[3.13] SRS (Summon Raging Spirit) 11+ Aura Build! Double Your Party's DPS! Fun League Starter :)

I update the full guide to match these changes as well.

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+Cheaper than spectre/golem builds, 10ex to buy all gear
+Works well as a league starter, the more expensive gear is optional
+Great party build, more than double your party's DPS!
+Clear well solo as well, and most endgame bosses are no problem
+Runs pretty much all map mods (although some are a bit annoying)
-Not good as a SSF leaguestart build (some uniques are required)
-Not a HC build, build is squishy, so leveling past 96 can be rough
-Cannot tank damage, so must be very careful with positioning

Current skill tree at level 96:
http://poeurl.com/c6il

Once I hit level 97, I was going to spec the last life/ES node on the Written in Blood wheel, but what points you add beyond level 96 will mostly depend on preference. I would say the main damage choice is speccing the nodes leading up to Righteous Army, or speccing Lord of the Dead for minion damage, and the main defensive choice would be speccing Insightfulness for the energy shield and mana. Fitting in more cluster jewel stuff is also a great option (see next paragraph.)

Cluster Jewels

I used this Megalomaniac jewel up to level 95 (Socket between Witch and Shadow):

I bought this jewel for 1 exalt. Fettle is great for life, Raze and Pillage is great for SRS damage, and Pure Aptitude lets us fit Purity of Lightning into our Aura setup. In an ideal Megalomaniac, we would probably want Vengeful Commander (Anger/Wrath/Hatred aura effect) over Raze and Pillage, but haven't seen that for sale yet...

[This option should be second choice as of the 3.13 update]
Also, if you get a few extra levels, using an aura cluster with Vengeful Commander and Pure Aptitude + a life cluster with Fettle is an option. I switched to this setup when I hit level 96. The medium aura effect cluster cost about 30 chaos, and the Fettle jewel cost me about 10 Chaos for the base, and about 200 Alterations (and some Augmentation orbs) to hit Fettle, plus a Regal.
My current Cluster Jewels:


I chose to kill all the bandits for the 2 passive skill points. Extra skill points are always nice :)

For Pantheons, I generally use "Soul of the Brine King" for major since we don't have stun immunity anywhere else, and "Soul of Shakari" for minor since chaos damage hurts the most as a Hybrid character. Of course you will want to change your Pantheons around situationally as well depending on what boss/map you are running.

Necromancer

Here is the order I got the ascendancy in while leveling, however the order is pretty flexible (see explanation below.)

Commander of Darkness-->Mindless Aggresion-->Unnatural Strength-->Mistress of Sacrifice

Commander of Darkness- Gives you and your SRS 33% increased attack/cast speed end-game. The all res can be nice while leveling. Also a great node for your party. If you are running solo, you probably will not take this node until Uber Lab (unless you are having trouble with res)

Mindless Aggression- kind of a boring node, on the way to Unnatural Strength.

Unnatural Strength- huge damage boost for SRS, boosts our zombies and golem as well.

Mistress of Sacrifice- Casting flesh offering makes us speedy. Skill effect duration is also great since it makes it so we don't have to cast Flesh Offering and SRS as much. This might be a good node to grab first, especially if you are solo, for speedy leveling.

Weapons: The main stat to look out for is "+1 to level of all spell/fire spell skill gems/minion skill gems" The main goal here is to get a weapon that raises your SRS gem level by 2.

Current Weapon:




Current Shield: Victario's Charity



Chest Armors: Victario's influence





Helmet: Rare with "+3 to level of socketed Minion Gems" "Socketed gems are supported by level # Minion Damage" and "Socketed gems are supported by level # Immolate"

My current helmet:


Boots: Doryani's Delusion Sorcerer Boots


Gloves: Replica Grip of the Council


Belt: Replica Soul Tether



Amulet: Important mods "+1 to level of all fire skill gems" Anger has #% reduced mana reservation"

My current amulet:




Rings: Rares with high life, Dexterity, and any res you need

My current rings:


Flasks:

My current flasks:



Jewels: Conqueror's Efficiency and rare jewels. Rare mods to look out for are: Life, "1% reduced mana reserved" corruption. attributes/resistances you need, "Minions have #% chance to blind on hit with attacks," "Minions deal #-# additional physical damage"

4L in helmet: SRS-Unleash-Melee Physical Damage-Melee Splash/Multistrike


Gems in chest (Victario's Influence):

Hatred-Summon Skitterbots-Wrath-(Vaal) Haste-Enlighten-Anger
Unless you have Enlighten level 4, it doesn't matter whether your chest is 5L or 6L.

I currently run this setup with a level 3 Enlighten:
Hatred-Summon Skitterbots-Wrath-(Vaal) Haste-Enlighten; Anger

I have Anger unlinked because it only reserves 3% of my mana, (see amulet in gear section) and reserves the same amount when linked to the Enlighten level 3.

Run this setup if you do not have a level 3 Enlighten (Links don't matter at all in this scenario):
Hatred, Summon Skitterbots, Wrath, (Vaal) Haste, Anger, Precision

Additional Aura setups:
4L in gloves or boots: Enlighten-Flesh and Stone-Dread Banner-Precision
If you are running Precision in your chestpiece, put Clarity (or Purity of lightning if you are not running Doryani's Delusion) here instead.

Other Auras: Clarity, Vitality, Purity of lightning(preferably granted by boots,) Purity of Ice or fire (once you get a Level 4 Enlighten, and a lab enchant for reduced reservation. I don't have this yet.)

Aura Explanations:

Movement (3-link in shield or weapon):
Shield Charge-Faster Attacks-Fortify
You will most likely not have room for a blink movement skill. If you really want to use a blink skill, you can switch out faster attacks for Dash (for bossing especially)

3-link for our other minions:
Summon Carrion Golem-Raise Zombie-Feeding Frenzy

Gem choice explanation:

Other skills (unlinked):
Flesh Offering-Huge speed buff for our SRS (and some speed for us too because of our ascendancy.) You don't have to cast it too often, but you pretty much want to make sure the offering buff is always up.

Desecrate- We cast this when there are no corpses around to cast Flesh Offering
These two skills will go in your weapon if you go with the "Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" option

Additional note: If you want to spend more currency, the Awakened versions of the support gems we run will of course make the build slightly stronger, but the build runs fine without them. All Awakened gems should be straight upgrades from their normal variants (even considering the alternate quality gems.)

Alternate quality gems:

We can use SRS starting at level 4, so doesn't matter too much what skill we use up until then. Infernal Legion support is very strong on SRS while leveling, so start using that gem from level 8 if you have a 2-link. Once you get a 3-link, you will want to run Minion Damage(req. lvl 8) as well. If you get a 4-link early (pre-lvl 38,) you can run a Melee splash/Melee Phys gem swap for your 4th link (probably only need to swap for the main bosses. At level 38, you can swap out Infernal Legion for Unleash, and use Multistrike instead of Melee Phys for your gem swap.
For auras, if you have the links, run Summon Skitterbots-Infernal Legion at level 16. Now not only do Skitterbots chill and shock, but they burn too :) At level 24 we can add either Haste (if you have enough Dex,) or Hatred. If you can't sustain mana with both auras, take Infernal Legion off of the Skitterbots. Remember it is OK to use a mana flask (or even two!) if you need to. At level 31, if you are using Hatred, link Generosity to it if you have the links.
For other skills, don't forget to start using Flesh offering at level 12. You can get Desecrate at level 16 as well to help you create corpses for the offering. At level 34 start using Carrion Golem (support this with Feeding Frenzy if you can).
As an aside to all that, if you have gem sockets left over, you can throw in a Raise Zombie Gem (preferably linked with the Feeding Frenzy.) You may also consider linking them to a Fortify or Minion Life so they don't die as often while leveling.

Before we start equipping our end-game uniques/ideal rare gear (see gear section), we can level using rares with life and any resistances you need. If this is not your leaguestart character, and have some leveling uniques saved up, go ahead and use those while leveling too!


At level 50, buy a Victario's Charity and spec Necromantic Aegis. You want to make sure your passive tree paths near Necromantic Aegis when you an in the level 45-50 range, so you can spec the node right when you equip the shield.

At level 52, buy a Victario's Influence. Try to buy a 6-socket one if you can (even if the rolls are low.) We can buy a better one later when we have enough Jewelers to 6 socket on our own. If you can't buy a 6-socket one, either buy a 5-socket for now, or buy a well-rolled one and test your luck with your own Jeweler's orbs. Don't spend Jeweler's orbs unless the chest has a good roll. If you can get the 6-socket, run Anger, Wrath, Hatred, Haste, Skitterbots, and Precision(lvl 1 for now) in the chestpiece. If you have to run 5 socket, you can probably run the Precision socketed somewhere else and still sustain mana if you have picked up all the aura nodes on the tree (see below.) If you are having trouble sustaining mana with all the auras, drop Skitterbots for now, and add it back in once we get Conqueror's Efficiency.

The order of the passives you add is fairly flexible other than adding Necromantic Aegis at level 50, and adding the 4 aura clusters before we equip Victario's Incluence. After equipping the chestpiece, add nodes based on what you feel you are lacking (probably life first,) until you eventually fill out all the recommended nodes (see passive tree section). The cluster jewel passives will come last.

What level can we start using the other uniques we need?


Remember to ID all rare scepters/rune daggers/wands/spirit shields for the chance of getting +1 to all spell/fire spell skill gems. Once you have a +1 weapon, you are set for weapons until maps. Also remember to check the gem section, and start leveling Aura/Minion gems we need later in our open sockets and off hand weapons.

Once you get to maps, gradually try to upgrade your gear until we can have a similar setup to the gear suggested in the gear section. Remember to check if you can fit another aura in your setup every time you do a mana/mana reservation related upgrade.

General Build Overview
https://youtu.be/_KpUzdHySfA
Shaper
https://youtu.be/nACmlEpSkxo
Elder
https://youtu.be/aiwlZVVR1K4
Level 83 Mastermind (Catarina)
https://youtu.be/rmeOeBuW8UU
Awakener (Sirus)
https://youtu.be/sPmeRAwZmeI

More boss kill videos and a build video coming soon!