*Comments and FAQ:* - Level as Armageddon Brand until yellow maps. Switch once you have the transfigured gem + life/resist gear and a 6link. Make sure you can afford mana cost - use Honourhome helmet if needed. - How to self-craft the helmet: Fractured base, reservation essence until acceptable suppression and an empty suffix, lock suffixes and harvest reforge chaos guaranteeing chaos resistance. If bad tier, annul (classic or eldritch), if that misses go again from essences. Once acceptable suppress + chaos res + mana efficiency, use eldritch chaos/exalts to reforge prefixes until acceptable life. - Corpsewalker corrupted with +1 to socketed gems can be used to slot your auras + Enlighten to really help with mana reservation (credit @Ciapciaq for suggestion) - Brutality is a marginally better damage support gem for single target but it bricks the fire corpse explosions from Mon'tregul's Grasp. I don't like gem-swapping for bosses, but you *could* and it would technically be better.

Excellent, clear, and detailed guide. Only thing I’d personally like to see would be a “leveling tips” section on how to build into the build!

Amazingly creative and fun-looking. Thank you for sharing!

thanks for the build, this felt like a pseudo DD. that 50% hp explode really feels good when mapping. the bots are also offscreening.

Wow. Its a rly nice brainstromed build. Rly nice interaction whit the brands

I'm a fan of Mon'tegrul's Grasp since I got it as a random drop, and I've been thinking of its use ever since. I haven't played PoE since a Nemesis league, but the moment I read the patch notes on alternative gems, I knew INSTANTLY what I was going to do!! My builds, whatever, were crap, say the least. Thank you for sharing your build! My dreams of 50% explosions came true.

If you're having issues with mana reservation and are dirt poor like i am, what I did was link a carrion golem and an aura with guardian's blessing i still haven't maxed anything yet but the constant zombie deaths with the mastery node does keep the minion alive One annoying thing I've found about this build are Soul eater mobs, you can't really avoid feeding it souls as your zombie deaths count 🥲

Guess I'm not done with the league yet. Excellent work Doc. 👏👏👏

Yeah definitely gonna give this a shot and play it out, thanks a lot

I'm already done with the league, but I just wanted to say that your videos are always pretty well done, but as build guides go, this is absolutely exceptional. Excellent work here on putting it together, on top of the awesome mechanical exploration.

damn, hope we see more of you. really good guide with an interesting build

Excellent build, Doc. Arcanist brand interaction is really strong with this skill. A few things though: have you considered eldritch battery to solve mana costs? Seems like a lot of investment in mana reduction. Also, thoughts on trigger on focus helm mod and its interactions with brand recall?

You've piqued my interest. I always love new uses for minions. 😄

Sweet build! I played something very similar last league but wound up using a brand recall tech with pragmatism. Socketing brand recall into pragmatism gives it so many levels you can get the cooldown to be super low, and this league with automation support both of them would be getting 8 levels and you can get the cooldown to as low as 1.3s. Last league I had it down to 1.45 and the damage was nice, I just used a decent 6 link influenced main hand to compensate for the lack of a 6 link chest. Being able to use automation this league almost made me run the build again but I wanted to try too many new things. Love seeing how you built it, it's a lot less gear restricted and can probably get more tankiness especially.

Super cool.

this is most likely my 3.25 build if theres no nerfs thank you great video

Brought me back to the league

wonderfull guide video. Thank you for your hard work. I really enjoying the way you presentation your conent. keep t up ! BTW Have you tryied Convocation gem to improved the QoL? even thought use Convocation, the two trigger bot are still not very smart when mapping, but it may be a option. And also, Since you invested to much reduce mana cost on the passives tree, is EB is an option ? I will try a EB helmet version of your build. Again Thank you for your nice found ! Combine Arcanist Brand and Falling Zombie with Saboteur is insane.

@Surgeon_General

15 күн бұрын

I tried to avoid EB because I didn’t want to have to run Discipline, but EB is definitely an option, especially if you get resists and ailment immunity elsewhere and can drop Purity of Elements. I didn’t have a jewel socket for convocation so just learned to let the bots take the lead. It did take some getting used to.

Do you plan to provide a leveling/leage-start guide? Do you simply not advise this as a league starter? I did hear you say that you league-starting this, but you did not seem to be recommending it.

@Surgeon_General

17 күн бұрын

Leveled as Armageddon Brand til ~80, swapped when I had a corrupted 6link and used Honourhome to help afford mana costs early.

Tota music = instant banger video

I’m gonna try this in standard. With the legacy mana cost flasks, I can replace inspiration support with something else. Thoughts on awakened brutality versus awakened melee phys? Other legacy things come to mind? (Couldn’t find a good crucible mon’tregul) You are the best doc

@Surgeon_General

16 күн бұрын

*DO NOT USE BRUTALITY FOR MAPPING* - The "no elemental damage" on it makes the corpse explosions from Montregul's do zero damage. I made this mistake early in the league. Brutality is the best DPS support so you can drop it in for bosses, but you want to use something else (probably melee phys) for mapping

@SpiritMEOW

16 күн бұрын

@@Surgeon_General I didn’t think of that! Yeah melee phys definitely best, since the less attack speed doesn’t matter

@SpiritMEOW

16 күн бұрын

@@Surgeon_General I’m wondering if the zombies aren’t actually benefiting from melee physical support. Will try pulverize instead, seems like the ideal support anyway Edit: pulverize is also melee damage, switched to aw inc aoe. I think it might be spreading the zombies more though?

with that minion mastery can we fit in AG somehow, or is the socket pressure simply too high

@Surgeon_General

17 күн бұрын

Yeah, AG should work, I just HATE the mechanic so I never use it. Socket pressure is high but I would use defensive supports on an AG just to be safe

I think you have automatic deletion of comments with links? Anyway, build is great. Wonderful bosser. I am unsure if the falling slam has a melee tag. Trying impale, since dread banner is great anyway

is there a way to scale posion chance like poison srs, 50 zombie slams per sec seems pretty good if you can get 50 to 100 percent poison chance on hit and no am not thinking about adding united in dream, more gastly eye jewels/ other stuff like Darkness Enthroned

@Surgeon_General

15 күн бұрын

You can, but it's generally quite difficult to scale DoTs on minions because it uses *their* damage over time multiplier, not yours. +% to minion damage over time multiplier is a very hard stat to scale so while its possible to apply the poisons, it's hard to get %more multipliers to its damage.

@dnd5019

15 күн бұрын

@@Surgeon_General hmm makes sense still pretty amazing use of mechanic, will definitely think of using it in my next league as i never thought that skill would have been useful.

not interested in playing the build but damn, what a guide.

How to find Ancient Suffering? I tried to look on wiki but it seem complicated because I havent tried delve before

@Surgeon_General

10 күн бұрын

Ask nicely in /global 6666

how did you craft that helm? just get really lucky essence spamming?

@Surgeon_General

16 күн бұрын

Fractured base, reservation essence until acceptable suppression and an empty suffix, lock suffixes and harvest reforge chaos guaranteeing chaos resistance. If bad tier, annul (classic or eldritch), if that misses go again from essences. Once acceptable suppress + chaos res + mana efficiency, use eldritch chaos/exalts to reforge prefixes until acceptable life.

@petrocktamer3241

16 күн бұрын

@@Surgeon_General right. im sure ive done a similar craft recently, not sure how i forgot. thanks

ok im definitely looking into doing this for spells even if that means I then take the penalties... I prefer farming over bossing and this looks like a cool way to use Trigger bots.

@ElicatrothTV

17 күн бұрын

Messing around with this on Forbidden rite has proven to be really goofy lol. My character that takes almost no damage at all while in a CoC cyclone setup takes like half of its health in damage with Fourth Vow with this setup lol. My FPS drops to like 20 each time it casts too, its glorious! That said scaling the damage itself so far eludes me and it only gets to the point of working but not doing damage (blood aquaduct being carried by lvl 23 FR lol)

I wonder if there is a way to make this a leaguestarter 🤔

@Surgeon_General

15 күн бұрын

I started Armageddon Brand and switched to a variant of the build in the level 80s, around low yellow maps. Montregul's, the transfigured gem, and %mana reduction are key so it makes sense to level mostly as something else.

Corpswalkers can get "+1 to lvl of socketed gems" corrupted implicit to raise lvl of Enlighten Gem.

@Surgeon_General

16 күн бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion, forgot about boot corruptions

@Ciapciaq

16 күн бұрын

@@Surgeon_General I got one more idea, but idk how important is cast speed. You could potentialy block prefixes on your sceptre and use veiled orb. There is about 10% chance to see Trigger mod on 4 sec cd in each choice, on avrage thats 3-4 orbs. I check it on Craft of Exile, and in about 100 try most unlucky i found it at 6th orb. Most of the times 2-3 hits. That veiled mod + crafted cast speed?

@Ciapciaq

16 күн бұрын

8 sec + T1 cast speed + crafted %quality of socketed gems VS 4 sec + Crafted cast speed + any natural prefix mod (with i believe would be maximum mana?) Ofc you can try to land it on weapon that actualy got that natural cast speed + 3 preffixes and open suffix. But that would be expensive gamba.

@Surgeon_General

16 күн бұрын

@@Ciapciaq you actually need the 8 second mod. The 8 seconds on the weapon overwrites the 4 second base cooldown on the gem, allowing you to have two independent brand recall loops. If you use the unveiled version, the base cooldowns are the same and the loops will block each other from triggering

@Ciapciaq

16 күн бұрын

@@Surgeon_General Intresting interaction. I bet even if you offset those setups with diffrent CDR (quality on gem for eg.) it still won't work.

The only bad thing about this videos is next league falling zombie 21/20 price

>reliant on mageblood

@Cheddariz

16 күн бұрын

For speed. You can just use a stigy with res to make up for res flask