If you want to become the ultimate minion master with a horde of pets doing your bidding, this guide is for you. This Beastmaster build for Alessa focuses on maximizing the power of summoned creatures, managing resources efficiently, and dealing massive damage while maintaining survivability.

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Gear and Equipment

1. Starlight Set:

• Effect: Increases summon creatures’ damage by 100% and allows summoning an additional familiar. Enhances the “Call of the Spirit” skill, removing skill point cost and allowing up to 4 permanent Dryads at once.
• Why: The Dryads can root enemies, which is an incredibly powerful status effect that even works on bosses, preventing them from attacking or moving.

2. Dagger – Tireless Guardians:

• Effect: Increases damage by 100% each time energy is regained through familiars.
• Why: With two familiars active, you can stack up to 300% extra damage, dramatically increasing the damage output for all skills and minions.

3. Ring – Ring of the Spirits:

• Effect: Provides health and energy on critical hits.
• Why: Enhances survivability and allows more frequent skill usage.

4. Bow – Pact Bow:

• Effect: Summons additional Dryads each time energy is regained through familiars.
• Why: Ensures a constant stream of Dryads to overwhelm enemies and maintain pressure.

Alternative Bow: Master Archer Bow for cooldown reduction.

• Why: Useful if you need faster cooldowns instead of more minions.

5. Amulet – Amber Talisman:

• Effect: Reduces cooldowns when using a potion.
• Why: Helps manage high cooldown abilities in critical moments.

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Skills Setup

Passive Skills

1. Seeds of Blood:
   • Effect: Increases chance to summon Dryads on enemy hit.
   • Why: Ensures a steady flow of minions during combat.
2. Superior Summons:
   • Effect: Increases damage and health of summoned creatures and grants a chance to heal players on hit.
   • Why: Enhances both offense and survivability for Alessa and her allies.
3. Poison Mastery:
   • Effect: Summons deal more damage to poisoned or rooted enemies.
   • Why: Synergizes with Dryads’ root and poison effects for massive damage boosts.

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Active Skills

1. Sureflight Arrow (Mastered):
   • Effect: Hits multiple enemies and ricochets, ensuring high damage output.
   • Why: Works well with crit-based builds for consistent energy and health regen.
2. Spinning Blades (Superior):
   • Effect: Costs no mana and applies poison.
   • Why: Great for passive damage while conserving resources for other abilities.
3. Hungry Roots (Superior):
   • Effect: Places a trap that poisons enemies and triggers consistently.
   • Why: Provides constant poison damage, boosting damage from minions.
4. Spiral Cut (Superior):
   • Effect: Deals massive AoE damage and guarantees slowing of enemies.
   • Why: Controls crowds and sets up easier hits for minions.
5. Call of the Spirits (Superior):
   • Effect: Summons 4 permanent Dryads that can root enemies.
   • Why: Core to the build’s control and damage strategy.
6. Defiler’s Retinue (Superior):
   • Effect: Summons a group of temporary Dryads that poison enemies.
   • Why: Increases burst potential during boss fights and large enemy packs.

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Stat Prioritization

Primary Stats:

• Cooldown Reduction: Ensures you can spam powerful abilities more frequently.
• Cost Reduction: Lowers mana cost, allowing more frequent skill usage.

Secondary Stats:

• Critical Chance and Damage: Boosts the effectiveness of both your bow and your minions.
• Poison and Root Damage: Synergizes with minions for higher sustained damage.

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Playstyle Tips

1. Energy Management:
   • Use familiars to gain energy and trigger the 100% damage boost from Tireless Guardians.
   • Constantly walk into familiars during fights for a stacked damage boost.
2. Positioning:
   • Keep moving and plant traps under bosses or large groups of enemies.
   • Use Spiral Cut to slow enemies, allowing your minions to attack safely.
3. Minion Maintenance:
   • Maintain 4 permanent Dryads at all times.
   • Summon temporary Dryads with Defiler’s Retinue during boss fights for additional burst damage.
4. Boss Fights:
   • Lead with Call of the Spirits to root bosses.
   • Use traps and Spiral Cut to maximize poison damage.
   • Continuously refresh Dryads to ensure maximum uptime on root effects.

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Recommended Farming Strategy

• Difficulty: Chaos 2 for efficiency and high drop rates without excessive risk.
• Target: Farm bosses like “Keep our Secrets” for consistent drops and high XP.
• Method:
  1. Summon Dryads.
  2. Apply traps and poison.
  3. Walk into familiars for damage boost.
  4. Focus down the boss with Spiral Cut and Sureflight Arrow.

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Summary

• Strengths: Insane minion damage, consistent crowd control, great survivability.
• Weaknesses: Relies on maintaining familiars for damage boost; vulnerable to burst damage if caught out.
• Ideal For: Players who enjoy summoner builds with strategic positioning and resource management.

With this build, you’ll be tearing through Chaos levels, managing a small army of Dryads, and watching bosses melt under a barrage of poison and roots. Happy hunting!