[3.2] Drunken Dancing Duo | 2-600k+ Minion Cycl. DPS | 5k+ Hp | All contents ✔ | R/Q ✔ | Budget ✔

Vaal Temple Map T16 One death because I forgot to take back my Granite flask
Atziri
Uber Atziri One death, I suck at dodging

Currently doing some others : shaper, HoGM, T15, etc

You summon a double Dancing Dervish that kill everything very quickly in a range that is similar to SRS range. Aside that, the build is pretty defensive : resistances overcap, 5k+ hp, 65% phys reduction, MoM, Fortify, Temporal Chain, 60+ MS.
Your flask refill quickly, even without killing, and give :
*Permanent rampage (flask refile 4/5 charges every 3s)
*Instant 1200+hp/300+mana
*Bleed remove
*Ailments immunity (flask for elemental & pantheon for poison)
*Reduced charges used/Increased durations
*Movement speed

Also, your minion blind all the time (if it not dead before).

PROS
*Really lazy build
*Good clear speed
*Good defences
*Rampage
*Can start really cheap, with a large margin to upgrade it
*Rampage, god damn
*Every contents
*Every map mods

CONS
*5k/6k hp
*Like every minions build, it will never be as fast as top tier melee/spell build.
*Need to focus a little (at least to not forget to press 1/2/3)
*Sometimes it struggle a little in fully open maps, nothing really bad
*Minotor is the worst boss on that build, but you can do it

Basic build mechanic
First you need to understand why we pick a Pathfinder and not a Necromancer (and why it work on a Scion too).

Minions Dervish spawn when you enter RAMPAGE, and last until rampage end (5s without killing). The Writhing Jar worms give rampage stacks and is a really good way to keep your rampage running.

Of course, you can do that as a necromancer too, but you need to keep your flask up only for that reason.

This is the main reason why Pathfinder is a better choice than necromancer in my mind. By using Nature's Boon bonus "Flasks gain 3 Charges every 3 seconds" and somes nods in the tree, you gain 4/5 flask charges every 3s, and you only use 10/11 charges per use, with a chance to not consumes charges.

That flask isn't only a way to keep rampage. It's also a strong life and mana sustain. Life and mana are INSTANT, and you will easily reach 1000+hp/250+mana per use.

That, combined to the Pathfinder ascend, give you a strong way to instant sustain your life and mana, to remove bleeding and to remove/be immune to elemental ailments.


Advanced build mechanics and usefull tips

Passive Skill Tree level 91




Bandits
Kill all.
Alira for more resistances but less life.

Pantheon
Major : Soul of the Brine King, just to avoid chain stun.
Minor : Soul of Shakari / Soul of Abberath

Those are mandatory. You need at least 3 of them, any roll. The lower Reduced amount recovery is and the highter Reduced charges used is, the better it is. Don't forgot to quality it too.


Well, it's your minion and your main skill.

Best to go

Vis Mortis give you minion damage, 30% of your physical damage added as chaos damage when you kill (work with worms, so it's up all the time, even on boss).



Bone Helmet is your lab enchantement, without the need to do a lab.



Since your minions have a lot of physical damages, it's a nice pair of gloves to use. Minions speed gem and rampage will counter the reduced speed malus.



Those boots are the best to go because of the +1 curse. Also bring some armor and resistance, which is nice.
You can bypass those boots until you have a 6L or Whispers of Doom in your tree.



Belt is important. You are looking for Reduced flask charges used first, then resistances, life and finally, armor.


This build fit nice with rarity and quantity jewellery.
Sidhebreath is the best to go against boss since Bisco won't work. Since it's pretty cheap, just go for that if you can't afford a Bisco and don't need that much resistance on your amulet.



Those abyss jewel greatly enhance your minions dps.
Focus on minions physical damage, then life, then minions attack speed. Try to get one with "blind on hit" too.



You use it to proc your cwdt lvl 1 and getting some endurance charge. Not mandatory, but it's a real qol for map clear.


Bring you a lot of defense and allow you to benefit from your ascend bonus, such as elemental ailments immunity and movement speed.

Dancing Dervish set up (socketed in Weapon, 4 to 6s, no links)
Minion Damage + Additional Accuracy + Multistrike + Damage on full life
+ Melee Physical Damage
+ Minion Speed (replace it with Concentrated Effect for boss)


Curse on Hit set up(socketed in Body Armour, 4 to 6L)
Ball Lightning + Curse on Hit + Greater Multiple Projectiles + Vulnerability
+ Temporal Chains
+ Poacher's Mark
On boss, try to curse worms and let your minions kill it.
Ball lightning matter, since it allow you to start rampage faster, but you don't necessary need to one shoot them (for Poacher's Mark), so try to level it a little.


Cwdt lvl 1 set up (socketed in Gloves, 4L)
Cast when damage taken (lvl 1) + Desecrate (lvl 7) + Flesh Offering (lvl 8) + Convocation (lvl 5)
Try to put Desecrate before Flesh Offering (starting from top left to bot left).
Don't stay near beast corps if you are going to take damage or you are still killing things, so you won't consume their corps if you want to use a necro net on it (also rampage can proc corps explosion)


Aura & Golem (socketed in Boots, 2x2L)
Offensive : Hatred + Arctic Armour
Defensive : Grace + Arctic Armour
In case you pick the defensive option, take Iron Reflex on bot of the tree instead of a Jewel socket. Will make you up to 80% phys res under endurance charges.
Cast when damage taken + Stone golem


Helmet (4L)
Cyclone + Culling Strike + Fortify + Item Rarity
Put whatever you want in your helmet. I like this set up, but you can put some zombies, spectres, cwdt, etc.

I used a few differents set up on that build (and tested a lot lot of others before fixing my build as it's today), here are some others strong options you can choise to play.

Craft Aspect of the Spider on helm/belt or any rare item you wear. It will combine hinder effect with temporal chains and maim from your minions and add a little damages. Just remove arctic armour to use it, they have the same mana reservation (or use a enlighten lvl 3/4 to keep arctic armour, and remove MoM).

This double cwdt is really effective since you can proc it whenever you want with Doedre's Elixir. It's a good set up to stay under phase run, use flesh offering and recall your minions if the cooldown is up. Also allow you to get constantly under endurance charges.


I droped and crafted few things on that one. It was a really good helm for specter, so I plan on using it with only one cwdt set up and 3 specters (Wicker man from act 10). If you can find one like that, just pick minion's life regen nods and eventually minion's regen on abyss jewel.