[3.0] BLIGHT PACT | Guardians+Shaper+UberAtz Down on a 4l! Budget To Not So Budget | Starter Build

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barickus wrote:

Hi, can you look at my gear / stats and give me some advice what to improve? I have trouble with guardians, i cannot facetank them, dodging most of their skills but yet i´m just one shot for all of them. I´m able to take them down to 30-40% most of the time.

Here are my def stats:

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Thanks, cheers.

Hi there!

I'm sorry to hear that you're facing some difficulties with guardians. With a kaom's you probably should not have any problems with guardians.

Taken a look at your tree, and I do see a few problems with it. The most noticeable one is that you had placed a spreading rot jewel in the wrong place (near vaal pact). Since there aren't 40 int in the radius of the jewel, it simply doesn't work. You should swap with the jewel in the northern jewel socket.

Another thing I would like to point out is a jewel socket that is unallocated near the scion life wheel.
The most basic stats that a jewel can provide is 5% life and 12% spell damage, which is more than what most nodes can provide. Especially at lvl 89, another passive point is not gonna come easily so I would recommend that you respec the last node in the "revenge of the hunted" cluster, which is to the right of VP. 4% life is nothing compared to what a jewel can provide.


Next, looking at your defences tab, I see that you do not have your resists capped. This is especially dangerous for guardians since hydra deals cold damage, minotaur deals lightning and phoenix deals fire damage. Assuming that gear is not gonna be easy to swap around with; I'd recommend you change one of your jewels that provides life mana and spell damage to another that provides life/dmg/resists. You could also make use of that extra jewel slot to cap your resists.

The last minor point I have with regards to your gear is to roll your flasks properly. The suffixes on your eternal flask and your stibnite flasks have no effect on our builds; we can't evade and we can't get chilled nor frozen. Poison is also relatively of a non-issue as well due to our karui flask that provides so much life recovery. Basalt flasks are absolutely core to our survival due to our low secondary defences, and since it consumes 40/60 charges per use, try to roll charge reduction on it

so it doubles the uptime of it from 4.5secs to 9.

As for the other flask suffixes, warding(curse removal), iron skin(% inc armour), grounding(shock removal) and even another staunching(bleed removal) are the ones to look out for. I even have a resistance(+% to all resistances) for those ele weakness maps.

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Now I would like to move on to the guardian fights. First things first, never roll ele weakness maps. Since youre far from eleweakness capped, guardians (except chimera) will absolutely wreck you. Also, no leech guardian maps are also a no go.

I've farmed more than 60 guardian maps this league with this character so I would just share some of my insights on the dos and don'ts when facing them.

Chimera: Probably the easily bosses for the build by virtue of the karui flask. Almost every hit except the round red circle will deal a savage hit so no problems there.
Red Circle: Chimera will deal a volley of fast but low damage hitting strikes which does not proc savage hit(at least in my case). Most of the time I do face tank it, especially when my cloaked in savagery is still up. However, if there are extra map mods like vuln, extra boss damage or added damage, its best to avoid it. Whirl out of the circle, wait for the animation and then go back to dpsing chimera again.
Smoke phase: This is why you wanna roll reduced charges on your basalt. When he goes into this phase, press your karui and basalt flasks, whirl around the smoke clouds to find chimera. If both flasks are up, you will never die to chimera in this phase. Another note, he always goes into this phase after summoning his minions so you can prepare for that.

Hydra: The only thing he does that can kill you is the barrage. The rest of his attacks cannot oneshot and deals savage hits. But sometimes it can be hard to determine which attack he will use based on the animation. Hence I usually whirl past him during his attack animation. Also, do keep cursing bosses with temp chains, it really makes the fight easier. the frostbolts that spawn within the boss arena are a surefire way to proc CiS. Try to get hit by them every 4 seconds. Hydra is a boss I do not usually facetank and hence its always the longest boss fight.

Minotaur: I would say he is the hardest boss with multiple damage map mods. Vuln, added damage, boss damage together will make his attacks frequently oneshot you.
Slam: He does a slam that is largely tankable but creates an area whereby rocks fall. Minotaur has very slow attack speed, moreso with temp chains so standing in the falling rocks should be okay. But if you have onslaught/damage mods on the map, whirl out of the area. Another reason that youre dying could be when you're placing your wither totem. Try to get a 20q spell totem which increases your totem placement speed. It might help with your survival.
Lastly, never stand in the lightning. It will shock you and cause you to take 50% more damage.

Phoenix: Relatively simple fight. As the battle goes on, he will remove more of your fire resists and spawn more birds. He does 2 main attacks; a spin and an explosion. Both have distinct animations and are easy to avoid. Whirl out of the way and back to continue to channel. At low health, he will spawn a lot of birds and decrease a lot your fire resists. Quickly kill the birds when you can. If all the birds attack at the same time, they can kill you.

Thats all I have for the guardians. Let me know if you have any other troubles!

Thanks for the exhaustive answer! And in addition guides for guardians <3

I'll try to fix everything you've written and hopefuly i´ll move further.
I´m kinda newbie but want to say your build is awesome, love it.

Keep doing this awesome job ;)

@OP
In your gear section you are writing:

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Fingers crossed for that +2 barrage enchant soon!

Can you explain that? You don't use barrage, or did I miss something?

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Necronos777 wrote:

@OP
In your gear section you are writing:

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Fingers crossed for that +2 barrage enchant soon!

Can you explain that? You don't use barrage, or did I miss something?

Well it's worth a lot! So I was hoping to get it and sell it off!

Thanks for the build it has been a blast hopefully ill be able to hit 9k health soon enough. Ive done every map up to T15 and its been a pretty smooth ride with just a few bumps but Ill put it up to my lack of experience. Hopefully Ill keep being able to improve upon mine to hit the optimal build thanks for everything.

Just got my gg enchant after 30 lab runs.

On a side note, what helmet are you farming the barrage enchant on? I am planning on doing the same thing since I still have to do 70 more runs for the endgame grind challenge. After looking at poe.trade my guess is rat's nest should be the best/most expensive?

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KillerAlfa wrote:

Just got my gg enchant after 30 lab runs.

On a side note, what helmet are you farming the barrage enchant on? I am planning on doing the same thing since I still have to do 70 more runs for the endgame grind challenge. After looking at poe.trade my guess is rat's nest should be the best/most expensive?

Grats on that sweet enchant! The tempest's binding is the best base for +2 barrage!

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Rawr69 wrote:

Thanks for the build it has been a blast hopefully ill be able to hit 9k health soon enough. Ive done every map up to T15 and its been a pretty smooth ride with just a few bumps but Ill put it up to my lack of experience. Hopefully Ill keep being able to improve upon mine to hit the optimal build thanks for everything.

My pleasure!

Hi there Lumosnoxlumo,

I'm trying your build and have just reached level 69. I did give it a try and keep dying from getting damaged every after pack... this is with trash mobs as well.

What i'm doing is whirling to the pack of mobs.. drop a totem then hold down blight until all the mobs are dead. Half the time, all the mobs die after i use blight but other times.. they die and my hp goes lower a bit until i get overwhelmed.

My max hp is around 5k now so maybe it's a bit low?

Would appreciate your thoughts on my current gear and setup.

thanks and regards!

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obonut wrote:

What i'm doing is whirling to the pack of mobs.. drop a totem then hold down blight until all the mobs are dead. Half
Would appreciate your thoughts on my current gear and setup.

You have your character tab set to private so we can't see your gear. But 5k is indeed super low and my first guess is that you are lacking kaom's heart which you should get asap.