Luminary Spark Jiquanis Whispers build concept

Hello, this is OneManaLeft.

And I got not a build guide video, but

let's just call it a build concept video

for caster.

So, I like to play spells. I would say

that's my main focus in ARPGs is to play

spells. I'm I'm OneManaLeft. I like to

make mana stackers. It's just spells

have sucked for, you know, a little

while here.

And

thus I've not played them because they

generally suck.

In the coming league as well, I also

think they will suck.

That's why I'm going to be playing

attacks because attacks are better than

spells.

I've been POBing for like four straight

days now

on what would it take to make spells

good.

And I've I've POBed several setups.

I've tried every possible way to make

spells good.

So, I just wanted to share my findings

with you guys on what that looks like,

where the other setups fall short,

and what the only setup I could come up

with

that actually looks good was.

So, the first setup I tried was Frost

Mage.

Frost Mage is

a gem that was added last patch

as an alternative to Arc Mage. Arc Mage

took a lot of nerfs this time around.

Frost Mage did not get nerfed.

But

it's kind of ZDPS. The only way, by the

way, just for reference, all these

setups is like maximum budget.

That doesn't mean they require like 10

mirrors to play.

But that's just how I always compare

characters. And then once I get a setup

I like, I downscale it later if that's

going to be my main build. So, all of

these comparisons are done at like 10

mirrors

just as the standard for comparison.

That doesn't mean they require that much

money.

But this is the this This the this is

the top for everything.

This is meant to be like can they do

Valdo's? Can they do 6K delves?

Well, what I found with Frost Mage is

it's actually insanely tanky

because they nerfed in scaling for ES

last patch.

And thus the conversion

from mana to ES using um

skin plus like Mindspiral plus choir

is actually pretty good.

It's actually like one of the best ways

in the game right now

to get high energy shield. This

character has 35K ES and 30K mana with

like nerfed choir.

And uh this would be like the second

highest ES on PoE Ninja for a CI

character this league.

So the the pure mana conversion is

actually pretty strong. The problem is

you can get big ES

good good tankiness, your CI.

The problem is is the DPS.

71 million DPS for a 10 mirror character

is very

very bad. This is downright terrible. So

maybe like a void Valdo's setup

this could work for but Frost Mage was

not the play.

Uh so I moved on.

I made a PoB called a barren wasteland.

And at one point I was looking at using

a focused amulet

and just getting level

30 gems. The reason the PoB is called a

barren wasteland is

this was my attempt at making uh 10

mirror character with no attribute

stacking.

Which if you're unfamiliar

if you throw 10 mirrors into a character

in PoE

and you completely avoid all attribute

stacking scaling.

Your options are

a barren wasteland. That's why this POB

also sucked.

This is not good damage and defense

combo for a 10 mirror character.

So, what I moved on to

was Eblade, which had a funny new item.

Cuz if you look at the patch notes,

there's

a a new item in the teased items for the

league

that I was really excited about

because

this would work with two-hand energy

blade.

It's a six abyssal socket item.

And as it as it currently stands, this

would work

with two-hand Eblade.

So, I got a little excited. I'm like,

"Ooh, what if we made an Eblade

character

and we made a life stack Ivory Tower

character with six abyss sockets?"

This actually looked like somewhat

promising.

Um

the problem is

they have since swooped in to the patch

notes.

And I don't even know what the updated

patch notes are. They're right here.

They nerfed this yesterday.

So, this doesn't even work anymore.

Energy blade now requires sword only,

wherever this is.

Wherever the Eblade text is. Energy

blade can now only be used if all

equipped weapons are swords.

So, they shot that down.

The funny thing is, this wasn't even

good.

Like, even with this allowed, this still

sucked.

So, that the like giga end game

multi-mirror spell character

it's running out of options.

I found one single setup

that was actually good.

It's Juggernaut's Whispers.

This was the only survivor.

This This was the only exception.

It's Juggernaut's potential. I have the

nerfed number in here with in chat and

best volatile vow orb.

They added a keystone yesterday for

lightning spells

that makes you only able to do lightning

damage.

But if you do that, you get 25%

uh more maximum damage.

This setup has been the only setup I can

make

that's actually good.

This is

Juggernaut's potential

Whispers of Infinity

with CI.

And then you just like get 20 can energy

shield.

And then you're actually kind of tanky

still.

And you kind of stack in You can't use a

focused amulet or you can't use a

Simplex amulet because you have to use

Whispers.

Which makes your in scaling kind of

hard. They They did buff some spells and

nerf um

nerf like your options to scale with

Juggernaut's, but the new keystone and

some of the like slightly buffed spells

kind of cancel that out.

But

what you're left with is the single

greatest spell scaling package in the

entire game.

A lot of the pieces to this were added

last league.

It is It is the only thing in my opinion

keeping like end game spells alive.

It's actually better single target than

buffed venting.

It is the absolute most broken skill gem

combo in the entire game.

I know what you're thinking. Oh, you

lost 95% of your damage. Clearly you had

Arcane Surge Eblade on.

Nope.

This skill gem

has the absolute most broken support

gems.

Every one of these is like two to three

times damage.

Let me introduce you to the combo

of Nadir mode.

Nadir mode

and Apex mode

with overloaded intensity

is the absolute most broken thing that

spells have in their toolbox.

Nadir mode might as well just be called

God mode.

Because basically you can leverage

intensity

and just get the single greatest support

gem in the game with the new

uh

new like effectively lineage gems

um

for

the 328 rework.

This actually does more damage than

venting. I tried. I checked. It's higher

than venting. It's the highest

effectiveness

of a spell even with the 329 changes

buffing channeling skills even more than

Spark. This is still the highest.

So,

what ascendancy am I?

Well, I'm an unascended Scion right now

because the intent for this setup is to

use the new Luminary

with

an aura bot. The weakness to being a CI

Juggernaut character

is you are CI blood magic.

This means you have no mana and no life,

only energy shield.

Any character that does that

automatically can't cannot use a

Watcher's Eye and cannot use auras.

The only thing you can use is one single

eternal blessing.

Which is why I'm going blessing purity

lightning with uh max lightning res

everywhere I can get it, mage blood,

topaz flask,

and then

not that my destiny um

melding.

This is like the only way to get max

res.

The problem is if you do that you have

no auras.

And with no auras it's kind of hard to

get good damage in this game.

However,

enter

the luminary mercenary.

I don't have this in the POB. This is

This is not meant to be a full build

guide. This is a concept for people that

want to play this build

and are veterans that can figure this

out themselves.

What this mercenary is using

I could I could add the items to the POB

I guess.

You are using an aura bot

that is stacking 300 wrath aura effect.

The way you do this is you use an

influence weapon on the mercenary, rare

weapon,

that has the influence mod for wrath

aura effect. Number one.

Number two.

You are using Perquil's Toe

and you can get this anointed

with some aura effect anoint.

You can even have this corrupted for

potentially even more.

You can even potentially use the new

legion to get a different amulet onto

Perquil's Toe which is tier four, one of

the single most common uniques in the

game. You could use a double anointed

amulet because it's tier four and chance

it with only 1400 chance orbs.

But you're using a Perquil's Toe for

lucky lightning damage.

You're using the 50% wrath effect or 50%

aura effect

um new luminary setup, right? Is this in

the patch notes?

It's in the patch notes somewhere. It's

Hang on.

It's in It's in here somewhere. I know

it.

Where's the Luminary?

Where's the Luminary? Okay, it's hiding.

There it is.

You're coming on the right side here

and taking the 50 aura effect

and you're finding

the mercenary that has zealotry and

wrath.

This is going to be the most juice

zealotry and wrath you've ever put

together on a character.

Because there's some extra tech.

If you make a chest and put it on your

mercenary and I craft a let's just say

like a Twilight Regalia just for the

hell of it.

There are in this game

Eater and Exarch implicits

for aura effect.

One of them is for all auras, which will

affect both the wrath and zealotry.

The other one affects a specific aura.

In this case, wrath is the best scaling,

but zealotry is also pretty close

behind.

Either way kind of works.

This just always works.

I don't imagine they'll change it. This

worked in 3.26. This still currently

works

to my knowledge.

But the pinnacle boss effect

Eldritch implicit

when put on a mercenary

is always active.

So the highest version of this

can get you like 60 wrath effect and

like 40 all aura effect. That's like 100

wrath effect and like 40 zealotry

effect.

You can put that on your mercenary

and it is just default always up.

This worked in 3.26. There's never been

a patch note saying this doesn't work.

By default, this should work.

So you're going to have a weapon with 40

effect.

You're going to have a bunch of options

for corruptions or anoints on a

Perquil's toe for aura effect.

The passive tree of the mercenary itself

could technically path to aura effect

naturally, if that's just a bonus.

The double elder implicit can get insane

aura effect, and then the ascendancy

itself gets the 50.

This can leave you with a mercenary

that has somewhere around like 315 wrath

effect

and like 210 zealotry effect. Also,

Aloha, thanks for the raid. Doing just

like a random build concept idea here.

The last thing you can get on a giga

aura bot

is a unique item that drops off Uber

Cortex called um what is it not

Mask of the Tribunal.

Mark of the Tribunal. Mask of the

Tribunal. This drops off Uber Cortex.

You can roll 4% cast speed, 8% crit, and

you could technically volatile volatile

up to 10% 10% multi

per 100 decks.

And then

5% cast speed per 100 int.

So, on your mercenary

what you do is you take amulet for

Perquil.

You do not need unique rings. You go

helical ring.

And you actually missed

like what other builds would consider a

brick basically. So, so some other stat

stacker out there

could potentially go for like an

attribute helical missed.

And let let's say they're going for like

crit multi.

And then they hit negative crit multi

and it bricks the ring.

You could swoop in and buy that ring for

cheap on the brick.

Or you could spend big money and craft

this yourself

on a ring that you don't actually care

about the damage of the mercenary. Other

low attribute builds are going to try to

make their mercenary do damage.

This is kind of the reverse

where this build is going to try

to make the you do damage

and the mercenary is the aura bot. If

you do this

and you get like misted helical level of

gear

this is actually the best caster

ascendancy in the game cuz every other

ascendancy provides a static amount of

power that never changes.

The Luminary you can keep improving this

with gear and throwing more and more

gear at it make it better and better.

I'll maybe include the items in the POB

but if you go like double misted helical

and just have dex int on every single

rare item

and so you're going to go belt dex int,

hunter gloves dex int percent dex

uh helmet is Mask of the Tribunal, boots

is dex int, chest is dex int with

percent attributes

you just get dex int everywhere.

I've done the math on this. You can get

somewhere around 13 to 1500 dex

while also having around 1100 ints

on your mercenary

with Mask of the Tribunal.

This gets you 130 multi and 55 cast

speed to you

with 310 wrath aura effect and

mercenaries auras are level 26 if

they're in an 84 zone.

And then giga zealotry as well. All of

this together is five and a half times

more damage

to you.

There is not an ascendancy in this game

not any of the old-fashioned caster

ascendancies, not Ascendant, not

Inquisitor, not Hierophant

there's no witch ascendancy

nothing is five and a half times more

damage

for a caster build.

But if you have a Juggernaut's blood

magic, no mana, no life, you can only

use one single blessing,

you have no access to auras,

the Luminary aura bot giving you like

giga effect wrath zealotry

is the actual highest damage spell

caster setup that I could POB. I have

spent I I promise you I have spent 4 and

1/2 days POB'ing casters when I'm not

looking at strength stack.

None of them had any damage,

but the Luminary Juggernaut's CI

Whispers of Infinity,

this was the highest I could find. This

was the highest I could achieve. If you

want to pour

your life savings into an end-game

caster, this was the only setup I could

find

that did insane damage because Nadir

mode is the most broken in the game

with overloaded intensity on spark.

This is it. This is all spells have for

multi-mirror builds.

That's it.

It's not I'm considering this a full

guide.

This was a concept I found when POB'ing

every possible combo of spells I could I

could think of.

And by far, this was the best one.

I'll see you guys next time.