Path of Exile [3.28] Minion Pact Blade Vortex Chieftain | Totally Balanced Build

Nebulis -> Spell double damage giga expensive, look for any/or combination of: Global Critical Strike Multiplier, Global Physical Damage, Spell Damage, or Fire Damage. -> https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/kyJeyWRri5 Shield -> Synth armor base with Recover 5% of life when you block. Most important 2 mods to start are a t1 max res (you can harvest bench swap any res to fire) and additional physical damage reduction. Start off with your base being normal, use Orb of Rememberance on the item until you get high strand, to make sure you keep as much strand as possible use 1 transmutation orb, and 1 regal orb. Craft now by spamming physical reforge at harvest bench and looking for a t1 max res (it can be anyone, as you can harvest swap resist to fire) and ~t3 or above physical damage reduction %. Annul if you have to, once you have an open prefix and only those 2 suffixes, you want to craft suffixes cannot be changed and then use critical reforge at harvest for critical damage reduction suffix. If you hit prefixes, you can clean them by crafting suffixes cannot be changed and then use an orb of scouring and then use an orb of unravelling to upgrade your suffix tiers. Once the prefixes are cleaned, craft flat armour on the item and double slam, you're looking for t2 chance to block and another good mod, you can always craft life if you hit hybrid. If you're lucky and hit a high roll of life, you can craft +2 to socketed support gems with is what you use later. Stats don't matter too much here, just look for highest base chance to block. -> https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/d8438gj5iJ --> Otherwise, if you're not doing giga juiced content, just use a dawnbreak shield with +2 aoe or reduced damage from crits. Helmet -> Ideally you fracture your own +2 minion skill gems here, make sure you're on an armour base and it's at least ilvl 85 so you can hit t1 life regeneration rate. Here you can either reforge life at harvest looking for t1 life regeneration rate and a t1 res (you can harvest swap any res to fire), or use a resist essence and look for t1 life regeneration rate. After that use eldritch currency to get some good life on prefix (block flat armour before slams) or if you're lucky you had it. Your open suffix craft will be fire and chaos resistances. Eldritch implicits are: (make sure you do these after eldritch crafting) Exarch: Minions have % increased life Eater: Mana reservation efficiency of skills. -> https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/q9J8bk23tg (at these current prices and fracturing orbs being 180c, I see no world where I'd buy a base instead of fracturing my own) Chest -> use volatile vaal orbs, or just buy a cheap one to start with 45+ physical damage taken as fire and decent fire res are ~1d or less ->https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/G6dv3OEDsb Gloves -> buy a pair of ilvl 85 gloves fractured with 30-35% physical damage converted to fire damage ideally you want these on a pure armour base, but they've gotten more expensive, so hybrid will be okay if you need. Once you have your gloves fractured, you'll be doing the exact same suffixes and scenario as you did on the helmet looking for the same mods: A T1 resistance (swapped to fire), T1 life regeneration rate, and crafted fire and chaos resistances. For prefixes you will be looking for good life and blocking flat armour when you slam with eldritch currency crafting Eldritch implicits are: (again make sure you do these after eldritch crafting is done for prefixes) Exarch: Unnerve enemies for # seconds on hit Eater: 20% of physical damage converted to fire damage or 15% if you got 35% on your fracture. You need a total of 50% conversion to combo with avatar of fire for 100% conversion. ->https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/vejbZ9DJiE IMPORTANT NOTE: IF BASES ARE EXPENSIVE, you can use veiled chaos orb on a good base and fracture it yourself, or use a lesser/hyrbid base, as both are much cheaper. Boots -> start off with base annihlation's approach, later buy +2 minion or +1 socketed gems corrupted boots, whichever are cheaper. -> https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/glWOekGdIQ (you can also use gang's momentum and they're dirt cheap, I'm talking a couple chaos with the same corruption early) Rings -> you want to be a little creative here (cough mirrored rings work very well), and I can't really provide all the links, but you're basically looking for big fire resist and some chaos resist with life. Extra things like crit multi can come later, or you can use lower essences. My current example will be an all res fractured cogwork ring, t2 all res fracture at the time of writing this is 1 divine. For this example I took the fractured base, and threw the lowest essence of critical strike multiplier (screaming scorn) until a t1 res which is now fire, then crafted fire and chaos resistance. From here you can use a kalandra's ring, or make another ring. -> https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/d8ZnvoORcJ Now.... The unfortunate other ring that for some reason is 5d at base right now. Enmity's is stupidly overpriced right now, and if you just boss rush and kill him with memory of trauma's. I HIGHLY recommend you farm these yourself and volatile vaal orb, the lower you get the easier your life will be getting to 200% over. Belt -> mandatory diamond shrine, don't play without it. -> https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/V5mJeqzPUp Jewel -> Elegant Hubris and Thread of Hope combo Unfortunately, here you'll have to decide between a massive and very large thread of hope, and search for nodes yourself and what works for you (the thread goes at jewel lot next to overcharge). I will list the best elegant hubris notables --------------------------------------- >IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE IT IS CASPIRO SO WE CAN TAKE SUPREME OSTENTATION<---------------- -> Minion max life, spell block, physical damage, spell damage, critical strike multiplier, fire resistance Rare jewel search: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/q9J9R3wlFg -> You can harvest bench swap max resistances to fire as long as it's not fractured -> Make sure you get a corrupted blood jewel with any useful mods Megalo's can also help a lot solving resistances, spell block, getting a lot of damage, and minion life, it's too much to list here, but the smarter you are going about items, the more damage you're going to have, and easier time with resist/gearing. About rational doctrine: PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE MAKE SURE YOUR STRENGTH IS HIGHER THAN INTELLIGENCE SO YOU ARE GETTING CONSECRATED GROUND (try to avoid getting a high marylenes int roll, or you'll have to use a base strength node on tree) Blade Vortex imbue: You want elemental focus or increased critical damage. This build can make up giga dps, esp if you're bossing only by using --> https://poedb.tw/us/Unholy_Aberration <-- spectre. This takes this current PoB DPS of 70m to 311m DPS PoB is configured with spectre health of marionette. Minion life and fire resistance overcap are your biggest damage boosts. (200 resistances above your max res, so in game if you're 90% max res, you would want 290% fire resistances for full 200 pen from enmity's embrace) https://www.twitch.tv/incommodious if you have any other questions regarding the build/info/upgrades