Piemax2
5166
My summoner had been cruising through the acts, and when she did get killed her golem and zombies survived. But Kitava A10 melted them all in seconds., what did I do wrong?
Are any of them linked to Meat Shield or Minion Life? Or maybe you just need to exit and do a quick resummon.
Kitava is a pain in the ass if you’re not used to the fight. (And sometimes even if you are!) He does a lot of really annoying things, but the worst thing for minions is probably his flame breath, which can blanket the whole screen and set everything on fire. Consider setting up a portal near the back corner of the fight area, so that if your minions get wiped out you can just step into the portal, walk out of town to resummon, then go back through with army intact to resume the fight.
In addition to what @Charlatan said…it can make a big difference for your zombies if they have an extra gem level or two. Easiest way to get that is from a helmet with +1/2 to minion gems on it.
Also, if you haven’t already, make sure you’ve gone through at least the first two Labyrinths. Even better if you can get the third, too. Those Ascendancy points can make a big difference for both you and your minions.
If you’re still having trouble, link your build and we can make suggestions!
Piemax2
5169
I have done 3 labs, and took + resist on the 3rd one. Zombies have 14365 life +10% resist, but Ihave +damage links instead of meat shield or minion life. I guess I could try changing that for this fight, haven;t needed to so far. I guess U just have to resign myself to lots of portalling and resummoning but that seems like a chore :(. Oh well.
That sounds like a resists issue rather than a life issue. I’m running T16 maps w/ zombies that have 25k life and they only die if I hit something truly silly (increased ele damage and additional projectile beyond bosses are “fun”). They are capped elemental resists and 51% chaos resist, though. Note: don’t rely on the tooltip for that, look at the “calcs” tab in Path of Building.
Piemax2
5171
Thanks! I’ d never tried to import a character to path of building before. I see minion health regen and damage under calc, but not their resists, where is that?
On the “view skill details” block, make sure “Raise Zombie” is selected. Then check the “show minion stats” checkbox. The defensive stats will be on the far right with the resists being the third block down.
At least that’s how it appears on my screen (I’m running the Community Fork version).
Here’s a screenshot of what I see for that bit:
Hey cool, I use Flame Dash.
Bobtree
5176
The 3.10.0f patch improved performance a bit, bringing the multi-threaded renderer’s worst-case to roughly 20 FPS like the non-threaded version. I still have to play on London to avoid the crashes though. Hopefully they’ll keep working on these issues.
Piemax2
5177
Thanks! Here is my zombie screen. they’re the ones I expect not to die, I also have animate weapons and skels for DPS.
Piemax2
5178
it’s small type but the minion elemental resists are capped and chaos is at 20%.
That doesn’t look bad to me for Act 10. I’m not sure why you’d be losing minions with that setup, besides the occasional big attack as I mentioned above. If you try again and still have trouble, send us your PoB export link and we can take a look to see if there’s anything that jumps out.
Piemax2
5181
Most likely it’s just that I got lazy because it’s been a cakewalk for a while. Now I may have to actually pay attention for a bit. I’ll try again tomorrow and report back.
Cool. Agreed that those stats look pretty reasonable for A10. I wouldn’t expect Kitava to be a pushover, but it should be totally doable.
Hmm, I don’t play enough melee builds to know what to make of this?
6L - 4G, 1R, 1B
Good Spin2Win two hander? Probably not enough physical dps to support a straight attack bleed build, but Elemental cyclone? Enough DPS to scale to endgame?
Pure Cyclone with Elemental Damage - added cold, close combat, elemental focus, faster attacks?
Cylone Cast while Channeling Bladefall/Bleed maybe?
It’s got to be worth 20c, but will it buy me a Watcher’s Eye?
Looks nice to me! With those colors that could support a Herald of Agony build, or as you mention Cyclone could fit in there with Poison, melee Phys or Maim and Conc Effect. As to what it’s worth I got no idea! You can always install that add on that lets you check prices.
On a different note, @ineffablebob, I decided to try a RF toon too (I had been mulling it over and you pushed me over the edge). Leveling now with Molten Strike and Ancestral Protector but not sure I wanna stick with melee until RF. I did see someone recommend a CWC incinerate + firestorm setup. Need to be level 38 for that of course.
