Level 89 Hybrid Lightning Strike Guardian^3.27

Notes

LEVELING

Until you can buy a Frostbreath, level with the highest dps staff/mace you can find.

stop leveling clarity at level 5.

Main link: Holy Strike - Minion Damage - Added Lightning Damage - new gem from the beach. optional: Melee Splash, this skill will NOT have good clear.

Gems to pick up in act 1: Frostblink. Clarity. Shield Charge - Momentum(requires ranger mule). Smite - Efficay. ask a friend for Faster Attacks or wait until library to link it to both Smite and Shield Charge

potentially strong: Infernal Legion Support might be overlooked with this skill gem and work in unintended ways, basically letting you walk through the early campaign with a psuedo Righteous Fire effect on your Holy Armaments.

Priorities during campaign+early maps:

look for an early perquil's toe and frostbreath.

IMPORTANT---> look to annoint the clever thief notable onto perquil's toe as soon as possible to have a comfortable progression in maps. <---IMPORTANT

Priorities in maps:

look to buy an 8 passive ilvl 68+ Large Minion Cluster.

either alteration roll, or harvest reforge speed. you are looking for +2% minion attack speed alongside NO notables, any other mods are fine and just a bonus.

Priorities in red maps:

search for any Ghastly Eye Jewel with any added flat damage and/or minion attack speed. buy what u can afford. added lightning has the most synergy with perquil's toe.

Priorities in endgame:

Aegis Aurora. once you have a decent armour/energy shield pool this will make mapping feel 1000% better. get it asap.

Ailment immunity: my plan for ailment immunity is to get % chance to Avoid being Shocked on a mix of items (eye jewels+essence of torment on boots/belt+boot implicit) and a Stormshroud
until then i plan to run Brine King + Garukhan + chill immunity on boots.

Awakened Minion Damage.

start looking for 8 passive ilvl 84+ Large Minion Clusters.

you are looking for 35% Increased effect alongside +3% minion attack speed and NO notables(with the exception of Vicious Bite for a crit swap in the future)

To continue scaling:

just keep buying stronger Ghastly Eye Jewels with more added damage and minion attack speed.

Darkness Enthroned will provide a ton of power to the build, you can look into this if u have gotten some very good jewels to socket into it, and your gear is good enough to lose resistances on belt.


Later plans/ideas:

looking into a crit swap with Foulborn Frostbreath, and Ancient Skull, alongside the new Exemplar Support gem

there are also many options for Bloodline ascendancies to look into, until i feel confident in something i will probably just continue to run with the shrine points in the Guardian tree.