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I use Purity of Elements and Clarity + a rejuvenation totem. Purity of elements is useful not only to minions, is used to cap all resists for me. Clarity I use because I´m always summoning weapons from animate weapon, it´s not a bad spell in the higher levels if you put good support to them. Sometimes I have 9 zombies, 12 skeletons, 3 spectres and 5 or 6 weapons.
Rejuvenation totem as people said is one of the best spells of the game, more than 100 life per second when level 20.
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Posted byAlucarda2013#0906on Mar 7, 2014, 4:05:04 PM
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I've been playtesting Wrath + Hatred and stuff just melts. There is a big difference. I ran half a Dry Peninsula map with Wrath + Hatred and half with Hatred + Purity and there was no mistaking how much faster everything died. L20 Zombies, Faster Attacks -> Melee Splash -> Item Rarity -> Multistrike, and L19 gem BMs with Concentrated Effect -> Minion Damage -> Rarity. No shapshot, no + minion stuff on gear. I am leveling Vitality and Determination to try out next. I do feel my minions are a little squishy but Purity doesn't seem to help much. May have better luck with Vitality/Defiance. My build has %70 increased aura effect.
well you are using wrath and hatred , which is two damage auras in a 6l i am guessing which is a good option now that the big specter was obliterated.
You have to understand that capped resists isnt special it is expected, so getting purity to max minion resists is in reality nothing more than checking off an item on the list of prerequisites. alone it wont do much of anything in merci.
As for making minions tanky, the big thing is actually block and blind. having block and blind dramatically increases minion durability to a silly level.
(this is why you should always keep slots open for both flesh and bone offering)
Minions have no base evasion and arguably inconsequential armor so using grace and determination while cool to have is only good if nothing better exists ... which isnt the case at all.
grace is a numerical aura. its extremely good both for minions and yourself.
having free 3k evasion for minions is VERY helpful. if you use blind or/and enfeeble, its even more amazing.
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Posted bygrepman#2451on Mar 7, 2014, 4:19:17 PM
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Sorry for necro....but would anyone care to post their skill tree or link to a build they are using? I figure I'm just supposed to get all the summon nodes with +1 to zombies...but I don't know how to prioritize any remaining life nodes with the increased aura buff nodes....and which of those nodes I need next. All the reduced mana reserve?
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Posted bybubblehulk#4598on Mar 29, 2014, 12:28:49 PM
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