So I can clear all the way up to t15 maps, but I died to red elder 15 times and died to mino 6 times. Any suggestions? Character - CD_bones. I took off my Kaom's Heart. It had 33% extra fire damage.
Fun build. Just want to know, how many To Dust jewels is good? Also, is Anatomical Knowledge good?
As many as you want, it's a cheap high damage jewel, anatomical knowledge gives something equivilent to 13% life in witch start jewel and more damage isn't an issue anyway.
So I can clear all the way up to t15 maps, but I died to red elder 15 times and died to mino 6 times. Any suggestions? Character - CD_bones. I took off my Kaom's Heart. It had 33% extra fire damage.
You have too low life on all your gear, belt and helm should have 90+, boot should have 85, ring and amu should have 70+ don't understand why you took off kaom heart, also 5L with 0 quality 19 gems is a bit low for T15 elder.
Well, since levelling was fun, I'm back at it again. :D
Edit: Oops, forgot to make the videos public.
Tul breaches are a real problem early on because they really slow down skeletons and make it hard for them to kill stuff, it's the only thing that you have to be really careful about while mapping.
Tul breaches are a real problem early on because they really slow down skeletons and make it hard for them to kill stuff, it's the only thing that you have to be really careful about while mapping.
I'm still somewhat of a noob in this game, so I had no idea how dangerous it was. My Kitava kill (and general clear speed up until that point) really gave me some hubris. I'm half way there again now though, luckily had some currency left from an exalt that I found so I could buy all the stuff I lost again.
Clear Speed: 6
Survivability: 8
Single Target: 9
Fun Factor: 8
This is a Skeleton only build, I wanted to see what they're like in maps and endgame bossing.
They're not as good as Specters or Flame Golems for clear, because their AI is still pretty dumb.
But they're a lot stronger for bossing.
It's slightly different than the recommended one because I have lots of Dex on gear and enough life to sacrifice a Ring.
Important Items
The heart of the build, I wouldn't replace it for anything in a skeleton build.
The second heart of the build, huge survivability boost.
Big damage boost and a higher chance for your minions to chill/freeze.
Extremely important jewel to be able to summon skeletons quickly without running out of Mana.
A few of these will give a big damage boost.
Blind on hit halves monsters chance to hit, with one of these jewels it has 100% uptime on bosses.
Taunt on hit means less targeting and less damage on you.
Try to get the last 2 jewels with a "Minion damage if you used a minion skill recently" mod, and preferrably life, although all 3 mods can get expensive. Note that only one of each of the abyss jewels is needed.
Animate Guardian
Keeping Animate Guardian alive
Nothing complicated here, you really only need to worry about this in a few specific fights, like Acid Lakes boss, Uber Trio, Minotaur and a couple of others.
Just make sure he's attached to a minion life gem, sufficiently leveled and has all his regen gear (another reason to use femurs), A +2 helmet is nice to have, but not nessecery.
If you notice him dropping below 50% HP at any point, unsocket the gem and resummon him when safe.
Low Budget Options
This build can be done as a league starter with zero Budget.
The only thing you need to get started is a 4-Link Femurs Staff, which costs 1 Chaos, and a From Dust jewel and work your way up from there.
Use a Bloodbond chest until you can afford a Kaom's
Skeletons Gem Priority
Summon Skeleton > Melee Splash > Minion Damage > Multistrike > Minion Speed > Maim
Swap Splash for Melee Physical Damage on high HP Bosses.
Leveling
tl;dr SRS + Zombies until you get Bone Sculptor from Cruel Labyrinth, from that point you can drop everything else, switch to Skeleton Warriors and watch everything melt.
Use only single curse Temporal Chains until red maps, more damage isn't needed before then.
You won't have enough mana to repeatedly cast Summon Skeletons, therefore https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/From_Dust Jewel is critical to be able to run this build on very little available Mana/Regen.
Don't level clarity at all, it's only there for +20% resistance bonus.
Zombies
Are they worth using? In my experience no, Here's a couple of reasons:
-Their high Mana cost doesn't jive with the high Mana reservation and low Mana regen of this build, meaning if they die during combat it requires turning off an aura and slowly waiting for the mana to regen for each zombie.
-They can do more harm than good in Multi-Proj/Chain maps since they tend to conjugate around you, meanning a quick for them and possibly you.
-Their Damage and Survivability drops drastically in high end content.
Specters
I personally don't think they're needed, but they can help with clear since skeletons aren't the fastest clearing minions in the world with their dumb AI.
However sockets are scarce, so a is probably your best bet, you will likely have to buy level 19 gems and level them to 20 yourself since nobody uses or sells these.
Note that mine is set up for Vanguards, not clear specters.
Mind over Matter
Is it worth using? I say No.
Pros: Gain 1-1.5k eHP
Gain a few Gem slots.
Cons: Lose Blasphemy Temp Chains.
Lose generosity on Hatred (Essence Worm).
Lose a flask slot to a mana flask.
Harder to cap Resists.
League Starter / Low Budget
The recommended gear isn't cheap, but it's also not that expensive compared to the power it gives.
This build was my league starter, and it's possible to make it work from scratch, Skeletons are very powerful with only a 4-Link femur, use BloodBond chest until you can afford a Kaom's Heart
Flesh Offering
Fine to use in yellow maps/easy red maps, beyond that your skeletons will die too quicky without bone offering, which is also a great survival boost for you.
Swapping Kaom's
You can, if you plan on running easy maps, I would never swap it for high damage red maps or endgame bosses.
HC
Yes.
Uber Elder
After 10 failed attempts, I would say no it's not uber elder viable.
However every time I got 1 or both of them down to between 10-20% before running out of portals so someone more skilled might be able to pull it off.
have you ever try change minion speed with ruthless? it makes your damage2,1m damage shaper...
please let me know what you think
Hum when i see your numbers i got confused you all had like 160k to 240k dps per skely how do you achieve that?
I got 48.8k with i think ok gear, what did i do wrong?
My stuff:
Got 3 to dust jewel + one damage jewel.
i checked the player you mentioned. it says 146k dps in pob with maim so it was a bit less than what was written. no minion speed gem mind you.
the aforementioned player has 6k life and 158% max life. he/she has 8 jewels. 7 of those are to dust jewels and both haste and hatred active.
if you want more damage get those jewel slots. depends what you what to do. better survival or better damage.
i killed shaper with my summoner this league and i only got a 5L and about the same damage as you. that was my goal for the charachter so i am content.
Hey! Trying this build as my second char, still trying to get Femurs 6L and Kaom's and i'm low level but i'm already doing T11 maps with care and only 4,3k HP.
Pretty nice and fun build so far!
The only thing that i don't get is Clarity lvl 1.
I understand that's there for the Necromancer passive, but we already have Hatred, and that's an Aura that already give us the Necromancer bonus.
Tried both auras and effect doesn't stack, maybe i'm missing something but i don't know.
Also, wouldn't Orb Of Storms be better to proc EE and Vuln on hit? I don't like Ball Lightning at all.
Final question, is there any specific recommended ring for this build? Or i should only get unset ring with life+res?
have you ever try change minion speed with ruthless? it makes your damage2,1m damage shaper...please let me know what you think
I mean you could do it if you really want to, at some point more damage becomes redundant.
The biggest limiting factor in skeleton damage is their ability to survive, mostly against DoTs.
Hey! Trying this build as my second char, still trying to get Femurs 6L and Kaom's and i'm low level but i'm already doing T11 maps with care and only 4,3k HP.
Pretty nice and fun build so far!
The only thing that i don't get is Clarity lvl 1.
I understand that's there for the Necromancer passive, but we already have Hatred, and that's an Aura that already give us the Necromancer bonus.
Tried both auras and effect doesn't stack, maybe i'm missing something but i don't know.
Also, wouldn't Orb Of Storms be better to proc EE and Vuln on hit? I don't like Ball Lightning at all.
Final question, is there any specific recommended ring for this build? Or i should only get unset ring with life+res
Hatred is linked to Generosity, meaning only your minions get the bonus resistance from Necro without another aura.
You can use orb/arc if you don't like BL, it's a personal preference without much effect on gameplay.
For ring, any unset with good life and res will do, a white socket The Pariah is quite useful if you're doing fine on life and res.
Hum when i see your numbers i got confused you all had like 160k to 240k dps per skely how do you achieve that?
I got 48.8k with i think ok gear, what did i do wrong?
My stuff:
Got 3 to dust jewel + one damage jewel.
i checked the player you mentioned. it says 146k dps in pob with maim so it was a bit less than what was written. no minion speed gem mind you.
the aforementioned player has 6k life and 158% max life. he/she has 8 jewels. 7 of those are to dust jewels and both haste and hatred active.
if you want more damage get those jewel slots. depends what you what to do. better survival or better damage.
i killed shaper with my summoner this league and i only got a 5L and about the same damage as you. that was my goal for the charachter so i am content.
Thanks for the answer, in fact damage is not an issue as all boss melt in second but i was curious on how to got those numbers ^^
