[2.6] Zombie summoner - 6 Big Zombies

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Pheu wrote:

This build hyped me so much but now is draining a large amount of currency trying to 6link that Geofri. I had to put zombie on baron. I still need to buy astramentis + brawns :(

And if you are saying it's not totally end game viable I maybe should sell jewels and stuff and gear something more meta. This is the first league I play for real (beginner) and I've never see end game bosses.

I'm downhearted :(

You shouldn't give up at the first bump in the road.

For an easy cruise to shaper and uber, I wouldn't go with zombies. You go with zombies because you like zombies, not because it's super easy to cheese everything. With that said i am going to keep optimising and gear up because I do want to kill the end game bosses with this build.

Currently I am looking at doing the following:

-Replace shield with a high es/life hybrid with good resist
-Replace rings with unset rings that have good strength/minion speed/resist
-Replace belt with a belt that has high life, strength, minion life and a resist

I just swapped out some life nodes to dualcurse as well, figure I might as well go a bit more offensively so that I can down the big baddies

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rikkkkk wrote:

i see, thx you

i just tried the carnage chieftains, it's awesome ! (but why linked them with blood magic ?)

as with many things .. to trick their ai into spamming the spell. their ai is coded to cast the spell as soon as they have the mana. their mana pool is ridiculously small and also static so normally they dont cast it often.

blood magic gives them a mana pool that is constantly topped off .. so they spam the ever living crap out it when ever there is an enemy in range. something like once every other second

I went back in and killed minotaur now



Easier this way for sure but main thing was I didn't get a shitty map corruption so it went a bit better

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

carnage chieftains from old fields , you link them with blood magic and optionally minion life if you feel they are squishy

you should be able to use the specter summon trick in maps to get high level versions of them.

Can you elaborate on this trick?
(I'm not used to spectre summoning at all.)

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pneuma wrote:

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

carnage chieftains from old fields , you link them with blood magic and optionally minion life if you feel they are squishy

you should be able to use the specter summon trick in maps to get high level versions of them.

Can you elaborate on this trick?
(I'm not used to spectre summoning at all.)

I can explain it. Basically, you go out and find your spectres - lets say you want undying evangelists. So you head to spectre of god. Afterwards, you open a map - lets say a T10 so you have mobs with level 77 or so in there.

Now, for most layouts if you open the map while you have spectres, they will be added to that maps desecrate table. That means you can open a map, go in and use desecrate until new versions of the spectres you have spawn (and obviously at a higher level)

There are some limitations, some layouts just don't allow some monsters to spawn and if the map has some unique affixes like "area contains sea witches" then no other monsters will spawn from desecrate either

I have been thinking of how to make my next character. I want to make a zombie-based build that can clear the hardest breach lord domains, which would probably be best done with summon raging spirits along with the zombie. I am mainly thinking now if I should do it with elemental (fire/ice damage mainly) with mon'tregul (which would probably be strength stacking and life/es hybrid again) or if I should go full on chaos with added chaos, envy aura and such. The latter would likely be better done with an auramancer a la lowlife necro, so I've been collecting gear for that as well

I played a lot of low life last league so am fairly comfortable with it but unsure if I actually want to make it again... I was kinda hoping to make a duelist SRS/Zombiemancer to do something cool and hipsterish but I am unsure how good it would actually be. You'd lose out on the 105% minion damage from Necro along with the 10% per aura and other goodies, while gaining a buttload of phys reduction from fortify, 35% damage / 8% speed aura and the possibility to 'intimidate' mobs that you attack (shield charge in this case) which makes them take permanent 10% more damage

If anyone has some suggestions I am very open to ideas

Have not tried to use knitted horros?
They also might benefit from Baron, since doing phys damage I do believe, and be quite a good range damage addition to the field along with Bloodlust zombies.
Cant really see which physical spectre will benefit the most from Baron. Not really in need of chieftains since running Vinctaro's charity with aegis.

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Though strength doesnt increase physical damage to projectiles. My bad, should have paid more attention.
From this point blood lust might not be that useful, and easily replaced with conc effect or fire add.

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allana wrote:

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pneuma wrote:

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

carnage chieftains from old fields , you link them with blood magic and optionally minion life if you feel they are squishy

you should be able to use the specter summon trick in maps to get high level versions of them.

Can you elaborate on this trick?
(I'm not used to spectre summoning at all.)

I can explain it. Basically, you go out and find your spectres - lets say you want undying evangelists. So you head to spectre of god. Afterwards, you open a map - lets say a T10 so you have mobs with level 77 or so in there.

Now, for most layouts if you open the map while you have spectres, they will be added to that maps desecrate table. That means you can open a map, go in and use desecrate until new versions of the spectres you have spawn (and obviously at a higher level)

There are some limitations, some layouts just don't allow some monsters to spawn and if the map has some unique affixes like "area contains sea witches" then no other monsters will spawn from desecrate either

Which maps works well for those frenzy monkeys from act 2? All I tried doesn't add them to the desecrate table...

hi, can i know your zombie damage?ty

I can't level my gems up anymore as I need more int.. what do i do? I am level 74 and have 141 int using 2 brawn gems only. i have 1004 STR but cannot level int anymore... help! I have only 5 zombies is that okay?

which specters should i use?