[3.10] Heraldry Cluster Guardian - 9k Es | 90% all res | 75% block | 10M+ boss dps

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k4n3 wrote:

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HisGodliness wrote:

Hi, can I get some help figuring out how to squeeze some more ES out of this build? I have a pretty budget setup right now and I'm looking for the next upgrade that would be affordable (under 2ex). I'm currently sitting at about 2.8 mil POB dps and 5379 ES.

want more ES? just respec all four points from insightfulness circle and put them into jewels at your medium cluster. buy 8% increased ES 20+ int jewels for several dozen chaos each. 5 int is 1% inc. es so each jewel will give you 12% increased es for a total for 48% increased while your circle gives you only 27%.

your rings are only 40% conversion each, buy 48% ones, your damage will go up.

replace presence of chayula with 6% rmr and lvl 26 vitality amulet with 20% inc. es and good stats. this will help you get one more aura into your build later on and manage existing ones more easily.

buy 19+/19+ nebulis. you will get 120-150% increased damage. which should bump your total dps by roughly about 10%.

don't buy 5 passive voices, until you upgrade your entire gear. better buy +2 aura/Aoe prism guardian instead or doryani's delusion or bottled faith.

can also buy +1 socketed gems shavronnes.

also buy lvl 21 aura gems too. buy 21/20 arc.

and above all else utilize all your jewel sockets in the tree before going into some measly 5-6% es nodes in the tree.

after you spend like at least 100-120 ex into your gear upgrades, then you can start thinking about 5 passive voices.

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facelessman122 wrote:

Took me awhile to work out vaal haste is on by default. Switch it off and switch haste on. Last time I checked I was 10.19.

Thats with 3 frenzy, onslaught and tailwind.

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abbyyuna wrote:

Thanks for this!

So, I got the jewel!

1 - Clarity is definitely needed as my mana regen isn't high enough to cast arc more than 3 times without going OOM and delay is like 1sec per once OOM.

3 - Influence tree on the tooltip gives higher DPS than me removing it for a ES jewel. Can you explain this further why 20% more aura effect isn't better than 8% ES?

4 - Working on it!

Thanks in advance!

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SKT1K wrote:

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grimjack68 wrote:

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SKT1K wrote:

Can someone take a look at what upgrades I should make next?

You are seriously running low on upgrades.

Some Hillock crafted quality on your flasks?
A belt with a bunch of ES and chaos resist?
Awakened Spell Echo?

You're probably doing so much damage you could consider dropping a ring for an unset ring with another grants skill, that would let you drop the boots and pick up something with Tailwind / Elusive / 30% movespeed.

Hey, thanks for the reply, I'll definitely look to see if I can find a gg unset ring.

Yeah, I was thinking about looking/crafting a nice belt w/ ES and chaos res, maybe upgrading my cobalts to get +chaos res as well. But I honestly feel like chaos res is not that important cuz I deal so much dmg, and this build is already very tanky. But it can't hurt!

Do you think a maligaro implicit and better nebulis implicit is not that important? Obv. not guna crank out 100ex+ for ele weakness on hit, but maybe %crit? I've been seeing some decent nebulis implicits for 7-20ex as well.

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HisGodliness wrote:

But I don't have points to travel to those nodes nor do I have the currency to free up those points, that's the issue. Should I get rid of the interrogation and spend those points on ES nodes? Or are my next upgrades 5-passive jewels?

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grimjack68 wrote:

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HisGodliness wrote:

But I don't have points to travel to those nodes nor do I have the currency to free up those points, that's the issue. Should I get rid of the interrogation and spend those points on ES nodes? Or are my next upgrades 5-passive jewels?

There's a bunch of stuff that can be improved super cheap.

First. Drop Vitality. It's a great add-on aura for later on, especially after you can drop a bunch of exalts on an amulet that grants the skill without requiring the strength that the gem does. Right now, it's not helping enough to justify.

When you can afford it, drop that dusk prism small cluster. It's not a great way to get the strength you need, it costs too much in the way of skill points. You could replace 3 skill points for that with ONE by picking Might or Physique.

I'd drop the helmet and belt for the suggested starter gear of an Alpha's Howl and Bated Breath. You can reroll your Quicksilver flask for something else at this point because Alpha's takes care of freeze.

You should be able to drop the Enlighten as well at this point.

Now you have 2 extra gem sockets. Vaal Righteous Fire and Smite. With those gear replacements, your current tree and gems, PoB puts you at 3.8 million DPS. (Which is another thing - if you replace Controlled Destruction with Energy Leech, you would be at 3.9, and get the benefit of leeching ES basically all the time...)

Ahem. Back to VFR and Smite. You should be able to sustain RF all the time, which boosts your DPS to 5.3 million. Tapping Smite boosts that to 10.0. Adding in VRF pushes that to 12.8.

This setup will give you a massive DPS boost all the time, and burst damage goes up by triple. (Using ES Leech gem instead of CD pushes that burst damage to 13, btw.)

Furthermore, with this setup, you don't need so many Heraldry cluster jewels, so when you get some currency, you can pick up some more damage by fitting 1-2 Endbringers or maybe go with one and a Replenishing Presence for better ES regen.

PS: None of the advice from the rest of the guys is bad in any way either. There's a lot of headroom available on your setup, so it's only going to get better from here.

PPS: Send me a message in game if I'm on, I'll shoot you some chaos. Chances are my next upgrade - if I even bother - is going to be very expensive, so I doubt a few dozen chaos will have any effect on my bank.