[1.1.x] Cursed General (Tri Totem Raging Spirit / Summoner)

Level 19-20 (around the time you are doing your first set of quests in Act 2 Normal)
23 Points - Witch Start
- You can now equip a Rejuvenation Totem. You'll only get this as a drop; so if you don't have it yet I recommend you pick it up for ~10 Orbs of Alteration.
- This becomes your primary totem until you pick up a Spell Totem / Dual Totem

Level 27 (about the time you enter Act III on Normal):
30 Points - Minion Instability
- With this Keystone, you can now use your Skeletons as 'Bombers'. Casting them on bosses that insta gib them will cause that boss to 'kill itself' on the explosions of your dead.

Level 33-35 (around the time you kill Piety on Normal):
39 Points - Dual Totem
- At this point you can now equip Dual Totems along with the Spell Totem (Level 31). You do get the spell totem as a quest reward (around level 40), however they can typically be had for ~10 Orbs of Alteration. Picking it up for the Dominus fight is recommended.

Level 43 (about the time you finish the side quests on Act 2 in Cruel)
52 Points - Auras and Minions
- Here you add to your ability to support a second aura (so you can do Clarity and Discipline) in anticipation of swapping to Chaos Inoculation later.
- You also expand your Army and add some much needed minion regen/leach.

Level 51-52 (around the time you kill Piety on Cruel)
64 Points - Chaos Inoculation / Zealot's Oath
- Here you make the transition to Chaos Inoculation / Zealot's Oath.
- You'll want to have 2 points available and pick both of these at the same time (after killing Piety you get a book with 2 skill points, a perfect time to transition).
- You'll also want to make sure that your gear can support this. Your ES should be ~ 2x your life at this point. If you need to, delay these keystones until you are ready.
- Getting these two key stones is important to living through Merciless.
- This is also a great time to decide to pick up Soul Mantle (level 49) and at least one Flask of Warding (removes curses). You can expect to pay ~10c for the Soul Mantle. If you've followed my loot guidance, you'll likely have enough by this level. Take a look at the Exile Stats for currency exchange rates. A few stacks of Alteration and Chromatic Orbs should offset the 2-3c you've likely already found.
- Try for a 3-4 link mantle to start (Damage, Duration, Cast Speed. As this is an INT based item, getting 3 blue and 1 red will only take a few Chromatic Orbs; so you can mostly ignore the colors of the mantle you purchase.

Level 60 (Starting Act III on Merciless)
78 Points - Minion Master
- You'll grab Faith and Steel first for the defense; and then spend the rest of your time fleshing out all your minion nodes.
- At this point, you are really enjoying life as all the 'key players' are out.

Level 67 (Dominus on Merciless)
85 Points - Starting Maps
- This puts us at 'End Game' where we grab a few more items to shore up our defense before killing Dominus and moving into Maps.
- Elemental Adaptation to get our resists above the 75% cap.
- Then Infused Shield and Arcane Focus for the Energy Shield
- Keep in mind, most of our defense comes from playing the game right (player skill using all the minions and such along with a regen totem for Energy Shield). You should have enough 'buffer' to survive one or two mistakes. This is not a tanking build.

Level 75 (Build Complete)
93 Points - Final Build
- At this point you are done. Level 75 and call it a day.
- Your last points are pushing for Leadership followed by Influence to support your Auras.

Fantasy
120 Points - Fantasy Build
- Body and Soul should be your playing forever target at 99 Points.
- Then your remaining 8% Energy Shield and Aura Effect Nodes at 102 points.
- Next your Unnatural Calm at 104 Points.
- The rest is your 6% Energy Shield / 8% Armor Nodes; your 6% Energy Shield Nodes; and your 10% reduced cooldown nodes.
- At the end Cast Speed is all you'll have left.

Raging Spirit (4) and Spell Totem (31):
- Until Level 31 you will be the one spamming Raging Spirit. After that you'll let your totems handle this task.
- You need to be able to spam this, so until Spell Totem only add supports if you can still spam with the higher cost.
- We will support Raging Spirt / Spell Totem with (Minion Damage - 19)(Increased Duration - 24)(Faster Casting - 31)
- Eventually you will 5 link this on a chest (RBBB and a R/B)
- Discussion on Raging Spirit:
- Discussion on Spell Totem:

Summon Zombie (1):
- We will support this with (Minion Damage - 19)(Minion Life - 12)(Any other Support)
- As we will eventually be 4 linking this, Head/Gloves/Boots are good places to place it.
- Anything with + Level of Minions should go to your Zombies first.
- You won't be spamming this, so feel free to make it cost as much as you like.
- Discussion on Summon Zombie:

Summon Skeletons (10):
- We will be supporting this with (Minion Life -12)(Minion Speed - 24)
- We need to be able to always spam this, so only support it if you can support the spam.
- 3 Links is all that we need, so your 1h weapon or shield are good places for this.
- Discussion on Summon Skeletons:

Summon Spectre (19):
- We will support this with (Minion Damage - 19)(Minion Life - 12)
- As this will be sharing an item with another skill, we want a 4 link. Head/Gloves/Hands are a good place for this.
- Discussion on Summon Spectre:

Vaal Summon Skeletons (10):
- We will support this with (Minion Damage - 19)(Minion Life - 12)
- This will go into the same item as your Summon Spectre so that they can share the supports.
- Discussion on Vaal Summon Skeletons:

Clarity (10) and Discipline (31):
- We will support these with (Reduced Mana - 31)
- Discussion on Auras:

Rejuvenation Totem (19):
- This skill has no supports.
- Once you hit level 45 you can find a nice Unset Ring to place this in. Don't worry about the color as it takes very few Chromatic Orbs to change it.
- Until then, throw this into whatever gear it will fit in.
- It may not look like it, but this is a priority spell.
- Discussion on Rejuvenation Totem:

Cast on Stun (24):
- We will support this with (Enfeeble - 19)(Molten Shell - 10)(Flesh Offering - 24)
- As we will be using 3 spells linked to this, a 4 link from your Helm/Gloves/Boots will be needed.
- Discussion on Cast when Stunned:

- Please refer to this GGG Reddit Post with information on minion DPS numbers.
- Your primary and very consistent source of damage comes from your Raging Spirits.
- This damage has very high up time and quickly adjusts between AoE and ST.
- 3 Totems keep 24 Raging Spirits up for 23.0k DPS.
- 2 Totems (for Dual Totem or Tri with a Regen) put out 16.1k DPS.
- 1 Totem (for Dual Totem with a Regen) puts out 8.0k DPS.

- Secondary Damage (less reliable) comes from your other minions (Zombie, Skeleton, Spectre).
- Each of 8 Zombies put out 1,643 DPS for 13.1k DPS. They will have ~ 6k life.
- Skeletons (12) put out 781 DPS for a total of 9.4k DPS. They will have ~3k life and do 1k aoe damage when they die. You can typically maintain 2 per second this way.
- Spectres (2) have a wide DPS range (and no firm numbers) depending on the type you are using. I will not include their contribution in my discussion of DPS.
- All together, you get 23k DPS constant from Raging Spirits, and an additional 22k DPS variable from your other minions.

- Please note, auras that add damage are EXTREMELY effective with this build.
- Raging Spirits deal 0.7 effective attacks per second each (17).
- Zombies deal 0.75 effective attacks per second (4).
- Skeletons deal 1.1 effective attacks per second (13).
- You can see how adding 120 damage per hit (220 with minion damage nodes) to 34 hits per second can add 7-8k DPS.