Probably one of the best guides I’ve came across. Detailed and true to word. You’ve done well and it’s not some sort of clickbait video. Cheers mate you got my follow
Incredible guide! You explained everything SO well, while also not saying more than was needed. Great work! This is one of the best guides I've ever seen, and I've probably watched HUNDREDS over the years! Definitely building this! :)
Aay thank you :D if you fell asleep during it, you just boosting the average watch time, so single handly helping push my content out! I'll try my longer videos incase you struggle falling asleep like I do ;)
Im brand new to ARPGs and this is the first video I have watched from a POE2 creator where I left with less questions than I started. In fact I think you answered pretty much everything. so many videos just sort of have this assumed knowledge on how things work and it couldnt be less clear to someone with no experience. I dropped my own build to play this and I am enjoying the hell out of it as a SSF character. Its well put together, concise, and detailed enough to last me until very late in the game. Thanks again and well done!
Firstly, welcome to the ARPG scene! Super fun genre of game, so hopefully you're enjoying yourself :D secondly, thank you so much for the extremely nice comment, and I'm very glad you're trying the build!! Please don't hesitate to ask anything about the build or POE in general, I'll do my best to help :)
I’m playing this build for 2 hours now and I’m already finishing act 1. Great job dude. You explain everything very well. That’s a sub for me. An update: finished Act 1, Level 16, Zero Deaths
Great guide! So detailed and easy to follow. FYI I discovered an alternate way to ignite enemies before you have you have your hell hound is to put infernal legion and last gasp on the "free" skeleton warrior minions you get from scepters. They respawn pretty fast and saves you ahving to cast an extra spell
I am sorry that you are overshadowed by giant trash TH-camrs that do not take the time and care to make a real video like this. I hope you get the attention you deserve but please dont turn into Zizaran if you ever get big. This is quality build content here.
Thank you very much :) but I don't do myself many favours in terms of growth tbh! I cover too many topics, spend days per video and I try very hard to not clickbait content! I also refuse to do guides until I'm confident I know what I'm talking about! But what's wrong with Zizaran XD?? I liked Zizaran!!
You know you can leave a compliment without insulting others right? This felt more like a bash at other content creators than real adoration for this gentleman's hard work. I see you Don, well explained video, thank you for your effort. I like Zizaran too!
THANK YOU! Finally someone with realistically achievable builds. You recommend Fireflower, that goes for a Divine, and only has +15 spirit. Beacon of Azis Solar Amulet is one ex, and adds up to 45 Spirit, therefore much better, and MUCH cheaper.
The only problem with Beacon of Azis is the lack of levels to either minions/fire skills! A strong rare solar amulet with a spirit subroll and minion level would probably be better :)
Started the build in ssf yesterday. Easy going though act 1. My first build was arsonit/srs .... Hhe solar orb has a huge advantage: With flame wall you have hard times to see ground effects or even projectiles. It's way better with solar orb. Nice idea
Aaaay twins haha, ive started my SSF journey too, act 1 down very easily!! Haven't swapped to flame orb myself yet, not actually sure I've got the skill gems for it tbh!
First, Kudos on the time, energy and effort of this video - the core is solid! And it's great to have an alternative build to SRS. You can create different build "tabs" in Mobalytics. This way you can segregate out the phases/steps. Second, remember it takes the average player 12+ hours to complete the campaign; and most won't have the items, GCP, etc. that you're mentioning so their sniper count will be very limited. Did you try this build in SSF starting from scratch? I recommend that. Third, Unearth is critically important while leveling; those little minions create shields for your sniper. Also ED+Contagion make a BIG difference. Granted I know you wanted to keep things simple; I'd at least add Unearth. Also, make sure the gem slot order is in the order you take them from left to right. For Unearth I recommend Brutality+Martial Tempo> For Contagion: Magnified Effect For ED: Swift Affliction+Persistance But I highly recommend running your own build from scratch in SSF to see how it performs and then update the build guide :) Thanks again and keep up the good work!
I'll see about editing the mobalytics when I get time :) thank you!! I am about to start an SSF character, but I couldn't decide if I wanted to try this build, or something new, still on the fence!! While I completely understand where you're coming from, my one argument would be that I spent 10ex on a really solid beginner endgame gear set within the video, netting close to 500 spirit I think it was? While still ele res capped and a big life pool! This should be achievable by most people with relative ease imo! But I really do think you're right and I should take this build to SSF and see how it performs, and see if I can squeeze unearth in to enlarge the army hahaha!!! Thanks for the tips :)
Came here looking for non-SRS build as i just started mapping and im kinda sick of it already. Wow, this is so well written and laid out! I've watched dozens of videos, and i really dig your style and presentation. Please take my sub! I'll be trying your build now, hoping it works with my shitty gear
I will gladly take your sub :) thank you! I'm very glad so many people are finding it helpful and I can't see why it wouldn't work with bad gear, I started mapping with around 10ex invested and managed to climb the tiers extremely quickly!!
@don_holiday just switched, it's such a pain to do it on console lol. I'm very happy, clear speed seems comparable to SRS and I'm enjoying my witch again :) I'll wait till patch notes are available, and drop some currency on this build (currently doing t5 with maybe 5ex of bad investments).
I've got some good news for you, I'm working on an update to this build that'll really push you into endgame and in that I go into details about Vulnerability and Flammability, but for now, don't swap to Vulnerability until you have so many added levels to your minions (from you gear) that Gas Arrow becomes too expensive to spam!
Use a chiming staff with sigil of power and magnified effect on weapon set 2. Allocate every other spell to weapon set one. Assign no minions to weapon set two. The following will happen: 1. You put the sigil, your minions disappear 2. You cast a spell or active block, your minions immedietly respawn right on top of you (inside the sigil) because of the new patch 3. You have insane burst for breaches and the line This is how you survive breaches with a summoner. Get a chiming staff with max cast speed. It's only 1 exalt or so. This is basically free damage. And it's a lot. The downside would normally be your mana cost but we don't care about our minions mana do we.
You might try picking up the minion wither node and chaos damage node if you don't have them in your build for more damage in the late game build. You could also chase down that +1 chaos skill node on the right side.
I don't think the wither node is important tbh, the big damage we deal is either fire, or physical, so increasing the chaos damage wouldn't benefit us much!
@ maybe not a ‘big deal,’ but since you’re focused on physical damage then it’s 8% damage that scales with your physical damage increases for a small skill point cost. Add to that the wither node that increases vulnerability to chaos damage it’s a nice little bonus. I’ll be picking those up in my hybrid minion builds I’m playing around with.
I'm making a lot of changes currently, so I'll have to go test Breaches out! I'd rather not use Ice Mages since I'm very loyal to my Sniper minions haha, that and they are really working out well for me :)
hi im new in the game and currently making a witch and this video is really helpful, i just wondered why no rage spirits and only skeletal archer only on early game?
Honestly just for fun, everyone was using SRS and I wanted to try something different! You can slot them in and you'll probably find the early game much easier :)
Nice build guide. Thank you! One question: If I understood correctly one sniper shoots a gas arrow? Why do you use so many snipers then? Wouldnt it be better to mix snipers (for example 6) with reavers?
By end game we do only use one for gas arrows yeah, the reasons we don't use any other type of minion is because snipers are the cheapest! Reavers get rescued cost from level, but not quality, but more importantly they're not a fire skill! Our necklace provides 4 levels to our snipers, and if you get a lot of currency you can upgrade to a corrupted version with 6 levels to fire minions!
One direction you could try and take the build in is MOM. That way you have a lot of sustainabillity through mana and poison arrow cost isn't a factor anymore. It also alleviates build costs as both energy shield increases and mana increase are good for defenses, intelligence double dips for energy shield and mana gained. The build will need a midnight braid but it's not expensive, even more so considering how much you are going to save on gear overall. It will also cease to have a need for grim feast which means more minions and grim feast already had a the downside of not being useful against bosses where you don't easily recover energy shield anyway.
I was looking at things like MOM and Eldritch Battery, they're not even out of the way!! Grim feast is just so good right now, it seemed like a safer option on paper, but I will admit, all your pros are really selling it to me! Something about spending your life essentially always scared me, it's why I rerolled off my blood mage!
@don_holiday I can understand that mentality, I've always thought the same in PoE 1 and then I played Pohx's RF and I was sold on spending life as a resource. It really is all about how fast you regenerate it. I currently was playing a totem build that uses blood magic and the cost is easily sunk by how fast you regenerate. MOM ith lost of regen and higher mana from the tree is actually even better, especially since you can get bare minimum 70% recouped. I'd say the only question you have to put to yourself is whether to take deadly swarm or pliable flesh which would make your recoup happen over 6 seconds instead of 8. I'd probably chose to forgo crit since our bossing will come from exploding poison and that take away the need for deadly swarm so it's more viable to invest into pliable flesh for more survivability.
Oooh this is all really exciting actually! So you go midnight braid to recoup 50% of the damage taken as mana (now you're lifepool thanks to MOM), then you use Pliable flesh to recoup it 25% faster? I'll test it without Pliable for now, since it takes a decent length of time to shoot a gas arrow off and only one minion fires it at a time - majority of the time most of the snipers will be shooting dealing physical damage and critting! But I don't see why this wouldn't work and just straight up be an improvement on the build, so long as survivability isn't hindered by lack of Grim Feast!
@don_holiday Yes, you also want to get adverse growth to get another 20% recoupe on mana so you have 70%, there are a couple more nodes but they aren't worth your time as much (though mind eraser is in a very juicy cluster). Generally, mana regen, increase mana is what you want from the tree, probably not invest much into energy shield % except if there is a very easy to grab big node (though I'm not sure PoE 2 is transfering that ES increase into mana, I think not and I dunno if it's a bug or intentional). I think you can also have recoupe on gloves though if we're keeping it budget it might not be as easy to go after. Still, 70% od damage taken recouped over 6 second plus a huge amount of mana regen should be very viable. The only downside here is that your total EHP will not be as big to take massive hits but generally speaking nothing survives massive hits, they are the dodge or die kinda thing. But your effective EHP should be very strong and very scalable too because you scale from mana, ES and int. On top of that, any str or life translates into both spirit and mana (you need to swap the ascendency from energy shield to mana since it has a more beneficial trade of 6 to 1 instead of 8 to 1.
I played with it a bit, and so far it seems okay. I need to do more work on it for sure!! I don't have any recoup yet, but I'm testing an idea of using a mana Regen ring with an Ingenuity belt to double it... I just can't afford a good belt XD Weird thing, I took Eldritch Battery, expecting to get my 3.5k.ES converted to mana 1:1, but I got like 1.5k mana despite already having 850!? Might be worth dropping Eldritch Battery and all my ES nodes for mana nodes, but there doesn't seem to be that many to grab? Edit: Rereading through your comments, I actually think I prefer your way, drop Eldritch, use 3 layers of defence. Mana, es and life!
Hi! this guide is so cool!!!! thanks for your video guide I want ask some questions! 1. I was searching fast mapping build so i thought Storm Weaver spark build, but i seen this video and i want try this build how about mapping speed than other builds? and minion build is hard to Xesht? 2. what is more good than frost mage build? 3. I seen End ver video too but that gears look so expensive... so don’t have Mid game guide? I'm worrying after budget setting I just have 3 divines but if you can tell me believe you and follow you i will start this build Not Storm Weaver build
I've almost got a breachstone so I'll take the build in and see how we do, but I think we'll be fine after beating King of the mists in a few seconds! Mapping is okay, 3.5/5 in terms of speed I'd say, but 3 Divines will EASILY get you to deep, deep endgame. Get a +3 Minion Level Trenchtimbre, +4 Level Fireflower, +2 Levels on helm, +4/+5 Levels on Scepter with as much spirit as you can, finally a good expert Shaman's mantle and the rest of you gear focus heavily on life, energy shield and resistance caps. Prices on this gear has just dramatically dropped for some reason! This gear will make T18s look stupidly easy.
So about not using flame wall for extra damage. Is your clear speed just fast enough the extra damage isn’t needed? Bc I understand not wanting to detonate your gas cloud on bosses for the armor shred. I’m just got to cruel and having been using flame wall the whole time so far. I can only have 8 archers total atm. I keep messing with different combos of minions atm. Been using 2 reavers and Srs with 5 archers but after seeing this video trying out only archers atm. Though I have a slightly different tree than you atm. I’m about to try nothing but reavers. But going for physical and crit on minions.
So flame wall is something I'm testing very specifically right now, my late game version of this build runs brutality, which increases the physical damage by a lot, but stops the snipers doing any chaos, or elemental damage. I assume this means they can't gain extra damage by shooting through the fire wall, but I'm not 100% sure that's the case as visually, the projectiles they shoot do seem to be on fire! It just depends on how the added fire damage works I suppose! I've heard a lot of people going full reavers for endgame and having a lot of success!!!
@don_holiday ok.. boss^^ my char lv is 77, i start with the cheap. Begin with shield 2 ex(unique), halmet 5 ex (+2 minion lv, life 70+ and resist) , set the passive(gain minion hp 2 nodes), set the gems (9 archers, 1 healer, 1 fire dog and 2 skel tankers form weapon) and up char lv to 78. I buy new weapon [require lv 78, for free 2 skel tankers lv 18] 10ex (+3 minion lv, minion atk speed and minion life) and up qurlity of gem to 20%. Now i have (11 archers, 1 healer, 2 tankers form weapon and 1 fire dog) and looking forward on the good and cheap body armour (life 120, spirit 60 and some resist) then try to buy the unique amulet(1 div).
Damage is absolutely the most important stat, attack speed in jewels is extremely expensive, but ideally we would want damage, attack speed, followed by crit rate and crit damage!
I did sort of cover the endgame version at the end of this video, but I don't think I did a very good job tbh, I'll make a much shorter video on the endgame version as soon as I can!!
Probably need more levels on those minions! Make sure you're using the highest level skill gem you can and get those levels from Scepter, helmet and if you can, necklace!
Yeah, it's absolutely the worst part about minions right now :/ best tip I can give is to move as far away from the entrance as you can, force your minions to respawn!
I just had my 5 archers get stuck outside a boss fight today for the 1st time. Running far enough away from them got them to respawn though. And lots of places in act3 the minions won’t move at all even with the command. Makes things tricky when you run into a room full of people and your like where’s the rest of the party.
@@gonzo8898 It is by far, the most annoying thing about minions. Every, single minion currently gets stuck. There's a few tricks for this, 1 is like you said, run far away from them. 2 is to manually walk them through the door with the minion move button (sometimes you have to back them away from the door and then forward again), then lastly is through a weapon swap technique that will force you to despawn your minions. But I don't like this trick because it removes your Grim Feast overshield :/
Im rocking this build, im lvl 43, im doing bosses stupidly easy, few poison arrows and its done, it feels like im playing on cheats, comparing those bosses difficulty with my previous monk and archer its ez as F. THX for this build, do you think they will nerf the gas arrow?
I'm super glad to hear that :D thanks for sharing! I really, really hope they don't nerf this, I feel like there are far more problematic builds/skills out there that needs attention.
@don_holiday err, I did both of my quests and have 36 spirit on my amulet, and on screen it shows 36/96 when I just have a cast on freeze reserved. Do you mean 100 after you did all 3 quests? cant be since we are talking level 1... sorry Im being dense
I just realized that characters start with 0 spirit... but I've only properly played a witch who stats with a scepter. Don't worry, I'm the dense one XD
I think I did cover that in the written version, but I might have missed it in this video... My bad! Brutality stops your gas arrows doing any damage, so for levelling we don't want to use that. But by the time you've got 6 links for skeletal sniper, you're probably going to be geared enough to swap to the physical version of the build, so we drop gas arrow and run brutality for more damage! Hope that helps :)
Thanks for your reply. I have been using this build for my ssf play through. So far it's a blast and easy to setup. Just got to act 3 But so far the drop rate just so so. Hopefully it will be better at the end game.
@don_holiday now i change sceptre in stoic to improve survability , minions are 25/26 lvl.. i trying ultimatum 10 and i have many problems , breach are very difficult with a lot of mobs around.. i need detonate dead i guess..
i really want this game to be good but atm its trash, i just died to a oneshot from the vault boss with 5k es ......... like wtf is this game atm. (in the campain btw)
When I was levelling my first few characters, I thought the damage on mobs was way overtuned, now I've gottten the feel for it, I think most of it feels pretty well balanced, besides properly endgame bosses and physical damage as a whole! Infernalist has several layers of inbuilt damage res, that feels lovely, then maxing the resistances makes a MASSIVE difference. But while armor is utterly useless, I do think Physical Damage is a bit over the top, I have been oneshot by a random white crossbow mob in the past, which just feels insane to me... But by no means would I call this trash, especially for it being 'early access' (Kinda). It'' get fine tuned, dw :) sorry for long ass reply XD
@don_holiday ok trash is maybe a bit too harsch but there is alot of stuff i really dont like, game balance for example, like im facetanking everyboss the highest hit i got in the campain was like 1k i think and that boss did 5k ?? like im fine with getting oneshot by a t10 map boss, maybe a t15 map boss but a random guy in the campain ?? thats dumb like i was so tanky nothing could kill me the campain was just easy and boring, while beeing just super slow. the rip before i died to a drowning orb because i accedently dogerolled into it while it was beeing casted. like a random white mob can put a orb on you that just kills you ?? i mean .. idk man i miss poe1 and we have to wait another 2 months for the next league ..
So you saw the minions in the thumbnail and in the title, but clicked on it anyways... Minion builds are incredibly strong, if you're having troubles you most likely need more damage so they clear faster, this makes them get stuck a lot less often. Otherwise get more reduced minion respawn time in the passive trees and get used to running away from you minions to force them to respawn.
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Probably one of the best guides I’ve came across. Detailed and true to word. You’ve done well and it’s not some sort of clickbait video. Cheers mate you got my follow
Thank you so much :D really appreciate it :)
Incredible guide! You explained everything SO well, while also not saying more than was needed. Great work! This is one of the best guides I've ever seen, and I've probably watched HUNDREDS over the years! Definitely building this! :)
I don't even know what to say to that!! Honestly too kind!! Thank you so much :) means a lot more than you know!
Great video, subbed, nice clear audio and voice clarity, my favourite when I need a long video while trying to sleep. Great job!
Aay thank you :D if you fell asleep during it, you just boosting the average watch time, so single handly helping push my content out! I'll try my longer videos incase you struggle falling asleep like I do ;)
Im brand new to ARPGs and this is the first video I have watched from a POE2 creator where I left with less questions than I started. In fact I think you answered pretty much everything. so many videos just sort of have this assumed knowledge on how things work and it couldnt be less clear to someone with no experience. I dropped my own build to play this and I am enjoying the hell out of it as a SSF character. Its well put together, concise, and detailed enough to last me until very late in the game. Thanks again and well done!
Firstly, welcome to the ARPG scene! Super fun genre of game, so hopefully you're enjoying yourself :D secondly, thank you so much for the extremely nice comment, and I'm very glad you're trying the build!! Please don't hesitate to ask anything about the build or POE in general, I'll do my best to help :)
Thanks a lot, I was looking for a summer build, this one is puuurrfect :D
Glad you like it :) works just as well in winter too, don't worry ;) (sorry - I had to)
First time watching your videos. Really good and detailed which I appreciate. You’ve earned my subscription.
Welcome :D thanks for the subscription!! A lot of time went into this to make sure it was detailed!
I’m playing this build for 2 hours now and I’m already finishing act 1. Great job dude. You explain everything very well. That’s a sub for me.
An update: finished Act 1, Level 16, Zero Deaths
Aah, well done :D and thank you very much :) Update me on Act 2, I'll be keen to hear your deaths!! (I think I did once in Act 2 D:)
@don_holiday yes I’ll do it. I got my first ascendency and still haven’t died. I’ll keep you on track 😉
Great guide! So detailed and easy to follow. FYI I discovered an alternate way to ignite enemies before you have you have your hell hound is to put infernal legion and last gasp on the "free" skeleton warrior minions you get from scepters. They respawn pretty fast and saves you ahving to cast an extra spell
Wait that's actually really cool!! You've made your own infernal hounds haha!!
Good detailed guide ! Keep up the good work!
Thank you very much :) I really appreciate it!
I am sorry that you are overshadowed by giant trash TH-camrs that do not take the time and care to make a real video like this. I hope you get the attention you deserve but please dont turn into Zizaran if you ever get big. This is quality build content here.
Thank you very much :) but I don't do myself many favours in terms of growth tbh! I cover too many topics, spend days per video and I try very hard to not clickbait content! I also refuse to do guides until I'm confident I know what I'm talking about! But what's wrong with Zizaran XD?? I liked Zizaran!!
You know you can leave a compliment without insulting others right? This felt more like a bash at other content creators than real adoration for this gentleman's hard work.
I see you Don, well explained video, thank you for your effort. I like Zizaran too!
I see you too JoyTuub :D and I appreciate the postivity!
Super nice guide, I play the bombardment minion build from maxroll and have been struggling a bit in t5 maps. Subscribed!
Thank you!! Welcome :) I tried a few minion builds out, but none worked for me as well as just spamming snipers haha!
THANK YOU!
Finally someone with realistically achievable builds.
You recommend Fireflower, that goes for a Divine, and only has +15 spirit. Beacon of Azis Solar Amulet is one ex, and adds up to 45 Spirit, therefore much better, and MUCH cheaper.
The only problem with Beacon of Azis is the lack of levels to either minions/fire skills! A strong rare solar amulet with a spirit subroll and minion level would probably be better :)
Fantastic video work on this. Please keep making them, earned a sub and like for sure
Thank you so much :) I've got a mini-update to the build I'll be working on very soon!
I like ur take on snipers, and its good to see that it is possible to go straight phys with them, subbed 🎉
Thank you so much :D welcome to the channel! I was very surprised at how well the physical snipers worked, but I'm glad I tried it !
Started the build in ssf yesterday. Easy going though act 1. My first build was arsonit/srs ....
Hhe solar orb has a huge advantage: With flame wall you have hard times to see ground effects or even projectiles. It's way better with solar orb. Nice idea
Aaaay twins haha, ive started my SSF journey too, act 1 down very easily!! Haven't swapped to flame orb myself yet, not actually sure I've got the skill gems for it tbh!
What a guide, I know all these things, but you made it so nice, that I watched it all.
Thank you so much!! Honestly the biggest compliment you could give!!
Absolutely brilliant video, you deserve more subs.
Subbed!
Thank you so much!! Welcome to the channel :)
Great detail - excellent guide thank you.
Thank you very much :)
First, Kudos on the time, energy and effort of this video - the core is solid! And it's great to have an alternative build to SRS.
You can create different build "tabs" in Mobalytics. This way you can segregate out the phases/steps.
Second, remember it takes the average player 12+ hours to complete the campaign; and most won't have the items, GCP, etc. that you're mentioning so their sniper count will be very limited. Did you try this build in SSF starting from scratch? I recommend that.
Third, Unearth is critically important while leveling; those little minions create shields for your sniper. Also ED+Contagion make a BIG difference.
Granted I know you wanted to keep things simple; I'd at least add Unearth. Also, make sure the gem slot order is in the order you take them from left to right.
For Unearth I recommend Brutality+Martial Tempo>
For Contagion: Magnified Effect
For ED: Swift Affliction+Persistance
But I highly recommend running your own build from scratch in SSF to see how it performs and then update the build guide :)
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
I'll see about editing the mobalytics when I get time :) thank you!!
I am about to start an SSF character, but I couldn't decide if I wanted to try this build, or something new, still on the fence!!
While I completely understand where you're coming from, my one argument would be that I spent 10ex on a really solid beginner endgame gear set within the video, netting close to 500 spirit I think it was? While still ele res capped and a big life pool! This should be achievable by most people with relative ease imo!
But I really do think you're right and I should take this build to SSF and see how it performs, and see if I can squeeze unearth in to enlarge the army hahaha!!! Thanks for the tips :)
Came here looking for non-SRS build as i just started mapping and im kinda sick of it already. Wow, this is so well written and laid out! I've watched dozens of videos, and i really dig your style and presentation. Please take my sub! I'll be trying your build now, hoping it works with my shitty gear
I will gladly take your sub :) thank you! I'm very glad so many people are finding it helpful and I can't see why it wouldn't work with bad gear, I started mapping with around 10ex invested and managed to climb the tiers extremely quickly!!
@don_holiday just switched, it's such a pain to do it on console lol. I'm very happy, clear speed seems comparable to SRS and I'm enjoying my witch again :) I'll wait till patch notes are available, and drop some currency on this build (currently doing t5 with maybe 5ex of bad investments).
@don_holiday oh, can you please clarify at which point it's better to switch from Flammability to Vulnerability?
I've got some good news for you, I'm working on an update to this build that'll really push you into endgame and in that I go into details about Vulnerability and Flammability, but for now, don't swap to Vulnerability until you have so many added levels to your minions (from you gear) that Gas Arrow becomes too expensive to spam!
@don_holiday perfect, thanks man
Use a chiming staff with sigil of power and magnified effect on weapon set 2. Allocate every other spell to weapon set one. Assign no minions to weapon set two.
The following will happen:
1. You put the sigil, your minions disappear
2. You cast a spell or active block, your minions immedietly respawn right on top of you (inside the sigil) because of the new patch
3. You have insane burst for breaches and the line
This is how you survive breaches with a summoner. Get a chiming staff with max cast speed. It's only 1 exalt or so. This is basically free damage. And it's a lot.
The downside would normally be your mana cost but we don't care about our minions mana do we.
You can also spam curses to charge up your sigil of power for even more burst potential.
The only problem with that, is the Chiming staff buff doesn't affect Snipers, only mages :/
You might try picking up the minion wither node and chaos damage node if you don't have them in your build for more damage in the late game build. You could also chase down that +1 chaos skill node on the right side.
I don't think the wither node is important tbh, the big damage we deal is either fire, or physical, so increasing the chaos damage wouldn't benefit us much!
@ maybe not a ‘big deal,’ but since you’re focused on physical damage then it’s 8% damage that scales with your physical damage increases for a small skill point cost. Add to that the wither node that increases vulnerability to chaos damage it’s a nice little bonus. I’ll be picking those up in my hybrid minion builds I’m playing around with.
I might give it a try then! Perhaps it's stronger than I realized :) thank you!
I'm only 40 seconds in and this is already a masterpiece.
Thank you so much :)
Great build. I went Ice Mage/SRS and clear T18* breaches without issue.
I'm making a lot of changes currently, so I'll have to go test Breaches out! I'd rather not use Ice Mages since I'm very loyal to my Sniper minions haha, that and they are really working out well for me :)
Hi do you have an update for this build? a higher setup?
I'm working on something that can do a lot more damage :) but the current setup will take you into T18s no problem!
@don_holiday thanks a lot! will be waiting for your upgrade update. :)
hi im new in the game and currently making a witch and this video is really helpful, i just wondered why no rage spirits and only skeletal archer only on early game?
Honestly just for fun, everyone was using SRS and I wanted to try something different! You can slot them in and you'll probably find the early game much easier :)
Any chance you can update your mobalytics guide with some jewel recommendations?
Eventually I will, just always super busy, my bad!
Absolutely EXCELLENT.
Thank you!!!
Hi Don, thanks for the guide, what should i look for jewels ?
I always focus on +15% Minion Damage first, after that you can look for minion crit chance/crit damage, minion attack speed or more energy shield!
Nice build guide. Thank you! One question: If I understood correctly one sniper shoots a gas arrow? Why do you use so many snipers then? Wouldnt it be better to mix snipers (for example 6) with reavers?
By end game we do only use one for gas arrows yeah, the reasons we don't use any other type of minion is because snipers are the cheapest! Reavers get rescued cost from level, but not quality, but more importantly they're not a fire skill! Our necklace provides 4 levels to our snipers, and if you get a lot of currency you can upgrade to a corrupted version with 6 levels to fire minions!
@don_holiday thx for explaining me :-)
Do you think the build is strong enough for ssf (no special uniques)?
I'm about to start an SSF character, I'll upload some let's plays as get through the stages of poe2... So, we'll find out I guess haha!!
One direction you could try and take the build in is MOM. That way you have a lot of sustainabillity through mana and poison arrow cost isn't a factor anymore. It also alleviates build costs as both energy shield increases and mana increase are good for defenses, intelligence double dips for energy shield and mana gained. The build will need a midnight braid but it's not expensive, even more so considering how much you are going to save on gear overall. It will also cease to have a need for grim feast which means more minions and grim feast already had a the downside of not being useful against bosses where you don't easily recover energy shield anyway.
I was looking at things like MOM and Eldritch Battery, they're not even out of the way!! Grim feast is just so good right now, it seemed like a safer option on paper, but I will admit, all your pros are really selling it to me! Something about spending your life essentially always scared me, it's why I rerolled off my blood mage!
@don_holiday I can understand that mentality, I've always thought the same in PoE 1 and then I played Pohx's RF and I was sold on spending life as a resource. It really is all about how fast you regenerate it. I currently was playing a totem build that uses blood magic and the cost is easily sunk by how fast you regenerate. MOM ith lost of regen and higher mana from the tree is actually even better, especially since you can get bare minimum 70% recouped. I'd say the only question you have to put to yourself is whether to take deadly swarm or pliable flesh which would make your recoup happen over 6 seconds instead of 8. I'd probably chose to forgo crit since our bossing will come from exploding poison and that take away the need for deadly swarm so it's more viable to invest into pliable flesh for more survivability.
Oooh this is all really exciting actually! So you go midnight braid to recoup 50% of the damage taken as mana (now you're lifepool thanks to MOM), then you use Pliable flesh to recoup it 25% faster? I'll test it without Pliable for now, since it takes a decent length of time to shoot a gas arrow off and only one minion fires it at a time - majority of the time most of the snipers will be shooting dealing physical damage and critting! But I don't see why this wouldn't work and just straight up be an improvement on the build, so long as survivability isn't hindered by lack of Grim Feast!
@don_holiday Yes, you also want to get adverse growth to get another 20% recoupe on mana so you have 70%, there are a couple more nodes but they aren't worth your time as much (though mind eraser is in a very juicy cluster). Generally, mana regen, increase mana is what you want from the tree, probably not invest much into energy shield % except if there is a very easy to grab big node (though I'm not sure PoE 2 is transfering that ES increase into mana, I think not and I dunno if it's a bug or intentional). I think you can also have recoupe on gloves though if we're keeping it budget it might not be as easy to go after. Still, 70% od damage taken recouped over 6 second plus a huge amount of mana regen should be very viable. The only downside here is that your total EHP will not be as big to take massive hits but generally speaking nothing survives massive hits, they are the dodge or die kinda thing. But your effective EHP should be very strong and very scalable too because you scale from mana, ES and int. On top of that, any str or life translates into both spirit and mana (you need to swap the ascendency from energy shield to mana since it has a more beneficial trade of 6 to 1 instead of 8 to 1.
I played with it a bit, and so far it seems okay. I need to do more work on it for sure!! I don't have any recoup yet, but I'm testing an idea of using a mana Regen ring with an Ingenuity belt to double it... I just can't afford a good belt XD
Weird thing, I took Eldritch Battery, expecting to get my 3.5k.ES converted to mana 1:1, but I got like 1.5k mana despite already having 850!? Might be worth dropping Eldritch Battery and all my ES nodes for mana nodes, but there doesn't seem to be that many to grab?
Edit: Rereading through your comments, I actually think I prefer your way, drop Eldritch, use 3 layers of defence. Mana, es and life!
Hi! this guide is so cool!!!! thanks for your video guide
I want ask some questions!
1. I was searching fast mapping build so i thought Storm Weaver spark build, but i seen this video and i want try this build
how about mapping speed than other builds? and minion build is hard to Xesht?
2. what is more good than frost mage build?
3. I seen End ver video too but that gears look so expensive... so don’t have Mid game guide? I'm worrying after budget setting
I just have 3 divines but if you can tell me believe you and follow you i will start this build
Not Storm Weaver build
I've almost got a breachstone so I'll take the build in and see how we do, but I think we'll be fine after beating King of the mists in a few seconds! Mapping is okay, 3.5/5 in terms of speed I'd say, but 3 Divines will EASILY get you to deep, deep endgame.
Get a +3 Minion Level Trenchtimbre, +4 Level Fireflower, +2 Levels on helm, +4/+5 Levels on Scepter with as much spirit as you can, finally a good expert Shaman's mantle and the rest of you gear focus heavily on life, energy shield and resistance caps. Prices on this gear has just dramatically dropped for some reason! This gear will make T18s look stupidly easy.
@don_holiday
Thank you so much for your kind and detailed answer.
I started playing Witch after thinking about it while waiting for your answer.
So about not using flame wall for extra damage. Is your clear speed just fast enough the extra damage isn’t needed? Bc I understand not wanting to detonate your gas cloud on bosses for the armor shred.
I’m just got to cruel and having been using flame wall the whole time so far. I can only have 8 archers total atm. I keep messing with different combos of minions atm. Been using 2 reavers and Srs with 5 archers but after seeing this video trying out only archers atm. Though I have a slightly different tree than you atm. I’m about to try nothing but reavers. But going for physical and crit on minions.
So flame wall is something I'm testing very specifically right now, my late game version of this build runs brutality, which increases the physical damage by a lot, but stops the snipers doing any chaos, or elemental damage.
I assume this means they can't gain extra damage by shooting through the fire wall, but I'm not 100% sure that's the case as visually, the projectiles they shoot do seem to be on fire! It just depends on how the added fire damage works I suppose! I've heard a lot of people going full reavers for endgame and having a lot of success!!!
good build , explain and I am following this build ^^
You'll have to update me how you're getting on in the future!! :)
@don_holiday ok.. boss^^
my char lv is 77, i start with the cheap. Begin with shield 2 ex(unique), halmet 5 ex (+2 minion lv, life 70+ and resist) , set the passive(gain minion hp 2 nodes), set the gems (9 archers, 1 healer, 1 fire dog and 2 skel tankers form weapon) and up char lv to 78.
I buy new weapon [require lv 78, for free 2 skel tankers lv 18] 10ex (+3 minion lv, minion atk speed and minion life) and up qurlity of gem to 20%. Now i have (11 archers, 1 healer, 2 tankers form weapon and 1 fire dog) and looking forward on the good and cheap body armour (life 120, spirit 60 and some resist) then try to buy the unique amulet(1 div).
Damn that's all sounding really good!! Nice going :D
Eyyy nice lil montage 🫡
Thank you :D You know I love to make montages x)
Haha that montage was great
Thank you very much!! :)
Can you do high tier maps with this or is it really just a „starter“ for low tier farming?
I'm running T16s with +2 Monster Levels with absolute ease, I don't think it gets much tougher than that for mapping!
Thx for the quick answer. Really good guide! Did you change something or is mobylatics updated?
Mobalytics is mostly up to date! Especially for the levelling phase :)
Am Level 80 now and therefor mostly interested in endgame stuff, thats why I asked. Progression guide itself is amazing.
Aah fair enough, alright I'll see if I can find time tonight to update the endgame stuff!
Don't you find dmg and attack speed is better than crit on snipers?
Damage is absolutely the most important stat, attack speed in jewels is extremely expensive, but ideally we would want damage, attack speed, followed by crit rate and crit damage!
Can you please share a end game t15build please
Same kinda thought process
I did sort of cover the endgame version at the end of this video, but I don't think I did a very good job tbh, I'll make a much shorter video on the endgame version as soon as I can!!
Nice i'll give it a try.❤
You'll need to check back in and tell me how it goes :D I'm loving seeing all these people trying it out!
Cool video gonna try this with my srs arsonists build 🎉
Nice :D you'll have to let me know how well it works!
@ feel like it should speed up the bosses I plow through monsters just hit level 40 in act 3! But I will
Bones_of_Ullr decent for this build? I'm using them for all but bosses due to lack of movement speed. Would love your opinion. Cheers!
I did not know these boots existed, and now I have 30 skeletal snipers out... Screw movement speed haha, more minions!!
@don_holiday Happy to accidentally help! 🤣🤣🍻🍻
my minions just die too quickly, not working for me ):
Probably need more levels on those minions! Make sure you're using the highest level skill gem you can and get those levels from Scepter, helmet and if you can, necklace!
@don_holiday Thanks for the advice! Will give it another go now that they nerfed the mask bug ;)
I think you should replace one of green gems with martial tempo on your final phys version.
I drop scattershot for martial tempo on the phys version :)
Hope they fix minion pathing. Morning having minions stuck on a bridge or outside a boss room
Yeah, it's absolutely the worst part about minions right now :/ best tip I can give is to move as far away from the entrance as you can, force your minions to respawn!
I just had my 5 archers get stuck outside a boss fight today for the 1st time. Running far enough away from them got them to respawn though. And lots of places in act3 the minions won’t move at all even with the command. Makes things tricky when you run into a room full of people and your like where’s the rest of the party.
@@gonzo8898 It is by far, the most annoying thing about minions. Every, single minion currently gets stuck. There's a few tricks for this, 1 is like you said, run far away from them. 2 is to manually walk them through the door with the minion move button (sometimes you have to back them away from the door and then forward again), then lastly is through a weapon swap technique that will force you to despawn your minions. But I don't like this trick because it removes your Grim Feast overshield :/
Im rocking this build, im lvl 43, im doing bosses stupidly easy, few poison arrows and its done, it feels like im playing on cheats, comparing those bosses difficulty with my previous monk and archer its ez as F. THX for this build, do you think they will nerf the gas arrow?
I'm super glad to hear that :D thanks for sharing! I really, really hope they don't nerf this, I feel like there are far more problematic builds/skills out there that needs attention.
You can reserve spirit on level 1?!
You can reserve spirit at any point :)
@ but you don’t have any spirit to reserve, what does setting it on the skeleton to high number actually achieve?
Every character starts with 100 spirit base :)
@don_holiday err, I did both of my quests and have 36 spirit on my amulet, and on screen it shows 36/96 when I just have a cast on freeze reserved. Do you mean 100 after you did all 3 quests? cant be since we are talking level 1... sorry Im being dense
I just realized that characters start with 0 spirit... but I've only properly played a witch who stats with a scepter. Don't worry, I'm the dense one XD
Thanks for the video. But on your written guide you out brutality on your sniper but on your video you say don't.
I think I did cover that in the written version, but I might have missed it in this video... My bad! Brutality stops your gas arrows doing any damage, so for levelling we don't want to use that. But by the time you've got 6 links for skeletal sniper, you're probably going to be geared enough to swap to the physical version of the build, so we drop gas arrow and run brutality for more damage! Hope that helps :)
Thanks for your reply. I have been using this build for my ssf play through. So far it's a blast and easy to setup. Just got to act 3 But so far the drop rate just so so. Hopefully it will be better at the end game.
wtf are the scepter prices. Last time i checked that was not a 1 ex but a 3 divine item. :D
Sometimes you find absolute gold, but 99% of the time they don't reply!
minion died after 5 sec..is not good for me
What stage of the game and what level are your minions? They really shouldn't be dying much, if at all
@don_holiday now i change sceptre in stoic to improve survability , minions are 25/26 lvl.. i trying ultimatum 10 and i have many problems , breach are very difficult with a lot of mobs around.. i need detonate dead i guess..
WE ARE ONE.
BECOME ONE WITH THE SNIPERS! :D
i really want this game to be good but atm its trash, i just died to a oneshot from the vault boss with 5k es ......... like wtf is this game atm. (in the campain btw)
When I was levelling my first few characters, I thought the damage on mobs was way overtuned, now I've gottten the feel for it, I think most of it feels pretty well balanced, besides properly endgame bosses and physical damage as a whole! Infernalist has several layers of inbuilt damage res, that feels lovely, then maxing the resistances makes a MASSIVE difference. But while armor is utterly useless, I do think Physical Damage is a bit over the top, I have been oneshot by a random white crossbow mob in the past, which just feels insane to me... But by no means would I call this trash, especially for it being 'early access' (Kinda). It'' get fine tuned, dw :) sorry for long ass reply XD
@don_holiday ok trash is maybe a bit too harsch but there is alot of stuff i really dont like, game balance for example, like im facetanking everyboss the highest hit i got in the campain was like 1k i think and that boss did 5k ?? like im fine with getting oneshot by a t10 map boss, maybe a t15 map boss but a random guy in the campain ?? thats dumb like i was so tanky nothing could kill me the campain was just easy and boring, while beeing just super slow.
the rip before i died to a drowning orb because i accedently dogerolled into it while it was beeing casted. like a random white mob can put a orb on you that just kills you ?? i mean .. idk man i miss poe1 and we have to wait another 2 months for the next league ..
Minion builds are such garbage, please stop promoting them until minions are fixed
So you saw the minions in the thumbnail and in the title, but clicked on it anyways... Minion builds are incredibly strong, if you're having troubles you most likely need more damage so they clear faster, this makes them get stuck a lot less often. Otherwise get more reduced minion respawn time in the passive trees and get used to running away from you minions to force them to respawn.
Get out of here with your BS...