Optimal Skeleton Mage Helm Crafting Guide

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vladimirkunaev wrote:

Why not bone helmet?
Is minion healf and reservation - better then damage?

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Drantho wrote:

I don't play a whole lot, but would you put your summon skeletons in this helmet or put them in a 6L for more support gems?

Regardless really good crafting tutorial :D

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Anomaly33 wrote:

Step 1: Buy an ilvl 86+ base.

Step 2: Use Greater or Grand Eldritch Ichors until you hit the Reservation Efficiency implicit. Which Ichor will be most cost efficient depends entirely on your luck throughout the process. Personally I'd recommend Grand.

Step 3: Buy 3 (if you used Grand Ichors in step 2) or 4 (if you used Greater) Lesser Eldritch Embers and use 1 on the helm. The mod does not matter for now.

Step 4: Buy 3 or 4 (based on the same condition) Craicic Chimerals and Orbs of Conflict to start off. You will need this many minimum but probably a couple more in the next steps with average or bad luck.

Step 5: Go to the Menagerie, add all of your Chimerals and create 1 imprint of the helm (it has to be magic quality; scour and/or transmute if needed)

Step 6: Use 1 Orb of Conflict on the helm.

Step 7 A: If you failed (the value of Res Efficiency went down and value of the random Ember implicit went up) use your imprint to restore the helm to its previous state, create another imprint using a Chimeral and repeat step 6.

Step 7 B: If you succeeded (the value of Res Efficiency went up and the random Ember implicit disappeared) destroy the imprint you created previously, use another Ember to get a random 2nd implicit, and create a new imprint to save your progress. Repeat steps 6 and 7 until you've upgraded Res Efficiency to the highest tier (12%)

Step 8: Buy and use Exceptional Eldritch Embers until you hit Minion Life.


Step 9 (optional): Use Perfect Fossils in Primitive Resonators until the helm's quality is 30%. Can be a little bit wasteful with even slightly bad luck but this is the last opportunity you'll have to perfect the helm without having to redo a ton of work.

Step 10: Use Deafening Essences of Greed until you hit +3 Minion Gems.

Step 11: If there is a 3rd prefix other than Life and +3 Minion Gems, use Orbs of Annulment until 1 of the prefixes is removed. If you removed Life or +3 Minon Gems repeat step 10. If the unwanted prefix was removed or there wasn't one to begin with, move on to step 12.

Step 12: Bench craft +1 Zombies and Skeletons.

Step 13: Use Eldritch Chaos Orbs until you have 2 or 3 suffixes that you're happy with.

Step 14 (optional): If there are 3 suffixes, use an Eldritch Orb of Annulment. If you removed one of the suffixes you wanted, repeat step 13. If you're still happy with the 2 remaining suffixes, buy a Fenumus and take it to the Menagerie to craft Aspect of the Spider on your helm.

Step 15: Smile :)

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vladimirkunaev wrote:

Can you do it on 82 ilvl base?

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Vennto wrote:

This is a very wasteful low- to mid tier craft.

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Vennto wrote:

The strongest skeleton helmet will always the skeletons in the helmet combined with minion damage and hypothermia to add empower 4 to the setup. The 12% mana reservation efficiency is okayish but way too expensive when u can later on simply run enlighten 4 with the new gem slot opened from a shaper/elder bone helmet.