[3.1] SRS LL Auramancer in-depth guide

why don't you use "Deafening Essence of Loathing" for crafting the helmet?

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mrlucky21 wrote:

why don't you use "Deafening Essence of Loathing" for crafting the helmet?

This is what I was referring to a few posts back. The only reason to not use it is the cost relative to the screaming version. It's about 6c for the deafening, and 1c for screaming.

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ryansider wrote:

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ride1226 wrote:

Any chance I could convince one of you fine gents to look over my gear and skill tree? I feel like with the amount of deaths I have been having I should easily be at least 90. My luck farming this league has been garbage. I have maybe netted 3ex total in my limited play time this league, a lot slower than my day 5 change of Skyforths during breach league haha. I have just been trying to stay alive really. Atoll, Shore, Strand, Pier are all great. I can cruise through those nice layout maps with the wave of SRS in front of me and maintain nicely but things like Beyond bosses, occasional map bosses, and sometimes even a dense Breach will just take me out. I feel like even with my IC setup I get oneshot sometimes.

My character should be public, I will go double check now either way. I just want to know if there is some quick cheap upgrades or some skill points I didnt correctly allocate or refund. Just need to be sure I am not doing something fundamentally wrong. I have about 55c to my name so I will do my best with upgrades as I can. Thanks all!

Three quick and easy suggestions:

(1) Get rid of the faster casting gem in your chest and replace with the "melee physical damage support" gem as per the guide.
(2) Spec out of "Practical Application" and its pre-req. You can't be stunned, so there's no use. You can use the points to go for another jewel slot, or for more ES.
(3) Fill up that jewel socket on the way down to blood magic. You have the right idea for jewels, so just get another one.

Your gear is fine for the spot you're at. You should look at upgrading to presence of chayula and a 5L or 6L shavs as your next pieces. You also need to think about getting a helmet crafted.

I think you're ultimately overestimating the power of this build with where your gems are at. You're running tier 8+ maps and talking about clearing breaches with Ephemeral Edge, Solaris Lorica, 6 (maybe 7) auras, and 19/0 gems. You need to get those gems leveled and vendored to 20% quality. You need to get to 8 auras, and a 6L chest. You need to upgrade your EE to UiD. All of these things take time, and their benefit is really huge - it just takes time. I'd be very happy running yellow maps with the spot your at - keep that up, save your currency, and make the upgrades.

This is literally the exact criticism that I needed. Thank you! I actually plan to just buy a 20/20 srs when I get on tonight as it looks like they run about 3c which sounds good to me. Is there any other gems that can be had at 20/20 that make a huge difference?

I managed to get into t11-13 as well. Pulled off corrupted wastelands and a few others. Played as safe as possible. I figure shavs and UID plus presence will be huge, as well as a energy from within, but thats all 10-15ex away. Man I need some drops!!!

Thanks again!

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ride1226 wrote:

This is literally the exact criticism that I needed. Thank you! I actually plan to just buy a 20/20 srs when I get on tonight as it looks like they run about 3c which sounds good to me. Is there any other gems that can be had at 20/20 that make a huge difference?

I managed to get into t11-13 as well. Pulled off corrupted wastelands and a few others. Played as safe as possible. I figure shavs and UID plus presence will be huge, as well as a energy from within, but thats all 10-15ex away. Man I need some drops!!!

Thanks again!

Yeah, buying the 20/20 SRS is cheap (likely a corrupted version) since everyone is shooting for 21/20. But you'll notice the biggest difference with that for sure. You should move to get all of your gems to 20/20 essentially - some will have bigger impacts than others, but with the handy vendor recipe, it's not a big chore to do it. My warning is not to vendor all of your level 20s at the same time - I did this league and it really set me back for a few hours of mapping. Try splitting up your gems into two or three groupings - vendor group 1, level them back to ~15, then vendor the next. You can look up each gem on the wiki page to see exactly what quality does for them, but it won't hurt getting them all up there. Obviously your chest gems will be the biggest impact as they are the ones directly effecting your SRS.

Personally the amulet upgrade will be the best bang for the buck at this point - you'll get a huge chunk of ES from that upgrade. A 6L shavs will be a big survivability thing too. The Energy from Within isn't as huge of a deal - I won't get into the math (you're replacing a jewel that gives +ES and minion damage, and losing a chunk of your life pool for casting your SRS), but it doesn't help as much as you'd think. Leave that until after you get the other upgrades (unless you find one for a cheap price!).

More or less - focus on your gems and getting them to 20/20. As you do that you'll naturally farm the currency to start purchasing the unique upgrades you need. Check back periodically and I (we) will help out with pointing you in the next direction!

Hey all, this might be a little bit overkill, but after I got my damage set together I went back and revisted my MF set to start chaining Strands. After looking at my gear and tree, I realized I could fit a Bisco's neck in and throw Kiara's Determination into the flask rotation to handle stuns. This is nowhere near ideal for survivability, but the changes in currency drops have been significant. Granted, everything I've seen could be anecdotal, but it's been really great the past couple of days for me at least. If you're looking for ways to milk out a little more when just farming, I definitely recommend it.

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BertilFalukorv wrote:

First post in a "build-post". Did not expect much, more like my post getting buried in the masses with no response. I was happily surprised by a helpful hand! =)

Thank you so so much, that time you put into it for me is greatly appreciated and I want you to know that! :)

Ill look into more precisely how ill spend my points but I did spend some of them into the jewel slots and took shaper back (I remember removing it temporarily to grab Blood Magic at some point).

While we're at it, any cool jewel stats to look for? I couldnt find any listings of most wanted rolls in the guide (yet).

I did not know that Gems could affect auras that were on the item rather than being actually "linked" in a socket.

Now, I do have a lot to look over when I can log on the next time, guess I'll have to repaint my sockets quite a bit to be able of putting this mess I did together ;)

We try our best to help everyone who makes a reply in the thread =)

Skills that are provided by a item will (always if eligible I think) be supported by the gems you put in that item. The whispering Ice is a popular example where you just need to 6S the weapon and you'll be able to get a "7L" without any links at all in the weapon.

As Matematikas mentioned jewel's can be found at 4.9.9, a bit hidden I know but it's hard to make everything visible without making it too messy ;) I would probably go for 1x Conq efficiency, 1x Sacrificial Harvest, and the rest rare ones.

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Harahwah wrote:

Hey all, this might be a little bit overkill, but after I got my damage set together I went back and revisted my MF set to start chaining Strands. After looking at my gear and tree, I realized I could fit a Bisco's neck in and throw Kiara's Determination into the flask rotation to handle stuns. This is nowhere near ideal for survivability, but the changes in currency drops have been significant. Granted, everything I've seen could be anecdotal, but it's been really great the past couple of days for me at least. If you're looking for ways to milk out a little more when just farming, I definitely recommend it.

When I started out with this build I actually used the Kiara's flask instead of the Chayula amulet, it worked pretty well. Then I started to use chayula instead and I realised that I could never go back ;)

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Harahwah wrote:

Hey all, this might be a little bit overkill, but after I got my damage set together I went back and revisted my MF set to start chaining Strands. After looking at my gear and tree, I realized I could fit a Bisco's neck in and throw Kiara's Determination into the flask rotation to handle stuns. This is nowhere near ideal for survivability, but the changes in currency drops have been significant. Granted, everything I've seen could be anecdotal, but it's been really great the past couple of days for me at least. If you're looking for ways to milk out a little more when just farming, I definitely recommend it.

Tbh. I wouldn't, no offense intended, but to quote a previous reply, "dead man can't loot".

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I almost always go chayula on a CI/LL build, unless it's a totem or a passive summoner build. Kiara makes stun immunity situational, which is pretty bad considering this is a build which relies on you casting SRS, or you die. Esp. early on, Kiara is expensive, Chayula is dirt cheap. When we run out of Kiara charges, even the smallest thing like opening strongboxes can become a nightmare, you either have the charges, or you're lucky enough to shield charge/blink away, before you get stunlocked to death.

Granted I do like Bisco, and from my experience it does has a quite decent impact on drops, esp. when you use Bloodlines leaguestones often.

I just got my gems to lvl 20 and farmed up 3ex, ~150c.
Any tips on which item to get first / which item to upgrade?
Shavs, presence of chayula or UiD? (i would prefer a defensive option so actually the question is shavs vs presence of chayula)
I'm @ 6k es atm.

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zidkun wrote:

I just got my gems to lvl 20 and farmed up 3ex, ~150c.
Any tips on which item to get first / which item to upgrade?
Shavs, presence of chayula or UiD? (i would prefer a defensive option so actually the question is shavs vs presence of chayula)
I'm @ 6k es atm.

Shavs gives you more es than chayula amulet, so shavs.. Its just core item of the build, should get it first, but look for 6S 5L for 6ex, since not worth to save like 0.5ex or less for no sockets/links and waste them by yourself (even if you link it..)

did anyone figure out a way to fit bisco's collar into the mf setup? how good is kiara's for anti-stun?