[3.12] Heist HC #1 Arc Aura Stacking Guardian | 90% All res | Inifinite Scaling into T19 100% Maps

This is my character that I am currently playing on HC Heist. It is a guardian, but the tree is nearly identical except you path out of templar instead of scion. It wastes extra passive points and has a lot less damage than scion, but I chose it for its extra tankiness on hardcore. However, I do not recommend going Guardian on Softcore Heist as the tankiness is just not needed.


Updated Path of Building: https://pastebin.com/C2zVrpB6

Fastest way to level this build is to go Stormblast Mine/Orb of Storms at the start. Then transition into Cremation/ Armageddon Brand at 28. Then you should transition to Ball Lightning Archmage at 38. You can play Ball Lightning Archmage Ascendant for a while until you can farm enough gear and currency to play the Budget Version of this Build. The Ball Lightning Version is very strong by abusing the foreboding mana flask.

Without harvest, it is going to be much harder to get perfect jewels with chaos resistance and life regen on the suffixes. Our new strategy is to just alt until we hit a good prefix/suffix and then regal in hopes of gaining another notable. Some good prefixes include: Flat Energy Shield, 25(35%) Effect, First Among Equals, Replenishing Presence, Stalwart Defenders, and any aura reservation notable if you need extra mana reservation. Some good prefixes include: intelligence, life regeneration, and chaos resistance. As you can see there are a lot of options for what will work with the cluster jewel, making alt/regaling not as daunting as it may seem. We need 6 total medium clusters.

Perfect Jewel would ideally have 35% effect, flat energy shield, chaos resistance, and intelligence. With these affixes on the medium clusters, our damage will be much higher and have up to 10-11k es with full endgame gear.

Without a doubt, Divergent Determination is the most important alternate quality gem. Since we have no armour, this gem's alternate quality allows us to reach 30k armour with no investment at all. It scales off our aura effectiveness, and allows us to use our evasion rating as armour rating.

Anomalous Purity of Ice grants us 4% cold penetration that scales with our aura effectiveness. This makes it equivalent to around 12-15% penetartion depending on our aura effectiveness, which is crazy considering there is no opportunity cost.

Overall, there are many alternate quality gems that gives us free power that was no available before. Wrath and Precision are both guaranteed to give good outcomes with the use of a lens. You can get aura effectiveness or reduced mana reservation.

Make sure to look up on poedb for the weightnings on the alternate quality jewel if you decide to you use the orb to reroll the quality of the gem. This could a lot of times be cheaper than buying the gem directly from someone.

Nebulis: Best weapon bar none. best implicit are explode, 10% chance to deal double damage with spells, and then any generic added lightning/cold dmg to spells.

Shield: Prism Guardian allows us to get auras casted on life for virtually no cost. Look for an implicit with +1 to gems or auras.

Gloves: Maligaro's on a budget allows us to gear for crit with no need for crit multi. Hands of the High templar can be used when one has good enough gear. This requires us to get crit multi through jewels, which makes gearing a lot harder. When using Hands of the High templar, look for a pair to grants as many gem levels as possible for our auras along with Curse on hit/Spell crit.

Belt: Go for Headhunter or Torrent's Reclamation. If on a budget aim for a crystal belt with chaos res and high energy shield. Super budget option could be bated breath.

Boots: Can craft awakened tailwind/elusive boots with crafted movement speed. You can then add on the avian mod for another aura to run. Other options can include Sin Trek or Doryani's Delusions on a budget. Doryani's Delusions allows us to save a gem slot since we no longer have need to socket in Purity.

Rings: Call of the Brotherhood are the own choice. Make sure to use the Turbulent Catalyst for full conversion. Look for corruptions on the implicit to grant Wrath, Zealotry, and Hatred to gain extra gem sockets. Extra gem sockets means more auras and access to movement skills.

Amulet: Use a Presence of Chayula or a Rare Amulet with 5% Mana Reserved/ lvl 22 vitality. Presence of Chayula grants stun immunity along with more ES and a lot chaos resistance. This is a better option for hardcore. Make sure to use fertile catalysts on both of amulets to gain more mana reservation and more ES gained as life for the Presence of Chayula. Lastly, make sure to anoint Champion of the Cause for more aura reservation reduction.

Helm: Choices include Alpha's Howl or a rare Hubris Circlet with 5% reduced mana reservation and as much ES as possible. This can be done through spamming fossils most efficiently. Make sure to get an enchant that reduces the reservation on one of your 50% auras. This includes Hatred, Wrath, Zealotry, and Haste. Make sure to put your purities in either the Alpha's Howl or Shield for the + to gem levels.

Chest: Shav's is the only option and allows us to go low life.