Constellations can be self-sustaining. For example Assassin’s Blade needs one Order point in Crossroads to be able to put point into that constellation. But when you complete Assassin’s Blade it provides 3 Ascendant and 2 Order points which makes your total Order points 3. So you could then remove the point from Crossroads as you still have Order points.
Maya, how about dropping Assassin’s Blade (since Familiars become the main source of damage) and Lizard and getting Tortoise (extra layer of defence) + Blizzard?
Elemental Storm can be bound to Briarthorns and Blizzard to Familiars.
We lose one of nods in Tree of Life, however damage increase should be significant.
Is it worth trying?
Hooray! Ty 
What Medea said.
You can buy back both skill and devotion points from the Spirit Guide NPC.
Briathorns and Primal spirit will suffer interms of damage. Unless you replace rings and weapon to convert pet dmg from physical to lightning.
Furthermore, It will reduce kill speed against Ravager and Mogdrogen.
I have a feeling that the extra damage from Blizzard won’t do any good if all you change is devotions.
I’d personally go for a Lightning pet build with Wind Devils for -%RR if you want to make the most out of Familiar+Blizzard combination.
EDIT: Tried it, it fared terribly and struggled even on wave 160. Blizzard did not make up for the loss of Assassin’s Blade 
Briathorns and Primal spirit will suffer interms of damage. Unless you replace rings and weapon to convert pet dmg from physical to lightning.
Furthermore, It will reduce kill speed against Ravager and Mogdrogen.
I have a feeling that the extra damage from Blizzard won’t really make much of a difference if all you change is devotions.
I’d personally go for a Lightning pet build with Wind Devils for -%RR if you want to make the most out of Familiar+Blizzard combination.
Hm? I don’t mind but if you are posting because of the minimum post count requirement, then we have a dedicated thread for it
For anyone curious, here: http://grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48496
Maya, any tips on Alexander? This guy seems to evaporate the pets despite 85%+ Aether res, need to try and kill him first, perhaps?
Fight him near Pillars and Overhangs. The meteors will hit them instead 99% of the time.
If that is not an option, then use the pet attack command to move your pets out of his meteor’s path.
Also, you can take a more aggressive approach and spam Curse (CoF) on him so that he casts his meteors on you instead. Should be easy enough to avoid unless you get stunned/rooted.
And yes, focus him down asap except in wave 161 where you need to focus on the human healers first. They will otherwise heal Aleksy back to full and are very annoying.
Also, kill his shards or move away from them. The pale-green aether crystal formations that he creates, as they have pretty annoying skills.
Aleksander’s Shard: https://www.grimtools.com/monsterdb/1510/skills
Btw, if you are playing without blessings/banners you can afford to let your pets die. But in this case Reaper of Souls and Gravathul are probably going to be your worst nightmares. Iron Maiden and Fabius can also ruin your day. So in such cases, don’t give too much importance to Aleksy. Especially if you have 2x Reapers in play.
So… changed devotion setups to try and include Blizzard without sacrificing much.
This was the result : https://www.grimtools.com/calc/RVvoY6mZ
Crucible Run with 1 Banner & 4 Blessings: https://i.imgur.com/uPja7rf.jpg
As you can see, Blizzard does not do much for us as the clear time remains more or less the same. However, going for it did cost us some defense and that made runs without blessings difficult. So use the above setup at your own risk.
Thanks for trying different options. Do you use offensive or defensive banner?
Always offensive banner. Safety is only a concern if you play without blessings and even then only with those double Aleksander waves accompanied by something like Iron maiden, GravaThul etc. So no need to go for the defensive one.
Banner only serves to lower the clear time for us so that we can run waves 151-170 thrice in one round of blessings.
Made a few changes to the Alternate Versions. They should be a little bit better/easier now
2 Builds with Faction/Craftable items for campaign. Not viable for crucible as it is kind of a budget build that you can go for before you farm up the legendaries and stuff.
o) https://www.grimtools.com/calc/4ZDQyAYN
o) https://www.grimtools.com/calc/Q2z4zpvZ
(Only real difference is weapon)
2 Builds with Faction/Craftable items for campaign. Not viable for crucible as it is kind of a budget build that you can go for before you farm up the legendaries and stuff. Can however do pretty much everything in the campaign except Celestials like Mog/Ravager/Lokarr. (Nemesis bosses untested)
Thanks for this build, its awesome!
Been running it for a while, tho i built my own devotion spec. Disregard my skillpoints in this build as i respecced a bit to play with my mate, added survivability with the shaman ward that i wouldnt use for Solo play.
https://grimtools.com/calc/pZrq7BLV
What do u guys think of the devotion spec? I spent 2 hrs composing it from different specs ^^
The RR from Manticore doesn’t stack with the RR from Elemental Storm. Use one or the other. If you’re using aiming for both physical and elemental damage use Manticore, otherwise Elemental Storm.
You should probably use at least one of the T3 pet constellations - any of them will help a lot more than Ultos will. You CAN use Ultos along with Mogdrogen or Dying God with some other sacrifices, but it’s not generally worth it. The damage is not very impressive and that type of RR is not very useful when you only have 30 of the -X% RR type.
I’d also put an extra 7 points in Familiar, it’d will be worth far more than anything the points have to come out of. There are a number of places you can get them at little real cost - Single points in Wendigo Totem and Blood Pack aren’t doing a lot for you. Wendigo Totem can be great if you get it to 12 or 15, but at 3 it’s more of a liability than a bonus. You have 1 too many points in Conjure Primal Spirit. Manipulation is less useful past 12/12.
Awesome thanks for the feedback, will do these changes and see how it works out.
I noticed its really hard to do accurate damage tests, especially with lowering resists. Earlier i did them on the training dolls or whatever theyre called but i dont think they have any resists to begin with. I guess timing 150-170 is the only way to go?
What Sig said. Also you seem to have 1 extra point in Primal Spirit that you can invest somewhere else. And glad that you like it
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.
Also look into better components and augments when you can. Resists do alot for survivability. And when doing crucible take into account variations in timing caused by mutator and nemesis combinations.
Moggy done. Took longer than I thought it would
Can I please have a version that’s specifically for campaign that doesn’t use Tree of Life, Ishtak and Ulo?
I have my elemental conjurer just where I want him. I also would like a 2 familiar 2 briarthorn one as well. I personally just don’t see the use for those 3 devotions unless i’m missing something about the build.
Isthak provides pet damage, speed, resistances and damage absorption for the player. That is a pretty neat package. You don’t need Tree, but it does provide HP, HP & Mana regen + the Heal. Ulo is also for the extra resistances it provides. Basically the entire thing is going knee deep into defensive options. You can drop Tree and go for Empyrion also.
If you want to go without Ishtak, then it is better to go with either Mogdrogen or grab a Witching Hour and head to Aeon.