[3.2] Low Budget Support: 8 Curse/7 Aura/2 Vaal aura

So I tried lots of build in this league, but only supps were worth to keep for a 'future'. :)

Actually it's useless if you are a solo player, but could be great boost if you are a team person.

This actual build, as its stats show, great to boost your team both offensive and defensive way. Grants 6 defensive, 1 semi-offensive aura, 2 permanent aura curse, 1 bottle related damage curse, and 5 effigy related aura curse.

Let's get started. Attention: it's not beginner friendly, especially in hardcore! Cannot play it as solo!



As you can see, it's not so hard to get those build enabler items, right? Most of them are just cheap uniques, even at the start of the leagues.



Some more explanation before we can start gemization&itemization:
To keep your carry's speed, you need to stack as much movement speed as possible. There are some easy way to do it, just deal with it (it's in item choices later).
You also need to deal with Effigy's 1 cast/sec, extremely low cast speed. It's kind of painful. You need to get cast speed from tree, as much as you can get and it keeps fitting into tree lining. There are 2 circle you can take: Mental Rapidity + Nimbleness. Cast interruption avoidance doesn't means a lot beacuse you are stun immun from Ascendancy. You also take Harrier, when you get through your way to Charisma.

Climbing
Best way to climb up yourself, if you pick your most liked spell gem and put it in tabula, with support. I like to climb with Blade Vortex/Bladefall/Firestorm.
Just take your basic climbing items, and climb as a normal caster. I'm going to put 2 climbing tree here, that's not that far from my final cursebot tree, doesn't need much restat.















Itemization:
I explained some of the key items at start, now I'm going to do some extra on other spots.
Boots
There are actually 2 basic high ES version you can take (if you don't want to chase some expensive rare: Sin Trek or Steppan Eard. Both has positives. With Sin trek, you can get dex requirements little bit easier, but coloring is kind of a pain. With Steppan Eard, you can get almost the same Energy Shield, and the key stat: Desecrated ground 'immunity'. It means a lot. You couldn't die even on desec ground, even if you MIGHT forgot to activate Elixir. Some extra def, also desec ground is not going to drain your ES even if Elixir is active.

Gloves
This is the main stat source. Actually you don't even need energy shield from this spot, if you can get some, do it, but there is no pressure. 50+/50+ dex/str, chaos resist if you can find one, and.. I'm kind of lucky with my gloves, I could bought elder gloves with attack and cast speed boost - it's kind of a BIS.

Ring
As I said at gem setup explanation, Pariah/Rare ES Unsset ring/Voideye unset ring needs to be in one of your ring slot. I'm always using Lori's Lanter as 2nd ring, mostly because it's cheep, even with perf stat (8% ms on low life, 25% chaos resist on low life, 10% all resistance base) and boost your mobility + chaos resistance.

Amulet
You can fill your stats here if you want, but there are one amulet that beats every other on this build, it calls: Star of Wraeclast. It grants HUGE HUGE curse aoe boost, and silence immunity (but that's not the key, as you can see). You can get this ammy as a vendor recipe, just lvl 3-4x lightning warp skill gem from the start (mb one of them is going to be lvl20/corrupted). The recipe is: 1x Ruby Ring (unique), 1x Onyx Amulet, 1x Lightning Warp (level 20 corrupted (Vaal Lightning Warp will not work)).

Weapon
I mostly use 2 types of wep on aura/support heroes/casters, but there are some other choice. Brightbeak for better mobility or Ephemeral Edge for more ES, in this case EE means like +1k ES (8,3k-->9,3k).

Flasks
Yes, you are right. There are only 7 active curse before, and yep, you that's what you think, 8th come from witchfire. :) I showed one of the bottles before (Elixir), and you can see Witchfire here, but you still have 2 spot. From there, you need 2 thing: frezee immunity and bleed immunity. I suggest quartz flask with one and Granit or basalt flask with the other. Try to get it with increased duration. I have to fix this spot too.

Jewels
There are 2 jewel spot for Energy from Withing, that you can see in PoB. To boost your curses a little bit, I suggest using Conqueror's Potency and rare jewel with cast speed+cast speed with shield + ES, or if you can afford: Watcher's Eye.
Watcher's eye choice for you could be (depends on what you can afford): +chaos resist when you are using purity of elements, mana as extra ES with clarity, phase run with haste, temp chain immunity with haste, spell dodge with haste, dmg taken as fire with purity of fire.


I'm currently lvl91, and I'm able to run 8 curses, 7 auras, 2 vaal auras. Equipment look like this:

Reserved: update coming tomorrow.

I'm loving this idea, I'm currently leveling a curse character after loving my aura guardian. But I was wondering, and I'm not excatly experienced in the end game so i could be asking a stupid question, but why the enhance support? why even worry about linking it at all when you could just 6 socket it and put an extra curse in it, or faster casting support to get the effigy out faster. But besides that I love this guide and all the details and how and why you use all your skills, flasks, and items. And props for using the crafting recipe for that amulet. Can't wait to leveling into this, keep it up!