u/Stick_Puncher

Okay, I've spent the last two weeks playing and optimizing the Sylvan's Effigy Zoomancer build and I feel like I've optimized the build enough to be able to post some small things/tips about it.

#1. Loyalty Support Gem Stacks (Additively) and helps your survivability IMMENSELY

#Here is how much damage you take scaling with every loyalty gem you socket into your skills:

0 Loyalty - 100% Damage Taken

1 Loyalty - 90% Damage Taken

2 Loyalty - 80% Damage Taken

3 - 70% Damage Taken

4- 60% Damage Taken

5 - 50% Damage Taken

6- 40% Damage Taken

7/8/9 - 30%/20%/10% Damage Taken

I've marked in bold how many I ended up using (4).

1 Loyalty/Romira on wolf pack is a given, the other 3 are on:

• My haste aura beast
• Shock applicator beast
• Ele res aura beast; basically my support squad.

You can invest further but imo, it's not worth the sacrifice of DPS as well as QoL on your main damage dealer companions.

Your minions WILL die a lot while taking bullets for you so make sure to invest in revival speed and/or nurturing guardian (see below). I hope this goes without saying but when your companions are dead, loyalty DOES NOT ACTIVATE.

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#Nurturing Guardian is very helpful for minion uptime; HIGHLY RECOMMENDED WHEN USING LOYALTY

This passive allows minions to be affected by your life flask recovery; allowing you to minimize your minion defensive investment. Pop a flask charge or two while fighting and you will see a noticable difference in minion uptime with this node allocated.

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#Spirit Vessel Wolf Form is a Monster Chill/Freeze Applicator

The Spirit Vessel companion you get from Forgotten Warden is very strong; the tooltips in-game are bugged and don't show their dps correctly but they do a LOT of damage when built correctly.

I've tested out all the working skills and the following setup is bar none the best setup to use on Spirit Vessel:

1. Lunar Blessing

2. Lunar Assault

3. Rage

4. Muster

5. Tul's Stillness OR Rapid Attacks II/DPS gem if you cannot afford Tul's

With this setup, Spirit Vessel will freeze any boss as well as apply a 70% damage as extra cold to your wolf pack and maybe your azmerian wolf (haven't been able to test this well)

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#"Extra Physical Damage Aura" is not worth using on a beast.

A lot of creators/streamers right now are recommending getting this aura but it's not worth a beast aura slot. The aura they give is INCREASED damage, not multi. Essentially, this is a 40% increased minion damage aura; like 4 small passive nodes worth.

Highly recommend swapping out this aura for another of the more useful ones; i.e. Periodic Invuln Aura/Ele Res Aura/Temp Bubble

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#Blind is mandatory; Shroud Walker makes bad beasts good

Since most monkey bois are evasion/es based. Blind on enemies will help you tremendously as it reduces enemy accuracy.

Socketing a Catha's Brilliance in your ascendancy bear is the easiest way to get blind, but later on try to aim to get a Shroud Walker support beast as it applies it to all nearby enemies when it teleports.

Shroud Walker on a slow moving beast type will also made any slow moving beast an absolute KILLER; allowing for a lot of potential when it comes to good beasts to use.

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These are just some things I thought would be good info to share. I'd love to hear what else you guys have found out.