[2.3] Necromancer Zombie Bomber!

Hello everyone, Zerenity here. Today I am here to talk about a mechanic/build I have been interested in ever since I saw Kykoyou's (TheCardichon on youtube) "The Explosive Sheep" build.



I set out to calculate what the highest (or possible highest) Life for a zombie (and therefore Minion instability Damage) we could get with a fairly cheap build.
However this forum is more to showcase the sheer amount of damage we can get :)

Items I will talk about throughout this document:

lvl 20 zombie 4608
lvl 22 zombie 5590 (+2 to socketed minion gems)

Mon'tregul's Grasp: 2000 (flat) = 7590

Tree Minion Life: 120%

Minion Life: 49% (51% +2 to socketed minion gems)

Fortified Legion: 15% (Jewel)

sidhebreath: 15%

Heartbound: 15% (2)

*Clayshaper: 30%

Jewels (2): 24%

Flat Zombie Life:7590 - Percentage Increase: 285% (Mon'tregul's Grasp )
Flat Zombie Life:5590 - Percentage Increase: 315% (Clayshapers)

Mon'tregul's Grasp :

7590 (2.85%)

Life: 21631.5

2x Clayshapers:

5590 (3.15%)

Life: 17608.5

Kaom's: 40% fire

Tree (minon): 195%

With aura: 10% (Commander of darkness ascendancy, assuming you have ANY type of aura)

Spirit eater: 40% (If a corpse was consumed recently)

Tree:
(Fire): 55%

(Area): 50%

(Ele): 8%

Sidhebreath: 15%

Minion Damage:51% (Gem)

Total: 464%

Mon'tregul's Grasp (.33% of 21631.5): 7138.395
7138.395 (4.64% Damage increase) = 33,122.1528

33,122.1528 (4 zombies) = 132,488.6112

Clayshaper (.33% of 17608.5): 5810.805
5810.805 (4.64% Damage increase) = 26,962.1352

26,962.1352 (8 zombies) = 215,697.0816

lvl 20 Flammability = 44% reduced fire resistance

Mon'tregul's Grasp:
33,122.1528 (1.44%) = 47,695.90032

47,695.900032 (4) = 190,783.600128

Clayshaper:
26,497.2708 (1.44%) = 38,825.474688

38,825.474688 (8) = 310,603.797504

Minion instability damage while your weapons are Mon'tregul's, Clayshaper, can only summon 4 zombies, and enemies are cursed with flammability is approximately 190,783.

Minion instability damage while your weapons are two (2) Clayshaper, can summon up 8 zombies, and enemies are cursed with flammability is approximately 310,603.

That is a LOT of damage regardless of what you mainhand/offhand. Because most of these uniques are fairly inexpensive (the priciest one being Kaom's) you can get them all fairly cheap, meaning you can have both set-ups going and simply weapon swapping between them depending on your situation. When running maps you can use Mon'tregul's + Clayshaper to run only 4 zombies but be dealing a LOT of damage, and you won't have to go through the hassle of summoning 8 zombies, however when you enter a boss fight, say Atziri, Itzaro, or any other boss that allows you to summon or pre-summon you can switch to dual Clayshaper to have 8 zombies and deal Massive damage.

All in all it seems like a very, very solid build that can take down Atziri, and uber may be quite easily? I'm not sure never have done uber. I mean the highest damage I have achieved (On a atziri farmer Bladefall Poison miner) is about 7k average dmg tooltip (63k dmg).