How To Make A Summon Raging Spirits Guardian Build In POE 3.23 Affliction League? (2024)

How To Make A Summon Raging Spirits Guardian Build In POE 3.23 Affliction League?

The SRS Guardian emerged as a popular choice for a league starter in the current league, prompting me to opt for it as my initial build in Path of Exile 3.23 Affliction League. Here’s a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in constructing this build. If you plan to embark on creating this build, make sure you have an ample supply of Path of Exile Currency.

Why Play SRS Guardian?

The biggest improvement to minion builds recently has been reworked to the Guardian Ascendancy, which gives players access to the Sentinel of Radiance. Additionally, a Triple Aura effect is sustained by Elemental Relics.

On top of that, the Affliction League saw the addition of some powerful specters which cast various auras and provide utility effects that greatly buff the damage output of any minion build.

Summon Raging Spirits

For Summon Raging Spirits, the main skill setup links SRS to Minion Damage, Elemental Damage with Attacks, Unleash, Elemental Focus, and Ruthless Support.

Alternative support gems for this setup include Multistrike for faster attacks or Melee Splash for better multi-target damage. This will be socketed in the body armor of the build.

Trigger Wand

In the weapon slot, this build sockets Desecrate, Flesh Offering, and Punishment in a Trigger Wand. This is done to sustain Flesh Offering when summoning Raging Spirits.

Punishment will also be triggered onto enemy mobs, increasing their damage taken when on low life.

Auras

The auras that this build reserves in its Mana pool are Tempest Shield, Determination and Skitterbots linked to Unbound Ailments.

These can be socketed in the gloves with a +2 to socketed AOE gem to improve the effectiveness of these auras.

Tempest Shield and Determination greatly improve the build’s survivability by providing armor, spell block, and shock immunity.

Skitterbots, linked to Unbound Ailments, increases the shock effect of the aura.

Mobility + Divine Blessing

For mobility, this build sockets a Shield Charge in an unset ring and Frost Blink in one of the sockets of the shield.

Shield Charge is the primary travel skill, while Frost Blink allows the character to traverse across small gaps and obstacles.

Buffs + CWDT

In the helmet, the build has a Summon Carrion Golem linked to Feeding Frenzy and a level 14 Molten Shell linked to level 9 Cast When Damage Taken support.

The Carrion Golem provides flat physical damage to the Raging Spirits and sustains the Feeding Frenzy buff, providing more damage, increased movement speed, and increased attack speed.

Spectre Setup

Finally, in the boots, there will be a Raise Spectre and Animate Guardian linked to an Elemental Army support.

An Elemental Weakness curse gem will also be socketed in the remaining socket for the double curse setup.

Elemental Army support increases the survivability of these support minions and allows them to apply elemental exposure to enemies.

Note that to obtain a maximum of 4 specters in the build, the gem level of Raise Spectre will need to reach level 25, and Death Attunement must be allocated.

The first spectre needed is a Perfect Hulking Miscreation, providing 100% increased damage and 30% attack speed to the Raging Spirits, along with an additional 20% physical damage gained as lightning damage.

The second spectre is a Perfect Spirit of Fortune, providing the equivalent of a level 47 Wrath aura effect as well as the ability for lightning damage dealt by allies to be rolled twice.

The third spectre is a Perfect Judgemental Spirit, granting the equivalent of a level 3 Envy, level 29 Discipline, and level 32 Anger.

Finally, for the fourth Spectre, a Perfect Blasphemer is used, providing a level 40 Smite buff and creating moving curse ground that applies inable Temporal Chains and Vulnerability to enemies, ignoring the player’s maximum curse limit.

Animate Guardian Setup

For the Animate Guardian, Leer Cast grants 50% increased damage to nearby allies. Dying Breath grants another 18% increased damage to nearby allies and 18% increased curse effect on nearby enemies.

Legacy of Fury applies Scorch to nearby enemies, lowering their elemental resistances. Southbound and Belly of the Beast are defensive POE Items that significantly increase the life pool of the Animate Guardian and are used to prevent it from dying.

Weapon + Gloves + Boots

For the gear on the character, this build uses a +1 Trigger Wand with fractured Minion Attack Speed and some Minion Damage.

Body Armor

The body armor used in the build is the Doppelgänger Guise, which mitigates a significant amount of physical and chaos damage taken.

It also allows the player to regenerate a large amount of health when hit because minions do not benefit from the character going insane. In this case, the build can remain sane 100% of the time to take advantage of these defensive modifiers.

Doppelgänger Guise + Divine Flesh Combo

To further improve the build’s survivability, a Glorious Vanity jewel (Sacrificed in the Name of Xibaqua) will be socketed next to Pain Attunement to allocate Divine Flesh. This increases the maximum chaos resistance to 80% and converts 50% of elemental damage taken into chaos damage instead.

By equipping the Doppelgänger Guise while running Divine Flesh, this build can effectively apply the less chaos damage taken modifier to 50% of the elemental damage taken as well.

Shield

In the shield, the build has a fractured 2% to all maximum resistances to further increase the elemental and chaos max hits. This will also be another source of global minion gem level, helping the build achieve the level 25 Raise Spectre skill gem.

Helmet

The helmet for this build is a fractured Energy Shield item base that also grants another +1to all minion skills. It provides a bit of physical damage taken as lightning, minion life, and resistances.

More importantly, this helmet provides a significant amount of flat Energy Shield that can be used to scale both evasion rating and flat minion damage.

Charms

Using these 2 charms, the build can get an additional 2,192 flat evasion rating and 41 flat physical damage for minions. This is the equivalent of a level 16 Grace without the gem or Mana reservation and a level 20 Carrion Golem buff.

With the third charm, this build can gain permanent Onslaught for all minions as well as another 14% elemental resistance.

Rings & Amulet

For the rings and amulet, it is important to fulfill the high Dexterity and Intelligence requirements within these item slots.

If the dexterity requirements are too high, a lower-level Haste skill gem could be used. If the Intelligence requirements are too high, the Convoking Wand can be downgraded to a Convening Wand instead.

On the amulet, this build will also need a +1 to all skill gems to reach the level 25 Raise Spectre and Death Attunement, anointed for access to the fourth Spectre.

Jewels & Clusters

Aside from 1 singular medium jewel, this build has 4 Ghastly Eye Jewels, each with life and Minion Attack Speed.

Some alternative modifiers this build could benefit greatly from are increased minion damage if the character has used a minion skill recently, minion blind on hit, minion accuracy, or elemental resistances.

For the cluster jewel, this build uses Renewal and Bless Rebirth to increase damage output and prevent Raging Spirits from dying too quickly when tanking enemy attacks.

Finally, a Quickening Covenant is socketed in the cluster jewel, which grants a significant boost to Minion Attack Speed without any of the downsides, as the unique jewel is socketed within a cluster jewel.

Ascendancy Passives

For the Ascendancy passives, this build first runs Radiant Crusade, allowing the player to summon the Sentinel of Radiance.

The Sentinel of Radiance has high based attack damage, fairly strong damage over time aura, and the ability to redirect 20% of damage taken from the player.

The second passive that this build runs is Unwavering Crusade, allowing the build to summon and sustain 3 different Elemental Relics that each cast an Anger, Wrath, or Hatred aura. Even with only a 25% chance to summon these relics when hitting a boss or killing enemies, Summon Raging Spirits can usually sustain these relics pretty well due to the frequency of their attacks.

The third passive players will usually want to grab for this build will be Time of Need. This will help with sustainability during Uber lab, as well as throughout the campaign.

Players can also choose to allocate Radiant Faith as their third passive instead if they desire a higher health pool from the flat energy shield and armor provided early on.

Finally, the fourth passive will be Bastion of Hope, which gives a consistent 25% chance to block both attack and spell damage as long as the player has either casted a spell or attacked recently.

Passive Skill Tree

The passive skill tree for SRS Guardians follows a pretty typical outline for most minion builds, aside from the pathing it takes towards Whispers of Doom and Eldritch Battery.

For offensive masteries, it is important to allocate these passives to improve the build's damage output. For defensive masteries, this is the list of passives that you'll want to allocate.