A Conjurer pet build seems very easy so far...

[MaximB]

So I've made a Conjurer (Shaman + occultist) pet build in Veteran mode.
Using the Hellhound and Briarthorn, spamming curse of frailty and Wind Devil to help my pets.
I've got to Rovers camp, I'm level 24 I think.
I haven't died once with this character and using maybe 5 health potions so for.
Killed the Warden and the mage bosses from the cult quest.
With my other characters I died several times before managing to defeat the bosses.
But with this character so far, it's very easy.
Just stay away from the fight, don't let the mobs hit you, and spam curse of frailty and Wind Devil.

[Carl!!!!]

One general rule of pet builds though, try and go full pet. Hybrid doesn't really work as well. I'd swap out wind devil with familiar. also, primal spirit doesn't seem appealing at first, because it only lasts 20 seconds, but it hits hard and fast. great for taking out hero packs and bosses.

Later on, there's also a few pets you cam summon granted by gear.

As for gear, generally focus on gear that has "Bonus to all pets" on it. And make sure the pets you use from gear scale with pet bonuses, instead of player bonuses.

[powbam]

You'll find, eventually, that even the builds you used to have problems with you will eventually find "easy" starting out. There's a trick to GD, in that you can over-level skills early on, and quickly. Proper building at the beginning stages can trivialize much of the content for you, no matter the build. It's farther along on the higher difficulties where you need to actually "git gud", as they say, and begin learning the finer points of character building with gear, components, etc.

[MaximB]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von powbam:

You'll find, eventually, that even the builds you used to have problems with you will eventually find "easy" starting out. There's a trick to GD, in that you can over-level skills early on, and quickly. Proper building at the beginning stages can trivialize much of the content for you, no matter the build. It's farther along on the higher difficulties where you need to actually "git gud", as they say, and begin learning the finer points of character building with gear, components, etc.

It's good that we can "forget" our skills and re-learn them and make different builds,
And save good items in the inventory for later use/builds.
So most mistakes I make now, I can undo and try different builds.

I also have a lvl1 familiar, but currently he seems useless compare to the other pets.

[caelcyndar5]

The only "hybrid" that goes well are player-scaled pets and even those barely average from what i can tell.

[Faust Wither]

yeah last time i using conjurer i feel like can take out anything, the synchronize between class is damn good.

[Atomic Kid]

occulist is one of the best pet classes in the game due to many of the amazing sets for them esp in fg. Also occulist can heal their pets with blood of dreeg and bonds of bysmiel line is an amazing pet buff. And ya curse of fraility destroys enemy resists so your pets can wreck enemies faster. Combo that with either necro or shaman and you get a decent pet build

and ya since pets have their own resistance stat and dps stat, its usaully best to go all into pets if you are doing pet builds. The only pets that can benefit non pet users should be the ones that scale with player stats like wind devil from shaman. However a good pet build can just kite and use pet atk to command pets to take out the enemy and is generally if you can do multiple things at once (keep up all buffs, pet command, and kite at the same time) can clear the game really easily due to not having to fight themselves. But ya then things like pet resistance esp in ult is important and pet damage.

[Wintermute]

Pet builds in general are easy till something manages to actually kill your pets faster than you can resummon them. It will happen later down the line.

Familiar is good when built for. Otherwise it's taken only for its aura (same with hellhound).

[Goblin King Jareth]

I have a true hybrid Warder semi shelved. It's basically a huntard from WoW. Because it is very common for pet nodes on devos and gear to come with +all damage, and bleeding. Modrogen devotion especially. This is a single briarthorn build but will be multiple briar when I get the gear. Bleed can stack pretty fast but has weaknesses vs. skels and I think some boss is immune but Rend/Huntress is a great devotion, and shaman has the insects to reduce bleed RR also. The briarthorn tanks while I do ranged with Sanguinvar crossbow currently and the brambles provide amazing bleed, bleed RR from rend devo, and CC. The briarthorn is fairly tanky on its own, actually tanks with taunt aoe, and some of the soldier aura extends to it, most esp. speed to help with their crappy AI. It's nothing gamebreaking but it is viable so far and fun. I could have done it as occultist too but with soldier there is more bleed from Cadence etc. so if your pet dies you're not helpless..now that I remember I did switch to Savagery for defenses and speed though. It also has a bit of bleed. The backflip move aug from FG also adds bleed and fits right into the kite-y ranged nature of the build.