Cursed Balls Summoner 1.2.0...now with no balls.

This guide is outdated, here is my latest work on multicurse summoner for 2.0: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1303838

This is a powerful and safe summoner build that quad curses enemies and applies Elemental Equilibrium for you and your party. I'm clearing Beyond League really efficiently and safely with this build.

Video of the build in action: http://youtu.be/1oBreLNwdBU


Gem links:

6l: Arc + Curse on Hit + Temporal Chains + Enfeeble + Vulnerability + Elemental Weakness
3l: Hatred + Generosity + Reduced Mana
3l: Convocation + Arctic Armour + Flesh Offering
4l: Purity of Elements + Vitality + Desecrate + Reduced Mana
4l: Raise Spectre + Minion Damage + Increased Area of Effect + Spell Echo
4l: Raise Zombie + Multistrike + Melee Splash + Minion Life (in a +2 Minion Helm)

When I later use Arctic Armour, I will put Desecrate in weapon swap and use Clarity in its place.
We use Undying Evangelists from the Sceptre of God as spectres.

Passive Tree: http://poeurl.com/yXYHqgV

My current Passive Tree: http://poeurl.com/yYsj77D As you can see I've gone south to pick up the increased flask life recovery wheel with my extra skill points.

For Bandits, side with Oak in Normal and kill all for the skillpoint in both Cruel and Merciless.

Important Items:

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One of the rings can be replaced with a +1 curse amulet.

How to level a summoner and start up this build: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/996251

Late-game changes to the build:
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These changes to the build are untested. This is my current theorycrafting on the matter. As I play and try it out for myself I will optimize and improve these changes to the build.

When we pick up http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Cloak_of_Defiance we change our passive tree and auras. This should provide a big boost to survivability late-game but of course requires significant currency. If you can only 5L your CoD, I would drop elemental weakness and tri-curse OR use http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Asenath%27s_Gentle_Touch to apply a level 1 Temporal Chains and keep Enfeeble, Vuln and Ele Weakness socketed in the 5 link.

In addition, we purchase a http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Prism_Guardian. Inside we socket Clarity, Reduced Mana and Flesh Offering. This allows us to run Clarity for a tiny amount of Life, keeping our mana pool as large as possible for CoD.

We drop Vitality as an aura, its nice, but its hardly necessary for our survival or that of our minions (with our big mana pool and high mana regen, summoning zombies during combat if they die is easy).

In 4L, we change to Reduced Mana + Hatred + Purity of Elements + Generosity. This will provide two powerful auras for our minions and allies and easily resist cap them in most situations. You should still be capped at resists with Aurumvorax and Prism Guardian with decent gear. For elemental weakness maps, just unsocket generosity to still be capped on resists.

Passive Tree Modification: http://poeurl.com/yY7ff13

We lose some life, but we gain a ton of aura effectiveness, more mana regen and a larger mana pool. Our survivability is increased thanks to MoM granted from the CoD and as high level Arctic Armour as we can support.

Finally, we level an Empower to level 3 (and in the dream scenario, corrupt it to level 4). This will replace Melee Splash on Zombies. The logic to this change is to make Zombies as tanky as possible while our Spectres deal the real damage. If you wish to prioritize clearspeed over tankiness, replace Minion Life with Empower.


Modification of the build on Rampage and Standard:
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Many people have asked me how I would change the build for leagues where death is not permanent. Here are my ideas, but keep in mind this is untested by me because I don't play these leagues. If you try or experiment with this, please let me know how it works:

1. Swap out Temporal Chains curse for Frostbite. This means you are now using three things to reduce enemy resists to cold: elemental weakness, EE and frostbite allowing your minions to deal massive cold damage via hatred.

2. Modified Rampage Passive tree: http://poeurl.com/yY7fQUF. We drop a lot of life for a ton of aura passives and an extra zombie. This should greatly increase our damage output and allow us to run stronger and more auras. For example, we can use Necromantic Aegis to cap our minions resists, allowing us to run Haste instead of Purity of Elements.

We could go drop more survivability, such as using Queen's Decree or Midnight Bargain, but honestly I feel this is simply dropping too much survivability. Enfeeble is still an important curse to run. Don't drop it. This isn't so much for your survivability, but for your minions. If you're minions die you're no longer doing damage.

We use Necromantic Aegis because our damage is directly dependant on the survival of our minions. There are a wide variety of shields we can use but I think the best possible shield is http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Rathpith_Globe.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Crest_of_Perandus is a powerful and cheap option.

Of course, don't use it if you feel you need the resist or survivability for yourself.

For the wealthy, using http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vis_Mortis will be the dream for insane damage as all your minions now add 30% of their physical damage as chaos after kill.


You can watch me play this build every day in Beyond league at: http://www.twitch.tv/angryaa/

My current gear for the curious:
Spoiler


edit: updated with late-game gear modifications, updated levelling guide and Rampage modifications 29/08.
Last edited by Angryafrican on Jul 9, 2015, 9:25:39 AM
looks really strong. lets say you had unlimited currency.. this build would be better with a shavs right?
Hey! Awesome build, really enjoying it as it is my first summoner. What do you think of getting quality arc and the static blows passive? So you could shock stack as well as curse enemies. Would it be worth it? Thanks and take care!

EDIT: and I just read that shock doesn't stack anymore. :( But would just one shock stack be viable?
Last edited by ilikebreakfast on Aug 24, 2014, 6:32:14 AM
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looks really strong. lets say you had unlimited currency.. this build would be better with a shavs right?


useless question because every fucking build is better with a shav's or kaom's
Beyond league.
6Ling support skills is insane but also really genius haha =D.

Love to party up with that kind of build in beyond. The mobs your facing would be cursed to slow zombie status.
Necronomicon: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1617098
Build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/409940
Summoner Dischord: https://discord.gg/XwWdSUa
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/zhoukon
I cant find any items like the ones you have lol
What bandits did you kill?
Amazing build, really look into it.
I've been playing this build at the start of Merciless and it's really quite fast and at killing everything. Once you get dual/tri curses and spell echo for your evangelist spectres, things start exploding instantly from the ground explosion thing they put down.

My only real concern is the lack of defense in terms of armor or evasion, so if I pop open a chest and get surrounded or a hasted pack of demons pops out it can get kind of scary. Can you post how your defenses look like?

Also, was watching the stream yesterday and was curious how are you sustaining arctic armor without clarity?

Hey wanted to chime in on the build after getting COD and EB from the passive tree I'm running tri curse right now and its working nicely, just need to get resist and attributes down before I run the other curse ring. So far as usual for a summoner Gem level is super important for minnion survivability I have done up to lvl 72 maps depending on mods its doable for sure. As the gems get stronger so will the clear speed I believe, I currently have Artic Armour to lvl 10 and its pretty amazing. With 250 mana re severed Ill be waiting to see what passive changes you'll be making Angry once you switch as well. All in all a solid build. Ill link my gear here for the time being. Look forward to comments and suggestions.

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