Defiance Banner PoE

Defiance Banner is a new defensive tool that can be used to increase your armour and evasion while reducing the critical strike chance of nearby enemies.

It is a new Strength/Dexterity Skill Gem. Requires Level 16, 26 Str, 18 Dex. Tag: AoE, Spell, Duration, Aura, Physical. Reservation: 10% Mana. Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec. Cast Time: Instant.

Casting once reserves mana to carry a banner which increases the armour and evasion of nearby allies, and reduces the critical strike chance of nearby enemies. Gains stages over time while carrying the banner near enemies. Casting the skill again places the banner, ending the mana reservation. Once placed, it becomes more powerful for each stage gained. You cannot have multiple banners at the same time.You have increased Armour and Evasion.Your Critical Strike Chance is reduced.

AoE, Spell, Duration, Aura, Physical. Level: 1–20. Reservation: 10% Mana. Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec. Cast Time: Instant. Requires Level 16.

You and nearby Allies have (15–24)% increased Armour and Evasion Rating
Nearby Enemies have (30–40)% reduced Critical Strike Chance
Gain 1 Stage every 0.2 seconds while an Enemy is Nearby
Taunt nearby Enemies for 0.15 seconds per Stage on Placing the Banner
Enemies Taunted this way deal 15% less Damage
Base Duration of 10 seconds after being Placed
+1 second to Base Placed Banner Duration per Stage
When placed, 8% increased Area of Effect per Stage
When placed, 1% increased Aura effect per Stage

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

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Defiance Banner	(0–10)% increased effect of Aura	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Defiance Banner	(0–10)% increased effect of Aura	50
Anomalous Defiance Banner	(0–60)% less Skill Effect Duration You and nearby Allies have (0–5)% increased Armour and Evasion Rating	10
Divergent Defiance Banner	(0–20)% increased Skill Effect Duration	100

PoE Defiance Banner Skill Gem Build

There is about 5.3% of Path of Exile use this gem. It is a useful defense skill. Among these players, 49% are Ascendant, 11% are Raider, 8% are Guardian, 7% are Necromancer, and 5% are Occultist.

For most cases, you do not need support gems to support Defiance Banner.

These skills are also recommended: Precision, Flame Dash, Discipline, Hatred, Clarity, Vitality, Grace, Haste.

PoE Defiance Banner Skill Build

Defiance Banner is a new purely defensive Banner skill. While you carry the Defiance Banner, it increases the armour and evasion of nearby allies while reducing the critical strike chance of nearby enemies. It gains stages while carried near enemies and can be placed in the ground to enhance its effects.

When the Defiance Banner is placed, it inflicts a taunt on enemies for a duration based on the number of stages the banner had accumulated while it was carried. Enemies affected by this taunt also deal less damage to all targets.

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Strength	Dexterity	You and nearby Allies have 15% increased Armour and Evasion Rating	Nearby Enemies have 30% reduced Critical Strike Chance	Experience
1	16	26	18	15	30	49,725
2	20	31	22	15	31	95,714
3	24	37	25	16	31	169,595
4	28	42	29	16	32	199,345
5	31	46	32	17	32	285,815
6	34	50	35	17	33	401,344
7	37	54	37	18	33	554,379
8	40	58	40	18	34	755,049
9	43	62	43	19	34	1,016,533
10	46	66	46	19	35	1,898,602
11	49	70	48	20	35	1,964,019
12	52	74	51	20	36	2,573,731
13	55	78	54	21	36	4,676,439
14	58	82	57	21	37	3,017,327
15	60	84	59	22	37	7,823,001
16	62	87	60	22	38	15,264,208
17	64	90	62	23	38	26,272,845
18	66	92	64	23	39	62,872,274
19	68	95	66	24	39	212,023,122
20	70	98	68	24	40
21	72			25	40
22	74			25	41
23	76			26	41
24	78			26	42
25	80			27	42
26	82			27	43
27	84			28	43
28	86			28	44
29	88			29	44
30	90			29	45
31	91			29	45
32	92			30	45
33	93			30	45
34	94			30	46
35	95			30	46
36	96			31	46
37	97			31	46
38	98			31	47
39	99			31	47
40	100			32	47

Item acquisition

Defiance Banner can drop anywhere. Drop level: 16.

Recipes

Defiance Banner can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description
7	The Wilted Rose	Random corrupted level 21 Aura gem
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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Intruders in Black Act 2	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗

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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Intruders in Black Act 2 Yeena	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Defiance Banner.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Defiance Banner Aura Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Defiance Banner has 25% increased Aura Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Defiance Banner Aura Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Defiance Banner has 40% increased Aura Effect	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Defiance Banner has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Demonic Eye Banner Skin	Your Banner now has a Demonic Eye skin.
Invisible Buff Effect	Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.

PoE 3.19 Changes

Problem: Defiance Banner provides a substantial percentage increase to armour and evasion, on top of other benefits for a low investment. It therefore grants all characters a way to further scale the large amounts of armour and evasion granted by the Determination and Grace skills. It also disproportionately benefits characters that do not have easy access to armour and evasion scaling on the passive skill tree, and when combined with Determination and Grace allows these characters to use aura effect to scale armour and evasion almost as effectively as characters directly investing into armour and evasion bonuses. This has led to the combination of Defiance Banner, Determination and Grace feeling near mandatory for characters in hardcore leagues, and very attractive elsewhere.

Solution: Substantially reduce the armour and evasion granted by Defiance Banner.

Defiance Banner now grants you and nearby allies 15–24% increased Armour and Evasion Rating at gem levels 1–20 (previously 30–49%)
Defiance Banner now grants nearby enemies 30–40% reduced Critical Strike Chance at gem levels 1–20 (previously 20–29%)
Anomalous Defiance Banner quality grants you and nearby allies 0.25% increased Armour and Evasion Rating per quality (previously 0.5%)