Insane Undead Army...

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Udja wrote:

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GoatEatingToilet wrote:

No, adding multiple raise zombie gems will not increase the amount of zombies you can raise beyond 8 at most (with passives). This used to not be the case and it was abused by those who did not think it was an exploit. The devs, however, did realize it as a bug/exploit and fixed it with the release of patch 9.12

I can't see how it would be considered an exploit. You can have two, let's say, cleave gems that are modified differently - one with fire and one with frost. Now you can use one cleave with frost and one with fire. Not seeing how utilizing 2 separate zombie gems would be considered an sploit. I would have one group doing frost dmg and one group doing fire dmg - how much fun would THAT be lol!

You don't even know how OP it actually was. Saw a video were a guy all of his shortcuts filled with different level zombies. He had about 20-30 zombies out.

Tell me that isn't OP.

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ciknay wrote:

You don't even know how OP it actually was. Saw a video were a guy all of his shortcuts filled with different level zombies. He had about 20-30 zombies out.

Tell me that isn't OP.

Yup, here is the video you were talking about. Awesome to see, but also showcases just how much of an exploit it was.

here is where i'm currently at with my summoner. i use straight firestorm, no supports...mostly for opening lootable corpses and cairns. typical start after logging in is to go to a low level area, get my 9 zombies (i get 1 extra from a unique). then i go back to the area i want to farm and enfeeble/vulnerability the mobs and let skeletons/zombies do their work. i only use clarity aura at this time.

here is where i'm currently at with my summoner. i use straight firestorm, no supports...mostly for opening lootable corpses and cairns. typical start after logging in is to go to a low level area, get my 9 zombies (i get 1 extra from a unique). then i go back to the area i want to farm and enfeeble/vulnerability the mobs and let skeletons/zombies do their work. i only use clarity aura at this time.

A comment for the above build - Chaos Inoculation is incompatible with midnight bargain. If you are lucky to get one. And anyway you life&ES doesn't make sense, because no monster can touch you.
I found summoner witch build as one of the most common in game. And for me it is the easiest to play. My 44lvl witch at ruthless diff. doesn't have a chance to make a kill - skeletons, zombies and spectres do all the job very quickly, all big bosses (including Oversoul) die in seconds. Maybe things will change at Merciful. After patch 0.9.12 zombies go with you between areas - it was a huge relief. So the only difficulty was to go through normal to get enough skill points and level to gather an army. After finding minion gem +1 mod hat and buying unique boots the army was ready.
The final point is to get Midnight Bargain.

I wonder if chest armour with minion gem +1 mod can be crafted/found. Then 6S 6L armour can be more powerful gear, than Midnight Bargain.

Thanks for all the replies :) Currently, I'm at 10 perms and can summon an additional 11 skeletons. Just need to find the rares now for the added minions. I'll probably add hex master and the one that adds an additional curse as I'm sticking to pure necromancer/hexer with totem/fire trap support.