[2.1 Ghazzy - Summoner Guides] Low Budget Builds

no sockets in the 6key tree? will you update it or are there no nice summoner gems around? .)

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Ghazzy wrote:

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danteafk wrote:

i wonder why someone should pick the srs hybrid build over the key summoner? both are basically using the same gems and the key summoner has much more zombies/skeletons to cast? (= more survivability?)



also, how do you destroy fast barrels and chests, clicking on each of them?

SRS Hybrid can easier handle Atziri and is more focused on pure DPS, whilst the keystone is moving slightly away from atziri capabilities and instead focuses on defensive stats.

Regarding Barrels: Change chaos golem and/or implement a Flame Dash it is a very nice comfortable playstyle with it!

thanks, so the keystone summoner would be more viable for tempest? I do not intend to do atziri.

Hey guys,

I have just released a beginners leveling guide for witches and scions on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qpbwKn-DPs

I hope it'll be helpful at least for some of you!

Hey Ghazzy. I really like your build. Thanks for the great guide! :)

Question:
What does "Minion Cast Speed" do?

Is "Culling Strike" better than "Multistrike"?

I'm really enjoying the build.

I'm wondering though what gems and when you take them out to have 3 vaal haste's ready for atziri.

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Erych wrote:

Hey Ghazzy. I really like your build. Thanks for the great guide! :)

Question:
What does "Minion Cast Speed" do?

Is "Culling Strike" better than "Multistrike"?

Hey,

Minion Cast Speed? Does not exist?

Multistrike is better tahn Culling Strike but has such an insanely high mana multiplier making it almost impossible to use unless you have sick mana regen including Pledge of Hands, which is another reason to why Pledge is better.

Even with pledge it's in most cases not enough, hence why i have not chosen to display it.

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kamap wrote:

I'm really enjoying the build.

I'm wondering though what gems and when you take them out to have 3 vaal haste's ready for atziri.

Hey,

Chaos Golem
Spectre
1-2 Unset Rings

There is always ways of tweaking the sockets to make it work ;)

Hallo Ghazzy! Me again :D

What are your thoughts on using Fortify for zombies/skeletons?

In an effort to give myself more free sockets, I'm planning to link Zombies AND Skeletons together so I can give them both the same support gems. In a 5L this would be:
-Summon Skeletons
-Raise Zombie
-Spell Totem
-Multistrike
-???

I was thinking Fortify would offer the best combination of damage reduction and offence, but it seems a bit too good to be true.

I really hate Zombies and Skeletons, any way to make this a little bit more face-tanky, investing in life maybe picking up Acrobatics and runing Grace? I played arount the tree a bit and it seems doable but only at really high levels or with Pledge so you can skip some mana nodes.

Also i never really played evasion characters, can you facetank a pack with decent CWDT setup, 5k life, 6-7k evasion and acrobatics?

why is MoM actually taken in the zoomancer build if 100% mana is reserved? does it do anything then?

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Thauma wrote:

Hallo Ghazzy! Me again :D

What are your thoughts on using Fortify for zombies/skeletons?

In an effort to give myself more free sockets, I'm planning to link Zombies AND Skeletons together so I can give them both the same support gems. In a 5L this would be:
-Summon Skeletons
-Raise Zombie
-Spell Totem
-Multistrike
-???

I was thinking Fortify would offer the best combination of damage reduction and offence, but it seems a bit too good to be true.

Hey hey,

I am not a big fan of using Fortify for the main source of damage minions. However, if you are using them as meatshields, by all means gogogo.

Skeletons... nope noooope, nooooooooooope, NOOOOOOOOOOOOPE! Linking Fortify with Skeletons is a complete waste unless you are making some sort of niche build making them JUST survive Atziri flameblasts to work as suicide bombers which still wouldnt be very reliable nor effective.

Keep in mind that minions does less damage being summoned via a Spell Totem, hence why i only use skeletons in a spell totem to literally act as meat for the grinder (aka Decoy Targets that dies in 1-2 hits)!

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Ignjat wrote:

I really hate Zombies and Skeletons, any way to make this a little bit more face-tanky, investing in life maybe picking up Acrobatics and runing Grace? I played arount the tree a bit and it seems doable but only at really high levels or with Pledge so you can skip some mana nodes.

Also i never really played evasion characters, can you facetank a pack with decent CWDT setup, 5k life, 6-7k evasion and acrobatics?

I'm fresh on evasion characters as well, just started branching out to other builds in my stream. Starting with an Icecream trapper in Tempest. Going great but is also focusing on ES!

Facetanking things with a non-tank focused build will always be dangerous imo.

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danteafk wrote:

why is MoM actually taken in the zoomancer build if 100% mana is reserved? does it do anything then?

Eldritch Battery moves your entire Energy Shield pool over your mana, and makes all your mana cost take from the Energy Shield pool first before touching the mana pool. This allows us to reserv 100% of our mana pool whilst still being able to cast spells and having Zealot's Oath gives us a lot of regen to that Energy Shield pool to sustain spells and the damage taken from MoM which also is directed over to your Energy Shield before touching the mana pool.


Basically Eldritch Battery makes the Energy Shield "protect" your mana pool rather than your life pool. Which works just fine with MoM :)