3.26 | ~25Div(28 with AG) Solo Aurabot Champion^3.26

Notes

TOTAL COST: 5c + 3 Div + 20c + 1Div + 3Div + 30c + 45c + 2Div + 2 Div + 40c + 1 Div + 45c + 10c + 2.5 Div + 0.5 Div + 9Div

24 Div + 195c = ~25Div. 
Or ~28Div with Animate Guardian, but not worth it.

Might cost a bit more or a bit less depending on your luck.

Stuff about Merc:
- Mercs get 200% increased Crit Chance per Power Charge. So 10% Crit wand + 5 Charges = 100% Crit.
- Merc is same as i had, but now that i have Power Charges, it's Crit Chance support is useless.
- So my Merc Effectively has only 2 supports: Return Projectiles and GMP.
- Omni setup seems to be best for damage.
- You might try using belt with high attributes, might be better than Perseverance that grant around 50% attack damage and Onslaught.

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GEAR:

1. Weapon - ~5c | Same Piscator's Vigil.

I compared 3 wands on Eater of Worlds with no mods:
1. Piscator's Vigil.
2. Rare ~550edps wand.
3. Rare ~380edps wand with 90% spell damage (180% attack damage for KB).

Since KB Merc get a lot of flat damage from your Wrath, Anger, Flame Link and Pyroclast Mine.
- Rare wand with most edps, but no damage increase is likely weakest.
- Piscator's Vigil is stronger simply because it has ~100% increase damage and high attack speed.
- Rare wand with double flat ele damage + high spell damage is likely strongest.

But with all 3 setups i killed Eater of Worlds in roughly 1 minute, +- 10 seconds, from moment of entering portal to exiting.
Ofc it need way more than couple runs per setup, but i expected more difference.

Thing that affect dps the most if mood of your merc, one time it attack nonstop, other time it attack with pauses.

Piscator's Vigil is strong enough to kill ubers and clear t17 maps.

How to craft (probably) better wand than Piscator's Vigil:
- Buy good base wand with fractured %Spell Damage. Ones that have either flat damage implicit or %spell damage.
- Spam Anger/Hatred/Wrath Essence, whatever is cheapes, until you hit high tier Ele damage on third prefix.
- Craft attack speed.

Can see wand i made for testing here in PoB, costed me ~100c for base, and 200c for ~400 Deafening Anger Essences.

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2. Shield - ~3div for Awakener Orb + 10-20c per attempt | This is legit most insane Awakener Orb craft.

How to craft:
- You get any base shaper base with 30% reservation and NO OTHER SHAPER MODS!
- Then you get good redeemer base with 10% aura effect and NO OTHER REDEEMER MODS!
- Armor base for life based aurabot, ES base for ES based aurabot.
- Then you get Awakener Orb.
- Then you click on first Shaper Shield that will be gone, and then on Redeemer Shield.
- This will result in new shield with guaranteed 30% reservation and 8-10% aura effect plus random mods.

And believe or not i did just 1 attempt, i didn't need anything on that shield, but it just gave me t1 life and t1 block.
Then i slammed t4 flat armor.

If your budget isn't high enough, just use shield only with 30% reservation.

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3. Helmet - 20-50c fracture base | Got my helmet base for 20c, might be more expensive for you.
 Deafening Essence of Loathing at the time was 2.5c per. 
 On average you need 13 Essences to hit T2+ Life, round up to 20.
 Plus few chaos to roll Mana Reservation Implicits, like 10-20c, maybe less.
 In total helmet should cost around 80 - 120c, more or less. 
I'll just round up to 1 Div.

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4. Body Armor - 2-3Div (I paid 3) | +2 Aura and +2 AoE corrupt.

Then, you do 4 Socket on bench, then tainted jeweller orbs to 6, if drop to 3 start over.
Color with 1 red on bench.

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5. Gloves - ~30c | The Hand of Phrecia with +2 Aura or +2 AoE corrupt, and highest Aura Effect for good price.

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6. Boots - ~45c | Just max roll Reservation and Movespeed.

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7.Amulet - ~60c + 20c quality + 1Div anoint, round up to 2Div | 15% Aura Effect with good Chaos Res roll.

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8. Rings - ~20c each for decent Ventors | Any positive resists, 15% Reservation, high Life roll.
40 Fertile Catalysts - 240c

Total for rings ~280c, round up to 2Div.

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9. Belt - ~40c | T1-T2 Life with T1-T2 Chaos Res and empty Suffix.

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JEWELS:

1. Elegant Hubris - ~1Div.

In tree tab, at the bottom there's tool to search timeless jewels.

Only 2 mods: aura effect and reservation efficiency.
Ideally you want to have those mods on notables that take 2 points to allocate.
In radius of that jewel there's 3 notables that cost 2 points, but no jewels exist that have aura effect or reservation on all 3.

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2. The Light of Meaning - ~45c | On my tree it give huge amount of armor, so why not use it.

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3. Regular Jewels - ~10c in total if not less | Same jewels i used in 1 Div setup. 

Besides just getting more life, you can get attributes on them if needed.

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GEMS:

Wrath lvl21 - 70c
Determ lvl21 - 60c
Grace lvl21 - 55c
Precision lvl21 - 40c
Purity lvl 21 - ~100c for all 3

Rest of gems around 120c

TOTAL: Around 2.5 Div.

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FLASKS:

Maybe not optimal, but good enough, i rolled them myself, took around 500 alts.

Roughly 0.5 Div.

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MERC:

Wand - 5c | I used Piscator's Vigil in showcase.
Shield - 10c | 16% Spell damage per power charge roll.
Helmet - 1 Div | Good roll Black Sun Crest with +1 Power Charge Corrupt.
Body Armor - ~20c | Any Inpulsa, good if has some useful corrupts.

Gloves - ~10c | Doedre's Tenure with some good corrupt like %Life.
Or Soul Ascension for single target.

Boots - 5Div | Power Charge version of Ralakesh's Impatience.
Amulet - ~40c with Anoint
Rings - ~2Div for both | Highest amount of attributes you can find for your budget.
Belt - ~3c | 8% Life roll.

TOTAL: ~9Div.

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OPTIONAL (Animate Guardian):

In total Animate Guardian costed me around 3 Div:
Kingmaker, Leer Cast, Gruthkul's Pelt, Southbound and Legacy of Fury.

Note that i got Legacy of Fury before i changed merc to Omni setup, 
But i didn't really bother because Animate Guardian isn't tanky enough, so i wouldn't use it at all.