After a lot of experiments, finally got my skeleton to Necromancer-like 1.1 million each with pride, impale, dread banner, flesh and stone blood stance and of course skitterbot. And it feels pretty good with melee splash now. IMO melee splash really need to get a buff so it adds 20% MORE damage to be in-line with Pierce.
Be sure to use Local Identity POB to see impale damage, and select max stage on Pride. On regular mobs you are not going to hit max stage 4 seconds, but on bosses you should.
I am using Zombies to trigger feeding frenzy and maim the target for more skeleton damage. I think the sweet spot is your POB damage for Skeletons needs to be double your damage with Herald of Agony.
Pros:
1) Corrupted 3R-1G-2B Skin of Loyal with 2 extra levels for Skeletons is very cheap. I bought mine for 1EX on standard. +2 to duration gems, +2 to vaal gems both work great. 4R-2B works too.
2) You get one extra ring slot, one extra jewel slot, and save at least 3 points in mana reservations. So that is 2500-3000 energy shield right there.
3) Skelemancer playing style with almost the same gear/tree is refreshing if you have build fatigue with Herald of Agony.
Cons:
I still don't think it feels like a 12 million damage build. I would love to see people try to come close to CTSabba and Kyuhlee00's Sirus 8and Uber Elder times with skeletons with their own video.
However you have significantly more durability, so it is not all bad! Some of you have way more gear than I do so I would love to see you compete in boss damage with even better gear!
I will test this variant... was sitting on too much extra currency anyway. Got this for 10ex so ill start getting some gems and stuff then compare.
Complete MG beginner here. If anyone could look over my gear and point me in the right direction for next upgrade(s) and priority, I have currency to burn.
Thanks!
Edit: One other thing, how does raise specter level 21 add 4th specter? I have +1 wand and shield
Last edited by FinnD1ESEL on Jan 18, 2020, 9:22:41 PM
After a lot of experiments, finally got my skeleton to Necromancer-like 1.1 million each with pride, impale, dread banner, flesh and stone blood stance and of course skitterbot. And it feels pretty good with melee splash now. IMO melee splash really need to get a buff so it adds 20% MORE damage to be in-line with Pierce.
Be sure to use Local Identity POB to see impale damage, and select max stage on Pride. On regular mobs you are not going to hit max stage 4 seconds, but on bosses you should.
I am using Zombies to trigger feeding frenzy and maim the target for more skeleton damage. I think the sweet spot is your POB damage for Skeletons needs to be double your damage with Herald of Agony.
Pros:
1) Corrupted 3R-1G-2B Skin of Loyal with 2 extra levels for Skeletons is very cheap. I bought mine for 1EX on standard. +2 to duration gems, +2 to vaal gems both work great. 4R-2B works too.
2) You get one extra ring slot, one extra jewel slot, and save at least 3 points in mana reservations. So that is 2500-3000 energy shield right there.
3) Skelemancer playing style with almost the same gear/tree is refreshing if you have build fatigue with Herald of Agony.
Cons:
I still don't think it feels like a 12 million damage build. I would love to see people try to come close to CTSabba and Kyuhlee00's Sirus 8and Uber Elder times with skeletons with their own video.
However you have significantly more durability, so it is not all bad! Some of you have way more gear than I do so I would love to see you compete in boss damage with even better gear!
I will test this variant... was sitting on too much extra currency anyway. Got this for 10ex so ill start getting some gems and stuff then compare.
Just realized brutality + fleshing offering is 13% MORE damage than melee physical attacks + spirit offering. At least 1.5 million with your gear.
Sample POB: https://pastebin.com/kQWCkPNp
I think I am going to try stone golem instead of zombies to trigger feeding frenzy and what not, as zombies sometimes block the path of skeletons, there is only so much space next to a boss.
Last edited by hitmantb on Jan 18, 2020, 9:36:01 PM
I think I am going to try stone golem instead of zombies to trigger feeding frenzy and what not, as zombies sometimes block the path of skeletons, there is only so much space next to a boss.
deffo gonna try this. i have a few different items and the result is almost 2m dps per skellie and also +1 extra skellie too.
https://pastebin.com/ZYT2r7Lp
bit less ES but 1 extra skellie and 1.92m dps per skellie. the damage here should be insane
This build sucks at high lvl blight right? I had trouble with I think a T14 regular map blight. A fellow poster here said I am doing 1.5 million dmg but I am not fast enough to kill enemies coming from multiple directions and with a bunch of them coming at once. I'll probably sell the blight maps instead of trying and failing.
This build sucks at high lvl blight right? I had trouble with I think a T14 regular map blight. A fellow poster here said I am doing 1.5 million dmg but I am not fast enough to kill enemies coming from multiple directions and with a bunch of them coming at once. I'll probably sell the blight maps instead of trying and failing.
Even with significant investment in DPS, the clear will still be mediocre at best IMO. Having a single minion doing your damage has its limits compared to say a horde of zombies or a whole arsenal of screenwide AoE attacks.
I've personally been selling all the blighted map drops I've come across.
