[2.5] SRS LL Auramancer in-depth guide (MF Viable - MOVED TO NEW THREAD)

I specced into dual curse poison double-dip setup:

https://poe.mikelat.com/#ngkxnuId/tr.7494/9b.I7p/BWlVb.Vh/xB3l.sJb

Requires a 3% reduced mana helm + a Conqueror's Efficiency
6L: SRS, Minion Damage, Melee Phys, Melee Splash, Added Chaos, Void Manipulation
3L (Envy): Shield Charge, Summon Stone Golem, Clarity Lv1
3L (Prism): Grace, Discipline, Haste
4L: Vaal Discipline, Vaal Haste, Vaal Clarity, Inc. Duration
4L: Purity of Fire, Purity of Cold, Purity of Lightning, Enlighten Lv3
4L: Blasphemy, Temporal Chains, Vulnerability, Purity of Elements
1L (Pariah): Flesh Offering

9 auras, two curses. I don't have an enlighten 3 yet so I dropped Clarity for now.

Made a couple breahlord fight vids (Note: They are done with AoE setup and 7 auras)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXTWiduvMPE Tul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq39aNNMX80 Uul-Netol

For single target, replace melee splash with either Empower 4 or Melee damage on full life

Comparison to regular setup
Pro:
- Tankier thanks to purities (Also easier to gear. No need to care about resists)
- Safer thanks to temp chains
Con:
- Needs an enlighten lv3
- Can't cull (not enough sockets)
- Chimera and Hydra are very annoying

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sunleonid wrote:

I specced into dual curse poison double-dip setup:

https://poe.mikelat.com/#ngkxnuId/tr.7494/9b.I7p/BWlVb.Vh/xB3l.sJb

Requires a 3% reduced mana helm + a Conqueror's Efficiency
6L: SRS, Minion Damage, Melee Phys, Melee Splash, Added Chaos, Void Manipulation
3L (Envy): Shield Charge, Summon Stone Golem, Clarity Lv1
3L (Prism): Grace, Discipline, Haste
4L: Vaal Discipline, Vaal Haste, Vaal Clarity, Inc. Duration
4L: Purity of Fire, Purity of Cold, Purity of Lightning, Enlighten Lv3
4L: Blasphemy, Temporal Chains, Vulnerability, Purity of Elements
1L (Pariah): Flesh Offering

9 auras, two curses. I don't have an enlighten 3 yet so I dropped Clarity for now.

Made a couple breahlord fight vids (Note: They are done with AoE setup and 7 auras)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXTWiduvMPE Tul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq39aNNMX80 Uul-Netol

For single target, replace melee splash with either Empower 4 or Melee damage on full life

Comparison to regular setup
Pro:
- Tankier thanks to purities (Also easier to gear. No need to care about resists)
- Safer thanks to temp chains
Con:
- Needs an enlighten lv3
- Can't cull (not enough sockets)
- Chimera and Hydra are very annoying

How do you feel that the dmg is compared to the more elemental dmg focused version? Due to SRS's 50% phys to fire conversion it feels to me that the poison from the sword is a nice bonus for SRS, but that a spectral or zombie summoner would benefit more from going full poison.

I don't think that you should drop Hatred, that's a 73% of phys dmg (before fire conversion) gained as extra cold. Anger & Wrath I don't see any issues with dropping, if you can gain enough dmg from other sources.

And I probably would use the Witchfire Brew instead of the Vul blasphemy, saving a gem socket and mana reserved.

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Tahreyn wrote:

How do you feel that the dmg is compared to the more elemental dmg focused version? Due to SRS's 50% phys to fire conversion it feels to me that the poison from the sword is a nice bonus for SRS, but that a spectral or zombie summoner would benefit more from going full poison.

I don't think that you should drop Hatred, that's a 73% of phys dmg (before fire conversion) gained as extra cold. Anger & Wrath I don't see any issues with dropping, if you can gain enough dmg from other sources.

And I probably would use the Witchfire Brew instead of the Vul blasphemy, saving a gem socket and mana reserved.

My current damage is not as much as what your Tul fight video showed, but I haven't reached my full damage potential yet. First, my curse gems have no qualities and are not fully leveled. Also, if I decided to use witchfire I could theoretically stack three more auras than my vid. I didn't simply because the only fights where such damage matters are against tanky bosses and I would quickly run out of flask charges. Then again I could always self cast curses, so it's half my laziness :P

I dropped hatred and other ele auras because of their high mana reservation. Void Manipulation reduces ele damage as well. I'll keep looking what I can do. Was considering anger + hatred then pyre + consuming dark at one point but that probably doesn't work with minions.

I agree that to go full poison zombie, spectres, or AW would work better (IMO AW would be insane) I just prefer the playstyle of SRS.

With just 1 Shrieking! My golem gotta love it! good rarity and bad cold res, doesn't matter tho.
As soon as I level haku to 7 will craft up to +22 ES :D

Btw I'm having problem to survive in breaches withot vaal clarity/haste, cause I can't regen ES but probably I still have to get to the SRS playstyle but overall I'm very enjoying it!

Edit.

haku 7 done, exactly 300es :D

Could anyone plz check my profile? I can`t use all auras at same time.

What I am missing?

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Kingolo wrote:

With just 1 Shrieking! My golem gotta love it! good rarity and bad cold res, doesn't matter tho.
As soon as I level haku to 7 will craft up to +22 ES :D

Btw I'm having problem to survive in breaches withot vaal clarity/haste, cause I can't regen ES but probably I still have to get to the SRS playstyle but overall I'm very enjoying it!

Edit.

haku 7 done, exactly 300es :D

Nice, congratulations! :)

It can be hard to survive the breaches if you don't have the vaal auras up, but I've found myself to become better and better at positioning myself in the breaches so I don't need to use Vaal Discipline often at all any more inside the breaches. I would also recommend you getting Essence Surge with the next few levels, it does help quite a bit when you're trying to avoid stuff to recharge your ES.

Also, you should look over your flasks. I know that I have not been specific in the guide about flasks, but I would recommend you going:
1x Jade
1x Basalt
1x Stibnite
1x Quicksilver

The last one is up to you. I'm currently using a granite, but that one would be the first I'd replace if I found anything better to use.

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SMOKALOT wrote:

Could anyone plz check my profile? I can`t use all auras at same time.

What I am missing?

It would appear that you've "Hide Characters tab" enabled under Privacy Settings. If I would have to guess on why you can't use all the auras it would be one of the following:


Missing the -3% Reduced Mana reserved on your helmet. Best way to get it would probably be to craft it yourself with Screaming Essences of Loathing + Orb of Scouring. The essences go for 1c each and you can usually craft a decent helmet without too much hassle.

Or you might be missing:

Which is a quest reward in a2.

A couple more vids:

Xoph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUGk1-AY_sY
Esh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqgp9GPzGaY
Abyss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsLZUq1CLiQ
Core mapping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWhWnJZAF6k
Dark Forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQr7Ol9ecuc

btw - your thoughts about HH ? Should be super good for mapping. But meh, need to get resists. Seem Jewely should contain couple res to full fill resist cap. At least to the point we get couple enlighten lvl 4.

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iwonderwice wrote:

btw - your thoughts about HH ? Should be super good for mapping. But meh, need to get resists. Seem Jewely should contain couple res to full fill resist cap. At least to the point we get couple enlighten lvl 4.

Headhunter is BiS for mapping, without any doubt. As the only two stats we really need on jewels are Minion Dmg and ES, then we can relatively easily get some resist that way.

I had 2x lvl 4 enlighten last league, but i mainly used those for my lawnmower. In the end I still found it convenient to go with just 8 auras for this build.

Here's Esh fight with single target setup (Still only 8 auras)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdTzo0Mc2T8

Edit: Just got myself a lv3 enlighten. Here's chimera fight with 9 aura and single target setup
IMO pretty acceptable considering he's poison immune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqOU6iaHNJk