[3.10] Herald Power Siphon Guardian | OP as heck | Money making guide and Scion version included

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sourtimer wrote:

PoB rates Pure Talent jewel as a DPS loss for me behind any of my other jewels with DPS mods. The 5% pen has to be better for this build though. Lots of little things with POB like this where it does not calculate things overall correctly.

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Ah i forgot to switch out the enlighten on purities lol
i have 1060mana
I did not take the top 2 jewel slot yet because i had not enough skill points
for split personality which is better, es,int or mana since i need 1 split personality with str to be able to use vitality

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moldycondom wrote:

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sourtimer wrote:

PoB rates Pure Talent jewel as a DPS loss for me behind any of my other jewels with DPS mods. The 5% pen has to be better for this build though. Lots of little things with POB like this where it does not calculate things overall correctly.

POB is correct in this case. Don't use Pure Talent. I didn't indicate to use Pure Talent in my build for a reason. 5% pen is note a good use of a jewel socket.

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sourtimer wrote:

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moldycondom wrote:

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sourtimer wrote:

PoB rates Pure Talent jewel as a DPS loss for me behind any of my other jewels with DPS mods. The 5% pen has to be better for this build though. Lots of little things with POB like this where it does not calculate things overall correctly.

POB is correct in this case. Don't use Pure Talent. I didn't indicate to use Pure Talent in my build for a reason. 5% pen is note a good use of a jewel socket.

Alrighty. Can you give a quick clarification on why, so I know going forward. Ty

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n4zroth wrote:

I'm currently running crit arc herald stacker but thinking about switching over. I have about 60 ex lying around but I don't know if I can make the switch, the % mana reserved jewels are far too expensive. Somebody got an idea on what to tweak so my budget is enough?

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K4P0T wrote:

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n4zroth wrote:

I'm currently running crit arc herald stacker but thinking about switching over. I have about 60 ex lying around but I don't know if I can make the switch, the % mana reserved jewels are far too expensive. Somebody got an idea on what to tweak so my budget is enough?

The build just doesn't work without the reserved mana cobalts.

You need 18 Auras all on mana bc. you don't have any life to reserve.

6 of them is the pure minimum to even make it work without Dread Banner and Vitality.

9 of them means that you literally either corrupt Herald Clusters which is stupidly expensive or really nutty expensive unique jewels like Unnatural Instinct. You have in total 12 gemslots without counting the 9 medium clusters (Medium with 1% corruption).

You need Unnatural Instinct, Conquerors Efficiency, Watchers Eye and Intuitive Leap.

1% mana is almost unrealistic here.

Then you substract 3 for the split personalities which can't get 1%.

Now you have 5 slots left + 2 from your belt. You are still missing 2% unreserved for Vitality here.

I should have taken a step back to realize how expensive expensive is.
Maybe this post helps some people here to understand what sort of dough is required here.

You can skip a few corners with a helmet enchant though.