[PoE 3.23] SRS DEEP DIVE: Guardian vs Poison vs Lightning - All Summon Raging Spirit Builds Compared

Phaze's SRS Deep Dive: Guardian vs Poison vs Lightning. Summon Raging Spirits (SRS) Builds compared for Path of Exile 3.23 Affliction
IMPORTANT: SRS has lost a lot of power with a ~32% damage nerf in 3.24 unfortunately.
It's still viable but I generally wouldn't recommend it as there are stronger builds
Covers Guardian's rework mechanics and leveling in-depth, now a strong SSF SRS leaguestarter.
Lightning SRS Champion, now with big damage behind it thanks to the new Volatility support.
Poison SRS Necromancer/Champion, a popular build that's been dominant recently.
All SRS Builds are Compared and Ranked based on Mapping, Bossing, Damage, Defense, Mobility, SSF, and Cost.
[Path of Building]
Guardian SRS ► pobb.in/bfjkMzDRb_2f (no Spectres)
Lightning SRS Champion ► video: • [PoE 3.23] Lightning S... pobb.in/WLTOeegZKiSS
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:25 SRS Damage Types
1:10 Guardian SRS
1:51 Sentinel of Radiance Minion
2:22 Sentinel Righteous Fire Aura
2:55 Kaom vs Sentinel 1v1
3:44 Radiant Faith vs Time of Need
4:16 Guardian Scaling
4:57 Guardian Leveling
5:35 Poison SRS
6:38 Poison vs Lightning 1v1
6:58 Lightning SRS Champion
7:46 Lightning SRS Pathfinder
8:11 Tormented Spirit: Thief's Grip
8:38 Pathfinder Defenses
9:04 Builds Compared
10:54 Builds Ranked
11:45 Outro
Old PoBs:
Lightning SRS Pathfinder pobb.in/ISUFY0y8k5fs
Poison SRS Champion pobb.in/7_1pf-gLY2Rr
#pathofexile #poe #builds #arpg #affliction #srs #deepdive

[@Carno836]

Amazing video. Well edited, fairly in depth, with all aspects of the builds clearly explained. I wish there was a video like this for every archetype in the game. In terms of build explanation this is really a league of its own. Liked, subscribed, cant wait to learn more about other builds in this format. You really got a knack for presenting.

[@remhizon4338]

I'm an ISD and a long time POE player, seeing a POE guide with such good editing is an absolute treat. I hope you gain more views and subs!

[@hayze7006]

What's an ISD?

[@genygen]

​@@hayze7006Increased Spell Damage

[@remhizon4338]

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[@JohnWhitneyTheFourth]

​@@genygengood comment, but actually though what is ISD

[@RickReasonnz]

@@JohnWhitneyTheFourth Google only gave me Independent School District -_-

[@Tehnooblime]

Really like your editing in this video. It makes everything so easy to understand and nice to look at.

[@Oathkeeper89]

Fantastic analysis. Great presentation with clear audio and easy to understand visuals, breakdown is simple to understand for non-minion players as well as newbie-to-“average/normal” players.

[@niuage]

I love this. It's always so hard to decide on variations of a build because there are so many variants, so a series focusing on comparing them is def something I enjoy.

[@MoofyCakes]

Great video, Phaze! Thanks for the detailed breakdown and keep up the good work!

[@MombaFunke]

Beautiful presentation, clear and concise. Crammed a lot of info into 12 mins, well done.

[@HastyFury]

I really like the breakdown and structure of this video. Great video!

[@DeivixLV]

Amazing video format! This is what a real comparison video is!

[@jonathanfennhagen9118]

Absolute pleasure to watch this video. Well done.

[@FPET03]

Great video, everything was easy to understand and digest! Really well done, love this format and the recap :)

[@Doominated69]

Awesome vid! Phenomenal editing!

[@arulleach1351]

Liked, subscribed, bell activated, this is simply such a well rounded and HQ guide. + you manage to keep it both entertaining and highly informative. Massive props

[@ArkhamWayne]

Fantastic Work done here! Thank you Bro!

[@williamtownsend3118]

Never seen any of your stuff before (looks like you're a racer who's just starting to do KZbin?) but was looking into the different SRS archetypes and found your video. This is really well done, super informative and extremely clear. I think I'm going to go try to get the Hardcore achievements done using the Tri Elemental SRS Guardian! In the meantime, I hope you put out some more stuff, this was really excellent!

[@anime.princess]

dang that was insane production, love it!

[@Nikilas4you]

Why have I never heard of you?! Insane quality. Huge probs

[@Alan157]

Great video man! Played my own SRS Guardian and it was amazing! Also, love the Quin clip lol

[@AlbertDoes]

Wow really impressed with the analysis and production quality

[@victorberrozpe2478]

I really liked your video formats, I hope you keep doing this

[@daniellolp]

visually super cool video. appreciate the work

[@JohnWhitneyTheFourth]

This is a really really good video. I was looking at srs with a dominating blow duo for league start but didn't end up doing it because I just couldn't decide what version would be best. This is a lot of great information that would have been hard to find otherwise

[@Vulgaels]

Fantastic work, i played chains of command and srs wrath/smite guardian without the guardian minions but stacking auras ammounts and effect effect to get 50%+ recovery. Was great but champ was better. When i saw your build of the champ, I loved it!

[@23rubenferreira]

Loved how you put the explanation of the entire build since early levels.

[@chanceklippstein]

Great presentation. Ran poison srs as my last build of the league and i really like it. Took me further than ive gone woth any of my other characters. But this video has me very curious about lightning srs. I will check out the build and will probably play it at some point next league.

[@dylan9124]

This deserves way more exposure and I’m so thankful to the people who directed me here from other Poe vids. Liked and subbed for sure

[@arrow23]

absolutely amazing content. subbed.

[@kevinm813]

Awesome Video Phaze! Love the format, Wish you continued success! Subbed.

[@yaglajagla5781]

Much respect for such a valuable and clear guide

[@petrocules7811]

What an absolutely fantastic video!

[@farettig]

Great video. I played poison srs this league and didn't even realize the others could be stronger!

[@thomasgrimm1664]

Fantastic video! I'm going to play lightning SRS next league for sure.

[@raffaend]

your videos are really amazing, really easily digestible information

[@GladiatUnispect]

What a good video and your POBs are amazing, thanks a lot

[@ashriel5438]

Most in-depth analysis I've seen.

[@thugbeard9753]

Wow, great video man. I love the side-by-side comparisons and honesty about the cons of each build.

[@-ALC]

Love videos like this. Thank you!

[@brandonl4511]

Insta subscribed, hope to see more videos like this in the future, really well done.

[@xSunny599]

new sub so much effort and clear guides love it

[@sumsumab1809]

Thx for such a detailed comparison

[@princeazsa6133]

Rly cool video, hoping to see more in the future

[@theammar]

awesome video. concise info well articulated.

[@Pharmeca]

awesome vid and edit, hoping to see a different build in the future!

[@davideoman1000]

Great video. More skill archetype stuff like this pls!

[@stefanwlb]

Man, these guides/videos you make are 100/100, really amazing work. I would love to hear your thoughts about any "new" starter builds. I love to test out a new skill on league launch, but last time it was a dud which was disappointing, but it goes with the terrain.

[@TumusPeter]

Didn't give the new guardian stuff a go yet so I was very surprised seeing this demo of the sentinel - that's actually insane and seems like it'd be a comfortable, braindead way to faceroll the initial ssf progression. Definitely going to have to give this a shot!

[@Rekennnnn]

The production value is insane, Phaze. Huge W

[@user-by3ni2ey4l]

nice guide phaze, keep it up!

[@MarcixTNT]

Damn, waiting for more videos :)

[@rachelfeingersh3471]

Really nice video! I did a HCSSF run with SRS Guardian over this past weekend for fun, so this was a timely video to come across. Unfortunately I died in a yellow map due to my low phys mitigation. I'm probably going to play one of these builds next league.

[@MeMyselfAi-kg2ep]

What are you going to do to fix that on your next hc run? iv played a few guardians to lvl 90 ssfhc and that was my weak point as well. felt so squishy

[@ParthianX]

I've seen lightning coil for body armour along with phys to fire on helmet in Subtractem's build to help with phys mitigation@@MeMyselfAi-kg2ep

[@VitchAndVorty]

@@MeMyselfAi-kg2ep Did they remove armor aura or something? Or what about Molten Shell? Seriously, what did I miss?

[@raylee2483]

Great video!

[@krzysztofzajdel6836]

Leaving comment for algoritm. I hope YT gonna boost you to the highest numbers that poe creators getting. Past many years of playing poe, never seen such a good build guide. You need only bit more movies on your channel.

[@jareckii_2739]

maan this sound effect on 7:00 made me turn off sound and look out of the window, great vid btw!

[@atiradeon6320]

Having done both Psn & Lgn, both Champ & Necro, on both SSF & Trade (yup, that's a lot of SRS this league!), and also both on Kb&M and gamepad (in fact that's why I wanted to try Champ Lgn in the first place, it's actually one of the best builds to play with a gamepad). I can honestly say that while Champ Lgn felt somewhat tankier/safer the DMG of Poison felt better and more importantly Necro Psn was so insanely more comfortable to play that I had to in the end abandon lightning (and that's even with somewhat crappy Necro Psn gear in SSF vs I had great luck and got everything Champ Lgn needed also in SSF, 6L loreweave, jewels etc). The lower duration of SRS on Champ and the buff re-casting, plus the recovery reliance on life flask, simply were a pain in the a&&. Necro Psn is just cast & go, it feels better to play particularly for a grindy game. In trade league the contrast was even starker, because I could have access to way better gear for Psn so the difference got further minimised.

[@ziohkek2841]

Very nice Video editing

[@jnssmnsn]

This was a pleasure to watch. No wasted rants or cooked takes.

[@xin3799]

very good video and Edit pls make more of this

[@grex6883]

Amazing video

[@kurtw6922]

Nice vid, I would watch any number of these comparison vids, even if options 2+ are way weaker than the first.

[@MagnusTheli]

Rally good video and info

[@ino2055]

Dayyyumm, that is a good vid right there! thnks man, i did sentinel of radiance and srs life scaling guardian on 3.22, looking to freshen things up, but i think i might fall down that pit again XD in terms of league start and survivability it is great, but this lightning one just made me go "uuuuuuwiiiii" but since u said it is not league startable i'm a lil sad XD

[@WifeDota]

By far the highest quality PoE discussion video I've ever seen.

[@zerkon2]

excellent video damn!

[@sadistical5787]

great vid, woah

[@mikkelnyhuus9173]

The attack speed you can get with guardian is unreal. If you’re willing to sacrifice 2 gem sockets the movement can imo be 3 stars, Flame Dash and Shield Charge with Unleash intermingled is just good clearing. SRS is so reliable for offscreen.

[@valen8560]

I need a video like this for EVERY skills in POE!

[@Cutzs]

great vid playing your build now and loving it..I need more tatts though.

[@karmoth6666]

Super content. Sub and liked

[@fraggem]

really nice video. clean editing and delivery of information. kudos! maybe pay a little more attention to the audio balance between background music and speech and youre golden!

[@PhazePlays_]

Noted, thanks for the feedback

[@Nam9xz]

OK you convinced me to try Lightning SRS. Gonna try it in 3.23

[@AI-Msc]

Worried over melee range to smite and try to keep aura

[@RS-lu7dp]

great video

[@timati78rus]

Very nice! And moreover it's SSF HC oriented content!

[@laffytaffykidd]

I echo every compliment that you're receiving in the comments section. I was engaged THE ENTIRE TIME!

[@patostrophia2948]

Awesome video man! you want me to go back to Poe haha! Just a question, what are you using for your ingame presentation? like the Circle where you explain every build. or the Note boxes with texts? this looks so professional :)

[@quanvu8501]

Im looking forward to your next video

[@spruceleee]

Love the whole video. There's a variant I would love you to consider, which is the pure fire damage Juggernaut.

[@SadPanda94]

Pretty good video, I always prefer necro because of the benefit of being able to league start with it. It is an incredible leaguestarter and within 24 hours of the league I usually start to do boss services for pinnacle bosses. The problem I observed with the elemental version is that it takes too much investment to start it and you really cant leaguestart with elemental srs on pathfinder or champion. That is a big issue, you could do those even in ssf but the issue is you need to find specific items and still you will perform poorly compared to poison srs at start.

[@jungroan]

CLEAN

[@karpios34]

great video, exile

[@denizpolater5268]

Talking about ssf standpoint I did 2 ssf starts this league and guardian felt really lackluster later on due to scaling issues, considering fleshcrafter and covenant both are T1. Guardian is bonkers early but if you manage to farm severed in sleep and darkness enthroned necro really becomes really comfy + if you manage to find a covenant which luckily I found one. It really starts rolling all content ingame. I also found a fleshcrafter but I doubt I would hit the dps and survivability numbers I have with my poison srs necro rn. Guardian having Time of need regen node might be the only thing I miss tbh compared to my necro srs.

[@jcobb7762]

Thank you sir

[@Fertizis]

Amazing work, please keep vids coming! Maybe make your voice a bit louder tho?

[@liarh9284]

Informational video.

[@Garchomp10501]

Really great video pleas make more videos ❤

[@zaggedout]

Crazy video

[@marx96xVx]

Loved the video! What do you think of the minion instability version / popcorn srs? Im personally very fond of this archetype as it's what i accidentally stumbled upon on my first blind playthrough and what i beat the campaign with for the first time (on another character and using a guide that time)

[@PhazePlays_]

It sounds like a solid mapper, not sure about single target. Mechanically and numerically MI seems inferior to standard SRS though, and there probably won't be Minion Life tattoos next league

[@Freexers]

Great vid. Loved it. What about champion lightning srs is not league start viable?

[@betofr8589]

Execelente video .. parabéns

[@fedyasander7672]

Very nice

[@Sammusg]

Played poison srs late league as a sanctum farmer. Really strong, cheap to get online, and you can hit high enough damage easy. Not fun to map with but great for that one purpose.

[@daniloseghese9481]

first of all, amazing video, high quality content very interested in the guardian ele srs. Do you have a medium budget pob for trade league? Between SSF 3M dps and endgame 96M. I was going to follow Ghazzy's guide but liked your approach more

[@Oakelope]

I would love to see a video like this for other build like lightning arrow with deadeye vs slayer vs Crit vs non crit

[@jannol1269]

Didnt play srs, but played dom blow poison on old guardian and absolution on the new one. The poison is still pretty op. The support gems giving you 40-50% more damage each except 1 (could be all if all are dps supports and last is predator). You can reach the cap much easier and faster than with hitbased skills. The temp chains is both defensive and damage curse, the wither doubles your dps. If you play necro, you get 50% increased minion durstion, the duration also works for other skills like vaal skills (vaal haste/vaal minions) or guard skills. When it comes to guardian, you play triple ele at first which gives you the highest early dps. Good for league starters. Later on, it becomes good to specialize only on one element. You use dorianys prototype, use punishment instead of elemental weakness and go crit with monkeys, passives and spirit offering. In the end your dps after switching from triple ele to lightning crit is 4 times higher. Havent played the champion, but it seems to have an edge only in high budget

[@PhazePlays_]

Crit can get high PoB numbers sure. I'm personally not a fan of crit on SRS unless it's a dedicated boss character or something, flesh offering is really big QoL for everything outside of ubers

[@BryAn-zy8xs]

I dont usually gives like but this video deserves a thumbs up

[@wrynngod]

nice vid

[@OmaTalkToMe]

man, i should have played that srs pathfinder when i had the chance. if only i had seen your build earlier.

[@truezaa8064]

quality video

[@sangoan12]

best poe video ever

[@MadMaxMalds]

Nice vid, I'm most interested in your Guardian SRS build, I don't know if you'd consider doing a vid specifically about it. Notice that spectres aren't used, do you think it's not worth using them with jinxed juju? Could you squeeze them and convocation in on unset rings?

[@PhazePlays_]

I tend to shy away from Spectre/AG personally but I think they could be decent here since they'll probably never die with "5% minion life on minion death" mastery. But like you mentioned socket pressure would be insane. Unsets are not ideal just because ring implicits tend to be quite strong but you can probably get away with wearing one. Jinxed Juju isn't great on Guardian since anger/wrath/hatred aren't affected by aura effect, but it's usable

[@MadMaxMalds]

Update - Thanks to this build I managed to finally get hardcore lvl 90 and eternal lab achievements after finished with the league on softcore so thanks for that 😊

[@geoffreymatheson9206]

So SRS builds have been my best by far and at the moment it's probably my favorite skill. I didn't play it this league since I played it the last 3 leagues but I'm probably going to be playing it in 3.23. Great timing for the video and very well presented. In an SSF environment, it looks like the elemental Guardian build is the way to go unless the new minions get gutted in the next patch. How do you think ele SRS Guardian compares to a standard, straight-up hit-based non-poison, non-popcorn SRS Necromancer for SSF?

[@Malum95]

I'm good if they nerf yellow boy damage, let me keep the mitigation though. I'm sure he'd still carry the trash clear of leveling and white maps if they halve his numbers, just won't get you to t14+ completely by himself.and if they make the auras worse without letting you scale them somehow I'd just be confused and play light champ srs without items because it is strong enough Also on hit based Necro, Im not gonna Sim it in pob coz I'm 2am scrolling, but I imagine you would build it like the champ. But you get less defense, aura scaling just for the generic minion stuff in Necro. Choose which element to focus on and go from there. Lightning is most likely t1 because of wrath and smite stacking plus the new support. The problem is all that "free" damage from guardian stuff is hard to beat without some (significant) investment