[3.11]QUEEN OF NECROMANCY - STRONGEST ZOMBIES EVER? 55M+ DPS 7K+ LIFE MAX BLOCK 90% CHAOS RES

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Edzilla написал:

I see, I just thought maybe the zombies followed the golems lead, since zombies tend to follow your other spells and curses and such(or sho I thought?!). I'm just looking for the best clearspeed possible and also want to stay safe and away.

I was planning to run self-cast offering and conviction and probably a movement skill (Flame dash and second wind seem to be really good as an endgame movement skill) Is holy relic part of your cwdt setup? or do you self cast it? and what level do you have them all set to? Does Precision really give your zombies a big dps boost? I was planning on running haste since I won't be running pride and blood stance.

Curses don't direct traffic for zombie AI? They used to - or maybe it was the damage from Ball of Lightning that did.. I honestly don't know how the mechanics work lol. I thought Deathmark was a curse, that's disappointing :( I probably won't use it then.

I plan to just start with a 5l femur - I'll eventually get a nice rolled rare, but it'll be awhile. Isn't the expensive part of setting up aspect of the avian getting the chest though (since it doesn't share to your allies unless you have the chest)? The Avian skill craft seems to be pretty cheap on poe.trade and also you can craft it with bestiary, no? On Delirium HC, the chest is 300+ chaos. I'd probably get a 6link and an astrametis before aiming for that.

Here's my pastebin for pobuilding that I had in mind. Let me know how it looks. Set to have 6k life, and my zombies dealing 7.5k dps(not counting spectre buffs or golem/guardian dps) with 3.4k life each @ level 90 on a 5link. I'm doing the double curse setup, but if that is worthless on directing my zombies, I'll change it.

https://pastebin.com/RfVVPQPd

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hp1 написал:

I played this build last league and it was the most fun I had in POE. I'm not liking my league character very much, so looking to continue on with this character in standard. I have a legacy baron and shapers, so I can keep those.

My character was a bit different, I didn't use cyclone/cwc/spirit offering, but rather spirit CWDT and skeletons in the chest so I could summon them directly where I wanted. Gave a bit more active playstyle while still supported by the zombie horde. So the spirit offering nerf didn't affect me too much, and I've already respec'd that acendancy.

I'm a little lost though looking at the new 3.10 POB and my character to see where to make improvements. Qlida's DPS skyrockets to 4M / zombie, so it's not that clear to me where to make the right changes while still keeping vaal skeletons. I would be very appreciative for any suggestions and feedback from those that made that transition from 3.9 to 3.10


https://pastebin.com/nM12Rs7M

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hp1 написал:

Hey, thanks for the reply!

Weird about the POB, I crafted a decent weapon (I think!) last league:

I also have an awakened brutality that I got from sirius last league. Don't know if it make sense to replace awakened minion damage though.

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bigtoaster64 написал:

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Well I would say that Deathmark is pretty good at keep you away from monster and telling your minions to rush.

Holy Relic isn't part of my CWDT, it's self-casted (it has like 35k+ life so it never dies).

My CWDT setup is

Precision is just a bit (a tiny bit) more damage, and I had a free socket, so that's why i'm using it.

Well Pride, Flesh & Stone + Maim is a big damage boost. Haste won't give you the same amount of damage. Of course it gives more movespeed and attack speed, but it's not like those. You know more speed is nothing if you can't kill stuff as fast...

I mean when you hit something or cast a spell on somehting, minions AI tend to follow your you hit/cast, but it's not like "controlling" them.

Yes, Aspect of the Avian alone is very cheap and yes it's a beastiary crafted suffix. You don't absolutly need a 6L Saqawal Nest, a 4L or 5L works, depending on what gem setup you put in.

The weapon IS the biggest investment (and upgrade) you can do on this build, so that should be your priority, then getting some juicy levels on your zombies (Empower Gem lvl 4, lvl 21 Raise Zombie Gem, +1 on the weapon, +2 support gem for empower on the weapon, etc.)

PoB thoughts :
That's a nice tree. I'm getting a ~170k damage (w/o guardian) with your PoB (after some PoB config). That's a nice starter.

- You should get the Enduring Bond node soon.
- Anoint the Ravenous Horde node (here is your movement speed!)
- You don't need the mana node Deep Thoughts
- Since you aren't using Cyclone neither the Life Gain on Hit Support Gem, you don't need Resolute Technique.
- You should get a rare Heavy Belt with strength, resistances and life to start with (don't need the expensive %increased Strength yet)
- Same for the gloves, you should get some rare ones with resistances, strength and life to start with (or Shaper's Touch can be nice for ES boost, if you can't find usable rare ones)
- If you don't have 1000+ strength after the changes, get 1 or 2 Brawn Crimson Jewels (replace Ghaslty and/or get sockets for them and pay attention to the % reduced Intelligence and % increased Strength) AND continue using your 2 Efficient Training jewels to get you to 1000+ strength again

Here is my current Delirium SC build if you wanna compare
https://pastebin.com/ReWMGxcN

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Edzilla написал:

Holy Relic sounds sweet. I'll level with it and see how I like it. Thanks for the tip.

Well I don't think pride / blood / maim will work for me because I don't plan to be cycloning mindless into combat with my minions (those are all range based skills and require you to be some-what close to the targets) - so I figured haste is the next best thing. It gives them 10k tooltip on my pob setup - probably more if I did generosity with it, but I like the movement speed it gives me.

People on reddit say the zombies follow spells and auto attacks.. so I will try my bane setup and see how it goes. I really don't want to waste a gem spot for deathmark or feeding frenzy.

Non linked, normal, Saqawal's Nest Blood Raiment's are 6ex on HC right now... so yeah lol. I'd much rather get a decently crafted 6l staff first. I do agree that is more important I just didn't know HOW important having aspect of the avian is on your minions - what % dps boost it is, etc.

Enduring Bond was the lowest DPS node that I could unspec from to hit my level 90 goal (I plan builds to hit 90, not higher, so they're realistic.) All the other DPS minion nodes are important (AOE from fearsome force was actually the lowest EDPS, but losing all that AOE would lower my clearspeed down more than actually DPS) so it was the one to get cut. If you have any other suggestions on what might be a better one to cut - let me know.

I don't know how annoitments work. But once I do figure it out, I'll get that one per your recommendation :)

Without Deep Thoughts, my unreserved mana dips below the actual cost to summon my zombies (135) which doesn't sound like a good idea to me. I want the ability to resummon a zombie during combat if I need to - for sticky situations.

Does RT not affect my zombies? If not, then I'll dump it for sure. (Unclicking it and reclicking it didn't change my zombies DPS... so I'm guessing it doesn't! Good bye.)

I kind of like the belt - high str, 10% max life, and a resist and I just kept the gauntlets because they give me 100 str. Replacing them with some gloves that have 30ish str on them would dip me below 1k str I believe, but I'll try and rework the numbers/jewels etc and see if I can get it to work. As for the jewels, I was just grabbed stuff that was recommended on the intro page - If that's out of date, we might want to mention to the OP. Normal jewels are better than abyss?

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abdemon написал:

Guys, You can add 2 new spectres to your monkeys.
1)Arena Master. Grants 40% Attack Speed, 40% Cast speed, 40% movespeed, 10% more dmg, 40% reduced damage taken.
2)They of Tul. 15% reduced damage taken, 20% dodge spell and attacks