In Path of Exile (PoE), upgrading your Pantheon powers is essential for enhancing your character’s defenses and overall survivability. This guide focuses on capturing Jorus, Sky’s Edge, to upgrade the Soul of Solaris, providing a significant boost to avoiding ailments from critical strikes.
Understanding the Soul of Solaris
The Soul of Solaris offers valuable defensive buffs, especially against physical and area damage. Here’s the base ability and its potential upgrades:
PoE Soul of Solaris
Base Ability:
Soul of Solaris: “6% additional Physical Damage Reduction while there is only one nearby Enemy” and “20% chance to take 50% less Area Damage from Hits.”
Upgrades:
Capture Kitava, The Destroyer (Lava Lake Map): 8% reduced Elemental Damage taken if you haven’t been Hit Recently.
Capture The Gorgon (Sulphur Vents Map): Take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes if you have taken a Critical Strike Recently.
Capture Jorus, Sky’s Edge (Temple Map): 50% chance to avoid Ailments from Critical Strikes.
Capturing Jorus, Sky’s Edge, provides a critical upgrade that significantly enhances your character’s ability to avoid ailments from critical strikes, which is crucial in high-level content.
Steps to Capture Jorus, Sky’s Edge
Acquire the Temple Map(Non-unique Map) and add it into your map device at your hideout. Temple Map Tier: 14, 16, 16, 16, 16.
Add a Divine Vessel into the map device.
Run the map and kill the Jorus, Sky’s Edge boss (you can have other players help kill the boss, but you must be present in the map for the capturing to work).
Check your map device, you should have acquired the Captured Soul of a god (item that looks like a blue bottle).
Consume the Captured Soul to upgrade a God Power.
View your Pantheon and roll over the God you are trying to upgrade; the upgraded God Power should now be available.
There must be space in the map device for the Captured Soul or it will be deleted.
Why Upgrade the Soul of Solaris?
Upgrading the Soul of Solaris provides significant defensive benefits that enhance your character’s survivability:
50% chance to avoid Ailments from Critical Strikes: This upgrade, obtained by capturing Jorus, Sky’s Edge, helps protect against debilitating effects from critical strikes, significantly reducing the risk of being overwhelmed by ailments.
Take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes if you have taken a Critical Strike Recently: This upgrade, from capturing The Gorgon, further mitigates the impact of consecutive critical strikes.
8% reduced Elemental Damage taken if you haven’t been Hit Recently: Capturing Kitava, The Destroyer provides this upgrade, offering additional protection against elemental damage.
These upgrades make the Soul of Solaris a versatile and powerful defensive option, suitable for a variety of builds.
Important Tips
Map Device Space: Always ensure there is space in your map device for the Captured Soul to avoid deletion.
Pantheon Sharing: Upgrades to the Pantheon are shared between all characters in the same league but are disabled until the character has completed “An End to Hunger” (completing the Act campaign).
Conclusion
Capturing Jorus, Sky’s Edge, and upgrading the Soul of Solaris is a vital step in enhancing your character’s defenses in Path of Exile. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can efficiently upgrade your Pantheon powers and enjoy the benefits of reduced ailment chances, improved critical strike damage mitigation, and enhanced elemental damage reduction. Keep exploring, Exiles, and may your journey through Wraeclast be ever prosperous!
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