[3.24] SRS Bomber aka Popcorn SRS | League Start to Endgame | All Content

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Dekand wrote:

Hello Weo

one of the SRS bomber build in this league too.
Got a question, after unable to get "raze and pillage" in my large cluster jewel.
So, for my SRS build, is it okay to replace my "infernal league support" gem to "minion life" gem, subsequently my SRS no longer deal fire damage?
That means, I have to rely on my "minion instability" key passive to deal huge damage..

Any impacts to my SRS overall damage?
What is your thought here?

You want to replace the infernal legion gem as soon as you get the Tavukai.

The Minion instability is the core of the build and only damage source we actually scale.

The raze and pillage is helps our spectres to apply fire exposure and to ignite the enemies, further debuffing them.
It is not directly benefitting the srs explosions.

Once you have the amulet your srs setup should look something like this:

SRS - unleash - minion damage - concentrated Effect - fire penetration - predator.

As long as you are using skitter it's, which you always should, you could replace fire pen or predator with hypothermia which give slightly more damage, but needs the enemies to be chilled. (Skitterbots will chill the enemeyfor you).

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Weo_ wrote:

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Dekand wrote:

Hello Weo

one of the SRS bomber build in this league too.
Got a question, after unable to get "raze and pillage" in my large cluster jewel.
So, for my SRS build, is it okay to replace my "infernal league support" gem to "minion life" gem, subsequently my SRS no longer deal fire damage?
That means, I have to rely on my "minion instability" key passive to deal huge damage..

Any impacts to my SRS overall damage?
What is your thought here?

You want to replace the infernal legion gem as soon as you get the Tavukai.

The Minion instability is the core of the build and only damage source we actually scale.

The raze and pillage is helps our spectres to apply fire exposure and to ignite the enemies, further debuffing them.
It is not directly benefitting the srs explosions.

Once you have the amulet your srs setup should look something like this:

SRS - unleash - minion damage - concentrated Effect - fire penetration - predator.

As long as you are using skitter it's, which you always should, you could replace fire pen or predator with hypothermia which give slightly more damage, but needs the enemies to be chilled. (Skitterbots will chill the enemeyfor you).

Hey, Weo.

Alright got your note here.
i am now wearing Tavukai amulet.

Hmmm. For the replacement of fire pen/ predator to hypothermia gem, let me try it later.

Thank you for the explanation!

hello, thx for build. Its fun to play but everything just can 1hit yout back
to hideout :/

could you pls tell me why i´m so squishy

https://pobb.in/Jnj0ozx2l4t6

Hi and thanks for the build and the active responses in this thread!

I just started PoE and on my first character I 'invented' the minion instability + infernal army. I was quite proud! And then I found out about builds and the insanely detailed character guides like this one. And down the rabbit hole we go..

I do have a couple of questions about the build though:
1: What is the purpose of 'Devotion'? It gives 25% consecrated ground. They might have changed this in a recent update since I see several different descriptions.
2: You picked a shield mastery "20% chance to avoid elemental ailments", but aren't you ailment immune as soon as you use acquire the Stormshroud jewel?

Thanks in advance!

edit: While leveling i notice that my minions don't die so I use flesh offering instead of bone offering. This could be the case because i'm playing with a friend and his auras keep my minions alive.

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Wladyka wrote:

hello, thx for build. Its fun to play but everything just can 1hit yout back
to hideout :/

could you pls tell me why i´m so squishy

https://pobb.in/Jnj0ozx2l4t6

Hard to tell with out knowing what content you run.

Sadly PoE is known for randomly oneshotting you :-/

in Regular alch'n'go maps oneshots should be rather rare though.

looking at your Character, you are missing quite some defenses.

you are neither block caped nor Elemental Ailment Immune.
Since GGG buffed the Chaos Damage dealed by monsters in maps, you should definitly aim for positiv chaos Res.

You missing both Life and ES Recovery on your shield.

you can drop Clarity, since you have Eldritch Battery, you don't need any Mana Regen. Same goes for your Mana Flask, replace it with an utility Flask or Rumis.

you Annointed "Holy Dominion" which does nothing for you, since you are way overcapped on elemental Resistances and increased Elemental Damage does not scale the MI explosions.
Take something like "Testudo", cheap and helps with Blocking.

Craft "Aspect of the Spider" on of your Rare Items, it will both encrease your damage and slow the enemies.

craft "minus Mana costs" on your Rings, otherwise you could endup in a situation where you don't have ES to Dash out of Danger.

Do you have "Bone Armour" on your left click?

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Oppersjaak wrote:

Hi and thanks for the build and the active responses in this thread!

I just started PoE and on my first character I 'invented' the minion instability + infernal army. I was quite proud! And then I found out about builds and the insanely detailed character guides like this one. And down the rabbit hole we go..

I do have a couple of questions about the build though:
1: What is the purpose of 'Devotion'? It gives 25% consecrated ground. They might have changed this in a recent update since I see several different descriptions.
2: You picked a shield mastery "20% chance to avoid elemental ailments", but aren't you ailment immune as soon as you use acquire the Stormshroud jewel?

Thanks in advance!

edit: While leveling i notice that my minions don't die so I use flesh offering instead of bone offering. This could be the case because i'm playing with a friend and his auras keep my minions alive.

Happy you like the Build :-)

I didn't have the Idea for it my self. Wayback Zizaran released a giude about Bees, but since he didn't update it for the later leagues, I made my own ;-)


Devotion: We take it for the 10% Increased Maximum Life. including the small node leading up to it, thats 16% increased Maximum Life, which is alot for just two points.

Shield Mastery: The Stormshroud jewel alone does not make you Elemental Ailment Immune. You still need to reach "100% Chance to avoid being shocked".
Eventhough Tempest shield says "Buff grants immunity to shock", it does not work towards the stormshroud jewel.

So assuming you have a "Darkness Enthroned" Belt with 75% (old Value for the Belt) increased effect of socketed Abyss jewels.
Socketing a Ghastly Eye with "46% avoid being shocked" would take you to ~80% Chance to avoid being shocked.
With the "20% chance to avoid Elemental Ailments" from the Shield Mastery, we are at 100% Chance to avoid being shocked and with the Stormshroud jewel Elemental Ailment Immune.

But since the Jewel is quite expensive, you could also go for 100% chance to avoid Elemental ailments from other sources.
independend from which route you take, the 20% from the Shield Mastery help alot.

Minions not dying:
in a betcase scenario, only your SRS would be dying, every other Minion you have (Golem, Zombies, Spectres, Animate Guardian) should stay alive.
If your SRS aren't dying,

We don't use Bone offering to prevent the Minions from dying, but to reach block cap for ourself (with the Ascendency Node "Mistress of Sacrifice" which we typicaly take in the uber lab).
Using Flesh offering is perfectly fine though, you only really want to be block capped once you run yellow or higher maps.

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Weo_ wrote:

Happy you like the Build :-)

I didn't have the Idea for it my self. Wayback Zizaran released a giude about Bees, but since he didn't update it for the later leagues, I made my own ;-)
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Using Flesh offering is perfectly fine though, you only really want to be block capped once you run yellow or higher maps.

Well thanks for keeping it updated! Yup, it's intensive, but fun to play.

In the meantime I found in the 3.21 patchnotes "The Devotion Notable Passive Skill no longer provides 5% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills. It instead now provides 25% increased Effect of Consecrated Ground you create."

So before the patch the increased effect was a useful addition but now not any more.

This did make me decide to go to the upper left cluster jewel instead of the left one.

Ok thanks, so simply try to get to 100% avoid being shocked + Stormshroud. I have no idea of prices. I still have to start looking into trading altogether. So far I just get by with the items my friend and I find ourselves.

For now I took the shield mastery.

Ah i see, so Bone offering is mostly for ourselves. Then I will switch to Bone offering as soon as I acquire Mistress of Sacrifice.

Thanks again, I will revisit your build info many time while levelling. Happy gaming!

Just wanted to give a little update/impression how I'm progressing with the Build.

Since I dont have much time to play this league, I'm still finishing my Atlas.
I started to push T15/16 maps and felt I need to actively Upgrade my Gear.

I pushed with this setup until then:


What I upgraded:

I was lucky and got 3 Raw Divine drops within the first 10 maps I ran this League.

I got this one for 3.5 Div:


Bought a six-Link for 5C and slammed it with an Essence of Greed:


Bought a Tavukai with negativ Chaos Res and "Additional Curse Implicit for 70C:


Two Rings with Flammability/Elemental Weakness on Hit for 60C-80C:


This will likely enable me to finish my atlas, and start with my Boss Rush (Elder/Shaper/Conc Fragment) farm strat.

From there I will likely just go ahead an further improve the Gear by self crafting Gloves, Boots, Armour, Wand, Rings and Shield (see the Guide for tips on how to craft the stuff).

Aside from the Diadem (which you don't actually need) you can easily get gear for 1-2 Div to farm "Chissel Alch'n'Go" T16 maps

Atlass Strat is currently: Essences, Strongboxes, Alva and Jun

Hi, any idea about what crucible passive should we aim at on our wand and shield ?

Btw, I'm using a tabula +2 minions (inexpensive), and I can do T16 quite easily (using the tree life mastery +15% life if no life on body armor). Could be an alternative for those who do not have a lot of currency.

I just started following this guide after getting my mage skeleton necro to 85 and swapping from there, I am currently working to gear towards this build but I have to be missing something obvious.

How are you guys sustaining mana for the SRS?
I don't know a lot about the game but I am showing a .45 second cast time on the tooltip with a 54 mana cost per cast.

I am using defiance banner/Determination and Summon Skitterbots, but I am unable to use Tempest shield without taking up almost all my mana.

That being said with those reserved I have 271 out of 1052 mana left.
At .45 seconds cast time at 54 per cast I am running out of mana every 2 seconds or so, and I am having to spam the mana flask.