3.21 Wolf bomber | Minion instability | 1.7mil dps Uber P boss | 75/75 block | Build theory!

Hi everyone!

Yet another build concept idea which I haven’t tried. Unfortunately, I don't have time to play POE at all (irl stuff), but sometimes a new idea sprung in my mind, so I pobed it and share in hopes that one of you readers will like the idea, give it a try and come back to report how well it worked (if at all...).

So, what’s this all about?

Exploding wolfs!



I mean, who doesn't like minion instability, right? It's the coolest keystone in the game and probably in the history of RPG.
However, the problem is that the process of resummoning always felt kinda clucky to me and I found myself looking for ways to "automate" the summon.
Well, I found one! Law of the Wild!

Tldr:
Law on the wild has 20% to summon lvl25 wolf on melee crit
To max wolfs generation, we work our way to:
Muster as much attack speed as we can
100% crit chance
100% hit chance

easy.

Currently I got 36 attacks per sec, with berserk and ancestral totem, so:

36 hits/sec * 0.2 wolfs per hit = 7.2 wolfs per sec.

The second requirement is to make sure that the wolfs die before we reach 10 max wolfs.
Time to generate 10 wolfs is:

10 wolfs/ 7.2 wolfs/sec = 1.39 sec.

Time for the wolf to explode is (with anomalous Infernal Legion):
50life/(50dps * (1-0.4 res) = 1.66 sec > 1.39sec - problem.

To fix that I use Fortress covenant, located next to MOM. it converts arcanist dominion to minions take 20% inc. damage, so the time to explode is:

50life/(50dps * (1-0.4 res) * (1 + 0.2))= 1.38 sec

Yey!

Now you should comfortably cyclone around while your wolfs are summoned and blown... summoned and blown...







That's it, hope you liked the idea.
If you liked it and decide to go for it, let me know how it worked!

Thanks!

you have combustion crucible , and power charge on crit implict, do we have any other way to generate power charges ?

Power charges are generated with the claw corruption.
The combustion support is a mistake, it doesn't work on the wolfs because its not a skill gem, it's a skill granted by the claw

I saw this and HAD to do it. I'm a bit late in the season and I don't have time this season to grind for the top gear here, so I made some changes to afford that. Current base life of my wolves is over 35k, plus over 400% minion damage. Most rare die in 1-2 wolf pops, uniques in about 3-4.

I *love* this idea. For leveling I of course just used SRS, and I was afraid the melee of the build might hinder or feel bad.... but once I got the claw and tried it out with even 25% crit chance and just 13 attacks per second and see a full pack of 10 wolves in less than a second of hitting a pack, I was absolutely sold.

This build is hilarious and fun. And I love wolves, to boot. Thank you for the idea :)

Thanks a lot for trying!!
Happy to hear it worked, cab you share your POB? And video of the build?

Thanks again!!

Sure! I'm still moving skills and items around now that I can farm a bit here and there, but this is a snapshot of the work in progress so far:

https://pobb.in/i_cOzS8sa0iu

And here is a video I put together of some clips :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AB2rSlAuuk

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Mystikal_Pooka schrieb:

Sure! I'm still moving skills and items around now that I can farm a bit here and there, but this is a snapshot of the work in progress so far:

https://pobb.in/i_cOzS8sa0iu

And here is a video I put together of some clips :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AB2rSlAuuk

Thanks for posting!

I looked i your pob, looks nice!
You scale es life and mana?

Btw - if you realy want to boost your dmg, elegant hubris + impossible escape is the way to go, it's HUGE damage

I only had some mana scaling for a few levels because I was having some mana issues. I have since refunded those points and I'm moving towards attack and spell block first. I have an elegant hubris gem, but I have not yet moved over to using it

Hi!

Sorry to necropost, but I've recently dove into this rabbit hole of exploding wolves during Necropolis league as a (currently) level 82 Necromancer. I thought I was the only one to do it, but clearly not. I would like to share my build here as well!

Currently the build is using Vaal Venom Gyre (yay to claw skill) to trigger the wolves, and Infernal Legion + Ancient Skull to proc Minion Instability. Since Law of the Wilds has some built in crit scaling, I daringly decided to make Minion Instability scale off crit. With crit comes in built in ignite, and since Minion Instability can struggle on clear I added Ignite Proliferation to aid it. I do use Elegant Hubris but skipped out on Fortress Convenant.

With this setup, I am able to reach an approximate 12 mil pinnacle dps, not including an additional ignite that does 1 mil dps. These numbers are assuming that only 5 wolves are active at any time, since I do not keep up 10 wolves all the time.

PoB: https://pobb.in/F7yb49EWN_y7

I have made some changes that I will incorporate into my character in the PoB below which brings the dps up to around 20 mil pinnacle dps.

The changes include using unset rings to include Combustion Support and add Bonechill Support with the Skitterbots. Additionally, I swap over to molten strike because Venom Gyre struggles on single target procs. Also tattoos. Many tattoos since attributes are not needed.

PoB: https://pobb.in/ZcXJ6RX4SE5k

The gear in the aforementioned PoBs cost around 15 divs, some of which I crafted myself.

If requested I will post a video!

Edit: I forgot to mention that this build is effectively a glass cannon, with an EHP of 11k :(
Edit: Grammar.
Edit: Realized that Bonechill Support on Skitterbots isn't doing anything, will change to something else.