Uploaded February 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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POB: pastebin.com/cyR4w8EY
POB is on Max DPS setting (435k Shaper DPS)
For the Shaper vid, I had (266k Shaper DPS w/ Minion Life support & bit less optimal AG Gear)

As far as I know, this is the first pure Animate Guardian Deathless Shaper kill (please let me know if I'm wrong). Pure AG builds typically lack DPS. I scaled damage thru crit and juiced-up hatred aura. Power charges give minions 200% crit chance, so having 4 charges (1 from +1 PC helm) gives 9x the base crit of my terminus est sword (about 8.5 x 9=77% crit chance). I also have extra crit chance from Maligaro's gloves, as well as a ton of crit multi from Abyssus, Maligaro's, and Light of Lunaris shield (Shield affects AG by taking Necro Aegis). So, he's at about 81% crit chance ignoring accuracy and 384% Crit multi. I'm not sure what his accuracy is, but it seems pretty high, probably in the 90s.

The new trigger craft mod on weapons allow permanent bone offering, which turns into minion crit multi from the lunaris shield and necro aegis. So he has like 66% attack block and 33% spell block chance.

Terminus est and Voll's chest seems to be the best way to have reliable charges. Once he crits just once, he basically gets all the charges and maintains them.

I have a lot of minion leech on my jewels, and they are all necessary since AG has high life (40k w/ minion life support) compared to DPS (266k in video). His leech is very strong. He recovers about 6000 life per second from leech. His regen is about 2000.

Hatred and War Banner gives him a ton of DPS too since it has about +80% aura effectiveness, and I use Ele equilibrium to lower enemy cold res. AG deals about 60% phys, 40% cold damage because of Hatred.

My curses (enfeeble, temp chains), Malediction (Ascendancy), purity of ice (+7 max cold res), and consecrated ground (6% regen) gives very important defenses that affect both me and AG. Occultist's purple explosions help a lot with clearing.

The 6link Shav's wrappings with the appropriate colors might be the hardest part about making the build.

I also considered many other set ups, like:
-- necromancer (AG became super strong but I died too often)
-- broken faith shield (less DPS than Lunaris)
-- Charge-on-block Shaper shield (not as reliable as terminus/volls)
-- Hegemonies staff (terminus est's frenzies are too good)
-- facebreaker (slow attack speed = slow leech)
-- Starforge (cant use hatred, low crit, no frenzies)
-- Many other weapons (usually either low crit or no frenzies)

Shout out to eirikeiken for the inspiration
(His build was not crit, relied on poison, used very different auras, and I think he was necromancer.):
youtube.com/watch?v=L17oPmP8ORo