HC SSF "Training wheels" build - ember fusillage minion witch
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Why meat shield on SRS?
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" It was due to minion instability. I don't know if this build is viable anymore since minion nerf. Doubt that it isn't. |
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" I was about to post that relying on a minion build in any GGG game, especially for survivability, is just tempting fate. |
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I think I inadvertently made a version of this build that is pretty good. It uses the same bones as your build, but it does not go "full" MoM - it takes the x% of damage is taken from mana before life nodes on the way to adverse growth and gets glazed flesh for recoup and some mana regen nodes and some life regen.
Ascendency started out like yours - get the hound. This hound eventually just becomes a meat-shield with the loyalty gem for some periodic damage reduction. I use weapon set points pretty strategically with the demon-form point - which I get last. With the ascendency node for gain x% life as spirit as my 4th pick. the first three being the hound, demon form, and the damage mitigation one. I used a storm mage (for shock - stormfire support gem is good here) and some skeletal reavers on top of a couple skeletal warriors who would just go crazed-berserker at the mobs and eventually die, but when they died that's when I demon-formed and used incinerate with CoI fireball until I wanted minions back again. You have to use weapon points strategically here - the demon form is considered it's own "set" so you can manage your spirit that way, and weapons are disabled in demon form so I use both wand + scepter and ember fusillade when I have the minions out. I am trying to work in some sort of cast on minion death - flame wall shenanigans so I can fully focus on ember fusillade-ing and directing my minions but so far it's not a huge hassle to just self cast it although maybe I just need some more jeweler orbs to get the right supports in for it to make it gain more energy and cast more reliably. |
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