3.14 Soulwrest Summoner - with actual ~30m dps

3.15 tldr: 37% less single target. Phasing replaces Smokemine. Everything else is unaffected. Crafting remains roughly the same, see below for crafting help.

3.15 PoB: https://pastebin.com/cX4yEAP9

► PoB: https://pastebin.com/FNjyxXmV

Budget: ~30-50ex

► General:

Started a Soulwrest earlier this league with the intention to update it to a 2021 standard, but kinda ditched it. I wasn't happy with how it performed, how it felt and how it handled Ultimatums.

I was actually done with the league but the post-league-quit syndrom hit me, and I had some new ideas for the build. And since I kinda pride myself with making decent minion builds, it just didn't feel right to give up on Soulwrest that easily, so I went back.

This version completely drops Saqawal's chest and replaces it with a crafted body armor that was initially designed for my Scion Bama ( https://pastebin.com/9gQYSJ48). The new crafted body armor solves the "burst-window"-issue by giving you 100% of your damage, all the time while providing about as much damage as a perma Aspect of the Avian would. Despite the lack of reduced mana reservation, the build can still comfortably pick up all necessary damage Auras and still reserve an Aspect. I also don't use any charge Spectres or anything that would cause inflated dps numbers.

► Build details:

• Build packs a punch with consistant, non-cooldown-reliant ~1.6m single taregt dps per Phantasm for a total of ~32m before Vaal Haste or Spectres. The build makes use of 3 curses (Sniper's Mark. Ele Weakness and Frostbite) and dips further into resistance reductions with an Eye of Malice Helmet on the Animate Guardian.

• Defensively this build only fears big hits/one-shots, which we take care off with a combination of Immortal Call, Jinxed Juju, Plaguebringer, a Garb of the Ephemeral Body Armor on our AG for "Crit Immunity" aswell as Kingmaker Fortify

• high sustain

• You can easily swap between Flesh Offering for faster mapping/more dps or Bone Offering for more defence and safer endgame fights.

► PoB details:

• The -4% Cold Res reduction comes from Anomalous Predator. AG gear is on the green Flask so you can turn it on and off as needed. The minion attack/cast speed mod on the Militant Faith does not work, I added a manul fix on the Timeless Jewel itself.

• I have two -1% reduced mana reservation corrupts. Those are not nesessary to reserve the damage Auras! The purpose of those, is to give me enough unreserved mana to be able to "reserve" Smoke Mine. There is nothing wrong with using Second Wind + Dash instead, I just like the Smokemine + Flamedash package more. Alternatively you can replace the Militant Faith with a Ghastly Jewel and have naturally enough unreserved Mana. This would free up enough Strength to use an Astral Plate (needs 5 blue sockets!). With that said, I paid 1.4ex total for both corruptions (Kitava's Teachings + Careful Planing).

• Despite Careful Planning, you will need a bit of extra dex (~30). You can either specc Expertise, or help yourself with dex rolls on the Medium Clusters or Ghastly Jewels.

• As of this league we can annoint corrupted Amulets. Thats how the Jinxed Juju came to be.

► Crafting:

► Body Armor

• buy 6-link either influenced or influence yourself on the base you want to use
• roll for either Offering or Aura Effect + one extra influenced mod and Maven Orb to elevate, hopefully the right one
• do the same with the other mod on a throwaway bodyarmor, check poe trade first if anyone is selling a body armor with the elevated mod you want. I was able to find one for 2ex.
• awaken orb both mods, hope for a good suffix, I got cucked on mine
• craft suffix cannot be changed and Reforge Caster for 100% +1 extra Curse
• with suffix cannot be changed you can 50/50 a T4 Aisling mod in 3.15. , however if you hit the Curse mod, you have to Reforge Caster again to add it back, up to you
• benchcraft Life

► Unset Rings:

• The most costefficient approach is one Unset Ring with tripple Res + Life. Just buy it.
• That means the second Unset Ring will only need Frostbite on Hit + Life
• benchcraft any missing Resistance on it and Aspect of the Spider

► Boots:

• either buy ~4-10ex
• or buy base you like
• alt spam/regal 2 Resistances (tier doesn't matter), benchcraft the third missing Resistance
• reforge more likely until you hit tier 3 or higher on all 3 resistances (took me 2 reforges)
• craft suffix cannot be changed + Veiled Chaos Orb
• unveil into any 30% Movement Speed Mod
• benchcraft Life

► 12-point Cluster

• this late in the league, just buy (3-5ex for the 3 damage stats)
• can be yoloed with caster/speed reforge on an ilvl 84 cluster

► Music: Path of Exile (Original Game Soundtrack) original composer Kamil Orman-Janowski

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