[2.6] Fantasy of a Guardian [All Content] [SC/HC] [Deathless Uber Atziri Video inside]
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In a land before time a company decided to introduce a templar subclass which was totally abused for helping naturally overpowered other subclasses: The Guardian.
At the end of the day the Guardian went to bed and felt empty. He closed his eyes and imagined a different world... Here was the result.  ~~~~***~~~ FAQ
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How do you deal damage i.e. what is your main skill?
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Blade Vortex with poison, check out gearing section [Weapons]
Is Vitality necessary?
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vitality raises the ES regen from effective 9,3% to 10,5%. it's a matter of taste. After dropping the node Growth and Decay it didn't felt right to me to also drop vitality or any more regen nodes. but yes for very situational cases you could swap out vitality for another aura which fits better. for example purity of lightning in added lightning damage map mods
How much is your DPS? Can I go for shield version, to be more tanky?
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i did the math for pledge vs several setups, have fun:
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Results: i take 15% chaos res values from uber atziri. also i don't think it's intelligent to show DPS numbers in poison builds, the real value lies in Hit DPS+Full Poison Duration Dmg (let's call it true dmg) Pledge of Hands 7L (with 155% Spell dmg): 1,8M Redbeak without Culling Strike + Rathpith Globe (60%): 1,5M (-17%) Redbeak with Culling Strike + Rathpith Globe (60%): 1,6M (-1%) Redbeak with Culling Strike + 100% Crit rare ES Shield: 1,6M (-4%) [<- hey this looks good lol] Redbeak with Culling Strike + rare ES Shield: 1,6M (-12%) Breath of the Council (80% Chaos Dmg) + Rathpith Globe (60%): (-19%) Breath of the Council (80% Chaos Dmg) + 100% Crit rare ES Shield: 1,4M (-23%) Breath of the Council (80% Chaos Dmg) + rare ES Shield: 1,3M (-29%) ES values Pledge of Hands: 9,261 Rathpith Globe: 9,695 (+4%) 400 ES Shield: 10,566 (+12%) 521 ES Shield: 11,117 (+17%) Summary: In my opinion a great way to go for a shield is redbeak with culling strike and 100% Crit rare ES Shield. 400 ES can be enough. without culling strike you lose around 16% true damage and it's not worth it anymore. the benefits from BotC will be higher. redbeak is cheap af tho. probably even with culling strike, only linking and coloring will require a service or lvl8 vorici if you have him ^^ ~please note that rathpith globe increases your eHP vs spells A LOT. so it's a viable option vs much casting for example in vaals/atziri fight~ ~~~***~~~ 
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Lvl 90 Tree Use any jewel with Inc Dmg/Area Dmg/Chaos Dmg + ES% for the 4 slots. All these double dip. Ascendancy 1) Time of Need (defense bomb) 2) Bastion of Hope (stun immunity, sorta) 3) Radiant Faith 4) Unwavering Faith
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2 come 
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Normal: Kill Cruel: Kill Merciless: Alira 
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Auras Mikelat link Blood Magic: Blasphemy+Clarity Mana: Discipline+Arctic Armour+Vitality
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Helmet
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You want high ES and ideally a blade vortex enchantment. Links: Discipline Enlighten Vitality Arctic Armour Chest
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No Shavs, no LL, no Pain Attunement (which is bad). So it's mandatory! But you don't need a 6L! Links: Leap Slam Faster Attacks Fortify Links: Vaal Lightning Trap Vaal Discipline Vaal Discipline Weapon / Off Hand
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Big weapon for us. Provides: 1) Mana (~ 700 extra ES thanks to guardian) 2) pseudo 7L because we dont need to socket spell echo 3) spell dmg is also very nice as it scales chaos and physical dmg Links: Blade Vortex Poison Void Manipulation Conc Effect/AoE Inc Duration (huge quality of life improvement and other gems are not better! it's easier to sustain max charges and poison is elongated big time. do the maths) added chaos damage (drop this if you have a 5L) Gloves
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Just res/es/stat source. Links: Blood Magic Temporal Chains-Blasphemy Clarity (as high as possible) Boots
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Just res/es/stat source. The Life/Mana regen enchantment is the best pick here imo. Links: PCoC Orb of Storms Links: Spell Totem Wither (important) Jewellery
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rich bitches pick up +1 curse amulet. otherwise a common rare one with nice stats (need STR and DEX badly) mainly you want ES and mana regen from your jewellry. and the stats. Belt
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simple Flasks
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flask management is very important. without it your damage is muuch worse. don't pick witchfire brew if you don't have +1 curse amulet. 
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Advertising other builds: 2.5 Fantasy of a Guardian, Poison BV as a LL Guardian, can do any content 2.5 Righteous Wormhole, self-cast Vortex Chieftain with perma RF, casual tanky mapper 2.5 Unicorn Fountain, Non-Meta MoltenStriker (highest DPS build i had so far), can do any content 2.5 The Death Cap, Poison Ice Trapper, Uber Atziri farmer 2.5 -273,15 °Crit Trapper, Igniting Ice Trap pre 2.5 Vortex LL Occultist with huge ES Recovery Last edited by airparisderjesus#0654 on Mar 2, 2017, 2:29:40 AM Last bumped on Apr 1, 2017, 10:43:03 AM
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Before wielding a 6L Pledge of Hands i was using
And a bit more defensive tree With Pledge of Hands you have ~25% More damage, but you're waaay more tanky with shield version. I was tanking Shaper-slams and uber atziri common flameblasts all the time. So it's probably better for HC |
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just for general purposes i added a deathless uber atziri run
have fun :-D |
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How important is your Vitality Aura to you, and would you suggest possibly picking up a Purity for particularly challenging content (Lightning for Temple Piety for example) or did you find this to be completely unimportant?
Would you consider inputting your Hp/Mana values into the bottom of your mikelat calculator so we can see closer to what your totals are for each, to better visualize your contributions to armour/es from reservation? (i.e. a higher clarity with more HP etc.) How close comparably was your damage with a shield and Breath of the Council, compared to Pledge? Is it a large difference, or minor? Some people may wish to prioritize shield usage / have a nice es shield (although I did see in your write-up that you gain a very large amount of ES from Mana... again, can you show your mana totals?) Good guide though, adding it to the list. Cheers Hot Flashes: poeurl.com/bPZT
Balance: poeurl.com/btzp Shocking EleHit: poeurl.com/bZXo |
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hey
1) vitality raises the ES regen from effective 9,3% to 10,5%. it's a matter of taste. After dropping the node Growth and Decay it didn't felt right to me to also drop vitality or any more regen nodes. but yes for very situational cases you could swap out vitality for another aura which fits better. 2) enhanced the mikelat calculator with values. right now it's " 3) i did the math for pledge vs breath of the council (BotC)+100% spell crit ES shield. will add it to the guide
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Results: i take 15% chaos res values from uber atziri. also i don't think it's intelligent to show DPS numbers in poison builds, the real value lies in Hit DPS+Full Poison Duration Dmg (let's call it true dmg) Pledge of Hands 7L (with 155% Spell dmg): 1,8M Redbeak without Culling Strike + Rathpith Globe (60%): 1,5M (-17%) Redbeak with Culling Strike + Rathpith Globe (60%): 1,6M (-1%) Redbeak with Culling Strike + 100% Crit rare ES Shield: 1,6M (-4%) [<- hey this looks good lol] Redbeak with Culling Strike + rare ES Shield: 1,6M (-12%) Breath of the Council (80% Chaos Dmg) + Rathpith Globe (60%): (-19%) Breath of the Council (80% Chaos Dmg) + 100% Crit rare ES Shield: 1,4M (-23%) Breath of the Council (80% Chaos Dmg) + rare ES Shield: 1,3M (-29%) ES values Pledge of Hands: 9,261 Rathpith Globe: 9,695 (+4%) 400 ES Shield: 10,566 (+12%) 521 ES Shield: 11,117 (+17%) Summary: In my opinion a great way to go for a shield is redbeak with culling strike and 100% Crit rare ES Shield. 400 ES can be enough. without culling strike you lose around 16% true damage and it's not worth it anymore. the benefits from BotC will be higher. redbeak is cheap af tho. probably even with culling strike, only linking and coloring will require a service or lvl8 vorici if you have him ^^ ~please note that rathpith globe increases your eHP vs spells A LOT. so it's a viable option vs much casting for example in vaals/atziri fight~ cheers ^^ |
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Redbeak eh?
Would you consider This? p.s. just for fun, I moved around some of your auras, and pretended as if you had the 14% reservation reduction from Sovereignty to squeeze in an extra aura. It also requires that you move some junk around, but the extra aura + the phys reduction and life regen extra might be something to think about. It also means you get an additional 10% to aura effectiveness, for a total of 20%. With a purity at maximum level, that's *almost* an extra 1% elemental resistance. If you also take the 6% node, then you reach the 25% requirement and get it. Just food for thought. Hot Flashes: poeurl.com/bPZT Balance: poeurl.com/btzp Shocking EleHit: poeurl.com/bZXo Last edited by Kwitch#7864 on Jan 29, 2017, 5:51:18 AM
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in your aura setup you have zero mana left for spellcasting. this won't work.
i would recommend at least 100 mana. everything below 150 feels really clunky. ------ yea man remember redbeak is 100% increased raw damage, so it double dips with poison. it's huge and completely underestimated ephemeral edge is not bad with culling strike. lets say with ES shield (100% crit) you will hit 1,2M true damage but compared to other options it's still a huge loss of damage. i would only pick it up when you can drop many ES nodes from tree to reinvest into damage, but this will result in not needing to pick up the weapon at all lol, and in the end you will just loose 10% max life :-P Last edited by airparisderjesus#0654 on Jan 29, 2017, 10:32:51 AM
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Where do you get power charges?
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orb of storms + power charges on critical strike for minor dmg boost, needs 2 free blue sockets tho
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thanks for this build, im relative new.. but all other builds ive tried are so mindless borring 1-2 button build... awww!
but this require a few more buttons and whatnot.. abit expensive but its so fun!! thanks! :D |
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