Hungry Loop

What the hell should I use this for?


Yes, I bought a few. They seemed cheap and I kind of wanted to fuck around with different setups.

I was thinking something summon related. Maybe Empower, Minion resist, Minion Life, Minion damage. And running a Zombie or Golem in it.

Then I got thinking maybe I should make it into use for an archer. Mirage Archer, Increased duration, Pierce/Chain, Faster attacks with Ice Shot to chill out some mobs.

I feel like there are so many different things I could use this for but I don't know where to start.

Do you have one of these rings? What did you decide to do with it?

My brother uses one in a triple-critter Summoner set-up. Vis Mortis 6L chest with Specters, an Elder helm with Minion Life and Minion Damage he uses as a pseudo-6L for defensive Zombies, and a Hungry Loop he runs with Minion Damage, Spell Echo, Elemental Focus, and...something. COntrolled Destruction, I think. Either way. He's got 5L Flame Golems with Anima Stone and three Mights, 6L Zombies configured for maximum meat tanking, and 6L Spectres. It turns out to be just about all the damage.

What are your thoughts on this for a Dark Pact build?

Active gem: Summon Skeletons
Supports: Spell totem, minion life, minion speed and increased duration

I wonder if spell echo works with spell totem, it might be better than duration if it can spam skeles for me to explode.

Echo doesn't work with totems, no. Never has. Minion Speed would also generally be left off for Empower, to increase skeleton level and thus skeleton life totals.

Skeletotem spamming for Dark Pact isn't new. My question would be this: what does using this 5L Skeletotem set-up in a Hungry Loop let you do that you can't do with a regular 4L Skeletotem? What else would you be doing with those gem slots that's worth sacrificing ring stats for?

That is a good question. lol

I've never run a dark pact build nor researched it but the skill itself looks like it might be fun to play around with.

I have a number of jewels in my stash that might work decently with it.

The only stats that would matter for a Dark Pact SkeleCaster on minion jewels would be You-health (i.e. the ~25-50 flat life rolls), and minion life. The more of the former you get the more you not-die, and the more of the latter you get the more damage your Dark Pact deals.

On spell jewels? Depending on your set-up, what you want is flat chaos damage, cast speed, cast speed when you fulfill some easy condition, or some of the various funky Abyss mods. Dark Pen builds actually make very solid use of chance-to-Hinder-with-spells in combination with a Searching Eye in Tombfist gloves - that means that your attacks Maim enemies (30% slower, no boss scaling) and your spells (eventually) Hinder them for another 30% slow. Given that Dark Pen builds can fire up to twelve Dark pacts a second (four casts times three individual blasts with a single DP chaining between skeletons), you Hinder pretty quick.

Whether your particular DP build can make use of a Hungry Loop depends on the DP build in question, doesn't it?

I got one of these and I have one question.

It's a pretty simple question that I'm pretty sure I know the answer to but, hey here's to me hoping.

Will this be able to work with Cast while Channeling?

I'm guessing no, but it would be really cool if someone was willing to risk there ring and tell me for sure.

my current ones, just to see how they perform...

RF is soooooooooooooooooo boring that i will not level that one

Still have not decided what to use on that "spectre" ring

e: my original idea was to made a ring for Flame Sentinels, just to use them on my SRS build

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Then I got thinking maybe I should make it into use for an archer. Mirage Archer, Increased duration, Pierce/Chain, Faster attacks with Ice Shot to chill out some mobs.

Other fun ideas for mirage archer support gems include:

Culling strike
IIR
Decay
Blind
Knockback
Maim
Chance to flee (lol)

You could use split arrow or rain of arrows to get more AoE as well.