(3.2) Leary's Auramancer (Low and High-end Summoner, under reconstruction ) w. Beginner guide

Going on a break, since GGG decided to dumpster Heretic Guardian AI (they currently use their ST like once every 3-4 seconds). Fine with the dmg nerf, but the current bs they're doing goes to far for me. Send them an email, ill await response, but not sure when I can answer questions again due to being extremely tilted.

EDIT: Back, kind off,w ill answer again whenever I can

Hey Leary,

Been a LONG time fan, thanks for posting all your content here and on Youtube.

I have a few questions on where to take my build. I am currently at level 88, character has decent gear. I can do T10-14 maps no problem.

My question is, where do I go from here? Should I work on Shav's and run the low-life variant? If so, do you recommend Midnight Bargain over United in Dream with the changes to poison?

What will be the best helmet to run? Do we still need a reduced mana reserved helmet or could we run maybe Heretic's Veil or Vertex?

What do you think about Grip of the Council gloves? They add +20% minion phys dmg as cold dmg.

What do you think about running Summon Skeleton with the new Skeleton Mage threshold jewel?

Could you make a top 3 list of clear speed and single target spectres for 3.0? I'm thinking Flame/Frost Sentinels are still on top for clearspeed because of how good their AI is, but the Solar Guards also look really good. I miss my Slashed Miscreations for single target, but are they as strong with the nerf to poison?

If you could take a look at my character and provide any suggestions or feedback I would be most welcome.

Thanks Leary!!!

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Somnuse wrote:

Hey Leary,

Been a LONG time fan, thanks for posting all your content here and on Youtube.

I have a few questions on where to take my build. I am currently at level 88, character has decent gear. I can do T10-14 maps no problem.

My question is, where do I go from here? Should I work on Shav's and run the low-life variant? If so, do you recommend Midnight Bargain over United in Dream with the changes to poison?

What will be the best helmet to run? Do we still need a reduced mana reserved helmet or could we run maybe Heretic's Veil or Vertex?

What do you think about Grip of the Council gloves? They add +20% minion phys dmg as cold dmg.

What do you think about running Summon Skeleton with the new Skeleton Mage threshold jewel?

Could you make a top 3 list of clear speed and single target spectres for 3.0? I'm thinking Flame/Frost Sentinels are still on top for clearspeed because of how good their AI is, but the Solar Guards also look really good. I miss my Slashed Miscreations for single target, but are they as strong with the nerf to poison?

If you could take a look at my character and provide any suggestions or feedback I would be most welcome.

Thanks Leary!!!

You should first of all continue leveling. You don't at all need to go low life until you have all the ES gear availlable to purchase (prob should save up to about 300 chaos at least before you respec, buy shavs and buy all the es gear, check res, stats etc).

Best helmet to run should still vary, depending on what you want to do. I haven't switched myself yet, so can't tell exactly what's going to be needed, but vertex should always do the trick, especially if u don't go with running envy, which you shouldn't because midnight is just gonna be the better option until you get superexpensive gear.

Grip of the council my opinion is still very firm on as an es based build: nope. Too much defenses are lost

Skeleton mages have gotten quite the hype, and are able to do the endgame content, been shown to be powerful, I just don't like that playstyle. If you want, it's powerful tho. I'd recommend running proj weak over ele weak for them tho, so you wont need to run the pierce gme for clearing.

I can make a top3 list, and will, but not right now. Still only lvl 91 and a week or so in, so haven't gotten the best idea on that yet. But definetly frost/flame sentinels on the top 1-3 spots. Slashed miscreations should still be strong too, but maybe better as elemental (using added flat ele dmg stuff like anger, added lit/cold gems).

On your character: Don't run generosity with haste. You want to have haste for yourself too (movespeed = clearspeed and dodging), temp chains > enfeeble and you want to have your defensive curses on blasphemy, not on curse on hit, since you wont always be able to curse on hit the most dangerous threats before they can damage you, as well as you want to run gmp with ball lighting, for better coverage. Don't run multistrike with zombies, it makes their already shitty ai worse, because it locks them in place too long. Run melee phys or minion speed instead. They also dont need minion life (in most cases, that gem won't make the difference at the point ur at, especially not with monty). Vaal disc = drop. It doesn't do anything but suck up souls. If u want a defensive vaal skill, use vaal grace. also don't run 2 vaal skills, that's just plain bad because it costs too much sockets while not really granting anything. maybe fit in animate guardian?

That should be all I think.

Some interesting thing I noticed with the Solar Guards and Spell echo is instead of shooting their Special Beam Canon attack twice they shoot it 3 times(?), I don't know why this happens, but that would mean spell echo triples their dmg instead of just doubling it(amount wise of shots)

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Rushmoon wrote:

Some interesting thing I noticed with the Solar Guards and Spell echo is instead of shooting their Special Beam Canon attack twice they shoot it 3 times(?), I don't know why this happens, but that would mean spell echo triples their dmg instead of just doubling it(amount wise of shots)

Can't be, that must be because u run 3 spectres or something. Im not even sure if it's affected by echo at all, but been a while since I played with them, so would ahve to redo the testing.

Beam Cannon is [spell, aoe, fire, projectile]. So yeah it does echo. echo + iaoe for some juicy pack clearing.

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mattc3303 wrote:

Beam Cannon is [spell, aoe, fire, projectile]. So yeah it does echo. echo + iaoe for some juicy pack clearing.

not a projectile, cuz gmp doesn't affect it? Wait, where do you get thsoe stats 0-0

Idk but faster projectile definitely made the beam come out way faster.

Those stats are just my conclusions after testing a bunch of shit with a tabula.

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mattc3303 wrote:

Idk but faster projectile definitely made the beam come out way faster.

Those stats are just my conclusions after testing a bunch of shit with a tabula.

Ahh I see.

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leary93 wrote:

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mattc3303 wrote:

Idk but faster projectile definitely made the beam come out way faster.

Those stats are just my conclusions after testing a bunch of shit with a tabula.

Ahh I see.

http://poedb.tw/us/mon.php?n=Solar+Guard

if all things fail trial and error, and just try it out for yourself, in fact I'm gonna test this right as I'm writing this now, I'm gonna sommen 1 singular Solar Guard and see if it still shoots 3 beams-

ANNNNDD the result is, 3 beams with Spell echo equipped and 1 beam without spell echo...