Pet Warden

[Grogmo]

Heya ... i focused my build around pets ... as the title already tells you :)
right now, i've got 21 pets fighting for me, with one more to come, when i find the right rune.

i got around 1200% companion damage, 300 - 400% element damage ... 8k base damage ...
and nonetheless, mythic 3 seems to be the highest level, i can farm ...

is there a way to even more increase pet efficiency? or is the pet build not vialbe for higher tiers?

[Darkness]

Haven't tried it, but have you checked Retaliating Companions?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1911997938

[Boink]

Do you have the Master's Command (Ring / Amulet) TL set yer? If not... get it.

[heaveni]

i have a pet build as well, i cant do much better than mythic 5. although this might change as i get more resists. i still need a lot of resources to perfect my gear.
im currently using the all for one set for 2k+ percent physical damage, 3 pieces of the summoners set. and 3 pieces of windcallers for lots of whirlwinds.
vampire lord rune + pure energy rune adds quite a bit of survivability.

[Grogmo]

i'm wearing two sets: The Bond and Summoners Garb.
wearing call of the wild, giving 2 extra wisps, spiderlings and wolves ... and added a thumper rune for a sandworm companion, as well as advancing army rune for 280% movement speed added as companion damage, wolftooth and packleader for an additional alpha wolf for my wolfpack and about 400% extra damage plus bleeding from my wolves ... haven't seen the master set so far ... i guess, it's an upgraded version of the bond?

[Grogmo]

Originally posted by Darkness:

Haven't tried it, but have you checked Retaliating Companions?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1911997938

oh, okay, that looks interesting ... seems, i have to farm some lesser runes :)

[Boink]

Originally posted by Grogmo:

. haven't seen the master set so far ... i guess, it's an upgraded version of the bond?

It does two things: #1 it gives 90% DR for all companions and #2 it makes them all elite (x2 HP,x5 damage, special abilities etc).

My companions (x4 demons, x5 imps, x5-7 eyes) do... roughly 300mil total damage between them (43,000,000 damage per demon per hit after launching a meteor).

And yeah: I can do X, but it's very very very slow & I have to hide at all times as I'm insta-gibbed by any mob in them, my pets don't die, they just chip away slowly.

[Kiru]

The master's command is insane. With the simple legendary pet set, and my book with 3 permanent auto swords alone probably has like 50million dps+ (and can't really die) I'm not even done with the story, and you can imagine how the latest bossfights on legendary went. Yes, dialoge ends and less than a second later the boss is dead. I can't even do anything.

[Lindyhop]

Originally posted by Grogmo:

oh, okay, that looks interesting ... seems, i have to farm some lesser runes :)

Farming and socketing those runes will up your damage taking you into the later Mythics. 12 easily, maybe 15 when fully geared up. But if you want to take pets into the endless scaling you are going to be forced to retool with class sets.

Here are a couple of examples from one of the better buildmakers out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7XbfmtYZzY Uses pets with big health to do big retaliation damage which results in big shroom damage via gearing and the Shroom Tender set. You can do something similar with pods instead of shrooms with the Everspring set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkb7-_Ep-XQ takes all that companion damage you have and pairs it with the Wolfcaster rune and the Torential set to keep your armada of pets but your real damage is from casting charging wolves to create hail for the Torential set. A similar playstyle exists for the Wispmother set where instead you get the rune to make your wisps cast certain skills everytime you do with the Wispmother set further stacking damage.

Long story short, in really late game you will need a class set to add to your damage and you will be casting something. Stand back lazy play where your pets do everything simply does not scale well enough.

But it will be your choice what it is you are casting. In D2 terms the thorns option plays like a summoner with curse of thorns and corpse explosion (not exactly but close enough). The wolf caster option is more a bone spirit build with a large summon army meatshield but with the twist that your bone spirits are super bone spirits that do more damage based on how swoll your summon army is. The Wispmother set is similar to the wolf caster except instead of super bone spirits from you, the skeletal mages in your army now fire super bone spirits every time you cast a regular bone spirit, like option pods from a side scrolling space shooter but on steroids.

[Elhazzared]

Minion builds are pretty good. I don't have a warden build yet but I am currently doing a warlock minion build and right now I do mytic 6 no problems. I could do higher, but I like doing them with a fast degree of clearling speed so I stay where it's confortable.

That said, any build is dependent on 2 things, first having properly finetunned your trees and secondly gear. Also remember that some of the best in slot gear is true legendary so you'll have to farm for it. in my case I'm still looking for the loyalty amulet, my damage should ramp up signisficatly when I get that.

In addition to the vids, if you check the build section of the foruns here, you should find a warden build that focus on having a very high amount of summons and gaining damage per summon. From my understanding, that is crazy powerful so check that one out too.

There is quite a bit of depth to chronicon, maybe not as much as other games in the genre but then again chornicon avoids the Idea of depth for depth sake so it has depth but not to the point of it being detrimental. Now it's a matter of learning and start enjoying this.

[Fung Si Yan]

The Infernal demon +Quadruplets+Baldar's+Jeopardy build will easily clear MXXV and carry very far into Endless with min/maxed gear, further than treant thorns. It relies on 3 piece of Demon Lord set, Infernal Demon rune (with mastery tree gets you 4 permanent demons without the ultimate skill) and snapshotting crit damage from the quadruplet fire skull to multiply your Demon damage by a magnitude of several thousand. Once min maxed you can do several quadrillion damage per hit. Baldar's is used to "fish" for the biggest stagger you can (without dying) at the start of a run, massively increasing the damage of the quadruplets, which will then scale your demons (quadruplet pets cause on-hit effects) and this buff will never decrease so long as you don't leave the run. It's a pretty broken build that relies on multiple crazy interactions to achieve bonkers damage, but you will never have to self cast anything other than Hell Pit to wrangle your minions, as well as whatever mobility/ultimate/ritual/soul spells you choose to use. The use of stacking stagger and using Baldar's to convert staggered damage into offensive damage also makes the build incredibly tanky for minimal investment.