GhazzyTV's Herald of Purity Guardian PoB, Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Necropolis)

April 11th, 2024, 22:25

Important PoB Notes

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End Game PoB & Passive Skill Tree

This build is extremely straightforward tree-wise. Unlike many other minion builds we are bringing in tons of defensive layers for our minions making it much safer for new(er) & casual players to use an Animate Guardian without the risk of him dying.

All my guides use Path of Building. We have a simple guide for you that shows how to import my build into Path of Building, you can find the guide here

Below you’ll find a couple of different PoB links, it is strongly recommended to start with the low budget PoB, it includes leveling sections throughout the acts as well as skill-point progression.

Here’s the low budget Herald of Purity PoB: https://pobb.in/2H_f8kRWaNZy
Here’s the medium budget PoB: https://pobb.in/314jMJhyMUUU

Once the skill tree is finished, just focus entirely on more Jewel Sockets or Cluster Jewels, if you can afford them.

Leveling Progression

Depending on if you’re playing Hardcore or Softcore, you will have to adjust your routing based on how good the gear you find is. An example is that if you have lots of Life & Resistance from drops you get during the Acts, you can focus on taking the damage-providing nodes over the defensive ones and vice versa. The links below are trees that should fit in almost any situation no matter the drop RNG.

Finished skill tree

Masteries

A lot of the masteries available comes down to a matter of personal preference but some are more or less mandatory.

Life Mastery: “+50 to maximum life” This mastery node should be picked up in your first life cluster you get to.
Life Mastery: “Skills Cost Life instead of 30% of Mana Cost” Alleviates some pressure on our mana to sustain casting our abilities.
Minion Offence Mastery: “20% increased effect of Offerings” Big damage buff for our minions.
Minion Offence Mastery: “Minions penetrate 8% of cursed enemies’ elemental resistances” As we are aiming to deal 0 Physical damage via conversion.
Mana Mastery: “12% increased mana reservation efficiency of skills” This helps us become able to run all our auras.
Shield Mastery: “+1% chance to block attack damage per 5% chance to block on equipped shield” A must have to reach the desired block caps.
Minion Defence Mastery: “Convocation has 40% increased cooldown recovery rate” Great clear speed increasing modifier.

Amulet Anointment

There are plenty of great notables to anoint on your amulet, for this build we’ll go with the Testudo Notable. This will cost you: 1 Clear Oil, 1 Sepia Oil and 1 Black Oil

End Game Gem Links

Below you’ll find a detailed description of the gems we make use of to create our army!

6-Link Zombies & Golems

We are utilizing our body armor to get the full force of our Sentinel of Purity minions:

Herald of Purity
Multistrike Support this is changed with Melee Splash Support for clearing.
Predator Support this is changed with Minion Speed Support for clearing.
Minion Damage Support
Ruthless Support
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support

3-Link HoP Trigger

The so called HoP trigger is literally just Ball Lightning with 2 supports to create as many hits as possible to guarantee a smooth experience with summoning our minions.

Ball Lightning Can keep this at level 1 to minimize mana cost.
Unleash Support
Faster Casting Support

2-Link Frenzy Stone Golem

Simple Stone Golem linked with Frenzy to buff our minions and provide us with increased life regen:

1-S Utility

Convocation

4-Link Utility

An Arcanist Brand will be used to trigger curse as well as offering buff.

Arcanist Brand
Desecrate Keep this at level 1 to lower the mana cost.
Spirit Offering
Elemental Weakness

2-Link Triad Grip Utility

1-Socket Triad Grip Aura

As this does not need to be linked to the previous group, it can be in a single socket linked to nothing.

Precision

1-Socket Triad Grip Aura

As this does not need to be linked to the previous group, it can be in a single socket linked to nothing.

Tempest Shield

Quick tip to make the sockets all green on these gloves is to use the bench-craft in your hideout making 2 sockets green and then use the bench-craft making the item have 2 sockets which will make it keep the 2 green sockets, then make it 3 sockets. Rinse repeat this process till that third socket turns out to be green, then you do the same between 3 & 4 socket recipes. This will cost significantly less currency to color compared to spending 1400+ chromatic orbs.

3-Link Utility

This gem set-up brings our Animate Guardian and Spectres which both can be a bit tricky to grasp. To help understand how these things work we have an in-depth page for this guide describing everything you’ll ever need to know with both the Animate Guardian and the Spectres:

The Spectres used by this build would be 3 different ones in the end-game. First and most important one is a Primal Crushclaw. Second is an Arena Master. And the third one is a Pale Seraphim.

1-Socket Mobility

Frostblink

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