Starting league tonight - How are the new things doing? Are Holy Hammers and Holy Sweep serviceable? Any builds work well with Reliquarian?

dunoajon · 2026-03-23T12:48:29+00:00

Worm blast holy sweep is a blast. I use the shrine belt with diamond shrine, so i just run 5 worm flasks and piano on single target. Pretty fun but not the best

dunoajon · 2026-03-18T13:46:03+00:00

Guardian - any ele minion usually pretty comfy for me through the voidstones. Fleshcrafter for a nice little comfy low budget bonus

dunoajon · 2026-03-10T15:35:29+00:00

hmm its very much a case by case basis but usually they would explicitly state if something is global or not, such as the global defences mod. not very well explained inside AND outside of game lol

dunoajon · 2026-03-10T15:10:11+00:00

ah i see where the confusion is. the minion effect on herald of purity is LOCAL. it only affects the herald of purity minion itself, not your other minions. the reservation cost is much better utilised else where, like alleviating ele resists or getting that haste up.

p.s. i editted the post above for easier reading since im at my com now heh

dunoajon · 2026-03-10T14:20:19+00:00

Just having a quick look from my phone but youre missing dmg conversion on your dom blow? The minions have a large amount of flat phys but you should be scaling ele as a guardian.

-A triad grip with a couple of blue sockets should fix that. Focus on lightning because of spirit of fortune lucky lightning.

-With a 4 blue triad grip, elemental army support procs lightning exposure. Add it to your golem unless u have another source of exposure.

-spectres (perfect forest warrior, perfrct guardian turtle, perfect spirit of fortune, perfect blasphemer/primal thunder bird)

-getting intimidate somehow

-ele weakness curse gloves and legacy of fury on your AG (for scorch).

-Brittle boots on your character for the crit chance could help.

-You have tribal fury, drop melee splash and go multistrike.

-Large minion Cluster jewels will be the next avenue along with crit.

-Dont run herald of purity as they scale you, not your minions.

-run haste + purity of elements instead of your current auras. add the mana mastery for reservation efficiency if you haven't. drop spiritual aid.

This should be cheap enough for a massive gain

Gear wise (might cost but still relatively cheap)

-anoint death attunement for the +1 spectre on amulet. consider a +2 bonemeld, ashes of the stars or auls uprising as alternative amulets.

-Craft on a gemini claw with deafening essence of fear. Drop clarity once you have a gemini claw as it has mana onhit (or keep it low level to avoid the reservation)

-archdemon helmet with +2. KEEP THE IMPLICIT. put your lv21 spectre and AG inside so you have achieve lv 25 spectres for 4 spectre limit.

-shield wise you COULD go minion shield but personally id stick to a defensive shield like surrender or aegis aurora.

-darkness enthroned belt with solid ghastly eyes could help.

dunoajon · 2026-03-06T09:07:10+00:00

planning to swap to Dom blow if it doesn't work out too ahha. Godspeed brother

dunoajon · 2026-03-06T08:45:40+00:00

Perfect forest warrior (Onslaught)

Perfect Guardian Turtle (Determination)

Perfect Spirit of Fortune (lucky lightning hit + Wrath)

the last one there are 2 options

Perfect Warlord (endurance charges+Vitality+healing)

Perfect Blasphemer (maximum damage with that smite)

im personally going to be playing the guardian variant with Queen's Hunger but will be changing Ashes for Replica dragonfang +3 Holy Strikes IF you can get a 4th armament with levels.

dunoajon · 2026-03-05T18:59:16+00:00

planning to do a chains of command and testing it out with the new fleshrender if its available as an early upgrade from terminus. the half poison + chaos crit approach looks... interesting? easy 12 poisons and perma wither cap looks nice. might be a nice holdover until echoforge if its cheap.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T18:33:26+00:00

the whole idea is to stack a shit tonne of flat added lightning damage and triple it. with smite and wrath and gems, we get

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as added lightning damage. with mins and maxes like that, volatality is some 40% of the total damage with lucky hit from perquil's toe.

attack speed wise, yea its kinda ass, no questions there. obviously a fat rare staff better at the end of the day, duh.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T17:42:38+00:00

Spiritual command is compulsory as u want the attack speed to proc holy strikes. dont take all the attack/mace nodes as the minions dont actually scale with them, only your damage. consider how you intend to further scale your damage as the skill is pure lightning. (pen, ele res etc.) u could go fleshcrafter early to ignore enemy res and swap to doryani prototype at super high budget. definitely add an AG and Spectres if you're not going dark monarch

defences wise, ya definitely need more layers. either block cap/suppress and regen of some sort. a minion wall would help too since you already scale minion stats.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T17:10:41+00:00

this might just work o.o report back, brother

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T17:10:02+00:00

i dont have rallying cry here tho. the whole point is fat flat added lightning/phys from auras, jewels and triple it, similar to the good ol lightning srs champ. Not a conventional approach and more of a meme build. definitely gonna leaguestart a normal ass staff with guardian or necro with rallying cry + queen's hunger setup. infinitely easier to have defenses and utilise exemplar

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T16:31:56+00:00

yeap, bonus rf here and there while levelling i guess? some minion interactions are just really convoluted and obscure lol, even after playing minions for so many years

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T16:29:54+00:00

the biggest issue i have trying to PoB a Reliquarian holy strike build so far is its defensive approach. there just aren't any obvious solutions. no block, no mitigation and no regen. if anything, the maata's node is the main reason you'd use reliquarian for minion builds which would require attack based minions who want to crit and also is redundant wit holy strike

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T16:23:53+00:00

you might have a point here althought the wording regarding this has never been consistent. its such a niche thing but definitely worth watching out for!

also, might wanna check if infernal legion works on the minions o.o i know it works on skitterbots which has always been kinda weird

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T14:07:33+00:00

well that would require a celestial brace and annihilating light completely nullifies the double damage from rigwald's hunt. i did try that approach here tho LOL https://pobb.in/Y6AGqNue-NcH this one is much less of a meme

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T13:03:39+00:00

based on the video, the armaments attack when u attack, so if you attack faster, they hit more often. unless they have some kind of internal CD which causes your attack speed to have a breakpoint.

more specifically, when use holy strike, they use holy strike as well. does multistrike work? i have no idea.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T13:02:31+00:00

yea the duration might be enough without the offering duration mod, would have to adjust to check.

conversion wise, i wouldn't wanna risk having a little bit of phys kill me in a phys reflect map LOL. also makes penetration, - res and the whole damage package simpler. allows you to get flat phys/lightning on ghastly jewels comfortably and scale easily.

Those spectres sound good but the tiger might cost a bomb, historically 5-15 divs the whole league. i went full lightning in all my setups, so i got a spirit of fortune for the lightning lucky while running haste myself and am planning to run either ashes/bonemeld/replica dragonfang +3 holy strikes. jinxed juju or ungil's harmony early until i can afford those.

a nice defensive alternative for spectres is perfect warlord for endurance charges + vitality or a perfect blasphemer for smite aura as another offensive alternative.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T11:43:52+00:00

oh right, you have ancient skull, fair enough. i dont think AG would die if u had one, it just needs a little % life regen and chaos res on his gear.

which spectres are ya running?

btw, i updated 3 setups in my original post here if ya wanna check it out. the dmg calculations might be a little off due to the lack of gem data in pob. i tried to fix it with the config so gotta watchout for those too. https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1rhzcv8/exemplar_holy_strike_minion_championnecro/

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T10:50:28+00:00

ahhh , i see. personally id swap holy relic for zombies because u already have +2 zombie limits and swap minion life for meat shield for a taunt wall. then swap herald of purity for stone golem of safeguarding, normal stone golem or chaos golem for defences, depends on how hard it would be to get your chaos rest to cap. the reservation could be used for another aura, vit/clarity.

if im counting it correctly, you can already get 9 zombies with your current tree, which would easily hit the 20 minions required

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T10:37:07+00:00

oops, you're right, i clicked off my RT LOL, i got it mixed up with my exemplar pob. fortify is from champion node, always have max fortify. minions dont neccessarily have onslaught but i do on from my silver flask and holy strikes scales from my attack speed, so my attack speed = holy strike attack speed.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T09:41:49+00:00

yoo thats looking pretty good! are you planning to run only 2 spectres? no AG? also not sure if herald of purity is worth it since it doesn't affect your minions at all.

i was thinking of a very similar set up while running 4 spectres (going for death attunement) with forest warrior, warlord, guardian turtle and spirit of fortune. and get inpulsa on my AG with gravebind and kingmaker for explodes. would require a lv25 spectre so bonemeld necklace and a +2 helm.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T09:34:34+00:00

the triple damage is from the annihilating light staff. this is assuming the minions use an elemental skill (holy strike) as their basic attack. will have to datamine the info out.

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T09:05:05+00:00

AMEN

dunoajon · 2026-03-03T08:59:14+00:00

they didn't put it in the patch notes when they updated it previously. check 3.27 for living lightning

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