Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

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mi78005 escreveu:

Hello, nice build, playing it from the start.
From beginning it was great, but now i sometimes play red maps and i fell like AW's don't do that much damage, they have a hard time with conquerors.
Any thoughts?

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ThanatoZGaming escreveu:

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mi78005 escreveu:

Hello, nice build, playing it from the start.
From beginning it was great, but now i sometimes play red maps and i fell like AW's don't do that much damage, they have a hard time with conquerors.
Any thoughts?

Your wand has added cold damage to spells so EE is not working - in fact, it's buffing bosses and reducing your DPS. That would be your problem.

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mi78005 escreveu:

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ThanatoZGaming escreveu:

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mi78005 escreveu:

Hello, nice build, playing it from the start.
From beginning it was great, but now i sometimes play red maps and i fell like AW's don't do that much damage, they have a hard time with conquerors.
Any thoughts?

Your wand has added cold damage to spells so EE is not working - in fact, it's buffing bosses and reducing your DPS. That would be your problem.

Hi, yeah i thought about that while writing my first reply, i dont cast bladefall that often, only at the start of the map, and before i enter the arena. If the AW's disappear i usually cast them and then continue mapping so i dont hit mobs while casting bladefall.

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ThanatoZGaming escreveu:

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mi78005 escreveu:

Hitting the boss with fire/lightning damage when you have EE gives them -50 cold resistance. It effectively doubles your DPS. If you're having trouble with conquerors it's because you're not using bladefall to trigger EE on them.

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MasterJawa escreveu:

Hello there!

So far so good, the build is running really well! I was looking for the alternate quality gems that have been provided by heist and some have caught my attention but I can't decide myself what to take so I would like your opinion about them :

- Flesh offering has by default 10% increased skill effect duration which is quiet useless with "trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill". But you can have instead "grants minions 0.4% of damage leeched as life" or "grants minions 10% increased attack speed". The attack speed sounds the best for me but the leech life could provide a good survivability to my animated weapons which can die quiet easily sometimes.

- Storm brand has by default 10% increased cast speed but with the "trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" it becomes quiet useless. You can have instead "10% increased area of effect", "20% chance to chain an additional time" or "20% increased effect of shock". The increased area effect and chance to chain an additional time seem like the best to have but what is your wisdom for these ?

- For animate weapon, do you keep the 20% increased movement speed or do you take the 20% chance to animate a second weapon ?

- Melee Splash Support has 10% increased area of effect to supported skills, but we can have instead "20% increased melee damage to supported skills" or "40% more damage to surrounding targets to supported skills". Do we keep or do we change, and for what ?

Thanks for reading me!

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ThanatoZGaming escreveu:

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MasterJawa escreveu:

Hello there!

So far so good, the build is running really well! I was looking for the alternate quality gems that have been provided by heist and some have caught my attention but I can't decide myself what to take so I would like your opinion about them :

- Flesh offering has by default 10% increased skill effect duration which is quiet useless with "trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill". But you can have instead "grants minions 0.4% of damage leeched as life" or "grants minions 10% increased attack speed". The attack speed sounds the best for me but the leech life could provide a good survivability to my animated weapons which can die quiet easily sometimes.

- Storm brand has by default 10% increased cast speed but with the "trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" it becomes quiet useless. You can have instead "10% increased area of effect", "20% chance to chain an additional time" or "20% increased effect of shock". The increased area effect and chance to chain an additional time seem like the best to have but what is your wisdom for these ?

- For animate weapon, do you keep the 20% increased movement speed or do you take the 20% chance to animate a second weapon ?

- Melee Splash Support has 10% increased area of effect to supported skills, but we can have instead "20% increased melee damage to supported skills" or "40% more damage to surrounding targets to supported skills". Do we keep or do we change, and for what ?

Thanks for reading me!

That is a good question and you hit on most of the useful alternate quality gems already. I added a section in "gems" on the main post to elaborate on this, thanks for bringing it up.

"For animate weapon, do you keep the 20% increased movement speed or do you take the 20% chance to animate a second weapon" - I've tried this and I like it as a substitute for the helmet enchant. Just need to make sure the rest of gear is really good for minion speed!