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Skeleton Mages - Advise on Progression or Change Build?



3.18 Sentinel

Necromancer

4.82K1.47M9.49M

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This is my first time playing Skeleton Mages. I really like it. The only drawback is the slow walking speed, which can be upgraded to rare boots, but sacrificing +1 skele.

My current POB: https://pobb.in/_CvgZDJ-skid

My build is nowhere great, but at 9 mil dps, 15 mil with Vaal it serves my purpose so far. I believe I have only spent less than 20 ex. I'm doing Logbooks + Grand Design Atlas focusing on Expedition juiced with Sentinels. Nice currency. I guess I want to try most content including sim 30.

I'm unsure on the next major progression. I'm very frugal spender, upgrading only when necessary to do my content. I know the ceiling of skelemages is pretty high but unsure at what point it gets too expensive. I feel I want to push further, but not sure if I should keep doing it on the skelemages or switch to other build.

Any advise would be great. There's still missing increased minion damage on my wand. I need to get +L20 minion life to my helmet (not going for the pseudo 6/7L). I can also do +2 to my Fleshcrafter etc. I need to improve my chaos res so I can take off 3 points from my tree. There's also melding build with 90% res.

I also don't know if I should stick to Life hybrid or switch to full CI.

My question, is it worth it to keep pushing dps and survivability on my skele mages? I don't have a lot of time, I'm scared I won't have enough exalted to push it to where I want it to be. I currently have close to 40 ex. I researched CoC FR, it is definitely out of budget. 80 ex to be comfy and definitely benefit a lot from MB. So 250ex.

So I guess best progression that is best dps + tankiness per chaos value.

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Life

4819

Mana

119

Energy Shield

1430

DPS

9M

Effective Hit Pool

1.47M

Chaos Res

75

Fire Res

75

Cold Res

80

Lightning Res

75

Armour

43K

Evasion

250

Block

74 | 75

Crit Chance

0%

Crit Multi

298%

Rage

0

Strength

219

Intelligence

269

Dexterity

161

Ward

0

Item Quantity

0%

Item Rarity

0%

Movement Speed

54%

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Mistress of Sacrifice
Mindless Aggression
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Commander of Darkness
Commander of Darkness
Unnatural Strength
Unnatural Strength
Divine Shield
Divine Shield
Agility
Agility
Arcanist's Dominion
Arcanist's Dominion
Asylum
Asylum
Combat Stamina
Combat Stamina
Cruel Preparation
Cruel Preparation
Death Attunement
Death Attunement
Devotion
Devotion
Discipline and Training
Discipline and Training
Enduring Bond
Enduring Bond
Expertise
Expertise
Faith and Steel
Faith and Steel
Gravepact
Gravepact
Heart and Soul
Heart and Soul
Lord of the Dead
Lord of the Dead
Mystic Bulwark
Mystic Bulwark
Purity of Flesh
Purity of Flesh
Quick Recovery
Quick Recovery
Redemption
Redemption
Retribution
Retribution
Righteous Army
Righteous Army
Safeguard
Safeguard
Sanctity
Sanctity
Sanctum of Thought
Sanctum of Thought
Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Tireless
Tireless
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