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Equipment
Budget
White Maps: it cost about 80 Chaos Orbs.
Yellow Maps: it cost about 150 Chaos Orbs.
Complete Atlas: it cost about 600 Chaos Orbs.
Items Mods
Minion Damage
Life
Elemental Resistances
Dexterity
Mandatory Rings
Chimeric Hold Unset Ring: needs at least 30 dexterity and 50 life.
Mandatory Uniques
Dead Reckoning: this jewel is mandatory because it allows us to summon Mage Skeletons instead of the regular ones.
Recommended Uniques
Fleshcrafter
Skullhead
Pledge Hands
Femurs of The Saints
Rare Body Armour
Death Jack Necromancer Silks: needs at least 250 energy shield, 70 life, and some elemental resistances. If you can't afford a Fleshcrafter, use a rare armour like this while saving your PoE currency.
Rare Helmet
Maelström Halo: needs +1 skeleton, +1 zombie, +level of all minion gems, and some life. When you have more currency, get a helmet with these mods.
Rare Gloves
Corpse Caress: needs minions deal x% increased damage, life, and elemental resistances.
Crafting Tips
● Getting a great pair of gloves that grant minion damage is very cheap. It would help to use an Essence of Fear on a pair of Sorcerer Gloves. Depending on the tier of your essence, this grants up to 30% increased minion damage.
● Now, you need to get a good roll that grants some life. Once you succeed, use "Lesser Eldritch Amber" to get the Unnerve Implicit to cause bosses to take 10% more damage.
Rare Amulet
Spirit Idol Turquoise Amulet: needs +1 skeleton, some life, some resistances, and some dexterity.
Recommended Flasks
Divine Life Flask
Quicksilver Flask
Silver Flask
Rumi's Concoction
Gems
Staff
Vaal Summon Skeletons - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Spell Echo - Pierce - Returning Projectiles - Minion Damage
(When facing big bosses, replace Greater Multiple Projectiles with Hypothermia.)
Armour
Raise Zombie - Feeding Frenzy - Minion Life - Culling Strike - Vaal Molten Shell - Determination
Helmet
Raise Spectre - Leap Slam - Faster Attacks - Lifetap
Gloves
Winter Orb - Cast While Channeling - Flesh Offering – Desecrate
Boots
Zealotry - Skitterbots - Vaal Haste - Generosity
Ring
Sniper's Mark
Jewels
Jewels Mods
Minion Damage
Maximum Life
Cast Speed
Dexterity
Abyss Jewel
Morbid Oculus Ghastly Eye Jewel: needs "increased minion damage if you've used a minion skill recently", and "minions deal additional [any elemental] damage".
Grim Globe Ghastly Eye Jewel: needs "minions have x% chance to Taunt enemies on hit with attacks".
Skill Tree
Ascendancy
Pantheon
Major God: Lunaris
Minor God: Yugul
Leveling
Tips
Use Glacial Hammer until level 4. After level 4, get your Summon Raging Spirits from Nessa in the first town. This can be done right after completing the "Breaking Some Eggs" quest.
Main Skills
● The first skill you'll get is Glacial Hammer. Use it until level 4.
● As soon as you reach the first town, purchase Raise Zombies from Nessa. They will help you with more damage. Use it as your secondary skill.
● Reaching level 4, replace Glacial Hammer with Summon Raging Spirits.
● Reaching level 8, support Summon Raging Spirits with: Added Fire Damage, Minion Damage, and Melee Splash.
● Also, on level 8, support your Raise Zombies with Minion Damage.
● Reaching level 10, you can use a Skeleton Totem for extra boss damage.
● Also, on level 10, activate Clarity for more mana regeneration.
● Reaching level 16, activate Summon Skitterbots for more damage and Survivability.
● Reaching level 18, replace Added Fire Damage with Melee Physical Damage on your Summon Raging Spirits setup. This will be your main setup until level 49.
● Also, on level 18, support your Zombies with Minion Life and Melee Physical Damage.
● Now, on our Skeleton Totem, we have 2 options when we reach level 18. If you have a Dead Reckoning, support them with Controlled Destruction. If you don't have Dead Reckoning, use Melee Physical Damage.
● Reaching level 49, you should buy a Sire of Shards and use Mage Skeletons as your main skill. Support your Mage Skeletons with: Minion Damage, Pierce, and Spell Echo.
● Also, on level 49, replace Clarity with Zealotry.
● Reaching level 59, you can equip your Femurs of the Saints and start using the main skeleton setup. Support your Mage Skeletons with: Greater Multiple Projectiles, Pierce, and Spell Echo. Returning Projectiles if 5L and Minion Damage if 6L.
● Reaching level 69, Survivability is going to be very important. With that in mind, let's replace Zealotry with Determination.
● Once you get your rare helmet with "7% increased mana reservation efficiency of skills", you can reactivate Zealotry for more damage.
Leveling Items
Tabula Rasa
Lochtonial Caress
Goldrim
Lifesprig
Wanderlust
Praxis
Earendel's Embrace
Sire of Shards
Here is the ending of Daniel's Mage Skeletons Guardian Build. I hope this build guide will help you a lot.