GhazzyTV's Herald of Purity Guardian PoB, Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Settlers of Kalguur)
Important PoB Notes
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End Game PoB & Passive Skill Tree
This build is extremely straightforward tree-wise. Unlike many other minion builds we are bringing in tons of defensive layers for our minions making it much safer for new(er) & casual players to use an Animate Guardian without the risk of him dying.
All my guides use Path of Building. We have a simple guide for you that shows how to import my build into Path of Building, you can find the guide here
Below you’ll find a couple of different PoB links, it is strongly recommended to start with the low budget PoB, it includes leveling sections throughout the acts as well as skill-point progression.
Here’s the low budget Herald of Purity PoB: https://pobb.in/rHApEeMxTro6
Here’s the medium budget PoB: https://pobb.in/x0MJApYRbiwh
Once the skill tree is finished, just focus entirely on more Jewel Sockets or Cluster Jewels, if you can afford them.
Leveling Progression
Depending on if you’re playing Hardcore or Softcore, you will have to adjust your routing based on how good the gear you find is. An example is that if you have lots of Life & Resistance from drops you get during the Acts, you can focus on taking the damage-providing nodes over the defensive ones and vice versa. The links below are trees that should fit in almost any situation no matter the drop RNG.
- Leveling skill tree, 11 points
- Leveling skill tree, 24 points
- Leveling skill tree, 38 points
- Leveling skill tree, 49 points
- Leveling skill tree, 57 points
- Leveling skill tree, 78 points
- Leveling skill tree, 90 points
- Leveling skill tree, 99 points
- Leveling skill tree, 109 points
Masteries
A lot of the masteries available comes down to a matter of personal preference but some are more or less mandatory.
Life Mastery: “+50 to maximum life” This mastery node should be picked up in your first life cluster you get to.
Life Mastery: “Skills Cost Life instead of 30% of Mana Cost” Alleviates some pressure on our mana to sustain casting our abilities.
Minion Offence Mastery: “20% increased effect of Offerings” Big damage buff for our minions.
Minion Offence Mastery: “Minions penetrate 8% of cursed enemies’ elemental resistances” As we are aiming to deal 0 Physical damage via conversion.
Mana Mastery: “12% increased mana reservation efficiency of skills” This helps us become able to run all our auras.
Shield Mastery: “+1% chance to block attack damage per 5% chance to block on equipped shield” A must have to reach the desired block caps.
Minion Defense Mastery: “Convocation has 40% increased cooldown recovery rate” Great clear speed increasing modifier.
Amulet Anointment
There are plenty of great notables to anoint on your amulet, for this build we’ll go with the Deflection Notable. This will cost you: 1x Amber Oil, 1x Indigo Oil and 1x Silver Oil.
End Game Gem Links
Below you’ll find a detailed description of the gems we make use of to create our army!
6-Link Zombies & Golems
We are utilizing our body armor to get the full force of our Sentinel of Purity minions:
- Herald of Purity
- Multistrike Support this is changed with Melee Splash Support for clearing.
- Predator Support this is changed with Minion Speed Support for clearing.
- Minion Damage Support
- Ruthless Support
- Elemental Damage with Attacks Support
3-Link HoP Trigger
The so called HoP trigger is literally just Ball Lightning with 2 supports to create as many hits as possible to guarantee a smooth experience with summoning our minions.
- Ball Lightning Can keep this at level 1 to minimize mana cost.
- Unleash Support
- Faster Casting Support
2-Link Frenzy Stone Golem
Simple Stone Golem linked with Frenzy to buff our minions and provide us with increased life regen:
1-S Utility
4-Link Utility
An Arcanist Brand will be used to trigger curse as well as offering buff.
- Arcanist Brand
- Desecrate Keep this at level 1 to lower the mana cost.
- Spirit Offering
- Elemental Weakness
2-Link Triad Grip Utility
1-Socket Triad Grip Aura
As this does not need to be linked to the previous group, it can be in a single socket linked to nothing.1-Socket Triad Grip Aura
As this does not need to be linked to the previous group, it can be in a single socket linked to nothing.Quick tip to make the sockets all green on these gloves is to use the bench-craft in your hideout making 2 sockets green and then use the bench-craft making the item have 2 sockets which will make it keep the 2 green sockets, then make it 3 sockets. Rinse repeat this process till that third socket turns out to be green, then you do the same between 3 & 4 socket recipes. This will cost significantly less currency to color compared to spending 1400+ chromatic orbs.
3-Link Utility
This gem set-up brings our Animate Guardian and Spectres which both can be a bit tricky to grasp. To help understand how these things work we have an in-depth page for this guide describing everything you’ll ever need to know with both the Animate Guardian and the Spectres:
The Spectres used by this build would be 3 different ones in the end-game. First and most important one is a Primal Crushclaw. Second is an Arena Master. And the third one is a Pale Seraphim.