[0.4] Cantrip's Pack Tactics! - Wolf Minions

Playing around with NOT using Wolfpack at all, with a Storm Mage and a Cleric instead. Feels maybe a bit better, the Wolfpack gets in the way a lot.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/16003

Could also try for a Spectre Wasp with Infernal Legion, or a Tame Beast with an aura (if you have Brutus' Brain, just run a low level one).

Im interested in this build.

Can you tell me how it compares to a typical minion setup?
Is it roughly even in clear/bossing, or more of a fun meme?

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Batcherovski#4038 a écrit :

Im interested in this build.

Can you tell me how it compares to a typical minion setup?
Is it roughly even in clear/bossing, or more of a fun meme?

Much faster clear, much better in bossing, much better visual clarity.

The only downside is that you're expected to be in melee with them, so do invest more into ES, Faster Recharge Start, and Recharge Rate than usual.

I've played Spectres, Storm Mages, Reavers, and others to 94+ on every league so far, this is by far the strongest minion build we've had overall (Infernal Legion aside, but that's a meme imo).

Spark Zealots are comparable for DPS and have possibly better coverage, but they lag behind a lot, plus they will burn out your GPU and eyes. Sadly, they're the only ones that come close imo.

Appreciate the reply.
I already have a witch alt leveled up so i think i will try it.

I need something for bossing specifically.
If it can do juiced citadels, then even better.

Also curious, what about reavers this patch?
They fixed the rage interaction, and this league really opens up rage possibilities

I haven't had the chance to try reavers since 0.1 where they were amazing. Certainly, Rage Attacker Minions have potential, I'm probably gonna try something like that soon to see for myself.

Generating rage as non-Shaman on non-Wolf builds is gonna be a pain, though. You can do it with various Fissure skills, but it's still a hassle.

With my level of gear I'm running 6 mod Citadels with all boss points without any issues, so it's been fine, but clearly that takes gear (and not trying to run 6 dmg mods).

They should add a skill where you're throwing wolves at enemies.

Playing a Lich and minion for the first time and having a blast! I tried a giga abyss juiced t15 and my damage just wasn't there. I usually play ranger so my knowledge on minions are pretty much zero haha.

Furthermore I found my life dropping when fighting some of those centaur-abyss mobs and it shouldn't as I have Eternal Life which was odd. I couldn't figure out why.

Are you able to have a look at my build and let me know what I can improve / work on please? Thank you!

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/16d41

I didn't configure any buffs, etc. but I'd really like to get this running to the point I can farm juiced t15 abysses. I am short on a level 21 wolf pack and pounce as I am still only 88 but it feels like I'm lacking more than I should at 88.

Do you also know what is causing our Wolf Pack to have a 1.3333x multiplier? It's reserving 80 spirit instead of 60 spirit.

Thanks in advance!

Wolfpack costs more due to Gigantic Following, it's not a bug.

As for DPS for juiced Abyss? Should be enough, make sure you have Rage up and Lunar Blessing up.

Your gear is absolutely good enough for that, the only truly huge upgrades would be Uul-Netol's or Rakiata's, the rest is playstyle. You are missing 2 gem levels as you said, and you can get 12 Rage on the Talisman Base / Skeletal Warrior Sceptre for +7% More Damage from Muster, those would also help, but shouldn't prevent you from doing those (unless Wolves are dying?).

Your Life can only drop if you run out of ES, so that's the only possible reason.

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CantripN#4278 a écrit :

Wolfpack costs more due to Gigantic Following, it's not a bug.

As for DPS for juiced Abyss? Should be enough, make sure you have Rage up and Lunar Blessing up.

Your gear is absolutely good enough for that, the only truly huge upgrades would be Uul-Netol's or Rakiata's, the rest is playstyle. You are missing 2 gem levels as you said, and you can get 12 Rage on the Talisman Base / Skeletal Warrior Sceptre for +7% More Damage from Muster, those would also help, but shouldn't prevent you from doing those (unless Wolves are dying?).

Your Life can only drop if you run out of ES, so that's the only possible reason.

Thanks so much for your help and time on discord. Haha! Build is operating at 500% now. Now to work on ES and ailment % from ES for those abyss monsters.

Thanks for the guide, I followed your build on Tactician, it works well.
I was initially hoping to do both wolf minion + suppressing fire, but wolf end up doing a lot more than I was hoping for

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/dolendol-5451/character/AFKMerc

the banner minion zealot life regen with weapon swap is very important for countering the berzerk life loss, also I don't have any persist minion, so gigantic following negative effect is not doing anything.

another thing I learned is that those pounce wolf minion snap shots, so you want to swap to your damage weapon set before using pounce.


just as a summary:

- this is indeed a solid build able to clear almost all content with ease
- wolf minion can die to boss mechanic (arbiter donut) even if you wear the belt + flask combo(bug) which sucks a little, but you can still summon them back relatively fast
- this is not a build for buffed up temple, wolf can get stuck in previous rooms, and the damage is not quite there to clear fully build temple.

I am having a lot of fun with this build, so if there's anything else I can do to make this build better, plz let me know