[2.2] Guardian Summoner - 2 Curses+EE - Hybrid ES/Life/Armor - (HC/Atziri)
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(Caution: this is not (yet?) a build guide, just a build idea that i want to do. If it's successfull i'll maybe think about making one. Enjoy theorycrafting!)
Hi everyone! With ascendancy and the new league coming i'll start playing in HC. For this matter i'll try here to build a guardian, summoner oriented. The goals of this character will be : - launch me into HC Perandus Challenge League - Farm first/mid tier maps - Atziri - not ripping too much while leveling Why a summoner : "easy" build, not too much uniques required (i want it cheap because of the rips), scales easily while leveling etc... Why a guardian and not a witch necromancer: More defensive options at the beginning = less rips, 160% ARMOR FOR EACH LIFE POINTS RESERVED (and that in Act3 normal!!), 15% more ES for each mana points reserved, phys reduction, block chance etc... --> We WILL use auras! The goal is to make a tanky character using a good life/ES pool (the more life we have, the more armor we will gain) that will make our minions even more tanky!
Skill Tree
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAUDAAQHBLMHHgj0DXwQlxFQFm8XLxzcHRQdqiL0JKoo-iqYL28y0TWSNbk26TpYQYdDY0PIRARFR0WdRnFJUUmxTLNNuU5STwRTUlXGVdZXyVqRXGtk52aeaPJqQ2qsa9tsC20ZcLtxTX0Yf8aApIDggseD24RIiECMdo8aj0aP-pAzkiuTJ5UumK2az5rgmzCboaIApRimrKcIpyuofayYtAy3Mbc-uJO_l8BUwGbBxcNtyT3MvNP718_YvdkL2RPhiONq6rrr7uwY74jwH_DV8h731_k3-ej6gPrS_QD-Cv5J Final tree, open it with the passive skill tree planner software to see more numbers. With this tree we've 22% less reduced mana reserved wich means MOAR AURAS. I decided that charisma, while it was a nice node was not as efficient as gaining more life/es and armour with the ascendancy. We also have 200% more ES, 154% more life, 120% increased armor, wich is nice! If you have a +1 curse amulet (wich you really should try to have) you can drop the 3 curses nodes. You have the choice to get either Faith and Steel, Unnatural Calm, +1 Curse and some more jewels socket as you see fit. I'll play with Faith and Steel, Unnatural Calm and +1Curse amulet. At level 84, naked, we should be at 2965 life (with Normal Oak), 901 Mana, 137 ES.
Auras+gear
In this part i'll speak about wich aura we will take, why and the gear that will be necessary to use them. First of all, the overall gearing must be CHEAP because it'll be my first character for this league and he'll rip a lot. We will use armour/es gear with Life and res affixes. Chaos res is very important here! SHIELD SETUP: We'll use the Prism Guardian unique shield with 3 auras socketed into it! This shield is AWESOME and required for this build. It let us cast 3 auras for 52% life reserved, wich is a lot, i know. BUT : numbers! We will socket our DEFENSIVES auras in the shield : Purity Of Elements, Discipline, Arctic Armor.
Numbers here
So, supposing that we have around 3k life around lvl70/80 we'll reserve 52% of it wich is 1560 life reserved. At this point we will have radiant faith wich will grant us 160% of 1560 life reserved = 2492 Armor!!! Around 2k5 for a SINGLE NODE. Also +5% physical reduction if we take the second faith node. Moreover, THE ARMOR IS ALSO APPLIED TO MINIONS. So is the phys reduction. We have now to apply the 120% increased armour, with that taken into account we know that we will at least have 3000 armour naked. Sources: https://poe.mikelat.com/#s-gQyu/_29-dc7/sCCnfCo using 22% reduced reservation WEAPON SETUP: At this point i've no idea of wich weapon taking, either a good rare or maybe Mont'Regul, we'll see. Aniway we will socket our OFFENSIVES auras here. The first aura casted will always be haste because attack/cast speed on minions is OP. The second aura casted is dependant to the type of specter that we will use. If we use revenants -> wrath, etc... We use the generosity gem. Why? We dont need to cast faster, attack faster or whatever, we are lazy, the minions fight for us. So we are generous and let them hit harder while whe casually relax and take a sip of chaos res potion.
Numbers again
This time it's our mana that's reserved. We want some mana left to cast our spells so we wont reserve 100% of it, wich is ok. At lvl 84 we should have 901 mana at least.
We reserve 78% of our mana wich is 703 manas. Radiant faith give us (only) 15% of that as max energy shield wich should be 105. Dont forget that our gear will mostly be ES oriented. Sources: https://poe.mikelat.com/#s-gQyu/_29-dc7/sCCnfCo using 22% reduced reservation
Minions
We will use 2 differents minions: Zombies and Spectres (probably revenants) Night Of The Living Dead: The Raise Zombies gems should be placed in the head gear. We'll use something like an ES circlet with life, res and most importantly +2 LEVEL OF SOCKETED MINIONS GEMS. The gems should be (4L) : Raise Zombie - MultiStrike - Minion Damage - Melee splash I dont think that fortify is mandatory because of radiant faith. Ghostbusters: Spectres as main damage dealers, we put them into a 5L chestpiece. Raise Spectres - Spell Echo - Minion Damage - Chain - Controlled Destruction (or Lightning Pen?) The setup ill change depending on wich spectres we use. I'll let you see the spectre guide for that.
Double Curses
CURSES Rare golves/boots with life and res We've got double curse (from an amulet would be perfect) and EE in the tree. We need something to apply/optimize them. We will use a firestorm because revenants deals lightning dmg so EE will make the mobs less resistant to it after a firestorm + firestorm is a good AOE. The link setup will be: Firestorm - Vulnerability - Elem Weakness - Curse on hit
Guardian
Radiant Faith/Unwavering Faith/ + Bastion of hope OR 2 ES/Armor nodes If you've read everything, kudos to you! Fell free to have a critical opinion of this build idea as i'm fairly new in POE (1year) especially in HC! Last edited by Scomae#7569 on Mar 15, 2016, 12:33:46 PM Last bumped on Mar 15, 2016, 12:34:37 PM
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GGG leaked this on reddit : http://webcdn.pathofexile.com/public/bex/GeofrisSanctuary.jpg
It WILL be expensive but it looks yummy for this character. |
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+max es is up on the global es , too bad!
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I'm considering something similar. Played an aurabot this league with a couple of friends which was efficient but sometimes got a bit boring. I think Guardian might give us a lot of support while still being able to solo.
One thing I'm planning different (but I really haven't thought it through as much as you): I think my main dmg will come from animated weapons. They scale well with auras and apart from casting them once you don't have to look after them or anything... (Also, I hate spectres) Last edited by Ulrira#4618 on Feb 26, 2016, 4:19:31 PM
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I dindnt think of it! It's a nice idea, worth the try i guess.Do you have ideas for the auras/special uniques?
Last edited by Scomae#7569 on Feb 27, 2016, 2:43:56 AM
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I thought about a Guardian Summoner as well. But i play normal and would like to try "Animate Weapon".
I would combine "Prayer of Glory" (instant warcry) with "Harmony of Purpose" (conduit). This way you could spread endurance charges (enduring cry) and use assassins and poachers mark to spread frenzy and power charges to my minions. 15% Movement and Attack speed seems far superior to the Necromancer and spreading all the charges between dozens of minions turns them into a ravaging horde. Last edited by jomtoy#1189 on Feb 28, 2016, 6:51:46 AM
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Hello Jomtoy!
I'm sorry but that wont work, minions cannot receive charges with cthe "Conduit" effect. The buff when using a warcry will, though Last edited by Scomae#7569 on Feb 29, 2016, 6:33:18 AM
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Yes, i've noticed this today as well.
Got too excited with the new possibilities and it would have been awesome to have a dozen of weapons slaugthering everything because they're boosted with tons of charges. :( |
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That's an understandable issue!
I wonder if animate weapon would be better than spetres though. |
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Can u update passive tree for current bilder version, pls?
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