[3.X?] ALL Content! Lv100 Huy's OG Summon Raging Spirits Necromancer Guide - .:The Druid:.

I am using the new chest, BloodBond, even in maps now I think - the Blood Offering is very good! Chest gives also up to 25% increased life.

Maybe better then a Belly cause of the 50% minion damage from the offering? (+ regen, life, dodge for minions) At least much cheaper, although you have to link it yourself cause no one did yet or sells it, I have 5link atm. only.

Also you can use this Blood offering and any other like Flesh the same time, and they do not overwrite but stack!?

For SRS my question is to put it in 4link +2 Minion Helmet or in a 5link Chest? And what to put in the other then. (Zombies maybe? I even used a Spelltotem SRS in addition, fills up to the 20 srs maximum alot faster, or you can place it and move on) I see you put CWDT 4link setup there, I did not need that yet, playing softcore but 0 deaths.

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XxXFioraMaster18XxX wrote:

What I look for in jewels

+X Life
+X increased minion damage if you have used a minion skill recently
+X Minions have increased movement speed
And a fourth mod is gravy

When I will have enough movement speed on jewels I will drop minion speed Gem.

I'd like to talk more about jewels:

There are so many options for jewels now. I'm curious how "increased minion damage" does compared to affixes like "minions deal X to Y additional [physical|cold|fire|chaos]" damage. There are even "minions [attack|cast] X% faster" which seem fairly strong as well. What is the priority on those from a raw damage point of view?

That's before getting into the utility jewels, "minions have X% chance to blind on hit with attacks". I feel that's a very useful perhaps underrated utility gem.

Abyss jewels are making this super exciting.

Then let's compare the old 7% maximum health to +35 health. Even worth looking at the old style this league?

Anybody done any testing with the 'minions have x% chance to Taunt on hit with attacks' mod on Abyss Jewels? I am currently playing HC and think this could be really strong.

Here is what the poe wiki says about Taunt:

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Taunts cause an affected enemy to focus aggro – spells, attacks and movement – on the character that inflicted it for 3 seconds. Taunted enemies deal 10% less damage to targets that aren't the source of the taunt (including in PvP).[1] Taunt immediately expires when the character that applied it dies.

When multiple players are taunting the same enemy, the first person to taunt takes aggro. The targeted player can maintain aggro indefinitely as long as it maintains its taunt on the target.

Since the SRS is hitting almost everything, this would mean if the mobs hit anything else they instantly do 10% less damage. In addition to being taunted...

What does everyone else think?

On the SRS gem it says: Minions CANNNOT Taunt enemies.

What about my post above about BloodBond Chest?

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On the SRS gem it says: Minions CANNNOT Taunt enemies.

Well that kills that idea. Good spot.

Not too sure about the bloodbond chest as I haven't test it out. I am currently running a 5L.

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For SRS my question is to put it in 4link +2 Minion Helmet or in a 5link Chest?

I did some playing withing PoB... Looks like 5L always wins out overall. The gems I used for the test were

SRS (Lv21) -> Melee Phys(Lv19) -> Melee Splash(Lv19) -> Minion Damage(Lv21) results in 4972.6 DPS.


SRS (Lv19) -> Melee Phys(Lv19) -> Melee Splash(Lv19) -> Minion Damage(Lv19) -> Ruthless(Lv19) results in 5230 DPS.

** I personally use Minion Speed instead of Ruthless however.

Need more basic builds like this for beginners! Exactly how I started my first SRS Summoner way back when. +

Very well written guide! Thank you!

Is it recommended to skip Mind over Matter for another Aura like some do now? (Haste for dmg/speed or Arctic Armor?)

saw some Elder helmets with

Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 18 Immolate
Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 18 Minion Damage

could definitely use this with SRS, just have Chance to Ignite in the links, and no ele focus
so it's like 5.5 link SRS

Then you can use your chest for something else like spectres maybe, use a Vis Mortis etc
Wickerman and Burned Miscreations will keep things around burning, as do the Vanguard spectre's scorching ray totems to proc the Immolate

If your lucky, maybe even a +2 to socketed Minion gems....

ye, getting nice rare for srs or spectres is good, but i have no idea how to search for them

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Tannhauser1 wrote:

Is it recommended to skip Mind over Matter for another Aura like some do now? (Haste for dmg/speed or Arctic Armor?)

mom had been taken only for mana bonus. i specced off all mana and stat nodes, using atziri foible instead, fair tradeoff as for me, 4 points(at least) is alot