[3.26] CheapBunny's Shaper Despair Glacial Cascade Inquisitor| Legacy of the Rose | Replica Covenant
 Introduction Legacy of the Rose is easily the coolest unique introduced in 3.26 Mercenary League, so I am very tempted to make a build with it, because any sane exile will like to have shaper to fight along afterall. I went and tested the all three variant of the Shaper skill granted by Legacy of the Rose, and thought that Shaper's Despair (Shaper's Ball) has the most potential. The Summon Shaper Memory works/scales like a invulnerable totem, it scales off player's stat and deals damage as a non-totem/minion proxy (damage dealt by Shaper's Memory will not be reflected to you). I respeced my another lvl 95 Inquisitor's build in to this, so may not have much to share regarding leveling in this build guide. This build also involve many Keystones/Keywords, that I wont recommend absolute new player to follow this guide. Overall this build is doing pretty well in the endgame, able to take down some uber bosses with no big issue. Enjoy the Ultimate Chaos! Build Thought
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This build is made around the unique staff Legacy of the Rose Rememberance and Replica Covenant
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To summon Shaper, we need to again 10 Rememberance by spending total 2000 es, the cost is abit high, this is the first thing we need to solve in the build. A 6L skill normally cost around 100-200 mana per cast, which will take us quite a while to gain Rememberance, so we need a way to increase skill cost. The answer for this is Replica Covenant. Not only it make the supported skill become 7L (more mana cost), the unique mode "Skills gain a Base Energy Shield Cost equal to 200% of Base Mana Cost" also triple the skill ES cost, making it a very good unique to pair with Legacy of the Rose How to summon Shaper as frequent as possible? And why Cast Speed is important.
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To summon Shaper as frequent as possible, we will need to gain Rememberance as fast as possible. We have already increased the skill mana cost by fair amount using Replica Covenant, there is another multiplicative layer we can leverage on to increase the mana cost even higher. Yes, Cast Speed, it makes the build spend mana faster, hence gaining Rememberance faster. As mentioned, Summon Shaper scales off player's stat, so Cast Speed would also improve the Shaper Cast Speed. Because we can only start to gain Rememberance again after Shaper done casting, Cast Speed essentially shorten the "cooldown time" of Summon Shaper Memory as well. Because of these reasons, the frequency we can cast Summon Shaper essentially double dipping on Cast Speed, this is why Cast Speed is very important to the build. Some source of Cast Speed I get in the build i) Passive skill tree ii) Legacy of the Rose
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iii) Righteous Fire of Arcane iv) Arcane Surge (Refers to Gears -> Jewels for source of Arcane Surge) Why Inquisitor? Why Glacial Cascade?
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To be able to sustain the huge ES cost, we need good ES regen, and Inquisitor is very good at that thanks to the Ascendancy node Pious Path, which causes life regen also apply to ES. With Vitality Aura and Consecrated Ground buff, we can gain very good amount of Life/ES regen (around 800 per second). Furthermore, this build also uses Supreme Decadence timeless jewel keystone to help with ES sustain. Since we are going for Inquisitor, I thought Battlemage from Instrument of Virtue ascendancy node is good to take as well, because Legacy of the Rose has pretty decent weapon attack damage. However, the damage added is physical, which makes it harder to scale with added cold damage from Replica Covenant, so I decided to use Glacial Cascade as it converts all physical damage into cold inherently. Why Mark of the Shaper ring?
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Because it fits the Shaper theme :p. Build Mechanic
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Shaper Despair Base Crit and Sandstorm Visage Helmet
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I just realized the Shaper Despair Base Crit is 0 reading a post on POE builds subreddit by https://www.reddit.com/user/ripperinos/, as proposed by him in the post, Sandstorm Visage is a very strong helmet to the build, because Legacy of the Rose has a decent base crit chance (8%), that can be applied to both Shaper Despair (0% base crit) and Glacial Cascade (5% base crit). With Sandstorm Visage, the build is able to achieve 100% spell crit chance for both Shaper Despair and Glacial Cascade, which is super huge. The downside of attack cannot crit does not affect the build at all. Keystones and Keywords
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This build uses alot of Keystones and Keywords, so I thought I will briefly explain what they does in the build. Eldritch Battery (from Legacy of the Rose)
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https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Eldritch_Battery Eldritch Battery is a keystone passive skill that makes energy shield protect mana instead of life. With this keystone, all mana cost will reduce your ES first before Mana. With enough ES and Regen, we can reserve all our mana for aura and use ES as skill cost. However, ES will no longer protect Life. Mind Over Matter (Passive skill tree)
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https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Mind_Over_Matter Mind Over Matter is a keystone passive skill that allows the character's mana to absorb a portion of the damage dealt to life. Although EB makes our ES no longer protect Life, while combining with Mind over Matter, part of the damage dealt to life will be transfer to Mana, and hence will by protected by the ES again, essentially making ES part of our effective life pool again. Supreme Decadence (Timeless Jewel Keystone)
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https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Supreme_Decadence Supreme Decadence is a keystone passive skill which causes life recovery from flasks to also apply to energy shield, but reduces the recovery amount. Life flask effects are still removed on full life As we uses both Eldritch Battery and Mind over Matter, Life/ES has become our eHp, this keystone allow life flask to recover both Life/ES, which is very handy. Pain Attunement (Passive skill tree) and Petrified Blood (Skill Gem) and
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https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Pain_Attunement Pain Attunement is a keystone passive skill that grants 30% more spell damage when the character is on low life (50% life or lower). This build uses Petrified Blood, it allows the build to stay low life without sacrificing eHp. For more details, please read https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Petrified_Blood. Pain Attunement spell damage bonus will be applied on both Glacial Cascade and Shaper's Despair while being low life (almost all the time due to Petrified Blood). Battlemage (Ascendancy Node)
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https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Battlemage Battlemage is a keyword. Battlemage gives the player character Gain Added Spell Damage equal to the Damage of Your Main Hand Weapon. Both Glacial Cascade and Shaper Despair will gain the physical damage from Legacy of the Rose because of Battlemage, and Glacial Cascade will convert all of them into cold damage. Iron Will (Passive skill tree)
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https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Iron_Will Iron Will is a keystone passive skill that causes the increased melee physical attack damage bonus from strength to apply to spells as well. Strength provides 1% increased melee physical damage for every 5 Strength. Iron Will causes Strength to provide 1% spell damage for every 5 Strength as well. This build has about 500 Str, providing 100% increased spell damage, this bonus get to apply to both Glacial Cascade and Shaper Despair. Magebane (Passive skill tree)
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https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Magebane Magebane is a keystone passive skill which makes Dexterity provide no inherent bonus to Evasion Rating. Instead you gain a 1% Chance to Suppress Spell Damage per 15 Dexterity. This is a relatively simple keystone we grab to max out our chance to suppress spell, and the downside does not bother us, because we do not scale evasion in this build. Defenses used in this build
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1. Decent Ehp - 6.9k+ 2. 75%+ chaos res (with tattoos) 3. 100% Spell Suppression 4. 800 Life Regen + 800 ES Regen 5. 8500+ Armour before flask 6. CWDT Molten Shell 7. 25% attack block 8. Life Leech (Gloves implicit)/ ES Leech (Passive) Videos
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Mercenaries of Trarthus League T16 Phoenix https://youtu.be/EIGxAFX6vpk T16 Tower + Drox https://youtu.be/zn5XCdy7y8E T17 Sanctuary https://youtu.be/H2EIDsLt3FU Originator's Memory Bosses https://youtu.be/g4YU1K1ZJ0A Uber Shaper https://youtu.be/NMKJfXaTC-s Uber Sirus https://youtu.be/V6ZO8_EXQxM Skill Tree (POB)
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Kill all bandits. 6 Jul 2025 - [POE 3.26] 97 lvl skill tree (Latest) https://pobb.in/-xbBzIlfcCv- 5 Jul 2025 - [POE 3.26] 97 lvl skill tree https://pobb.in/mQ9q8rqno-JC Ascendancy
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 Sanctuary -> Pious Path -> Righteous Providence -> Instrument of Virtue Gears
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Notes: i) Look for Shaper's Despair Variant on Legacy of the Rose staff ii) All sockets on Legacy of the Rose should be unlinked to gain maximum bonus from Runegraft of the Jeweller, user crafting bench to craft 2 socket -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 to make all the sockets unlinked iii) Rare ring need to be Elder influenced due to Mark of the Shaper modifier Jewels
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Forbidden Jewels and Alternative (Source of Arcane Surge)
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Mid Game (Arcane Surge from Watcher's Eye) End Game (Arcane Surge from Forbidden Jewels) Unique Jewels (Cadiro variant, slot in specific jewel socket, refer to POB) (Look for Spell Damage/Crit Mult/Spell Crit Chance/Armour) (Slot in specific jewel socket, refer to POB) (Cold Damage variant, slot in specific jewel socket, refer to POB) (Slot in specific jewel socket, refer to POB) (Str/Armour variant, slot in specific jewel socket, refer to POB) Gem Link
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7L Glacial Cascade (Body Armour)
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Before you have source of Arcane Surge After you have source of Arcane Surge (Refers to Gears -> Jewels for source of Arcane Surge) 7L Summon Shaper Memory (Weapon)
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Before you have source of Arcane Surge After you have source of Arcane Surge (Refers to Gears -> Jewels for source of Arcane Surge) 4L Aura
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2L Skills
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1L Skills
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Mercenary
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Dex/Int Mercenary with Skitterbot  My other build guide
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Última edição por cheapbunny#0890 em 16 de jul. de 2025 14:06:07 Último bump em 16 de jul. de 2025 14:02:00
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6 July 2025 - Added Runegraft of the jeweller into the build - Now requires all the sockets on Legacy of the Rose to be unlinked - Replaced Voll's Vision with Sandstorm Visage as end game helmet (Idea by https://www.reddit.com/user/ripperinos/) Última edição por cheapbunny#0890 em 6 de jul. de 2025 08:32:38
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hallo!
im struggling to achieve 100% spell suppression. i copied your spell suppression set up almost 1 to 1, but couldnt reach 100%. i also checked your POB and viewed spell suppression calcs. there are two items there that says "+4 base | Tree". i cant exactly see where that is in your build. mine doesnt have it even if i tried to copy yours 1 to 1. would appreciate your thoughts on this. Also, i couldnt see ailment immunity set up. ive been enjoying the build so far! thank you! |
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" There are two small dex passives need to be tattooed into cold resistance near Scion evasion ring. I use Pantheon/Flask for Freeze/Shock Immunity. |
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