The main challenges you face will be keeping your character out of danger and encouraging monsters to fight your zombies instead. Hard outside, squishy inside - Your zombies might be tanky you are not.Great first time build - Almost all the gear is self-findable, startup costs are minimal, it's efficient even at low levels, and other than some light trading for Multistike and other skill gems, not a whole lot of trading required.If anything, you need the extra portals to haul back all the loot you'll get. A lot of the most dangerous/feared map affixes are nothing to you, and you definitely can stack the IIQ/IIR to keep your currency up. However, if there's any build that can pull it off, it's this one. Great solo maps character - A lot of people say maps require grouping, and they have a point.You'll still desync with this character, but often you'll end up teleporting into a room and not be dead, thanks to your meatshields drawing aggro. Desync protection - Zombies keep on going even when you're out of sync.Turn on your auras, kill any random monsters to raise an army, done. Ease of use - Since this build uses Zombies instead of Spectres, it doesn't require super-elaborate pregame rituals.Other players have facetank melee characters? You control eight of them. Map Brutus? No problem, your summons can tank him all day long. Very tanky - This build delivers on the promise of facetank-anything Zombies.Great MF character - Due to the minimal gear dependence, you can stack loads of IIQ and IIR, quickly farming rares and currency.Thanks to Eldritch Battery, you don't even need mana gear. This makes it a great first character, either for new players or for a new league startup. Minimal gear dependence - This isn't one of those build-around-a-unique builds, it's just skill gems, rares, and one somewhat cheap unique.

Class-M Exile by Raven Oak