*===== CHANGELOG =====* [3.9] *Mask of the Tribunal* unique can now be found quite easily and it's incredibly cheap so it's back as best-in-slot item for Animated Guardian gear! You can use it to boost your own and minions' defenses [3.9] Feeding Frenzy will be slightly nerfed so there are two choices here: a) Replace *"Feeding Frenzy"* with *"Multistrike"* in Raise Zombie setup. Replace *"Holy Relic"* with Feeding Frenzy and link it with *"Carrion Golem"* so the buff will still be UP. DO NOT link Feeding Frenzy with any aura (such as Skitterbots) as it will increase its reservation cost. You lose the extra aggressiveness quality-of-life perk but you gain more DPS to cover the nerfs. b) Keep the setups as they are with slightly lower DPS but aggressive zombies. [3.9] Replace *"Ruthless"* with *"Deathmark"* in Raise Zombie setup. This will give you something extra to do (after shield charging to apply Elemental Equilibrium) and increase your DPS. This will also offset the downside in zombies aggressiveness if you're dumping Feeding Frenzy [3.9] Raise Spectre will no grant an additional minion at gem level 25 rather than 21. With the current setup, with +2 from Baron helmet and +2 from "Unnatural Strength" ascendancy passive the gem is level 24. To get the 4th spectre out you'll need to get the base gem level to 21 through corruption. Otherwise keep 3 spectres with 2 Carnage Chieftains + 1 Mortality Experimenter. *Most recent PoB:* pastebin.com/j7stbDPU *Most recent PoePlanner Level 100 passive tree:* www.poeurl.com/cAUl
Nothing much changes in terms of gem setups or gear. We'll just get slighlty lower numbers across the board but still in a better shape than before 3.8/Blight. I've outlined a possible change suggestion in the pinned comment where Feeding Frenzy would be triggered by Carrion Golem rather than zombies themselves.
You are prolly the only poe yt channel that explains shit in great detail while still using a language that noobs like me understand. Great guy, great videos.
I really hope so! 😁 but whether or not that happens, I'll do my best to put out guides and constantly improve them. In a few short days I should have a new video out so definitely keep an eye on the channel 😉
@@NavandisGaming well you got me to sub. I love to play Summoner, most of my summoner builds ive done have been focused on Spectre as the dmg source so this will be a pleasant surprise.
Great in-depth guide. I'd like to draw peoples attention to the 'Notes' tab in PoB too, an often overlooked feature which you have entered tons of info into, meaning a quick answer to some questions without resorting to the vid. Excellent! You earned a new subscriber!
i have tried multiple builds from numerous guide videos and i am disappointed because most of them lacks information like you'll see certain buffs or mechanics in their showcase but doesn't show in their PoB but this guide is great. i am about to have the same items as the pastebin have and i am so happy with this build. very detailed and well explained. great job
I've literally stayed playing POE as of yesterday following the D4 announcement. I wanted to get some updated ARPG action in (not d3) so came to POE. Compared to other guides builds material available, even for someone so fresh as me this is really easy to understand! Thank you. Your guides are great
Welcome to PoE then! Really happy to help you out with the first steps 😁 If you haven't already, I really recommend checking out my beginner tips & tricks video (th-cam.com/video/VykJhDY03Qk/w-d-xo.html) where I tried to cover some of the most useful pieces of knowledge that you'll need as a new player. It might look like a shameless plug, but it will help you avoid making some very frustrating mistakes 😉
Liked this video so much I had to like and subscribe. I came into this game a few months ago as a witch and fell in love with making a necromancer. This guide helped give me some good ideas to work with, thanks a lot!
5 days old into this game, i followed your exact build step by step, i don't have the armor cuz poor AF, but im really happy with it so far, honestly if i did not find this video, i'd probably quit by now. So super happy and thanks.
I'm really glad I was able to help out! If you have any questions regarding the build or even PoE in general just drop a comment here or ask on Discord and I'll do my best to answer 👍 As for the armour, this build is very good at farming even with makeshift gear so you'll surely get enough currency to buy it in no tme. You can even get one that is not linked, use jeweler's orbs to get 5-6 sockets, use some armourer's scraps to get its quality to 20% (increases fusing chance) and then fusing orbs until you get at least 5-links. It's a longer term project that will give you a target to work towards and an actual use for your currency 😉
started back after quite a while away from poe was playing an archer elemental arrow build but decided i want to play something a little more fun. I have to say this guide hit the nail on the head. After following it step by step i finally beat Kitava for the first time and i'm mapping now and having an absolute blast. thank you for all your hard work you put into this guide it really helped me as a new player have fun and start to slowly understand the way the game plays.
I'm always happy to see people coming back to PoE and giving it another chance! If you have any questions about the build or even PoE in general, just drop a comment or hop on our Discord (discord.gg/9M6N6Wf) and I'll do my best to answer 👍
Navandis, i played ur physcial cyclone impale as league starter in 3.8, after that a variety of Esoro builds. I must say, ur builds are much more suited for beginners like me. The summary of can - and cannot do, holds true over time. And ur choice for defensive skills in on point. I have come to trust in ur opinion. And so im glad to announce: This zombiemancer will be my league starter for 3.9!
I always do my best to present realistic builds with achievable results for newer players as well. The way I see it, it helps nobody if a build requires hundreds of hours of previous experience or dozens of exalts to work properly. So I'm really glad that Cyclone Slayer worked great for you and I am absolutely 100% sure you'll find this one amazing as well 😁 As always, if you have any questions or anything is unclear just drop a comment and I'll do my best to help out 👍
Manual English subtitles (CC) have just been added! As always, *Path of Building* guide material is available in the video description, but I'll add it here for extra visibility as well: pastebin.com/pUCSL478 You should also drop by the *Discord* server and hang out with our ever-growing community: discord.gg/9M6N6Wf PS: damn necromancer items in PoE are literally the worst to pronounce 😂
On Reflect Physical maps, you can link either Infernal Legion with zombies so they will kill enemies just by their presence or use Triad Grip unique with all 4 sockets colored into one specific color (ideally white for flexibility) for minions to completely do elemental damage or chaos damage. Note: Skitterbots can be also linked with Infernal Legion, even if they're immortal, but that will mess up the EE setup due to how fast they zip around.
Yes, yes, YES! I have a week holiday this week. Guess I know what I'm doing. Rerolling a character. Lovely guide as always. I had great fun with the 1.0 version of this.
Oh my goodness. This build is so good. Survivability✅ Mapping speed ✅ Boss kill? No problemo. Guardians and uber? Easy peasy. Affordability? I can buy a wife with all the ex i could have saved. I wish i didn't waste my currency on other builds that have no guarantee of clearing contents and i have dropped like 30 ex on those compared to this guide. It didn't even cost me above 10 ex. Definitely a great guide and build. New sub.
Thank you for this guide. Completed the atlas with this build and killed Sirus+8, Shaper, Elder and Uber Elder. Only hard part on Sirus with this build is to kite the storm, when you have learned that you only need to focus on dodging the beams :)
Congrats man! Yeah, those storms are a pain in the ass for pretty much any build that operates in melee range. At least until you learn the boss patterns and when it's safe to squeeze in. Then at that point the damage output and defenses are more than enough to kill him 👍
For some reason, I couldn't understand him and was about to not give this video a chance, but after turning on subtitles and restarting the video, wow, I was super impressed with the thought and detail that went into this. Great video.
im still just level 34 and im just blown away with how in depth and informative this is. Like i did not realize what desecrate did and i always thought zombies did chaos damage.
The information in the guide definitely becomes clearer once you put it in context, in-game, and you get to experiment a bit. Still, if anything remains unclear or you have any other question about the build or PoE in general, just drop a comment and I'll do my best to help 😊
@@NavandisGaming Well multiple questions. How does this build work/effect the skill summon raging spirit. Do suffixes like +4 life for each enemy attacked count even if its the minions attacking? Does crit work just for yourself or can it be applied to your minions in any way? Thanks for the help.
Really good Guide. Thank you. The DPS in POB is a bit inflated because of the "Enemies are shocked", but at the same time the impale is not added in. I created a "Fake Jewel" that you can slot in to the tree upper Left. that gives you a more accurate picture. You need to uncheck "Enemies are shocked".
PS:. This will be a great makeshift way to add Cluster Gems to POB until it gets updated. Just capture their benefits in a single Jewel and decrease your passives by the amount you would use in the cluster.
I actually stopped using the "classic" POB about 3 months ago and moved to LocalIdentity's fork (aka branch) since OpenArl stopped updating the base POB pretty much entirely. In LI's fork you can actually specify the shock effect which I've set to 19%, the current value for Skitterbots and that's how I exported it. However when imported in the old POB it seems it will take all/nothing when it comes to shock. Apart from that there are HUGE improvements over the base POB, including Impale DPS along with pretty much all new uniques and gems and so on. I used to create placeholder items just as you suggested but that would confuse most players so I avoid doing that anymore. Anyway, I strongly recommend trying it and see if you like it more than the base version: github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/wiki/Installing-this-Fork
I already have other build for my Zombies but bcz of this guide ill make this one as well to test it out,seems interesting...Good work man,keep it up :)
Experimenters are pretty much the only ones that cast Temporal Chains. You don't however need to actually go around that zone and try to find one but it's enough to teleport to Lunaris Temple lvl 1 and cast Desecrate until it spawns their corpses. It might take a few tries as the resulting 5 corpses are a random mix of all possible ones from that area + anything that was added to Desecrate's pool.
@@NavandisGaming oh okay. found one finally. i thought it was a bug because i was on the map and spammed desecrate and none was spawning. the weapon and shield can be replaced right? or is it the best for the slot?
The weapon cannot really be replaced, or at least no other option can come even close to its effectiveness. Without it your AOE clearing will suffer dramatically and while this is not a big deal while going through story mode, once you start dipping your toes into the Atlas you can't really do without. Besides, it's a very cheap weapon, always in abundance and can be target-farmed even in SSF by using divination cards: pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Death As for the shield, Whakatutuki o Matua is not mandatory (I am suggesting a few basic/mid-tier options in the vid) but clearly BiS for this version of the build 👍
Dear Navandis, thank you very much for your various guides making POE so accessible and fun to new players. Started playing POE in June this year and have built up four well-gearded high-level characters with 3 of them using your builds. Played your molten strike juggernaut (Lvl 97), contagion essence drain trickster (Lvl 98, tweaked it at some point to become really hard to kill with aspect of the spider, 75% dodge + 75% evasion with flasks up) and the witch necromancer (Lvl 93). Was trying a tornado shot deadeye build (Lvl 91) from other sources but your build guides are the best and easiest to follow for me. Was playing only Standard until now but might start with leagues in 3.9 or 3.10. Really looking forward to your recommendations for the upcoming 3.9 league. Thanks again and keep up the great work :)
I'm really glad I was able to help you better enjoy the game Franz! It definitely looks like you pushed these builds to their peak! 👍 As for the next league, it's a bit early to say but definitely bow builds will be the central focus and on the receiving end of many buffs in 3.9. My recently released Scourge Arrow build is actually a bit of an oddity among bow/ranger builds as it is an excellent league starter. Not gear dependent and relying mostly on gems and passives, it has great performance even with very little investment. It's very likely that it will be my own league starter as well in 3.9 😁
I have played lots of PoE in 3.9 and gotta say this amazing build still can handle many situations: Guardians are ok, Tier 15-16 bosses are np, Shaper is pain in the ass because of his HUGE life pool. Managed to kill everything pretty easily in HotGM except TheGrandHamster and some other offscreen kill hunter. Swapped elemental equilibrium to minion instability and Animate Guardian to Raging spirits. Ofc had frostbomb+balefire in second weapon swap.
Thanks for a great build video! It's my first ever minion build, and I just hit maps. This seems to a really good build for metamorph (for someone inexperienced with minions)
I'm really enjoying this build and guide! I have level 92 witch and I've cleared everything except Uber Aztiri, Guardians and Hall of Grandmasters. I'm still lacking 3rd training jewel and better rings and belt but im confident that i can clear those as well with this build :)
All those are definitely doable except for Hall of Grandmasters. That is a PVP map that is mostly filled with player characters using old, broken, items or cheese a certain mechanic to become invulnerable to specific things. On top of that PVP scaling is really broken for most minions, especially for spectres and Animated Guardian. They can get insta-killed in that map, even with the huge life pool and defenses they have in this build. This means the only way to clear HoG is to come prepared with multiple skills and gear pieces that allow you to overcome the more esoteric enemies. It's definitely not the kind of map where you can go in with any build and I honestly cannot understand why GGG insists on keeping it on the Atlas or why it counts towards Atlas completion 😒 If you really want to try it then I suggest at least un-summoning your AG (temporarily remove the gem) and be prepared to die 😁
@@NavandisGaming Thank you for the tips! I just cleared Shaper and Elder with this build without deaths! So good stuff. Yeah Hall of the Grandmasters sucks big time but I was able to clear one corridor. I heard that Frost bomb + Balefire can help with that map but yeah its a really annoying.
Very nice guide. Some things I did different. For the league mechanic I've gone with a mid range convoking wand. I'm not missing the extra health on the minions (or the resists) and more zombies in the tower lanes seems really good. Uber Elder was an easy kill even with the pack around the boss problem you speak off. I'm using haste as my second major aura for movement speed and I feel it adds enough that I use Deathmark in place of Minion speed. Its a huge boost of DPS. I'm running two Host Chieftans but their DPS boost is lack lustre. I will switch to the Temp Chains ones. I've been meaning to use the impale banner for a while now and you reminded me to try it :)
This is the beauty of POE: there's a thousand different, subtle, ways to reach the same goal even when using the same framework build. And once you become more familiar with the game, you understand what works better for your own playstyle and type of content you're usually running 👍 I also agree that purely for Blight lanes the more bodies you can throw at them, the better. However, when I sit down to tweak a build, I do my best to make it league-independent since these mechanics are always subject to change 😉 Either way, I always love to see what others come up with around each build! It's great inspiration and really useful for others as well.
Hi again...perhaps I am doing something wrong but I notice that the path you follow in you video in the passive tree isnt the same as the imported version. From Cruel Preparation in your video you go up till the next intell then left till you reach Death Attunement. In the import code that path instn there. It stops at life just above Cruel Preparation. Its proberly my mistake Im new so if its so just tell me. So the main questrion now is what path to follow cause in the import code it eventuely will go till Death attunement but via a complete different road. So hopefully you can enlighten me a bit?
Are you looking at the final, lvl 100 tree in the PoB guide? If so then there's a dropdown on the lower left side of the screen where you have the passive tree broken down into brackets which will give you the proper order to spend the passives (it's at the moment the same progression as in the video). Sometimes slight repecs at higher levels are necesessary because it makes more sense to take other paths early on to have an easier time leveling.
Awesome build! Thanks for the guide :) keep up the great work! Just a noob question: why in the 1st lvls you got INT. Instead of the skills that raise minions attack damage?
It's actually an interesting question and the reason has to do with optimization. Going through the minion damage path requires 2 additional passive nodes and while those are indeed useful, in today's version of the passive tree (especially after Blight update) there are far better uses for those points. For example it allows you to take an additional jewel socket or something like Barbarism. Point for point those minor passives are not better than reaching significant passives in the tree. On top of that those INT nodes are actually quite useful since they are in the radius of an Efficient Training jewel and get transformed into STR 😉
Hi! Thanks for this great guide. I was playing a necro with a +1zombie chest last league and was wondering if using Geofri and Zealot's Oath, stacking some chaos resistance would be needed for some content? (chayu, syndicate, some bosses...) - 40% chaos res without any life regen seems rippy. Wish all a good start of the league tomorrow!
Some chaos res is always good to have but I actually didn't have too many problems with it even with Zealot's Oath thanks to zombies' leech granted by Baron helmet at 1000 STR. At the end of the day it's still a hybrid build even without life regen, so damage bypassing ES is not an immediate death sentence. However it's definitely wise to use Soul of Shakari to mitigate some of that and for the excellent immunity to poison 👍
Hey love the guides you put out. Always very detailed and easy to follow! I have followed this build down and it's amazing making solid currency 7 ex a day and done all content at awakener level 8! Highly recommended guide for sure! I did however aquire a white timeless jewel which I have socketed at top left jewel slot. It has given me 2 x slum lord perks = 160% minion damage for 4 point investment! I had to divine the jewel a few times to get this result but totally worth it! Would love to hear your thoughts on this
i just got a mirror drop and i wanted to play a summoner build. would you say this is one of the strongest boss killing summoner builds in 3.9? also if you had 200 exalts for the build is there anything you would change from the gear you mentioned in the video? Thank you. your build guides are the best ones on youtube. Very easy to follow
ur guide is so amazing. i've tried other builds that has too many zombies and it disappointed me a bit. having too much zombie is kind off annoying specially on boss scripts that i couldn't see because they are too clumped together like the minotaur going underground which mostly kills me. would you recommend having a convoking wand with minion life, movespeed, damage over the montegrul's or is it the BiS for weapons? i like the montegrul's a lot because it doesn't weaken the army but instead just cutting them in half but still maintaining same dps and provides a free detonate corpse effect which improves clear speed.
I definitely think Mon'Tregul's is the superior option: first, as you correctly pointed out, you get half number of zombies but twice as strong, making them in turn much easier to manage and more efficient at applying damage. Then, the amount of life this sceptre provides them is simply impossible to match (not even close to..) and 25-30% all resistances definitely makes them more resilient. Lastly, while you can get a convoking wand that has more pure DPS, the AOE corpse explosion part of the sceptre totally trumps that. Your zombies' single target damage is never really a problem but without some way of dealing area damage your efficiency will drop dramatically (stuff like melee splash or the slam are far from being sufficient). So overall I'd say the sceptre is irreplaceable for this format of the build. It's a shame we can't combine it with with a wand in the offhand, but then it would be insanely OP 😁
@@NavandisGaming yeah, if that is the case, zombiemancer might be the strongest build this league. lol. i also find myself stopping most of the time on my previous build because i have to wait for them to clear a mob packs even though there are too much of them. i would just consider the convoking if my main dps is specters or golems
Thank so much! I am a noob playing throough for the first time. Obviously I am struggling with all the info one needs to absorb just to play POE but I think I am having fun! Do you have a written guide somewhere? If not thank you once again!!!
Like many others said before: Awesome guide man, thx for that! But i got one question i can't find an answer. I don't understand why or how Shield Charge deals lightning damage. In the item descriptions it says something about physical damage, in the wiki description it's nothing said about lightning damage. So i wonder how could you proc Elemental Equilibrium with it.
Get a mod on a ring or jewel that says "Adds X to Y lightning damage to attacks" - the amount doesn't matter. I go into more details on this in the gearing section
@@NavandisGaming Oh my god, i already read this section in your PoB Notes before. Now i'm levelling this build and at the lvl 50 range when i get EE on the passive tree i find myself thinking of this issue, don't remember what i read a day before ^^ Thanks for clearing that up!
I think you're looking at "Matua Tupuna" shield which is the un-upgraded version of "Whakatutuki o Matua" (pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Whakatutuki_o_Matua) which can go up to 200 ES. Then you factor in the fact that you have ~300% Increased Energy Shield, most of that coming from Shaper's Touch gloves, and you actually end up with 800 total ES from this item alone. The 600 I mentioned was a more conservative value 😎
You can use the Path of Building guide aid where you have pretty much all the necessary information: passive trees broken down into leveling brackets, example gear, Notes section with additional info, etc.
@Navandis Gaming Great video! Very in-depth. Just subscribed! :) Two Questions: 1.) I am wondering why you don't use Multistrike for your Zombies? 2.) Why do you use Ruthless over Brutality for your Zombies? Thank you.
Hey there and welcome to the community! Glad to have you! So, about the supports: Minion Damage and Melee Physical Damage are hands down the best pure DPS gems the build can use. Feeding Frenzy is next and while its DPS is lower than of other potential supports, the minion aggressiveness is a great quality-of-life improvement. With that your zombies will seek out enemies from greater distance and the gameplay will be overall smoother. Minion Speed is there for quite a similar reason: you want your zombies to be as fast as possible so they can quickly move from target to target and reduce the downtime when they're not actually dealing any damage (while walking). Finally, Ruthless is also a reliable and solid DPS option, superior in my opinion to Multistrike. Multistrike becomes good if and only if the zombies attack each target at least twice. While that will be true versus bosses, against most mobs they will never get a second hit in. With 6 zombies punching at the same time very few thing survive for a second round. Brutality is not an option as zombies deal a great deal of cold damage through Hatred aura and that would be nullified. As a side note, if you don't mind spamming yet another key then Deathmark is definitely better than Ruthless. However it is NOT better than applying Elemental Equilibrium with Shield Charge so you'd have to use at least both skills on each target. Up to you if you're willing to do that 😁
I follow the build and i would say is awesome no problems with t16 maps and shaper/elder/sirus guardians. But is there anyway to keep my minions hp in good health for sirus? My animated guardian and minions have 63k and 43k hp and still get melted for some reason.
Why did you recommand this ring in "LEVELING UNIQUES" called Hearthbound Loop, Moonstone Ring ? As soon as i equipped it, i died within 2 sec, cause minions keep dying around me and on level 20 i have 450 hp, i take 350 phys dmg from each minion = instant death...What is the catch can u please explain and help out? Cheers and thanks !
So you equipped it too early cause your minions were too weak. So since you have such a small health pool and your minions are so weak. They're bound to die thus killing you. Level your minion gems abit. Link it to minion life. And then equip the ring. Should be fine from then.
@@SuperChezus Yeah, i just followed the guide that said to use that ring as leveling ring, no further instructions :P So i equipped it as soon as i could, which was level 20. Now i'm using it yes, but i had to wait quite a while until i could use it :)
Pretty much what Thasen said, you were lucky (unlucky?) to get the ring quite early on when your minions were weak and would die often. It's more of a mid-point leveling unique
@@doomzx8284 the guide I use for levelling is about 300-400hp per act. Nice guide to see if you're on track. But when you're speeding through acts and not dying. Health is abit less important.
Tyvm this. I still dont follow all of it, Im brand new at the game but I am going to have a go with this build. Or the Molten Strike Juggernaut....I still am in doubt....I have 1 more day to decide lol
That's always the case with me as well. I think I've decided and then a few hours before the start I change my mind. Again 😁 Also, don't worry if you don't get everything right from the first playthrough, it's totally normal. The guide will also make A LOT more sense once you're actually playing along and you can relate the information in the video with what you're also encountering in-game. Either way, if you have any doubts or questions about the build or even POE in general just drop a comment and I'll do my best to help you out 👍
I would really like to try this built for the next league. Have there been changes to keep in mind? I am still a bit too overwhelmed with POE to figure this out on my own. Thanks a lot for this awesome guide!
Zombiemancer is not really a viable option anymore due to repeated and senseless nerfs to zombies until they became un-playable. However I'd totally recommend it's cousin build the Skelemancer which should be absolutely viable in Heist league as well: th-cam.com/video/mGyj66irMjU/w-d-xo.html 👍
@@NavandisGaming Thank you so much. I feared as much! The skelemancer was the first character i played - using your guide. I learned a lot over the last months, so maybe I try it again. I really want to play a summoner but did not want to rehash the one i already played. Thanks a lot for your good work and the quick reply!
@@NavandisGaming Really? I skipped two leagues and played yesterday with my old Zombiemancer, went smoothly through Tier 10-12 maps. Did not feel any difference. Strange!
Amazing guide man. Trying it out right now, and leveling is quite difficult, most of my damage is coming from skeletons that I'm using as a temporary replacement for the late game gems. What setup would you recommend for leveling until you get enough passives/gems to make minions work? I know you said to use freezing pulse but I'd love it if you could elaborate on that. Thanks!
In the first 20-25 levels you can consider yourself more of a caster/summoner hybrid - most spells, such as Arc or Freezing pulse will do great in early game with just the gem levels and some random wands. Minions on the other hand are weaker in the beginning and your progress will be slower if you rely just on them. As you keep adding more minion passives and level up your Zombie gem + supports you can start shifting towards the "full time" summoner role as your minions will no longer die that easy, deal more damage and move much faster. Pretty much at the same time spells will start to fall off in terms of efficiency without proper investment in passives/gear. Hope it's a bit clearer now 😎
@@NavandisGaming Oh yeah, dude, thanks a lot! I'm already in act 7 and I can rely on my minions now, but will definitelly take this into consideration for future playthroughs!
What i still not understand, why "Sulphur flask" what of its effect is good for minions and why. Is "Bottled Faith" cosidered BIS? Need clarification please
It creates consecrated ground => life regen for you and allies (aka minions) and a slight DPS increase against enemies. As I mention in the video, it's not a huge deal, but there aren't really other flasks that would be useful so it's better than an empty slot. And yes, Bottled Faith would be BiS but at 10 EX+ price it's definitely not worth the investment if you're only using it for this build.
great guide and video, just curious if you had any suggestions for an alternative to shield charge to generate EQ? I play on console and its quite a bit harder to control shield charge compared to PC and am just looking for possible alternatives.
You could use something like Storm Brand which deals lightning damage natively and has a decent duration, as well as attaching to targets so it can move around a bit. Hopefully it works a bit better on console as it doesn't require precise targeting 👍
Thanks for the build good sir having a blast with it. Question, would it make a difference if I used leap slam over shield charge. Maybe it's just me but Shield Charge feels extremely clunky.
Hi,when you say to do not link "feeding frenzy" with "skitterbots" you mean in the same item?Because I was holy relic with skitterbots and carrion together in the shield.. maybe stupid question....
It means the two gems should not have a link between them. The point is most support gems have a mana multiplier >100%. Which means any linkes active gem will end up havig a higher mana cost. For auras (such as Skitterbots) that means higher reservation cost. So in your setup you can have all 3 gems in the same item but don't link Feeding Frenzy with Skitterbots but only with Carrion Golem
You can also take Host Chiftain 1x 2x Carnage chiftain 1x 1x merveils works strong too (if nobody can get merveils later on u can also take 2x host chiftain ) thats what i do if i dont have merveils but 2x merveils are not bad eather :)
None whatsoever and I actually mention that in the gearing section. It is however probably more efficient to use a ring for that since there aren't too many other useful affixes that you might need on a ring, whereas jewels can roll great minion DPS mods.
This is actually one of the very few situations when the gem order matters as CWDT triggers them sequentially. As such Desecrate has to be placed before Spirit offering - corpses need to be generated before casting the spell that uses them 😉
Honestly I don't see the weakness in Raise Zombies in Act 1. Any time I start leveling a Necro the minutes I get Zombies and Raging Spirits I feel OP. They almost never die for me.
If you go the 100% lazy route and don't assist your zombies in their first few levels they might die. But if you take a more active role and help out with SRS or other spells then you'll cruise through the campaign 👍
So, trying to build your build, I have a question. How are you mitigating the mana reservation cost of your auras? Skitterlings + Hatred + Dread Banner costs 105% mana reserved, and nothing you grabbed lowers that cost.
The total is actually 95%: Skitterbots 35% + Hatred 50% + Dread Banner 10% . Just make sure you don't link other stuff with them accidentally as many support gems have an increased mana cost multiplier and that applies to auras as well 😉 Now, depending on your total size of your mana pool, those remaining 5% might not be sufficient to cast Raise Zombie and in such cases I just temporarily deactivate Dread Banner then bring it back up. However, once you have most of the gear pieces in place your zombies are so tough they very rarely die, if at all 👍
I'm having a problem getting to 1000 strength and also keeping my intelligence high enough with brawn jewels to be able to keep my jewel levels. Any tips? i cant level my zombies past level 18 gem wise if i have brawn jewels in the tree.
There's probably some confusion here regarding AG: the minion has its own gear that it wears and that's completely separate from your own gear. It's also a permanent type of minion and should be used as early as possible (at the beginning with random trash gear you find and don't need). Whenever you throw an item on the ground and use the summon AG skill on it, the minion will equip it and replace any piece of gear it was already using for that slot. So there's no real swapping involved. Let me know if I maybe misunderstood what you meant.
Beginner's question. I wonder if your 6 zombie build matches all these 18 zombie builds in terms of damage. Less minions = less lag on my medium PC. Greetings ;)
While I can't really speak for other zombie builds as I haven't played them, I can guarantee you'll never feel like you're lacking DPS with this one. And while I could push the DPS much further, in PoE there is always a tradeoff between damage and defenses. Rather than having overkill damage and inflated numbers I'd rather make sure you survive to deal that damage. So with this version of the build both yourself and your minions are nearly unkillable once you have the key elements in place 😉 The gameplay is also really smooth and I can't remember the last time a minion died and I had to resummon them. And indeed, screen clutter is a factor you should consider, not only performance-wise but also general quality of the gameplay 👍
The only case where gem order matters is with trigger gems (CWDT, CwC, etc.); apart from that it doesn't matter at all. Raise Zombie doesn't even have to be the first gem in the chain and this applies to every other skill in the game as well.
This isn't a league starter build now since the efficient training jewels are now 1 ex each at cheapest :( Would the build still work without efficient trainings in jewels slots ? And if it works how much can it clear (up to what tier and bosses) until i can afford efficient training jewels ? Edit: Normal gear itself in total needs around 1 ex and then 3 ex for jewels :(
There's a difference between league starter and end-game, best-in-slot gear. You are implying that without efficient training jewels this build *cannot be played* which is not even close to reality. You will get 2 fewer zombies or so. That's it. Your DPS will be lower but that is the exact same situation with any build: a melee character with a 10c sword will do half the damage of one with 400+ DPS sword that costs 4-5 EX. You can't realistically expect to clear all content in the game and red-tier maps on a 100c budget. Efficient training jewels are gear pieces just like any other item. So if all gear is 4 EX in total that is still way cheaper than any other build for the same performance. What's with this aversion of spending currency on jewels? 🤔
@@NavandisGaming its not like i am saying 1 ex for jewel price is bad i guess i made the sentence in a wrong way. What i meant was all other raise zombie guides i checked said it was mandatory for efficient training. I didnt try the build yet and because i started the league 3-4 days ago i am still at yellow maps and dont have much currency so i wasnt sure if i should use the build since i thought the efficient training jewels were mandatory.
@@kuhaku6887 No worries, it's just people tend to be a bit taken aback by the idea of paying 1 EX for a jewel - it is indeed pricey but at the same time the rest of the build was designed to be really cheap and use very common items. So when you look at it from the overall cost of the entire build, it's actually quite cheap. Efficient Training jewels are "mandatory" for reaching 1000 STR as any other way of getting to that number is either more expensive or way less efficient (requires more items/affixes). However, 1000 STR is not mandatory in itself - it is an ideal, end-game, target which allows for more zombies to be summoned and some of the damage they deal to be leeched back to you as life. But the build will work fine without either of these, just at a lower capacity. There are also some important thresholds like 300/600/900/1000 and the first few can be reached without Efficient Training jewels. On top of that every bit of additional STR will make your minions stronger as half of that is added to them as well 👍 So, to sum up, the build was not designed to be all or nothing in regards to STR 😎
That is Bone Armour provided by the ascendancy passive Bone Barrier. As for R - it's an additional Desecrate which is indeed socketed in an unset ring. I find it useful for boss fights to lay down a few corpses for a more juiced-up Spirit Offering 👍
There's a Path of Building guide that does that and you can find it in the pinned comment or video description. It contains the passive tree broken down into leveling brackets, example gear and a Notes section detailing where/when to acquire the gems as well as trade links to get recommended gear pieces 👍
Animate Guardian is summoned using gear dropped on the ground - without that you can't really use the skill. Also, the gem level dictates the range of gear that is usable by AG so you'll have to check if the items you drop on the ground meet the lvl requirements. Gem order doesn't matter in POE except in a very few fringe cases and this is not one of them 👍
@@NavandisGaming yeah thats what i did i dropped weapons and armors from normal rarity to unique still doesnt work. i also tried unidentified armor/weapons from drops doesnt work too
@@seanplays16 Rarity is irrelevant, what matters is the level requirement. Read your Animate Guardian gem and you should find a line saying _"Can use Items requiring up to Level (33-100)"_ and compare it with the level requirement of the items you dropped and used the spell on. Unidentified will definitely not work, similarly to how you cannot equip unid items yourself.
@@aleksandarstojanovic2337 Its crazy good for traversal but I too have had a few suprise deaths, maybe thatll change in ascendace skills, havent gotten there yet.
*===== CHANGELOG =====*
[3.9] *Mask of the Tribunal* unique can now be found quite easily and it's incredibly cheap so it's back as best-in-slot item for Animated Guardian gear! You can use it to boost your own and minions' defenses
[3.9] Feeding Frenzy will be slightly nerfed so there are two choices here:
a) Replace *"Feeding Frenzy"* with *"Multistrike"* in Raise Zombie setup. Replace *"Holy Relic"* with Feeding Frenzy and link it with *"Carrion Golem"* so the buff will still be UP. DO NOT link Feeding Frenzy with any aura (such as Skitterbots) as it will increase its reservation cost. You lose the extra aggressiveness quality-of-life perk but you gain more DPS to cover the nerfs.
b) Keep the setups as they are with slightly lower DPS but aggressive zombies.
[3.9] Replace *"Ruthless"* with *"Deathmark"* in Raise Zombie setup. This will give you something extra to do (after shield charging to apply Elemental Equilibrium) and increase your DPS. This will also offset the downside in zombies aggressiveness if you're dumping Feeding Frenzy
[3.9] Raise Spectre will no grant an additional minion at gem level 25 rather than 21. With the current setup, with +2 from Baron helmet and +2 from "Unnatural Strength" ascendancy passive the gem is level 24. To get the 4th spectre out you'll need to get the base gem level to 21 through corruption. Otherwise keep 3 spectres with 2 Carnage Chieftains + 1 Mortality Experimenter.
*Most recent PoB:* pastebin.com/j7stbDPU
*Most recent PoePlanner Level 100 passive tree:* www.poeurl.com/cAUl
thats my go to for the next season! appreciate for this Information!
so what is the verdict after patch notes?
still good for 3.9?
What is your opinion to the nerfs? Any other tweaks you would recommend?
Nothing much changes in terms of gem setups or gear. We'll just get slighlty lower numbers across the board but still in a better shape than before 3.8/Blight.
I've outlined a possible change suggestion in the pinned comment where Feeding Frenzy would be triggered by Carrion Golem rather than zombies themselves.
You are prolly the only poe yt channel that explains shit in great detail while still using a language that noobs like me understand.
Great guy, great videos.
the quality of this guide is insane. im sure with this quality is only a matter of time until you channel blows up
I really hope so! 😁 but whether or not that happens, I'll do my best to put out guides and constantly improve them. In a few short days I should have a new video out so definitely keep an eye on the channel 😉
@@NavandisGaming well you got me to sub. I love to play Summoner, most of my summoner builds ive done have been focused on Spectre as the dmg source so this will be a pleasant surprise.
Navandis is amazing
Great in-depth guide. I'd like to draw peoples attention to the 'Notes' tab in PoB too, an often overlooked feature which you have entered tons of info into, meaning a quick answer to some questions without resorting to the vid. Excellent! You earned a new subscriber!
Edited as I missed a word (in this case, 'feature') and lost my author Like! Serves me right for meddling! Haha!
thanks! i just notice the notes in pob!
i have tried multiple builds from numerous guide videos and i am disappointed because most of them lacks information like you'll see certain buffs or mechanics in their showcase but doesn't show in their PoB but this guide is great. i am about to have the same items as the pastebin have and i am so happy with this build. very detailed and well explained. great job
I've literally stayed playing POE as of yesterday following the D4 announcement. I wanted to get some updated ARPG action in (not d3) so came to POE.
Compared to other guides builds material available, even for someone so fresh as me this is really easy to understand!
Thank you. Your guides are great
Welcome to PoE then! Really happy to help you out with the first steps 😁
If you haven't already, I really recommend checking out my beginner tips & tricks video (th-cam.com/video/VykJhDY03Qk/w-d-xo.html) where I tried to cover some of the most useful pieces of knowledge that you'll need as a new player. It might look like a shameless plug, but it will help you avoid making some very frustrating mistakes 😉
Liked this video so much I had to like and subscribe. I came into this game a few months ago as a witch and fell in love with making a necromancer. This guide helped give me some good ideas to work with, thanks a lot!
This lvl of detailed guide in 30 min is insane buddy. Realy good job and keep it up. Deserved sub!
5 days old into this game, i followed your exact build step by step, i don't have the armor cuz poor AF, but im really happy with it so far, honestly if i did not find this video, i'd probably quit by now.
So super happy and thanks.
I'm really glad I was able to help out! If you have any questions regarding the build or even PoE in general just drop a comment here or ask on Discord and I'll do my best to answer 👍
As for the armour, this build is very good at farming even with makeshift gear so you'll surely get enough currency to buy it in no tme. You can even get one that is not linked, use jeweler's orbs to get 5-6 sockets, use some armourer's scraps to get its quality to 20% (increases fusing chance) and then fusing orbs until you get at least 5-links. It's a longer term project that will give you a target to work towards and an actual use for your currency 😉
started back after quite a while away from poe was playing an archer elemental arrow build but decided i want to play something a little more fun. I have to say this guide hit the nail on the head. After following it step by step i finally beat Kitava for the first time and i'm mapping now and having an absolute blast. thank you for all your hard work you put into this guide it really helped me as a new player have fun and start to slowly understand the way the game plays.
I'm always happy to see people coming back to PoE and giving it another chance! If you have any questions about the build or even PoE in general, just drop a comment or hop on our Discord (discord.gg/9M6N6Wf) and I'll do my best to answer 👍
Awesome build ,killed everything in the endgame with no major problems .
Navandis, i played ur physcial cyclone impale as league starter in 3.8, after that a variety of Esoro builds. I must say, ur builds are much more suited for beginners like me. The summary of can - and cannot do, holds true over time. And ur choice for defensive skills in on point. I have come to trust in ur opinion. And so im glad to announce: This zombiemancer will be my league starter for 3.9!
I always do my best to present realistic builds with achievable results for newer players as well. The way I see it, it helps nobody if a build requires hundreds of hours of previous experience or dozens of exalts to work properly. So I'm really glad that Cyclone Slayer worked great for you and I am absolutely 100% sure you'll find this one amazing as well 😁
As always, if you have any questions or anything is unclear just drop a comment and I'll do my best to help out 👍
Manual English subtitles (CC) have just been added! As always, *Path of Building* guide material is available in the video description, but I'll add it here for extra visibility as well: pastebin.com/pUCSL478
You should also drop by the *Discord* server and hang out with our ever-growing community: discord.gg/9M6N6Wf
PS: damn necromancer items in PoE are literally the worst to pronounce 😂
This is a great video, so in depth I can't thank you enough for going into this much detail
On Reflect Physical maps, you can link either Infernal Legion with zombies so they will kill enemies just by their presence or use Triad Grip unique with all 4 sockets colored into one specific color (ideally white for flexibility) for minions to completely do elemental damage or chaos damage. Note: Skitterbots can be also linked with Infernal Legion, even if they're immortal, but that will mess up the EE setup due to how fast they zip around.
My first summoner ever and its so much fun :D. Thank you
Yes, yes, YES! I have a week holiday this week. Guess I know what I'm doing. Rerolling a character.
Lovely guide as always. I had great fun with the 1.0 version of this.
As Alva would say, just in time! 😁
Best Guides out there. Looking forward to your 3.9 videos !
Oh my goodness. This build is so good. Survivability✅
Mapping speed ✅
Boss kill? No problemo.
Guardians and uber? Easy peasy.
Affordability? I can buy a wife with all the ex i could have saved.
I wish i didn't waste my currency on other builds that have no guarantee of clearing contents and i have dropped like 30 ex on those compared to this guide. It didn't even cost me above 10 ex. Definitely a great guide and build. New sub.
On which lvl you got 1000 strenght?
Thanks for that guide ! Really good quality! Much information how and why it works, really nice ! Subscribed and will look at other builds too !
Thank you for this guide. Completed the atlas with this build and killed Sirus+8, Shaper, Elder and Uber Elder. Only hard part on Sirus with this build is to kite the storm, when you have learned that you only need to focus on dodging the beams :)
Congrats man! Yeah, those storms are a pain in the ass for pretty much any build that operates in melee range. At least until you learn the boss patterns and when it's safe to squeeze in. Then at that point the damage output and defenses are more than enough to kill him 👍
Did you change anything on your road to sirus?
For some reason, I couldn't understand him and was about to not give this video a chance, but after turning on subtitles and restarting the video, wow, I was super impressed with the thought and detail that went into this. Great video.
Holy exile, this guide is awesome, you got a new sub :)
im still just level 34 and im just blown away with how in depth and informative this is. Like i did not realize what desecrate did and i always thought zombies did chaos damage.
The information in the guide definitely becomes clearer once you put it in context, in-game, and you get to experiment a bit. Still, if anything remains unclear or you have any other question about the build or PoE in general, just drop a comment and I'll do my best to help 😊
@@NavandisGaming Well multiple questions. How does this build work/effect the skill summon raging spirit. Do suffixes like +4 life for each enemy attacked count even if its the minions attacking? Does crit work just for yourself or can it be applied to your minions in any way? Thanks for the help.
Thank you for your amazing work as always :) Keep that up!
Great guide and well structured! Going to try it out!
Really good Guide. Thank you. The DPS in POB is a bit inflated because of the "Enemies are shocked", but at the same time the impale is not added in. I created a "Fake Jewel" that you can slot in to the tree upper Left. that gives you a more accurate picture. You need to uncheck "Enemies are shocked".
Dread Banner/SkitterBot Compensator
Ghastly Eye Jewel
Item Level: 72
LevelReq: 50
Implicits: 0
Grants 3 Passive Skill Points
Minions deal 34% More Damage
Minions deal 15% Increased Damage
If you copy paste the above into your POB it will create this jewel for you.
PS:. This will be a great makeshift way to add Cluster Gems to POB until it gets updated. Just capture their benefits in a single Jewel and decrease your passives by the amount you would use in the cluster.
I actually stopped using the "classic" POB about 3 months ago and moved to LocalIdentity's fork (aka branch) since OpenArl stopped updating the base POB pretty much entirely. In LI's fork you can actually specify the shock effect which I've set to 19%, the current value for Skitterbots and that's how I exported it. However when imported in the old POB it seems it will take all/nothing when it comes to shock.
Apart from that there are HUGE improvements over the base POB, including Impale DPS along with pretty much all new uniques and gems and so on. I used to create placeholder items just as you suggested but that would confuse most players so I avoid doing that anymore.
Anyway, I strongly recommend trying it and see if you like it more than the base version: github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/wiki/Installing-this-Fork
@@NavandisGaming Awesome. Thanks for the info! Downloaded and trying it. Really nice. Some long needed features finally implemented.
I already have other build for my Zombies but bcz of this guide ill make this one as well to test it out,seems interesting...Good work man,keep it up :)
ooh this is nice. i've been following your first guide and this is just right since i'm starting a new one
Talk about perfect timing! 😎
@@NavandisGaming really really nice. one question.are there other names for the mortality experimenter? i can't seem to find one
Experimenters are pretty much the only ones that cast Temporal Chains. You don't however need to actually go around that zone and try to find one but it's enough to teleport to Lunaris Temple lvl 1 and cast Desecrate until it spawns their corpses. It might take a few tries as the resulting 5 corpses are a random mix of all possible ones from that area + anything that was added to Desecrate's pool.
@@NavandisGaming oh okay. found one finally. i thought it was a bug because i was on the map and spammed desecrate and none was spawning. the weapon and shield can be replaced right? or is it the best for the slot?
The weapon cannot really be replaced, or at least no other option can come even close to its effectiveness. Without it your AOE clearing will suffer dramatically and while this is not a big deal while going through story mode, once you start dipping your toes into the Atlas you can't really do without.
Besides, it's a very cheap weapon, always in abundance and can be target-farmed even in SSF by using divination cards: pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Death
As for the shield, Whakatutuki o Matua is not mandatory (I am suggesting a few basic/mid-tier options in the vid) but clearly BiS for this version of the build 👍
Dear Navandis, thank you very much for your various guides making POE so accessible and fun to new players. Started playing POE in June this year and have built up four well-gearded high-level characters with 3 of them using your builds. Played your molten strike juggernaut (Lvl 97), contagion essence drain trickster (Lvl 98, tweaked it at some point to become really hard to kill with aspect of the spider, 75% dodge + 75% evasion with flasks up) and the witch necromancer (Lvl 93). Was trying a tornado shot deadeye build (Lvl 91) from other sources but your build guides are the best and easiest to follow for me. Was playing only Standard until now but might start with leagues in 3.9 or 3.10. Really looking forward to your recommendations for the upcoming 3.9 league. Thanks again and keep up the great work :)
I'm really glad I was able to help you better enjoy the game Franz! It definitely looks like you pushed these builds to their peak! 👍
As for the next league, it's a bit early to say but definitely bow builds will be the central focus and on the receiving end of many buffs in 3.9. My recently released Scourge Arrow build is actually a bit of an oddity among bow/ranger builds as it is an excellent league starter. Not gear dependent and relying mostly on gems and passives, it has great performance even with very little investment.
It's very likely that it will be my own league starter as well in 3.9 😁
Very nice guide, I liked summoner in the last league , ill start metamorph with this one!GJ
I had to rewind the video just to hear you pronounce the name of that shield again haha. Loved the guide, great job.
I practiced quite a bit! 😁
yep that one impressed me too^^
btw. if i may ask .. where are you from? i hear an east european dialect. which makes the clear pronounciation even more impressive :)
I have played lots of PoE in 3.9 and gotta say this amazing build still can handle many situations: Guardians are ok, Tier 15-16 bosses are np, Shaper is pain in the ass because of his HUGE life pool. Managed to kill everything pretty easily in HotGM except TheGrandHamster and some other offscreen kill hunter. Swapped elemental equilibrium to minion instability and Animate Guardian to Raging spirits. Ofc had frostbomb+balefire in second weapon swap.
Subscribed. I like the detailed explanation of your builds. Good job man!
Thanks for a great build video! It's my first ever minion build, and I just hit maps. This seems to a really good build for metamorph (for someone inexperienced with minions)
i tried version 1.0 during previous league .. 900 strength target for a witch was not easy at all.. thanks for the update
I'm really enjoying this build and guide! I have level 92 witch and I've cleared everything except Uber Aztiri, Guardians and Hall of Grandmasters. I'm still lacking 3rd training jewel and better rings and belt but im confident that i can clear those as well with this build :)
All those are definitely doable except for Hall of Grandmasters. That is a PVP map that is mostly filled with player characters using old, broken, items or cheese a certain mechanic to become invulnerable to specific things. On top of that PVP scaling is really broken for most minions, especially for spectres and Animated Guardian. They can get insta-killed in that map, even with the huge life pool and defenses they have in this build.
This means the only way to clear HoG is to come prepared with multiple skills and gear pieces that allow you to overcome the more esoteric enemies. It's definitely not the kind of map where you can go in with any build and I honestly cannot understand why GGG insists on keeping it on the Atlas or why it counts towards Atlas completion 😒
If you really want to try it then I suggest at least un-summoning your AG (temporarily remove the gem) and be prepared to die 😁
@@NavandisGaming Thank you for the tips! I just cleared Shaper and Elder with this build without deaths! So good stuff. Yeah Hall of the Grandmasters sucks big time but I was able to clear one corridor. I heard that Frost bomb + Balefire can help with that map but yeah its a really annoying.
I like your format for this video.
You do fantastic work on your videos!
Great editing and information. Keep it up!
Very nice guide. Some things I did different. For the league mechanic I've gone with a mid range convoking wand. I'm not missing the extra health on the minions (or the resists) and more zombies in the tower lanes seems really good. Uber Elder was an easy kill even with the pack around the boss problem you speak off. I'm using haste as my second major aura for movement speed and I feel it adds enough that I use Deathmark in place of Minion speed. Its a huge boost of DPS. I'm running two Host Chieftans but their DPS boost is lack lustre. I will switch to the Temp Chains ones. I've been meaning to use the impale banner for a while now and you reminded me to try it :)
This is the beauty of POE: there's a thousand different, subtle, ways to reach the same goal even when using the same framework build. And once you become more familiar with the game, you understand what works better for your own playstyle and type of content you're usually running 👍
I also agree that purely for Blight lanes the more bodies you can throw at them, the better. However, when I sit down to tweak a build, I do my best to make it league-independent since these mechanics are always subject to change 😉
Either way, I always love to see what others come up with around each build! It's great inspiration and really useful for others as well.
Thank you very much for this build, I'm just levelling up (using also Severed in sleep cutlass)... and it is simply meatgrinder!
Heh. it does feel like that, doesn't it? Your undead horde just moves across the land and everything dies 😁
You have a new subscriber! :-) Incredible detail in this vid thanks!
New character right here
Hi again...perhaps I am doing something wrong but I notice that the path you follow in you video in the passive tree isnt the same as the imported version.
From Cruel Preparation in your video you go up till the next intell then left till you reach Death Attunement. In the import code that path instn there. It stops at life just above Cruel Preparation. Its proberly my mistake Im new so if its so just tell me. So the main questrion now is what path to follow cause in the import code it eventuely will go till Death attunement but via a complete different road. So hopefully you can enlighten me a bit?
Are you looking at the final, lvl 100 tree in the PoB guide? If so then there's a dropdown on the lower left side of the screen where you have the passive tree broken down into brackets which will give you the proper order to spend the passives (it's at the moment the same progression as in the video).
Sometimes slight repecs at higher levels are necesessary because it makes more sense to take other paths early on to have an easier time leveling.
Great build explanation. I am a fan.
Awesome build! Thanks for the guide :) keep up the great work! Just a noob question: why in the 1st lvls you got INT. Instead of the skills that raise minions attack damage?
It's actually an interesting question and the reason has to do with optimization. Going through the minion damage path requires 2 additional passive nodes and while those are indeed useful, in today's version of the passive tree (especially after Blight update) there are far better uses for those points. For example it allows you to take an additional jewel socket or something like Barbarism. Point for point those minor passives are not better than reaching significant passives in the tree.
On top of that those INT nodes are actually quite useful since they are in the radius of an Efficient Training jewel and get transformed into STR 😉
Thanks for the reply! Understood :)
14:30 for summon spec maps
any ideas for delerium 3.10?
Hi! Thanks for this great guide. I was playing a necro with a +1zombie chest last league and was wondering if using Geofri and Zealot's Oath, stacking some chaos resistance would be needed for some content? (chayu, syndicate, some bosses...) - 40% chaos res without any life regen seems rippy.
Wish all a good start of the league tomorrow!
Some chaos res is always good to have but I actually didn't have too many problems with it even with Zealot's Oath thanks to zombies' leech granted by Baron helmet at 1000 STR. At the end of the day it's still a hybrid build even without life regen, so damage bypassing ES is not an immediate death sentence.
However it's definitely wise to use Soul of Shakari to mitigate some of that and for the excellent immunity to poison 👍
I I love your build guides, especially the Zombie/Skelemancer masterpieces...I’m wondering if we get a nice Delirium update from You on these ones?!
Hey love the guides you put out. Always very detailed and easy to follow! I have followed this build down and it's amazing making solid currency 7 ex a day and done all content at awakener level 8! Highly recommended guide for sure! I did however aquire a white timeless jewel which I have socketed at top left jewel slot. It has given me 2 x slum lord perks = 160% minion damage for 4 point investment! I had to divine the jewel a few times to get this result but totally worth it! Would love to hear your thoughts on this
the best build I've seen! subscribe
Thank you Navandis Gaming ! :) You are great :)
i think this build still gonna be sick.. i sticked with it and made this as a league starter. fingers crossed :P
i just got a mirror drop and i wanted to play a summoner build. would you say this is one of the strongest boss killing summoner builds in 3.9? also if you had 200 exalts for the build is there anything you would change from the gear you mentioned in the video? Thank you. your build guides are the best ones on youtube. Very easy to follow
Excellent build layout
ur guide is so amazing. i've tried other builds that has too many zombies and it disappointed me a bit. having too much zombie is kind off annoying specially on boss scripts that i couldn't see because they are too clumped together like the minotaur going underground which mostly kills me. would you recommend having a convoking wand with minion life, movespeed, damage over the montegrul's or is it the BiS for weapons? i like the montegrul's a lot because it doesn't weaken the army but instead just cutting them in half but still maintaining same dps and provides a free detonate corpse effect which improves clear speed.
I definitely think Mon'Tregul's is the superior option: first, as you correctly pointed out, you get half number of zombies but twice as strong, making them in turn much easier to manage and more efficient at applying damage. Then, the amount of life this sceptre provides them is simply impossible to match (not even close to..) and 25-30% all resistances definitely makes them more resilient.
Lastly, while you can get a convoking wand that has more pure DPS, the AOE corpse explosion part of the sceptre totally trumps that. Your zombies' single target damage is never really a problem but without some way of dealing area damage your efficiency will drop dramatically (stuff like melee splash or the slam are far from being sufficient).
So overall I'd say the sceptre is irreplaceable for this format of the build. It's a shame we can't combine it with with a wand in the offhand, but then it would be insanely OP 😁
@@NavandisGaming yeah, if that is the case, zombiemancer might be the strongest build this league. lol.
i also find myself stopping most of the time on my previous build because i have to wait for them to clear a mob packs even though there are too much of them. i would just consider the convoking if my main dps is specters or golems
Thank so much! I am a noob playing throough for the first time. Obviously I am struggling with all the info one needs to absorb just to play POE but I think I am having fun! Do you have a written guide somewhere? If not thank you once again!!!
Unfortunately there's no written guide at the moment but I plan on having one in the near future. Just need to somehow find some time 😁
Like many others said before: Awesome guide man, thx for that! But i got one question i can't find an answer. I don't understand why or how Shield Charge deals lightning damage. In the item descriptions it says something about physical damage, in the wiki description it's nothing said about lightning damage. So i wonder how could you proc Elemental Equilibrium with it.
Get a mod on a ring or jewel that says "Adds X to Y lightning damage to attacks" - the amount doesn't matter. I go into more details on this in the gearing section
@@NavandisGaming Oh my god, i already read this section in your PoB Notes before. Now i'm levelling this build and at the lvl 50 range when i get EE on the passive tree i find myself thinking of this issue, don't remember what i read a day before ^^ Thanks for clearing that up!
Great in detail build guide. Just one question tho. How can the unique shield with 33 es give you 600 like you say?
I think you're looking at "Matua Tupuna" shield which is the un-upgraded version of "Whakatutuki o Matua" (pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Whakatutuki_o_Matua) which can go up to 200 ES. Then you factor in the fact that you have ~300% Increased Energy Shield, most of that coming from Shaper's Touch gloves, and you actually end up with 800 total ES from this item alone. The 600 I mentioned was a more conservative value 😎
IS there a Text version of this guide so I don't have to keep hopping around diff timestamps all awkward like this ?
You can use the Path of Building guide aid where you have pretty much all the necessary information: passive trees broken down into leveling brackets, example gear, Notes section with additional info, etc.
@Navandis Gaming Great video! Very in-depth. Just subscribed! :) Two Questions: 1.) I am wondering why you don't use Multistrike for your Zombies? 2.) Why do you use Ruthless over Brutality for your Zombies? Thank you.
Hey there and welcome to the community! Glad to have you! So, about the supports: Minion Damage and Melee Physical Damage are hands down the best pure DPS gems the build can use. Feeding Frenzy is next and while its DPS is lower than of other potential supports, the minion aggressiveness is a great quality-of-life improvement. With that your zombies will seek out enemies from greater distance and the gameplay will be overall smoother.
Minion Speed is there for quite a similar reason: you want your zombies to be as fast as possible so they can quickly move from target to target and reduce the downtime when they're not actually dealing any damage (while walking).
Finally, Ruthless is also a reliable and solid DPS option, superior in my opinion to Multistrike. Multistrike becomes good if and only if the zombies attack each target at least twice. While that will be true versus bosses, against most mobs they will never get a second hit in. With 6 zombies punching at the same time very few thing survive for a second round. Brutality is not an option as zombies deal a great deal of cold damage through Hatred aura and that would be nullified.
As a side note, if you don't mind spamming yet another key then Deathmark is definitely better than Ruthless. However it is NOT better than applying Elemental Equilibrium with Shield Charge so you'd have to use at least both skills on each target. Up to you if you're willing to do that 😁
3.10 plz
I follow the build and i would say is awesome no problems with t16 maps and shaper/elder/sirus guardians.
But is there anyway to keep my minions hp in good health for sirus? My animated guardian and minions have 63k and 43k hp and still get melted for some reason.
Why did you recommand this ring in "LEVELING UNIQUES" called Hearthbound Loop, Moonstone Ring ? As soon as i equipped it, i died within 2 sec, cause minions keep dying around me and on level 20 i have 450 hp, i take 350 phys dmg from each minion = instant death...What is the catch can u please explain and help out? Cheers and thanks !
So you equipped it too early cause your minions were too weak. So since you have such a small health pool and your minions are so weak. They're bound to die thus killing you. Level your minion gems abit. Link it to minion life. And then equip the ring. Should be fine from then.
@@SuperChezus Yeah, i just followed the guide that said to use that ring as leveling ring, no further instructions :P So i equipped it as soon as i could, which was level 20. Now i'm using it yes, but i had to wait quite a while until i could use it :)
Pretty much what Thasen said, you were lucky (unlucky?) to get the ring quite early on when your minions were weak and would die often. It's more of a mid-point leveling unique
@@doomzx8284 the guide I use for levelling is about 300-400hp per act. Nice guide to see if you're on track. But when you're speeding through acts and not dying. Health is abit less important.
lol same here! I used it + srs. Killed myself twice before I even read the ring tooltip properly
How do the zombies get fortify when the gem is equiped in the shield?
From Kingmaker axe worn by Animated Guardian: pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Kingmaker
@@NavandisGaming oh, i see thank you! With this I have completed the build :)
Tyvm this. I still dont follow all of it, Im brand new at the game but I am going to have a go with this build. Or the Molten Strike Juggernaut....I still am in doubt....I have 1 more day to decide lol
That's always the case with me as well. I think I've decided and then a few hours before the start I change my mind. Again 😁
Also, don't worry if you don't get everything right from the first playthrough, it's totally normal. The guide will also make A LOT more sense once you're actually playing along and you can relate the information in the video with what you're also encountering in-game. Either way, if you have any doubts or questions about the build or even POE in general just drop a comment and I'll do my best to help you out 👍
It's strong, thanks for the build
I would really like to try this built for the next league. Have there been changes to keep in mind? I am still a bit too overwhelmed with POE to figure this out on my own. Thanks a lot for this awesome guide!
Zombiemancer is not really a viable option anymore due to repeated and senseless nerfs to zombies until they became un-playable. However I'd totally recommend it's cousin build the Skelemancer which should be absolutely viable in Heist league as well: th-cam.com/video/mGyj66irMjU/w-d-xo.html 👍
@@NavandisGaming Thank you so much. I feared as much!
The skelemancer was the first character i played - using your guide. I learned a lot over the last months, so maybe I try it again. I really want to play a summoner but did not want to rehash the one i already played.
Thanks a lot for your good work and the quick reply!
@@NavandisGaming Really? I skipped two leagues and played yesterday with my old Zombiemancer, went smoothly through Tier 10-12 maps. Did not feel any difference. Strange!
why not use multistrike instead of ruthless or minion speed? isn't multi more dps?
Amazing guide man. Trying it out right now, and leveling is quite difficult, most of my damage is coming from skeletons that I'm using as a temporary replacement for the late game gems. What setup would you recommend for leveling until you get enough passives/gems to make minions work? I know you said to use freezing pulse but I'd love it if you could elaborate on that. Thanks!
In the first 20-25 levels you can consider yourself more of a caster/summoner hybrid - most spells, such as Arc or Freezing pulse will do great in early game with just the gem levels and some random wands. Minions on the other hand are weaker in the beginning and your progress will be slower if you rely just on them.
As you keep adding more minion passives and level up your Zombie gem + supports you can start shifting towards the "full time" summoner role as your minions will no longer die that easy, deal more damage and move much faster. Pretty much at the same time spells will start to fall off in terms of efficiency without proper investment in passives/gear.
Hope it's a bit clearer now 😎
@@NavandisGaming Oh yeah, dude, thanks a lot! I'm already in act 7 and I can rely on my minions now, but will definitelly take this into consideration for future playthroughs!
What i still not understand, why "Sulphur flask" what of its effect is good for minions and why. Is "Bottled Faith" cosidered BIS? Need clarification please
It creates consecrated ground => life regen for you and allies (aka minions) and a slight DPS increase against enemies. As I mention in the video, it's not a huge deal, but there aren't really other flasks that would be useful so it's better than an empty slot.
And yes, Bottled Faith would be BiS but at 10 EX+ price it's definitely not worth the investment if you're only using it for this build.
great guide and video, just curious if you had any suggestions for an alternative to shield charge to generate EQ? I play on console and its quite a bit harder to control shield charge compared to PC and am just looking for possible alternatives.
You could use something like Storm Brand which deals lightning damage natively and has a decent duration, as well as attaching to targets so it can move around a bit. Hopefully it works a bit better on console as it doesn't require precise targeting 👍
Thanks for the build good sir having a blast with it. Question, would it make a difference if I used leap slam over shield charge. Maybe it's just me but Shield Charge feels extremely clunky.
You need to update this now that the patch notes are out. :)
Hi,when you say to do not link "feeding frenzy" with "skitterbots" you mean in the same item?Because I was holy relic with skitterbots and carrion together in the shield.. maybe stupid question....
It means the two gems should not have a link between them. The point is most support gems have a mana multiplier >100%. Which means any linkes active gem will end up havig a higher mana cost. For auras (such as Skitterbots) that means higher reservation cost.
So in your setup you can have all 3 gems in the same item but don't link Feeding Frenzy with Skitterbots but only with Carrion Golem
Just did, thank you very much
You can also take Host Chiftain 1x 2x Carnage chiftain 1x 1x merveils works strong too (if nobody can get merveils later on u can also take 2x host chiftain ) thats what i do if i dont have merveils but 2x merveils are not bad eather :)
Is there any reason why you wouldnt put the added lightning damage on one of the abyssal sockets ?
None whatsoever and I actually mention that in the gearing section. It is however probably more efficient to use a ring for that since there aren't too many other useful affixes that you might need on a ring, whereas jewels can roll great minion DPS mods.
What is the name of the music playing in the background?
All the music is the official POE soundtrack but can't remember exactly which track is which 😁
How are you dealing with chaos res? I'm currently like -50 and if feels like I just get clapped by anything doing chaos dmg.
@Navandis Gaming Do the CWDT links have to be in that exact order to work properly?
This is actually one of the very few situations when the gem order matters as CWDT triggers them sequentially. As such Desecrate has to be placed before Spirit offering - corpses need to be generated before casting the spell that uses them 😉
Honestly I don't see the weakness in Raise Zombies in Act 1. Any time I start leveling a Necro the minutes I get Zombies and Raging Spirits I feel OP. They almost never die for me.
If you go the 100% lazy route and don't assist your zombies in their first few levels they might die. But if you take a more active role and help out with SRS or other spells then you'll cruise through the campaign 👍
So, trying to build your build, I have a question. How are you mitigating the mana reservation cost of your auras? Skitterlings + Hatred + Dread Banner costs 105% mana reserved, and nothing you grabbed lowers that cost.
The total is actually 95%: Skitterbots 35% + Hatred 50% + Dread Banner 10% . Just make sure you don't link other stuff with them accidentally as many support gems have an increased mana cost multiplier and that applies to auras as well 😉
Now, depending on your total size of your mana pool, those remaining 5% might not be sufficient to cast Raise Zombie and in such cases I just temporarily deactivate Dread Banner then bring it back up. However, once you have most of the gear pieces in place your zombies are so tough they very rarely die, if at all 👍
I'm having a problem getting to 1000 strength and also keeping my intelligence high enough with brawn jewels to be able to keep my jewel levels. Any tips? i cant level my zombies past level 18 gem wise if i have brawn jewels in the tree.
So is there a specific situation where u wanna swap to the animate guardian setup?
There's probably some confusion here regarding AG: the minion has its own gear that it wears and that's completely separate from your own gear. It's also a permanent type of minion and should be used as early as possible (at the beginning with random trash gear you find and don't need).
Whenever you throw an item on the ground and use the summon AG skill on it, the minion will equip it and replace any piece of gear it was already using for that slot. So there's no real swapping involved.
Let me know if I maybe misunderstood what you meant.
tHIS SKILL TREE LOOKS SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN ALL OF THE SKILL TREES i'VE SEEN FOR THIS BUILD.
yeah, ive been working through that as well. seems pretty legit.
Beginner's question. I wonder if your 6 zombie build matches all these 18 zombie builds in terms of damage. Less minions = less lag on my medium PC. Greetings ;)
While I can't really speak for other zombie builds as I haven't played them, I can guarantee you'll never feel like you're lacking DPS with this one. And while I could push the DPS much further, in PoE there is always a tradeoff between damage and defenses. Rather than having overkill damage and inflated numbers I'd rather make sure you survive to deal that damage. So with this version of the build both yourself and your minions are nearly unkillable once you have the key elements in place 😉
The gameplay is also really smooth and I can't remember the last time a minion died and I had to resummon them. And indeed, screen clutter is a factor you should consider, not only performance-wise but also general quality of the gameplay 👍
Hi this build is still good now ,on harvest league? The baron helmet now is whit 500 strength not 300 anymore and freezy skill is nerf.
Im confuse what gem slot goes with what ???
Basic question: does the exact gem order matter in the chest after raise zombie? I finally got a 6l and it's being stubborn with gem color order.
The only case where gem order matters is with trigger gems (CWDT, CwC, etc.); apart from that it doesn't matter at all. Raise Zombie doesn't even have to be the first gem in the chain and this applies to every other skill in the game as well.
This isn't a league starter build now since the efficient training jewels are now 1 ex each at cheapest :( Would the build still work without efficient trainings in jewels slots ? And if it works how much can it clear (up to what tier and bosses) until i can afford efficient training jewels ?
Edit: Normal gear itself in total needs around 1 ex and then 3 ex for jewels :(
There's a difference between league starter and end-game, best-in-slot gear. You are implying that without efficient training jewels this build *cannot be played* which is not even close to reality. You will get 2 fewer zombies or so. That's it. Your DPS will be lower but that is the exact same situation with any build: a melee character with a 10c sword will do half the damage of one with 400+ DPS sword that costs 4-5 EX.
You can't realistically expect to clear all content in the game and red-tier maps on a 100c budget. Efficient training jewels are gear pieces just like any other item. So if all gear is 4 EX in total that is still way cheaper than any other build for the same performance. What's with this aversion of spending currency on jewels? 🤔
@@NavandisGaming its not like i am saying 1 ex for jewel price is bad i guess i made the sentence in a wrong way. What i meant was all other raise zombie guides i checked said it was mandatory for efficient training. I didnt try the build yet and because i started the league 3-4 days ago i am still at yellow maps and dont have much currency so i wasnt sure if i should use the build since i thought the efficient training jewels were mandatory.
@@NavandisGaming Sorry for the wrong choice if words in the first comment.
@@kuhaku6887 No worries, it's just people tend to be a bit taken aback by the idea of paying 1 EX for a jewel - it is indeed pricey but at the same time the rest of the build was designed to be really cheap and use very common items. So when you look at it from the overall cost of the entire build, it's actually quite cheap.
Efficient Training jewels are "mandatory" for reaching 1000 STR as any other way of getting to that number is either more expensive or way less efficient (requires more items/affixes). However, 1000 STR is not mandatory in itself - it is an ideal, end-game, target which allows for more zombies to be summoned and some of the damage they deal to be leeched back to you as life. But the build will work fine without either of these, just at a lower capacity.
There are also some important thresholds like 300/600/900/1000 and the first few can be reached without Efficient Training jewels. On top of that every bit of additional STR will make your minions stronger as half of that is added to them as well 👍
So, to sum up, the build was not designed to be all or nothing in regards to STR 😎
@@NavandisGaming Thanks for answering. Now its time to try it out myself.
What is ur Spell on E ? And ur spell on R u are using him on CWDT so u are using him on a socketed ring ?
That is Bone Armour provided by the ascendancy passive Bone Barrier. As for R - it's an additional Desecrate which is indeed socketed in an unset ring. I find it useful for boss fights to lay down a few corpses for a more juiced-up Spirit Offering 👍
@@NavandisGaming Ok thanks :)
Zombiemancer essa build compensa fazer ela no 3.9 ? e ela d apara fazer o end game todo ? ..
Is there a PathofExile build guide that details this video informaiton?
There's a Path of Building guide that does that and you can find it in the pinned comment or video description. It contains the passive tree broken down into leveling brackets, example gear and a Notes section detailing where/when to acquire the gems as well as trade links to get recommended gear pieces 👍
great build my first summoner end last is super game thx
excusee me i dont know if i wasnt focusing or didnt hear it but how did you get 12-14 zombies before they are halved
Thank you
i have a 4link but cant use the animate guardian skill. does the gem order matter?
Animate Guardian is summoned using gear dropped on the ground - without that you can't really use the skill. Also, the gem level dictates the range of gear that is usable by AG so you'll have to check if the items you drop on the ground meet the lvl requirements. Gem order doesn't matter in POE except in a very few fringe cases and this is not one of them 👍
@@NavandisGaming yeah thats what i did i dropped weapons and armors from normal rarity to unique still doesnt work. i also tried unidentified armor/weapons from drops doesnt work too
@@seanplays16 Rarity is irrelevant, what matters is the level requirement. Read your Animate Guardian gem and you should find a line saying _"Can use Items requiring up to Level (33-100)"_ and compare it with the level requirement of the items you dropped and used the spell on.
Unidentified will definitely not work, similarly to how you cannot equip unid items yourself.
@@NavandisGaming oh i see, thanks alot
What can I replace the shield charge with? Arc? I am not a fan of using SC to proc Equilibrium so I wanna check if there are some alternatives.
You can use Leap Slam instead but it will significantly slower and feel quite awkward
@@NavandisGaming Hmmm, in that case I might stick with shield charge then, tho I feel a bit nervous charging into packs like that...
@@aleksandarstojanovic2337
Its crazy good for traversal but I too have had a few suprise deaths, maybe thatll change in ascendace skills, havent gotten there yet.
You could add a timeless jewel with corrupted soul (giving you an extra 1k ES and maximizing your life regen) I normally use it on pain attunement