[3.25] Animate Ephemeral Edge Necromancer

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DarthAnakin wrote:

Just a few questions. I do not mean these questions to be critical, I just think you have a very cool build idea and am thinking about how I would build it and am trying to compare and get your perspective.

Looks like build is not ailment immune. What are thoughts on dropping skitterbots for purity of elements? You wouldn't need minion res on shield then and could go Aegis for a higher ES/Armour shield with nice defensive bonuses. You could also swap elemental focus support for multistrike and let your minions do the shocking.

Is spirit offering worth it if you're not running fresh meat or increased crit supports? I have a hard time getting crit very high on minion builds without fresh meat. Bone offering would be great tankiness upgrade for you and your minions if you decide to drop crit altogether.

Is low life worth it for 1 extra aura when you could run CI instead and exploit the phys damage taken as chaos mods? You could also free up gear suffixes for intelligence for more ES scaling. You also don't need to worry about flask uptime anymore.

Lastly, have you tried darkness enthroned? I find it to be a huge dps increase with the attack speed and "used a minion skill recently" mods. With 2 high ES roll jewels I believe it is more flat ES than a crystal belt as well (up to 160!).

Very cool build, thank you for sharing!

This build can achieve shock immune with reduced % shock on flask/jewels/tattoos and freeze + 50% chill immune with pantheon. My problem with shock from my animate weapon is that it's like 10% worse on bosses and also feels really inconsistent on mobs; that combined with the fact that awakened elemental focus is only beaten by awakened multistrike, which I can't afford, makes me reluctantly keep skitterbots on.

However, during my time deep delving, I found out that Determination (and armour) is actually doing very little on this build! As you can see on my character on ninja, I got rid of determination and pathed to Ghost Reaver with the reservation points saved so that I can finally use Bone Barrier. However, even with determination gone, I'll still be hesitant to run purity of elements. It'll cost an extra socket, which forced this build to keep using 2 unset rings, which will be significantly worse than a bone ring that can be reflected; and said bone ring will cap minion resistances anyway. ailment immune could be nice especially on minions, but I don't think that'll worth the cost of ~3 nodes on reservation efficiency.

I don't have any educated opinion on spirit offering vs. flesh offering other than that pob says spirit is better. But I am prepared to switch to bone offering when I eventually delve to a depth when AW will have trouble surviving!

I made several attempts to make this build CI so I can use my mageblood, but it's really just not worth it. Doing so will either lose us 1-2 auras or require too much investment on reservation efficiency. This build can't run any other timeless jewels so the opportunity cost for Traitor is already really small. I even tried to make it work with recombined "chaos damage doesn't bypass while not low life", but no. I'm like 97% sure that with >20div low life is just better.

However, I'll definitely try to league starting CI in private leagues and maybe SSF in the next 3 months! Before this league the lake of twilight regalia forces this build to use Ghostwrithe, which can't be used with CI. If CI can work that will be the biggest weakness of league starting this build gone!

YES! I'm currently using darkness enthroned! Before I didn't realize that 25% quality coruscating elixir can sustain itself without any flask mods on belt. It is indeed straight up better than crystal belt with enough currency.

I'm definitely open to try this in SSF as CI when I have the time.

What would be your plan to get ephemerals, wolfs shadow card?

Could you do something like rebuke of the vaal shenanigans before ephemerals?

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Maronsson wrote:

I'm definitely open to try this in SSF as CI when I have the time.

What would be your plan to get ephemerals, wolfs shadow card?

Could you do something like rebuke of the vaal shenanigans before ephemerals?

For true SSF I'll just go for 2h energy blade for easy 6-link until I find ephemeral edge. Last league I never found one in before I quit, but EB is performing fine.

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Zitta wrote:

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Maronsson wrote:

I'm definitely open to try this in SSF as CI when I have the time.

What would be your plan to get ephemerals, wolfs shadow card?

Could you do something like rebuke of the vaal shenanigans before ephemerals?

For true SSF I'll just go for 2h energy blade for easy 6-link until I find ephemeral edge. Last league I never found one in before I quit, but EB is performing fine.

Of course, didn't think of that!

Will probably try it out when I get bored of my hiero.

Read on reddit that you can turn in wolfs shadow on a character between 40-46 (?) and ancient orb it, it only rolls between 3 swords and one of them is ephemerals, that could be something.

I've now found 3 EE so I'm lvling a necro, which gem would you remove for a 6-link without the vow?

Do you have a tree for going CI by any chance?
I do not have the timeless jewel for the traitor.

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Maronsson wrote:

I've now found 3 EE so I'm lvling a necro, which gem would you remove for a 6-link without the vow?

Do you have a tree for going CI by any chance?
I do not have the timeless jewel for the traitor.

https://pobb.in/NBl19zXr5J7l
Here's my CI league start WIP!

Drop Ruthless, and swap melee splash with either lightning penetration (white socket) or elemental damage with attacks (red socket)