{3.2.0} Spectral Gods: [Life Based Spectre/Golem Hybrid Summoner | Clear Speed | End Game Bossing]

Hey, where can I find a good NEC league starter build? I don't really like SRS and I'm clueless.

Great guide; very thorough! Any thoughts now that the patch notes are out? What do you think about the Unending Hunger buff?

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tkgroovy wrote:

Very nice guide, thank you for writing everything down!
I'm gonna try this build in 2.6 and just want to point out the new Covenant as a good option for the chestpiece.

Thanks! That extra added chaos link is really nice but since gems in there are blood magic'd you can't raise your golem/spectre going CI. Good for a hybrid defense build.

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Hi OP, I only every played Animate Weapon before and I exclusively play on HC. I was looking at playing another summon build and was wondering if it is viable for farming Atziri, Uber Atziri or Shaper. I have done all of the hard content on HC with no problem, just new to summoners.

Hi.
Regular Atziri it's pretty reliable and easy.
There is enough dps for guardians as well you just need to avoid the one shot abilities. But with enough es stacking on your character u should be safe.

Had not attempted shaper or uber atziri on the build yet so i'm not sure yet. I'll see if I can do a few practice runs in std and record a run.

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Pheu wrote:

Hey, where can I find a good NEC league starter build? I don't really like SRS and I'm clueless.

There is a very cheap life based classic summoner floating on this forum somewhere. Check the witch build sticky.

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Silver77s wrote:

Great guide; very thorough! Any thoughts now that the patch notes are out? What do you think about the Unending Hunger buff?

Thanks! Unending hunger is a lot better now that you can get 100% but if the mechanics don't change I still see it having the same problems as before. Spectre need to be medium range or closer to get souls, only 1 spectre can get 1 soul at a time, can't use vaal skills. I'll give the jewel another try.

Other then that the zombie range increase and lower slam cd is pretty sweet. We might be able to see 100% zombie builds popup.

Tree update.

I made some adjustments to the build to tackle endgame bosses. To increase survivability for our toon and our minions I dropped Anger and traveled to the aura reserve cluster between shadow and ranger. This lets us pick up triple purities and discipline.

With 63% all resistance to work with gear will be a lot easier to manage. You can probably save a lot of currency from having to buy high es pieces with high resistances. This makes the build a lot more flexible with your glove and accessories choices.

The new +3 unset will also allow us to gain one extra max res for any of our purities. Having 82+ max res for both minions and our toon will be a massive boost to our defenses.

The newly buffed vis mortis will max out at 400es now making it a much more viable choice to pick up now. This gives us +1 spectre in exchange for a 300-350 es loss. Bear in mind a 6l vis is prob going to be much more expensive than a 6l es chest

500 pages are too much (btw. great work, so keep it up!)

I have only one question, which is not answered in FAQ. Have you tried the endgame content woith this build (Uber's, Shaper, Guardians) and do you think it is capable of doing them?

I really like the idea of spectres + golems combination and was planning on doing it 2.6.

Quick Question: I understand taking the Melding cluster, since you use a jewel to convert life to es, but what about Written in Blood? I can't figure out why you would take those 2 Life/ES nodes there, it can't be for the ES alone since it's only 5% per node if you factor in the travel node.

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tehregent wrote:

I have only one question, which is not answered in FAQ. Have you tried the endgame content woith this build (Uber's, Shaper, Guardians) and do you think it is capable of doing them?

I really like the idea of spectres + golems combination and was planning on doing it 2.6.

I did chimera and minotaur so far. Chimera seems to be the easiest of the two. The only phase where you can possibly die is the smoke cloud phase if your too slow to find him in time and maybe if 2-3 adds hits you at the same time. The rest of the fight your just standing off to the side procing your curse + ee.

I done minotaur several times as well but there does seem to be a problem if you roll too many damage mods. Everything starts to do some insane damage to your minions. I rolled 105% fire and 97% cold damage mods last night and the golems were dying too fast while spectre could only last like 4-5 blows.

Going to try necromantic aegis and rathpith globe with bone offering and see if minions blocking constantly will help. Also since these fights last way longer than the duration of vinktar's shock I think going to sustain game and picking up more defensive flasks will help a lot. Like stibnite, karui ward ect.

I'll start uploading these guardian fights once I nail down a good setup that can handle them with crazy mods.

I did some research and did see another summoner using the minion block nodes with great success. His channel shows him taking down all the endgame bosses including halls of grandmaster.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvFFFfQz_p4kzpfYchRtow

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DieKao wrote:

Quick Question: I understand taking the Melding cluster, since you use a jewel to convert life to es, but what about Written in Blood? I can't figure out why you would take those 2 Life/ES nodes there, it can't be for the ES alone since it's only 5% per node if you factor in the travel node.

It's actually slightly better than taking 3 6% es nodes. 10 int = 2% so its 17% es, 10str, some mana vs 18% es.

Quick question - If I'm looking at your tree right, you have 34% reduced mana reserved. With Disc+ 3 purities that's 96% mana reserved, are you left with enough mana to cast the golems/spectres?

You need to cast spectre/golem before turning on all your auras.

I'm thinking this build for starting one which i might not even switch for anything else, this will be my first time as summoner, so im totally confused alot.

Need a favor, poeurl seems down, can you give the link of tree as raw?