Scion Aurabot 3.10 - Caps all defenses 90% and increase DPS 7-8x

Carry wihout auras:

Carry with auras:

Carry without auras:

Carry with auras:

(I think we broke the meter here) Also note that he is Guardian and some auras overlap.

The aurabot used to find his passives all accross the skill tree, but cluster jewels are tightly packed with bonusses, and they are endlessly stackable.

Not only that, but you can have a large jewel - 2 medium jewels - 2 small jewels and corrupt them all with 1% reduced mana reservation. Meaning that 1 position for a large jewel can give you 5% reduced mana reservation.

If you use 3 full large clusters you have 12% extra reduced mana reservation extra you don't need on gear.... Possibilities!

Passive tree

or path of building:
https://pastebin.com/3Pf2ba4w

I dont't know if you can get correct statistics from path of building with clusters...

Since we use 3 large cluster jewels, 6 medium clusters and 6 small clusters. There is not that much room left on the passive tree itself.

2 important nodes:
Chaos inoculation - Immune to chaos damage
Zealot's Oath - Life regen goes to Energy shield
We want all the nodes that give Reduced Mana Reserved.
We want all the Sockets we can find along the path to clusters.
There is one node at the bottom of the passive tree called "Champion of the Cause" we get that with annointing our amulet: it gives extra RMR.

That is basically it, you don't have more points to grab anything else.

[NOTE] I forgot to add my body armour and gloves in here. It was at the time:

Victario Influence (corrupted +2 AoE) 1R 3B 2G with Anger, Wrath, Zealotry, Haste, Hatred, Malevolence

Shapers Gloves (corrupted +2 AoE) With cold + lightning purity, Flame Dash and Faster casting


With an Empower lvl 4 and gems lvl 21, this helm gives me level 28 Discipline, Grace and Determination. Since this league we have such an extreme increase in aura effect extra gem level matter.


So I used a shield with 15% mana reserved on socketed gems + ephemeral sword the first part of the league. Until I could purchase this awesome weapon. I paid 17 ex for it. It actually a weapon for a completely different build Here. There is also a great crafting guide inside it.
I dont need the damage over time and would prefer 50+ dex. But I was to afraid/lazy to craft it myself.

Ok so, +3 on support gems allows Empower + enlighten lvl 7.
This boosts another 4 auras to lvl 28.
But this bow also gives 10% movement speed
and most of all: 4% increased damage per aura (4x18 = 72% dmg incr?)


So we got 3 extra gems in offhand now.
I used it to add molten strike on CWDT.
Since we don't use a one handed melee weapon, smite is not possible.
I've decided to compensate that with rallying cry.
So we lost a shield, but we gained some nice extra skills.
You might want remove rallying cry for a stronger CWDT combination


The boots are just for the purity gem.
I could have chose for the ES variant of Doryani's but thought that some extra armor for Phys dmg reduction would be nice.
I wear 3 summons in it with an Empower gem.
chaos golem gives 5% dmg reduction
Stone golem gives ~150 life regeneration
Animate gives extra auras. Use items: Kingsmaker, Leer cast, Ambu's, Victario's Flight and Southbound.

Skyforth cancels ES regeneration. I'm glad there are now more options for RMR and Skyforth is no longer mandatory


Aspect of spider really adds something defensively
Unset for an extra gem


This belt helps in getting attributes



Unset for an extra gem
This ring helps in getting last bit of STR I needed


Mana reserved 6% and free skill clarity lvl 22

Please also read comments on old gear setup, this is a bit more expensive.


Helmet stores my less needed aura gems. I need atleast +2 on item and lvl 21 gems to max 90% resistances. This helmet gives +4 so I guess I corrupting it was overkill.


I've added an Empower, and had to remove 1 aura. I tried to run haste aura outside Victario because that would give me movement speed. The increase of mana reserved for a 50% aura outside victario was too high. It could work if I turned off spider aspect, but I like spider aspect too much. I finally decided to ditch Malevolence. So now I run 17 auras instead of 18, but it seemed that 5 empowered auras are better than 6.


When someone told me this gloves only cost 15ex i ran off and buy it immediatly. This is the perfect home for my 2 most important auras: Discipline and Vitality. With an empower they get lvl 30.


While I thought this was a huge improvement going from 6448 ES to 6967 ES (and paid 23ex for it today. I just now notice while typing that my physical reduction went down 14% because of the armour value in boots * Determination lvl 29 * all the % increased aura effect nodes.
I guess I will go back to Doryani Titan greaves.
I do like the enchantment 10% movement though


I've tried some different gem setups and it is funny to see its actually almost the same again as my old setup. What is important to note is that Empower increased mana reserved to 125% and Enlighten reduces it to 76%. Those basically cancel eachother out. So you can run 4 auras on lvl 28.


The quiver is purely for the 3 extra gems. The color is easily rerolled because of no dex, str or int requirements. The gems are interchangable with the boots.


Tip from an aurabot I met ingame. He used +1 to level of all intelligence gems. At first I thought that also counted for enlighten/empower gems, but it doesn't. I chose for +1 to strength.

STR gems that could use a +1: Flesh and stone, Determination, Vitality, Dread Banner, Anger, and as bonus: Rallying Cry,. Animate Guardian and Stone golem.

Int gems that benefit from +1: Discipline, chaos golem (lvl 22 = +1 phys reduction).
Downside: Flame dash can become more expensive per level

I decided that I like STR +1 more for my setup.

Important to note i searched for a base with incr Dexterity and Strength and some added STR or DEX attributes.


Wanted the usual increases in energy shield, but also looking for increaes in STR or DEX so that I did not need the current belt anymore to equip bow.


When I didn't need stats on belt anymore to equip my gear. I first thought ok lets put stygian vise back on with 2% RMR. But then I saw this one and had to try it. Turns out this gives me > 800 ES and 1% chance to evade.
Really happy with this finding. Do not consider this belt until you have done absolutely everything else in this build.

This is my final setup. I will not continue. I had a great time. Never played this long and with so many friends.




The helmet was a tip from one guy who is making this build.
At the start of league, helmet was where i put the highest gems in. But as I progressed. The gloves and bow are now where i put strongest defense auras in. Helmet only needs +2 to make my elemental resistances 90% So the corruption was no longer needed. RMR on Discipline makes it possible to run with max precision and clarity.






Went back to armor version. It does more defensively



Turned out that this belt gave the most ES for me. I had 6700 ES at end.
One guy who did this build bought a belt that had 60% discipline and 33% after using a flask. That is the best for tower runs where you dont really need more defense.





I will continue to read this post now and then.

There is an option to squeeze in a 7th medium cluster with an 170 ex Voice cluster using 5 of its nodes. Considering you lose vengeful commander from the large cluster. This would make the biggest fattest auras possible in game. No aurabot would be your equal.... You would rule them all.

I have bought a voice with 5 passives and edited a 3 passive in path of building to show how it could be done:

https://pastebin.com/keBWgsDp

And here is what you could do best with 2 voices of 170ex:

https://pastebin.com/KsahkLu2

This is all theory crafting. Much more expensive, but possible.

Southbound gloves - No useful auras found in gloves. SZouthbound gives survivability for low cost.

Leer Cast Helmet - Increased damage % aura

Victario Flight boots - Give movement speed aura

Garb of the Ephemeral Robe - Nearby enemies cannot deal critical hits

Kingmaker axe - 30% increased Rarity of Items found, Culling Strike, +50% to Critical Strike Multiplier, Fortify aura

So about jewels.
They are more important than gear.
The first part of the league I spent my money on jewels.
Jewels tend to get more expensive over time. (when everyone starts corrupting them)
So i buy them early on, corrupt them in bulk, and get a good amount of money back from failed ones through trades over the next few days.
Corrupt ones even sell for same price or higher if you were ahead of the crowd.

Always try corrupt all of them 1%

For cluster jewels its very important you have the correct base.
Read part about cluster jewels for all the tips on that.

Large Jewels:

3 abilties + 2 jewel sockets is the best combination


Medium clusters, dont take heralds or pure commander, anything else is good. I took a bit of all.


Small clusters, take pure guile and aptitude, they are essential to lower RMR. The other 4 are stalwart commander with energy shield.


For 3% RMR
2 defensive golems (5% phys reduction and >150 ES recharge
30% stronger effect of golem

Not my idea, but it's great, saving 3 passives.

No build is complete without a watcher. I was looking for ES regen. But there are more possibilities.

Soul of solaris - More def on bosses
Soul of Gruthkul - more phys reduction on consecutive hits. Garukhan might be option if you do MF runs on low tiers and need all speed you can get.

Kill all = 2 passives

I'm not happy with my flasks, but have been too lazy to adjust it.
2 flasks I think are important:


Quicksilver for speed ofcourse, and doedre to get charges. Remember that your ascendancy skills allow you to share them with party. So I run behind carry popping this flask a few times. 10% of 1 hp is not doing anything and 20% of ES is regenerated in a split second.

Ok so my other flasks. DO NOT COPY THIS SETUP:

Since most is capped, we dont really need these flask. I also have been too lazy to change it either. This build needs flask for bleeding and burning. But beside that, the flasks are pretty pointless.
Anyone got ideas about flasks? Please share in comments.

A tip on trading fast. Because lets face it, buying this many jewels is a chore no1 likes.

1) dual screen: 1 with trade window, 1 with path of exile running. you dont want to alt tab all the time.

2) Do NOT use poe.trade. I learned this league that official trade is much more up to date. So chaMeaning you get more invites per spam.

3) Don't type "Thank you" all the time. Convert the message mentally and hope he/she recieves it.

4) Save your searches in your browser: SO you can quickly look again tomorrow.

5) Whisper the next person or two, before you enter the trade of current person. So that you can immediatly join the next party when you finished trade.

6) Do not ask for trade and wait it out. You join their HO and do some inventory management. Break chaos stacks of 10 if needed, or dump your last 15 trades in stash, or spam the next person. They will request trade and you are ready.

7) If multiple invites, try look at who is in HO, and who has a name you can easily find and reply again. Chinese names I often give priority and pm the name who i can type. If a guy is in Azurite mines, you might have to wait a minute in his HO before he is ready to trade. So better accept party from the other guy, and PM the guy in the mines for a reinvite.

This league with all the cluster stacking. Builds are a bit starving for skills. Guardian normally has the best ascendancy skills, but this time, scion Ascendancy gives 5 extra skillpoints.
Also they only need 4 skills to reach the essential passive skillroute, and it connects a jewel. Unlike guardian who needs 5 atleast and no jewel.
So that's 6 skillpoints in total extra!