The weapon gives an average of two extra pets to deal damage for you, the chaos conversion does not apply to your pets. You could pick another pet weapon but for this build the +2 to briarthorn along with the above mentioned pets is pretty good.
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You can, of course, use an other off-hand. The thing is, this shield was the build defining item xD. And it adds quite a lot of damage I think : 25 flat from blood of dreegs + 25 from mogdrogen pacts, on each of your numerous pets, not to mention the +3 to the aforementionned spells, which allow us to hard cap them (they have an increasing return in term of flat damages, so the value of the shield is actually quite high imo). And on top of that you have the huge amount of health regen it provides, even after the recent changes + physical resist if you have the right affixes. Since this character is in harddcore, for me it was the best choice, providing both high survivability and good damages.
That said, if you are not worried to much about survivability, you can try other options. The Bloodsworn Codex is very strong (but it’s better on a beastcaller build…), Gates to many worlds should be a good choice too.
I don’t know if there is a good option with a summon, exept the Gate to Many worlds. There is the Black Grimoire of Og’Napesh, but I don’t know if it is strong.
As @fizzo_man said, it is mainly for the extra pets. But there is a couple of good alternatives here imo. I don’t know how Salazar’s Sovereign blade performs now, but it should still be a very strong choice, especially with good affixes. There is also the Mythical Blightstone Invoker, which add damages and allow you to achieve 100% phys to acid conversion for pets. Mythical Black scourge helps with skill points, + the chaos resist for pets can allow you to run more agressive augments on rings (and on a lucky day, you can even proc those litlle pets, but it is very unlikely since it is YOU who has to deliver the fatal blow).
thxs for the explanation, ima just stick with your original build.
I do Callagadra video for u, vs Callagadra vs Mogdrogen
to fight with Calla, the Pet pierce res need over 30%, also high phy res. with base res also need high regen for Pet, so the 12level totem will give some help.
Before I try insect summoner with beastcaller set, but effect not verygood, Ghol is really goodidea, with good rr and high oa to develop insect summoner.
I like this Build, and I do some change for myself fun. but I think your is perfect， best survival with high pet attack speed.
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Many thanks ! You are one of those who inspired me, so your feedback means a lot for me !
Regarding your set up, I must admit I love the sand king amulet (and the bleed support with Rend devotion and 22 Primal Bond), and i’m still unsure if the blightshard is better. For the head slot, I’ve already discussed above about this helm, and again, I have trouble to evaluate which one is the best. One question however : you didn’t put a single point into primal spirit, is it that bad if you don’t heavily invest on it ?
Actually it was a development from two of your old ideas : 1) a fun Duskdeep86’s Ghol+Winter king trickster (and before this insect summoner I tried my own ghol+winter king conjurer here), and 2) a ritualist who used this shield ^^ : Duskdeep86’s Ritualist
Again, thanks a lot ! I’ll add your videos in the original post ! As mentionned somewhere in the thread, l managed to kill Cally myself with this set up : perfect green version, but it’s on my soft core account with stashed items, I don’t have yet an HC kill.
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if not fight with Calla, this is good choice, have 20% phy damage reduce, and 2 long-range Pets, long range is important, because no place for all 19 pets to attack one boss target.
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I didnt choice Necro helm, also no more point for Primal and need one button for it , I dont like without CDR to investment Primal
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That I can understand (the fewer buttons the better^^) !
Oh noooo ! This is very sad ! RIP, you had a glorious death !
That said, I would never have believed the build capable of passing a 99^^. So this is both good and bad news !
I’ve never been in SR100 so I don’t know how hard they are hitting here, but I’m quite surprised that the killer is Reaper Nemesis, the build has about 60% phys res (or more depending on the affixes on the shield) and a decent pool of hp.
Again, I don’t know how things are past SR80, so I don’t know if those timers are decent or not, but thanks a lot for sharing your results and vids 
!
This build only drawback is pet cant get good Taunt effect to Nemesis in deep SR. besides this is perfect.
Reaper have chargeg attack. when I die before, Reaper already follow me attack 6~7times. also have many kind of RR. at that time I already got SR buff have 70% phy res. (I have many build dead in Reaper hand in deep sr, so after 100, Reaper damage sometime is very dangerous)
(have a type of hero, name : Gilisten, the Reborn, have reborn skill, if have some skill、equipment、devotion can like that, I will try deep in HC, but now Nemesis damage really crazy than before.)
Data of 100 level Reaper
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Thanks for the explanations about Reaper, I understand better now !
Concerning the amulet, this is a good surprise ! I’ve made some tests/changes and I am currently updating the guide, I have now my own fight against Callagadra on video, and also the one against mogdrogen (had to restart a char for this xD).
vs Callagadra (~3min30) :
vs Mog (~1min20)
vs Ravager (~1min10)
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crucible section up to date, with the addition of a 4"50 run :
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Good day sir, awesome pet build. i’ll like to ask ya the devotion points order for this character, thank you very much
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Thanks ! Actually I don’t remember the order, but let me just try it quickly on grimtool. (note that this devotion path is, as always, not set in stone, fell free to experiment^^ I didn’t change the devotion since patch 1.1.9.2 )
So, it is quite a pain in the ass actually, because you have to take a lot of devotions that you will “refund” later to meet requirements.
I suggest something like that :
-Go for Shepherd’s Crook first
-Then take Jackal, Eel, Raven and Lion, order doesn’t matter (we will delete those later, except raven)
-This will allow you to take Behemoth, Staff of Rattosh, Typhos, Bysmiel’s Bond, Harvestman’s Scythe (order doesn’t matter again)
-Now you can remove unnecessary points/devotions : remove Eel, Jackal, Lion, everything in Crossroads except a yellow and a green nod
-Take Empty Throne, and you should have all the requirements to do the same devotion path as the one in the guide.
There are surely better ways to do it, but this one works^^
thank you very much man, really appreciated. one last thing tho, is this a “viable pet build” for everything? i mean i really love pet builds (i’m trying to do a necro and occ pet build with skeles and lost souls, but thinking about going death gates for more damage) and i’m trying almost every pet build to find the best. what’s your opinion about it (also if ya find more powerful lost souls or death gates build for cabalist). thank you very much
As mentionned in the guide, you can indeed do all the endgame content, included superbosses (the build is actually quite good for those). With a bit of practice, you can do crucible runs consistently in about 5"-5"30 (I myself am not a good pilote in crucible, and I managed to do a 4"50 run). As for SR, you can easily do 75-76 runs, and if you are interested in pushing higher SR, well Duskdeep86 pushed a 99 with a slight variation of this build. Keep in mind all of this was done in hardcore, I think you can achieve more impressive results with a more agressive approach.
“the best” is a very relative concept in GrimDawn imo 
. It really depends on which area of endgame content you want your build to shine. It is also a matter of personal taste^^.
I suggest you to try your best with items you like, and to define precisely what you want for endgame content.
For example this build [1.1.9.5] My Deep SR Pet Conjurer - SR125 solo, Callagadra, Lokarr, Ravager has absurd results, I mean, SR 125, it really is something, but what the matter if you don’t care about SR ?
You might prefer a build like this [1.1.9.1] Chaos Lost Souls Cabalist - CR 3:49 if you want a glass canon able to destroy crucible in no time (btw this one is a Lost Soul cabalist and is imo very fun to play, I myself played a very close variant of this build). But what if you don’t care about crucible ?
You see, there’s not a definitive answer, you can, probably, find a pet build that is objectively the best at doing, say, crucible (and even then, rng, mutators, pilot skills, make an “objective” approach difficult). But I doubt you’ll ever found the very best pet build at everything xD.
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