Summon Raging Spirit: Questions

Not sure what I'm missing, but I'm unclear about a couple of things hoping to get help with.

1) How is it possible to summon the most skulls, upward of 50, as is in the skills description?

Currently, I can only summon 5 skulls at a time. No idea how it's possible to summon a great deal more.

2) Any suggestions on what perks to invest in to make the most of them?

They seem very effective and I'd like to focus on the skill a bit, since I enjoy using it.

I've check some build guides but they're not really explaining how to summon more skulls or make the most of them.

Thanks!

1) With CoC it's easy, but it should be possible with skill duration nodes and support, a lot of cast speed and two totems plus self-casting with echo. Similar to damage spells, having a good balance between cast speed and power is better than just spitting out obscene amounts of weaksauce skulls.

2) Yes, they are minions like any other, minion bonuses are the only thing that affects their stats.

3) It's a very strong skill but it requires a specific build, it's technically a summoner but it plays like a regular caster. It mixes well with a standard summoner if that's your thing, but poorly with a normal caster.

Thanks for the feedback.

Which totems, exactly, should I be using?

Well, that's just it, you shouldn't, it's a waste of time. It was an answer to the question 'how to get 50 spirits in the air', it's possible but impractical, an average SRS builds can maintain around 20-25 spirits at the same time, which is more than enough for any purpose.

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raics wrote:

Well, that's just it, you shouldn't, it's a waste of time. It was an answer to the question 'how to get 50 spirits in the air', it's possible but impractical, an average SRS builds can maintain around 20-25 spirits at the same time, which is more than enough for any purpose.

Ah, alright. It wasn't clear to me.

So it's possible to maintain that many spirits with basically faster casting and skill duration nodes?

Do I also need nodes that increase number of minions summoned?

There are better supports than faster casting, you can get a lot of it from tree. We can't extend minion cap for spirits, but why would you need to extend minion cap if you don't even come close to it?

A fairly standard SRS build will take both duration clusters, aura reservation, some minion damage and all cast speed it can get its hands on. The usual core supports are spell echo - minion physical damage - splash - multistrike, most popular auras are hatred and haste. An SRS build isn't terribly tanky, it relies on high roaming radius of spirits to take out enemies before they show their noses onscreen and uses distraction like a skeleton totem for tough encounters.

That should sum it up in under 100 words, 'taking the spirits for a badland stroll' might be a good title. Dere be spirits all 'round fren, sometimes talk.

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You know, there's plenty more room to play a smartass, don't let us steal all the fun.