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A very lengthy overview of the Aura stacker Scion character I’ve been playing this league. I tried to cover pretty much everything about the build so if you’re unfamiliar with aura stackers in general hopefully you’ll have a better idea of the interactions that make the build work after watching this video! It’s a bit rambly but I’ve tried to timestamp all the relevant topics which hopefully will help out for those of you who don’t want to listen through the entire thing.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:41 – What is an Aura stacker?
3:00 – Sanctum league build changes
4:19 – Passive tree & clusters
6:14 – Why we don’t use Aegis Aurora
6:53 – Reasons to drop Introspection Jewels
8:19 – Aura setup
11:30 – Which Purity is better?
13:28 – Why no Heralds?
15:00 – Nebulis overview
15:28 – Call of the Brotherhood and cold conversion
15:58 – Why no Nimis?
18:42 – Mageblood and flask setup
20:25 – Heatshiver vs Hubris
22:43 – Smite/Vaal Smite overview
26:26 – How to freeze as many things as possible
29:16 – Gloves
30:08 – Mana cost and why not Divergent Inspiration?`
31:29 – Boots
31:41 – Pierce interactions and where to get it
34:20 – Grasping Mail vs Vaal Regalia
36:00 – Spell Suppression
37:33 – Rare Jewels
37:57 – Ascendency choices
40:09 – Why/how we convert Frenzy to Power charges
42:10 – Occultist and triple curse setup
44:30 – Militant Faith overview
46:40 – Ailment Immunity
47:10 – Concecrated ground sources/Rational Doctrine
49:12 – Watcher’s eye mods
51:47 – Divine Blessing aura
54:03 – PoB overview and numbers
55:20 – Problems with judging tankiness by PoB hit pool
57:03 – What improvements can be made still?
1:00:20 – Warning about cost efficiency
1:01:00 – Outro
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Some notes:
Need to emphasize that this build isn't cost efficient in any way, it has a very high (expensive) barrier to entry and doesn't start of super impressive entry level. However the ceiling is very high and all the different interactions are quite fun to build around.
As for Scion vs Inquisitor, Inquis starts off stronger and is a lot cheaper to build, but has a bit lower ceiling.
At 30:10 I mention Ashes working on the Inspiration support quality which it obviously doesn't due to it being a support gem, my bad!
May edit more into this comment if things pop up.
That rare helm is gross lol
Around 30:10 you mention that anomalous inspiration gives crit chance that is scaled by ashes, but I assume you misspoke. Ashes only affects skill gems, not supports.
Okey! Thats a sick setup. I could only wish (yes im bad at poe)
Excellent stacker guide Seb! I am happy you covered the weaknesses. How do you deal with degens?
20:15 why do you use a 9% bottled faith in a multi mirror build?
i was trying to find you streaming to ask a bunch of questions about this….this video answered all of them. my first time building outside of minions/necro and your build / video series this league has helped a lot. thanks seb
Purposeful Harbinger on a medium is trash compared to just replacing a few Introspection, since it spawns on Mana reservation Small Clusters too. Each PH will be 16% aura effect up from the 10% on Introspection, assuming you have 2 heralds on.
Also the +1 int gem isn't just a +1 for enlighten, its also a +1 for all the int auras in your chest, so a nice bit of damage. You can also make a double-elevated influenced chest on a vaal regalia base, which would have the +1 int gems, +30% aura effect, and %int built in, on top of really nice ES prefixes. And insane version could have the +1 int gem suffix AND the 10% reservation essence, to free up more reservation elsewhere (like the 3-small-passive small cluster that's missing introspection)
1 hour video let's goooo
One difference between the purities is that there are several debuffs that reduce your fire max res in particular (notably Searing Exarch runes). These reduce your max all res with melding if you use purity of fire. With purity of lightning or ice you're immune to these debuffs.
I got a inquisitor spark, non aura stacker kinda, only rulling 6, worth approx 1.5 mirros, hitting 4,5m hit dps without bottled faith on pob and it already destroys everything good enough that i don't feel like going through the effort for anything higher, so I imagine the smoothness that this build must be haha
Armor not 30 qual unsubbed
Also probably don’t need molten shell anymore tbh to sub in some gems
this build is 50mil dps at most and is far from immortal, ive played almost every version of this over the last 5 years…. this is very click baity and you can get similar results for less then a mirror with the poison spark occultist
Hey SebK, love your content. I remember copying your CoC Ice spear build back in 3.16 as I always find your builds very strong and fun to play. Since I don‘t know whether you care about Standard I was wondering if you would be willing to sell off your gear once the league is over or if you could offer a mirror service for your rare items. I would really like to try out this specific version of the build and your set up seems just perfect. I‘m sorry if this has been asked before but I‘m still looking forward to your answer. Keep up the good work:)
More currency has gone into this build than I have had playing since launch
Any ideas how to get good amount of currencies as a person that midleague started playing?
Why play spark when u can play ek and do way more dmg and have more proy speed
How do you look for good rolled militant faith? I tried to search with pob timeless jewel filter for an hour and its so hard to find one with just that ailment immune node but even if i manage to find one there are none on market.
Don't got mageblood yet I'm rocking sanctuary of thought forbidden jewels with my spark inquis. Should have started investing into aura effect instead now I'm burnt out and my build is all over the place.