What's the ideal weapon for summoners?

What's the ideal weapon that isn't midnight bargain and is still a onehand... this is assuming a full summoner build that uses no spells.

I would suggest you this

I use only 3 Spectres but they are enough firepower, I also use Necromantic Aegis to boost my minions resistances with this!

sword costs something like 1-3 chaos, and shield 2-4chaos.

If you need any more help visit my build: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/335777

EDIT: It depends on your build, but for heavy ES that sword boosts your ES by about the same amount as Discipline.

I use a different approach, focusing on sheer clear speed, When your spectre kill fast there is no need to re-summon zombies.

HP/EB summoner with 6 auras



I know u mentioned no MB, but its worth it. IF your going the es route above poster option is very good. Other wise there are a number of options(for rares)

chaos resist on weapon
spell damage
mana
mp regen
cast speed

I play hardcore so midnight bargain is both expensive and risky. I run a hybrid build with 2kish ES and 3k+ HP. I use double curses but no spells of note.

Thanks for the suggestion chrisstian. I do have that but it doesn't give me much at all.. of course it's ideal for CI builds. I currently use a wand with 55 regen/mana. Guess I should look for a weapon with chaos.

My two carries... I'm pretty weird tho.

IMO its a waste not to link your minion casting skills as a minimum 4-link
so my view is that putting it in the weapon slot is not an option

I personally use Moonsorrow with an angelic kite shield. With Auras and Curses gems on it.
Love the moonsorrow as the blind effect is a perfect offensive & defensive ability.

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mattc3303 wrote:

I use a different approach, focusing on sheer clear speed, When your spectre kill fast there is no need to re-summon zombies.

HP/EB summoner with 6 auras

I know u mentioned no MB, but its worth it. IF your going the es route above poster option is very good. Other wise there are a number of options(for rares)

chaos resist on weapon
spell damage
mana
mp regen
cast speed

That can be true, but face some fire golems or GMP incinerators and your minions die like a fly. My build focuses to minimize risk of losing minions (and such your main defense and firepower) to any enemy possible.

I runned a 4 spectre build and the clearing speed was better, but loosing many minions at one spell was often really annoying so I switched to a more lazy build to play and not worry too much about your minions.

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That can be true, but face some fire golems or GMP incinerators and your minions die like a fly.

Yeah i noticed the main problem was fire damage to your minions. The damage from rolling fire golems or that fire trap from incinerators is pretty insane.

I'll give aegis a try its just i have been using and my own resist is suffering for IIR

I been doing 71+ maps and the only time I encounter a problem is when I see those freaken incinerator elementals lol. You can kite them with a skele totem and ranged spectres thou. Resummoning zombies isn't a problem it just sucks to lose a good spectre to those things.

I'm in the mid 50's. I've been using



I've been looking around for the Summoner Wand, and Shield. I have an ilvl 71 2h'd summoner sword, but I've kind of given up on trying to get it to actually roll good sockets + Links.