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

Thinking of using vaal summon skellies + convocation instead of vaal discipline for easier maps.
Has anyone tried using vaal skellies in the build?

Hey there :)

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The only expensive item you need to make this build good is the Shavronne's Wrappings, and that one you can get for about 5 ex now in softcore Breach. You don't even need to have it 6L to have a good build, a 5L will do the job.

Build looks solid and I'm giving it a try as first SC build this league. I traded all my HC currency for SC and bought 6S shavs. Let's see how far I can take it playing mostly casually after work and in the weekends.

Leveling - 53 atm. Will start with 4L Shavs, Chayula, Ephemeral edge and some crap low level rarity uniques.

Thanks for the guide!

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Thinking of using vaal summon skellies + convocation instead of vaal discipline for easier maps.
Has anyone tried using vaal skellies in the build?

I have, since my don't have the best gear, so my dps and es is kind of on the low side. It helps me lots during breach with vaal skellies, very good decoy to keep myself alive and helps with the damage.

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sunleonid wrote:

Once I upgrade gloves and helm I should be able to hit around 9.6k ES. I'm starting to think maybe I don't really need to drop Prism after all.

Edit: Just got another stone golem base hubris and threw some deafenings in. Got

on the 4th roll. Should do it for now. I can replace Conqueror's Efficiency with a minion + es jewel until I get the rest of the needed gears to take off Prism.

Well it sounds like you're pretty good off as it is with the Prism, I guess that replacing it would only be for "feeling even safer" while mapping. Nice rolls on the helmet for only using 4 essences ;)

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MaSterX_BG wrote:

Hey there :)

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The only expensive item you need to make this build good is the Shavronne's Wrappings, and that one you can get for about 5 ex now in softcore Breach. You don't even need to have it 6L to have a good build, a 5L will do the job.

Build looks solid and I'm giving it a try as first SC build this league. I traded all my HC currency for SC and bought 6S shavs. Let's see how far I can take it playing mostly casually after work and in the weekends.

Leveling - 53 atm. Will start with 4L Shavs, Chayula, Ephemeral edge and some crap low level rarity uniques.

Thanks for the guide!

You're most welcome! Btw, there's a Gorge video up in the videos section that I recorded with a 5L earlier in this league.

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hinouchie wrote:

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Thinking of using vaal summon skellies + convocation instead of vaal discipline for easier maps.
Has anyone tried using vaal skellies in the build?

I have, since my don't have the best gear, so my dps and es is kind of on the low side. It helps me lots during breach with vaal skellies, very good decoy to keep myself alive and helps with the damage.

I've never used the vaal skellies myself, but I'm sure that they're quite good. I saw a video on reddit the other day of an auramancer killing shaper with a Cast while Channeling summon skeletons setup ;)

As for your damange. As long as you've a 5L Shav's (or Solaris) and can use 8 auras (with Anger, Hatred & Wrath supported by Generosity) your damage should be pretty awesome tbh. Your character tab is set to private in your privacy settings though, so I couldn't check if I could find what was causing the lack of damage.

Been using vaal skellies for some time now.
They are great for bosses and breaches, very bad for the rest of the content. Even with convocation, they take so much time to find targets and start damaging them that srs has already killed everything and moved on to new targets.
It is also of note that they are not so great for bosses who dish out tons of area damage, as they die quite easily, even while affected by triple purity auras.

I must be missing something, are you running hatred/wrath/anger and envy? Currently just getting started at lvl 70 with all the necessary gear and nodes, At least I think. I am running hate/wrath/envy/haste/grace and discipline. Without enough to get an 7th aura let alone an 8th.

I am following your build and I am really enjoying it so far. I am just wondering, in your video's it seems like your es is bouncing up very quickly after taking damage, but since you don't use zealot's oath, how is this accomplished? It seems like it takes forever for my es to recover.

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lakkin wrote:

I must be missing something, are you running hatred/wrath/anger and envy? Currently just getting started at lvl 70 with all the necessary gear and nodes, At least I think. I am running hate/wrath/envy/haste/grace and discipline. Without enough to get an 7th aura let alone an 8th.

Set your character tab to public so we can check your setup out. Did you get all reduce mana reserved nodes from tree? Are you using at least a lvl 2 enlighten on your triple purity setup? Are you using Prism Guardian? Conqueror's Efficiency jewel?

Dont forget to use a lvl 1 clarity, it only reserves about 11 mana.

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lakkin wrote:

I must be missing something, are you running hatred/wrath/anger and envy? Currently just getting started at lvl 70 with all the necessary gear and nodes, At least I think. I am running hate/wrath/envy/haste/grace and discipline. Without enough to get an 7th aura let alone an 8th.

It is hard to say without being able to check out your character, if you do as Aerotsu said and enable it in your privacy settings it'd be easier to say. All I can say now is that to use the aura setup I use in the guide, you need all reduced mana reserved from the 6 clusters on the tree. That should be -38% in total, and then 50% less as well from Mortal Conviction. Then you need the Conqueror's Efficiency jewel for another -2%. If you are not using envy, then you should be good to go with that, if you are using Envy or want to run another 50% aura instead, then you need -3% mana reserved on your helmet as well (crafted with Essence of Loathing)

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Inastris1 wrote:

I am following your build and I am really enjoying it so far. I am just wondering, in your video's it seems like your es is bouncing up very quickly after taking damage, but since you don't use zealot's oath, how is this accomplished? It seems like it takes forever for my es to recover.

Hello, I'm glad that you're enjoying the build! What you are seeing is me using Vaal Discipline. Our vaal discipline is more or less our "Life potion", as well as a "hey you can't kill me" ability.

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aerotsu wrote:

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lakkin wrote:

I must be missing something, are you running hatred/wrath/anger and envy? Currently just getting started at lvl 70 with all the necessary gear and nodes, At least I think. I am running hate/wrath/envy/haste/grace and discipline. Without enough to get an 7th aura let alone an 8th.

Set your character tab to public so we can check your setup out. Did you get all reduce mana reserved nodes from tree? Are you using at least a lvl 2 enlighten on your triple purity setup? Are you using Prism Guardian? Conqueror's Efficiency jewel?

Dont forget to use a lvl 1 clarity, it only reserves about 11 mana.

To avoid confusing I must say in that if we look to the guide itself, it is not using triple purities, enlighten, nor the Prism Guardian. While you can obviously run that setup with good results, it is not what I personally prefer, but it could perhaps be added as a 3rd option in a later revision of the guide.

So there doesn't seem to be any reasonably priced helmets with the stone golem enchant, what would you recommend other then that? perhaps in order of best to worst? (may have missed something in the guide, but didn't see anything)
Edit: Also another question, is culling strike really the best for a damage based version? would added chaos, or added fire not be better?