[3.21] SadPanda's Poison Summon Raging Spirits Build Guide| Ubers done

Hey guys, I have been receiving a lot of whispers about my build in crucible league and I would like to share the idea of the build and the reasons behind the item choices I made. I will also share the spectre choices we have.

First of all, we may start with the character: I will leave the character's week one version since it might be the more feasible and reachable version to do for most players. If you want to start the character with a budget, I would start with a 5-link covenant, severed in sleep, surrender, 100% poison chance on your jewel setup and it would be ready to go.
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/MrsDeath_/SadPandaUnCruicable?i=1&search=class%3DNecromancer&time-machine=week-1

Build showcase videos:
Uber Eater: https://youtu.be/3oOb8sKK8JI
6 Man Uber Sirus: https://youtu.be/Apmspl6tZ0w
6 Man Uber Uber Elder: https://youtu.be/yOfWskRTqTg
5 man Uber Cortex: https://youtu.be/Uite3NnnA38

The main idea of the build is to be tanky enough to defeat the Uber bosses and have enough clear speed to breeze through the content and end-game maps. We achieve that by optimizing our spell suppression - block chance - poison damage on our minions and with some armour. The build in its current stage has max block, max spell suppression, and about 80% phy reduction with flasks.

The items:

Lets start with the weapon: it turns out that unupgraded chayula sword, severed in sleep provides us a better gameplay than united in dream. I also get questions that why do I use wither in gem slot, because I like the extra 30% chaos dmg I am getting from it, I like the flat dmg instead of increase. I dont care what pob says, it is probably wrong.

Chest piece and gems: We need at least 1 white socket in our 6 link.
This is because we would like to swap in and out unbound ailments with melee splash gem, we need unbound ailments for bosses and melee splash for clear purposes.
If you have a 5 link you may remove the unbound ailments gem.
If you don't have a 6 link and a white socket you may use 1 green and 1 red and swap out and in multistrike with melee splash.

Amulet: Ashes is the Best in the slot for us but you may use Jinxed juju before you obtain the ashes.

Helmet: We need +2 and spell suppression here
Boots and Gloves: Spell suppression, resists and dexterity are required for our build.
Rings: Chaos res, resists, and life like every other piece.

Shield: Budget versions may use Exarch's shield Dawnbreaker, however, The Surrender provides us 500 life on block at its best state in some cases more with passives, I would prefer to surrender to any other shield any day. At 4k life it provides us with 12.5% life on block and it's simply amazing.

Belt: darkness enthralled for maximized poison chance. Once you have enough increased effect on darkness enthralled, like 98, 99, or 100, the jewels you put in the darkness enthralled may allow you to cut down on the jewels you use on your tree. You cut down an abyss jewel once you reach enough effect, which would provide you with about a 56% poison chance on your jewels and a 100% chance to avoid stuns if you choose your jewels well.

Auras:
This one is open to improvisation but I generally use the auras I have on my character:
Malevolence - Haste - Determination - Tempest shield

Haste is there for smooth gameplay with shield charge and eases the clunkiness that comes with the minion playstyle. I suggest everyone to introduce the haste aura to your gameplay if you can because it will feel great.
If you have issues with your mana reservation before ashes, you may remove haste and re-introduce the vitality and defiance banner to your build.

Flasks: Since our block counts as a hit we can absolutely abuse gain charges on hit prefix on our flasks:


Jewels on our tree:

Now, about our jewels, we need 100% poison chance and we may also add more utility to ourselves by using our jewel suffixes smartly. These are stun immunity, ignite immunity, accuracy for minions which allows us to remove 1 point from the tree(250 accuracy on mastery), life, etc, flat dmg for minions, etc.

Amanamu adds us about 30% more dot dmg IF we have at least 5 socketed ghastly eye jewels including Amanamu itself so its great, we also have a green nightmare which is required for a spell suppression cap, you may purchase that when you want to have your 100% spell supp. Until you have 100% spell suppression you may use the mastery, spell suppression is lucky on the tree.

Clusters, you may use a cluster with rotten claws and call to the slaughter, renewal is just a +, you need blessed rebirth for your srs survivability and dmg output and you need life from death for your other minions to survive.



Before poison srs:
I was able to switch to poison srs from my regular srs + vaal absolution build within 24 hours of the league start. I would also like to share the base of my league start: https://poeplanner.com/b/DB4

When can you swap to the poison srs?
You need 100% poison chance on your minions and at least severed in sleep and preferably a 5-link covenant chest.

About the spectres: I am currently using 2 spectres:
-Ancient suffering - obtained in delve, haunted remains
Arena Master - obtained from Drox's maps.
If you have 3 spectres you may add: -Wild Briste Matron - obtained from delve

You may whisper me in the game for the spectres.

Brand usage: you can cast your brand ahead of you into the packs from survivability then when you get an offering just move, on bosses you may prepare the brand on the boss for the curse and the offering, warning: you have to have your desecrate linked and placed before your offering or it will wait another turn to trigger it.

Golem: We need a stone golem to recover the cost of life we get from our covenant.

Pantheons: Brine King and Abberath
Bandits: kill them all

How to use the build and the skill bar:
Now, I usually map with melee splash on the red socket, if you can get a chest with at least 1 white - 3 blues - 1 red - 1 green socket, you may use melee splash + multistrike + wither + minion dmg + srs + unleash as your links to ease the clear(with a white socket you would be swapping melee splash and unbound ailments). If you have 1 red 1 green and 4 blues, just swap in and out melee splash and multistrike for clear and boss killing respectively.

How to map, I usually shield charge around the packs, leave srs twice then move on. I would suggest using the Arcanist brand on big packs or where you would feel like you need the block and let the srs take care of the packs from distance.

On the crucible league mechanic: Cook it until 90% then move to a safe distance and cast your srs from that point with a brand left behind. This is both for your safety and your minion's safety.

On bosses: Put the multistrike back on, leave a brand on the unsuspecting boss, and melt them. We are not immortal, you might have to dodge stuff on some bosses, do not expect to clear Uber bosses right away but as you learn the build they will become very easy to do.
I would leave 24 srs' on pinnacle bosses with a brand and let them do the work. Let your minions deal damage unless they disappear or get killed, you do not have to respawn them.
You might want to save your vaal haste and vaal molten shell for hard phases such as the uber shaper ball phase. Keep them ready to burst down the bosses or use your 20-second vaal molten shell to keep yourself alive on a hard phase.

Every 20 seconds you need to recast the Envy aura. It is important for the minion flat damage which improves the chaos dot dmg our minions deal which is our main source of damage.

Ancient suffering gives an incredible dmg boost on bosses, you want to keep him alive and respawned all the time. With the socket setup I have and the offhand weapons I hold, I always have a desecrate on my offhand weapons so when I swap my weapons there will be a desecrate that is not linked to the trigger and raise spectres waiting for me on the skill bar ready to be used.
With that tech, you can simply swap weapons, respawn your dead spectre, change back to our original weapon and shield set and recast tempest shield + stone golem, and get ready to go.
I keep my golem on ctrl+t just in case he dies mid-fight on a big fight.





FAQ:
Q: My spell suppression is under 100% what do I do?
A: Until you reach 100% spell suppression you need to allocate your spell suppression is lucky mastery on the suppression wheel.

Q: My spectres are dying what do I do?
A: You need to get a jewel with both blessed rebirth and life from death and it has to have at most 5 passives.

Q:

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Jarraxas wrote:

Thoughts on using Surrender Shield vs Aegis with Mind over Matter? Or would they be pretty similar?

A: I get this question a lot so I will explain it and then put it on the thread.



Btw guys, I am looking for feedback, I know skele mages from front to back because I have experienced them for about 6 leagues but srs poison is a new concept and I would like to improve on parts that players might find faulty. So, if you have any issues with the build or you have any recommendations, I am open to suggestions. Thank you.

Legendary SadPanda!!

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Madzterz wrote:

Legendary SadPanda!!

:D

nice build bro
;)

Great build, I'm giving this a bash too as my second character for the league. Would love an updated guide/post to get some more tips and insights.

Thanks man. I am waiting for your build

Could you please post some video of this build? Thanks :)

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Ondrejsik wrote:

Could you please post some video of this build? Thanks :)

I will record some boss kills and try to upload, yes sir ^^

been running it for 3 days and must say, im absolutely baffled - last time i played SRS was 3 years ago.

LOL