Melee summoner - Minion Dominating build (Soul Taker & Shav / Solaris Lorica required)

Current passives at lv91


Zombies are raised in 6L chober chaber
RZ + melee phy dmg + multistrike + FA + remote mine + life leech

Spectres in chest by Tabula Rasa
RS + min dmg + min life + remote mine + trap + increased AOE / conc

Dominating blow in 4L
dom blow + multistrike + faster attack + increased duration

Auras:
I run 10 auras
discipline
grace
determination
hatred
haste
vitality
purity of fire
purity of ice
purity of lightning
wrath

3x60% + 1x40% aura cast with malachai simula
remaining auras cast with alpha's howl. I prefer putting grace and discipline in alpha's howl to get the +2 aura gem.

stats with auras on:
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Utility skill
blood magic + bone offering + flesh offering + desecrate (keep at lv1)

My gears
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Gears to look for:
ES > EV > Armor
Sin Trek is highly recommended as it provide high EV and some ES with 30% movement speed and it is cheap.
Shavronne's revelation is nice too as you dont need mana for this build

***This build is very expensive as soul taker and shav is suggested***

****Without Shav?
I believe this is possible to use Solaris Lorica if you cannot afford Shav.
I still can achieve 5491 ES without shav. If I switched to rainbowstride I can get 5620 ES by giving up some armor.

Enjoy ;)




Previous version
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I feel bored being a pure summoner casting spells from behind, so I try to blend the fun of playing melee and summoning.
**This build requires lots of currency investment**

What this build offers:
8 zombies
2 spectres
over 8k armor, can be even more if you use molten shield
60% block rate
50% spell block rate
each block gives you 4% of your armour to ES instantly
30-70 dominated monsters

Gears required
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Zombies
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Use The Bringer of Rain or any +2 minion helm to raise zombies first. After they are raised, you can switch to a helm with high armor / life / es / resists.

The bringer of rain
- raise zombie
- multistrike
- added fire damage
- life leech

+2 minion helm
- raise zombie
- multi strike
- faster attack
- life leech


Spectres
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Try to get a Tabula Rasa so you can freely change your support gems if you want to change to a different spectre after you feel bored. If you have plenty of currency to spend, you can go for a 6L covenant which further boost the damage by the added chaos damage

I am currently using a burned miscreation and a flame sentinel

Burned miscreation, thanks to fellow summoners for their testing
- raise spectre
- minion life
- minion resist
- increased area of effect
- increased burning damage
- minion speed

Flame sentinel (for huge AOE)
- raise spectre
- minion dmg
- remote mine
- gmp
- chain
- life leech
- added chaos damage in a 6l covenant


Aura
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Mana - purity, determination, vitality, tempest shield, anger
Life - Wrath, discipline with blood magic


Passive


Dominating blow
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After summoning zombies and spectres, you can switch your gems for dominating blow.
Dominating blow on a 6L chest

- dominating blow
- multistrike
- faster attack
- increased duration
- melee splash
- raise zombies (you have to keep this slot for the gem)


Gems

My current settings after raising zombies and spectres
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Helm
- reduced mana
- determination
- tempest shield
- raise zombie

Chest
- dominating blow
- faster attack
- multistrike
- melee splash
- increased duration
- raise spectre

Glove
- reduced mana
- blood magic
- anger
- wrath

Boot
- reduced mana
- vitality
- discipline
- purity

Weapon
- blood magic
- spell totem
- summon skeleton

shield
- blood magic
- vulnerabilty
* enduring cry


If GGG change the "snapshot" mechanic of raising zombies and spectres
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Helm
- multi strike
- faster attack
- life leech
- raise zombie

Chest
- dominating blow
- faster attack
- multistrike
- melee splash
- increased duration
- minion damage / melee physical damage / culling strike

Glove
- reduced mana
- purity
- anger / discipline
- vitality

Boot (for burned miscreation)
- raise spectre
- minion life
- minion resist / increased burning damage
- increased aoe

Weapon
- blood magic
- reduced mana
- discipline / vulnerability

shield
- reduced mana
- determination
* tempest shield


Video:

70 rare map


lunaris 3 + Piety


71 Temple map

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Last edited by raytkh on Feb 14, 2014, 6:35:48 AM
Looks like fun. How did you level it without soul taker? Less auras?
ugh,,,another summoner build that using a cheap gear/gem switch tactic to actually be useful. how boring. they really need to fix this shit so it cannot be done anymore.
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ugh,,,another summoner build that using a cheap gear/gem switch tactic to actually be useful. how boring. they really need to fix this shit so it cannot be done anymore.


That's true, if GGG change the gem switch mechanic, you can check my newly added gem section.
In this case I have to drop the skelly totem, vulnerability and enduring cry which I seldom use. However, dominating blow will be even more powerful with the 6th gem slot.
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Orbitalx wrote:
Looks like fun. How did you level it without soul taker? Less auras?


With Soul taker equipped, you can spam any melee skill regardless of how much mana you left.
Each dominating blow will cost around 300 mana, without soul taker you cannot keep spamming it.
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lol, that is INSANE!! Very awesome, unique and POWERFUL summoner build there. Too bad I could never afford it. Seems like it would still be viable even if gear and gem switching was fixed (unless they, for some reason, change soul taker).
with that amount of equip i dont think you need minions in the first place lol
Dogs Summoner - http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/885199
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Amiag wrote:
with that amount of equip i dont think you need minions in the first place lol


I tried to let my marauder tank to use the soul taker with dominating blow. The summoner build of this witch kills much faster even the tool tip dps of marauder is triple of the witch.

This is fun to compete with your minions to dominate the monster, especially the rares.
Rare monster's aura is pretty insane, for example, their discipline grants you with an additional of almost 4k ES instantly.
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rare temple map updated ;)
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Yes but what I mean is how did you level it until you were able to use soul taker?
Last edited by Orbitalx on Aug 28, 2013, 9:35:18 PM

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