Infectious Summoner

This build is a complete lvl 60 setup and is UP-TO-DATE with the new relic subclass rework. The subclass used is Bane and the build is Heavily Summon-centric. We stack various damage sources, two of those come from class skills: Loyal Shasta (taunts and then gives us passive +50% dmg vs taunted enemies), Sacrifice to Goose (applies vulnerability making enemies take 25% more dmg or 30% with the Tier 1 bonus). We also stack Minion damage from a Relic Passive & a Relic Active skill: +25% minion dmg from the passive and +100% minion damage while Miasma is active Together with Ghost Visage (for mobility + an extra 50% crit chance buff for Targeted Strikes). Considering Targeted Strikes for some DPS + Spectral Spider as DPS & a summon skill + the DPS & summon of Arachnid Assault + Eight-legged Allies for chance to summon spiderlings + Goblin Legion – the build can dish out pretty good dps to enemies. The three must have items for me are the Ryeful of Leedarshap rifle (in the legendarium) + Infectious Shooter (equipped or in the legendarium) + Bonerazor (equipped or in the legendarium while Boneblocker is equipped).

Octiber 21st EDIT: I’ve added a suggest way to lvlup as a Bane Sharpshooter at the very bottom of this page/build.

September 17th EDIT: I’ve updated the skill points allocation screenshots to include the extra 10 points (total of 70) that the new update added.

September 7th EDIT: Bane‘s Spread of Death passive and all other passives like this will no longer give any DMG bonus to the relic’s element (i.e. Poison for Bane). I’d say only keep the skill leveled if you like the proc effect, else it would be best to spend those points elsewhere.

August 17th 2020 EDIT: I still suggest investing 5 points into Bane‘s Spread of Death passive! It will get rebalanced to only give +25% poison DMG but it is still a pretty nice number.

August 10th 2020 EDIT: HIGHLY suggest investing 5 points into Bane’s Spread of Death passive!!! This one gives a whopping 50% poison dmg overall (10% per skill lvl). Combine this with a weapon that has poison dmg rolls on it and sockets that you can fill up with more poison damage + more poison flat or % dmg on the armor pieces that can roll it and you’ll be seeing a HUGE dps boost. Consider downgrading some of the less useful skills or passives. I Suggest going for Tier 1 Scout’s Bones and having 5 points into Spread of Death. For example: if you have a weapon with 3,500 poison dmg and leg armor with 500 (total of 4k together), with the passive +50% it will show your total poison attack on your stats as 6,000. I didn’t know this worked in such a way when I made this build video so hopefully this message reaches enough of you 🙂

Build Video footage:

The skills I use:

• Loyal Shasta – used to taunt enemies and keep them grouped up for our dmg spam also makes taunted enemies take 50% more dmg). Can do some more dmg + heal us when the Shasta’s Promise shield is equipped/slotted in the Legendarium.
• Goblin Legion – Some  meatshields + okay dmg + nice ranged dps when boosted by the Ryeful of Leedarshap rifle.
• Targeted Strikes – amazing piercing straight line dps
• Scout’s Bones – When boosted by the Infectious Shooter pistol this one shoots poison projectiles in all directions as the rat ball(s) travel forward.
• Ghost Visage – our escape mechanic and a movement skill. We also get 50% crit chance for the next 3 uses of Scattershot & Targeted Strikes after using it
• Sacrifice to Goose – we use it to apply vulnerability, making enemies take 25% more dmg or 30% with the Tier 1 bonus & for the Tier 2 bonus to get -10% cooldown for Scattershot
• Spectral Spider – 1 big spider summon that at Tier 1 also spawns 4 Egg-bombs for decent dps. On Tier 2 the spider gets a ranged attack and on Tier 3 it also summons 6 spiderlings
  
• Miasma – decent dmg + an amazing party buff for DMG & defence + summons 6 spiderlings (1 every second, up to 6) + at Tier 3 we get a 100% minion dmg boost
• Arachnid Assault – Nice dmg + summons a Spider Queen at Tier 1 that also does decent dps

The gear I recommend using is:

MY IDEAL EQUIPPED GEAR:

• Infectious Shooter (Pistol) – this boost our Scout’s Bones skill and gives it an amazingly fun ability to shoot loads of poison projectiles
  
• Boneblocker (empowered by a slotted Bonerazor) – this allows us to summons some skeletons and when empowered we get a total of 10 across both items.
  
• Musketeer Hat + Robe + Gauntlets
  • Musketeer Cavalier Hat – gives +1 Precision Skills (+2 with the 3 piece set bonus)) [I’ve tested it and it won’t give you extra levels if the skill is already lvl 10 so go for lvl 9 if you have +1 or 8 if you have +2 to those skills]
  • Musketeer Robe – gives +1 Adventurer Skills (+2 with the 3 piece set bonus) [I’ve tested it and it won’t give you extra levels if the skill is already lvl 10 so go for lvl 9 if you have +1 or 8 if you have +2 to those skills]
  • Musketeer Gauntlets – summons one (or two with the 3 piece set bonus) archer spirits to fight alongside you (they use Tight Grouping)
• Arc-Powered Legs – PRETTY GOOD! When using Spectral Spider there’s a chance to gain 25 relic energy (the default cost is 50 so in the worst case where no cost reduction is in place that’s 50% of the cost back)
• ANY Shoulder: Woodsbeast for a summon, OR Skittering for survivability OR Arc-Powered for a dps-y Buff
• Maybe Blue Boots as they now can drop with % {element type} dmg (I assume that flat dmg can roll on boots as well)
• You can even try combining boots + shoulder + legs of Woodsbeast or Arc-Powered or Skittering to get a total of 2 sets (of 3 items) for the extra bonuses. That is alongside the Hat + Robe + Gloves mentioned above of course.

Blue Gear only gets 1 socket now.

Suggested Legendarium Powers (to fill in the gaps from items you’re wearing):

MY IDEAL LEGENDARIUM COMBO:

• Ryeful of Leedarshap (rifle) – boosts Goblin Legion to also summon 3 Ghostly Gunners.
• Bonerazor (1handed sword) – can empower Boneblocker while slotted
• Shasta’s Promise (shield) – boosts Loyal Shasta to do 100% more dmg and heal us for 10% of our hp when she taunts) OR one of the two legendary pistols while equipping the other (Infectious Shooter & Lil’ Drake are the two pistols)

If you decide to go for a blue 2h weapon equipped then use the Infectious Shooter in slot 3 instead of Shasta’s Promise.

The recommended stats to look for in your items are (the list is not in order of priority and is just listing good bonuses + there’s new stats and I might have missed some which will get added later):

• +Flat Poison Damage
• +% Poison Damage (starts getting very good later on when you have a nice flat to boost with this)
• +% Damage to Precision skills (it’s a good boost for when focusing more on targeted strikes spams)
• +% Damage to Adventurer Skills
  
• +% Damage to Spectral Spider (and any of the other 2 active relic skills we use)
• + Health
• + Defense (the non elemental is good for any act but lesser numbers than elemental)
• +% Critical Hit Chance (the cap is 40%)
  
• +% Critical Damage (the cap is 300%)
• +% Gear Luck (eventually try to get like 50-75% total for good drop quantity – the cap is 100%)
• +% Energy Recharge Rate
  
• -% Relic Energy cost
• +% Relic Active Skill Damage
• +% Block Chance
• +% Chance to Evade damage
• +% Ammo Generation
• +% Chance to Poison is a very good synergy although we probably poison enough with the scout’s bones and summons.
• +% Chance to Bleed and/or Burn to stack the poison with the other DoTs
• + % Chance to Stun/Slow/Blind – not a bad choice but not high priority (you can get 10% dmg vs slowed, stunned, blinded from tier 2 Rizzi but that will require reworking of the skill points)

The Skills and Passives I recommend are:

IMPORTANT: Keep in mind that my setup + all other alternative examples are WITH the +2 Adventurer & +2 Precision skill levels from the Musketeer Set Hat + Chest!

September 17th EDIT: I’ve updated the skill points allocation screenshots to include the extra 10 points (total of 70) that the new update added. The numbers in YELLOW represent the suggested skill levels after the new update. In some cases you may need to remove points from one skill to get another one leveled.

Regular Setup (used in the video):

More summons, less cooldown:

Even more summons, less cooldown, no goose:

Less cooldown, more Targeted Strikes dmg + ammo regen:

No goose, more Precision dmg + use Reload:

No goose, +10% Relic Recharge Rate:

No goose, +10% Relic Active Skill dmg:

 

 

Suggested way to lvlup any Bane Sharpshooter:

Sadly, summons are not that good at damage and that build might be tough to level but I’d go for Targeted Strikes Tier 3 and Reload Tier 2 (or 3) and Loyal Shasta Tier 2 as Highest priorities while leveling up.

• At lvl 2 get Scout’s Bones 1 or Spectral Spider 1 or Goblin lvl 1
• At lvl 3, 4 save points.
• At lvl 5 get reload lvl 1 and lvl 3 Ghost Visage.
• At lvl 10 1 point into goose. At 15 put 1 point in Miasma.
• At lvl 16 you can save the point and all next ones all the way till lvl 20 and get Loyal Shasta Tier 2.
• At lvl 21 get Arachnid Assault lvl 1.
• Keep leveling Targeted Strikes and Reload until you get them to the mentioned tiers.
• Then start getting Miasma to lvl 10 and Arachnid to lvl 10 and maybe get the other skills you’re missing as at least lvl 1 or tier 1.
• Eventually get the setup to look as the final one (whichever one you’ve picked) you may need to remove points from targeted if you’re using a Tier 1 setup.