[3.6 Video Guide] Beginner's Guide SRS Baron Life [HC/SC/Atziri/Uber Izaro/Shaper Viable]

"

Pikkuhippi wrote:

If you have free time Ghazzy could you check my skill tree and see if I have spent any passive points wrong? I've ofc followed the tree in this guide but had to improvise a bit with the spectre passives. I took one minion life regen node figuring I wouldn't have to keep remaking specters for every map.

Is this good? SRS_Phantasmia is the character profile should be public.

Thanks :P

PS: Watched one of your streams where you used Mind over Matter as passive with SRS no Baron, looked interesting! Gonna stick with this one for the current league tho :P

Hey,

The minion life regen is a good choice tbh. Your gear looks solid AF! :D

Cheers, yeah the Non-Baron build.. hm.. I'll make a video of it and link it in this thread but it won't get any in-depth guide or stand-alone thread like this as it was faster/cheaper/better for mapping but lacked boss kill potential vs Shaper & Uber Atziri that this build has an "easier" time doing.

Hey ! I look everyone playin with an astral plate but i had the chance to drop belly of the Beast and i dont know if its should use it or not. She have only +31% life so is it worth it ?

Very nice guide! As someone who has been playing PoE for a while, but has never attempted a summoner before, I found this guide a great starting point. Just had one question: I have both a Kaom's Heart and a 6-linked Belly of the Beast. Is either or both viable as replacements in the chest slot? I'd rather have the Kaom's for both flat life and fire damage, but if the sockets are necessary, Belly still sounds really appealing.

Thanks in advance!

"

Mr_ketosky wrote:

Hey ! I look everyone playin with an astral plate but i had the chance to drop belly of the Beast and i dont know if its should use it or not. She have only +31% life so is it worth it ?

Hey,

I sadly don't have access to the Flat Life vs % Life calculator page as I'm in school atm, honestly I think belly is more than fine cause the difference is very small but after you're done with the build it's often easier to sell a 6L belly vs a 6L Astral imo.

"

FrozenEagle7 wrote:

Very nice guide! As someone who has been playing PoE for a while, but has never attempted a summoner before, I found this guide a great starting point. Just had one question: I have both a Kaom's Heart and a 6-linked Belly of the Beast. Is either or both viable as replacements in the chest slot? I'd rather have the Kaom's for both flat life and fire damage, but if the sockets are necessary, Belly still sounds really appealing.

Thanks in advance!

Hey,

Thank you!
Fire damage will not affect the SRS, I recommend watching my "Generic Summoner Mechanic Guide" to learn more about how minions work in GGG as they scale very differently compared to the rest of the game!

Kaom's is great but you'll have to tweak the support gems to make it work well. I personally like using Wicker Man spectres which promotes the use of more sockets and I love having Kaom's Roots to make TC maps bearable & stun immunity. So I'd personally take the Belly!

I'm going to guess "no" based on Ghazzy's post above, but is there any merit to using a Xoph's Blood as an amulet on this build? What about "The Taming" ring, or the "The Red Nightmare" jewel? (I have these from another build, curious if they have any value here)

If there is any content this build cannot do, what is it?

"

Xyrm wrote:

I'm going to guess "no" based on Ghazzy's post above, but is there any merit to using a Xoph's Blood as an amulet on this build? What about "The Taming" ring, or the "The Red Nightmare" jewel? (I have these from another build, curious if they have any value here)

Not a stupid question, it's rather commonly misstaken that fire damage or dmg mods affects minions, which they don't. So let's look at the items you mentioned:

Xoph's Blood
The life helps a lot, obviously. The strength as well. Though the penetration is useless, and Ash is alright but you kind of don't want to get hit in the first place if you can avoid it!

The Taming
Dmg doesn't affect your minions. Resistances are nice, that's it. So a big no on this one.

The Red Nightmare
Dmg doesn't affect minions, block is.... nice...? No.
Weeeeeeelll.... no.

"

Bawbey wrote:

If there is any content this build cannot do, what is it?

Uber Atziri is managable but not recommended imo. Everything else is fine.

Hey Ghazzy and everyone! Hope you are not too busy with the new patch and specters' new mechanics.

I was wondering if you could give me some tips and feedback about my build. I'm running t15 maps super smooth and no problems with chimera or phoenix. But I CANT take down shaper. I tried him like 4 times already and never managed to kill him. Is the build viable for shaper?
I stand at 7.5k+ life and I think my gear is descent. I like this build but now I'm thinking of respecting in a shield charge build. My profile is public if you want to check it on pob.
Thanks a lot!



I use 6 jewels with minions damage on most of them.

Hey,
Pardon the delayed response, as you stated, I've been extremely busy with the spectre stuffs!

"

adrienvictor wrote:

Hey Ghazzy and everyone! Hope you are not too busy with the new patch and specters' new mechanics.

I was wondering if you could give me some tips and feedback about my build. I'm running t15 maps super smooth and no problems with chimera or phoenix. But I CANT take down shaper. I tried him like 4 times already and never managed to kill him. Is the build viable for shaper?
I stand at 7.5k+ life and I think my gear is descent. I like this build but now I'm thinking of respecting in a shield charge build. My profile is public if you want to check it on pob.
Thanks a lot!

I use 6 jewels with minions damage on most of them.

Sooo...
Shaper can be done with a fraction of your gear, what is causing you to fail the sets?
It does feel like the problem lies in experience with the fight or simply not executing it well enough, positioning is key for the build to function but I honestly can't see how you can upgrade the gear further that will help the fight result.

I know karvarousku did Shaper without Baron in a +2 5L staff which pretty much is identical to this build.

"

Ghazzy wrote:

Hey,
Pardon the delayed response, as you stated, I've been extremely busy with the spectre stuffs!

"

adrienvictor wrote:

Hey Ghazzy and everyone! Hope you are not too busy with the new patch and specters' new mechanics.

I was wondering if you could give me some tips and feedback about my build. I'm running t15 maps super smooth and no problems with chimera or phoenix. But I CANT take down shaper. I tried him like 4 times already and never managed to kill him. Is the build viable for shaper?
I stand at 7.5k+ life and I think my gear is descent. I like this build but now I'm thinking of respecting in a shield charge build. My profile is public if you want to check it on pob.
Thanks a lot!

I use 6 jewels with minions damage on most of them.

Sooo...
Shaper can be done with a fraction of your gear, what is causing you to fail the sets?
It does feel like the problem lies in experience with the fight or simply not executing it well enough, positioning is key for the build to function but I honestly can't see how you can upgrade the gear further that will help the fight result.

I know karvarousku did Shaper without Baron in a +2 5L staff which pretty much is identical to this build.

No worries man, and thanks for taking time answering!

You might be true about the lack of experience in the fight, even though I watched some videos about his mechanics and how to deal with them. However I also feel life I'm unable to cast the srs fast enough to cause enough damage to the shaper. I usually die once or twice during P1 and P2 from lack of attention (100% on me), but I get wrecked during P3, taking more time dodging the vortex balls than casting and damaging him.
But if you say that the gear and build is ok for it, then I just need to practice more :)

thanks again and I hope the update on specters GGG is planning for next week will make everybody happy!