Skeleton Mage Sacrifice Explodomancer Build Guide

Easy to play!

No required Unique items!

Beginner friendly!

Fun interactions and skill synergies!

Good map clear!

Good single target damage!

Infinite Mana!

High Ward generation!

There are builds that have better map-clear

There are builds that have better single target damage

There are builds that have higher sustain

There are builds that are tankier

(But this one is pretty good at everything!)

The core-idea of the build is making use of Skeleton Mages' Underlings 1/1 node to Sacrifice your Skeleton Warriors as soon as they are summoned. The death of those Minions will have many benefits, like:

• Mind Catcher 3/3 - We gain 45 Mana every time we use Summon Skeleton, because we get 3 Skeletons per cast thanks to Empty the Graves 2/2, actually giving us more mana than we spend on the ability. Hence: Infinite Mana!
• Soul Catcher 4/4 - 120 Ward with every press of the button!
• Awakening Presence 3/3 - We have a high chance to summon a Volatile Zombie every time we use Summon Skeleton, which will explode for tons of damage and give us even more Ward thanks to Vital Ward 1/1!
• Mania of Mortality (if taken) - more Ward!
• Reclamation of Souls 5/5 - you guessed it: EVEN MORE WARD!
• Mark of Punishment 3/10 - free Mark For Death so more damage!

And every once in a while you can just drop 6 Flame Wraiths for extra single target DPS. These guys can deal crazy amounts of damage and since they are a ranged Minion we can use Locus Of Death 1/1 to get a whopping 60% more damage for just 1 skill point without the downside really mattering at all. We will need to reach 100% chance to summon Flame Wraiths, though, which can be achieved with 2 Adorned Immortal Idols that have a good roll on the PrefixIdol Acolyte Chance For Summon Wraith To Summon Flame Wraith prefix. These idols are by no means mandatory to play the build, though, as the Summon Wraith skill is just used for extra Boss DPS.

Leveling of this build is pretty straightforward! Just follow the suggested path in the respective skill trees and the passive tree, specialize in the skills as soon as you can prioritizing Summon Skeletal Mage, Summon Skeleton, Summon Volatile Zombie and then Summon Wraith.

Pick up items with Resistances and/or PrefixIncreased Minion Damage. In my opinion while leveling you should focus on Void > Physical > Necrotic > Poison > Cold Resistances, because those - in my experience - present the biggest problems during the leveling process.

The loot filter is relatively strict and forged to my own personal taste.

The filter scales with your character level and becomes stricter the farther you are.

To import the filter into the game, open the link posted below, click on the "raw" button to the top right of the text window, copy everything on the new page (the first line should be <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>), go into the game, press SHIFT+F to open up the loot filter menu, create a new filter and select the "PASTE CLIPBOARD CONTENTS" option.

https://pastebin.com/dbHMUz2k