Leveling Guide: Witch Infernalist Minion Army Summoner

why didnt you go for the srs, minion instability, infernal legion route?
Im in early act 3 and used the bomber srs so far and am wondering if switching to your setup will be better

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Mathorg#1079 wrote:

why didnt you go for the srs, minion instability, infernal legion route?
Im in early act 3 and used the bomber srs so far and am wondering if switching to your setup will be better

My current setup has better single target damage which helps vs bosses, you can use the infernal legion & Instability setup on your Unearth for the same effect.

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Nightycore112#0774 wrote:

I did what someone else recommended and use scattershot , magnified effect , martial temp and will use as 4th fire pen for arsonists as 3 bombs + aoe increase make all 3 bomb hit the boss which i think it might be better having 20% less speed and damage but x3

Penetration is not worth using unless you are doing bosses, Feeding frenzy or Heft is much better for a 4 link setup to get maximum damage against all enemies.
I need to test if magnified actually is necessary because if the AoE is large enough to hit enemies without it, it is just a wasted support.

Edit: After testing single target damage against a medium sized rare target Conc is much better than increased aoe from magnified effect. Even with Concs 50% less area of effect 2-3 grenades always hits unless the target runs away.

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Hoffen#2482 wrote:

FYI: The recent SRS "Nerfs" is not relevant for this build.

SRS didn't get any nerfs...

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Gosen#5296 wrote:

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Hoffen#2482 wrote:

FYI: The recent SRS "Nerfs" is not relevant for this build.

SRS didn't get any nerfs...

They changed so that you no longer get Grim feast from dying SRS (It was a bug) and they also made it so SRS do not work with triggers like cast on minion death.
They also changed so you can maximum summon 5 SRS per spell cast instead of 8. (Maximum total is still 10)
These are nerfs & fixes.

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Hoffen#2482 wrote:

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Gosen#5296 wrote:

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Hoffen#2482 wrote:

FYI: The recent SRS "Nerfs" is not relevant for this build.

SRS didn't get any nerfs...

They changed so that you no longer get Grim feast from dying SRS (It was a bug) and they also made it so SRS do not work with triggers like cast on minion death.
They also changed so you can maximum summon 5 SRS at a time instead of 8.
These are nerfs & fixes.

I see, so no major nerf. You can summon 5 per cast, maximum 10 but it increases later I think. Still most common thing is flamewall+srs and that still works perfectly. I was afraid it's going to be nerfed in a more harsh way.

Keep us updated on your build. I'm trying this out. Always nice to have a perspective while building. Helps my understanding to achieve my own thing.
Lvl 51 and I'm just going straight end game route and no problems so far.

Thanks, I'm trying this out.

Finally found the thing that I have to keep correcting and help people spec out from for the past days.

What a headache.

How well would this do without DD? Is it viable but slower or would you get overrun by tough packs in maps?