[3.28] Tiger King - Dominating Blow of Inspiring - Farrul Bloodline Guardian

Ah, I see.

Also, a useful little hack if anyone is having trouble keeping spectral leaders alive before Kingmaker.

If you take the "minions recover 5% of life on minon death" mastery, your general's cry, tigers, dom blow and living lightning minions expiring all count as minion deaths.

General's cry minions alone were enough to sustain them for me because they're constantly going up and down and giving 30% life back to minions that aren't full.

Using this node also allowed me to use stone golem + holy relic, and they almost never die -- even in nightmare maps with nasty mods.

That's around another free 350 ES/second, 24% armor/ES and 1400+ more regen for other minions.

Played the build to 97 and loving it so far.

Whats the best way to craft your Bodyarmor?

Not so experienced in crafting and a bit lost...

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Dynamike#4858 wrote:

Played the build to 97 and loving it so far.

Whats the best way to craft your Bodyarmor?

Not so experienced in crafting and a bit lost...

Glad to hear it!

I added some crafting instructions for the body armour and weapon last night under "Progression". Hope that helps!

I've seen some people using crit strike daggers instead for much higher crit rates (11%, etc), but you lose the base crit multi. So it's basically like 25%-ish crit multi traded for around 3-4% more base crit chance.

Any thoughts on that?

Also, how much does it cost to craft a good ele foil on average?

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Kyokuji#6764 wrote:

I've seen some people using crit strike daggers instead for much higher crit rates (11%, etc), but you lose the base crit multi. So it's basically like 25%-ish crit multi traded for around 3-4% more base crit chance.

Any thoughts on that?

Also, how much does it cost to craft a good ele foil on average?

Daggers could definitely work!

It's not just a question of losing multi though, you also lose a decent chunk of base attack speed (1.6 on Foil vs 1.5 on an Ambusher) and somewhat importantly for your strike skill clear daggers have a much smaller base strike range at 1.0m vs 1.4m on a Foil. With Sione's, Tribal Fury wheel, +0.3m strike range mastery, and +0.2-0.3m strike range from Harvest the strike distance scaling can feel pretty noticeable for longer ranged clear. My guildies swear by Greater Ancestral Call for even further strike range but personally feel like that's overkill for most content.

Since we're already getting 25% more melee crit chance from Second Sight we can already overcap on crit fairly reasonably, but daggers could let you cut some crit investment for other options. Plenty of customization options, up to you!

Cost can really depend on how in-depth you want to craft it. Settling for 20% quality and T2/essence rolls can be less than 5d but if you're unlucky with fracturing, essences, and annuling it could cost closer to 10d.

Crafting a 5-mod T1 flat + Zeal can be closer to 20-30d. Even more if you're unlucky and brick a few times.

Hi there, and thanks for the build!
I was going to league start this, but I had some doubts (also I've never played guardian).
Now that have a couple of hundreds of divines from my first character, any tips on which PoB should I focus on so I can prepare gear and so on?

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spam4o#3202 wrote:

Hi there, and thanks for the build!
I was going to league start this, but I had some doubts (also I've never played guardian).
Now that have a couple of hundreds of divines from my first character, any tips on which PoB should I focus on so I can prepare gear and so on?

All good! Nothing wrong with playing it safe!
I would recommend checking the endgame goal PoB (minus stuff about Holy Strikes, still need to get around to updating that PoB) and/or my current character.

For <100d my current char would be a good guideline, although it is a bit over that at this point.
If you plan to go closer to 200d+ e.g. to include a Mageblood, a friend who is following the build customized his for Melding of the Flesh + Purity of Ice: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Bristen_-6605/Brist_

Alternatively going Ruby + Topaz without Melding & Sapphire can be a more balanced option that frees up more suffix pressure from reses versus needing to account for -reses on both Bonemeld and Melding while only really stacking cold res.

Do you have any tips for crafting the cluster jewels and ring? Also, is it by design that we are overcapped on res by 50% even with 24 non-vaal minions up? If so, why?

Also, it seems like we are just barely able to get enough int/dex to use our gear but that's including the 35% effect, +4 all attributes clusters; are there gear slots that would be more flexible for int/dex that wouldn't have a big opportunity cost?

Thanks in advance!

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Gerrador#4355 wrote:

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spam4o#3202 wrote:

Hi there, and thanks for the build!
I was going to league start this, but I had some doubts (also I've never played guardian).
Now that have a couple of hundreds of divines from my first character, any tips on which PoB should I focus on so I can prepare gear and so on?

All good! Nothing wrong with playing it safe!
I would recommend checking the endgame goal PoB (minus stuff about Holy Strikes, still need to get around to updating that PoB) and/or my current character.

For <100d my current char would be a good guideline, although it is a bit over that at this point.
If you plan to go closer to 200d+ e.g. to include a Mageblood, a friend who is following the build customized his for Melding of the Flesh + Purity of Ice: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Bristen_-6605/Brist_

Alternatively going Ruby + Topaz without Melding & Sapphire can be a more balanced option that frees up more suffix pressure from reses versus needing to account for -reses on both Bonemeld and Melding while only really stacking cold res.

Thanks! I'm not in a rush so I might as well wait out until you have your character and PoB sorted out. Dominating blow by itself is 11 div atm, so 100div wouldn't suffice at this point :D

How are you hitting crit cap? I'm topping out at like 70-80% crit without bottled faith.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Kyokuji-6764/WeRollingDeep?i=46&search=skills%3DDominating%2BBlow%2Bof%2BInspiring%26class%3DGuardian%26sort%3Ddps