Gear, Jewels and Flasks (PoE Necropolis)

Gear Summary / TL;DR

These items strike a balance between power and cost-effectiveness. If you want to explore more options for Gear (both budget and high-end), and Flasks, or get more information on alternatives and speciality items, please ensure you read this page in its entirety.

If you are a newer player and crafting scares you, please check out this guide from Velyna as it goes over a lot of very important things and might be helpful to you: Click here

Our recommendation:

Item Slot	Item Name
Head	Rare Eternal Burgonet
Amulet	Rare Turquoise Amulet
Chest	Glorious Plate
Gloves	Unique Gloves Tanu Ahi
Boots	Titan Greaves
Belt	The Magnate
Rings	Rare Two-Stone Ring (Cold / Lightning Resistances) OR Amethyst Ring
Weapon	Despot Axe

h2 Armour

Helmet

Rare Eternal Burgonet is our go-to for this slot as it has tremendous amounts of base armour values. Any other high armour base will suffice.
Prioritise stats as follows:

• Life roll
• Open Prefix for Physical damage taken as fire
• Any resistance you can get (Until Capped) is a welcome bonus

Chest

Rare Glorious Plate We’re not asking too much of this piece of gear. We want an open prefix for our craft, we ideally want an essence mod roll on it and we want it free of any non-eldritch influence to make room for eldritch implicits. You should stat-budget your chest as follows:

• High armour
• Essence mod for 10% reservation
• Open prefix for physical damage taken as fire/lightning
• No life roll. Avoid flat life as it interferes with our life mastery.
  This is all your chest needs to be. Though if you hit any resistance, that is a welcome bonus as it reduces pressure in other places.

Gloves

The unique Gloves Tanu Ahi are unrivalled for this slot. It provides us with both Adrenaline and Onslaught and both of these bonuses are incredibly strong. The gloves are also extremely cheap. They can be surpassed later on with really, really well-crafted gloves but this guide will not take the glove slot to that point.

Boots

Rare Titan Greaves is our recommended go-to boots type here, but any base type with high armour will do.
Prioritise stat-budget as follows:

• Movement Speed
• Life
  *Resistances (Until Capped)

Weapon

For this slot, we want a big Two-Handed Axe. Our primary recommendation for this is going to be a Despot Axe. You want as high Attack Speed and Base Damage as possible.
Prioritise stat-budget as follows:

*High #% physical damage
*Flat physical damage to attacks
*Attack Speed

Accessories

Amulet

Rare Turquoise Amulet is the pretty obvious choice here as it has an implicit that handles the two stats we struggle with. We are not going to be asking very much for this gear piece, so it should be cheap. Prioritise stat-budget as follows:

• Attributes until capped
• Life
• Resistances (Until Capped)
• Open Prefix for -mana cost craft. This is very important.

Rings

Rare Two-Stone Ring if needed for resistance caps, or double Amethyst Ring. We do not need any influenced bases here as they will be solving fairly basic things for us. Prioritise stat-budget as follows:

• Open Prefix for -mana cost craft. This is very important.

Belt

The Magnate is our clear and realistically only real contender here. The chance for double damage is great, the chance for triple damage is straight-up insane. The fact that it also comes with all elemental resistance is just icing on the cake.

Jewels

There are several extremely useful things we can get from rare jewels. We will list our primary recommendations, as well as some honorary mentions.
Our primary recommendations are as follows:

• Physical damage with Axes
  *Physical damage with Two-Handed Weapons

Honourable mentions go to:

• Elemental resistances
• Attributes if needed
• Immunity to corrupted blood

Special Jewels

Watcher’s Eye

There are several really strong modifiers that you can get on this jewel, both offensively and defensively. Our primary recommendation will strike a balance between the two, but we will list a few options of other modifiers to consider.
The primary recommendation here is going to be the following combination:

• Impales last 2 additional hits while affected by Pride
• 50% reduced effect of critical strikes while affected by Determination

Other things worth considering:

• Chance to deal double damage while affected by Pride
• Increased Attack Damage while affected by Precision
• Increased Armour while affected by Determination
• Increased Attack Speed while affected by Precision

Lethal Pride

Several modifiers on these jewels are of great interest to us. Some are more important than others and as such warrants special mention. We have left a number of the relevant seeds in the higher budget PoB to help simplify this process for you, but always use the timeless jewel tool to look for bargains. With that said, our primary recommendations:

• 5% of physical damage taken as Fire Damage.
• 5% chance to deal Double Damage.

• Additional stacks of Fortify
• Increased maximum Life
• Increased Physical Damage

Cluster jewels

We are going to be using a cluster with the base “Added small passive skills grant: Axe Attacks deal 12% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments”.
There are some options for notables here, and while one of them is superior to the rest, the market might deem a combination close to this one worse and thus reduce its price drastically. We always recommend you check this in PoB by importing the jewels to see if you can make a bargain. With that out of the way, our recommendations are as follows:

• Feed the Fury
• Martial Prowess
• Run Through