My Own Personal Army (Witch)

Submitted by Burgy on November 19, 2013 - 6:33PM CST
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Description

A work in progress, I'm constantly making changes. Advice is invited: Leave comments with suggested changes and rationals.

Suggested Leagues: Standard

Passive Skills

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Gems

Gem Set #1

Raise Zombie

Raises a zombie minion from a corpse, which will follow you and attack enemies.


Raise Zombie
Minion Damage

Increases damage done by minions.


Minion Damage
Added Chaos Damage

Adds chaos damage to a skill.


Added Chaos Damage
Raise Spectre

Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.


Raise Spectre
Minion Damage

Increases damage done by minions.


Minion Damage
Added Chaos Damage

Adds chaos damage to a skill.


Added Chaos Damage


Gem Set #2

Summon Skeletons

Summons slow moving skeletal minions that decay over time. Does not require a corpse to be consumed.


Summon Skeletons
Minion Damage

Increases damage done by minions.


Minion Damage
Added Chaos Damage

Adds chaos damage to a skill.


Added Chaos Damage
Wrath

Casts an aura that adds lightning damage to the attacks of you and your allies.


Wrath
Increased Area of Effect

Increases the radius of area of effect skills.


Increased Area of Effect
Lightning Penetration

The attached skill ignores some portion of the target's lightning resistance.


Lightning Penetration


Gem Set #3

Conductivity

Curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to lightning damage and giving lightning damage a chance to shock.


Conductivity
Increased Area of Effect

Increases the radius of area of effect skills.


Increased Area of Effect
Enfeeble

Curses all targets in an area, making their attacks less effective.


Enfeeble
Increased Area of Effect

Increases the radius of area of effect skills.


Increased Area of Effect


Gem Set #4

Summon Raging Spirit

Summons a short-lived flaming skull that rushes at nearby enemies and attacks them rapidly. Enemies cannot directly engage these spirits and can pass through them.


Summon Raging Spirit
Minion Damage

Increases damage done by minions.


Minion Damage
Added Chaos Damage

Adds chaos damage to a skill.


Added Chaos Damage


Bandits

Help Alira in Normal Difficulty - Rewards Rewards +40 to Maximum Mana
Help Alira in Cruel Difficulty - Rewards +4% to Cast Speed
Kill all the bandits in Merciless Difficulty - Rewards 1 Passive Skill Point

Guide

Keep on top of summoning to keep minions at max numbers possible. Build your army and steamroll. Power siphon in case you have downtime. Wrath to give your minions more damage all around and conductivity to make enemies more resistant to their damage. Enfeeble to make your minions last longer. Still don't know how Eldritch Battery and Necromatic Aegis work together? If I have to pick one it'd be the Aegis and I'd dump the other 3 points into health/mana nodes.

Update: Got rid of the power charges in favor of the new raging spirits. Moved my support gems around to account for ones I can actually use/level as a pure intelligence class.

Comments

caveman
Posts: 5
minion speed is worthless as is life for the most part minion dmg is decent....if u whant more dps outa your minions
skeletons=multistrike-add chaos dmg
zombies=multistrike-melee dmg/melee splash
spectre =Gmp-minion dmg /Gmp is good if u like geting range spectres

10 years ago
Burgy
Posts: 8
Thanks for the advice on those support gems, and yes I love having a ton of dps. My only question is that according to the wiki I need 52dex just to equip level 1gmp. Is there a work around for that or should I grab an added chaos damage for them?
10 years ago
EtherMan
Posts: 1
Have to ask, but how exactly were you planning on staying alive with this build? You have no str or dex... So the only armor available would be pure energy shield armor... Energy shield, which you then convert to mana... So you have no life, no armor, no evade, and no energy shield... There's literally NOTHING to keep you alive with this build... You've even given away the shield benefits to the minions... While dying in standard league is possible, it's still not something you want to be doing 20 times per map... There's simply too much things that will kill you instantly... There's more to making a good build, than just maxing one area of your character and completely ignoring the rest. A good build has 3 parts, offensive, defence, and utility... While this build has good offence, it has no defence, and no utility.
10 years ago
Burgy
Posts: 8
I have modified the build a bit in order to get me more life and resistance.
10 years ago
Burgy
Posts: 8
My giant army is my defense...
10 years ago

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