PoE Absolution Gem Build

When Absolution Absolution’s damaging shockwave kills an enemy, it creates a Sentinel of Absolution which also casts its own shockwaves.

Damages enemies in an area, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy"s corpse will be consumed to summon a Sentinel of Absolution for a longer secondary duration, or to refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them.

Spell, Minion, Duration, AoE, Physical, Lightning. Level: 1–20. Cost: 9–26 Mana. Cast Time: 0.75 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 200%. Requires Level 12.

  • Deals (21–873) to (31–1310) Physical Damage
  • Base duration is 1 seconds
  • Base secondary duration is 10 seconds
  • +(0–6) to radius
  • 25% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Absolution on Hitting a Rare or Unique Enemy
  • Maximum 3 Summoned Sentinels of Absolution
  • This Spell and Minions Convert 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
AbsolutionMinions deal (0–20)% increased Damage100

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Related Gems

PoE Absolution Build

Support Gems Description Requires Tag Popularity
Physical to Lightning Support Physical to Lightning Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. Level 18 Lightning, Physical, Support 88%
Spell Echo Support Spell Echo Support Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, or skills with a reservation. Level 38 Spell, Support 81%
Lightning Penetration Support Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance. Level 31 Lightning, Support 63%
Minion Damage Support Minion Damage Support Supports skills which create Minions. Level 8 Support, Minion 50%
Controlled Destruction Support Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage. Level 18 Spell, Support 50%
Faster Casting Support Faster Casting Support Supports non-instant spell skills. Level 18 Support, Spell 31%
Inspiration Support Inspiration Support Supports any skill. Minions, Totems, Traps and Mines cannot gain Inspiration Charges. Level 31 Support 31%

Absolution Expedition Build

In fact, only 0.1% of Path of Exile players use this skill as the main skill. For the Guardian class, Dominating Blow is one of the best skills.

Although this skill is inspired by the Templar's Hierophant ascendancy class, there are only a few Hierophant players who use this skill gem. For the most popularity classes using Absolution: Guardian(56%), Necromancer(31%), Ascendant(6%), Gladiator(6%).

The main damage type of Absolution is Lightning. Therefore, Physical to Lightning Support and Lightning Penetration Support are some of the best support gems. For a level 94 character, the lightning damage is about 25k.

There are other skills also recommended for your build: Raise Spectre, Summon Carrion Golem, Desecrate, Convocation.

For choosing weapons, Wand / Shield is the best. It offers the best damages and also provides enough defenses. Mace / Shield is another choice.

For the Guardian class, these passives are recommended: Radiant Crusade, Unwavering Crusade, Time of Need, Bastion of Hope, Renewal, and Dread March.

For the Necromancer class, these passives are recommended: Mindless Aggression, Unnatural Strength, Renewal, Bone Barrier, Feasting Fiends, Commander of Darkness, Replenishing Presence, Elemental Equilibrium, Mistress of Sacrifice.

For attributes and defensive, the following is a level 97 Guardian character example:

Name Value
Strength374
Dexterity269
Intelligence336
Life6,163
Mana1,399
Energy shield522
Armour2,987
Evasion rating2,589

PoE Absolution Skill Build

Absolution Absolution has been designed for Guardians as a spell version of Dominating Blow Dominating Blow.

Absolution Absolution deals a damaging shockwave in a targeted area. When it kills an enemy, it summons a Sentinel of Absolution which also deals damage by casting Absolution itself. The Sentinels also periodically cast a larger version of Absolution on a cooldown. While the Sentinels’ version of Absolution can’t summon even more minions, they are a powerful army to fight against.

The "larger" Absolution that the minions will cast

They have two Absolution spells - one normal and one that does the initial AoE and then a follow-up wave extending out to a larger area. Things in the initial AoE will be hit by both. The bigger one has a 6 second cooldown.

Do the minion's Absolution casts apply the effect to create/refresh the minions themselves?

The version of the skill used by minions has none of the properties related to minion-summoning, it just does damage.

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelStrengthIntelligenceCostDeals 21 to 31 Physical Damage# to radiusExperience
1122114921, 31015,249
21525171026, 40041,517
31930211236, 55181,983
42335241349, 741147,968
52741281465, 981250,557
63146321586, 1292405,086
735513616112, 1672447,718
838553817135, 2032615,318
941594118163, 2453834,639
1044634419196, 29431,570,760
1147674720235, 35231,633,987
1250714920281, 42142,151,030
1353755221335, 50242,812,189
1456795522398, 59745,099,360
1559835823473, 70959,400,731
1662876024560, 840515,273,366
1764906225627, 940526,286,582
1866926425700, 1050662,890,590
1968956626782, 11736212,046,017
2070986826873, 13106
217227974, 14617
2274271086, 16297
2376281210, 18157
2478291347, 20218
2580291500, 22508
2682301669, 25038
2784301855, 27839
2886312062, 30939
2988322291, 34379
3090322544, 381710
3191322681, 402110
3292332824, 423710
3393332975, 446310
3494333134, 470110
3595343301, 495210
3696343477, 521511
3797343661, 549211
3898343855, 578211
3999354059, 608811
40100354273, 641011

Absolution is a skill that damages enemies in an area, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed to summon a friendly Sentinel of Absolution minion for a longer secondary duration, or to refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Despite what the gem says, the skill does not consume corpses when refreshing sentinels as of the launch of 3.19.

Sentinel of Absolution

  • A Sentinel of Absolution, according to the datamined material, is a reskinned Temple Adjudicator (which itself has another variant Heretical Adjudicator). It uses a melee attack, and two skills that are known for their internal IDs as AbsolutionMinion and AbsolutionMinionEmpowered.
  • Sentinels of Absolution have 6% base critical strike chance. The minion's regular AbsolutionMinion spell has 180% Effectiveness of Added Damage, and its empowered version, AbsolutionMinionEmpowered, has a value of 130%.
  • Support gems: Any support gem that can apply to both an spell as well as a minion skill will apply to both the spell cast by Absolution and the Sentinels. For example, Spell Echo Support will grant both the spells cast with Absolution and the Sentinel's AbsolutionMinion and AbsolutionMinionEmpowered spells the ability to repeat. Sentinels will not affect additional areas if the skill gem is supported by Spell Cascade Support, but will still receive the "Supported Skills deal x% less Damage" penalty.
  • The summoned Sentinels of Absolution's stats scale heavily with the gem level of Absolution. For example, at gem level 20 their regular spell has a base physical damage of 969 to 1,454 (before the inherent "This Spell and Minions Convert 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage" modifier) with a total life of 5,912 and base energy shield of 1,182 per Sentinel, while at gem level 15 their spell has a base physical damage of 513 to 770, with a total life of 3,264 and base energy shield of 652 per Sentinel.
  • Sentinels have 40% Elemental Resistances and 20% Chaos Resistance.
  • Sentinels have a base cast time of 1.33.

Item acquisition

Absolution can drop anywhere. Drop level: 12.

Recipes

Absolution can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
6 The Summoner Random Minion gem with 20% quality
13 The Cataclysm Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1		 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1
Nessa		 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Absolution.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Absolution Cast Speed 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 8% increased Absolution Cast Speed helmet 100
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Enchantment Absolution Cast Speed 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 12% increased Absolution Cast Speed helmet 100
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Enchantment Absolution Duration 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 20% increased Absolution Duration helmet 100
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Enchantment Absolution Duration 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 30% increased Absolution Duration helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Absolution Minion Area of Effect 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Summoned Sentinels of Absolution have 16% increased Area of Effect helmet 100
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Enchantment Absolution Minion Area of Effect 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Summoned Sentinels of Absolution have 24% increased Area of Effect helmet 100
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