[3.12] Solo Aurastack Guardian - 70m sDPS with ~90k ehp (3.13 manifesto addressed)

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Snellious wrote:

cast speed is the 3rd best I think, after spell double damage and explode :)

I have tested a lot of weapons on trade on POB the most efficient one was cast speed, the higher ones give just very little over it but with enormous investment. i havent tested explode lol the price wasnt encouraging.


Why gloves with elemental weakness on hit corruption doesnt give that much increase to damage, are we close to some kind of threshold or something which caps damage penetration?

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iamDoudar wrote:

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Snellious wrote:

cast speed is the 3rd best I think, after spell double damage and explode :)

I have tested a lot of weapons on trade on POB the most efficient one was cast speed, the higher ones give just very little over it but with enormous investment. i havent tested explode lol the price wasnt encouraging.


Why gloves with elemental weakness on hit corruption doesnt give that much increase to damage, are we close to some kind of threshold or something which caps damage penetration?

Explode shows nothing on POB, its about clear speed (and more wanted on EK).

Curse on hit corruption is a level one cure with 40-48% increased effect, so in the case of Elemental Weakness its 28-29% reduced elemental resistances...

Awakened Cold Pen is 43%... Divergent Purity of Ice/Elements is 4% (8% with a level 4 enhance, 10% if level 4 enhance and +6% quality (from gear/corruption)) x aura effect, so with 300% increased aura effect you have 16-40% pen per. You can get in excess of 400% increased effect though its hard without being a scion.

On my POB, I have 61.7m shaper dps with no corruption, 63.1m with 10% cast speed corruption and 64.7m shaper dps with 48% inc effect ele weakness... and 70.2m shaper dps with 10% cast speed corruption and level 23 frostbite (47% reduced cold resistance, selfcast) though I rarely use it.

so 10% cast speed is 2.2% more dps and ele weak on hit is 4.8% more damage... at this point thats a sizable upgrade.

https://pastebin.com/6vTD88Zw this is my current version and i feel weak still got killed easyly dont know what to do. it's my first time playing this kind of build

i dont know what am i doing wrong, but i have all the items, and all the gems like in the build(mid build) but i have only 89% res. And i had troubles with mana reserved, when changed my neck on the Chayula's one. Can you, please, help me? https://pastebin.com/fzv7zNLH thats my PoB. P.S. Sorry for my English, not main language :D

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Ruin55 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/6vTD88Zw this is my current version and i feel weak still got killed easyly dont know what to do. it's my first time playing this kind of build

4m shaper dps, 90% elemental res, 90 pdr..

For more Tank you need to cap chaos resist and increase your ES total..

For more damage id look towards your flasks and gem levels. Atziri's Promise is 17% more damage, A 21/20 Spark is 13% more damage.

You have more than enough aura effect for your purities to not be in your helmet (one they are level 20). Getting smite, discipline, haste and something in the helm is 10% more damage (and 200 extra es)... there is plenty of damage to be had. Though I found arc to feel better than spark but thats my experience.

Work to getting all your auras and supports to 20 (and as many as you can to 21 starting with your spark)...

Improving your ES total is much more difficult, a higher level discipline helps (I had a 25 in a +2 corrupted alphas), Unnatural instincts by Melding helps... I have taken the Insightfulness wheel too. All of that would get you to 4257 ES... better but still not a lot.

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Messiah0001 wrote:

i dont know what am i doing wrong, but i have all the items, and all the gems like in the build(mid build) but i have only 89% res. And i had troubles with mana reserved, when changed my neck on the Chayula's one. Can you, please, help me? https://pastebin.com/fzv7zNLH thats my PoB. P.S. Sorry for my English, not main language :D

Your POB will have 90% elemental resists once you allocate your last medium cluster (your current POB is only 2% increased aura effect short of the required breakpoint). You need 275% increased aura effect for level 20 purities to provide 90% resistances.

You only have 1 1% RMR corruption on your jewels, you need more to more easily fit all your auras but they fit reguardless (while being a lower level)

Your Empower is taking a lot of mana too, while it improves your ES, ES regen and DPS it makes it harder to fit.

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Snellious wrote:

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Ruin55 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/6vTD88Zw this is my current version and i feel weak still got killed easyly dont know what to do. it's my first time playing this kind of build

4m shaper dps, 90% elemental res, 90 pdr..

For more Tank you need to cap chaos resist and increase your ES total..

For more damage id look towards your flasks and gem levels. Atziri's Promise is 17% more damage, A 21/20 Spark is 13% more damage.

You have more than enough aura effect for your purities to not be in your helmet (one they are level 20). Getting smite, discipline, haste and something in the helm is 10% more damage (and 200 extra es)... there is plenty of damage to be had. Though I found arc to feel better than spark but thats my experience.

Work to getting all your auras and supports to 20 (and as many as you can to 21 starting with your spark)...

Improving your ES total is much more difficult, a higher level discipline helps (I had a 25 in a +2 corrupted alphas), Unnatural instincts by Melding helps... I have taken the Insightfulness wheel too. All of that would get you to 4257 ES... better but still not a lot.

thanks a lot i try to make all changes u mention

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Ruin55 wrote:

thanks a lot i try to make all changes u mention

Start with getting level 20 gems as it isn't expensive, 21/0 auras are also cheap and quality is aura aoe (on base gems) so not needed.

Hi,

first of all, thanks for creating this guide! I always wanted to play an aurastacker and this league I finally had the currency to give it a try.

I respecced from aurabot to this build at lvl 99 and unfortunately my char feels kinda "weak" (please dont get me wrong here), in terms of damage and survivability. Maybe i expected too much here with that investment (250ex+)

If im correct, Pob says ~12mio dps. I have 4.8k Es and chaos res is not maxed out. I guess thats why i die from time to time. With all auras active, i have enough mana to cast all the time.

Could you please have a look into my pob / character? Maybe you can help
identifying mistakes or things to improve.

personally i would try to get:
- a bottle faith
- call of brotherhood with frostbite
- choas res max
- gems to lvl 21.


Questions:
- Why do we skill arcane vision?
- Do you have RF activated all the time or just use vaal RF while boss fights / hard encounters?

My Pob: https://pastebin.com/Dn28iZbU
Character should also be open

Thank you so much in advance.

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Tismatan wrote:

Hi,

first of all, thanks for creating this guide! I always wanted to play an aurastacker and this league I finally had the currency to give it a try.

I respecced from aurabot to this build at lvl 99 and unfortunately my char feels kinda "weak" (please dont get me wrong here), in terms of damage and survivability. Maybe i expected too much here with that investment (250ex+)

If im correct, Pob says ~12mio dps. I have 4.8k Es and chaos res is not maxed out. I guess thats why i die from time to time. With all auras active, i have enough mana to cast all the time.

Could you please have a look into my pob / character? Maybe you can help
identifying mistakes or things to improve.

personally i would try to get:
- a bottle faith
- call of brotherhood with frostbite
- choas res max
- gems to lvl 21.


Questions:
- Why do we skill arcane vision?
- Do you have RF activated all the time or just use vaal RF while boss fights / hard encounters?

My Pob: https://pastebin.com/Dn28iZbU
Character should also be open

Thank you so much in advance.

I see no major mistakes, your POB seems solid...

Small things to point out are Divergent Vitality does nothing (we aren't at full life but CI is) but we are often at full ES (even with RF degen) for Anomalous Discipline.

The other minor issue is determination, swap determination for grace (and the uncompromising cluster for a sublime form cluster) as you have 90% pdr in POB with just unwavering faith, endurance charges and what little armour from radiant faith.

For your questions:
Arcane vison isnt needed, its just QOL as low life have zero light radius without so in dark maps its rather hard to see...
RF is on all the time with the exception of -fire res or -regen map mods with high woke bonus.

Your potential upgrades are solid though selfcast frostbite is for poeninja/POB warriors... you wont use it much in the actual game.

Level 21 auras are important, and you have a lot of the important ones already... you also have a lot of the good corruptions...

I guess what would be more helpful is identifying the differences between your POB and my current POB... Biggest Differences are Awakened Support Gems, Aspect of the Spider and Enhanced Alt Qual Auras...