Path of Exile - Incursion Competition Day 2

The Temple

The core of this league's mechanic is the temple, in which my marauder died on day 1. I was quite a bit more hesitant with my witch, but the first thing I did on day 2 was go to the temple, as I should have been significantly over-leveled for it by now. Sure enough, my minions were plowing through all the little mobs and even the architects stood little chance against them. 7 zombies and 8 skeletons pack quite a punch. I made my way all the way through the rooms I'd unlocked and even found an explosive gel to blow open a doorway, which I used to get to the arena.

At the top of the temple in his arena is the omnitect, He seems to be a large round mechanism that floats in the centre of the arena and activates different traps, or summons minions. I don't know what else he does because between the zombies, my fireballs, and the vaal skeleton army of about 18 various skellies, he went down a short battle.

^{A good omnitect is a dead omnitect, and a reasonable loot pile}

Next on my agenda for the day was finishing act 3, and that means Dominus. Last competition I didn't risk taking him on, and when I did after the competition, I died horribly. This time around, with my minions I felt invincible so pushed on through the scepter of the gods to the rooftop he resides on and had possibly the easiest battle against him I've ever had. It was over in possibly less than a minute, I didn't need any heal flasks, and I hardly fired my fireball even as my swarm of minions devoured his preceding lieutenants, and then overwhelmed Dominus himself. Onwards and upwards for the summoner!

^{And my first ever witch kill of Dominus. Slowly getting one of each class past him.}

Feeling good, and feeling powerful is a recipe for disaster, but I kept playing and opened up the mines and went through a few levels of them, adding a stone golem to my minion army. The normal mobs were still just falling away as I walked through the zones, and it felt like nothing could stand in our way

^{My regular set of minions. Skeletons are absent as they run on a timer, so get summoned in battle/before battle}

After getting to the waypoint where you split into the three paths, I paused briefly but then decided I was going to keep going. Push onwards and make my witch harder to catch. I went for Koam first, and the lead in zone was a lot easier than it has been in my past, though I did have a couple of points where I turned and ran to re-summon my minions in safety. Even the area with lots of fire shooting towers wasn't a huge issue like it normally is. I was aware that I was needing to heal more often, and I needed to re-summon the zombies, which I'd not had to do in quite a long time, but I decided to finish off Koam while I was there. Entered his arena, summoned my skeleton army, stepped left instead of right, and dead. No chance to run. No chance to heal. Just dead because I stepped in front of the wrong volcano.

^{It was all over in seconds, and my minions had still taken a noticeable amount of health off the boss. If only I'd stepped right, I might have worked out the dodges I needed to avoid the volcano busts}

So I took a break. I came back and made a new witch, same as the first. I decided to grind some low level incursions to get an early temple to play in. Well, the grinding part worked well, and I created a nice temple with no incursions after the ledge.

^{This is the temple incursion display, and also the map of the temple you'll eventually play in}

I thought level 12 would be enough to take the temple. I leveled up just after going in, but with the increased mob sizes, I stepped through a doorway in front of one or 2 mobs of ranged minions and that was that. dead at level 13. Time for a real break, I went off and did some other things for a few hours.

Eventually I came back and started again, still witch. Still summoner, but a bit more cautious than the second witch I haven't entered the temple itself yet, though I did grind out the low level incursions to build it. I'm looking at going in around level 15 to 17.

Today's plan

Well, keep on leveling and get as high as I can. Don't die. They're about my only goals, though it would be nice to get past Dominus again

^{Upgoats made by the talented @ryivhnn}