[3.9] Pure Phys Skeletons & Friends Necromancer — Beginner/SSF/Budget Build
" What about using Essence Worm ring. Your not reserve anything else are you? You shouldn't be anyway. |
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" I can, but then I lose resistances and life. And no,I'm not reserving anything, but it's a really nice boost to damage. |
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Using this build, and man, playing Necro is like playing this game on easy mode.
Haven't got to red maps yet, only 2nd day of this build and I didn't know how to watchstone properly until a few days ago, but the damage seems absolutely bonkers. I believe my skellies are upwards of 100k dps each, and that's not even including the respectable damage my 8 zombies do, and the 2 golem bois. Gonna work on getting a fat life chest and then 2 wands with +1 minion on it. Those plus when my gems are all level 20, with 20 qual, I can't imagine my damage being anything less than face melting, especially when I vaal. Thanks for the build! I know what I'll league start with going forward :) |
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2 questions about wands:
- Does +1 to Level of all Minion Skill Gems as +1 to Level of all Spell Skill Gems - Is accuracy at all valuable and if so, more than minion speed? |
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" Really? I'm curious about why you'd swap out multistrike for bosses in favor of splash. Generally, I run multistrike always and I swap ruthless/melee splash out for bosses/metamorphs, etc. Leave splash in for clearing the map, swap to ruthless for the boss. I swear this seemed like the better combination when I was looking on PoB. Maybe I'm wrong. |
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AFAIK multistrike doesnt benefit Vaal sklills, but I Could be wrong.
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" Personally I dropped enfeeble as I was not getting much out of it. Dont quality gems like melee splash , blood magic and so on. You can see which ones will have an impact by quality'ing them on pob. As for the banner cast it once and carry it dont drop it at any pointthe reason for this is that it wont gain any stages while carrying because our minions do the impaling not us. |
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Playing this on SSF HC and it's great!
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Uber Atziri ~done Elder ~done Shaper ~done Conquerors & Sirus ~done Cortex boss ~done (These fights has been smooth as butter) However, Uber Elder was the one I found challenging maybe because of the two boss mechanics you'd have to juggle whilst fighting them. This build is a blast and i'm wondering what else can I improve on this build? I have 10 ex Sitting at 4.7kHP 900ES with 2.1kMana MoM (Yeah i know im pretty squishy but bone armour and spirit offering has been my friend for most of my mapping/bossing) most expensive gem I have would be my vaal skellies 21/20.. Would you guys suggest I should start investing on awakened gems? Right now wand prices are getting astronomical as the days go by.. last wand i bought was 8ex and now they're like like 20+ already lol And, I spent 2ex on fossil crafting my wands and it was a huge bust lol i used jagged, shuddering, corred and metallic on a 4 socketed resonator & got 0 +1 minions OR +1 skill gem. Followed the combo on reddit and wasn't sure if you guys would craft it the same way the OP did on reddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/dcdlxl/crafting_2_to_minion_gems_wand/ The link for the fossil crafting of the wand if you guys want to know |
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Howdy guys, hope you're all having an awesome day. Taking advice from most of you good folks, I swapped out my gems for Impale + Dread Banner + Pride + Generosity, and the DPS skyrocketed. Honestly, I don't feel the difference without running Feeding Frenzy on the skeletons, because the Carrion Golems seem to be a steady source of it anyway. I read that Feeding Frenzy allows the skeletons to dash, but I usually cast a fresh batch of them on each pack of monsters anyway, so losing the dash didn't seem to affect the performance of the skeletons. Back to the point on impale, can someone explain to me how it works? Is there a difference using it versus non-bosses (that die in a single hit) versus bosses? Does Melee Splash work well with it? I'm pretty new to this, and I can't tell if the damage from Impale is splashed. Also, do the skeletons proc the intimidate off Awakened Melee Physical Damage support? Is there a rough visual gauge on how far Pride's aura extends? I quote the wiki article on Dread Banner here: " Since we are pairing it with Generosity, is there a sweet spot in terms of quality for both of the gems to aim for? Thanks for reading, and good luck! ^ . ^ |
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