[2.2] Scion Clone Generator - Mirror + Blink Arrow Army (100K++ DPS) [Easy Atziri kills]

- Easily reach and go beyond 100k DPS
- Atziri viable - easy Atziri kill and Apex runs
- Safe from most incoming projectile and melee damage from enemies thanks to wall of clones
- Good clear speed
- Can go for high IIR & IIQ stats in your gear as damage mods is only required on bow+quiver
- Immune to reflect map mods - clones do all the fighting
- Does not require mana, runs on Eldritch Battery
- Summoner that can constantly be on the move, don't need to stand still like SRS summoners

- Might get tedious to continuously have to summon new clones
- Not advised to run Blood Magic map mod as the clones are much weaker without auras
- Minimal to practically no armor - Physical damage hits hard
- Minimal evasion - getting hit often
- No ES & Life Regen - ES converted due to Eldritch Battery & Life Regen goes to ES due to Zealot's Oath

To get the proper damage output of this build, we first need to look at the damage of the clones individually as the damage tooltip provided is not the damage of the clones/minion.

As some might be doubtful that the clone can go above 100k damage, individually, the clones can do about 10.2k damage with only 2 Auras and 6-link.

At any given time, there would be 8-16 clones alive. That is about 81k to 163k DPS from the army of clones.

Below is a simple calculation (hope I got all the calculations right), lemme know if anyone wants the excel, I can upload it.


The calculation takes into account the upcoming Cluster Trap support gem nerf which causes the less damage to apply to minion which it currently does not.

Build Enablers
First off, damage of the clones only comes from your Bow & Quiver added together, no other damage from any of your other gear is taken into account, always keep this in mind when gearing.

This build has 3 build enabling gear (these items is a must to make this build work due to the build having very low accuracy & the traps must trigger instantly upon deployment). The item required is a unique Lioneye's Glare Imperial Bow, Sunblast Cloth Belt & Cheap Construction Viridian Jewel

Lioneye's Glare provides the Hit's can't be evaded" mod which helps overcome the builds lack of accuracy and allow the clones to always hit.


Sunblast Cloth Belt is required to reduce the traps duration by 80%, but this is not enough to make it trigger instantly after being deployed.


Using 2 Cheap Construction Jewels along with Sunblast, the total trap duration is now -100% resulting in traps triggering automatically upon deployed. This will instantly summon a group of mirror/arrow clones.


Others
Any quiver with a high Increased Weapon Elemental Damage mod on it would great for increasing the clones damage. Additionally, getting a corrupted quiver with "Adds an Additional Arrow" will significantly help with clearing packs of enemies but not the boss as the clones cannot shotgun/hit the boss with more than 1 projectile in one attack.


For your helmet, gloves and boots, your aim should be to get pure or hybrid Energy Shield items as you will require a minimum of 600 ES to be able to continuously summon clones. If you have fairly high ES gear for helmet and boots. Updated to use Aurseize for IIR and all elemental resistance to help me reach resistance cap.


For Amulet, the aim would be to get a corrupted Sidhebreath Paua Amulet with the corrupted mod of "Minions deal % Increased Damage". As for rings, you should be aiming for resistances to reach 75% cap in merciless and as much life as you can. Item rarity is a bonus of course.


For chest armor. I was using a Tabula Rasa for the longest time until I got a cheap corrupted 6Link with the colors I wanted. The end goal would be to use a Victario's Influence to let me support 3 auras or at least 2 auras and Arctic Armor. Greed's Embrace is also an option, but another -20% movement speed would make you a tortoise...


Flask setup is cheap and simple as there is no unique flasks required, except for maybe Divination Distillate but I am I not too sure how one would use this flask cause build as it runs on Zealot's Oath. A good flask setup would.
1) 1x Staunching Flask - preferably on Life Flask
2) 1x Flask of Heat - preferably on Quicksilver or Granite
3) 1x Seething Life Flask - Instant heal flask with Profane Chemistry is very useful
4) 1x Catalysed Life Flask - You will have no life regen due to Zealot Oaths, so a gradual heal flask is good to counter any damage over time.
5) 1x Any Flask - Basalt, Amethyst, Adrenaline Quicksilver, etc.


For Jewels, get any Jewel with Minions deal X% increased Damage, X% Increased Maximum Life and All Elemental Resistance or a particular one to get your resistance to 75% cap. Anything more would be a bonus or that it won't apply to your clones.

The ideal setup would be a 6Link bow and 6Link body armor which would give both Mirror & Blink Arrow maximum damage. But this build functions just as well with a minimum of 4Link.

Yes, this build requires you to use both Mirror arrow and Blink arrow skills to ensure that you have a good supply of clones at your disposal. The trap cooldown is fast enough to have 100% clones uptime with just 1 skill alone. Therefore you are require to cycle through both skills to have a constant flow of clones on the battlefield.

A Blink Arrow and a Mirror Arrow skill gem is a required for this build. Quality is not a must but helps get your clones into battle more quickly.


Mirror & Blink Arrow should mainly supported by Trap + Cluster Traps + Minion Damage + Point Blank + Weapon Elemental Damage. These support gems are chosen due to the "More Damage" modifiers instead of "Increased Damage" as more damage provides a much higher damage multiplier.


Trap Cooldown support gem is a good option to replace Weapon Elemental Damage if you like to spam more traps/clones.


Some of you might be wondering how this build keeps its Energy Shield up to meet the high mana cost of a 5 or 6 linked blink/mirror arrow. This is achieved with the help of the Summon Stone Golem gem supported by Minion Life to help it stay alive longer. The flat life regen provided by the Stone Golem is convereted to ES regen which greatly helps with ES/mana sustain. Sharing the link is a Vaal Summon Skeleton used to handle bosses and Perandus Boxes or when wall-of-minions is required.


For curses, you can either run Projectile Weakness, Elemental Damage or Enfeeble. I am running an Enfeeble to reduce the odds of me dying in 1 hit due to low defenses. Curses are manually casted instead of a split arrow + curse on hit setup as I find it faster and requires less links.


Lastly is Auras of which I am currently running Anger & Wrath supported by Generosity to make the auras significantly better for the clones but useless to me personally.


To top if off, if you have a Vaal Haste gem, it would greatly increase your clones damage output when used.


There are probably 1 or 2 more slots left depending on your gear. Your options could be to run a Decoy Totem for even more survivalbility or Summon Spectre's like Chieftain Ape to give free Frenzy charge, etc.

Ascendancy
This build uses a Scion with the Saboteur & Slayer Ascendancy from Shadow and Duelist.

Saboteur was chosen as a key point for its "20% increased Cooldown Recovery Speed for throwing Traps" which is essential to keep a steady flow of clones and the "20% chance to create a Smoke Cloud" which has save my hide countless times.

After finding out that almost all mods from Deadeye are useless (does not apply to clones), I have decided to go with Slayer.

From my testing, the only bonus that applies to the clones are the "30% increased Damage against Rare and Unique Enemies". Don't see the" Always Stun Enemies that are on Full Life" in action unless its like 0.01 second or something... After running a few tier 9 maps, the 30% damage seems to be quite noticeable when clearing rares and map bosses.

Other options to replace Slayer would be Necromancer for 15% increased Damage while affected by Auras you Cast.

You can either choose to level as a summoner, archer or trapper initially until you unlock the Saboteur Ascendancy from Cruel. From there on end, you can switch to the build as a Clone Generating Trapper.

Bandits Quest
Normal Mode - Help Oak to get +40 Life
Cruel Mode - Kill all Bandits to get +1 Skill Point
Merciless Mode - Kill all Bandits to get +1 Skill Point


Skill Trees


Skill Tree at 50 Skill Points


Skill Tree at 80 Skill Points


Skill Tree at 100 Skill Points

Here are some videos of the character in action.

Rare Gorge Tier 9 (Done at level 84)

Rare Plateau Tier 10 (Done at level 89)

Rare Precinct Tier 11 (Done at level 89)

Rare Village Ruin Tier 12 (Done at level 90)

Unique Map - Death & Taxes (Done at level 90 with a silly death)

Refer to "Atziri Runs - Video & Setup" for video and setup for Atziri Map run.

Finally got around to running Atziri upon hitting level 88 and did not expected it to be that easy. I anticipated that I would have some trouble with the trios, but they get melted so fast, I can barely tell when they are all dead. As for Atziri herself, the clones lived up to their DPS and melted her in every phase with ease, which I suspect that the 30% increased damage to rare and uniques from Slayer is contributing a lot.

Here is a video of a run, probably not the fastest Atziri run, but I am quite happy about it, gonna do my 3rd run now.

>>> https://youtu.be/0ZNMghcRHNc


Setup for Atziri Run
Gear - There isn't any changes to my gear when running Atziri. Used a cheap rare 6linked armor instead of Victario's Influence. Refer to Gearing Up for information on gear used.

Skill Gems - Trap Cooldown was swapped out for Physical Projectile Attack Damage and Elemental Weakness via Curse on Hit was used on a 3linked (had to remove Increased Duration on my Vaal Haste for the links).

Skill Setup
Mirror Arrow (6L)
+ Trap
+ Cluster Trap
+ Weapon Elemental Damage
+ Point Blank
+ Physical Projectile Attack Damage

Blink Arrow (5L)
+ Trap
+ Cluster Trap
+ Weapon Elemental Damage
+ Minion Damage

Aura (3L)
Anger & Wrath
+ Generosity

Supporters (4L)
Stone Golem, Vaal Skeletons, Spectre
+ Minion Life

Curse (4L)
Elemental Weakness (or Projectile Weakness)
(I used EW cause I had a blue based boots, rolling 3G isn't worth it)
+ Split Arrow
+ Curse on Hit
+ Chain

Just let me know below if you have any other questions regarding Atziri run, thanks.

This character is played like a Trapper, Archer and Summoner all combined into one.

Due to relatively low defenses, you will not be able to tank often or too much. Always try to dodge projectile or melee attacks manually with lock-step.

Always put your clones ahead of you and deposit them directly in packs or infront of packs so that your clones separate you and the enemy, helping you block any incoming damage via projectiles or physically obstruct them as the clones have collision.

When surrounded, facing Devourers or Spikers, the best thing is to throw the traps on your feed and surround yourself with clones. This will stop most projectiles from reaching you and sometimes cause devourers to target your clones instead of you when they pop up beside you. In general, this is your ultimate defensive army stance.

Remember to cycle between Mirror & Blink Arrow as it does not cooldown fast enough if you only use one skill. This helps to ensure you always have clones ready to be deployed.

You can learn more from the video link I posted which mostly shows the forward marching of clones but little to no clone around me for defensive purposes as I was not in much danger.