[3.6 Video Guide] Beginner's Guide SRS Baron Life [HC/SC/Atziri/Uber Izaro/Shaper Viable]

Gloves or belt? I am not sure which one to have in build

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Autkast wrote:

I run hatred and anger, should I switch anger to haste?

Definitely use haste instead of anger. It helps immensely with your cast speed and movement speed and obviously also boosts the spirits.

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Avocadoe wrote:

Can anyone provide a quick walkthrough on crafting a basic staff? I made a 6L with dark mage and have been using that for low tier maps, but would like to work on getting a better weapon.

1) Create 6L with Dark Mage
2) Orb of Trasmutation and then spam Orb of Alteration until I get +2 Fire Gem Levels?
3) Regal and pray for cast speed?

My first +2 fire gem roll also had a suffix on it that wasn't cast speed - should I keep rerolling? Or just regal at this point to gamble on the cast speed?

If you are feeling lucky you can try the cast speed, otherwise just roll +2 and blood magic and call it a day. Cast speed and +2 together is pretty rare so you might spend a lot before getting it. I got a staff which is +2 and 22 cast speed. It is very nice but you still get enough cast speed trough flesh offering and haste even without the cast speed roll on the staff and so its not completely necessary. I would not spend a lot of alts trying to craft +2 with cast speed.

The next step is to save ~6 ex + 60c crafting fee for mastercrafting service if you don't have lvl 8 masters and craft +3 staff with multiple mods that will be strength + cast speed.

In that sense it is not wise to invest too much into a +2 staff with cast speed as it would eventually be replaced with the BIS staff which is +3 with cast speed and strength.

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Gentso wrote:

How many chaos is an exalt worth? I actually had an exalted orb drop for me and I got a feeling I'm still not even close to affording the helmet.

poe.trade => top right corner "Currency Market" :)

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Nadasdy wrote:

I tend to see very few masters when I run maps so no idea if I will ever get Cat/Vagan to level 8 anytime this year, would it be best to just buy a +2 6L staff with Bloodmagic crafted on it? Costs about 75c+.

Type:
/global 820 => The usual master trading channel in poe, some people there should have it by now, rotations of daily quests is done through that channel as well :)

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hoornst3 wrote:

Meanwhile - Just farming along at the docks still. Burned through a few hundred more. I'm closing in around 400 chanced so far. No luck. Anyone have luck chancing this thing? What happened to that 1/50 metric we heard of?

I'm getting more and more information on the ammount of chance orbs used and it does seem more and more obvious that they actually did increase the rarity (tier) of the Baron. The build works very well without it, can simply use a Bone Helmet for increased minion dmg and it will still clear everything in the game.

Even Karvarousky did Shaper with this type of build not having Baron. RaizQT is right now in the lead in SSF league not having the Baron at lvl 98.

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Doomfairy wrote:

Are there any chest uniques that would work well with this build? I'm just looking for options.

Depends on your socket plan, Belly / Kaoms works but I would recommend a rare tbh.

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Tobi123Tobs wrote:

Hey there ;)

sorry... 42 pages tooooo much to read....

so 2 questions about this build:

1. In the video I can only see Haste + Clarity running!? In the guide Hatrad is mentioned too!? So main goal is Haste + Hatred + Clarity lvl 1 ?? Haste + Hatred combined with generosity!? Or which combi? :)

2. Wouldnt KAOMS HEART be a great armour for that build?

TY for your hopefully helpful replies ;)

Understandable! I have 4-8 pages a day to respond to >.<

1) Hatred doesn't show up due to Generosity being used, that's why it doesn't show up! :)

2) It IS a great armour but you'll have to plan your sockets for it to work!

I try to respond to everything despite lacking the time!

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Marchosiae wrote:

This build seens great, but with the baron price, its inviable, not even near beginner friendly.
Sadly I will have to give up and make another one...

The build works stupidly great without the Baron as mentioned in a response further up in this post and many other posts before that. And yes, it is still very beginner friendly! :)

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Rocksteadee wrote:

Yeah the build is great for beginners. +1 wand into +1 helm into +2 helm into +2 bone helm is perfectly fine to get decently into maps. Brightbeak+Victario's Charity+Necromantic Aegis is also super fun. I'm actually kind of sad that I'll (hopefully) be getting rid of it soon.

I assume the best upgrade to get first would be a 6L +2/BM staff. I'm not sure if I'm reading this right but would a dark mage staff be fine for this? That seems really cheap for a 6 link to me for some reason. Can BM be crafted on a Dark Mage staff?

Dark Mage would be very fine aye, though due to the Annulement orbs a Mace is easier to hit +3 with later on :)

BM can be crafted on Staves & Maces.

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BearMauling wrote:

How does the +3 weapon compare to a scourge+shield? I saw something about more dps but couldnt achieve it. It was 1k less dps/spirit unless i used NA + Lycsidodae which loses a lot of life and defense that the new shield mods give. But that seems like too much point investment despite the huge accuracy dps increase of around 20k a spirit or more (with some damage instead of hp cause i play soft ore).

Vics Charity > lyco = for clear speed.
+2/+3 will increase damage done significantly and just run smoother in a 6L. As the NA approach is only done via a 4L the difference should be huge.

Lyco is nice for damage but you lose charges which drops your clear speed.

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Norse wrote:

Whats so good with brightbeak for srs? I cant see it in the stats.

Some nice extra resistances and INSANE atk speed increase for shield charging! :D

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Norse wrote:

I see thx for explaining, is a 6l staff more powerful than using the victario charity shield as im doing right now?

It is a LOT stronger :)

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chancer wrote:

Here is my almost finished gear setup if anyone needs it as a reference. The only thing left is +3 staff:

One thing I got setup and can recommend as an option is CWDT + enfeeble + immortal call + arc. Arc chains 4 times and constantly triggers EE so helps with clear speed. I do not consider ball lightning with gmp to be good - no time to cast it during fast paced mapping and also takes too many gem slots to setup.

Use vaal trap for bosses and general map clearing, it charges fast and stores up to 3 charges - very very useful gem.

Also, The Magnate seems to be very good option to help with clear speed. You can run onslaught, basalt and quicksilver flasks and they are full 99% of the time.

Finally, Ghazzy recommends to use quicksilver flask of heat for the freezes. Obviously this is mainly for strongboxes, but if you just summon 10 raging spirits before opening the strongbox, which takes no time with the proper cast speed setup, and open the box everything dies instantly so it's actually pretty safe. Instead of a "of Heat" quicksilver I run "of Adrenaline"- helps immensely for clear speed. Lvl 88 so far and no deaths due to freezes so I think the small risk is worth it :P

Final thoughts: Build is very easy to level up, there is a bit of bumpy ride at some point if you cannot afford the 6L staff and the baron but when you do the build just rips trough content so good. Very happy with it overall, very safe build and extremely good clear speed with strong boss killing capabilities.

Thanks for the guide, Ghazzy!

Glad you like it that much bro <3

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Inferius90 wrote:

We can say price is dropping when it goes down to 50c

+1

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Nassavas wrote:

I want you to know, i have only played POE on and off for years, but this SRS build is by far the most fun i have ever had. Im working on trying to fine tune my gear currently. im struggling with dex requirement and my resist are all about 2-10 above cap, so little room to move things around. I have never gotten this far in the game nor have i had a character as decked out as this guy.

I was reading some people saying SRS builds can get like 1k Str. which im no where near.

Is my current setup, my weakest part are gems. Most are +str/dex/life.

I am sitting at like 520 str with 6.5k hp. feels pretty tanky.

thinking ill replace the str enchant from my gloves to dex and take a +30 dex node from the passive tree to allow me to replace my gems with minion damage/life and maybe str/resist/dex. sadly those all cost like 60-80c. Might replace my boots, but im enjoying the IIQ. nd even with them i still clear maps 10-12 in 5-6 minutes.

i just wanted to say thank you for this build. And your right baron is not needed for this build to be viable. i was clearing maps easily without it. Only done maps up to 11/12 because im actually terrible at the game, zone out and die to stupid shit. and have been filling out the atlas in order. Altho i did do uber lab with 0 problem. Which is the first time in my life i have done uber lab.

Awesome to hear bro!
Glad it's working out great for you :)

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Giammafix wrote:

how do you sustain your life during long fights like the guardians, shaper and uber atziri? any sort of leech or similar?

Life regen & flasks, generally you shouldn't be hit!

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Oxudes wrote:

A question of my own: How hard is it to farm uber atziri with SRS? Never done it before (just normal)

It works great, I recommend having VLT for the clone phases (dont hit the mirror), bring a Vaal Grace just in case, it helps a lot tbh.

Position is key for success, trio-boss can be messy, make sure to have decoys and get the titty bitch down first.

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Giammafix wrote:

how do you deal vs no regen mods with blood magic?

Doable but risky, you have to use flasks but generally I would avoid it.

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rafoxds wrote:

Could someone share or write which gems should be in which items?

Will add more information about this in the gear section. Give me like 30min

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Nassavas wrote:

What is the general opinion of using THe Magnate studded belt vs the biscos?

And astramentis vs biscos gold necklace. What is the opinion on that?

Im loving my biscos gold necklace, managing to farm 150c a day or so. Clear speed is 5-7 mins depending on map, but the pure stats on the astramentis look pretty sick.

I am terrible at maintaining rapage stacks, ill normally get like 100. Sometimes i can get a good chain going but its rare. So i feel like im missing out on its real potential.

Bisco's Leash is a lazy way of starting Rampage compared to weapon swapping Dancing Dervish. Far from mandatory as you can get rampage via weapon swap and use what ever belt feels best for you.

Astramentis gives more damage & life obviously though Bisco's Collar gives insane ammount of currency drops and can help a lot in achieving the currency for a Baron helmet.

In linear maps you shouldn't have a problem maintaining the stacks and if you feel you don't utilize it fully then keep the belt tbh.

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Slandsj1o wrote:

Okay. This is my first SRS build. Tried to follow this guide. Still there must something really out of sync. What would you suggest I should upgrade next?

Don't laugh at ES craft. Please?
Resistances are capped with Commander of Darkness
Life is 6.3k with Efficient Training
SRS has +23% cast speed without Haste.

Grip of the Council / Astramentis vs Bisco's Collar would be my first 2 things to look for.

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Vallenhael wrote:

Behold, true beauty!

Jokes aside, my question is, what gem would you want to use for melee splash on t14+ bosses provided you have +3 empower?

I am unsure between multistrike and elemental damage with attacks.

Elemental damage with attacks, without a doubt.

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Soulread wrote:

Thanks for the guide. It's helped me a lot.

This is probably a stupid question, but guide says to have both Hatred and Haste auras. They're each 50% mana reserved, so how do you use both at the same time? Or is it just to have different options (but it seems like you'd almost always want Hatred up, especially because of EE)

Glad you like it bro!
The mana reservation reductions from the tree makes it possible!

Hatred is with or without other stuffs the best damage providing aura for almost all minions in the game :)

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Autkast wrote:

I run hatred and anger, should I switch anger to haste?

Without a doubt.

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Avocadoe wrote:

Can anyone provide a quick walkthrough on crafting a basic staff? I made a 6L with dark mage and have been using that for low tier maps, but would like to work on getting a better weapon.

1) Create 6L with Dark Mage
2) Orb of Trasmutation and then spam Orb of Alteration until I get +2 Fire Gem Levels?
3) Regal and pray for cast speed?

My first +2 fire gem roll also had a suffix on it that wasn't cast speed - should I keep rerolling? Or just regal at this point to gamble on the cast speed?

Pretty much what you wrote.
Cast speed isn't super mandatory the BM craft is more important :)

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Autkast wrote:

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Imurgod wrote:

noob question, how elemental equilibrium works? just cast ball of lightening anytime during the fight or need to be specific like b4 srs hits, what gears mod to avoid to fkd up the elemental equilibrium proc. thx

Just do any lightning damage and it'll make them weak to cold/fire. I use orb of storms and that's also how I apply my dual curses.

More specific question, will elemental equilibrium procs in good way with ball of lightning if my srs hit them first already? what happens if I have some lightning damage on gears? what happens if I have lightning and cold and fire damage on gears? how elemental equilibrium works exactly?

Watch the Generic Summoner Mechanic Guide listed in the guide :)
Minions don't proc EE, summoner builds in PoE is the most complex genre of builds!

Though, if you have cold or fire damage to spell and you proc EE they will get increased resistance vs all elements you hit the enemies with, and dropped res of the elements you didn't hit with.

[noob question]
There are 19 jems (except 6 gems about SRS)

also, if i use one optional gem (vaal lightning trap), I should use 20 jems, right?

How can I do that?

Are there any extra gem slots?

head - 4
body - 6
hand - 4
foot - 4
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I only have 18 gem slots.

Do I have to use 2 unset rings?

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Ghazzy wrote:

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Giammafix wrote:

how do you deal vs no regen mods with blood magic?

Doable but risky, you have to use flasks but generally I would avoid it.

thanks for the answer ghazzy!
and what do you think about Karvarousku skill tree? it's a bit different in some points, focuses more on dexterity and skill duration.
could I follow that version too?

=2hello thie my first play through and im really enjoying the build.

im pretty decked out the last upgrade im trying to get is a 6l +1 gems +2 fire gems





what would be the easyest way to craft a +1 +2

ur missing the 6l weapon

I have a question on the gems. Im using a POE builder, and its showing that i do more damage with elemental damage to attacks instead of empower.

Did i do something wrong? Should empower add dmg? and roughly how much damage should it add over Elemental dmg to attacks? Is it worth the 70-100c required?

Running this build with some very minor changes due to not having the Baron (I've taken some more minion damage nodes). I've breezed through right up to red maps as a league starter. Just upgraded to a +3 gems blood magic maul (2ex + 50c to craft it, much cheaper than a +3 staff) and am destroying red maps at just Lv89. Baron is the next upgrade but this build has great clear speed and bossing even without it.

Thanks for the guide, Ghazzy.

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Nassavas wrote:

I have a question on the gems. Im using a POE builder, and its showing that i do more damage with elemental damage to attacks instead of empower.

Did i do something wrong? Should empower add dmg? and roughly how much damage should it add over Elemental dmg to attacks? Is it worth the 70-100c required?

Empower beats out Elemental Damage with Attacks only in a +3 staff/maul, unless you have an Empower 4 (in which case it is always superior). This is because the +1 to socketed gems applies to Empower, giving a further +1 to SRS. The difference isn't enormous so it's a very low priority investment.