haste i think about dropping it and using discipline/etc again. Imho if you are stomping the content you can stomp some more with haste, but for high lvl maps i prefer to run more defensive auras.

so is pretty much everyone using a totem to summon skeletons? am I the only one who summons them manually?

I could be convinced to switch to a totem, pros/cons of each?

I think most of us summon them via totem because it frees up a lot of micro to do other things such as laying down curses, offensive spells, being able to dodge projectiles

Am going to tell you now that a good spectre/zombie army will kill mob packs so fast you most likely have no time to summon individual skeles before everything is dead.

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mattc3303 wrote:

well if u run EB. You'll have such a high mana pool your able to run all those auras. I can't seem to run a 40% + 40%+ + 30%. Might need those reduced mana reserve nodes.

that might be because without any reduced mana reserved nodes, 40% + 40% + 30% = 110%

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Execut1ve wrote:

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mattc3303 wrote:

well if u run EB. You'll have such a high mana pool your able to run all those auras. I can't seem to run a 40% + 40%+ + 30%. Might need those reduced mana reserve nodes.

that might be because without any reduced mana reserved nodes, 40% + 40% + 30% = 100%

He said without nodes, he didn't say without support gem. Nobody runs 40% auras without a support gem. (40 + 40 + 30)*0.71 = 78% (Actually I think the game may always round up, so it may need to be 29 + 29 + 22 = 80%)

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mattc3303 wrote:

I think most of us summon them via totem because it frees up a lot of micro to do other things such as laying down curses, offensive spells, being able to dodge projectiles

Am going to tell you now that a good spectre/zombie army will kill mob packs so fast you most likely have no time to summon individual skeles before everything is dead.

will the skeleton dmg be nerfed by the 40% totem dmg penalty?

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Execut1ve wrote:

will the skeleton dmg be nerfed by the 40% totem dmg penalty?

Yes, yes they will.

Haste is a 'good to have' not a 'need to have'
I have it right now just because it is my 5th aura (4x mana reserve nodes + prism guardian, no EB), but I am about to replace it with Determination for more defense at high level maps

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magicrectangle wrote:

Eldritch battery. Converts your energy shield into mana so you can run a ridiculous amount of auras.

I tried this, its stupid. Auras run on reserved mana, so even if you use energy shield for mana well its only for the actually NON AURA SKILLS. Auras still dip into your mana pool without having any impact on the extra mnana provided by Energy Shield