Build: Dominating Blow Guardian - Minion Crusader - Path of Exile 3.4 Delve League
107(Build guide in the description)
This build has two permanent minions (golem and holy relic), but once you start hitting and killing opponents with Dominating Blow, this number will grow up to 29. Against bosses, count on about half of that number. In a pinch, Vaal Summon Skeletons will add another 20 or so skeletons.
Path of Building (https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding) codes:
- First build idea: https://pastebin.com/fiSbPuiS
Dominating Blow on kill:
- DB summons a Sentinel of Dominance with the rarity and mods of the killed enemy.
- Herald of Purity will summon a Sentinel of Purity
- Summon Phantasm on Kill will trigger 50%+ of the time to summon a Phantasm
Against unique enemies, each HIT has:
- a 10% chance to summon a Sentinel of Dominance
- a 20% chance to summon a Sentinel of Purity
Holy Relic releases physical damage novas and heal us and nearby minions. Stone Golem will roll over enemies and taunt them. Both minions are supported by Decay so they should keep this strong DoT applied to bosses.
Consecrated Path is your movement skill in combat. It has a short range teleport, applies Consecrated Ground (6% health regen!) and applies Fortify. Leap Slam is your long-distance movement skill.
Decoy Totem and Stone Golem are meant to taunt things away from you, while Vulnerability is meant to boost the overall damage output of yourself and your minions. Blind Support on the minion-summoning Heralds should help you get hit less often as well.
# Defense layers
From the outside in, these are the layers between enemies trying to murder you, and your health pool reaching zero.
- Decoy Totem + Stone Golem taunt enemies. Taunted enemies usually ignore you. Bosses are less likely to be taunted, so beware.
- All minions potentially distract enemies and are a screen that catches projectiles, again with the caveat that bosses might go for you anyway.
- Blind support on my Heralds to give those 5 minions blind on hit. That's 5x 10% chance to blind on hit. Maybe some minions blind on hit jewels to grant the blind effect to all minions. I've got almost no chance to evade (5-10%) so blind effectively gives me 45%-50% chance to evade.
- A small block chance (25%) against attacks
- High level Immortal Call on cast when Damage Taken, backed by some Endurance Charges this has the potential to last for 3.2 seconds, with a cooldown of only 3 seconds.
- Decent amount of Armour to deal with physical damage
- Endurance Charges add more physical mitigation on top of the armour
- Maxed elemental resists, hopefully around 0% chaos resist
- Fortify should be up most of the time, reducing remaining damage by 20%
- Around 1k ES to deal with initial spike/burst damage
- Medium sized life pool (4-5k) backed by strong life regen (more than 10%/sec under most circumstances)
For curses, Blasphemy could be nice with either Vulnerability or Enfeeble. Possibly replace Herald of Ash if mana is an issue.
# Gear
- Resolute Technique means we don't have to care about accuracy, so pick a high physical damage mace or axe. Before you get RT, you might want to consider using a sword for the accuracy bonus.
- Armour/ES gear because we're a templar and those colours are good for this build.
- I'd go with a high armour shield over a hybrid ES/armour shield because getting 1k extra armour likely helps more than 200 ES and some elemental resists would.
- Try to max your resists, get 50+ life on all gear slots and try using Fear Essences to get minion bonuses. Catharina Master Crafting can also give minion bonuses, often in the prefix slot.
- Some added damage on jewelry could help, but most of your damage will be dealt by the minions, so consider this a bonus rather than top priority.
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