[3.21] Cold Conversion Summoner | Build guides for all budgets | (Ghazzy Zoomancer)

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chuxzchuxz 님이 작성:

Been trying to get Crushclaw for 3 days now... none seem to have it and it never spawns in harvest

You can write me ingame when I'm online and I'll share it

@extremdojps

Having fun with the build at standard, really relaxing at normal mapping, however in serious stuff my damage and survivability seems lacking - 80+ quant Formed invitation destroys me really quickly (Maven itself is a joke).



Here's pob: https://pastebin.com/j0mXq5au
With this setup I have ~ 20m sirus dps & 5.6k life - any suggestions to improve?

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Kharantir 님이 작성:

Having fun with the build at standard, really relaxing at normal mapping, however in serious stuff my damage and survivability seems lacking - 80+ quant Formed invitation destroys me really quickly (Maven itself is a joke).

gear

AG with kingmaker, garb of the ephemeral, exposure+intimidate gloves, -9 cold res helmet & brittle ground boots

Here's pob: https://pastebin.com/j0mXq5au
With this setup I have ~ 20m sirus dps & 5.6k life - any suggestions to improve?

For defenses I suggest getting The Frontline and stacking duration for Molten Shell. It's extremely broken but you need to learn how to play around it. Running that small cluster allows you to facetank most things in the game without losing hp.

Your chest is really good but I would work towards a Skin of the Loyal with Elemental Equilibrum. The doubling of your Armour is just too strong and the +2 levels on all gems provides alot of dps. It would suck however that you'd lose out on so much resistances. You'll have to make up for it in your rings/boots/belt.

On your basalt flask, get 60% increased armour suffix (Maybe you can find a 100% increased armour legacy mod since it's standard)

If you do this correctly you should be somewhere between 30-40k armour with flasks and Molten Shell up.

You'll want to get a new pair of Triad Grips without EW and redesign your Animate Guardian.

On him you want to equip:
- Legacy of Fury boots with 50% scorch effect
- Gravebind corrupted with EW (He'll apply it from now, not you)
- Explodey Chest with +1 Curse (Awakened Orb T1 Explodey Crusader chest with a +1 Hunters chest)
If you get your Awakened Melee phys to level 5 you get intimidate too and AG doesn't need it on his gloves.

It pains me to say this but you'll want to look into changing your boots too.
Your boots are really good but unfortunately, spectres scale really bad with levels right now and we'll probably need the third suffix there to fix resistances if you're losing the chest.

What you want for boots is just basic boots with High life, Move speed, cannot be frozen and suffixes to cover Resistances and Dexterity.
Also, you want Brittle on your own boots, not the AG.
(Brittle on AG is close to useless anyway and he will rarely apply it to bosses)

It's much stronger to have brittle yourself and control where and when to place the pools on the ground.

I suggest that you look at my latest PoB and try to see what I'm doing and take some inspiration of it. My gear is very weak right now but I'm doing more than 40 million Sirus dps and facetanking most things in the game.

PoB: https://pastebin.com/zEXGjLp0

You already have an insane helm, wand and Shield to scale your damage. All that's left is to build the foundation to increase your damage and that's through high levels of penetration.

EE would provide 25% penetration and Legacy of Fury another 15%. That alone brings bosses like Sirus down to 10% elemental resistane. An addiotional -9% from AG helm, -8% Mastery node aswell as EW and Frostbite and you'll see the damage really starting to ramp up. Your biggest issue right is that you're not penetrating enough of bosses resistances. You need EE and Legacy of Fury and you'll notice a massive difference.

Hey Dead and team!

My first league with CG and I'm loving them. I went the physical route before I saw this being updated. I can piece together most of the unique to get the cold conversion running.

I'm curious if I can use either of these clusters until I can have them replaced and what pieces I can prioritize to make the switch.

I've already got a 4G triad and can start with a Skin asap.

https://pastebin.com/AudbwqW3

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CanadianAce 님이 작성:

Hey Dead and team!

My first league with CG and I'm loving them. I went the physical route before I saw this being updated. I can piece together most of the unique to get the cold conversion running.

I'm curious if I can use either of these clusters until I can have them replaced and what pieces I can prioritize to make the switch.

I've already got a 4G triad and can start with a Skin asap.

https://pastebin.com/AudbwqW3

Hi! Glad you found your way here :)

Your cluster you use at the north part of the tree is in fact BiS.
Rotten claws makes it so it's placed between the 2 socket slots and we can ignore it. That cluster jewel allows you to only spend 5 skill points to get Vicious Bite and Renewal compared to mine which needs 7 points right now.

I suggest you keep running Phys until you get all important parts of the build before you make the switch. The other important item you want to go for is the helm holding your spectres and zombies. In the later game you want to go for a endgame minion helm but those cost +15 exalted orbs.

I suggest running a budget version like this first:

Hi Dead,

glad to hear that you are doing well after your covid sickness...and that you are back! ;-)

Thanks for your updates to the AG and everything else. I will try to adapt ist step by step and also try to switch to Ashes of the stars and Hungry Loop.

Currently I'm pretty confident with dps in maps, but boss dps could be much better if I saw your video ;-) As I read, lowering boss resistances is the best way to increase dps, right? Are there other things that have a big impact?

I know, my current tree and gear aren't optimal, I'm working on that. I crafted the helmet and shield by myself (this were my first crafting-tries ever) and I try to get a +2/3 socket one asap. I will also change the gems to your suggested quality.

Another short question to "The Frontline". So do we use only the standard version of Molten Shell, because the effect of the gem is only then active or do you use Vaal Molten Shell also?

And also, is a +2 Wand always better then one more Golem?

There were a ton more quesions in my head the last days but they are gone now...I'm sure they will pop up again... ;-)

Hi, what would be the gem setup for the Hyrri's Watch & Phantasms option? And would that remove completely zombies from the build? I also suppose that this setup would bring a bit of clear but loose some single target?

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Drathy 님이 작성:

Hi Dead,

glad to hear that you are doing well after your covid sickness...and that you are back! ;-)

Thanks for your updates to the AG and everything else. I will try to adapt ist step by step and also try to switch to Ashes of the stars and Hungry Loop.

Currently I'm pretty confident with dps in maps, but boss dps could be much better if I saw your video ;-) As I read, lowering boss resistances is the best way to increase dps, right? Are there other things that have a big impact?

I know, my current tree and gear aren't optimal, I'm working on that. I crafted the helmet and shield by myself (this were my first crafting-tries ever) and I try to get a +2/3 socket one asap. I will also change the gems to your suggested quality.

Another short question to "The Frontline". So do we use only the standard version of Molten Shell, because the effect of the gem is only then active or do you use Vaal Molten Shell also?

And also, is a +2 Wand always better then one more Golem?

There were a ton more quesions in my head the last days but they are gone now...I'm sure they will pop up again... ;-)

Yeah, lowering resistances is one of the best way to scale our damage against bosses. It's very important. Other than that we scale our damage through classic modifiers like % increased minion damage, crit multi and minion levels et.c.

Yeah, when we run The Frontline we only use normal Molten Shell.
Playing with it requires a little bit of awareness when playing though.
When Molten Shell drops we're super squishy, atleast when we don't have other sources of defensive layers. That's why we stack duration as much as possible to get it Molten Shell up to 12 seconds.
During Molten Shell you will literally feel immortal.

Yeah, +2 wand with trigger and minion dmg et.c. will always outperform another Golem. A proper minion wand affects all our minions, not just Golems. Since we're running 4(5 with AG for clearspeed) minions for damage, the wand increases the damage of ALL of them. That's why it will grant waaaay more damage.

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m3s5 님이 작성:

Hi, what would be the gem setup for the Hyrri's Watch & Phantasms option? And would that remove completely zombies from the build? I also suppose that this setup would bring a bit of clear but loose some single target?

I haven't tried Hyrris Watch yet this league, I'll be experimenting with it later on.

But the gem setup you want to run is:

Spectre - Phantasm - GMP - Faster Projectiles for Clearspeed

I'm assuming a ~15 ex minion helm here so I'll presume that it has 2 white and 2 blue sockets:

Spectre - Phantasm - Divergent Predator - Awakened Elemental Focus for single target

In my low budget PoB for 3.17 I was running Zombies in a Hungry loop for extra damage. But nowadays I think it's better to run the AG in a hungry loop instead, it's super strong.

That would mean no Zombies in the build. But I'm torn.. maybe it's better to run Zombies in Hungry Loop and drop Phantasms entirely and run 4-link Hyrri's watched in the helm. That way you can run Hyrri's Watch with Awk Fork and Awk Chain for insane clear speed.

I will have to do some testing to see what I think is best this league.