Path of Exile

God Izaro fucking sucks with summoner builds, can't control your damage very well so he keeps switching phases with buffs on and shit. Wasted my double enchant prophecy because of it, died in one shot to a normal attack cause he ended up with 2 of the element charges shit. He fucking started walking to the middle right as one elemental statue reactivated and as the last one was coming out of the ground, and that counted as both active for last phase. Luckily this is SC so don't care too much about dying but so far my 4 deaths have been in the lab and to Izaro(once in cruel cause I tried doing it at 49 since I really wanted the points, and 3times in merc to stupid shit with too many buffs ending up in getting one shot in last phase). Don't think I could do endgame lab with this char, unless I maybe wait for a day where there's no buffs(shit like adds are easy they kinda die instantly).

As a side note, Animate weapon is pretty fun, it's fairly different than other summoner stuff, like it's kinda passive like spectre summoner but with more action since you have to cast on weapons that drop and shit. Damage is definitely the highest I've seen on a summoner though, like it feels 15ish weapons is about the same damage as 50SRS active, and in maps you can often spike to 30-40weapons. I've been running a bunch of beyond maps to get the challenge for the named, and half the time when a named beyond guy spawns, he dies near instantly.

I do hope they have some QoL features for summoners in next expansion though. From the overly bloated skillbar(convocation+desecrate+offering in every build, can't have zombies/golem on the bar most of the time because of that) and gem setups, to a lot of the summoner spells feeling like shit(spectres disappearing on logouts, SRS targetting feeling like garbage on top of the nerfed damage, minion speed across the board being way too low, skeletons being garbage, convocation having a cooldown, offering balancing being poor since flesh gives movespeed, which beats anything the others can do in most cases besides like boss fights), it kinda sucks. I still really like the relaxed playstyle more than most other stuff besides fast melees(but Reave zzzz) but everytime I wish some stuff was better. At least Necromancer got a lot of pretty good buffs last patch.

Finished the 24 challenges, can't be bothered going further. Was pretty easy overall, didn't even reach 85 before being done. I think it was less annoying than perandus 24 challenges, there wasn't a whole lot of RNG involved, other than the tormented warlord but it's not that rare. I had a bunch of almost finished challenges anyway, I'm 4/5 on beyond and 4/6 on endgame lab trials, and completing that would unlock argus. 36 looks rough though, at least some of them.