why use homunculus if you are not going for max block?

Probably for higer radious for Amp ( off screen ), open soc for Fire RBF ( huge dmg boost for CE ), nice ress source and MAEK to keep up mana pool.

cheap and effective

slot for a fire facet

20 ene + 33% regen + 5 maek is great, cuz even with insight IG you have only 50 mana regen per sec (just enough to sustain 1 CE per sec)

40@ is great, even if any defensive stats is close to useless due to your meat shield

18% block with 8 frame animation is still better than 11% block with 11 frame animation

+2 curse is better than... none?

444def > 148 def

using spirit you'd still lack 15fcr for 125 (can't reach that without sacrificing the 2 most important piece of gear : Beast and FF)
125fcr is super useless on a build made to clear density, running TZs from start to finish there is no long tele distances. You can't cast faster than your merc provides corpses.
I've always had slower runs on any 125%fcr setups, over thousands of runs.
This is definitely my most played build of all time, I know what I'm talking about here

Now... ofc a super gg rare/magic shield would beat homunculus.
A +2nec or +3pnb with +3CE and 2os would beat this...
I just didn't want to list something ppl can't get their hands on while this cheap homon is already very great

This post was edited by SinsOfTheSun on Feb 27 2025 10:59am

boneflame? hhg?

Look at the stats they give and tell me what's good on them lol

gfg rare/magic > homun > 4x facet mon > spirit > boneflame > hhg

if someone really wanted to have more mf, he could use darkforce spawn, which gives 30fcr and would allow more mf in any combo of belt/gloves + ring/amy


This post was edited by SinsOfTheSun on Feb 27 2025 11:06am

if you are not going max block boneflame is better

+3 skills, frw, res, socket

Just a summon necro that uses ce

Aka the standard build, it’s dumb that it has a different name

that's not an argument

+3CE/amp is very close to +2CE +4amp

20% frw, yes, but no big deal for a pvm build that does very long runs (not much ng/time in town)

res? it has 10@ less than homun...

socket? same as homun

so you just lost big mana sustain
and 7% block which make you lose 3 frame every time compared to the 30%fbr from homun

frw is not irrelevant

+1 CE is good

+1 golem mastery and bone armor is nice

@10 res is not that important in SC

mana you can drink from time to time, when you CE a lot.

20ene + 33% regen + 5maek is literally more than half your mana regen.

I have never seen the hp bar of my IG drop below 100% with this build (he is immunes to 3 elements and protected by skellies)

If you cast bone armor, you just lost time. Don’t.

Use it if you want lol
You’ll lose more time picking up mana pots than the 0,3s you saved in town.
It doesn’t change the core of the build.
But its definitely not as good.

This post was edited by SinsOfTheSun on Feb 27 2025 11:25am