Questions Optimizing Skeletal Snipers
Skeletal Sniper has the most "tags" in the entire kit. there is almost nothing stopping me from running skeletal snipers with all of the masteries (chaos mastery, fire mastery, minion mastery, physical mastery) granting +4 gem levels on gem alone
if i 6 link it, i'd add martial tempo for more attack speed (despite it having the fastest base attack speed of all minions). with a +4 sceptre, +3 neck, +2 helmet, that's potentially a level 33 minion gem
levels being the highest scaling in this game for minions in what I've seen (paper doll in game giving me more dps with a + level vs any of the 25/30% more multipliers)
I haven't seen anyone doing this or playing with it and I'm so sick of arsonists.
if I corrupt the level 20 6 link, and it doesn't brick, I'm assuming level 21 is possible? so level 34 Minion gem on a ranged minion solving the blocking issue that keeps forcing most of us back to arsonists.
The raw should be insane right?
Attack speed & increased damage sceptre would be a must.
I'd be thinking something like
#% increased Spirit
Allies in your Presence deal #% increased Damage
Allies in your Presence deal # to # additional Attack Physical Damage
+4 to Level of all Minion Skills
Really lean into the raw phys scaling for the dog to set up poison cloud detonations.
Was hoping for feedback/thoughts before I liquidate my character and throw all my currency into this.
Haven't quite figured out how gem level corresponds to monster levels here. https://poe2db.tw/us/Skeletal_Sniper#SkeletalSniperSkeletonArcherPlayerSummoned
Comments
So few things: The basic attack dps at 2.7k is pretty low, my 4 link reaver has a toolltip 4.7k damage per second.
Generally from what I've noticed scaling minion level has really good scaling with minion command skills but not their basic attacks. So yes the command skill damage looks ridiculous especially 20k on the arrow.
The main question though is if ur running around with skele Archer using their gas cloud why don't u just play crossbow with gas grenade, crossbow would play better because Ur gas clouds would come from u and not ur sometimes despawning and randomly stuck archers and the coverage would be way better with multi proj
Honestly, do I think it would work? Sure, heck it would probably be pretty strong. Still feel like it would be inferior to Arsonists. Tooltip damage is hard to gauge actual damage.
If you consider the shotgun effect you have to double or triple the DPS of the tooltip for Arsonists to be accurate.
Also I would be scared since GGG already sort of nuked Gas Arrow/Grenade because they thought easy ignite-explode loops were too easy and made it known they planned on changing those skills even more. So I would not be shocked if they "remember" to nerf the minion version as well eventually.