Dogmancer Raid Squadian

______________________ Foreword ______________________ Howdy, and welcome to my build guide for Dogmancer Raid Squadian. I started this build with the desire to play Summon Spectral Wolf (SSW from now on). I'm sure you could experiment and fine tune the build a little bit more. _______________________ Pros _______________________ Very tanky Cheap to start Smooth leveling Complete freedom when choosing auras Fight alongside man's best friend, spiritual good-boys _______________________ Cons _______________________ Some people dislike Minions Some people dislike Balbala flask-tech Uses a fair amount of unique items Expensive to min/max Sometimes minions have trouble focusing Not reflect immune Hungry loops take a second to finish if you don't buy pre-max gems to sacrifice _______________________ Leveling Tips _______________________ 1) You will level as Zoomancer. ( Feel free to change skills depending on your preferences, but below are what I chose ) - Skeletons + melee splash + minion damage - Absolution + physical to lightning + minion damage - Holy flame totem - Herald of Purity 2) Don't sleep on "Rigwald's Crest" Two-Stone Ring - I beat the campaign in all white items because of this ring and the bonuses SSW provides. 3) Swap to Low-Life once you have these: - Brutal Restraint (Balbala) - Prism Guardian - Wicked Ward - Corruscating Elixir - 25% increased flask charges gained ( You can anoint Essence Extraction before you find a nice Brutal restraint with 20% ) - Presence of Chayula ____________________________ Animated Guardian Setup ____________________________ Helmet................Mask of the Stitched Demon Body...................Garb of the Ephemeral Gloves................Demon Stitcher w/ curse on hit implicit Boots..................Windscream Weapon..............Kingmaker / Dying Breath _______________________ Bandits _______________________ Kill all bandits _______________________ Ascendancy _______________________ Guardian: Radiant Crusade -> Unwavering Crusade -> Radiant Faith -> Bastion of Hope ________________________ Pantheon Gods ________________________ Major = Brine king } Before low-life swap Minor = Ralakesh Major = Lunaris } After low-life swap Minor = Ralakesh ________________________ Anoints ________________________ Late game = Decay Ward Before 20% Brutal restraint = Essence Extraction ________________________ Cluster Jewels ________________________ 2 x Large Cluster Jewel You need these modifiers on them: 1) Renewal / Raze and Pillage 2) Call to the Slaughter 3) Small passives also grant +5 dexterity ________________________ Timeless Jewel ________________________ You will use a Brutal Restraint Look for one that is denoted under "Balbala" You will also want at least 2 x "10% increased flask charges gained" if you do not want to annoint Essence Extraction. Use this website to help search for your Timeless Jewel: https://vilsol.github.io/timeless-jewels/tree ________________________ Tecrod's Gaze ________________________ To gain some additional critical strike we use Tecrod's Gaze and 2 additonal Murderous Eye abyss jewels I recommend grabbing some with these modifiers: A) Accuracy B) Flat Energy Shield C) Corrupted Blood immunity of one of them ________________________ Alt Quality Gems ________________________ 1) Lv 21 Phantasmal Vaal Domination -Extremely expensive -+1 sentinel 2) Divergent Precision -Reservation efficiency 3) Vaal Haste -Damage steroid 4) Divergent Animated Guardian -Tankier AG ________________________ Lab Enchant ________________________ Helmet: Dominating Blow can summon 3 additional Magic Sentinels of Dominance Gloves: Trigger Commandment of the Grave when your Skills or Minions Kill Boots: Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you were Hit Recently or 35% increased Mana Regeneration Rate if you've cast a Spell Recently ________________________ Mechanics ________________________ 1) SSW benefits from claw modifiers that grant critical strike, or critical strike multiplier. 2) SSW grants flat physical damage per wolf you have summoned 3) We summon SSW by critically striking with "Law of the Wilds" - You will want one with the highest base crit chance available - Each critical strike will only have 20% chance to SSW 4) Since we need to crit, we cannot use Resolute Technique like most Dominating Blow builds - Get your accuracy from: A) precision B) a well rolled helmet suffix C) an Eater of Worlds implicit on the gloves D) Murderous Eye Jewels (2) 5) We use dominating blow to enable "Minions deal % increased damage if you've used a minion skill recently" 6) Theoretical maximum minion counts: - Sentinel of Dominance.........14 - SSW.....................................10 - Phantasms...........................10 - Herald of Purity......................4 - Spectres................................3 - Golem....................................1 - Animated Guardian................1 -Sentinel of Radiance...............1 _________________________ Defensive layers _________________________ 1) 75 / 75 block 2) 4000+ ES 3) Wicked Ward 4) Divine Shield 5) 50000+ Armour ( with Iron Reflexes ) 6) CWDT molten shell 7) 43 minions to block projectiles 8) Minion taunt 9) High chaos resistance 10) Stun immune 11) elemental ailment immunity _________________________ Deaths _________________________ As of writing this guide, I have died 113 times! Good luck and have fun exiles _________________________