Overview
This is the endgame follow-up to the Disciple of Varashta djinn minion league starter. The core is still Kelari’s djinn command skills, Kelari’s Brutality and Kelari’s Deception. At endgame they are paired with The Auspex, a body armour that grants the Mist Raven companion. Mist Raven counts as a minion and benefits from the same command-skill damage and cooldown recovery nodes. With Bidding and the tree, its 12-second cooldown drops to about 5.3 seconds, and the three skills take turns.
Damage comes from Master support. Every different type of revivable minion you have out gives the djinn and the Raven 7% more damage, multiplicatively. A row of unsupported skeletons and a specter exists only to stack that bonus and to feed Pain Offering. Blasphemy with Temporal Chains slows enemies for safety.
Defence moves from energy shield to evasion and deflection, because The Auspex needs about 240 dexterity. The creator equipped it around level 80, respecced the ES nodes into evasion and reached level 90 comfortably, doing well in Abyss and Ritual content.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Low investment for strong endgame damage, good as a first character
- Easy to play: command skills at range while minions do the work
- Mist Raven adds AoE nuke damage
- Temporal Chains aura gives time to react
Cons
- The Auspex needs a lot of dexterity, so the tree and gear must be built around it
- Damage depends on keeping many different minion types alive for Master support
- The best upgrades (+4/+5 minion skill amulet and sceptre) get expensive
Key Skills
- Kelari’s Brutality / Kelari’s Deception — main djinn command damage
- Mist Raven — companion skill from The Auspex
- Master support — 7% more damage per revivable minion type
- Pain Offering — Dance Macabre aura for minion speed and damage
- Blasphemy + Temporal Chains — defensive slow aura
Gear & Anointments
- The Auspex body armour (core)
- Sceptre with +4 minion skills and allies-deal-increased-damage; helmet and amulet with +2 minion skills and dexterity
- Bones of Ullr boots for minion reservation efficiency
- Unset ring for an extra skill slot; Ventor’s Gamble as an optional ring
- Buckler for evasion and resistances, or a +2 minion focus if budget allows
Credits & Source
Build credited to Visualize The Win Gaming. See the source video for the full build’s gameplay footage + voice commentary: POE 2 Djinn Minion ENDGAME BUILD UPDATE Patch 0.5.5 Disciple of Varashta Kelari Djinn + Mist Raven.