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pat_hibulaire escreveu:

thanks for your explanation !
i'm back here sooner than i expected, i have an issue with CWDT, really strange one i think :
My setup is exactly the same as in your guide (CWDT lvl 2, bone offering and desecrate lvl 8, and purity of flame lvl 12), unfortunately desecrate and purity of flame don't want to be triggered
I can see bone offering been triggered when i take the good amount of damage, i can't see what the problem can be ? if somebody have an idea, it would be really a good help :)

ps : my first thought was that purity of flame and desecrate are triggered and i don't see it, but purity of flame is foolproof, i can't miss it no ?

thanks again and excuse my poor english xD

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AndyLovesHisBge escreveu:

I am level 89 and I swear I have never seen Purifying Flame go off either.

Other people have mentioned it in the thread as well.

Our gems are set up correctly so I just have assume my eyes are not good enough to see it as the colors of Purifying Flame are very close to the same colors my Holy Relic uses when it procs so one might be hiding in the other.

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GrunkleBob escreveu:

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AndyLovesHisBge escreveu:

I remember from long ago, that if you link Blood Magic with Raise Specter, that specters like Carnage Chief and Ruins Hellions would be much more likely to use their spells (for frenzy and war cry).

Is this still true? I have been wondering if I could replace Elemental Army in my Raise Specter set up with Blood Magic...

Yes if you can fit it in, it is immediately noticeable.
That sounds like an excellent plan as I play my necro with defensive specters.

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AndyLovesHisBge escreveu:

ok I just added Blood Magic in place of Elemental Army.

The Ape is certainly benefiting from it. Instead of barely 1 frenzy charge, I now see 2 and 3 commonly when mapping.

I do not know what to look for though to see if the Hellion is benefiting. I can't make out in the confusion how often he is war crying but I am going to assume it is working.

I can't tell what the down size of this is yet since I ran out of red maps entirely. I am hoping losing the Elemental Army resists won't be too big a deal for the specters. According to POB I won't miss Elemental Army at all as I have max resists on my specters with out it.

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darkz0r escreveu:

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Having a lot of fun with this build. Thanks for this great guide!

Started to play in beta and played on and off. The last time I really played was when the multi fireball caster specters from Solaris were the meta lol.

I started doing T1 maps now, finished the story with like 2-3 deaths due to being stupid so really a great leveling experience. Borrowed the leveling strategy from Kay's guide ;P

Two things I changed but I know for higher map tiers I might need to adjust is:
-no minion life gems (all out dmg build so far)
-got all the dmg / curse passives first now I'm getting life nodes

For leveling it worked great!
I'm only lacking a 6s chest which I'll probably just buy.

Not sure if you added it to the main post and I missed it but which gems are worth maxing quality? I'm thinking curses (For range), zombies...and that's it?

I'm using slave drivers as specters with echo, dmg, and feeding frenzy atm.
Used kitava heralds for a while and they are very awesome as well! There's so many good specters nowadays.

I still didn't try redemption sentries and redemption knights since apparently they are better for mapping.

Some bosses are taking more than 3secs to die, so I suppose in a few map tiers I'll start to run into problems :S everything else dies in seconds!

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AlleyKat777 escreveu:

Well thought out, and explained very well. I liked how you explained the interaction of this or that, if someone wanted to know. Many times, a person will post a build, and say TADA... here it is. without letting you know why it works. ;)

Keep up the awesome work. :)

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Wrecker_of_Days escreveu:

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AndyLovesHisBge escreveu:

ok I just added Blood Magic in place of Elemental Army.

The Ape is certainly benefiting from it. Instead of barely 1 frenzy charge, I now see 2 and 3 commonly when mapping.

I do not know what to look for though to see if the Hellion is benefiting. I can't make out in the confusion how often he is war crying but I am going to assume it is working.

I can't tell what the down size of this is yet since I ran out of red maps entirely. I am hoping losing the Elemental Army resists won't be too big a deal for the specters. According to POB I won't miss Elemental Army at all as I have max resists on my specters with out it.

Hey AndyLovesHisBge! Elemental Army was to Raise the max resists of the linked minions. Just more survivability. But only needing 1 Chief for charges is a big perk too...it's a hard choice.

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Caligula_Exile escreveu:

Whatt about Blood Offering? It's a skill granted by the unique armour Bloodbond.

Would its effects be applied to the witch, too, if she has Mistress of Sacrifice?

I calculated that she would get more life in return than she sacrifices. But I'm a noob and I suck at maths :)

The effects of Blood Offering sound quite impressive:

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Base duration is 5 seconds
Additional 1 seconds Base Duration per extra corpse Consumed
Sacrifices 20% of your Life
Minions Regenerate 35% of Sacrificed Life per second
10% more Life Regeneration granted to Minions per corpse Consumed
Grants Minions 50% increased Damage

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subliminaldelta escreveu:

Is Empower the best 6th gem if you're not going Meat Shield?

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AndyLovesHisBge escreveu:

I did a ton of early red maps yesterday, including a bunch of conquerors for watchstones, and I did not see the specters health ever go down even with no Elemental Army.

I will continue to monitor this closely but maybe EA is overkill given the stats we have.

Also, the cluster node Life From Death is so OP for this build, it may be covering any issue with removing EA up.

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M_atrix escreveu:

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0nyX escreveu:

rallying cry (taunts mob, reduces pphysica dmg by 30% and grants +15% damage buff)

Ok, but how do you know that it gives exactly 15% damage buff? Doesn't it buff the minions based on your weapon's physical damage stats? Or it works differently than a rallying cry gem?