Unable to beat act 1 boss because my build (minion only witch) can't really do anything.

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What exactly is the purpose of having so many skills, effects, weapons when I'm basically being guided into a pre build of what the devs want me to. All of the bosses and enemies are easy, but still my minions are still going down like they are paid to.

Because the boss doesn't spawn enemies on the second fight I'm just left trying to take it down with 40dps, and that's boring.

This isn't a skill issue it's just I don't feel like building out a build that I don't really find fun, wanted to do the old Diablo II Necro. Even most of the things that I would like to try and do is forcing me into a chaos witch. I don't see what marks this different than any other cookie cutter ARPG other than it leans towards a darksouls vibe.

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Show us your character ans skills.

I literally ALREADY listed every single skill I use except for skeletal cleric(there is no active ability for them or the skeletal warriors so)....other than flame wall literally all my skills are from the witch tree like wtf else do you want a video of me beating a boss in act 2 chaos with this....unfortunately raise zombies and unearth are terrible for a lot boss fights because we can't create corpse yet and raise zombies is very unusable as a blood mage because the ascendancy has a ridiculous hp cost and summon zombies would leave you open to getting one shot by any reasonable dmg ability.

Try the Illusive passive buff.
Costs 30 Spirit but it's an easy and free way to get power charges to spawn Zombies on bosses.

Edit: oof, Blood Mage. Sorry, my eyes slid right over that.
The HP costs badly need adjustment.
Still, Illusive is excellent for spawning zombies or empowering anything else you have that uses Power Charges.

[Panthaz89]

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I literally ALREADY listed every single skill I use except for skeletal cleric(there is no active ability for them or the skeletal warriors so)....other than flame wall literally all my skills are from the witch tree like wtf else do you want a video of me beating a boss in act 2 chaos with this....unfortunately raise zombies and unearth are terrible for a lot boss fights because we can't create corpse yet and raise zombies is very unusable as a blood mage because the ascendancy has a ridiculous hp cost and summon zombies would leave you open to getting one shot by any reasonable dmg ability.

Try the Illusive passive buff.
Costs 30 Spirit but it's an easy and free way to get power charges to spawn Zombies on bosses.

Spawn zombie is a no go on Blood mage I've already used it plenty any high cost spell just ends up hemorrhaging your hp like crazy. At least on unearth you can just cast it like once to clear mobs regularly and not use half your hp trying to summon several zombies. I'll wait until they fix blood mage's absurd hp costs before trying to use anything expensive.

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Try the Illusive passive buff.
Costs 30 Spirit but it's an easy and free way to get power charges to spawn Zombies on bosses.

Spawn zombie is a no go on Blood mage I've already used it plenty any high cost spell just ends up hemorrhaging your hp like crazy. At least on unearth you can just cast it like once to clear mobs regularly and not use half your hp trying to summon several zombies. I'll wait until they fix blood mage's absurd hp costs before trying to use anything expensive.

How does that HP cost 8nteract with wand/staff spells that don't cost mana?

[Panthaz89]

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Spawn zombie is a no go on Blood mage I've already used it plenty any high cost spell just ends up hemorrhaging your hp like crazy. At least on unearth you can just cast it like once to clear mobs regularly and not use half your hp trying to summon several zombies. I'll wait until they fix blood mage's absurd hp costs before trying to use anything expensive.

How does that HP cost 8nteract with wand/staff spells that don't cost mana?

I assume it won't cost anything the cost is always equal to the mana cost raise shield does not cost anything so it doesn't cost hp if you keep channeling bonestorm you continue to drain your hp too not that its too bad.

[RegalKain]

For all the people saying. "Show us" or "Show me" Here. I literally did this for you.

As I mentioned in the video, I am super sorry for the omega-crap quality. I have never recorded a video before. Cheers.

https://youtu.be/3YOGZm25Nps

P.S.: First experience with a Necro was D2. This follows that guideline pretty well I think. It also only uses stuff from the Witch (With exception to support gems.)

[GameGlitches]

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What exactly is the purpose of having so many skills, effects, weapons when I'm basically being guided into a pre build of what the devs want me to. All of the bosses and enemies are easy, but still my minions are still going down like they are paid to.

Because the boss doesn't spawn enemies on the second fight I'm just left trying to take it down with 40dps, and that's boring.

This isn't a skill issue it's just I don't feel like building out a build that I don't really find fun, wanted to do the old Diablo II Necro. Even most of the things that I would like to try and do is forcing me into a chaos witch. I don't see what marks this different than any other cookie cutter ARPG other than it leans towards a darksouls vibe.

Lvl 60 witch...zooming through the game...if u need help add me..
Pet builds are very very good, lol i just speed run entire act 3 -4 - 5 and now on 6

[ClAyMoRe*]

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So you only use gas arrow with flame wall, so you are a one button build, lmao, you can't make this interaction up.

What are you so bad you can't just use flame wall? https://youtu.be/ga5IDtszdmA

Wtf are you talking about essence drain does a lot especially when minions stack wither on hit with passive tree

Minions can not stack wither as they do not do chaos damage , or there is some skill tree node that makes them do chaos damage?

[Panthaz89]

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Wtf are you talking about essence drain does a lot especially when minions stack wither on hit with passive tree

Minions can not stack wither as they do not do chaos damage , or there is some skill tree node that makes them do chaos damage?

Right hand of darkness gives them 10% chance to inflict wither on hit. Top leftish minion skill in the middle of the all the Minion Aoe increases.

[Loden | Heathen]

em na I get it
If you come at the witch and just focus on 3 or so skelly minions you have access to that is going to suck

PoE is convoluted with its skills and all
Look up a Witch build to get an idea of some things that work, try them out and in no time you will get the hand of it but ya its not a very intuitive system IMO and you can easily paint your self into a corner.

For my Witch I have been using Fire Wall, Skelly Archer poison... quick, easy fairly effective. Once you get your first Spirit Gem WTF ever they call it (over convoluted IMO) you can get Raging Spirits and that with just those 3 your pretty solid for Act 1

Focus on your defence of course cold resist for Act 1 and I like shield but most would add a mix of armour and shield so maybe drop a point or 2 in str or is it dex you need ... and there is the issue with PoE

Convoluted, can paint self into a corner easily expensive to reroll to the point its not viable when starting out ... so ya I have a few times recreated my character its just faster to experiment that way

[ClAyMoRe*]

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Minions can not stack wither as they do not do chaos damage , or there is some skill tree node that makes them do chaos damage?

Right hand of darkness gives them 10% chance to inflict wither on hit. Top leftish minion skill in the middle of the all the Minion Aoe increases.

I see it, but it is so far you would need like level 50+ to reach it, what it has to do with early game, people here are discussing early game, not beating ACT1 boss on level 50

[Loden | Heathen]

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Wtf are you talking about essence drain does a lot especially when minions stack wither on hit with passive tree

Minions can not stack wither as they do not do chaos damage , or there is some skill tree node that makes them do chaos damage?

I've seen a build that uses contagion and raise to yield bone constructs that spread contagion rapidly it used essence drain and contagion with raise as the core skill set. I haven't tried it myself yet not big on builds that depend to much of corpses leaves you feeling useless in many boss fights IMO

[ClAyMoRe*]

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Minions can not stack wither as they do not do chaos damage , or there is some skill tree node that makes them do chaos damage?

I've seen a build that uses contagion and raise to yield bone constructs that spread contagion rapidly it used essence drain and contagion with raise as the core skill set. I haven't tried it myself yet not big on builds that depend to much of corpses leaves you feeling useless in many boss fights IMO

You don't really need much to spread it, just infect 1 guy and kill it and it spreads even without timer, it is pretty easy, but it gives nothing in boss fights.
It is alright for clearing zones, but damage in boss fights is not that good.

[Lyote]

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For all the people saying. "Show us" or "Show me" Here. I literally did this for you.

As I mentioned in the video, I am super sorry for the omega-crap quality. I have never recorded a video before. Cheers.

https://youtu.be/3YOGZm25Nps

P.S.: First experience with a Necro was D2. This follows that guideline pretty well I think. It also only uses stuff from the Witch (With exception to support gems.)

I'm not the guy who demanded to see your build so I'll just award you for putting the video out XD

And your experience there was basically the same as mine.
Skulls are nice but they're just a bonus.

Though for anyone who does run Skulls, put Infernal Legion on it.

[RegalKain]

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Oprindeligt skrevet af RegalKain:

For all the people saying. "Show us" or "Show me" Here. I literally did this for you.

As I mentioned in the video, I am super sorry for the omega-crap quality. I have never recorded a video before. Cheers.

https://youtu.be/3YOGZm25Nps

P.S.: First experience with a Necro was D2. This follows that guideline pretty well I think. It also only uses stuff from the Witch (With exception to support gems.)

I'm not the guy who demanded to see your build so I'll just award you for putting the video out XD

And your experience there was basically the same as mine.
Skulls are nice but they're just a bonus.

Though for anyone who does run Skulls, put Infernal Legion on it.

I gotta say. Sorc was my first class and I had no idea what I was doing. So I stumbled through everything.

Warrior has been my second class and I am enjoying it so far. I am very used to being able to just face tank a lot of hits so I don't think to dodge until it's to late.

Witch is the earliest I have ever gotten to that boss and the earliest I have ever killed it. It's crazy, crazy powerful early game.

[Lyote]

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Minions can not stack wither as they do not do chaos damage , or there is some skill tree node that makes them do chaos damage?

I've seen a build that uses contagion and raise to yield bone constructs that spread contagion rapidly it used essence drain and contagion with raise as the core skill set. I haven't tried it myself yet not big on builds that depend to much of corpses leaves you feeling useless in many boss fights IMO

You don't even need a dedicated build for Contagion and Unearth to yield results.
Unearth by default gives the Constructs Contagion on hit so long as the corpse it was raised from had Contagion upon death.

Just as an FYI, the Decaying Hex support gem counts as a chaos DoT for Contagion to spread.

You can also do fun stuff like put Pin+Lockdown on Skeleton warriors and they will, in large enough summon quantity, fully pin a boss in seconds.

You can also put Bludgeon on the Lightning Mages to get a squad of chaining knockback spammers.

Minions are incredibly versatile thanks to the variety of gems they can use.