Uniques only Herald of Purity Guardian
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3.17 nothing changed.
Pros: - around 4-5 million Shaper DpS - do not need to spam Flasks/Skills - high Attack/Spell Block - over 7k ES with ~1000 ES on Block - immunity to ailments - around 60k Armor and 4 Endurance charges - ignore 25% of elemental damage taken due to Incandescent Heart and CI - reduced Curse effect Cons: - a bit slow clear
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Endgame content viability
Can do confidently: - T16 AL9 Maps - Simulacrum - Shaper - Uber Atziri - Elder - Sirus - Uber Elder Require fight knowledge: - Maven - The Feared Can be Hard: - 100% Delirious Maps - Chayula's Pure Breachstone Can do pretty much any content. Amazing survivability on T16 red maps with Awakening level 9. Can handle Endgame bosses: deathless Shaper, Uber Elder, Uber Atziri, even AL9 Sirus having 5-10 FpS. Guardian provides damage for minions, and high amount of ES, so we can go CI. With Herald of Purity and Storm Brand to proc it, we do not need to hit monsters by ourselves and can use that to dodge scary attacks and chill. Mapping can be slow, so use Convocation to bring your minions into the packs.
Gear
Cold Iron Point Ezomyte Dagger is really good for our DpS, since Herald of Purity scales, as any other minion skill, scales really well with levels. With it we will deal no elemental damage via Storm Brand but still can deal Physical (from rings)/Chaos (from body armor) damage and that is enough. Aegis Aurora Champion Kite Shield is our main source of survivability vs many hits. Since we have around 60k Armour, we will get back ~1200 ES on block, which is huge. Incandescent Heart Saintly Chainmail is our defence option against elemental damage. Since we are CI basically 25% of the elemental damage will be negated. Double corrupt can be somewhat expencive, but just one good corruption is noticeably cheaper and enough for almost all content. Currently there are just 2 good corruptions: - +1 to Level of Socketed Gems; - +2 to Level of Socketed Duration Gems. Memory Vault Praetor Crown gives us tons of Armour. Shaper's Touch Crusader Gloves is just good overall gloves for our build, because they provide the highest amount of ES. Death's Door Crusader Boots gives us full Bleed immunity and an extra Endurance charge. Beware of Corrupting Blood, since in 3.14 it is no longer considered Bleed. Aul's Uprising Onyx Amulet with Purity of Elements. Use Tempering Catalyst on it to increase ES even more. Circle of Guilt Synthesized Iron Ring with reduced reservation and Sentinels damage is the best rings for the build: it gives us Armour, minion damage and Reservation Efficiency. The Torrent's Reclamation Cloth Belt is just nice to have for occasional movement speed boost and some other minor quality of life. The Watcher's Eye Prismatic Jewel helps with extra Armour and Spell Block (Life Recovery Rate is not working for us, since we regen ES and not Life).
Labyrinth Enchantments
Helmet:
- "Herald of Purity has X% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency" is the best one to fit all Auras. 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: - "Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you were Hit Recently"; - "10% increased Movement Speed if you haven't been Hit Recently" can be nice since this build have pretty low movement speed. Belt: all enchats are too conditional.
What uniques can be easily changed
- Incandescent Heart Saintly Chainmail can be changed for some other good armour or Skin of the Loyal, Simple Robe;
- Shaper's Touch Crusader Gloves, for good Sorcerer Gloves with high ES; - Death's Door Crusader Boots for good rare boots, but you will need Bleed removal Flask; - The Torrent's Reclamation Cloth Belt for good rare belt.
Gems
Main Skill: Herald of Purity + (Awakened) Brutality Support + Summon Phantasm Support + (Awakened) Minion Damage Support + Predator Support + Empower Support
Summon Phantasm Support really increase our clearspeed in comparison with previously used (Awakened) Multistrike Support and it's much, much cheaper. And even while we lose significant portion of our Sentinels' DpS, Phantasms provide enough damage to cover this loss. It is basically the best in slot support gem. Movement: Dash + Second Wind Support + Convocation. I keep Dash at level 10, because it has fixed range and at this level it feels best for me. Auras and buffs: - Purity of Elements - Vitality - Determination, Discipline + Enlighten Support - Dread Banner + (Awakened) Generosity Support Extra minions: Summon Stone Golem + Anomalous Raise Spectre + Anomalous Minion Life + Feeding Frenzy Support For spectres I'm using 2 Arena Masters- they were able to survive in all endgame bosses fights and also provides nice damage boost for our minions. Also you can switch one of them for other spectre. To proc Herald of Purity: Storm Brand + Faster Casting Support + Culling Strike You can also use Blade Vortex or Cyclone. You can add Assassin's Mark or Poacher's Mark for some extra damage on bosses. Or use Molten Shell for even more survivability, also I think this will be an overkill. Also it's nice to have Portal somewhere, for example on weapon swap.
Skill Tree
PoB: https://pastebin.com/Ag9JrxNp Off site: https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAABgUDfwFvBAcGOQ2PEYwRjhSwFy8aHRpsGnIc3B0UHggfAiSaKU8qmCy_LR8vby_WL9o1uTbFOsY62DrpPQ9BaUNjQ8hG_klPSp9Ms0y5TwRRYFIpValV1lXgVi5XK1haWfNdjl8qYPhi9GTnZlRmnmdxaPJqAWobaqtqu2vIcLtxTXGycg9yxXa5fEt8g3y7fmyApIIehXuLeox2jxqPRpAzkiuVIJZ0ly2XtJrPmyGcSp2unjyg5qUYpqynCKcrqDWqf6qprKqtSK98tQS3MbhdvKq9gsHFwfPDbcaK0B_WQddK12rYJNjD2RPkvOvk6-7sGOw47-vzBvNf98H60vuqBADEAMcAygDNCHOSDY-5Rap_R312uYZPuF090hGMe0Rqq-6p2MOiSNZB?accountName=Zabarovka&characterName=ZanZibarzan
Bandits and Pantheon
Bandits: just go for 2 points (kill all) option.
For the minor god i'm going for Soul of Yugul for reduced Curse effect. For the major god Soul of Brine King for Stun protection. Soul of Solaris and Soul of Lunaris are also good options.
Leveling tips
Before Herald of Purity in Act 2, you can use Holy Flame Totem or Absolution.
Damage from Spell gems greatly benefit from levels, so having a wand with gem levels craft is nice. Also sometimes overleveling can be nice if you lack damage/survivability. At first Labyrinth take Radiant Crusade, second Lab go with Unwavering Crusade. This will increase our damage output. Third Lab is Time of Need, for quality of life on maps. And in the last Lab take Radiant Faith for more ES. And after completing Uber Labyrinth you can start switching to CI. Use Discord Artisan cluster on the Passive tree before helmet enchant. Couple good Unique items: - Wraithlord, Bone Circlet for extra levels of our minions; - Victario's Charity, Laminated Kite Shield for Frenzy Charges for our minions; - The Coming Calamity, Destroyer Regalia is nice to reduce mana reservation until we will be able to get our rings. Last edited by Zabarovka on Feb 5, 2022, 2:13:49 PM Last bumped on Jul 27, 2021, 3:22:18 PM
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Hi
Look interesting, got a question. As there is no Memory vault with reduce mana reservation on market actualy, what would you sacrifice to squize in everything? Determination or dps on herald of purity? Fly safe. | |
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Hi,
Personally, I was running this setup without Determination but with Granite Flask it was much easier to do and it doesn't require 24% reduction on your rings or even Enlighten Support. The Armour will still be somewhat similar, just dependent on Flask. Also as a small point- you can still do the same-ish thing having Discord Artisan and mana reservation there for example if you do not have any good Cluster Jewel. Cheers. | |
" Ok will try thanks =) | |
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Are there other abilities you would suggest other then storm brand? Finding even with the minions its taking awhile too get the sentinels summoned, also with using spectres, what would you suggest using?
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" I think Blade Vortex or Blade Fall will do fine. Also you can try Cyclone route, but you will be really slow (to avoid that change boots to Stampede). | |
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Doing this build and it's very tanky! Decently fast but not a zoom-zoom mapper. Excels at bossing. I would recommend Rainbowstride for a cheap alternative to Death's Door. A well-rolled crystal belt or stygian vise might be a better option than Cyclopedia coil too.
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" Thye main reason to use Cyclopean Coil is to be Shock/Ignite immune without pressing flasks. But yeah if that's not the problem rare options are a good alternative. | |
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Updated for 3.15 Expedition. Overall around 20% damage loss.
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