(Almost) Uniques Only Soulwrest Ascendant

3.17 Pretty much nothing changed, just Doppelgänger Guise got stronger

Pros:
- 80% Attack and 75% Spell Block
- good Life recovery
- immunity to Curses
- summoner with around 3 milion Shaper DpS
- ailment immunity


Cons:
- only around 4.5k Life




Endgame content viability

Can do confidently:
- T16 AL9 Maps
- Shaper
- Elder (even under Maven's influence)
- Sirus
- Simulacrum up to wave 20
- Uber Atziri
- Chayula's Pure Breachstone

Require fight knowledge:
- Uber Elder
- Maven
- The Feared

Can be Hard:
- 100% Delirious Maps


Can do almost any content. Good survivability on T16 red maps with Awakening level 9. Can handle Endgame bosses: deathless Sirus, Shaper, Uber Atziri. Uber Elder/Maven requires knowledge on how to avoid spawning degen ground all over the arena.

Gladiator and Necromancer paths help to cap block also providing Life recovery (from offering) and chance to Blind enemies.

Gear







Soulwrest Ezomyte Staff is a core item for the build we don't need to 6-link it.

Viridi's Veil Praetor Crown in combination with magic rings gives us really big chunk of survivability and quality of life since we are able to ignore any curse rolls on maps.

Doppelganger Guise Sadist Garb is our defence option against Physical damage and also some sustain after being hit. Since the build starves on Dexterity it is nice to get enchant for +1 Dexterity per 2% quality.

Siegebreaker Heavy Belt is a nice belt for Life, Chaos resistance and to create some degen ground since our Phantasms will be dying often, so DpS from is pretty low.

Aul's Uprising Onyx Amulet with "Zealotry has no Reservation" help us to run all needed auras. It can be substituted for "Purity of Elements has no Reservation", but we also will need to take few nodes for reduced reservation.

The Stampede Assassin's Boots are amazing since even while Cycloning we will still maintain 50% increased Movement Speed. Also Cooldown Recovery rate for Travel skills is nice too.

Hands of the High Templar Crusader Gloves are good for putting our Auras there since we can corrupt them for "+ X to Level of AoE/Aura gems".

Vivinsect Unset Ring helps with atrributes and Mana Cost of our Cyclone. Just 2 corrupted items is enough:
- Hands of the High Templar Crusader Gloves;
- any other piece of equipment, for example with 30% quality corruption.

For Watcher's Eye Prismatic Jewel the only roll we need is "+X% to Chaos Resistance while affected by Purity of Elements".

From Cluster Jewels we need Blessed Rebirth so our squishy Phantasms won't die quickly. Other than that Primordial Bond can be nice to boost buffs from our Golems even more.

Magic ring helps to fix Life, Elemental or Chaos Resistances. And as for Flasks we only need Life and defensive ones. Also, because we have high Life regen and capped Chaos Resitance Forbidden Taste Quartz Flask is good to get to full Life. Corundum Flask is really good for us for Stun avoidance especially with "50% Chance to Avoid being Stuuned during Flask Effect" craft.

"15% to Avoid being Stunned" is the best Harvest implicit for Jewels.

Labyrinth Enchantments
Helmet:
- "100% Increased effect of the Buff granted by your Chaos Golem" for Physical damage mitigation;
- "150% Increased effect of the Buff granted by your Carrion Golem" for damage.

Gloves:
- "Commandment of Light" can be nice for Consecrated Ground to increase regen;
- "Commandment of Spite" for Chilled Ground to slow enemies even more.

Boots: we use annoint on them, which blocks enchant.

Belt:
- "+300 to Armour while you have Fortify".

What uniques can be easily changed
- Siegebreaker Heavy Belt for almost any rare belt with good Life roll.

Gems
For main Skill we need to just socket support gems in Soulwrest Ezomyte Staff:
- Summon Phantasm Support to increase linit of summoned Phantasms to 21
- Minion Damage Support
- Minion Speed Support
- Controlled Destruction Support
- Predator Support
- Brutality Support

Main trigger in 5/6 Link:
- Cyclone
- Level 1 Cast while Channeling Support to not cast linked spells too often
- Desecrate
- Bone Offering
- Life Gain on Hit Support
- Culling Strike Support

Movement:
- Frostblink since we can cast it while channeling
- Portal.

Auras and buffs:
- Generosity Support + Zealotry + Pride + War Banner in gloves
- Purity of Elements
- Sniper's Mark
- Convocation

Golems (in Helment to boost their levels):
- Summon Carrion Golem
- Summon Chaos Golem
- Feeding Frenzy Support
- Empower Support


Bandits and Pantheon
Bandits: just go for 2 points (kill all) option.

For the minor god either Soul of Shakari for Chaos damage protection or Soul of Ralakesh against bleed.

For the major god Soul of Solaris for damage mitigation or Soul of Brine King if afraid of stuns (keep in mind that Block also stuns us briefly).

Leveling tips
Before we can use Soulwrest Ezomyte Staff at level 60 we can now level up using Absolution. For me it felt a bit clunky, bun when I've linked it with Cyclone + Cast while Channeling Support it was pretty fun experience.

For Labirinth I'd go firstly towards Path of the Witch then towards the Gladiator one. Altho there is no much point of doing lab early since we will be able to take Path of the Witch only after 3rd lab when we will be able to respec to our final skill tree.

Couple good Unique items:
- Praxis Paua Ring helps with Mana cost with Cyclone;
- Wraithlord Bone Circlet for extra levels of our minions.
Last edited by Zabarovka on Feb 5, 2022, 2:13:03 PM
Last bumped on Mar 18, 2022, 1:47:26 AM
How do you start from witch part as a scion? Sorry i'm a bit clueless
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albucosmin wrote:
How do you start from witch part as a scion? Sorry i'm a bit clueless

I'd suggest something like this: https://poeplanner.com/b/ZhO
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albucosmin wrote:
How do you start from witch part as a scion? Sorry i'm a bit clueless


The last point on your ascension on each part states that you can allocate points from the x class point, depending on what part you took.
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Last edited by Vendetta on Mar 18, 2022, 1:47:42 AM

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