[Bricked] Odif's Build Guides for Newbies: Skeleton Mage Necro

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Ovenschotel escribió:

Any suggestions for crucible passives to chase for?

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Bucklax31 escribió:

What type of jewels should I be using, besides Dead Reckoning?

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AntOfScience escribió:

Thank you very much for the guide, Odif.

I started playing about a month ago so I have a very nooby question. I tried another league starter and while it was great, it got quite expensive faster than I expected. How far do you think I can take this build on my current budget (5-6 div)? Clearing red maps? Getting all the voidstones? Somewhere in between? Given that I haven't seen the game beyond lvl 10 maps or so, it's really difficult to know what to expect.

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Odif escribió:

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AntOfScience escribió:

Thank you very much for the guide, Odif.

I started playing about a month ago so I have a very nooby question. I tried another league starter and while it was great, it got quite expensive faster than I expected. How far do you think I can take this build on my current budget (5-6 div)? Clearing red maps? Getting all the voidstones? Somewhere in between? Given that I haven't seen the game beyond lvl 10 maps or so, it's really difficult to know what to expect.

This build takes everybody who follows it to easily clearing t16 maps, and (if you know the fights) getting 4 voidstones.
(Maven in particular is more about knowing the fight, than how good your build is)

It costs a LOT less than 5 divines to be able to clear t16 maps with this build.

A +2 duration gems tabula, a 20% quality anomalous faster projectile, a +1 minion gems wand, a +1 all gems ammy, a +1 minion gems helm, a +1 minion gems shield, a elemental penetration support gem, and you are dominating t16 maps.
The above gear is MUCH less than 5 divines total. (A +2 minion helm can be pricy)


TLDR:
I designed the build to do absurdly well with cheap gear.
Drawback: caps out around 7 mill dps, other minion builds have higher ceiling.

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HighAdmiral escribió:

* Use 5B/1G chest with specific gems
* Use Anomalous Faster Projectiles when you can afford it plus 4B/2G chest
* Use Sniper's Mark as your curse
* Gloves with Elemental Weakness on Hit Corruption for Animated Guardian

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HighAdmiral escribió:

But what I want to know is:

* Should I change my Spectres from Carnage Chiefs for Skeleton Mages? To what?

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HighAdmiral escribió:

* Most of my minions just stand around next to me. How do I get them to attack?

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HighAdmiral escribió:

Also, any advice on spending Maps passives would be welcome.

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HighAdmiral escribió:

Hi all,

I'm relatively new (played a little every few years). I am up to Maps V (five) with an 84 Necro using this build. I just bought a Dead Reckoning and an appropriate chest with the 5 slots. I'm working on leveling up the necessary skill gems to make the Elemental Penetration gem, so Lightning Penetration is slotted in.

I have found that since moving to Mage Skeletons my survivability is much lower. I die to 90% crucible encounters in Maps V. I seem to lose a lot of XP from deaths and have found leveling difficult.

I was wondering if someone could give the missing¹ advice about the Mage Skeletons transition please?

So far, there seem to be these items of advice:

* Use 5B/1G chest with specific gems
* Use Anomalous Faster Projectiles when you can afford it plus 4B/2G chest
* Use Sniper's Mark as your curse
* Gloves with Elemental Weakness on Hit Corruption for Animated Guardian

But what I want to know is:

* Should I change my Spectres from Carnage Chiefs for Skeleton Mages? To what?
* Most of my minions just stand around next to me. How do I get them to attack?
* Everything is extremely expensive - like 60+ Chaos. Is that expected, or is this considered "Cheap"?

Also, can someone look at my build and give any advice please? My character is PiperGwen at https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/HighAdmiral/characters. A friend lent me a "Mageblood" belt and some flasks until end of the league, so my elemental resists and movement speed are fine.

I am constantly casting Desecrate & Bone Offering whenever I notice it is down. I cast the "Sniper's Mark" on yellows/oranges and bosses as well. I run around a lot since Odin says "Keep moving. Movement is a key defense". I hit "Convocation" whenever something attacks me directly to get all my minions around me. I use FrostBlink to move around instead of Flame Dash but I could switch. I keep Skitterbots, Tempest Shield and Determination running as auras.

Also, any advice on spending Maps passives would be welcome. I have 9 unspent, and have followed the early atlas progression guide here https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/atlas-passive-skill-tree-strategies but don't know what to do next.

Thanks in advance!

¹ "I am not giving more detail because skeleton mages are so strong, that as long as you support it with some sort of spell/projectile supports you will be fine, and because I don't see a total newbie as having a Dead Reckoning right away." Unfortunately, I am a mostly newbie!!