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How To Improve Damage Output On SRS Guardian Builds In POE 3.23?

Jan 19, 2024

The biggest sources of damage for POE 3.23 SRS Guardian in descending order are Spectres, Gem Levels, Increased Minion Damage, and Increased Minion Attack Speed modifiers.

Attack Speed modifiers become more effective later in the build's progression because they are less accessible via the passive tree. But this guide is the general rule of thumb when trying to improve the damage output of a meta SRS Guardian build without wasting POE Currency.

How To Improve Damage Output On SRS Guardian Builds In POE 3.23?

Why Spectres Are Important?

With the new Specters introduced in POE 3.23 Affliction League, players now have access to some extremely impactful auras to boost the damage of their minion builds.

These are the 4 specters that Raging Spirits benefit from the most:

  • Hulking Miscreation
  • Spirit of Fortune
  • Judgemental Spirit
  • Blasphemer

The Hulking Miscreation provides the single largest source of bolt increased minion damage and attack speed to the Raging Spirits, as well as an additional 20% physical damage gained as lightning damage.

POE 3.23 Hulking Miscreation

The Spirit of Fortune provides a Wrath aura that is the equivalent of a level 45 Wrath aura gem in terms of flat lightning damage. It also allows for all lightning damage dealt by the Raging Spirits to be rolled twice when calculating total damage dealt.

The Judgemental Spirit is the build's primary defensive spectre, and it casts a Discipline aura that is the equivalent of a level 29 Discipline gem. In addition to that, it also gives flat chaos and fire damage to allies that is equivalent to level 25 Envy and level 33 Anger being casted simultaneously.

Finally, the Blasphemer provides a Smite aura that is the equivalent of a level 40 Smite gem. An additional benefit of the Blasphemer is that it can inflict enfeeble, vulnerability, and temp chains on any monsters that are hex-proof. And these curses ignore player curse limits.

Why Gem Levels Are Important?

The reason that increasing gem level to a minion build has now become so important is because they affect the strength of the auras being casted by each of the specters raised.

Just looking at the Smite aura provided by the Blasphemer spectre, the difference between a level 21 Raise Spectre gem and a level 25 Raise Spectre gem determines whether the build can gain access to a level 36 Smite aura versus a level 40 Smite aura.

POE 3.23 Raise Spectre gem

On top of raising the effectiveness of each individual spectre, increasing the gem levels of the active minion gems also provides additional flat damage bonuses that are derived from the active skill themselves.

Keep in mind that the threshold for obtaining a fourth spectre in this build is a level 25 Raise Spectre gem, and the third spectre is usually obtained by allocating or anointing Death Attunement on the character's amulet.

How To Increase Gem Levels?

The 4 pieces of gear that can roll gem level increasing modifiers are the wand, helmet, amulets, and shield.

The wand and helmet are each capable of increasing gem levels by 2. This can be done by rolling +1 to all minions and +1 to all spell skill gems on the wand, and +2 to all minion skill gems on the helmet.

On the amulet, a +1 to all skill gems can provide another level to relevant skill gems. And on the shield, a +1 to all minion skill gems can be obtained.

These are currently the most conventional methods of increasing gem levels for most minion builds.

Also Read: A Deep Dive Into The New Unique Shield Flawed Refuge In Path Of Exile 3.23

How To Get More Minion Damage And Attack Speed?

Apart from the minion damage and attack speed nodes that can be acquired through the passive skill tree, there are other ways of getting these modifiers through gear.

The main pieces of gear that can roll increased minion damage are the wand and shield. The wand can also roll minion attacks be modifiers, which becomes very efficient as the build obtains more and more increased minion damage.

The next source of minion attack speed modifiers are Abyss Jewels. These are typically rolled on Ghastly Eye Jewels alongside some life, flat minion damage, and maybe even some stat attributes or elemental resistances.

Cluster Jewels are also a very popular source of minion damage as the notable passes provide very useful damage modifiers to the build as well. If your build uses Cluster Jewels and has access to an additional jewel socket on the cluster, using the Fortress Covenant or Quickening Covenant unique jewels in these sockets can increase damage or attack speed without suffering any of the downsides of these unique jewels.

In terms of active skill gems that grant additional attack speed for the Raging Spirits, Flesh Offering and Haste can be used to achieve a significant amount of additional minion attack speed.

Why Double Cursing Is Important?

SRS Guardian builds usually allocate Whispers of Doom in order to apply both Punishment and Elemental Weakness.

The difference between cursing an enemy with both Punishment and Elemental Weakness instead of just Elemental Weakness alone is a 60% increased damage taken by the enemy when below 50% life. And this scales multiplicatively with other damage modifiers.

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