So is SRS buffed? I can't tell.

"

JohnNamikaze wrote:

It is slightly slower now in terms of clearing giant packs, but is clearing a bit faster with red map bosses.

+

+ Necromancer asc class + etc etc




Might end up trying one of my near max level minion and totem resistance support gems to see how it goes since that will double dip on the SRS gem damage and from what I get from the gloves. Maybe added chaos damage is not cutting it. Also, maybe I need a level 4 empower AND level 21 SRS to clear map packs faster......
..
...
....
.....but those combined cost me even more than the entire build combined + extra exalts left over for better accessories. Yea, you need maxed investment (go all out on the build) to break even or better.

Spoiler

Seriously though, SRS is fine with me....much less lag when I had all 50 spirits go straight to a giant pack or everywhere creating a mess. Too much particles on top of buffing them up with offerings, which causes a bit of lag explosion when I happen to sacrifice more than 5 corpses at once. Yea, I am going to miss the fun time with an army of spirits raging across the map. This was one of the builds that lagged a bit and caused my latency to go haywire a bit with so many actions happening at once on the screen.

Spirits didn't get any increase in damage effectivess so added chaos is 60% less effective than before. Have you tried Minion speed gem?

"

Was SRS clearspeed awesome for this? Is a slower killspeed gonna kill SRS?

It was nerfed. SRS already had slow clear speed and terrible AI, reducing the number of your minions is effectively reducing your map "aoe clear".

It appears the answer depends on how you were using (abusing) it.

"

toyotatundra wrote:

"

Was SRS clearspeed awesome for this? Is a slower killspeed gonna kill SRS?

SRS already had slow clear speed, reducing the number of your minions is effectively reducing your map "aoe clear".

It's a slow-clearing skill with a terrible AI, but if they fixed the lag, at least you can play it if you want to.

I'd say clearspeed use be quite Well in par with BV, due to similar mechanics (stop to cast few times rune few screens and repeat) although pathfinder a bit faster runspeed but srs could clear multiple packs few screens apart simultaneously especially on 2-3 screen wide layouts like tropical island

from exp (in breach) if you were heavily abusing duration and cast speed .. then srs got nerfed pretty hard.

however the new srs allows you to focus elsewhere.

you dont need haste anymore
you dont need cast speed nodes
you dont need more than say 70% duration on the srs


You can reach the cap effortlessly..

I think that illustrates the problem GGG had. There was too large of a difference between the people who focused entirely on SRS and the people who wanted to use it as a supplement to other skills. They couldn't make both groups happy.

Just hit level 80 last night with SRS in Breach, it's really coming into its own damage-wise. I picked up a Pledge of Hands because they're dirt cheap, so I'm still using spell echo when I probably don't need to, but the damage is pretty decent. Here's my gear so far:



I think Vaal Haste is what really made the difference. I've got like 10 seconds of uptime on it at the moment, so I can keep it up almost 100% of the time. I don't use Haste just yet, but I plan to once I get a +3 BM staff. I think once I get some better jewels, I'll be ready to faceroll some mid-high tier maps (if I can find them).

Also, breaches are super fun with SRS. I basically just run around and keep up 20 spirits while casting flesh offering and Vaal Haste. If it gets really crazy I just flame dash out. Looking forward to getting over 6k life, that should help my survivability a lot.

My character is Maswasnos if you want to check it out. I based it on the Devilschoice SRS guide.