These are GREAT BOSSERS! - Skeletal Reaver Minion Build Showcase [PoE 2]

minions need phasing so they do not block each other

not impressed.
and that is on 6-l which most people don't have yet
What I am running currently - is 9 arconists and 3x snipers.
Snipers damage is just insane. It is literally "DELETE" button on your finger. You don't need many of them. And they also benefit from your fire supports which you have on hound and flammability, etc.
Arconists are dealing with trashy mobs fine, i don't see much difference in clearspeed between 14 before nerf and 9 now. Most of the layouts are tight corridors and doors, so its never when all the 14 were attacking same time anyway.
Boss/rare mobs damage got downed quite a lot if you run only arconists.
But 3 snipers solving it. If you have the curse on rare and your offering is up, and your dog is hitting the target - it just 1-shots rares. Thats it. You click "command" - > target deleted. Tooltip for explosion 41k UNBUFFED. On bosses it just BITES big chunks of HP bar with each click.
And don't forget to use a new Bidding support on them, it is insane.

Naw get on the archers man.

Haven’t been able to play yet today to test but I saw another comment saying you can weapon swap on and off to despawn/respawn your minions

the worst mapping exp i had since the game launch ...

Why are you not running Detonate Dead tho?

Jesus that intro

how do you get tier 16 maps?

I just wish they would of decreased spirit for all minions instead of increasing it for arsonists I want to be a true summoner/necromancer have lots and lots of variety of summons at one time to really have a good army. Not just have to have 5 of one kind and call it a summoner. I want to have 5 different kinds of summons even if there is 4 of each close combat range/casters. Cleric or minions the debuff your enemies or minions that give buffs to your army. Variety is awesome and to hopefully have that bc poe2 or poe1 or even diablo it’s usually you just stack one type and call it a good summoner. Blah

OMG I CANT BELIEVE IT! THATS MY BUILD!! (almost)
Feels kinda weird to see it here since I came with this idea myself and
Just on thing I do is using mostly snipers while clearing.
Then on the boss room, I leave 2-3 snipers and switch for reavers.
Even built for armor breaking, snipers have a good clearing speed.
Another change that I do is use Pin support on my reavers.
it sacrifices damage but prevent monsters for coming after you, specially those pesky demons.
Also, I have 2 lightning skel for shock.

DD is best minion skill. Minions are just trash atm imho

I was going to go minions first but i tried every other class, now im doing minions and wondering why i did anything else.

Love that you put out a proper showcase for this. i've been on the reaver train ever since i had enough spirit to support enough of them, i just really like the feel of playing it over SRS even though it's not quite as optimal.

In my own attempts I've found great success in letting the sniper's gas arrow shred enemy armor by giving the hellhound the elemental focus support to turn off its ignite. This allows the gascloud to linger for a lot longer as nothing is setting it off to blow up, causing it to chew through the armor a lot faster than what was shown in the bossfight here. Granted i'm not quite in endgame maps myself yet and it does lose us synergies relating to enemies being ignited (though i don't think the setup you've shown here runs any?), but I have yet to fight a boss that does not lose all of their armor by, at the latest, the mid-way point of the fight since I made this change. Stronger skeletons should only speed this up even more. What are your thoughts on this?

Doing 2-3 Archers with Arsonist together .. nice bombing effects, but its an extra button and door ways are still a death trap.

Would you ever try using Skelton snipers in a build?

can skelly bowmen be a clear skill? i dont want to play arsonists but also melee bad

Can you post your updated Witch arsonist build? For new players. I saw the high budget version but don't even want to try it right now 😅

I mainly like the arsonist build because you just go full tilt into fire damage and you're good lol

Showed up for the build, stayed for the outfit.

I did pornstach for halloween once. Was in Reno and my girl and her friends went as inmates out for the halloween crawl down town.

(Deaths oath minion) sacrifice + profane ritual
How about gemmling legionnaire. Running devouring diadem. Which allows you to strentgh stack for tons of hp. Qnd it can eat a minion every 3 seconds for 20% life? So profane ritual caster, qnd using minions for the death oath like effect, and you regen 20% life every 3 seconds???

Bro my mums on this app

Are there any frost mage builds yet?

Damn Christmas came early :P

Maybe the problem was that someone identified himself as a skeleton. I mean you are kind of a slave master, or should i say mistress. Anyway yea melee, the tile-sets and the inherent spirit stystem are kind of a bummer. I hope when they get back from christmas we can get our spectre's otherwise there's gonna be a few boring nights for the minions.

was not expecting the shirtless ghazzy santa jumpscare today

Great thanks Ghazzy I guess I'm gay now

Speaking of spectres, the gem isn't out yet, but any enemies you're eyeing as a possible option? I'm thinking the lightning experimentalists from Black Chamber or the Solar Priests from the sun bit

I'm trying to get as much Spirit as possible and Combine Reavers, Brutes, Snipers and Priest; Skeletons.

Mrs. Clause when?

I hate doing the towers on arsonists too. They just cluster up and then have to revive. I'm very surprised how many narrow and clustered maps ggg made. And surprised everyone hasn't been flaming about it.

how's the MoM + EB version holding up? I guess not being able to use grim feast is bad? :(

If they want to make melee minions more viable they need to give them zealot charges from StarCraft.

Doorway? use corpse explosion. If a minion wins 1v1 duel, you can basically spam corpse ex to clear that mob blocking ur way.

What about the chest plate?

Malice scepter is a noticeable boost to damage even with arsonists.

Literally need a convocation type skill and all my issues go away. Currently rerolling to my 2nd char tho. Arsonists maxed out at t10 maps with my current gear and upgrades are too expensive. I tried reavers and the clear just made me fall asleep

For clearing try permanently burning brutes! Max their HP and you can detonate dead them constantly.

ROFL, someone has had to of clipped that "Ho HO HO".

These guys are absolutely useless in corridors

Use weapon swap to resummon minions to you.

Looking forward for skeli mages build

If there are so few node changes on tree and gems space isn't an issue, would it not be possible to have Weapon Sets to flip between Arsonists and Reavers? I haven't really looked into it much but it seems like something that should be possible.

Edit: this was answered near the end. biggest issue is support swaps.

Yup !!! I have discovered Chronomancer can take this boss killing up a notch or two more, holding a boss still for 8+ seconds is insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you can pretty much get any minion to work reavers are best for bosses but in small corridor maps they are fucking awful i ended up dropping them to snipers i do abit less boss damage but i clear maps way easier. Also you cant use SRS for reavers since they are melee <.<

Would it be viable to have a rattling scepter on weapon set 1,with the appropriate skill tree for arsonists and the omen scepter on weapon set 2? That way you could have a bosser and mapper on the same character?

Edit: Should have watched the whole video before asking 😅

got to wonder when it stops being a minion build when more non minion spells are used

You can compensate the clear speed of reavers with the Detonate Dead (spell echo in it). Once one mob dies to the reavers, all start to get exploded :)

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