[3.28] Chaos Zoomancer & Minion Army Necromancer League Starter (All content - Ubers, T17, Simu)

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Afura#6483 wrote:

There is something I don't understand about conversion in poe, if we convert 100% of our physical damage to chaos damage with unholy might and are using covenant for the level 29 added chaos damage support, then why do we use physical damage support gems linked to our zombies? Shouldn't we use chaos damage support gems since we converted all of our physical damage to chaos damage?

We use void manipulation to scale chaos damage.
You use melee phys to scale the base phys damage that then is converted to chaos.
So both are being scaled that way.

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Hoffen#2482 wrote:

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Afura#6483 wrote:

There is something I don't understand about conversion in poe, if we convert 100% of our physical damage to chaos damage with unholy might and are using covenant for the level 29 added chaos damage support, then why do we use physical damage support gems linked to our zombies? Shouldn't we use chaos damage support gems since we converted all of our physical damage to chaos damage?

We use void manipulation to scale chaos damage.
You use melee phys to scale the base phys damage that then is converted to chaos.
So both are being scaled that way.

Ops sorry, didn't see the void manipulation gem. So the skill gem physical damage mutliplier comes before the conversion?

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Afura#6483 wrote:

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Hoffen#2482 wrote:

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Afura#6483 wrote:

There is something I don't understand about conversion in poe, if we convert 100% of our physical damage to chaos damage with unholy might and are using covenant for the level 29 added chaos damage support, then why do we use physical damage support gems linked to our zombies? Shouldn't we use chaos damage support gems since we converted all of our physical damage to chaos damage?

We use void manipulation to scale chaos damage.
You use melee phys to scale the base phys damage that then is converted to chaos.
So both are being scaled that way.

Ops sorry, didn't see the void manipulation gem. So the skill gem physical damage mutliplier comes before the conversion?

I am not sure exactly what the order is of the conversion, I just know that it works.

Okay no problem :) thank you.

Thank you for build,can i ask,if raise zombie and val skeleton work togethe with absolution?!

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SaratogaKaga#2798 wrote:

Thank you for build,can i ask,if raise zombie and val skeleton work togethe with absolution?!

You dont want to have absolution in a link together with skeletons and zombies.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't seem to keep my zombies alive at all and most uber content just wipes them all out almost instantly. I've played this build in previous leagues and haven't experienced anything like this at all (in fact my pets felt immortal and never had to summon any of them).

Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I myself feel very tanky but I sometimes am losing my zombies even to just a 4 mod conq map for whatever reason.

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Sakkar5#6424 wrote:

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't seem to keep my zombies alive at all and most uber content just wipes them all out almost instantly. I've played this build in previous leagues and haven't experienced anything like this at all (in fact my pets felt immortal and never had to summon any of them).

Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I myself feel very tanky but I sometimes am losing my zombies even to just a 4 mod conq map for whatever reason.

After some play testing myself there is a very large difference between using a lvl 1 phantasm gem and a lvl 20 to keep the rest of your minions alive.
Swap out your minion life support gem with a lvl 20 phantasm support and that should largely fix the issue.

What's odd is that I felt like I was experiencing this before I swapped to an imbued Spectre gem with phantasm. I could try the old configuration again to see if that's still the case but I was losing the zombies as well.

It's so drastic compared to previous leagues that it feels like something was changed? but I could be crazy and just missing something somehow.

Will swap and report back.


For extra context on the content I was losing them was like any uber content, even easy rolled T17s, and anytime I ran into feared awakening scarab I would lose all of them. Veritania and Al-Hez as well loved deleting them.

Yeah just tried it with the swap and no difference on my end.

Spectre with imbued minion life, 21/20 phantasm still the same problem.

Just tested a hyper safe rolled abomination, uber searing, uber eater, and a feared awakening on a 4 mod. All the minions just get shredded instantly (except the Spectres, they somehow never die but everything else does)