These PoE2 Jewels Double Your Damage — Here's How to Craft Them

The best jewels for a mana-stacking Grim Pillars Oracle right now — crit chance, crit spell damage bonus, and "notables grant 1% increased maximum mana". Slotting three of them nearly doubled my Grim Pillar explosion (9,000 - 16,000) and took mana from 3,200 to ~4,000, so it's more damage AND more health.

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The craft:

• Buy a base jewel with increased critical (spell) damage bonus and notables with increased critical (spell) hit chance — around 10-12 div. Not corrupted, not crafted, not desecrated, ideally not fractured. Trade link below.
• Melancholy Orb (~10c) to add the "very large radius" prefix
• Prefix desecration (cheap Omen of Sinistral Necromancy), then a Preserved Cranium (~25c) to try to land the prefix desecration. Cranium Melancholy back and forth is a 50/50 and cheaper than a sinistral annul (~79c); annul is the safer play if you want to guarantee it
• At the Well of Souls, reveal with an Omen of Abyssal Echoes ) and look for notables passive increased maximum mana
• Miss? Omen of Light, strip the desecration, Cranium re-adds a prefix, try again
• Average is ~8 attempts (~6 div each + ~12 base ≈ 60 div per jewel). Worst run for me was 14; on camera it hit in 8.

Timestamps:

0:00 What these jewels do (nearly double DPS, +health) 0:29 Jewels in — Grim Pillar 9k - 16k, mana 3.2k - 4k 0:43 Why they're best-in-slot for Oracle 1:02 Price check — ~50 div each, ~23 on market, 5-mod ~450 div 1:35 Buying the base jewel (crit damage bonus, 10-12 div) 1:59 What to avoid — corrupted / crafted / desecrated / fractured 2:18 Melancholy Orb — remove the radius prefix 2:36 Prefix desecration + Preserved Cranium 3:05 Why not sinistral annulment (cost comparison) 3:41 Well of Souls — reveal with Omen of Abyssal Echoes 3:57 The reroll loop: Omen of Light, strip, Cranium, repeat 4:33 Restocking mats and grinding attempts 5:11 Hit it in 8 attempts (the average) 5:17 Three jewels done — passive tree + damage/mana numbers 5:33 Cost math — ~60 div per jewel 5:53 Quick-allocate Intelligence tip 6:10 Before/after recap with jewels slotted 7:12 Build direction — stack mana via gear + energy shield 8:04 The 5-mod version — fracturing orb math 8:45 Chaos spam / exalt / annul + liquid contempt 9:06 Final max-mana desecration step 9:36 What's next — Twitch, Breach farming