3.7 Patch - NO NERFS! Possible buffs with: -Static Strike gaining increased dmg effectiveness along with being able to chain 1 additional time! -Minion targeting improved whilst using movement skills -Pride aura possible for extra phys dot if you're weird like that and can fit it in. All in all, yet another cheap build that melts maps and skele's delete bosses! As for legion mechanics, somewhat nervous but hopeful that the trash bags can penetrate large enough groups. See you later exiles! NOTE: Possible issue with summon phantasm gem now matching the support on the staff. This may not give us 10 extra phantasms. No clarification atm.
First off, I am loving your videos and guides. I am very new to POE (Less then 100 hours) and your videos have been an immense help to me starting off. But one thing I wish you would add to your build guides that would be really nice is a skill rotation or some info on how to cast your abilities. Yes I know some builds are of course very obvious an doesn't need to be mentioned. But one of your last build guides I have actually started making, the Toxic Rain Assassin. In the guide there are two six links both supporting toxic rain and you never really explained why. I watched the video about 4 times to see if I just missed it and I couldn't find it anywhere. After getting further into the build I am starting to see why and I think I have it figured out. But a short explanation would have been nice. Either way I love your guides, Keep in up! :)
Also a new player here, prob under 30 hours. If he had 2 six links both running toxic rain my thoughts would be he maybe had a vaal toxic rain in one???
The second one was a ranged totem setup so you can have two sets going down at a time.. three including your mirage archer, but i personally dont count her.
Great guide, definitely gonna try this out in 3.5. Just wanted to say thanks for your clear guides, the Thicc Jugg one was great and I had a great time playing it. Looking forward to trying this one out too. :)
So i went with this build for a few reasons, i was already deep in on summoning, the gear for it was cheap, and something a little less intense from an attention point of view were all part of why i tried it, and you know what! it works great! I even manage to fiddle with it a little and get 8 zombies, two specters and a lighting Golem in their to spread projectile weakness via curse on hit support and projectile weakness linked with the golem gem on my boots. (at least i assume it's working please correct me if I'm wrong) Overall it's a great built for my first time though and it's really made my friends who started with me want to try some cool builds as well! THANKS!
I would love to see an updated version of this build for 3.8 they changed a lot of the skill tree so it would be interesting to see what could be squeezed into or out of this build with such changes. all in all still using this build as my pain thank you for the video.
Hey I just started PoE and found your videos. Just wanted to let you know you're editing skills are so much better and organized than most others, even those not even related to Path of Exile.
2 tips - chain pantheon, nothing else. Especially, because delves can roll it, so any chain map/delve = death. It's pretty much a must, even on softcore if you don't like dying :D Also i would really try to fit Convocation. It's just so much easier to position your phantasms, especially in delves. Once you try it, you won't drop it ever again.
I enjoyed this build so much. Expensive for the staff in the league start, but worth it in the end. This was just so much fun to play and have so many minions just obliterating the place. Easily can have over 60 minions down and just collect the sweet loot. Thank you for the great video and guide. This is one of my top builds.
Just some quick advice from someone whos done guardians with Souldwrest- Dont be 100% phantasm if you plan on doing endgame. It works AMAZING while mapping but in bossfights like phoenix minotaur they die too fast . Elder guardians, elder and shaper however were easier, but i do recommend using something like some +2-3 +minion life zombies to take some of the aggro off of you as you recast desecrate/ offering. To easily manage EE you can go avatar of fire with Smite and make your minions lightning/cold (and not use added fire like engineering does) which i think is also safer for mapping as minions will often shatter enemies with the cold damage. Just some more examples of how amazing Soulwrest is and how fun it is to play in 200 different ways Also spell cascade is pretty important for bossing as you summon 10 instead of 5 for every offering cast
So sorry but i sold most of my gear- However the main difference is i was using a Belly for chest, my helm didnt have the minion stuff but it had 120 life and %life, i had the double socket Stygian vyse belt and both my rings and amulet had essence/fossil crafted minion movement speed for smoother mapping. I also had loads of amazing added flat phys dmg jewels with good life, so i reached a comfortable over 7k life. Theres several great soulwrest options on the forums though and you can chose whichever you want
Cool no prob. I'm running this build now with 5 link skellies, 6L loreweave for zombies and as many flat phys jewels as possible. I also went MoM so I have a ton of EHP.
@@yeah5874 Why did you sell your gear? I'm just wondering because I'm just now putting together all my pieces and everything's coming together, but I'm finding that I'm really weak and unable to complete endgame content (cant even do red maps), will the zombies help that much? Skeletons seem like they aren't all that effective for bosses and I'm so squishy I get 1 shot even with as much defensive gear as I could muster. I'm thinking about selling all my gear and levelling up a new character, and was wondering if you did the same for the same reason.
I don't know if you're aware Engineering, but Elemental Equilibrium will also proc from the Death Walk effect, so if you're not careful with your desecrate and walking you'll often end up applying +25% fire res instead
its a real small aoe and it's still works for everything except the added fire which really doesn't make up a whole lot of damage. if you're walking through corpses, your phantasms already fired off anyway. More often than not they will be insta gibbing everything up to 360ish delve with lots of mods.
I found that I almost never use the static strike curse fortify setup in boss fights, because its dangerous to go that close. Instead I 5-linked my chest (belly) and put cwdt (low)-immortal call (low)-inc dur. (high)-phase run (high)-vaal haste (high) with either separate flame dash or desecrate, in my gloves blood magic-spectre, stone golem, desecrate and bought 2-abyss socket bubonic trails (expensive though) with hatred-generosity in them. You lose the fortify+curse setup but gain damage and life from an extra abyss jewel and some survivability from your golem taunts+regen and from the CWDT-immortal call link. And you dont have to melee the boss yourself like before.
I replaced the static strike setup with storm burst+curse on hit+temporal chains+culling strike, you lose the fortify buff but get culling strike, and still apply EE from afar
@@federicoramirez4686 Same, but with Stormbrand. I'm 87 now and kinda hit a wall at around T14 maps. Depending on the bosses around, they do too much area damage and really annihilate those Phantasms. Good thing i have a cyclone slayer for T15+ ^^
I had never played a summoner before, and then I was looking for witch builds to start the league. Decided to try this one cuz its "cheap" and then switch to a cold damage occultist after getting some money. In 3.5 its not cheap at all since staff drop rate has increased a lot, but I managed to get one on the second day of the league, and now im addicted to the build. Thanks for the guide!
The new syndicate unique "The Devouring Diadem" also works for consumption with the addition of the Feast of Flesh passive healing you by 400 per corpse consumed per 5 seconds. May try with both the boots and helm to see how they interact.
It feels like every time you come out with a new build, I want to quickly finish what I'm working on, and try out the new guide's build... I'm almost done (leveling 80-90) with the Molten Strike and Consecrated Path--Molten Path (?)--and now I want to try this out. The economy has shifted, and the cost is at about 1ex for the uniques necessary, but I'm really keen to try this. This feels like a book club--announce a new build, try it out, new build announced, so finish up, and get to the next one... EE Build Club lol
if you drop the resist points on scion you can pick the extra specter from death attunement and sumon one carnage chieftain and one of the other chieftain(the one that give power charges)
I played summoner since day 1, always found using minions relaxing as i use phase walking.. stumble into a mob because of very high run speed and then use convocation (which by the way doesnt break phase walking) to carpet bomb the still unaware mobs of enemies with zombies while running. As convocation is a minion spell my zombies get a neat +30% damage. Instantly killing everything.. Great fun, does tend to backfire sometimes though. This looks like an awsome build to play with also :)
Keep up the good work brother! I just love how detailed every videos that you create! I have a play time of maybe 50hours maybe? I am so new to the game and enjoyinh it to the max with my jugg of all trades. Will be planning to farm as much as i can with that build then follow your cyclone and molten zerker build. Just want to ask. That build can you create a revamp build for that or is that build still good with the current patch?
This build is really great :) I use it atm although i decided to go for the new chest wich makes it a rly brain afk build since i only have to spawn my phantasms once in the beginning of the map and the chest keeps refreshing them for me every 5 sec :) Thanks alot!
In your written guide, under the leveling section, starting around level 18, you list a 6 link setup of Summon Raging Spirits - Melee Splash - Maim - Minion Damage - Melee Physical Damage - Minion Speed. Is that what you recommend for leveling? Get a cheap 6 link staff or chest? Thanks for your always excellent videos!
Been running this build and I want to add a couple of things. You can run a bone helm with fossil crafting of course. i86 non touched will be fairly cheap to get at around 30c. Elder shopping will bring you up to 4ex minimum for i76, but the base is typically worth it if you're already into this price range. A 2nd stygian gorilla will increase your frenzy uptime and stack counter from 1, 80% of the time with a 2nd frenzy as an occasional bonus, to a 3 stack 80% of the time and 2 stack, roughly 50% of the time. Aside from the buff to minions, this helps maintain Phase run over longer periods. It's another option if you want to run a temp chain/blasphemy as it will let you replace the Vaal Haste in the set up. QoL option: Spell cascade + Desecrate for easy reload on phantasms and full duration offerings. As EE said, this build can be run in any number of ways and you can explore them all quite easily. www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/SuicidalBaby/characters
I'm playing Soulwrest with TV spectres for bosskilling, I was comfortably killing Shaper and his Guardians with only 3 spectres. I've now upgraded to a 4 spectre setup and plan to take it to Uber Elder. I'm a little burned out on the game right now but I plan to come back before the league ends. Update edit: I've now killed Uber Elder but the ramp up in damage is too low to make it a good farmer. I can't kill the adds fast enough to stop the arena from getting covered in degen. This is as much a fault of my setup as it is my poor execution. The potential is definitely there but I'm benching the build (and the league) for now, I achieved my goal and the delve bosses are way too rare for me to bother.
I've played melee skeletons before and they are very strong but I don't know if I could handle summoning both skeletons and phantasms at the same time on something like Uber Elder, which is why I'm using TV spectres. If you're gonna use skeletons, I think it would probably be best to focus 100% on skeletons and just drop the staff altogether. Doing both seems like a massive hassle to me.
I'd love to see an updated version with herald of purity and summon holy relic. Also a spell totem with desecrate and minion instability. Also some sort of heartbound loop + cwdt interaction
i am currently playing this build following this guide as i thought it was a starter build. was surprised to see the staff is now 2.5ex. hopefully the price will go down soon
its only this high in price because engineering eternity is popular, therfore assholes want to make money and hike up the pr ice. Same reason when mathil makes a build with cospris, cospris go up in price by 100%
For 3.8 i'm doing a cyclone CWC desacrate to spirit offering. With this i've replaced bubonic trails with some good rare boots as i'm constantly creating and consuming corpes with the cyclone cwc. This also makes EE very easy and smooth to apply. However there is no fortify and curse aplication so i'm trying to find curse rings to fix that. Overall it's a great sidegrade to the static strike setup and can make you somewhat tanky.
Great guide! Here are my questions about some of the specifics: 1. With regards to the Carnage Chieftain spectre, do I need to run the entire process again (go to old fields and then to delve) each time I want to summon him? 2. With static strike, is this used consistently during clearing or is this used more for single target burning? Mainly, are you constantly spamming this attack? 3. With hatred and haste having both 50% mana reserve, how are you capable of running both simultaneously? Thanks!
I just finished a working version of necro with soulwrest in 3.10. I'm a total casual at the game though but i am plowing through maps and killed baran super quick. I run zombies, vaal skellies, two golems, spectres, animated guardian, several auras and have 20 phantasms up at all times, so it is just a *swarm* of minions. There are just too many directions to improve the build for me as a casual to explore but it is fun.
I would like to know how to light up I am new and I love this build. Any place where they have something specific or items low lvl for leveo of acts? PD: Sorry for my bad english ^^
hello engineering , big fan here . so i rerolled my occultist for this build , awesome 1 btw gz . just a question , i have the unset ring +3 atm but wht to get on other slot? im good with attributes and res so i can put something for more damages or even an amulet but i really dont know what. also whats the best way to improve single target damage ? its good so dar but just failed 2 attempts at uber , let me know what can i do better ! ty
hi. nice video. i have a question regarding a gem for bosses: what do you think about swapping LMP for Lesser Poison Support? i mean, you have 20 phantasm pumping projectiles into a body; shouldn´t the poison-stack just do some serious damage? i just reached merc lab with my char and tested this: killing Argus or Izaro never was so fast
Yep that is possible, it is just I was scaling added elemental damage and wanted to maximize that. Poisons could work as well, just most of the multipliers we have do not buff that damage.
Sweet. Do you know of a Scion build that uses archer skills for AoE damage and mage skills for summoning? I want to use minions for meatshields that also happen to do damage
Looking to start playing this game soon. Love summoner/pet classes. Looks like you can bring an army vast enough to invade North Korea with. I am interested in summoners with other classes. The necromancer witch seems to be a given. You can be a templar or ranger summoner as well?
There are builds centered around necromancy, there are other forms of builds such as Templar it's usually a totem build. Remember however you can't go pure dps in PoE or you'll never make it to endgame, you'll need to focus on defenses as well and around act 6 you're going to need a decent amount of elemental resistance, otherwise there will be one shots,
If you want to get the most out of the staff, get a staff with as high of an increased physical damage roll as you can afford, then go for cast speed next. The spell damage on it is mostly useless.
I didn't see it mentioned in either the video or the written guide, (unless I missed it) but which offering would be best for buffing the minions, flesh or spirit?
"Cheap" = 150c to 8 exalted. Did something happen on 3.5 or the staff is just this expensive at league start? Because right now, it is far from being cheap. I checked the standard league, and even there it starts around 50c, so I don't know from where the 1c came from (maybe something changed?). Just wanted to know, because this build seems pretty fun and wanted to give it a try.
yeah i played it plast league and it was 1c but im trying it again this league (because it was so cheap) but did not anticipate it being so expensive for the staff or the gloves for that matter... it sucks but yeah 180 c right now and im almost level 62 wtf am i gonna do...
I played it last season and it was dirt cheap, 1c. This season though like you said its like 150c. My guess is the market will get flooded and the price should drop a lot. Another weird thing is the boots were pricey last season, I paid like 15c, but now I already see those at 1c.
@@noaimpichu6995 Yeah, I am expecting that. Will try this build sometime. But anyone who used this build last league, would you agree this is a league start build? Even not being able to buy the staff before endgame?
@@eternal.merodach I am playing this build this league and tried it out last league. I think I am doing pretty good this league even tho I dont have the staff or the gloves. I am playing this build with SRS and Skeletons :)
I just played a pure physical version of this build to 94 using zombies and skellies in my chest (so both are on a 5l) and the frenzy and power charge apes to buff the phantasms and single target minions. Together with permanent phase run the character was very zippy and thus fun. I have yet to kill shaper with it but judging by what I’ve seen so far and what limited help pob offers i expect something around 5 million shaper dps...
Hey,I have a couple of question regarding your build. How do you proc you EE with static strike? Static strike have a small hit range and your minion can hit enemy before you can reach them. Which mean they would proc EE +25% on fire dmg/ or cold, instead of lightning.Which offering would you suggest to use ?Overall your build sound really interesting. I just began to try it. I'm hurry to hit 70 and use it for maps
Minions don't trigger EE. But i wouldn't recomend to use it against end-game bosses or even on high tier maps, phase run was nerfed so now you are getting hit using it way more often than before, and you really don't want to get hit by syndicate. I dropped fortify/curse on hit static strike for ball of lighting and CWDT+immortal call+enfeeble setup, feels much safer, at least with my playstyle. Shaper down deathless, really easy, uber elder doesn't look doable atm and i'll probably get anothe build for him.
I hope the price go down or ill realy have to reroll lol. I only play budget because i am kinda casual so i was pretty happy to find a sommuner build that look cool and cost a few chaos. Bummer
I have a question about the summoning spectre mechanics. If you spawn a low level one, and then get a higher level, does the first one stay low level or does it bump up to the current level of the other spectre?
Is static strike really a good idea? I haven't seen you use it a single time lol. It's great theory but in practice it could be hard to proc it when it matters :/
Strugglin between this and a spectre. I feel this is stronger for labs early on, as I heard that spectres get destroyed by traps. How "Easy" is this gear wise before shaper viable?
How do you actually deal with your phantasms not getting one shot in higher betrayal fortifications AND especially pure and enriched breachstone bosses. Tul, Ul netol the ads just one shot my phathasms and im helpless ..
Edit: Managed to kill Uber Elder on a second try. I did have to recraft my elder bone helmet with +2 minon gems and minion damage affixes and get lvl 21 Vaal summon skeletons. After that damage was there and I was really able to go from phase to phase quite easily. You are squishy but if you move around enough you will get the kill and complete all of the endgame with this build. Recommend! TLDR: Most stuff (3.5, month after league start) is now cheap or easily obtainable. For clear Phantasms are great even in high red maps, but for single target and endgame you go for Skeletons with elder helmet (pseudo 6link) or bone helmet with + socketed minion gems or both (expensive option). Killed Red Elder, Shaper Guardians, Shaper, Uber Atziri. Next up is Uber Elder which I'm confident is possible to kill too with this build. For everybody looking into this build in 3.5. I'm playing this build since beginning of Betrayal as my league starter and my only build this season due to time constraints in RL. All the comments regarding high prices of Soulwrest staff and Grip of the Council gloves were relevant at the start of the league, not anymore (Soulwrest goes for ~10c and Grip for ~5c). You have to 6 socket it but 5 sockets are enough in low tier maps and are easy to achieve. Grip of the Council are expensive at the start but you can get them quite easily yourself by completing chain prophecy The Unbreathing Queen (4 out of 5 parts of this prophecy chain can be done in acts and last one in T6 Cemetery map). Did it 4 times so far and got gloves every single time. When it comes to tackling all game content I must say it does it really well. It's not as OP as Molten Strike or Elemental Hit but it's much more budget and beginner friendly. Most important things like life and resists are easily achievable because as a summoner it's the only thing you care about on rare gear (belt, amulet, rings, helmet). As most builds this build also needs one skill for map clear and one for single target. Phantasms clear maps beautifully as you just run and collect loot. For though encounters and bosses you got skeletons, specifically Vaal Summon Skeletons. They hit like a truck and after last lab their hits can't be evaded. So for getting into the absolute endgame you need them as buffed as possible. For that you need pseudo 6link with elder helmet (best if ilvl 83+) with crafted Minion Life and Minion Damage. Bases are dirt cheap now (1c) and you can craft them yourself with just spamming bound fossils which are also very cheap. Alternative is Bone Helmet with up to 40% increased minion damage implicit and +(1-3) Socketed Minion Gems affix. Both of these can be combined into Elder base Bone Helmet but those are expensive. I managed to buy one for 3.5ex but it was really the only significant investment I had to make for this build. As my achievments with this build go I'm comfortably farming t15-16 maps and got to level 93. Killed red tier Elder deathless, all Guardians also deathless (few deaths do happen sometimes ofc), Shaper multiple times deathless and as a peak achievment - first and only Uber Atziri this season yet also deathless. Now I'm waiting for Uber Elder to spawn and I'm pretty confident that I will kill him too. Altough pretty sure it won't be deathless :) Thanks EE for such a great build and all your guides! You rock, and please continue doing what you are doing, your content is awesome! And all the best luck to you Exiles, feel free to ask anything you need.
Since you seem knowledgeable in this build. What are your opinions on sacrificing a few points somewhere to get Death Attunement for the +1 specters, to try to help clear bosses?
@@deathisnear2424 Well if you need more specters you have two options. You can go a tree route and allocate points differently - you can loose some of the points from minion wheel on the left (Righteous Army/Redemption notables) and/or few life points if you can afford it and feel comfortable with lower health pool. Second option is buy or craft chest with bound fossils for +1 to Maximum number of specters mod, other mods you look for on the chest would be high life and resistances to compensate for loosing Belly. And since you don't need 6link chest it is quite easy to get. +1 specters is also possible mod for boots but loosing bubonics is probably not a best idea (inc. damage for each abyssal, abyssal socket, death walk). Hope it helps and gl!
I found it quite tough to handle Syndicates with this Build at Tier16 Maps. Also do u use Static Strike it feels so awkward to go melee range for it. How u handle those 2 things? I also thought about getting my Abyss Jewels with Life, added physical damage and increased minion damage after using minion skill u think thats good choice?
@@MrAznDream Well Syndicate is generally bit overtuned for my liking and most builds struggle in higher tiers. I can do Intervention and Research labs but Transportation and Fortification with endless mob spawn is nuts. So when I want to chain high tier maps and don't worry about Syndicate I go to low level zones (Ossuary Act 10) and farm it until I get Research laboratory. That one I won't enter and since then every map you open will have laboratory as Syndicate event. You can kind of turn off league this way and if you want to continue with syndicate just complete the laboratory. To complete league challenges I'm farming low level zones for syndicate anyway because it's faster and most rewards in safehouses don't scale with higher level zones. When it comes to Static Strike I agree it's awkward and you really only need it for bosses so if you want to keep your distance just change your setup to Orb of Storms + Curse on Hit + Projectile Weakness for increased damage or CWDT + Immortal Call + Inc. duration for better defenses. You can utilize both if you drop Raise Spectre setup from boots. When fighting tough bosses your minions die too quickly to get enough frenzy charges from Carnage Chieftain anyway. Good jewels are really important in this build. I use 1 unique To Dust jewel, you can get one with minion damage corruption (shouldn't be too expensive) and rest are Abyss jewels. All of them I crafted myself by alt+aug+regal spam or bound fossils spam and you are correct you should always look for high life roll and high physical damage roll. The last 1 or 2 mods could be minion damage after using minion skill or minion attack/cast speed. But don't underestimate power of rolls like minions taunt/blind/hinder on hit/spell. I got one of each (taunt/blind - skeletons; hinder - phantasms).
@@markoadamko1494 Thanks for all the info. I just got my character to 62 so I'm able to use the staff and this build is really taking off now, even without Bubonic Trail. I do have another question. Would the 10 phantasms you summon from your actual Phantasm on Kill gem still be supported by all the gems inside the staff? It just seems weird that the gem just allows you to summon 20 while consuming corpses even though it should be like 10 max from consuming corpses from the staff then another 10 after you get kills from the gem.
i just installed windows xp, and got it updated, i tried to do this build, and it told me that i had already won, i am not sure what that means, but my clippy the clip art was really upset. also this build broke my desktop stripper, can you please help fix this? bonzi buddy was also acting up, and my icq was making all sorts of noise. how do i fix this?
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i love the formatting of these guides, so clean
even the text format it's simple to read :P
another good build channel is the Path of Exile Builds
3.7 Patch - NO NERFS!
Possible buffs with:
-Static Strike gaining increased dmg effectiveness along with being able to chain 1 additional time!
-Minion targeting improved whilst using movement skills
-Pride aura possible for extra phys dot if you're weird like that and can fit it in.
All in all, yet another cheap build that melts maps and skele's delete bosses! As for legion mechanics, somewhat nervous but hopeful that the trash bags can penetrate large enough groups.
See you later exiles!
NOTE: Possible issue with summon phantasm gem now matching the support on the staff. This may not give us 10 extra phantasms. No clarification atm.
IT WORKS!!!
@@johnmartin4242 any changes i should be aware of with 3.8?
First off, I am loving your videos and guides. I am very new to POE (Less then 100 hours) and your videos have been an immense help to me starting off.
But one thing I wish you would add to your build guides that would be really nice is a skill rotation or some info on how to cast your abilities. Yes I know some builds are of course very obvious an doesn't need to be mentioned. But one of your last build guides I have actually started making, the Toxic Rain Assassin. In the guide there are two six links both supporting toxic rain and you never really explained why. I watched the video about 4 times to see if I just missed it and I couldn't find it anywhere. After getting further into the build I am starting to see why and I think I have it figured out. But a short explanation would have been nice.
Either way I love your guides, Keep in up! :)
Yo! Brand new player club!
Also a new player here, prob under 30 hours. If he had 2 six links both running toxic rain my thoughts would be he maybe had a vaal toxic rain in one???
pretty sure one was a totem set up for extra damage on single targets
The second one was a ranged totem setup so you can have two sets going down at a time.. three including your mirage archer, but i personally dont count her.
But is it a her?
Was waiting for this guide. Now let the fun begins lool. Thanks for the awesome videos as always
Great guide, definitely gonna try this out in 3.5.
Just wanted to say thanks for your clear guides, the Thicc Jugg one was great and I had a great time playing it. Looking forward to trying this one out too. :)
So i went with this build for a few reasons, i was already deep in on summoning, the gear for it was cheap, and something a little less intense from an attention point of view were all part of why i tried it, and you know what! it works great! I even manage to fiddle with it a little and get 8 zombies, two specters and a lighting Golem in their to spread projectile weakness via curse on hit support and projectile weakness linked with the golem gem on my boots. (at least i assume it's working please correct me if I'm wrong) Overall it's a great built for my first time though and it's really made my friends who started with me want to try some cool builds as well! THANKS!
I would love to see an updated version of this build for 3.8 they changed a lot of the skill tree so it would be interesting to see what could be squeezed into or out of this build with such changes. all in all still using this build as my pain thank you for the video.
Hey I just started PoE and found your videos. Just wanted to let you know you're editing skills are so much better and organized than most others, even those not even related to Path of Exile.
great guide! started the delve league with this a few days ago and really is a fun minion build.
2 tips - chain pantheon, nothing else. Especially, because delves can roll it, so any chain map/delve = death. It's pretty much a must, even on softcore if you don't like dying :D Also i would really try to fit Convocation. It's just so much easier to position your phantasms, especially in delves. Once you try it, you won't drop it ever again.
and every character needs to be CI or you're gonna get 1 shot by zombie caustic cloud.
please.
? xd
exactly.
On which level does caustic cloud become that deadly for ~5-6K HP with -50chaos res?
I enjoyed this build so much. Expensive for the staff in the league start, but worth it in the end. This was just so much fun to play and have so many minions just obliterating the place. Easily can have over 60 minions down and just collect the sweet loot. Thank you for the great video and guide. This is one of my top builds.
I play now this build since 2 weeks. I modified it a bit to my personaly playstyle.And man this build is so op. Thank you somuch for it.
Thank you for the guide, good structuring. Build looks amazing, easy and fun!
What a beatiful surprise, i was looking for somthing new to play.
Just some quick advice from someone whos done guardians with Souldwrest- Dont be 100% phantasm if you plan on doing endgame. It works AMAZING while mapping but in bossfights like phoenix minotaur they die too fast . Elder guardians, elder and shaper however were easier, but i do recommend using something like some +2-3 +minion life zombies to take some of the aggro off of you as you recast desecrate/ offering. To easily manage EE you can go avatar of fire with Smite and make your minions lightning/cold (and not use added fire like engineering does) which i think is also safer for mapping as minions will often shatter enemies with the cold damage. Just some more examples of how amazing Soulwrest is and how fun it is to play in 200 different ways
Also spell cascade is pretty important for bossing as you summon 10 instead of 5 for every offering cast
Got a POB by any chance? Keen to see your setup.
So sorry but i sold most of my gear- However the main difference is i was using a Belly for chest, my helm didnt have the minion stuff but it had 120 life and %life, i had the double socket Stygian vyse belt and both my rings and amulet had essence/fossil crafted minion movement speed for smoother mapping. I also had loads of amazing added flat phys dmg jewels with good life, so i reached a comfortable over 7k life. Theres several great soulwrest options on the forums though and you can chose whichever you want
Cool no prob. I'm running this build now with 5 link skellies, 6L loreweave for zombies and as many flat phys jewels as possible. I also went MoM so I have a ton of EHP.
Any idea which one is superior between added fire damage and phys2lightning in soulwrest? is it only effect which skill we want to use to proc EE?
@@yeah5874 Why did you sell your gear? I'm just wondering because I'm just now putting together all my pieces and everything's coming together, but I'm finding that I'm really weak and unable to complete endgame content (cant even do red maps), will the zombies help that much? Skeletons seem like they aren't all that effective for bosses and I'm so squishy I get 1 shot even with as much defensive gear as I could muster. I'm thinking about selling all my gear and levelling up a new character, and was wondering if you did the same for the same reason.
I don't know if you're aware Engineering, but Elemental Equilibrium will also proc from the Death Walk effect, so if you're not careful with your desecrate and walking you'll often end up applying +25% fire res instead
its a real small aoe and it's still works for everything except the added fire which really doesn't make up a whole lot of damage. if you're walking through corpses, your phantasms already fired off anyway. More often than not they will be insta gibbing everything up to 360ish delve with lots of mods.
For this reason I use phys to light instead of added fire and proc EE with Consecrated path. The added regen from Consecration is really nice.
I found that I almost never use the static strike curse fortify setup in boss fights, because its dangerous to go that close. Instead I 5-linked my chest (belly) and put cwdt (low)-immortal call (low)-inc dur. (high)-phase run (high)-vaal haste (high) with either separate flame dash or desecrate, in my gloves blood magic-spectre, stone golem, desecrate and bought 2-abyss socket bubonic trails (expensive though) with hatred-generosity in them. You lose the fortify+curse setup but gain damage and life from an extra abyss jewel and some survivability from your golem taunts+regen and from the CWDT-immortal call link. And you dont have to melee the boss yourself like before.
I replaced the static strike setup with storm burst+curse on hit+temporal chains+culling strike, you lose the fortify buff but get culling strike, and still apply EE from afar
@@federicoramirez4686 Same, but with Stormbrand.
I'm 87 now and kinda hit a wall at around T14 maps. Depending on the bosses around, they do too much area damage and really annihilate those Phantasms. Good thing i have a cyclone slayer for T15+ ^^
I love this league. I started playing summoner in this league too.
I had never played a summoner before, and then I was looking for witch builds to start the league.
Decided to try this one cuz its "cheap" and then switch to a cold damage occultist after getting some money.
In 3.5 its not cheap at all since staff drop rate has increased a lot, but I managed to get one on the second day of the league,
and now im addicted to the build. Thanks for the guide!
thanx for the guide, makes me want to make one since it looks fun
The new syndicate unique "The Devouring Diadem" also works for consumption with the addition of the Feast of Flesh passive healing you by 400 per corpse consumed per 5 seconds. May try with both the boots and helm to see how they interact.
Waiting 3.6 update
Welcome to the guide Exile!
went to delve lvl 1k++ with this build as a league starter. shaper and uber elder down btw. vaal skel will save your life in boss fights
Not one neco past 950....
It feels like every time you come out with a new build, I want to quickly finish what I'm working on, and try out the new guide's build... I'm almost done (leveling 80-90) with the Molten Strike and Consecrated Path--Molten Path (?)--and now I want to try this out. The economy has shifted, and the cost is at about 1ex for the uniques necessary, but I'm really keen to try this.
This feels like a book club--announce a new build, try it out, new build announced, so finish up, and get to the next one... EE Build Club lol
if you drop the resist points on scion you can pick the extra specter from death attunement
and sumon one carnage chieftain and one of the other chieftain(the one that give power charges)
Video is ok I guess but I only have 1 chaos orb right now. Is there a budget version of this build anywhere??
Must be a 1 ALT orb build somewhere
Can't kill Uber Elder with gear from vendors, build is shit
@@evanwater3633 ssf btw
I cant with magic itms + jewel which gives more more dmg per weared magic itm :)
Lol you got to kiding me .. :D
I played summoner since day 1, always found using minions relaxing as i use phase walking.. stumble into a mob because of very high run speed and then use convocation (which by the way doesnt break phase walking) to carpet bomb the still unaware mobs of enemies with zombies while running. As convocation is a minion spell my zombies get a neat +30% damage. Instantly killing everything.. Great fun, does tend to backfire sometimes though. This looks like an awsome build to play with also :)
Keep up the good work brother! I just love how detailed every videos that you create! I have a play time of maybe 50hours maybe? I am so new to the game and enjoyinh it to the max with my jugg of all trades. Will be planning to farm as much as i can with that build then follow your cyclone and molten zerker build.
Just want to ask. That build can you create a revamp build for that or is that build still good with the current patch?
This guide is very nice! Like.
Man, thank you for that!
This build is a shit ton of fun
Build is amazing
good catch:) 13:33/13:33
Build idea for berserker Waiting room
Daaaaaamn holy build
This build is really great :) I use it atm although i decided to go for the new chest wich makes it a rly brain afk build since i only have to spawn my phantasms once in the beginning of the map and the chest keeps refreshing them for me every 5 sec :) Thanks alot!
which chest are you referring to?
Great build, exile.
And now we watch as the staff rises from a 1 alch unique to 10 chaos
Kevin King I just had one drop yesterday for me. Pretty excited about that lol.
managed to get mine 2 days ago for 1 c, pretty happy
its bloody 4ex now
I've seen it for 10c lately...
4 exs right now!!
In your written guide, under the leveling section, starting around level 18, you list a 6 link setup of Summon Raging Spirits - Melee Splash - Maim - Minion Damage - Melee Physical Damage - Minion Speed.
Is that what you recommend for leveling? Get a cheap 6 link staff or chest?
Thanks for your always excellent videos!
You dont need a 6L, its listed as such if you have a tabula and want to do a full 6L
Been running this build and I want to add a couple of things.
You can run a bone helm with fossil crafting of course. i86 non touched will be fairly cheap to get at around 30c. Elder shopping will bring you up to 4ex minimum for i76, but the base is typically worth it if you're already into this price range.
A 2nd stygian gorilla will increase your frenzy uptime and stack counter from 1, 80% of the time with a 2nd frenzy as an occasional bonus, to a 3 stack 80% of the time and 2 stack, roughly 50% of the time. Aside from the buff to minions, this helps maintain Phase run over longer periods. It's another option if you want to run a temp chain/blasphemy as it will let you replace the Vaal Haste in the set up.
QoL option: Spell cascade + Desecrate for easy reload on phantasms and full duration offerings.
As EE said, this build can be run in any number of ways and you can explore them all quite easily.
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I'm playing Soulwrest with TV spectres for bosskilling, I was comfortably killing Shaper and his Guardians with only 3 spectres. I've now upgraded to a 4 spectre setup and plan to take it to Uber Elder. I'm a little burned out on the game right now but I plan to come back before the league ends.
Update edit: I've now killed Uber Elder but the ramp up in damage is too low to make it a good farmer. I can't kill the adds fast enough to stop the arena from getting covered in degen. This is as much a fault of my setup as it is my poor execution. The potential is definitely there but I'm benching the build (and the league) for now, I achieved my goal and the delve bosses are way too rare for me to bother.
Working the build now. But unsure about skeletons as extra dps vs something else? Your thoughts @Carl??
I've played melee skeletons before and they are very strong but I don't know if I could handle summoning both skeletons and phantasms at the same time on something like Uber Elder, which is why I'm using TV spectres.
If you're gonna use skeletons, I think it would probably be best to focus 100% on skeletons and just drop the staff altogether. Doing both seems like a massive hassle to me.
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@@wolvie90 well u only, have to walk or use the flesh offering to summon phantasms which u would do normally anyways
I'd love to see an updated version with herald of purity and summon holy relic. Also a spell totem with desecrate and minion instability. Also some sort of heartbound loop + cwdt interaction
dude. this build is fun as fuck. I am still working on the survival part, but the damage is just so insane!
I'd go cold/lightning phantasms and use consecrated path for EE
this one is nice, really powerfull on a budget
Thanks!
i am currently playing this build following this guide as i thought it was a starter build. was surprised to see the staff is now 2.5ex. hopefully the price will go down soon
its only this high in price because engineering eternity is popular, therfore assholes want to make money and hike up the pr ice. Same reason when mathil makes a build with cospris, cospris go up in price by 100%
For 3.8 i'm doing a cyclone CWC desacrate to spirit offering. With this i've replaced bubonic trails with some good rare boots as i'm constantly creating and consuming corpes with the cyclone cwc. This also makes EE very easy and smooth to apply. However there is no fortify and curse aplication so i'm trying to find curse rings to fix that. Overall it's a great sidegrade to the static strike setup and can make you somewhat tanky.
Great guide!
Here are my questions about some of the specifics:
1. With regards to the Carnage Chieftain spectre, do I need to run the entire process again (go to old fields and then to delve) each time I want to summon him?
2. With static strike, is this used consistently during clearing or is this used more for single target burning? Mainly, are you constantly spamming this attack?
3. With hatred and haste having both 50% mana reserve, how are you capable of running both simultaneously?
Thanks!
Desecrate with spell cascade is pretty good to generate corpses quicker
This guide just wow dude.... good job and what an amazing build as well
Oh yeah and could u pls tell me where u got this music from? I NEED IT!!!
Its all from the PoE OST. I think they are Oriath Mystery Box Trailer, Bestiary Menagerie and Templar Courts.
Great guide, thank you. Will it be still a good choice for the upcoming 3.5 patch?
I remade the build but this time investing in a devouring diadem and I went for aspect of the spider+zealotry also
I just finished a working version of necro with soulwrest in 3.10. I'm a total casual at the game though but i am plowing through maps and killed baran super quick. I run zombies, vaal skellies, two golems, spectres, animated guardian, several auras and have 20 phantasms up at all times, so it is just a *swarm* of minions. There are just too many directions to improve the build for me as a casual to explore but it is fun.
I would like to know how to light up I am new and I love this build. Any place where they have something specific or items low lvl for leveo of acts?
PD: Sorry for my bad english ^^
What cosmetics are you using? good video though, I will be doing this for a starter :)
And this build is even better with 3.6 with convocation cd reduced and the buff summon phantasm gem got.
I wonder if this will still work
Was just wondering if you would change ANYTHING on here with 3.7? maybe throw impale on vaal skeletons?
This is a very fun build, give it ago if you get a chance.
It seems the price of the staff has come down quite a bit, with the cheapest ones going around 30c now, which is not that bad of a price.
hello engineering , big fan here . so i rerolled my occultist for this build , awesome 1 btw gz . just a question , i have the unset ring +3 atm but wht to get on other slot? im good with attributes and res so i can put something for more damages or even an amulet but i really dont know what.
also whats the best way to improve single target damage ? its good so dar but just failed 2 attempts at uber , let me know what can i do better ! ty
hi. nice video. i have a question regarding a gem for bosses: what do you think about swapping LMP for Lesser Poison Support? i mean, you have 20 phantasm pumping projectiles into a body; shouldn´t the poison-stack just do some serious damage? i just reached merc lab with my char and tested this: killing Argus or Izaro never was so fast
Yep that is possible, it is just I was scaling added elemental damage and wanted to maximize that. Poisons could work as well, just most of the multipliers we have do not buff that damage.
Sweet. Do you know of a Scion build that uses archer skills for AoE damage and mage skills for summoning? I want to use minions for meatshields that also happen to do damage
Will there be an 3.6 update?
what is the violet skill that reserves your mana in the video
MORE SUMMONER BUILDS PLEASE
on another note, can you please make a herald of agony block gladiator? :)
Actually, I was planning to make that style of build next!
@@EngineeringEternity great! Looking forward to it being my first gladiator build. Love your builds and videos
Looking to start playing this game soon. Love summoner/pet classes. Looks like you can bring an army vast enough to invade North Korea with. I am interested in summoners with other classes. The necromancer witch seems to be a given. You can be a templar or ranger summoner as well?
There are builds centered around necromancy, there are other forms of builds such as Templar it's usually a totem build. Remember however you can't go pure dps in PoE or you'll never make it to endgame, you'll need to focus on defenses as well and around act 6 you're going to need a decent amount of elemental resistance, otherwise there will be one shots,
If you want to get the most out of the staff, get a staff with as high of an increased physical damage roll as you can afford, then go for cast speed next. The spell damage on it is mostly useless.
Yes, I forgot to mention this!
I didn't see it mentioned in either the video or the written guide, (unless I missed it) but which offering would be best for buffing the minions, flesh or spirit?
Red one for attack speed blue one for eg and white one gives block chance
hey thats impressive build and i did it. :D i am on level 85 and fully done passive tree. which passive points must spend, what do u preffer?
The final passive tree covers to level 92
Well gotta roll a witch now thx m8 :D
"Cheap" = 150c to 8 exalted. Did something happen on 3.5 or the staff is just this expensive at league start? Because right now, it is far from being cheap. I checked the standard league, and even there it starts around 50c, so I don't know from where the 1c came from (maybe something changed?). Just wanted to know, because this build seems pretty fun and wanted to give it a try.
yeah i played it plast league and it was 1c but im trying it again this league (because it was so cheap) but did not anticipate it being so expensive for the staff or the gloves for that matter... it sucks but yeah 180 c right now and im almost level 62 wtf am i gonna do...
I played it last season and it was dirt cheap, 1c. This season though like you said its like 150c. My guess is the market will get flooded and the price should drop a lot. Another weird thing is the boots were pricey last season, I paid like 15c, but now I already see those at 1c.
Its the start of the league. so therefore the prices will drop :)
@@noaimpichu6995 Yeah, I am expecting that. Will try this build sometime. But anyone who used this build last league, would you agree this is a league start build? Even not being able to buy the staff before endgame?
@@eternal.merodach I am playing this build this league and tried it out last league. I think I am doing pretty good this league even tho I dont have the staff or the gloves. I am playing this build with SRS and Skeletons :)
Content done with this build: Shaper
Guardian Shaper
Red Elder
Red Guardian Elder
Uber Elder
Uber Atziri
pob: pastebin.com/77ASD8zw
I just played a pure physical version of this build to 94 using zombies and skellies in my chest (so both are on a 5l) and the frenzy and power charge apes to buff the phantasms and single target minions. Together with permanent phase run the character was very zippy and thus fun. I have yet to kill shaper with it but judging by what I’ve seen so far and what limited help pob offers i expect something around 5 million shaper dps...
Maybe it´s a wild idea, but I would love to see an explosive arrow chieftain/jugg build.
That staff is at least 2ex now.
What is the song at the introduction?
Me too.
How does Queen’s hunger fit this build? It looks so cool on paper...
why is your raise spectre only lvl 19 on PoB? intentional?
Hey,I have a couple of question regarding your build. How do you proc you EE with static strike? Static strike have a small hit range and your minion can hit enemy before you can reach them. Which mean they would proc EE +25% on fire dmg/ or cold, instead of lightning.Which offering would you suggest to use ?Overall your build sound really interesting. I just began to try it. I'm hurry to hit 70 and use it for maps
Minions don't trigger EE. But i wouldn't recomend to use it against end-game bosses or even on high tier maps, phase run was nerfed so now you are getting hit using it way more often than before, and you really don't want to get hit by syndicate. I dropped fortify/curse on hit static strike for ball of lighting and CWDT+immortal call+enfeeble setup, feels much safer, at least with my playstyle. Shaper down deathless, really easy, uber elder doesn't look doable atm and i'll probably get anothe build for him.
Questions: do soulwrest projectiles apply virulence? Could youuuu... unearth + offering spam to keep enough virulence for Herald of Agony?
Ok, so you socket summon phnatasm, put t hose phantasms are a lot weaker bcs your support gems are not linked to it?
staff costs 2 exalts FML
I hope the price go down or ill realy have to reroll lol. I only play budget because i am kinda casual so i was pretty happy to find a sommuner build that look cool and cost a few chaos. Bummer
+Steve boso same man ): don't know if I'll return to this league after investing into this character
@@samr4281 I made it into a skelly mage spectre summoner but it takes like 30 respec points
@@madthundercat did the same lol . Changed it to a skelly specter build. But man since this was not what i wished to play im not feeling it at all.
@@madthundercat please send me a link to mage spectre. i'm now 67 lvl, stucked as well...
Thanks for the guide Engineering! I was wondering.. what would be the best nodes to get lvl92+?
WHATS THAT INTRO SONG YO i need it!!!
Oriath Mystery Box extended soundtrack.
I have a question about the summoning spectre mechanics. If you spawn a low level one, and then get a higher level, does the first one stay low level or does it bump up to the current level of the other spectre?
Why not use the queen's hunger body armor?
Is static strike really a good idea? I haven't seen you use it a single time lol. It's great theory but in practice it could be hard to proc it when it matters :/
I dont need EE or Fortify when running thru maps, but its very useful for bossing and delving.
yeah I guess for delves it kinda makes sense... great video btw ^^
Strugglin between this and a spectre. I feel this is stronger for labs early on, as I heard that spectres get destroyed by traps.
How "Easy" is this gear wise before shaper viable?
is there a static strike alternative? i hate using this ability
How do you actually deal with your phantasms not getting one shot in higher betrayal fortifications AND especially pure and enriched breachstone bosses. Tul, Ul netol the ads just one shot my phathasms and im helpless ..
Please let us know when 3.6 will be ready :)
Edit: Managed to kill Uber Elder on a second try. I did have to recraft my elder bone helmet with +2 minon gems and minion damage affixes and get lvl 21 Vaal summon skeletons. After that damage was there and I was really able to go from phase to phase quite easily. You are squishy but if you move around enough you will get the kill and complete all of the endgame with this build. Recommend!
TLDR: Most stuff (3.5, month after league start) is now cheap or easily obtainable. For clear Phantasms are great even in high red maps, but for single target and endgame you go for Skeletons with elder helmet (pseudo 6link) or bone helmet with + socketed minion gems or both (expensive option). Killed Red Elder, Shaper Guardians, Shaper, Uber Atziri. Next up is Uber Elder which I'm confident is possible to kill too with this build.
For everybody looking into this build in 3.5. I'm playing this build since beginning of Betrayal as my league starter and my only build this season due to time constraints in RL. All the comments regarding high prices of Soulwrest staff and Grip of the Council gloves were relevant at the start of the league, not anymore (Soulwrest goes for ~10c and Grip for ~5c). You have to 6 socket it but 5 sockets are enough in low tier maps and are easy to achieve. Grip of the Council are expensive at the start but you can get them quite easily yourself by completing chain prophecy The Unbreathing Queen (4 out of 5 parts of this prophecy chain can be done in acts and last one in T6 Cemetery map). Did it 4 times so far and got gloves every single time.
When it comes to tackling all game content I must say it does it really well. It's not as OP as Molten Strike or Elemental Hit but it's much more budget and beginner friendly. Most important things like life and resists are easily achievable because as a summoner it's the only thing you care about on rare gear (belt, amulet, rings, helmet). As most builds this build also needs one skill for map clear and one for single target. Phantasms clear maps beautifully as you just run and collect loot.
For though encounters and bosses you got skeletons, specifically Vaal Summon Skeletons. They hit like a truck and after last lab their hits can't be evaded. So for getting into the absolute endgame you need them as buffed as possible. For that you need pseudo 6link with elder helmet (best if ilvl 83+) with crafted Minion Life and Minion Damage. Bases are dirt cheap now (1c) and you can craft them yourself with just spamming bound fossils which are also very cheap. Alternative is Bone Helmet with up to 40% increased minion damage implicit and +(1-3) Socketed Minion Gems affix. Both of these can be combined into Elder base Bone Helmet but those are expensive. I managed to buy one for 3.5ex but it was really the only significant investment I had to make for this build.
As my achievments with this build go I'm comfortably farming t15-16 maps and got to level 93. Killed red tier Elder deathless, all Guardians also deathless (few deaths do happen sometimes ofc), Shaper multiple times deathless and as a peak achievment - first and only Uber Atziri this season yet also deathless. Now I'm waiting for Uber Elder to spawn and I'm pretty confident that I will kill him too. Altough pretty sure it won't be deathless :)
Thanks EE for such a great build and all your guides! You rock, and please continue doing what you are doing, your content is awesome! And all the best luck to you Exiles, feel free to ask anything you need.
Since you seem knowledgeable in this build. What are your opinions on sacrificing a few points somewhere to get Death Attunement for the +1 specters, to try to help clear bosses?
@@deathisnear2424 Well if you need more specters you have two options. You can go a tree route and allocate points differently - you can loose some of the points from minion wheel on the left (Righteous Army/Redemption notables) and/or few life points if you can afford it and feel comfortable with lower health pool. Second option is buy or craft chest with bound fossils for +1 to Maximum number of specters mod, other mods you look for on the chest would be high life and resistances to compensate for loosing Belly. And since you don't need 6link chest it is quite easy to get. +1 specters is also possible mod for boots but loosing bubonics is probably not a best idea (inc. damage for each abyssal, abyssal socket, death walk). Hope it helps and gl!
I found it quite tough to handle Syndicates with this Build at Tier16 Maps. Also do u use Static Strike it feels so awkward to go melee range for it. How u handle those 2 things? I also thought about getting my Abyss Jewels with Life, added physical damage and increased minion damage after using minion skill u think thats good choice?
@@MrAznDream Well Syndicate is generally bit overtuned for my liking and most builds struggle in higher tiers. I can do Intervention and Research labs but Transportation and Fortification with endless mob spawn is nuts. So when I want to chain high tier maps and don't worry about Syndicate I go to low level zones (Ossuary Act 10) and farm it until I get Research laboratory. That one I won't enter and since then every map you open will have laboratory as Syndicate event. You can kind of turn off league this way and if you want to continue with syndicate just complete the laboratory. To complete league challenges I'm farming low level zones for syndicate anyway because it's faster and most rewards in safehouses don't scale with higher level zones.
When it comes to Static Strike I agree it's awkward and you really only need it for bosses so if you want to keep your distance just change your setup to Orb of Storms + Curse on Hit + Projectile Weakness for increased damage or CWDT + Immortal Call + Inc. duration for better defenses. You can utilize both if you drop Raise Spectre setup from boots. When fighting tough bosses your minions die too quickly to get enough frenzy charges from Carnage Chieftain anyway.
Good jewels are really important in this build. I use 1 unique To Dust jewel, you can get one with minion damage corruption (shouldn't be too expensive) and rest are Abyss jewels. All of them I crafted myself by alt+aug+regal spam or bound fossils spam and you are correct you should always look for high life roll and high physical damage roll. The last 1 or 2 mods could be minion damage after using minion skill or minion attack/cast speed. But don't underestimate power of rolls like minions taunt/blind/hinder on hit/spell. I got one of each (taunt/blind - skeletons; hinder - phantasms).
@@markoadamko1494 Thanks for all the info. I just got my character to 62 so I'm able to use the staff and this build is really taking off now, even without Bubonic Trail. I do have another question. Would the 10 phantasms you summon from your actual Phantasm on Kill gem still be supported by all the gems inside the staff? It just seems weird that the gem just allows you to summon 20 while consuming corpses even though it should be like 10 max from consuming corpses from the staff then another 10 after you get kills from the gem.
Hey if I'm running the queen's hunger should I bother with the boots?
Why spectre is linked with blood magic?
is the staff hard to find? i kinda wanna play SSFHC and i was wondering if this could work
i just installed windows xp, and got it updated, i tried to do this build, and it told me that i had already won, i am not sure what that means, but my clippy the clip art was really upset. also this build broke my desktop stripper, can you please help fix this? bonzi buddy was also acting up, and my icq was making all sorts of noise. how do i fix this?
tried updating your internet explorer?
lol internet explorer, i use netscape, lol
You sure as fuck are, Ruth
Probably need to upgrade your Pentium II to a Celeron 300A
have you tried downloading more ram? that might help
Why you put cont dest in it ? Does the phantasm deal more dmg from it ?
and by not 6 link you mean just 6 sockets no links at all ?
Build is fun. Had to get used to Offering interactions, but once you do it runs smoothly.
Pretty expensive though. Definitely not for the first run