FYI - The PoB doesn't contain the Wildwood ascendancies and Maxroll shows the Wildwood "Uber Lab" the same as "Cruel Lab". Basically - it's missing 4 points.
A number of people have DM'd me that they're not seeing their comments. My assumption is that, due to the uncommonly high traffic, the YT auto-moderator is slow processing them, I have no control over this. Anyway, thanks for enjoying the guide!
@fantasygym9114 not a leaguestart option but once you reach yellow to red maps, do vorici calculator till you get atleast 4 off colors, then do vorici syndicate craft hoping to hit the greens, if u dont, then the most budget thing to do is swap gems to alternatives
Very helpful guide, always nice from someone who knows what they're talking about, because half the people who put up guides on youtube strike me as just clueless.
I've had PoE for a while, tried it but didn't get very far whatsoever, I'm more of a D3 player but honestly how noobie friendly and well explained the guide is it's made me redownload PoE! Thank you!
Guys, don't be like me, you don't have to buy all the items again if you remove the animate guardian gem from an item. Just recast the spell on nothing and Bob will be back.
This also means if you are doing content where your AG is likely to die (like TOTA), you can unsocket your AG to ensure it doesnt get killed, and resummon when it is safe.
Another consideration for players in the endgame when deciding on Grace or determ could be mods available on watcher's eye jewels as well. some more PDR for determ or MS for grace.
I really like how organized you are in presentation. I never thought of trying SRS but it feels like now is a good time to try a summoner build. I'm going to watch all your dailies now on how this is in Affliction in case there are some changes to consider before I get started. I've been playing Standard league for the last month to get familiar with the 'new' PoE after many years away from it. It has been a bit overwhelming but I finally feel like I have some appreciation for all the new mechanics... well, most of them? KUTGW and thank you.
Really good to see the SRS Guardian you've been teasing for a while. I was originally planning to do RF Inquisitor before the patch notes came out. Maybe this will save me a rough league start. Keep up the great work dude!
i last played your Bane+ED build a number of leagues back & i was able to take it further than I'd ever gotten (killed a couple ubers)....this build is probably what i will play for 3.23. thank you for putting in the time to make this fantastic guide
very interesting and very well explained video my friend just got me into poe today so this is the first build and character I am going to make... Thank You for this very informative video!
I couldn't get into last league but I am hyped for this league and your guide is amazing. It covers everything and it was really engaging. I think I am league starting with this build
Im a totally new player to Poe and this playstyle looks fun so i will try it out!! Thank you for all the content and i hope i manage to muster this build.
About the Animate Guardian transfigure, wait until more information to be sure if it will be better, because if you read carefully, its not an Animate Guardian that cast Smite, its an Animate Guardian that cast Smite of "Divine Judgment", and we dont know what that does, or at least i havent seen it anywhere
Great video! Small correction, the AG with smite will NOT do the aoe increase t lightning damage, this was confirmed by sirogg and we can see in the video there is no aura. It is a regular smite but no debuff.
The online guide is great, but isn't it waiting for an update? At some point you're changing skills, though I don't understand when that's supposed to happen..ie Shield Charge instead of Leap Slam, Vaal Molten Shell, Vaal Haste. These are very vaguely mentioned in Build Scaling and Mechanics, but no clue as to when you're supposed to transition.
This is a great second build for me after Poison SRS. TBH i should of done this first but oh well that is the fun in this game. Thank you again for the grind you put into this.
Hi, not sure if you'll see this but I think there are some discrepancies between the maxroll guide and the POB that I'd like clarification on. On the maxroll progression tab it says to use vaal molten shell but on the POB it just lists regular molten shell, does that mean regular molten shell will work but to swap to vaal molten shell when you find it? The other thing is that the endgame passive tree setups have slightly different setups between both the final setup/final cluster setup on POB versus the one in progression tab on maxroll. IE minion offence mastery on maxroll has 3 allocations (unholy might, +accuracy, and 20% offerings) while on POB it has 4 allocations (area of effect, +accuracy, 20% offerings and penetrate elemental resistances), different life mastery allocations and curse mastery as well as some other minor differences in layout. It has me very conflicted on whether to follow maxroll or POE tree and I would greatly appreciate some help! Either way I've been enjoying the build a lot, this is my first time reaching towards endgame in POE so I'm still kind of overwhelmed but your build has helped breeze through the game so far!
Thanks for the starter build! Quick suggestion: The socket colors on the dex bases, especially gloves, boots and body hybrids, would probably a bit much to get right in a league start scenario. Some alternative gem links or bases would be appreciated. Can't wait to see what the new skills will be! Meta shakeup finally? I gotta say i am very surprised to see the sentinel of Radiance minion not nerfed like the ruthless variant, though I am not complaining :P
Tainted Chromatics will be your best friend! In fact, early league, you'll likely want to corrupt (can do it safely in Bestiary) and then use Tainted Fusings for a quick 6 link once the price comes down on them.
I've been playing SRS guard all league. Had alot of fun doing it. Its nice to see a different take on it. I like the proxy ring I didn't think about that. It solves some problems. You could also put a curse gloves on animate guardian. I used inpulsa+ gravebind, for big shock explosions during legion farming. It sucked without lol.
@@PeterLustig80 it is, but i'd say getting to really juiced maps it needs some highend investing. Especially on the defense side. As all you have is your health flask to stay alive. SRS do not tank the monsters for you.
I ran the Poison version in 3.21 and it does very well for mechanics with lots of medium-to-heavy HP monsters. Things like essences, beast farming, expedition, and 60% deli. Going up to super-juiced stuff like 100% deli is possible but takes more investment than its worth compared to other builds. If you want to do that kind of juicing then I'd league start this and make something else later. Or if you only want to level through the campaign once, you can league start EA Balista Champ, then respect to Champ Lightning SRS, which scales to the high-end a lot better.
I like what you did with gems. I struggled a lot to get ag and spectres into the build. Instead of your utility minions setup I had one unset ring and then precision, convocation and my moltenshell was on cwdt. Probably still makes much more sense early on where sentinel does all the heavy lifting but later on for sure I'll ditch convo, get a second unset and run ag and spectres And one more thing about sockets, for day 1-3 (aspecially ssf) I'd recommend people to focus on arm/es bases, because you're not going to have jewellers and chromes to do 3-4 offcolour on each piece
Can you please create a video showing how to craft the weapons / update the MaxRoll build with this info? Loving the build but I’m just starting out and would like guidance
Yep looking for something like that too. I'm completely new to PoE and don't even know how to get divines or anything. So I guess crafting would be more realistic to get some modifiers on specific gear. Maybe @subtractem can help us out :)
I love your guide! Thank you so much it is fun to play. I have 2 short questions: 1. Why 2 movement skills with Leap Slam AND Frostblink? 2. With Haste, Determination and Clarity I am not ably to activate Barkskin as well. Which Aura should I not use?
I like this build, but what would be a good farm strategy with it? The best ones would be sanctum and essence farming i guess? Ultimatum farming could be good too. Expedition is very good for the first few days and i think this build can handle it
FYI - Exposure via Elemental Army is not super reliable. If you're fighting an enemy with high Fire Res, fire won't be the highest damage type, so you'll never inflict exposure when you need it most. Even with balanced resists and scorch applied, it's still not guaranteed that fire will be the highest damage type. Hopefully he attacks fast enough to always apply it against Bosses, but something to keep in mind.
Thanks for the build, looking forward to the written guide on Maxroll, I don't mind video guides, but I prefer written ones much more! - (Grats, on joining the team!) Also looking forward to the havoc levelling video.
Is a Frostblink ignite build update going to come we can hope for? The scope of these videos is insane I wouldnt be able to comfortably update everything for league start without your knowledge )
So I used this guide...it was great until maps. What I ended up doing was changing some nodes on the tree and focusing on block/ss. It's way smoother now. Sure you lose insta-EW...but survivability gains are big. It could be how I was playing the build. This is my first minion since sentinel. Not taking additional minor dmg though gems seems kinda wasteful. A large cluster jewel and some ghastly gems. Good guide overall! Thanks for your hard work+
Hi Thanks for the guide :) 1. Your maxroll guide miss later/finished tree only provide level tree. 2. You swap to bone-ring later on but where are you gonna fit determination then. 3. Last thing you forgot in final tree or later to swap convocation mastery for perhaps min life on death. (since you drop the gem later)
The later tree can be found in the progression tab. I should call out that bone ring is optional and you'd have to drop a utility gem for that, I'll do that. I'm pretty sure convocation mastery is swapped in final tree. It is separate from the leveling tree.
I've not watched the Video yet, so I'm unsure if it's been addressed, but I'm looking at the PoB. It doesn't look like Path of Building is including the Relics from Unwavering Crusade, and I don't see you including those modifiers in your Configuration, so the DPS numbers appear lower than they actually will be. Adding in the below (stolen from Ghazzy) will help, I think: === Elemental Relic Ascendancy === Minions have 182-259 added fire damage Minions have 29% of physical damage added as cold damage Minions have 20% more cold damage Minions have 26-415 added lightning damage
Look in the party tab, you can configure PoB properly as if you have the auras from the minion as external party members. This will be more accurate for how you and your minions are affected.
Build in video differs a lot from pobb instructions. This is my first char ever in PoE. Got me so confused. Pobb has golem in wand. Here there are triggered skills... Pobb version isn't pretty one button at all I'm not complaining. Thanks for all the work. Great video and channel. Ty! ❤
I think I'll give it a try. I'm not sure with the minion playstyle but at least i could respec to RF or something else... Maybe I'm going to test it tomorrow. But as always: Nice guide, great explanations. Keep the good work up :)
Am I missing something? I've taken the nodes that reduce mana reserve amount, but I'm still not able to activate haste, clarity and determination at the same time. Do I just not have enough mana?
edit: I'm a moron, irrelevant comment. why not bone offering for the near block cap and life gain on block? Sounds like a much more well-rounded build, you can compensate for the loss of MS and attack speed with higher budget but the block is much harder to get in other ways / it's much more efficient to get block in this way than AS/MS. For easy content the extra attack speed and MS for shield charge can be pretty good I agree, but as an overall package spirit offering seems stronger no?
i played this as leaguestarter last league small tips for hc (if u want to be tanky) -> you dont need double curse, one curse (selfcast) is just fine, you dont need trigger wep, most of the time u have corpses to cast offering. you dont need skitterbots you can run grace AND determination + tempest shield, think u can even run defiance banner on top ? +haste/vaal haste on your "es" ofc. you can get up to 5.5-6.0k life easy on like lvl 90-92 or something, my gear was totally trash and i had almsot 6k with lvl 93, you can prolly push that to at least 6.5-7.0 or somehting on lvl 100 or close to 100. also i highly recommend to not use immortal call on left klick, also the spectre choise in this vid is questionable (specially for new players), maybe if u really want to play this you should watch some other guides on this too, not using chieftains, not even one .. i mean no comment ^^ area master has a small buff with alot of downtime and phale seraphim only makes ONE mob take more damage. (maybe its a super small aoe or somehting but its pretty much only a singel mob maybe 2-3 mobs at max) the 3 frenzy from chiefs is just the best u can use on this spec, there is no question about it. specially for mapping, since you get attack speed / movement speed from it too. legacy of fury on ag without gravebind is also kinda "questionable" again, also ambus charge ?? forgot the name but there is a armour that basicly makes him spamm consecrated ground on block with alot of chaos res (1alc unique btw) usually what ppl do if they wanna have 2 curses, they give the ag a item with +1 max curse and than use corrupted gloves with that scnd curse u want. ( so you get the scnd curse for bosses basicly for free with the small downside that you will sometimes remove his curse with your curse, since hes the one with 2 max curses not you. phazeplays made a really good generall guide for srs, maybe consider watching this too, to get a scnd option on things. because i personally think some stuff in this guide is not what i would recommend or do, its called: "[PoE 3.23] SRS DEEP DIVE: Guardian vs Poison vs Lightning"
Many of the choices that I made here are for making the build more comfortable for beginners that are playing Softcore Trade, though with a HCSSF angle. It seems like you watched the beginning gameplay and then skimmed the PoB without looking too closely at both because there are some mistakes here as well. - Melee Splash is in the PoB, it's even called out in the group label - Immortal Call was an experiment that I was using during the gameplay showcase (considering it next patch because it gets lots of CDR from quality), in the PoB I have Determ + Molten Shell. I mention this option in the video. - Re: Spectres, I've heard people say the same thing about Chieftans as you just said about Arena Master. Sounds like there isn't a consensus as to which is actually the best. In the Maxroll guide I recommend Chieftains early on since it's way easier to get.
@@subtractem hehe yeah i indeed only took a quick look on the page link from the pob (and there was no melee splash only multi) without importing it to pob ^^ i didnt mean to shit on this guide or anything, i just wanted to add that there is alot of ways to play it and specially on hc i would build a bit different. ah okay if u suggest chieftains early i didnt say anything : ) because i was wondering why u would suggest the otherones when there is chiefs that are simple and easy to get. my advice to maybe watch multiple guides wasnt meand to be rude or somehting too, i would advice everyone always to watch mutliple guides or look at multiple poeninja profiles to really understand the build and make the best out of it for your likings. thats why i kinda gave a bit of my hc/tanky take on the build ...and ur totally right i shouldent give my options when only watched like 1/3 of the guide sorry for that :3
@subtractem Greetings! I followed your guide in max roll and I notice in the intro video you have an Immortal Call skill in your skill slot which the guide in max roll doesn't I'm confuse.... Sorry for being new to this..
Thanks for all the hard work Sub! Loved your FB Ele last league and stoked to try this. Quick question - Why do we spec out of Spiritual Aid? Isn't it worthwhile for just 1 point? Wouldn't we get a bunch of extra life stuff since we're stacking minion stats? I don't see the downside for 1 point.
@2:54 you talk about casting the minion. if you hover an enemy while summoning them you CAN direct them to attack a specific minion. just an FYI. can good for bossing situations or dumb rares
I am considering either SRS or Absolution Guardian for league start. What are the pros and cons between the two? I am not really interested in bossing, just looking to blast maps and do some Blights and Abyss.
Leveling through the campaign and early maps is almost identical for both since you just let your Sentinel do all of the work and only use your primary on bosses. For maps, SRS gives better clear but keeping your minions at or near max stacks can be annoying. You have to get into a habit of summoning every few seconds. Keeping close to 20 spirits up becomes necessary for harder maps and juicing. Absolution doesn't have that issue since you are always attacking into packs of mobs, but the clear is lower. Absolution can scale really well though with investment, but is more of a boss-killer than a mapper.
@@rednab2001 The FAQ question on SRS strongly suggests that the transmigraphied version will synergize with minion instability. Something along the lines of higher damage and added damage effectiveness, but with a much shorter duration
Instead of doing accuracy on ghastly eye jewels, you could drop Elemental army for a precision aura and grab the two mana reservation nodes. gets you to 100% acc w/o needing anything else other than the mastery. So you lose the wee bit of exposure, ( you only get one of the 3 i think), but gain damage mods on 4 jewels. costs two additional passive points as well though.
Isn't flat cold better on ghastly eye jewels? yes you get the hatred phys as extra cold but flat cold damage rolls of comparable tiers on ghastly eyes are about 30% higher than flat phys such that it overtakes the flat phys rolls.
I love your guide. I only found out that cold was better fairly recently in a private league when pasting in a bunch of jewels for trade. Phys damage on ghastly eyes turns out is just very low. Cheers and good luck for league start 😊
Thanks for the video! I tried Ele SRS as a starter concept last league and it performed pretty amazingly, though I went on a different approach by going crit with Maata's Teaching and Fleshcrafter. I was wondering if zombies could work with Guardian this league thanks to the changes, albeit requiring some conversion gear like Triad Grip.
If you wanna go Guardian and Zombies, I highly recommend Sir Moustache the Glourious's Baron guide. An updated guide should be out between now and release.
Are you planning on updating your poison ls guardian this coming patch? Loved the build, was able to kill shaper and elder with it for the first time ever.
Maxroll Guide is out: maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/summon-raging-spirit-guardian-league-starter
PoB Updated for 3.25: pobb.in/u/Subtractem/srs-guardian
This is my first time playing POE and the first build I'm going to try. Let's get it.
Thanks! Gonna try this as a leuage starter!
Hey sub, I noticed that on your maxroll guide that eventually you swap out your unset ring for a bone ring. What gem gets dropped when you do that?
Thanks for your work! This will be my leaguestarter. Will there be a passive tree up to level 95? Or only on POB?
FYI - The PoB doesn't contain the Wildwood ascendancies and Maxroll shows the Wildwood "Uber Lab" the same as "Cruel Lab". Basically - it's missing 4 points.
Damn, you're a maxroll creator now? Congrats!
This is gonna be my league starter!
A number of people have DM'd me that they're not seeing their comments. My assumption is that, due to the uncommonly high traffic, the YT auto-moderator is slow processing them, I have no control over this.
Anyway, thanks for enjoying the guide!
Would you be open to posting a play with me type video for this build I’m fairly new and would enjoy leveling along side you
How to get 4 blue 2 red on a body armour? Coil is Evasion-armour base
Unleash works with this new quality too FYI
@fantasygym9114 not a leaguestart option but once you reach yellow to red maps, do vorici calculator till you get atleast 4 off colors, then do vorici syndicate craft hoping to hit the greens, if u dont, then the most budget thing to do is swap gems to alternatives
@@inexia2577 I remembered, they buffed Vorici chanses as well
Huge thank you to you guys for putting Maxroll together, I'd imagine it's insanely helpful for some of the newer players.
should be published in a couple hours!
Can confirm, been playing POE for 3 days and im leveling my SRS build now. Dont know where id be without this guide. 🤘
Even with the guide my brain hurts 😂
Very important for the trigger craft; desecrate MUST be socketed above the Flesh Offering
Can never remember if thats a free suffix or prefix on that wand that we need for that craft?
@@marksutherlandjr.2121 suffix
like higher up in the sockets on the wand?
@@broogul7335 yes
@@bboy458damn that's weird.... i had a trigger wand once that just wasn't working for me, must have been this
Congratz on your written Maxroll guide, awesome job!
I couldn't find the link on maxroll for the guide, can you share it?
He said it will be live soon, not yet
Very helpful guide, always nice from someone who knows what they're talking about, because half the people who put up guides on youtube strike me as just clueless.
ayyyy nice! glad to see you got a Maxroll guide going, I love being able to quickly check there versus skim videos for specific info
Another fully supported league starter guide, let's goooo!
I've had PoE for a while, tried it but didn't get very far whatsoever, I'm more of a D3 player but honestly how noobie friendly and well explained the guide is it's made me redownload PoE!
Thank you!
Guys, don't be like me, you don't have to buy all the items again if you remove the animate guardian gem from an item. Just recast the spell on nothing and Bob will be back.
This also means if you are doing content where your AG is likely to die (like TOTA), you can unsocket your AG to ensure it doesnt get killed, and resummon when it is safe.
Who’s Bob? Are you talking about my little Georgie?
Lord knows I’ve done this.
How to unsocket the gears?
Right click on the gem and it pops out of the gear. @teosimoes7728
Another consideration for players in the endgame when deciding on Grace or determ could be mods available on watcher's eye jewels as well. some more PDR for determ or MS for grace.
I really like how organized you are in presentation. I never thought of trying SRS but it feels like now is a good time to try a summoner build. I'm going to watch all your dailies now on how this is in Affliction in case there are some changes to consider before I get started. I've been playing Standard league for the last month to get familiar with the 'new' PoE after many years away from it. It has been a bit overwhelming but I finally feel like I have some appreciation for all the new mechanics... well, most of them? KUTGW and thank you.
Great job on the guide! Extremely in depth while being concise. Played this build in blast from the past and it’s so good! Can’t recommend enough.
I like it too. I was wondering if we kill all the bandits or help one? Thanks!
Really good to see the SRS Guardian you've been teasing for a while. I was originally planning to do RF Inquisitor before the patch notes came out. Maybe this will save me a rough league start.
Keep up the great work dude!
My thoughts as well. have you seen crackling lance's video about RF? it might still have hope
Inquisitor RF should be fine. Only Jugg has been nerfed
Very tempting build ngl. Great video as always, giving me something to think about.
Thank u for the detailed video an build. Apprichiate it. Good 2 have u around in poe. Good luck and fun 4 u!
i last played your Bane+ED build a number of leagues back & i was able to take it further than I'd ever gotten (killed a couple ubers)....this build is probably what i will play for 3.23. thank you for putting in the time to make this fantastic guide
Thanks for making these builds, Sub. I've been following your guides for awhile now because you have such a clear presentation.
Havent played Poe for over a year now, looking forward to new league now and this will be my leaguestarter , cheers for the guide.
It's so funny you posted this, I've litterally been play testing league starters and decided to roll with this after the changes to RF.
playing SRS for the first time and leaguestarting this! great guide as usual
Been waiting for this to try a practice run! Thanks, Sub!
very interesting and very well explained video my friend just got me into poe today so this is the first build and character I am going to make... Thank You for this very informative video!
I couldn't get into last league but I am hyped for this league and your guide is amazing. It covers everything and it was really engaging. I think I am league starting with this build
Banger guide! Build looks ultra smooth :D
I’d been looking at build guides for this and was hoping for a max roll article. This will 100% be my league start
Awesome video! Thank you for the detailed explanations! I think I’ll be league starting this too! Looking forward to your Maxroll guide!😊
Im a totally new player to Poe and this playstyle looks fun so i will try it out!! Thank you for all the content and i hope i manage to muster this build.
Glad to see you made it to Maxroll! Well deserved.
I've just started playing a few days ago and this build is working really well for me so far.
Thanks for the guide! I'm looking forward to the text/written version as well, it will be a little easier to navigate and update during the league
It's an abslutely artwork that every content creator of poe make guides thinking you already know everything and only leave you with more questions.
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I was waiting for this video! A thousand thanks!
This will be my first Build to start playinfg POE. Thanks for that
About the Animate Guardian transfigure, wait until more information to be sure if it will be better, because if you read carefully, its not an Animate Guardian that cast Smite, its an Animate Guardian that cast Smite of "Divine Judgment", and we dont know what that does, or at least i havent seen it anywhere
Great video! Small correction, the AG with smite will NOT do the aoe increase t lightning damage, this was confirmed by sirogg and we can see in the video there is no aura. It is a regular smite but no debuff.
damn :( that's really unfortunate
Played this in the events, its super smooth to level and progress your atlas with.
The online guide is great, but isn't it waiting for an update? At some point you're changing skills, though I don't understand when that's supposed to happen..ie Shield Charge instead of Leap Slam, Vaal Molten Shell, Vaal Haste. These are very vaguely mentioned in Build Scaling and Mechanics, but no clue as to when you're supposed to transition.
Way to go buddy! Good work and thanks for all the work you do!
This is a great second build for me after Poison SRS. TBH i should of done this first but oh well that is the fun in this game. Thank you again for the grind you put into this.
Hi, not sure if you'll see this but I think there are some discrepancies between the maxroll guide and the POB that I'd like clarification on. On the maxroll progression tab it says to use vaal molten shell but on the POB it just lists regular molten shell, does that mean regular molten shell will work but to swap to vaal molten shell when you find it? The other thing is that the endgame passive tree setups have slightly different setups between both the final setup/final cluster setup on POB versus the one in progression tab on maxroll. IE minion offence mastery on maxroll has 3 allocations (unholy might, +accuracy, and 20% offerings) while on POB it has 4 allocations (area of effect, +accuracy, 20% offerings and penetrate elemental resistances), different life mastery allocations and curse mastery as well as some other minor differences in layout. It has me very conflicted on whether to follow maxroll or POE tree and I would greatly appreciate some help! Either way I've been enjoying the build a lot, this is my first time reaching towards endgame in POE so I'm still kind of overwhelmed but your build has helped breeze through the game so far!
Thanks for the starter build! Quick suggestion: The socket colors on the dex bases, especially gloves, boots and body hybrids, would probably a bit much to get right in a league start scenario. Some alternative gem links or bases would be appreciated. Can't wait to see what the new skills will be! Meta shakeup finally? I gotta say i am very surprised to see the sentinel of Radiance minion not nerfed like the ruthless variant, though I am not complaining :P
ah the nerf is ruthless only! im glad u made this post i was thinking it was nerfed.
Especially with Vorici changes, you’ll basically need to get a double corrupted white socket Lightning Coil
Tainted Chromatics will be your best friend! In fact, early league, you'll likely want to corrupt (can do it safely in Bestiary) and then use Tainted Fusings for a quick 6 link once the price comes down on them.
@@WarrenPuffet Only the Transportation Vorici that gave gem quality was changed. White socket Vorici is still there.
Four linking of- colors for gloves and boots just takes jewelers which are plentiful even in white maps.
This is very tempting! But the lightning coil with 6 whites is a bit concerning as an early league setup.
Oh no SRS again played it last three leagues ;D still nice to see its still good ty Mr.Subtractem.
My man is one of the few creators carrying the whole game on his back, I wouldn't even play it if it weren't for people making build guides.
I just ran this through the campaign in 3.22 and it felt sooooo good.
I've been playing SRS guard all league. Had alot of fun doing it. Its nice to see a different take on it. I like the proxy ring I didn't think about that. It solves some problems. You could also put a curse gloves on animate guardian. I used inpulsa+ gravebind, for big shock explosions during legion farming. It sucked without lol.
is this build good for juice mapping too? never play this build
@@PeterLustig80 it is, but i'd say getting to really juiced maps it needs some highend investing. Especially on the defense side. As all you have is your health flask to stay alive. SRS do not tank the monsters for you.
I ran the Poison version in 3.21 and it does very well for mechanics with lots of medium-to-heavy HP monsters. Things like essences, beast farming, expedition, and 60% deli. Going up to super-juiced stuff like 100% deli is possible but takes more investment than its worth compared to other builds. If you want to do that kind of juicing then I'd league start this and make something else later. Or if you only want to level through the campaign once, you can league start EA Balista Champ, then respect to Champ Lightning SRS, which scales to the high-end a lot better.
@@brianh.5408don't compare poison srs to this, poison version is much more damage limited on the high-end bc of poison dps limit
I like what you did with gems. I struggled a lot to get ag and spectres into the build. Instead of your utility minions setup I had one unset ring and then precision, convocation and my moltenshell was on cwdt. Probably still makes much more sense early on where sentinel does all the heavy lifting but later on for sure I'll ditch convo, get a second unset and run ag and spectres
And one more thing about sockets, for day 1-3 (aspecially ssf) I'd recommend people to focus on arm/es bases, because you're not going to have jewellers and chromes to do 3-4 offcolour on each piece
Thanks for a nice guide!! 😆
at 23:56 you say :" The reason for this is, we have Hatred, Anger and Wrath !" None of those are in your pob ...did i miss something ? :)
Can you please create a video showing how to craft the weapons / update the MaxRoll build with this info? Loving the build but I’m just starting out and would like guidance
Yep looking for something like that too. I'm completely new to PoE and don't even know how to get divines or anything. So I guess crafting would be more realistic to get some modifiers on specific gear. Maybe @subtractem can help us out :)
will be there playing along with this build on league start!
I love your guide! Thank you so much it is fun to play. I have 2 short questions: 1. Why 2 movement skills with Leap Slam AND Frostblink? 2. With Haste, Determination and Clarity I am not ably to activate Barkskin as well. Which Aura should I not use?
Can't wait for the maxroll guide!
I love the build ! Huge thank to Maxroll. May i have SRS full run btw.
Oooh subtractem on MaxRoll, let's go baby!
I like this build, but what would be a good farm strategy with it? The best ones would be sanctum and essence farming i guess? Ultimatum farming could be good too. Expedition is very good for the first few days and i think this build can handle it
Damn so creative and fresh build. GG
that maxroll guide is EPIC hands down so very well put together i hope you do one like that for most of your builds
FYI - Exposure via Elemental Army is not super reliable. If you're fighting an enemy with high Fire Res, fire won't be the highest damage type, so you'll never inflict exposure when you need it most. Even with balanced resists and scorch applied, it's still not guaranteed that fire will be the highest damage type. Hopefully he attacks fast enough to always apply it against Bosses, but something to keep in mind.
Thanks for the build, looking forward to the written guide on Maxroll, I don't mind video guides, but I prefer written ones much more! - (Grats, on joining the team!) Also looking forward to the havoc levelling video.
Is a Frostblink ignite build update going to come we can hope for? The scope of these videos is insane I wouldnt be able to comfortably update everything for league start without your knowledge )
incredible work! well done
So I used this guide...it was great until maps. What I ended up doing was changing some nodes on the tree and focusing on block/ss. It's way smoother now. Sure you lose insta-EW...but survivability gains are big. It could be how I was playing the build. This is my first minion since sentinel. Not taking additional minor dmg though gems seems kinda wasteful. A large cluster jewel and some ghastly gems. Good guide overall! Thanks for your hard work+
always giving us amazing content, ty subtractem
Hi Thanks for the guide :)
1. Your maxroll guide miss later/finished tree only provide level tree.
2. You swap to bone-ring later on but where are you gonna fit determination then.
3. Last thing you forgot in final tree or later to swap convocation mastery for perhaps min life on death. (since you drop the gem later)
The later tree can be found in the progression tab.
I should call out that bone ring is optional and you'd have to drop a utility gem for that, I'll do that.
I'm pretty sure convocation mastery is swapped in final tree. It is separate from the leveling tree.
Thanks for responding :)@@subtractem
I've not watched the Video yet, so I'm unsure if it's been addressed, but I'm looking at the PoB. It doesn't look like Path of Building is including the Relics from Unwavering Crusade, and I don't see you including those modifiers in your Configuration, so the DPS numbers appear lower than they actually will be. Adding in the below (stolen from Ghazzy) will help, I think:
=== Elemental Relic Ascendancy ===
Minions have 182-259 added fire damage
Minions have 29% of physical damage added as cold damage
Minions have 20% more cold damage
Minions have 26-415 added lightning damage
Look in the party tab, you can configure PoB properly as if you have the auras from the minion as external party members. This will be more accurate for how you and your minions are affected.
Build in video differs a lot from pobb instructions. This is my first char ever in PoE. Got me so confused. Pobb has golem in wand. Here there are triggered skills... Pobb version isn't pretty one button at all
I'm not complaining. Thanks for all the work. Great video and channel. Ty! ❤
oooh legend! i love maxroll style too
I think I'll give it a try. I'm not sure with the minion playstyle but at least i could respec to RF or something else... Maybe I'm going to test it tomorrow. But as always: Nice guide, great explanations. Keep the good work up :)
Thx for sharing! Im playing this build and its rly smooth once u have everything and for low budget. Lightning coil is not rly necessary.
Am I missing something? I've taken the nodes that reduce mana reserve amount, but I'm still not able to activate haste, clarity and determination at the same time. Do I just not have enough mana?
You can drop Clarity once you get Eldritch Battery running. It's mostly for the early game.
How would this build perform in Delve? Do minion builds struggle with the tight corridors and constant movement?
edit: I'm a moron, irrelevant comment.
why not bone offering for the near block cap and life gain on block?
Sounds like a much more well-rounded build, you can compensate for the loss of MS and attack speed with higher budget but the block is much harder to get in other ways / it's much more efficient to get block in this way than AS/MS.
For easy content the extra attack speed and MS for shield charge can be pretty good I agree, but as an overall package spirit offering seems stronger no?
Because bone offering won’t effect the guardian, only the minions. The only way a Guardian can do that is with The Queens Hunger which sucks.
@@Meatflopsicle oh lmao. Im a moron. Forgot its a guardian not a necro. Autopilot.
Exactly what I need,I'm new player and am interested necro element.Thanks for the guide
Im sold just seeing how comfy the camapign is with the sentinel
Let's go it's here 🔥🔥
i played this as leaguestarter last league small tips for hc (if u want to be tanky) ->
you dont need double curse, one curse (selfcast) is just fine, you dont need trigger wep, most of the time u have corpses to cast offering.
you dont need skitterbots you can run grace AND determination + tempest shield, think u can even run defiance banner on top ? +haste/vaal haste on your "es" ofc.
you can get up to 5.5-6.0k life easy on like lvl 90-92 or something, my gear was totally trash and i had almsot 6k with lvl 93, you can prolly push that to at least 6.5-7.0 or somehting on lvl 100 or close to 100. also i highly recommend to not use immortal call on left klick, also the spectre choise in this vid is questionable (specially for new players), maybe if u really want to play this you should watch some other guides on this too, not using chieftains, not even one .. i mean no comment ^^ area master has a small buff with alot of downtime and phale seraphim only makes ONE mob take more damage. (maybe its a super small aoe or somehting but its pretty much only a singel mob maybe 2-3 mobs at max) the 3 frenzy from chiefs is just the best u can use on this spec, there is no question about it. specially for mapping, since you get attack speed / movement speed from it too. legacy of fury on ag without gravebind is also kinda "questionable" again, also ambus charge ?? forgot the name but there is a armour that basicly makes him spamm consecrated ground on block with alot of chaos res (1alc unique btw) usually what ppl do if they wanna have 2 curses, they give the ag a item with +1 max curse and than use corrupted gloves with that scnd curse u want. ( so you get the scnd curse for bosses basicly for free with the small downside that you will sometimes remove his curse with your curse, since hes the one with 2 max curses not you.
phazeplays made a really good generall guide for srs, maybe consider watching this too, to get a scnd option on things. because i personally think some stuff in this guide is not what i would recommend or do, its called: "[PoE 3.23] SRS DEEP DIVE: Guardian vs Poison vs Lightning"
Many of the choices that I made here are for making the build more comfortable for beginners that are playing Softcore Trade, though with a HCSSF angle. It seems like you watched the beginning gameplay and then skimmed the PoB without looking too closely at both because there are some mistakes here as well.
- Melee Splash is in the PoB, it's even called out in the group label
- Immortal Call was an experiment that I was using during the gameplay showcase (considering it next patch because it gets lots of CDR from quality), in the PoB I have Determ + Molten Shell. I mention this option in the video.
- Re: Spectres, I've heard people say the same thing about Chieftans as you just said about Arena Master. Sounds like there isn't a consensus as to which is actually the best. In the Maxroll guide I recommend Chieftains early on since it's way easier to get.
@@subtractem hehe yeah i indeed only took a quick look on the page link from the pob (and there was no melee splash only multi) without importing it to pob ^^ i didnt mean to shit on this guide or anything, i just wanted to add that there is alot of ways to play it and specially on hc i would build a bit different. ah okay if u suggest chieftains early i didnt say anything : ) because i was wondering why u would suggest the otherones when there is chiefs that are simple and easy to get. my advice to maybe watch multiple guides wasnt meand to be rude or somehting too, i would advice everyone always to watch mutliple guides or look at multiple poeninja profiles to really understand the build and make the best out of it for your likings. thats why i kinda gave a bit of my hc/tanky take on the build ...and ur totally right i shouldent give my options when only watched like 1/3 of the guide sorry for that :3
Good job, as always!
Thanks very much for this!
@subtractem Greetings! I followed your guide in max roll and I notice in the intro video you have an Immortal Call skill in your skill slot which the guide in max roll doesn't I'm confuse.... Sorry for being new to this..
Thanks dude gonna try this out.
Is the maxroll guide gonna mention going aegis with mom? Seems to add quite a bit of tankiness for ubers and such content.
Thanks for the video
Fantastic Job! I'd love to learn how to craft the cluster jewels ❤
Thanks for all the hard work Sub! Loved your FB Ele last league and stoked to try this. Quick question - Why do we spec out of Spiritual Aid? Isn't it worthwhile for just 1 point? Wouldn't we get a bunch of extra life stuff since we're stacking minion stats? I don't see the downside for 1 point.
You don't get like from Spiritual Aid, only damage for your direct damage skills which this build has none of.
@2:54 you talk about casting the minion. if you hover an enemy while summoning them you CAN direct them to attack a specific minion. just an FYI. can good for bossing situations or dumb rares
Played this last league and it was great, will probably play it again since it feels like it suits the league mechanic quite well.
Thanks for this awesome guide, convinced me to start as Guardian instead of Necro for this league!
Thanks, but what is the Gem or Attack on the Left MouseButton?
I dont have the Picture.
HELLO SENPAI THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING
gonna go this build since RF Jugg got super nerfed. Thanks for the vid
I am considering either SRS or Absolution Guardian for league start. What are the pros and cons between the two? I am not really interested in bossing, just looking to blast maps and do some Blights and Abyss.
Leveling through the campaign and early maps is almost identical for both since you just let your Sentinel do all of the work and only use your primary on bosses. For maps, SRS gives better clear but keeping your minions at or near max stacks can be annoying. You have to get into a habit of summoning every few seconds. Keeping close to 20 spirits up becomes necessary for harder maps and juicing. Absolution doesn't have that issue since you are always attacking into packs of mobs, but the clear is lower. Absolution can scale really well though with investment, but is more of a boss-killer than a mapper.
@@brianh.5408 Thanks for the reply. I am waiting to see if they unveil a new gem for SRS. The one they showed for Absolution is very interesting.
@@rednab2001 The FAQ question on SRS strongly suggests that the transmigraphied version will synergize with minion instability. Something along the lines of higher damage and added damage effectiveness, but with a much shorter duration
What type of content is the best for? I love blight and wonder how it is for that
Little addition, when aiming at a specific enemy while casting, SRS will Attack that specific monster only.
Instead of doing accuracy on ghastly eye jewels, you could drop Elemental army for a precision aura and grab the two mana reservation nodes. gets you to 100% acc w/o needing anything else other than the mastery. So you lose the wee bit of exposure, ( you only get one of the 3 i think), but gain damage mods on 4 jewels. costs two additional passive points as well though.
Isn't flat cold better on ghastly eye jewels? yes you get the hatred phys as extra cold but flat cold damage rolls of comparable tiers on ghastly eyes are about 30% higher than flat phys such that it overtakes the flat phys rolls.
Good callout! I double checked in PoB and you're right. I compared all 3 elements and that is the best one. I've updated the PoB to reflect this.
I love your guide. I only found out that cold was better fairly recently in a private league when pasting in a bunch of jewels for trade. Phys damage on ghastly eyes turns out is just very low. Cheers and good luck for league start 😊
Man, that hideout looks awesome. What mtx is that background and which mtx is the platform
Thanks for the video! I tried Ele SRS as a starter concept last league and it performed pretty amazingly, though I went on a different approach by going crit with Maata's Teaching and Fleshcrafter. I was wondering if zombies could work with Guardian this league thanks to the changes, albeit requiring some conversion gear like Triad Grip.
If you wanna go Guardian and Zombies, I highly recommend Sir Moustache the Glourious's Baron guide. An updated guide should be out between now and release.
Are you planning on updating your poison ls guardian this coming patch? Loved the build, was able to kill shaper and elder with it for the first time ever.