One Button Minion Build using Mind Over Matter

I am 73 and disabled... but always a gamer, trying to stay active... could use some assistance with tips on improving my build for next league and better understanding mechanics and interactions now. My build must remain simple to use for me to be able to effectively play it. My playstyle is very slow.

Here is my Skeletal Sniper (x25) Build powered by Muster with 8 total Persistent minions.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Yipp-2579/character/Yippyyip

Please note I never use command skills (which is why I use Brutality and Heft) on my Snipers... I map with Multishot II and boss fight with Minion Mastery +1 Level.

Also note that because I use 8 dying minions "Infernal Legion" all my Minions (including Snipers) have 0% Resistances, I rely on their 4 second revive time when they die, which in some boss fights they do die (never all die while mapping).

Each of the one off Persistent Minions uses Infernal Legion, Minion Instability, Essence Harvest (The "plan is to recoup 8% Mana when they die every 8-10 seconds). Combined with Mana Regeneration rate of 302 % and 76% Damage Taken Recouped as Mana, provides a steady flow Mana recovery.

I have a few questions... but feel free to give advice and suggestions on any topic!

Main Minion Choice:

  1. Is there a better Skeletal Minion or Spectre choice for how I have described my playstyle?

Passive Tree Mistakes:

  1. Any clear mistakes or suggestion to improve my build?

Mind over Matter:

  1. Are there other ways to increase my mana pool that I may have missed?

  2. Are the "recoup" from Essence Harvest & Damage Taken Recouped as Mana separate recoupment pools or do we they stack or block each other?

  3. Does my use of Recoup(s) (Including Belt Midnight Braid) even make sense based upon how the recoup mechanic actually works or have I fallen down a less experienced player trap?

  4. I have never used any Defensive ability other than MoM. Would consider switching for next league, what would be a better choice? I know my current gear which has High Life & Mana are not the right choice to switch now. I would prefer to stick with MoM because it is what I know, but would consider a change.

Vulnerability:

  1. Is there a better curse for straight Physical damage?

  2. Is there a better support gem the Physical Mastery which I use for +1 level

Gearing now this League:

  1. Is there a piece of gear I could upgrade or change which would greatly improve my build or am I just now tweaking to find small improvements?

Comments

dantheman915 months ago1

Spectres are going to get better milage if you dont want to push buttons. You can do MoM but stacking ES will make you far tankier.

diablo2rulez5 months ago1

I use the bogfelled commoner infernal leagion build. You just weapon swap to resummon your minions i only use elemental weakness on bosses and it's not needed im level 96 on hardcore. Snipers on one weapon set bogfelled and wolves on the other i dont really use the snipers but they add clear for some annoying mobs

My poe ninja https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/SmurfsUp90-9529/character/Witchhonne

Based off of https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/b14a0157-43c2-4615-a0e8-d3051ea1203f/builds/bb8387cf-1714-4218-b337-bca9892d0f99?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C2

Elpenor_the_womble5 months ago1

i understand if you a fan of minions but i would do some testing to see if you vibe with whirling assault. once you start the attack you will move for the duration so it may help a little with with your mapping movement. https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/whirling-assault-smith-of-kitava-entire-screen-clear-boneshatter-movement?weaponSet=set2 if you are interested that is a very good build he does use a second weapon set but that’s purely for movement so you ignore it entirely and you’ll have dps changes

Gregarioustrees5 months ago1

Just play detonate dead, infernalist for safety or blood mage for gigachad mode.

Use skeletal priests and stack as much hp on them as possible. It's literally a 1 button build that can clear all content.

CantripN5 months ago1

If you enjoyed ants, you'd probably really enjoy Pounce minions in 0.4. It's not as gear intensive as many minion build (barely care about Spirit), and you only use buffs every like 20+ secs, the rest of the time you just Shred/Pounce to move around and add DPS.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3900584

Imasquash5 months ago1

Passive Tree Mistakes:

Any clear mistakes or suggestion to improve my build?

You should always take the shortest path to whatever you are trying to get, and avoid "loops" as they are an inefficient use of points. looking at your tree you have a couple spots that loop, though the points you are looping through are good for your build, if you take those all out you will have enough points to path towards a better use for those points.

You also have a couple spots where you can take 2 travel nodes instead of taking 3 travel nodes.

I think its really about the notables, they are the most important, and the small passives are just extra pieces of candy. Unless my build relies on what those small passives give for functional reasons I'm always taking the 2 point path instead of the 3 point path, even if the 2 points is less dmg/defense per point than the 3. Notables and jewels are just such a much more efficient use of points.

scamp415 months ago1

If you're looking for alternative build ideas, look into leap slam titan. It's very simple and very tanky. Leap slam for aoe and earth shatter for single target.

No_Fox_Given825 months ago1

Perhaps this will give you some information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRyveAkNug&t=1610s

I played this until recently and actually in 90% of content it's no buttons at all lol.

BenignPharmacology5 months ago1

Jesus all these people responded only to suggest other builds.

I played snipers to 98 this league, and I have a couple suggestions:

I know you don’t want to command, but kurgal’s leash is a ton of free damage, and only has to happen every 15s or so. Of course this would mean dropping brutality.

Speaking of chaos damage, I shouldn’t have to mention that uul-netol’s is absolutely nuts. On top of 40% extra, you get free passive armor break. If I changed only one thing in your build, I would replace brutality with uul.

I only experimented with heft a little, but I was wayyy more partial to fast attacks. On top of just being more consistent, it makes napping feel much better when things are getting shredded immediately. I reached a point where I could sprint through maps and my snipers would clean up the whole map.

Speaking of “build feel”, I always liked fork over multishot. You get extra dmg towards anyone close up, but the back row still gets hammered.

Some more general tips:

  • throw amanamu’s tithe on whichever of your fodder minions dies most often, and get random periodic abyss mods

-you can get some spirit res efficiency on helmet and body armor with suffix desecration

-if you get uul’s then your phys curse is basically wasted, as they’ll have full armor break almost immediately, which is enormous for damage. You can choose to conserve your mana and just not cast it, or use that mana for triggering kurgal’s every 15s

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