PoE Righteous Army, Minion builds

I can't be the only one looking into SRS builds for the upcoming league. I drafted this build: and I'm looking for feedback. Ideas behind the build: Have something that would work as a starter (currently no mandatory uniques besides basic AG gear) but allows growth with investment Have plain old base dmg scaled SRS and add Unholy Might and Hatred on top Use EB to counter raised SRS mana cost and keep using a Blessing for a juicy dmg aura Use the newly buffed Haste aura for zoom-zoom :) Use the new minion shields instead

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I'm going to make a bet that patch notes will give us "Minions have +% chance to poison on hit" as an added mod to the pool for the new base types. We would use the free weapon to auto-cast Bladefall for Lingering Blades. Our Animated Weapons have 75/75 block, 83% all res, and max chaos res with ~24k life. Because they won't die, 2.5 blades every 8 seconds is plenty to sustain the minions and even if not we have increased duration nodes right where we're pathing. We're using Eldritch Battery for the Divine Blessing option (Haste, which lasts 30+ seconds btw

So I worked up a POB with the adjusted Lightning golem numbers and was hoping to get some feedback/suggestions.

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: 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 ne

I have pulled out the cost of my rares from Client.txt and I thought this could be interesting maybe? Usually build guides are pretty vague on costs. I followed mostly this comment in pivoting to CI, my version is forget the zombies they are not required just a nicety, I could squeeze them in because I got insanely lucky when I double corrupted my shield. The price for that shield is most definitely not included in the costs below. 1. Dem