[3.22] SRS Bomber | League Start to Endgame | All Content

This section is meant to give you a short overview of how the progression of the different Gear slots could go. For further Details of the Gear checkout section 5.2 and 5.3
For Crafting guides for all Slots checkout section 9.

Most of our Gear slots have a straightforward gear progression: “Get incrementally better Stats on them”.
But A Few slots influence our Gem-Setups. Namely our Chest and Helmet.
Our Shield also decides what Anoint we can take for our Amulet

The straightforward ones:

Amulet: Tavukai look for High Minion Life and Minion Damage rolls. Look for a low Chaos Resistance roll (-17 would be best for us. The lower the Resistances, the faster our SRS explode)

Belt: Darkness Enthroned its “50-100% increased Effect of Socketed Abyss Jewels” Enables us to easily get Ailment Immune and is arguably the strongest Belt (in combination with well rolled Ghastly Eye Jewels).
Alternatively go for a Stygian Vise with Life, Resistances, Minion Life

Wand:Any combination of (the more the better): Minion Life, Minion Damage, +1 all Skill Gems, +1 Minion Skill Gems

Shield:Recover Life on Block, +1 to all Minion Skill Gems, Minion Life, Minion Damage, Max Life, Block Chance, Resistances

Gloves:Life, Block, Resistances, Minion Life

Helmet: Devouring Diadem it enables “Eldritch Battery” which lets us sustain our Mana/ES to spam SRS, go for the Strength+Dex” Unveil to solve some Stat requirements. The “Socketed Gems have 25% increased Reservation Efficiency“ enables us to run Skitter Bots, Tempest Shield, Determination and Defiance Banner. With Eldritch Battery we can even use Mind over Matter

The not so straightforward:
Body Armour:
We want a 6-Link Chest for our SRS setup.
You are mainly looking for two Stat (besides the obligatory max Life and Resistances) on the Chest:
You can apply an additional Curse
#% increased Effect of Offerings
Having an additional Curse, gives you a nice damage boost and having increased Offering effects saves you 5 points on the Tree (you don’t need to take one of the block wheels to reach max Block).
Both Stats are Hunter-Mods, therefore you will need a hunter influenced Chest.
Your typical progress would likely be:
Generic max Life/Resistances Chest (5 or 6 Links) -> Hunter Chest with “#% increased Effect of Offerings” (6-Links) -> Hunter Chest with both “You can apply an additional Curse” and “#% increased effect of Offerings”

When you get a Chest with an additional Curse you will want to adjust your Ring or curse Gem Setup.
In general, you do have two options to apply the additional curse:
1. Adding it to your Ball Lightning-Hextouch Setup
2. Rings with “Curse on Hit”

Rings:
We are using the Rings to get a bunch of Resistances, Stats (Mainly Dexterity) and Curses on Hit.
As long as you don’t have your additional Curse Chest, you only need one Ring with Curse on Hit (either Flammability or Elemental Weakness). You can either get the Curse on Hit from Influences:
Flammability = Warlord
Elemental Weakness = Hunter
Or you can find the Flammability one in Delve from Notes that say:
Contains fire items
Best Base Option for your Rings are Bone Rings, which can roll Minion Mods like Minion Life and Minion Damage.
Note: Since 3.19 you can craft “increased Minion Life” on Rings.

5.2.1 Damage:
All our damage comes from exploding Raging Spirits, dealing part of their max life as fire damage. To scale the explosions, we need Minion Life and Minion Damage. So wherever possible we want one (or even both) of these stats on our gear. Both Stats scale our damage by the same amount.
The only other stats that scales our Damage is gem Level. We can get that on our Wand and Shield.
Using Essence of Fear to craft our Boots, Gloves, Belt and Chest we can get up to “30% increased maximum Minion Life” on these Slots.
Stats like “#% increased Spell Damage”, “#% increased fire Damage, “adds xx Damage to Spells” etc. do nothing for us.
We want “Minions deal # to # additional Fire Damage” on at least one of our Gear pieces (most likely on one of the jewels) to enable the combustion Support on Spectres that don’t deal fire Damage.

5.2.2 Defences:
We want to reach Res cap, max Block, Life on Block, Energy Shield on Block and Elemental Ailment Immunity. Combined with Bone Armour (self-casted – left click), we can get quite tanky.
For Ailment Immunity we will either need to craft on some of the items or get a Stormshoud Jewel, Darkness Enthroned (with 75%+) and a Ghastly Eye Jewel with atleast 46% Chance to avoid being shocked.
For block we just need the “increased effect of Offerings” on our Chest and a Rumi’s Concoction
Besides that, we need life and resistances.

5.2.3 Stats:
You will need some Dex, at least 68 total, for Skitter Bots. With a Devouring Diadem with Strength/Dex unveil, you should be fine.
In general: Get the Dex you can and adjust the Gemlevels accordingly. Level your Gems that need Dex only as far as 68 Dex.

5.2.4 Aspect of the Spider
You want an open Suffix on any of your Rare Gear pieces to craft Aspect of the Spider. Which is an aura that debuffs our Enemies and both helps our Damage (“5% increased Damage taken”) and our Defences (“30% reduced Movement Speed”).

NOTE: The Gear is far from perfect! Still deletes all regular game content!
5.3.1 Sanctum League

5.3.2 Kalandra League

5.4.1 Helmet


5.4.2 Body Armour


5.4.3 Wand


5.4.4 Shield


5.4.5 Amulet


5.4.6 Gloves


5.4.7 Boots


5.4.8 Belt


5.4.9 Rings


5.4.10 Jewels


5.4.11 Cluster Jewels


5.4.12 Flasks

NOTE: Use "Bone Armour" on left click to cast it whenever it is off cooldown

Helmet:
Defiance Banner/Tempest Shield/Determination/Summon Skitterbots

Body Armour:
Summon Raging Spirit–Concentrated Effext–Predator–Unleash –Minion Life–Fire Penetration Support

(Trigger-)Wand:
Desecrate/Convocation/Bone Offering

Shield:
Shield Charge–Faster Attacks/Flame Dash
OR
Flame Dash–Second Wind-Arcane Surge


Boots/Gloves:
Raise Spectre-Elemental Army -Spell Echo/Ball Lightning

Boots/Gloves:
Animate Guardian-Minion Life–Raise Zombies-Meat Shield

Damage Dealers
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Summon Raging Spirits
Socketed in: Body Armour

Summon Raging Spirit – Unleash – Concentrated Effect – Minion Life – Predator – Fire Penetration
Note²: Anomalous Unleash gives increased Cast Speed, which is just a bit of QoL and not Mandatory

Raise Spectre / Ball Lightning
Socketed in: Gloves/Boots (5-Link)

Raise Spectre – Elemental Army – Spell Echo / Ball Lightning
Note: We mainly use our Spectres to apply the Elemental Army debuff (Exposure). We want the Elemental Army support to reduce the enemies Fire Resistance, so we need some Spectres that deal Fire Damage (alternatively we can use a Jewel with “Minions deal # to # additional Fire Damage”. Therefore, we have a couple of viable options here:
Note: We use self-cast Ball Lightning to proc to apply The Elemental Weakness and Flammability Curses.

NOTE: gems are setup for Flame Sentinels

Flame Sentinels
Artless Assassins That can be found in the Smuggler’s Den Heist Contracts
Solar Guards

Desecrate, Convocation, Bone Offering
Socketed in: Weapon (Wand)

Desecrate / Convocation / Bone Offering
Note: Since we are using “Trigger socket gem when you use a skill” on a weapon, the order of the gems in which they are socketed is important! Desecrate must come before Bone offering. Meaning when you look at the sockets in the Wand you should socket “Desecrate” in the topmost socket, then Convocation and lastly the “Bone Offering”.
If you socket Bone Offering before Desecrate, you will not have the corpses to be consumed by Bone Offering.
We do not need to level Desecrate, Level 1 is fine.
Convocation is optional here and can be changed to any other gem that you see fit.

Utility
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Flame Dash (and Shield Charge)
Socketed in: Shield

Flame Dash / Faster Attacks – Shield Charge
OR
Flame Dash – Second Wind – Arcane Surge

Note: Only Level Faster Attacks and Second Wind as your Dex can take it.
Note²: Only level Arcane Surge that the amount of mana it requires to proc is lower than the mana cost for Flame Dash

Tempest Shield, Determination, Defiance Banner, Summon Skitterbots
Socketed in: Helmet

Tempest Shield / Determination / Summon Skitterbots / Defiance Banner

Note: By using The Devouring Diadem and the Sovereignty Wheel on the Tree, you are able to add the Aspect of the Spider Aura on any of your rare gear pieces (craftable via Beast crafting as a suffix).

Animate Guardian, Raise Zombies
Socketed in: Gloves/Boots

Animate Guardian – Raise Zombies - Minion Life - Meat Shield
Note: We Want a Support/Defensive Animate Guardian that mainly Buffs us and our other Minions.
Animate Guardian Gear

Level 1-4
You start out with Fireball and Arcane Surge Support at the Beach:
- When arriving in down take the Freezing Pulse Quest Reward and replace Fireball with it:
- Buy Raise Zombie:
- After completing Mercy Mission take Phantasm Support as reward:
Level 4-8
- After completing Breaking some Eggs take Summon Raging Spirit as Quest Reward:
- Buy Holy Flame Totem
-- Link Phantasm Support, you got earlier, to it.
- Replace Freezing Pulse with Summon Raging Spirit.
- You’ll get Frostblink as your first movement Skill for free:

Level 8+
- After completing Prison take Infernal Legion as reward and buy Combustion and Minion Damage Support:
- Link Infernal Legion and Combustion with Summon Raging Spirit
- Buy Melee Splash Support:
- Link Minion Damage Support and Melee Splash Support to Raise Zombie
- After completing A Caged Brute take Clarity or Flame Dash as reward. Buy the one you did not take as reward:
- Replace Frostblink with Flame Dash and link Arcane Surge with it.
- When reaching Merveil’s Caverns take any Gem as Reward and Buy Bone Offering:

Gem Setup at the End of Act 1

Level 16+
- When completing Intruders in Black Take Desecrate as Reward:
-- You don’t have to level Desecrate, so feel free to put it in the stash.
- Buy Summon Skitterbots:
Level 18+
- After completing Sharp and Cruel take Concentrated Effect Support, Predator Support or Elemental Focus Support as Reward (Buy the Gems you did not take):
- Buy Minion Life Support:
-- Drop Combustion and Link as many of these Supports to Summon Raging Spirit instead (important ones come first): Infernal Legion, Minion Life Support, Concentrated Effect Support, Predator Support, Elemental Focus Support
--- As you gain more links, add the Missing Supports to Summon Raging Spirit. Those are all the Supports you will need.
-- Link Combustion to Holy Flame Totem

Gem Setup at the End of Act 2

Level 24+
- When completing Lost in Love take Convocation as Reward:
- (Optional) Buy Elemental Weakness and Flammability:

Level 28+
- When completing Sever the right Hand take Raise Spectre as Reward:
Level 31+
- When completing A Fixture of Fate take Feeding Frenzy as Reward:
- Buy Elemental Army Support, Combustion Support, Added Fire Damage Support and Pierce Support:
-- Drop the Holy Flame Totem and Phantasm Support
-- Link Elemental Army, Combustion and Added Fire Damage to Raise Zombie (Dropping Melee Splash and Minion Damage)
-- Link Raise Spectre with Feeding Frenzy, Combustion and Pierce Support
Gem Setup at the End of Act 3

Level 34+
- When completing Breaking the Seal take Summon Stone Golem as Reward:
Level 38+
- When completing The Eternal Nightmare take Unleash Support as Reward:
- Link Unleash to Summon Raging Spirit dropping the least important Link that you have on it (eg. Elemental Focus )
- (Optional) Buy Greater Multiple Projectiles Support:

Gem Setup at the End of Act 4

Our Main objective is to get an Armour with
- Increased Effect of Offerings
- You can Apply an Additional Curse
- Minions have Increased Maximum Life

Both Offering Effect and additional Curse are Hunter Influence Mods, increased Minion Life is from Essence of Fear.

We start with a Hunter Influence iLvl 82+ Base, preferably Armour/ES

1. Spam Essence of Fear until you hit "#% Increased Effect of Offerings" (1/85 for T1)
-> You need at least one open affix
=> Open Suffix -> Beast craft prefix to suffix
=> Open Prefix -> continue

-> if you have open prefix and suffix
=> Beast craft "Aspect of the Spider" (to fill Suffixes)

2. Craft "Suffixes cannot be changed"
3. Harvest craft "Reforge Caster" (guarantees Additional Curse)
With that we have our three desired main stats.

If you have at least one open prefix after step 3 you can further craft the Chest:

(If you have two open prefixes you can skip step 5)

4. remove the unwanted second prefix:
-> craft suffixes cannot be changed
--> Annul for 1/3 chance to remove the unwanted prefix
---> if you hit the "Suffixes cannot be changed", recraft it and repeat
---> if you hit the Additional curses, go to step 3.

5. Craft "prefixes cannot be changed"
6. Aisling T4 Slam
-> if it removes "Additional Curse" go to step 3.
7. craft "Chance to Block Spell Damage" or "Chance to Block Attack Damage"
8. Unveil (Hopefully) "Chance to Avoid Elemental Ailments"
9. Craft Maximum Life (if you missed Ailments in step 8, craft it instead of Life)

We want a Wand with
- +1 Level of all Spell Skill Gems
- +1 Level of all Minion Spell Skill Gems
- Minions deal #% increased Damage
- Increased cast Speed
- Trigger socketed Spell when you use a Skill

1. Get a Base with Fractured Minion Damage on it.
2. Fossil craft until you hit “+1 spell all spell gems” and “+1 all minion gems” using

Corroded + Jagged + Metallic + Shuddering (1/12)

3. if you don't have an open Suffix -> Annul (3/5), else continue at Step 4
3a. if you hit one of the +1, return to step 2.
3b. if you hit a suffix -> continue at step 4

4. craft "prefixes cannot be changed"
5. Scour
6. craft "can have up to 3 crafted Mods"
7. craft "Increased Cast Speed" and "Trigger socketed Spell, when you use a Skill"

On the Gloves we are looking for
- Minions Deal #% increased Damage (Both Implicit and explicit)
- Maximum Life
- Resistances
- Stats

1. Get a Base with Fractured "Maximum Life"
2. Use some Essence of Fear until you hit a nice combination of affixes (at least the suffixes that satisfy you)
3. (Optional) If you have an open Suffix you can Beast craft “Aspect of the Spider”

(Optional, if you want to recraft the prefixes, else continue at Step 6)
4. Use Exarche Embers to make it the dominant influence
5. Use Eldritch Chaos Orbs until you are satisfied

6. Use Exarch Embers until you hit "Minions deal #% increased Damage"

NOTE: With 35% chance to avoid Elemental Ailments (Explicit), 20%+ chance to avoid Elemental Ailments (implicit) on Boots, 25% on the Chest and 20% from the tree, we can get Elemental Ailment Immune

Any generic Boots are fine, preferable Armour/Es

We can either Craft Boots with Minion Life or avoid Elemental Ailments.
The process is the Same, only the Essences we use are different.
For Minion Life we use Essence of Fear, Elemental Ailments we use Essence of Loathing


Stats you are looking for on the Boots are

- #% increased movement speed
- +# Maximum Life
- Resistances

- Minions have #% increased maximum Life
or
- #% Chance to avoid Elemental Ailments

1. Get a Base with Fractured "Movement Speed" (preferable 25%+)
2. use Essence (Fear or Loathing) until you hit either
-> One Good Suffix plus open suffix (continue from step 3.)
-> Two Good suffixes (continue from step 4)
3. Either craft:
-> Beast Craft "Aspect of the Spider" to fill Suffixes (continue from step 4)
-> Craft Multimod (skip step 6-10 and craft Life and increased Armour/Es after clearing prefixes)

4. Use Exarch Ember to make it the Dominant Influence
5. clear prefixes using "Eldritch Annuls"
6. Craft "Suffixes cannot be Changed"
7. Aisling T4 Slam
8. Craft Mana
9. unveil and take the "#% increased Armour and Energy Shield, +# to maximum Life"
10. Replace the crafted Mana with Maximum Life
11. Use Eater of World Ichors for "Chance to avoid Elemental Ailments" Implicit
12. (Optional) Use Exarch Embers for good Implicit, eg Movement Speed

You want at one Ring with "Curse Enemies with Flammability on Hit" and one wiht "Curse Enemies with Elemental Weakness on hit"
For Budget Crafting you can get those on Hunter (Elemental Weakness) and Warlord (Flammability) Bases.
Both can be rolled with Harvest "Caster more Likely" crafts.

For "Flammability On Hit" you can also get a Fractured Base, preferably Bone RIng/Amethyst/Vermilion

Besides the Cruses on Hit we are looking for
- Open Prefix (To craft "- Mana Costs", when playing with MoM)
- Maximum Life
- Resistances
- Minion Damage
- Minion Life

For Minion Damage we either need Redeemer Influence or a Bone Ring Base, Minion Life can only be crafted on Bone Rings.

Option 1. (Flammability only):
1. get a Base with Fractured "Flammability on Hit" preferably on a Bone Ring, alternatively Amethyst/Vermillion
2. Fossil craft with Aetheric + Bound + Pristine (1/18, for Maximum Life, Minion Life and Minion Damage)
-> Repeat until you have a decent combination of stats and
--> open prefix -> craft minus Mana cost
--> open suffix -> beast craft prefix to suffix
---> still usable? -> craft minus Mana cost else go back to step 2

Option 2:
Both Curse on Hit stats can be crafted with harvest "caster more likely"

alternatively, you can use Fossils for Both Rings:

Aetheric + Bound + Corroded (1/12, with a decently High Chance to hit other usable Minion Mods)

Option 3: (aka: Awakener Orb and pray)
With Awakener Orbs we can guarantee one of the curse on Hit mods (From Warlord/Hunter) and Minion Damage (From Redeemer)
to get both Mods we need four Rings in Total: Two with Redeemer (minion Damage), one Warlord (Flammabilty) and one Hunter (Elemental Weakness)
Make sure those mods are the only ones that come from the Influences on each of the Rings.

1. get a Bone Ring with one of the Three Influences and the corresponding mod:
-> Redeemer: Minion Damage
-> Hunter: Elemental Weakness on Hit
-> Warlord: Flammability on Hit
2. Get any other Ring with the corresponding mod
3. Awakener orb the Random Ring onto the Bone Ring
4. Hope for good mods beside the Minion Damage+Curse on hit.
5. Repeat with other curse

Our main Stat for the Shield is "Recover #% of Life when you Block".
When you are going for MoM you also want "Recover #% of Energy Shield when you Block"

Both mods can come from Shaper Influence, but also from Crusader (ES on Block) and Warlord (Life on Block)

The only way to guarantee both stats is using Awakener Orbs.
All other approaches are RNG heavy.

Besides the recover stats we are looking for

- +1 to Level of all Minion Skill
- #% increased Minion Life
- Minions deal #% increased Damage
- +# to maximum Life
- Resistances
- (Open Suffix for "Avoid Elemental Ailments", if needed)

Option 1: (Recover life only)
1. Get a Shaper Influenced Bone Shield
3. Fossil craft with
Corroded + Pristine + Sanctified + Shuddering (1/9, with a decently high chance for other usable Minion Mods)

Variant 2: Recover Life+Es
1. Get a Base (Bone Spirit if you go for Additional Minion mods, else any other) with Shaper, Warlord or Crusade Influence with one of the Recover mods
2. Get a second Base with one of the other Influences and the corresponding other Recovery stat.
eg.
-> Base 1: Shaper with life on Block (Bone Spirit)
-> Base 2: Crusader with ES on Block (Random Base)
3. Awakener Orb the Random base onto the desired one
4. Hope for good mods beside the Recovery stats.

The discussion if Guardian, Scion or Necro is better SRS is only relevant for the non-Minion-Instability Version.
For the Minion Instability Version (this Build) Necro is by FAR the best Ascendency.
Details on what we get from going Necro VS Scion and Guardian:

The DPS shown in PoB are inaccurate in here.
Infernal Legion only makes our SRS take some fire damage per second in addition to the Chaos damage they take from our Tavukai Amulet.
So all Infernal Legion does is making the SRS reach low life quicker and therefore popping earlier (within a shorter amount of time).
Therefore, the DPS (damage per second) is seemingly higher.
BUT
Every SRS That’s pops deals a set amount (a range to be exact) of damage, therefore our damage is not limited by the time the SRS take to pop but on the number of SRS we cast in a certain timeframe.
It doesn’t matter how fast our SRS pop regarding the total Damage amount of damage we deal as long as we don’t reach the cap of 20 SRS at a time.
The only benefit we get from using Infernal Legion is a faster ramp up time to reach our full damage potential.
BUT
At the same time we miss out on a Support gem that could give us up to 40% more Damage.
Some (not to scale) graphs: (behold my paint skills!)

Yes…
We only gain Damage from it when it is at least level 13, prior to this we even lose damage:

Check Section 6.3

Flame Sentinels
Artless Assassins That can be found in the Smuggler’s Den Heist Contracts (Use Pierce instead of Spell Echo)
Solar Guards

Correct.

I don’t want newer players to think “oh! I HAVE to get those 30 Lightning Res on that Ring”, "I have to get those 25 Dex on the Boots"
Just get your Resistances and Stats wherever you can fit them.

The best Helmet Enchantments you could go for is

- Summon Raging Spirit has #% chance to summon an extra Minion
- Summon Raging Spirits deal +% increased Damage

Other usable Enchantments would be

- Bone Offering Grants an Additional +#% chance to Block Attacks
- #% increased Elemental Weakness Curse Effect
- Flame Dash has #% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
- #% increased Flammability Curse Effect
- #% increased Shield Charge Attack Speed


None of the Enchantments is needed for the build though.