Hey Folks! I am continuing down this nonsense path of Summon Raging Spirits, and if this build continues like it has a strong likelihood of eclipsing my Righteous Fire Juggernaut. It isn’t that the Jugg is bad or anything, and it managed to get me all the way through T16 maps. The problem that I am having is that my gear isn’t quite good enough to make bossing feel good. I can absolutely get there, but the overwhelming popularity of the build has meant that anything RF Jugg friendly… is now ungodly expensive. I am wearing the wrong hat because I could not touch something with the same explicits on it and of the right armor base for anything short of 20 divines. This gets into the problem I have talked about before of the league tending to consider “less than 100 divines” as a “light investment”. I saw my very first raw divine drop yesterday… on the SRS Necro.
I have most of the build locked in so far and am about to build into my first large cluster. For the most part, it was easy to find the pieces that I needed because I am not sure if the league has caught onto how powerful this build really is. There is a poison variant that Balor has been shopping around that is catching steam, as well as a number of the meta-exploration videos have brought it up as a contender. The thing is I think most folks built into RF Jugg based on the statistics and it is probably unlikely that they are going to be building something else. While I enjoyed the RF playstyle, it feels like it is balancing a bunch of plates in the air when it comes to regeneration and elemental resists. If anything negative impacts either, you are sorta fucked. It also never really felt great up against bosses and felt awful in the Sanctum.
Last night I spent about 100 chaos upgrading items for my SRS Necro and I am getting close to what appears to be an endgame viable build. The thing is… this gear is functionally better for what it is than a lot of what I am wearing currently on my RF Jugg. The key difference being it cost me 100 chaos instead of the 200 divines or so it would cost me to kit myself out in equivalent gear designed for Righteous Fire. The market meets the demand and this league folks have demanded gear for the Pohx Juggernaut variant. I am simply not good enough at crafting to really be able to homebrew the gear that he is outlining, which means I have had to rely on the trade boards and those prices really reflect its popularity. I have the wrong Eater implicit on my gloves currently but that is just because I ran out of orbs and will keep chipping away at that as I do more blue altars. My hope is that I can start using the SRS Necro soon to do those for hopefully better results.
As far as defenses go I am in a decent enough state for early mapping, namely that I can easily soak up another 30% nerf from the second Kitava kill. I need to spend some effort fixing my Chaos and right now I have neck and helm to work with that are not yet upgraded. I should be able to find a better Amethyst ring that should help some as well, but I went with something I had vaulted during my RF Jugg leveling process. Luckily the anoint that this build once is cheap enough and I should be able to pick the Grave Intentions notable up relatively quickly after I upgrade my amulet. That leaves the helm as the trickiest piece that is very likely going to be a crafting project. I have a white-quality helm from the base type at level 88… and I just have to go through a bazillion orbs until I get both +2 minion gems and some sort of resist on the same item. I have enough Harvest materials to swap a resist out if I have to.
I do however think I probably want to start running some maps before I invest much more in this build. As of last night, I am sitting in Act 10, and in theory, after I beat Kitava and see where my resists are sitting I am going to dive into my bulk maps and see how well this performs. The Raven MTX though makes the Summon Raging Spirits all the more enjoyable.