Looking for some assistance with my 700+ Spirit Aura-Summoner Infernalist build

I have just over 700 spirit on my infernalist but am looking for some suggestions with the minion aspect of the build. Any recommendations are welcome. I am mostly looking to support them with skills. I currently have Blasphemy socketed with temporal chains, vulnerability, elemental weakness, and enfeeble.

I plan to support the minions further by chilling, freezing, and shocking targets. Any ideas on the most efficient way to do this? I have Thunderstorm with the Always shocks support gem, and thunderstorm makes it easier for them to be frozen. I think using Brute command skill will be good for AOE damage against frozen enemies. Will probably run a combination of Frost Mages, Storm Mages, and Brutes.

What other spirit gems should I be looking at? It is really unfortunate all the herald skills require a fucking martial weapon to use...but yet all elemental skills can be used with any build. Doesn't really make sense in my opinion but that is beside the point.

~~I am considering using Spell Totem with splinter totem support + frost bolt with Nova support & multishot to fire a SHIT ton of projectiles then use snap or ice nova on all of them to do massive freeze AOE....~~

EDIT: Apparently you cant use Ice Nova OR Snap on Ice Bolts fired from Spell Totem... what the fuck man? Why is this shit so limiting? There is no wording that would prevent this as far as I know.

Comments

Dungeoncrawlers•5 months ago•3

Muster is a great support gem to buff your minions. It buffs them based on the # of different reviving minions.

angikatlo•5 months ago•2

How are you applying so much curses? Doesnt it have a limit even when socketed in despair, left to right?

Edit: actually in confused. Despair is a curse. Blasphemy is the meta curse gem. I assume you mean you have blasphemy socketed with all those curses?

do6star•5 months ago•1

With that much spirit, I would also look into gain something based on your max spirit. For instance there is a socketable item for your boots that gives you 1% movement speed per 15 spirit up to +40. So with 35% boots, you can run a round the 75% speed boost!

angikatlo•5 months ago•1

So other than the curse thing, one other thing you can do is empower yourself, actually. Threaded light with your spirit is da bomb.

I understand that you really wouldn’t be dealing a lot of damage, and you’d be missing out on +2 minion levels from just a well crafted focus, but there is a mechanic that is super OP with minions, and it’s Impale. Currently there are two spells that can do this for you:

Bonestorm which has innate 200% impale magnitude (and a really powerful spell in general, also castable by spell totems) and

Ice wall when supported with Crystalline Shards, and works better with Verglas and Glacier.

ukwndeth•5 months ago•1

You can use unique mace with 2 levels to minions for Heralds with Sceptre off hand.

But Heralds don’t really stack with minions, I tried to make Herald of Blood work, but minions do very small bleeds, so you can’t scale it.

Maybe poison will work better.

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