[3.13] Aura Stacking Minions (20-30+ Mil DPS, ~87% resistances, Beginner Friendly, League Starter)
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 __ ____  __ __Changelog 3.14 Updates Sorry people. I don't plan to play much this league due to IRL commitments. So I probably won't update the guide for 3.14/ The build was touched a slight bit because of the aura cluster jewel nerfs. The tankiness and DPS might be lowered a little bit. 3.13 Updates GGG slapped us, smacked us, kicked us in the balls and then lit us on fire. But what is dead may never die! The build isn't super OP like it was in 3.12, but it's still very very good. Latest Changes: - Added lvl 5 awakened hextouch support based build. - Since Harvest crafting enables easy 6 link helmets. Added a cold damage based end-game build. Deprecated the previous end-game build PoB.
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Changes
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- Re-added the Skeleton aura stacking build since it wasn't pulverised by the GGG nerf hammer. - Added even more budget friendly end-game build with almost the same offense and defense (using Midnight Bargain Wand). - Corrected Budget PoB's Zombie linking with Maim. Changed to Fortify. - Added even more budget friendly end-game build: 5ex (6 Link Shavs) + 11 ex (Jewels) + 200c (Misc gear) with almost the same offense and defense (using Midnight Bargain Wand). - Updated the levelling POBs to a spectre based ones that took me 5 hours to level up. All skill points and 3 ascendancies done. - Added a leveling section for early, mid, post campaign (white maps) and pre red maps passive skill tree and gearing. Updated PoB section accordingly. - Added Key Ideas of the Build section to explain what's unique about the build and what makes it work. - Added a "How to Gear up to End-game, Upgrades Priority Section". Key Ideas of the Build
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1. Aura stack. Fit 4 physical damage boosting auras rather than the traditional 3: Dread Banner, Pride, Vaal Haste and Flesh and Stone.
2. Use high life, high clear pool Syndicate Operaives spectres or medium clear, high single target DPS Skeletons. Minions such Carrion Golems, Zombies die easily in > 60% delirious maps without high build investment. Minions such as Sentinals require us to go melee. Then WE die easily without high build investment. 3. Use either Maw of Mischief, to get a cheap way of getting all our minions to behave aggressively, without investing in 1-2ex jewels or losing DPS by using Feeding Frenzy support. 4. Add 10+ million DPS aggressive zombies that kill everything that is in melee range of Syndicate Operatives. This fixes the spectre's trash AI, that "stops" attacking if anything reaches melee range. 5. Anything on screen that survies for more than 3s, get's demolished by the DPS ramp provided by Animated Guardian's buffs, without using expensive losable uniques such as Kingmaker. This is via: - High attack speed "#% chance to Intimidate Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit" weapon - Victario's Charity, Frenzy charges Tala Moana, friend. If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I'll try to address them as soon as I can. Build Stats Offense - 20-30+ Million Sirus DPS (No awakened gems, No alt quality gems, No crazy cluster jewels). - Screen-wide clear - Note: DPS of Syndicate operatives can be calculated with the following formula. " Defense - 7-9k ES - 1-2k ES regen per second - ~87% Elemental Resistances - 40% Reduced Physical Damage Taken - 75% Chance to Evade - 2k Bone Barrier Shield - Undead Secret Service (Buffed melee minions are good meat shields) Misc - 131% Movement Speed - Can do all map mods, except Physical Reflect - 15% Spell/Attack Dodge Chance - Addresses Syndicate Operatives Positioning Issues. Pros + Beginner friendly. No complex mechanics or timings required. + High single target DPS + Screen wide clear + Tanky (Evasion, Physical reduction, 90% resistance) Cons - Minion playstyle. You don't do any damage. - Mapping is done on low life ES. Absence of life flask makes it tougher on absolute beginners. All the GIFs in this build were recorded without end-game optimization (Vaal Haste not activated. Flesh and Stone set to Sand stance to not provide DPS bonus. Random spectre positioning. Gives a better idea of how build would perform with a beginner at the helm. It definitely has nothing to do with me forgetting to turn them on during recording ;p). ___________  ___________Deafening Essence of Build: Low time investment and game knowledge requirement. I mostly play on the weekends and I only really started playing this game since Delirium. So I'm making this build for casual filths like me. - High number of cheap uniques. Beginners can buy gear with guaranteed rolls. - No worries about finding correct mix of stats or capping resistence through gear. Be immortal on a budget. - 7 to 9k Energy Shield with 2k regen. - 90% Elemental Resistances, 40% Reduced Physical Damage Taken, 77% Chance to Evade - Can tank Sirius die beams with corrupted blood immunity jewel. - Aggressive auto targetting. Kills without knowledge of game mechanics. - Bosses (including A8 Sirus) will phase or melt in seconds. - Highly useful in the 3.13 boss killing meta. ___________  ___________Path of Building, PoB, TL;DR
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Install link for Path of Building (PoB) Community Fork: : https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/releases End of Campaign (Look at levelling section): https://pastebin.com/U98uDj5J End-game Skeleton Budget (Look at upgrades priority section): https://pastebin.com/1Wjm0NRT End-game Spectre Budget (Look at upgrades priority section): https://pastebin.com/MTvXVNLh End-game Spectre Expensive Cold: https://pastebin.com/Vi3BVW5z End-game Spectre Expensive Cold, Awakened Hextouch: https://pastebin.com/x9hnpavJ Gear
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1. Note for Beginners For every gear, I've provided trade site links which'll show you the gear you want to target. These links will search for the minimum stats you want on gear to make the build function smoothly. For every gear, I've also provided a written list of minimum stats you want on the gear. For better rolls and optimization, you might want to follow the priorities assigned to each stats. The links don't filter based on socket colors, no of links, corruptions. Please choose those to your liking. 2. For gem links and what level to keep precision and vitality gems in order to fit reservation requirements, please check relevant PoB section. 3. Instead of providing a seperate section for every version of this build, I'll simply list out all the different kind of items used throughout different builds. Please check PoB to see which specific item you need to buy. Gear List
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Helm, Crown of the Inward Eye (30-60 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/ZmWP0d9CQ Enchant (Choice 1): 150% increased Effect of the Buff granted by your Carrion Golems Enchant (Choice 2): Spectres have 40% increased Damage Enchant (Choice 3): Spectres have increase attack and cast speed or ignore enchant if expensive Priority 1: 20% increased maximum Life, Mana and Global Energy Shield Priority 2: 333% increased Armour and Energy Shield Guantanteed, Doesn't Matter: Transfiguration of Soul Guantanteed, Doesn't Matter: Transfiguration of Body Guantanteed, Doesn't Matter: Transfiguration of Mind Helm, Maw of Mischief (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/XR4OwdRUP enchant if expensive Priority 1: Implicits: Minions deal 20% increased Damage Doesn't Matter, Guaranteed: Grants Level 20 Death Wish Skill Priority 1: 60 to maximum Life Priority 1: 25% reduced Mana Cost of Minion Skills Guaranteed: Minions are Aggressive Please, DO NOT BLOW UP ANY OF YOUR MINIONS with Death Wish Skill. We don't use that skill at all. Alternately, we can use The Vertex and go more defensive with 90 resistance from all Purity gems and +500 ES, but I prefer the QoL added by aggressive minions. There is a low chance lab runners will be enchanting this helm. But in case you want to enchant it youself, following are the enchant priorities. Enchant (Choice 1): 150% increased Effect of the Buff granted by your Carrion Golems Enchant (Choice 2): Spectres have 40% increased Damage Enchant (Choice 3): Spectres have increase attack and cast speed or ignore Body, Shavronne's Wrappings (4-5 Exalts)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/6z3k7PbiG Priority 1: 145% increased Energy Shield Guaranteed: 10% faster start of Energy Shield Recharge Guaranteed: Chaos Damage does not bypass Energy Shield Doesn't Matter: Implicits: 5% increased Spell Damage Doesn't Matter: +35% to Lightning Resistance Doesn't Matter: Reflects 1 to 250 Lightning Damage to Melee Attackers Weapon, Midnight Bargain (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/7r8z4ggS5 Doesn't Matter, Implicits: 25% increased Spell Damage Guaranteed: Cannot be used with Chaos Inoculation Priority 1: Minions deal 70% increased Damage Priority 2: +20 to Intelligence Priority 2: Minions have 26% increased Movement Speed Guaranteed: +1 to maximum number of Raised Zombies Guaranteed: +1 to maximum number of Spectres Guaranteed: +1 to maximum number of Skeletons Guaranteed: Reserves 30% of Life Weapon, Convoking Wand (10-15 Exalts)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/glr2Y52hQ Priority 1: +1 to Level of all Minion Skill Gems Priority 1: +1 to Level of all Spell Skill Gems The most expensive gear in the build. I'll add cheap alternatives and craft options soon. Shield, Prism Guardian (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/ly0rXW0iV Priority 1: +25 to Dexterity Dropable, if expensive: Implicit: 8% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Lightning Damage Guaranteed: +2 to Level of Socketed Aura Gems Guaranteed: Socketed Gems have Blood Magic Guaranteed: Socketed Gems have 25% reduced Mana Reservation Guaranteed: +25% to all Elemental Resistances Corrupted Change trade link from Damage taken as Cold to Fire or Lightning. Whichever is cheaper. Rare Gloves (10 - 30 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/Gojo673cb Priority 1: +42 to Strength Priority 1: +30 to Dexterity Priority 2: Energy Shield: 100 Can also be easily crafted by using Shrieking Essence of Rage on a Sorcerer Gloves. Look for any 2 of the stats and benchcraft the 3rd: +Maximum ES, Increased ES, +Dexterity Belt, Darkness Enthroned (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/rmwggHQ Stygian Vise Guaranteed: Implicit: Has 1 Abyssal Socket Guaranteed: Has 1 Abyssal Socket Guaranteed: 75% increased Effect of Socketed Jewels Boots, Sin Trek (5-10 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/RlPwJOF7 Priority 1: +25 to Dexterity Priority 1: Energy Shield: 170 Priority 2: +30 to Intelligence Priority 3: 90% increased Evasion Rating Dropable, if expensive: Implicit: Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you were Hit Recently Guaranteed: 30% increased Movement Speed Guaranteed: Enemies Cannot Leech Life From you Amulet, Presence of Chayula (30-60 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/bGmauL Annoint: Allocates Charisma Priority 1: Implicit: +16 to all Attributes Priority 1: 24% of Maximum Life Converted to Energy Shield Guaranteed: 30% increased Rarity of Items found Guaranteed: +60% to Chaos Resistance Guaranteed: Cannot be Stunned Re-roll implicit cheaply using blessed orb. 24% of max life to ES can be achieved by using defense quality catalyst. Ring, The Pariah (10-30 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/9kqyhK Implicits: Has 1 Socket Priority 1: Sockets: B Priority 1: +100 to Maximum Energy Shield per Blue Socket Guaranteed: +2 to Level of Socketed Gems Doesn't Matter: 5-10% increased Attack and Cast Speed Try white socket if you don't care about maximizing ES. I prefer Item Quant over ES. Ring, The Hungry Loop (1-5 Chaos)
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/YoozRcY Implicits: Has 1 Socket Guaranteed: Consumes Socketed Support Gems when they reach Maximum Level Guaranteed: Can Consume 4 Support Gems For league start, we'll level 0% quality gem anyway in our chest piece. As soon as the following gems start approaching level 20, start socketing it in the ring. 1. Brutality 2. Melee Physical Damage 3. Minion Damage 4. Maim/Fortify (whichever the PoB suggests) Finally socket zombie or Vaal Summon Skeleton as the 5th gem for 10+ million Sirus DPS boost and screen wide application of Maim. Cluster Jewels, Ghastly, Cobalt Jewels
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Instead of providing a seperate section for every version of this build, I'll simply list out all the different kind of jewels used throughout different builds. Please check PoB to see which specific jewel you need to buy.
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Minion Accuracy Ghastly Jewel
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/32ngl9gc5 Ghastly Eye Jewel +25 to maximum Energy Shield Minions have +150 to Accuracy Rating Any one of following: - Minions have #% increased Attack Speed, Minions have #% increased Cast Speed - Minions deal #% increased Damage if you've used a Minion Skill Recently - Minions have #% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks Strength, Dexterity and Minion Ghastly Jewel
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Ghastly Eye Jewel Mandatory: +10 to Strength and Dexterity Priority 1: +28 to maximum Energy Shield Any one of following: - Minions have #% increased Attack Speed, Minions have #% increased Cast Speed - Minions deal #% increased Damage if you've used a Minion Skill Recently - Minions have #% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks The above option depends on how defensive, offensive and expensive you want the jewel to be. Ghastly Jewels with Minion stats.
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Ghastly Eye Jewel Mandatory: +10 to Strength and Dexterity Priority 1: +28 to maximum Energy Shield Any one of following: - Minions have #% increased Attack Speed, Minions have #% increased Cast Speed - Minions deal #% increased Damage if you've used a Minion Skill Recently - Minions have #% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks The above option depends on how defensive, offensive and expensive you want the jewel to be. Renewal Rotten Claws Golem Large Cluster.
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Large Cluster Jewel Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/r2Q54lRCQ Adds 8 Passive Skills 2 Added Passive Skills are Jewel Sockets Added Small Passive Skills grant: Minions deal 10% increased Damage 1 Added Passive Skill is Renewal 1 Added Passive Skill is Rotten Claws Optional: 1 Added Passive Skill is Primordial Bond Bonus stats to look on Cluster Jewel. Priority 1: Maximum Energy Shield Priority 2: Dexterity (To easily acheive Dexterity requirement on gems, Not required if already met with other gear) Priority 2: Strength (To easily acheive Strength requirement on gems, Not required if already met with other gear) Priority 3: %Life Regen FAE Medium Cluster Jewel.
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Medium Cluster Jewel Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/WqbZRKbUm Adds 6 Passive Skills Added Small Passive Skills grant: 6% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills 1 Added Passive Skill is First Among Equals 1 Added Passive Skill is Replenishing Presence 1 Added Passive Skill is a Jewel Socket Bonus stats to look on Cluster Jewel. Priority 1: Maximum Energy Shield Priority 2: Dexterity (To easily acheive Dexterity requirement on gems, Not required if already met with other gear) Priority 2: Strength (To easily acheive Strength requirement on gems, Not required if already met with other gear) Priority 3: %Life Regen Unique Jewel, Inertia
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Trade Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/LgODb22Cn Priority 1: +20 to Strength Guaranteed: Dexterity from Passives in Radius is Transformed to Strength Unique Jewel, Energy From Within
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4% increased maximum Energy Shield Increases and Reductions to Life in Radius are Transformed to apply to Energy Shield Unique Jewel, Fortress Covenant
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Cobalt Jewel Minions deal 40% increased Damage Minions have +11% Chance to Block Attack Damage Minions have +11% Chance to Block Spell Damage Notable Passive Skills in Radius are Transformed to instead grant: Minions take 20% increased Damage Unending Hunger
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Cobalt Jewel Minions have 5-8% increased Area of Effect of Area Skills Minions have 6-8% increased Area of Effect of Area Skills With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Raised Spectres have a 50% chance to gain Soul Eater for 30 seconds on Kill Cobalt Jewel
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Cobalt Jewel +10 to Strength and Dexterity 7% increased maximum Energy Shield Minions deal 15% increased Damage Flasks
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Bandits
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Major: Soul of Lunaris
Minor: Soul of Garukhan, Soul of Shakari (Your choice) Levelling Guide
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Look at Early and Mid Campaign passive skill trees in the End of Campaign PoB: https://pastebin.com/22p4ae9b to learn about the order in which to allocate passive skill points. Order of Ascendancy: 1. Mindless Aggression, 2. Unnatural Strength, 3. Commander of Darkness (For easy capping of resists), 4. Bone Barrier. For gem choices and levelling walkthrough, I'm going to recommend Kay's excellent videos until Act 4. ACT 1 + ACT 2 + ACT 3 + ACT 4 For Act 5 and after, use the skill gems mentioned in the End of Campaign PoB in the PoB section. Skeletons with melee splash support provides good clear but still keeps good single target DPS to phase Act 10 Kitava.  How to Gear up to End-game, Upgrades Priority Section
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Campaign can be finished simply using rares due to insane DPS output of Slave Driver Spectre + Skeletons + Zombies + Carrion Golem, with defense carried by Vitality aura. View levelling section or PoB section for more details. Until you have enough currency to 6 link Shavarone's Wrapping, your main damage link will be Summon Skeletons (or Vaal). Keep using that if you get 5 link or 6 link drops. As you gather some currency in white maps, I would recommend getting any and every of the following items when someone posts them for 3c or less. 1. Low or Med Tier roll Fortress Covenent (Place them in jewel slots with 2. Jinxed Juju 2. Maw of Mischief 3. Voideye 4. Energy from Within 5. Darkness Enthroned 6. ES Stats Jewel: Ghastly jewels with Dex + Str + Max Energy Sheild (check PoB labelled "Mapping before Red Maps") 7. Taste of Hate Try to get Prism Guardian last since moving away from Life flask is hard without 2.5k ES. Move to Prism Guardian needs to happen in tandem with Solaris Lorica. This is to protect against chaos damage. Allocate Wicked Ward passive skill if you prefer relying on ES recharge. By yellow maps, look out for the following items. I would recommend getting any and every one of them when someone posts them for 30c or less. 1. 6 link Solaris Lorica 2. Sin Trek 3. The Pariah (Blue Socket) By red maps, the upgrades become highly subjective to league economy. However, I can recommend switching to the following gear first. 1. Craft Str + High ES Sorcerer Gloves 2. 5 link Shavronne's Wrapping 3. High Rolled Fortress Covenent 4. The Hungry Loop (As Maim, Melee Physical Damage, Brutality and Minion Damage start approaching level 20s.) 6. Animated Guardian gear, as soon as AG gem level gets to 20. 7. Presence of Chayula + Annoint 8. Midnight bargain (If can handle 30% life reservation) - This gives you 4 spectres and finally allows you to move to Syndicate Operatives. Ask someone in /trade 420, /trade 820 or The Forbidden Trove discord to give you the spectre or raise it yourself from Syndicate Encounters. For everything else, simply get whichever one is the cheapest and work your way up. Note: Unending Hunger improves clear speed severly. Cluster jewels and Watcher's Eye are much prone to sniping at lower prices. Acknowledgment
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My Heist league start used WaffleT's Radiating Carrion Golem Build
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2882940 Last edited by kkhode#5003 on Apr 28, 2021, 3:17:18 AM Last bumped on Oct 15, 2021, 2:48:24 PM
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Hey man, thanks for sharing the build, it is awesome. Changed my cold SO necro into this and been having a blast. :)
I have one question though. Are you using the normal Kingmaker and Mask AG? Saw from PoB that you have vuln on hit on it, but from the GIFs it does not seem that you have the Kingmaker aura. I know you have AG section planned so sorry for asking anyway, I was just wondering if you have anything specific on AG. :) Thank you, great build. GL HF :) |
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@Rhothgarr Niceee! It's great to hear you've been enjoying the build.
Regarding Animated Guardian's weapons, I've used 1. Main hand: Fast attack speed 1 handed weapon with "#% chance to Intimidate Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit". 2. Offhand: Victario's Charity 3. Helmet: Leer Cast 4. Body: Bloodbond 5. Boots: Victario's Flight 6. Gloves: Any glove with Vulnerability on hit implicit. I've tried to make this build beginner and league start friendly, so I've stuck to cheap gear. As long as you're giving regen to minions via convocation your AG will never die. Even in 100% delirious map. But if you have a kingmaker already, I would recommend just sticking to it since it makes your AG and Zombies near immortal. You can add the gloves for Vulnerability on hit in your setup though. |
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Hey man, thank you very much for your answer. :)
In the end, I still decided to go for the Kingmaker and with Nearby enemies are blinded chest. It saves mod on abyss jools, plus I like the occasional fortify in Heist as well as the culling strike aura for minions. However, it is more expensive than it is worth, the setup you recommended is prolly still better dmg and infinitely cheaper. Also, wanted to ask how would you push the build further for a higher budget if you were to min-max it? Thank you and keep up the great work man! :) |
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@Rhothgarr I updated the PoBs yesterday in an effort to make the guide more complete. They should have more updated info now.
You don't need the blind jewels, Flesh and Stone's sand stance provides a nice on demand blind already. So you can forgo the blind chest and go for a more DPS focused ghastly jewel. If you want to push the build 1. Awakened version of chest gems is always an options. Albeit a very expensive one. Great DPS boost. 2. Use AG helm with "Nearby Enemies take 9% increased Physical Damage" suffix. Great DPS boost. 3. Use AG chest "Garb of the Ephemeral". You and your minions only get one shotted due to crits in the end-game, so having this is huge defensivly. 4. Use AG boot, "Can have an additional curse" and add Punishment or Assassins Mark on hit. Great DPS boost. 5. Watcher's Eye with ES regen when affected by Discipline. 6. Large or Medium Cluster jewels with 25-35% increased effect, Maximum ES, ES regen. When I get time this weekend, I'll try to put together a min-max section as well. |
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Oh right. Completely forgot about the Flesh and Stone. I'm dumb lol. Will change the chest to Garb I guess once I have the money.
I got the Awakened gems, but I use Anomalous Spell Echo instead of the Awakened version, as to my understanding, our spectre dmg benefits only from cast speed, and with Awakened you'd pay 80 ex just for a 5% cast speed increase. Was also looking at other useful mods on large clusters, but even Vicious Bite is only a very minimal increase without the support from medium clusters, so I suppose the increased effect is going to be the best bet. Thank you for your suggestions, they are a tremendous help. :) |
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@Rhothgarr No worries. There's something about Flesh and Stone. Everyone forgets it. Even in the GIFs I forgot to switch to Blood stance :D
Regarding Spell echo, SO's dagger attack isn't tagged as a spell, so I assume spell damage penalty or double damage bonus won't affect SOs at all. You're right, anomolous spell echo is the way to go. |
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Thx your build, now i can kill sirus 8 easy. What do you think about used: Alpha's Howl Sinner Tricorne, Doryani's Delusion Slink Boots, and amulet reduced mana reserved + avia aura skill. I used Unnatural Instinct istead Energy from Within to save 5 skill point, and add it into % increased maximum energy shield Last edited by pt3481#5886 on Nov 14, 2020, 7:55:10 AM
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" @pt3481 Sirus is just the beginning. The aggressive syndicate operatives make < wave 18 simulacrum afks a breeze with consistent 5 & 6 tier rewards. The Alpha's Howl Sinner Tricorne, Doryani's Delusion Slink Boots, and amulet reduced mana reserved + avia aura skill makes this build absolute OP! Unfortunately, I can't invest more time into this league to buy high tier gear, so you're down to test it out, we could brainstorm a high-end version of this build. |
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which spectres to use ???
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