Started again with Witch minion

[Arbadacarba]

Any tips ?
Contagion feels pretty great to me

[bumpastu]

firewall circle and fire skulls are great.

[clstreak]

Firewall and SRS good combo early on...

[Hiroko]

You can start with chaos spec and get through act 1-2 like that if you like. If you want to start immediately with minions, use rattling scepter for the warriors, give them the 4s life after death support, then just spam arsonists with scattershot+added fire, optionally add 1 archer and use it's active ability. Pick up firewall for the added bonus damage and embrace 0 screen clarity for the rest of your life.

later on, I see a lot of people trying to put exposure on arsonist. bad. don't do that.
doggo : exposure+effect+aoe (his aoe applies exposure)
tbh, don't put pen on srs or arsonist either. just go full damage (and scattershot on arsonist). Don't be afraid to use that one support that prevents igniting or the one that consumes it, everything you have ignites. It doesn't matter.

[polky27]

I will just leave this here https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/rk2430ls

[TrashPanda]

Spirit is you best friend and you want as much of it as you can find.

[Arbadacarba]

Thanks!

[Pinard]

Originally posted by bumpastu:

firewall circle and fire skulls are great.

One thing I did with these is put Envenom and Corrosion on them. They armor break everything.

[Arbadacarba]

Originally posted by Pinard:

Originally posted by bumpastu:

firewall circle and fire skulls are great.

One thing I did with these is put Envenom and Corrosion on them. They armor break everything.

Nice! I’ll try that

[Fluffy Bunny of Despair]

Originally posted by Arbadacarba:

Any tips ?
Contagion feels pretty great to me

https://youtu.be/f6eC_RlHbJk

In general i can highly recommend him. He makes a TON of new player focused content in general.
Very indepth and all

[Nauct]

If you use Contagion and Essence Drain both dots will spread on death. If you use unearth on the corpses that had the dots on them it'll summon minions that'll pass the dots onto the next enemy they hit.

I started with minions, skeletons and unearth minions, to tank and focused on chaos damage. Endgame I transitioned out of minions and I'm a chaos build with contagion, essence drain, hexblast, etc. Easy fun time the whole game

[EvilHare]

I am stuck with mine only cause I do not want to give up my chest piece with +100 Spirit for higher level gear with proper ES. Headpiece cause it has +1 minion level.

The sceptre too. I have +2 minion levels and 124 spirit on it.

[CyberDown]

TLDR: yes go fire witch, infernalist acendency, use elementalist fire attacks, (vital: your first spirit gem pick raging spirit from elementalist, this is the core damage generator) Use flame wall with Raging Spirit active. Gameplay is you dodging stuff while everythings on fire dying and exploding.

your going to want to stop using Essance Drain and Contagion (you WERE using them together right??) and move over to elementalist for attacks and go full fire.

First spirit gem you get go to elementalist pick Raging spirit. Now your fire attacks spawn minion flaming skulls that will seek and destroy. This will be your new life, the fire minion witch. This is mostly due to the fire ascendnency further boosting. Make sure to pick up fire damage enhancements from the tree along with minion nodes (id suggest going heavily into Energy Shield as your main defense, both with gear type and in the passive tree)

Youll use fire wall as a main attack, its a set and forget skill that will spawn your Raging Spirit skulls which will burn and attack enemies. When you ascend to Infernalist, youll also choose to get the Infernal Woofer doggy minion. Its pretty damn fun im playing it now. Currently i pop two flame walls for max skulls, rip a firestorm to run in the background, drop a solar orb, move to the back where i have a fold out chair, sit down, light a cigarette, and watch the world burn while my skeletons and reavers melee block. What fire skill you choose to use is up to you but most at least use flame wall for raging spirit generation. Since you can do some fun stuff with fire damage in the skill tree it makes sense to devote more attacks to fire damage.

For advanced users with good gear and high spirit youll devote an extra 30 spirit to Grim Feast, which will drop energy shield refills on the ground when your minions die, and allow you to over charge energyfield as well. You wont need tons of minions until later on but for now try to make sure you have enough for Raging Spirit, at least 2 Reavers, and 2 Skeletons, which you can get from a scepter.

I would also utilize unearthed, which seems counter to the theme. the fact you can use this to raise like 10+ little scorpions for a short time, and then support skill with the gem that makes them explode on death, for some really insane clear speed enhancements sending 14 scorpions to clog your enemies path to you, and they explode for good damage on death. I dont use this skill for its cone attack damage just to summon extra minions. Its a LIFE SAVER between minion respawns (minion respawn can be addressed in the skill tree btw)

Unknown on how this all works late game but this should bring you comfortably to mid tier mapping, save and space bar deficiencies stopping you early.

[Audiopython]

flame wall, srs, archer minions with poison is good dmg early, curse for reduced flame res or phys dmg increase, grim feast for survivability when you can get it, get spirit on chest/neck/sceptre asap, + to level of minion skill is your most important stat on the gear that can roll it (wep+focus/shield, helmet, neck)

[Lyote]

Originally posted by Arbadacarba:

Any tips ?
Contagion feels pretty great to me

Get a Sceptre that rolls 30% (minimum) or higher for extra Spirit.
Then keep your eyes peeled for the Quality boosters for Sceptre/Wand/Staff.

Mine has 43% more Spirit on the Sceptre and then Quality boosted it to max, so now that Sceptre alone grants more Spirit at 172 than the quest Permanent Spirit plus body and neck at 163.

Also, Supports like Splinter, Envenom, Pin/Lockdown, Maim etc all work on the melee skeleton attacks. Having my swarm of Warriors early game pinning mobs (and bosses) in place saved my butt on many an occasion.

[Lumifel]

I'm not a big fan of srs personally, it's easier early but isn't very interesting in end game imo.

I did my leveling using one arsonist (for the command skill), several warriors and 2 snipers (command skill with gems like contagion) and using the different bone/chaos spell and it was fine.

Now in end game (t8 currently) my build is based around burning undead minions and profine rituals (power charges), with a wall of 19 warriors that inflict daze, blind and maims and are used as corpse for the power charges and corpse explosion. (it's hard to have corpse on a lot of bosses)

The hound is used to spread fire weakness
the warriors are pretty strong when using the damage spike
profane rituals with the gems that spread it on the side generate 3 power charges with one spell.
the powered undead zombie melt everything by spreading ignite