[2.0]Rathik's NEWBIE FRIENDLY FUN&CHEAP FARMER, DPS Summoner. High AOE DMG, SURVIVAL."The Matriarch"

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Elvadier wrote:

It seems to me like there are two major ways to play the summoner.

Either:
A. You want Minion Instability and the ability to explode your 10-15k hp zombies and do some serious fire damage. This means that your zombies are disposable. And that means your spectres are fragile. I assume the OP wanted this type of behavior.
B. You don't want your spectres to die. Which means that your Zombies are going to become more tanky as a result. This also means you want to avoid MI as it will drop the EHP of your minions (inc spectres) by 35%.

And in every single guide of Summoners there is a statement regarding trouble with groups.
Given I'm trying for plan B (sorry for high jacking OP).

In attempting to keep your pets alive, the general strategy is to run Purity and Vitality for your pets. One to bring the resistances from 23% to 50%
Vit because 1.5% regen on 10k-15k is 150-225hp per sec which is greater than 110hp for
Rejuv totem.

The biggest item that I have discovered for minion survival is Springleaf with necromatic aegis.
Springleaf is a cheap unique provides +6% hp regen during Low Life for your pets plus 10% resist to all which brings resists to 60% for all minions.
That 7.5% regen is about 750+ hp/sec when minions are below 3500hp. Which is an incredible regen rate.

While I'm not doing 72+ maps yet. I very rarely lose a zombie let alone a spectre.

This means that I can run 2 RF aura and 1 degenerate chaos bear for maximum passive damage.
To aid those pets, I run cold EE via totems (either LMP Arctic breath, inc aoe ice nova or LMP freeze pulse). I don't run spark because that would put lightning on +25% resist which is rarely good I groups.

To add damage to my RF, I support with Inc burning, inc aoe, inc minion life and item rarity.
I'm not 100% sure how IIR/IIQ works for summoned pets. So I usually drop down to Low Life and use those +100% rarity boots when I cast my pets on the chance it is a snapshot process. That brings them up to +250% without too much useful gear.
Final benefit for damage is using Elemental Weakness and Vunerability which increases dots and more physical damage for Zombies and Skeles.

In general, because I'm running hybrid hp/ES, it is my lowish (~1200) hp and negative chaos resist that is killing me once every 10th map.

Also. RF and degen bears don't cause much lag which means they are easier on groups.

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Saerah wrote:

Question:

1. Why inner force passive? what does this passive help?
2. is everyone using this build have exactly 8 zombies and 2 spectrals? is that enough for mapping?

Thanks in advance!!

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Saerah wrote:

Congratz :)

may i know what is ur iiq?