the build i'm currently following has 80% phys reduction - but when i play around with it's pob if i for example remove "purity of fire" it's phys reduction goes down by 16%
it's just not clear where the phys reduction is coming from

here is my pob https://pastebin.com/kEveGTuM

here is the build i'm following pob https://pastebin.com/tLLrqu2T

i know that my gear is nowhere near as good and i lack some reserved mana reductions but my build just feels super lackluster. basically 1 shotted by a single white mon if i even step foot into a t16.

e: aurastacking

This post was edited by notforgoten on Feb 10 2021 05:57pm

You are playing an aurastacker and seem like a noob.

I didn't really look at anything but you lose some phys reduction bc of your guardian ascendancy - each aura grants phys% dmg reduction, scaled by your aura effectiveness.

Aura stacker is not a "kinda get it right" type of build.

/e also you should be using first among + replenishing presence medium clusters now. You are also only lvl 86 - aura stacker is really made for 90+. You need more auras+aura effect

This post was edited by Commm on Feb 10 2021 07:59pm

you're not wrong.

That makes sense, albeit when i took one aura off 16% phys reduction is lost on the proper pob, and if i remove another it only drops 2%.
I just can't seem to understand how i'd be able to run another 8 aura's with maybe another 15% reserved mana reduction.

are the wrath/hatred added onto rings as an implicit activated with 0 mana reserved or do they require mana reserved to activate?

I'm thinking i might have to work on another build, as currency is low, and knowledge isn't great either

those cluster nodes look interesting, the build i'm following doesn't use them, but i might have to without unlimited exalts.

e/ I see now that the loss in phys dmg reduction when removing a herald is 16% and a normal aura is 4% is this because of the interaction with purposeful harbringer?

This post was edited by notforgoten on Feb 10 2021 08:25pm

I don't know that you can run the CI aura stacker anymore with the cluster nerfs. You might have much better luck going low life in 3.13. I was lookin into it and honestly it just seems like way too much effort for me now so I didn't do it :P. Maybe I'm getting too old lol.

Anyway, I'd suggest you check out kobeblackmamba, he is running aurastacker this league and has a pretty good post on the forums tracking his progress over the start of this league, how to craft some of the key items etc..

Auras on rings require reservation, less any reductions just like normal. I didn't dig into the other POB that you are following at all, but can only imagine it is many mirrors of gear

This post was edited by Commm on Feb 10 2021 08:29pm

The first thing you need to do us get 400% aura effectiveness. If you can't do that, don't play aura stacker. It'll feel horrible.