PoE Capture The Gorgon

In Path of Exile (PoE), upgrading your Pantheon powers is essential for enhancing your character’s defenses and survivability. This guide focuses on capturing The Gorgon to upgrade the Soul of Solaris, providing a significant boost in mitigating critical strike damage.

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 The Gorgon provides a critical upgrade that prevents extra damage from critical strikes, which is essential for maintaining your character’s performance in high-level content.

Steps to Capture The Gorgon

  1. Acquire the Sulphur Vents Map and add it into your map device at your hideout. Sulphur Vents Map Tier: 10, 13, 16, 16, 16.
  2. Add a Divine Vessel into the map device.
  3. Run the map and kill the The Gorgon boss (you can have other players help kill the boss, but you must be present in the map for the capturing to work).
  4. Check your map device, you should have acquired the Captured Soul of a god (item that looks like a blue bottle).
  5. Consume the Captured Soul to upgrade a God Power.
  6. 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:

  • Take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes if you have taken a Critical Strike Recently: This upgrade, obtained by capturing The Gorgon, helps protect against consecutive critical strikes, significantly reducing the risk of being overwhelmed by critical hits.
  • 8% reduced Elemental Damage taken if you haven’t been Hit Recently: This upgrade, from capturing Kitava, The Destroyer, is particularly valuable for mitigating elemental damage.
  • 50% chance to avoid Ailments from Critical Strikes: Capturing Jorus, Sky’s Edge provides this upgrade, offering substantial protection against ailments caused by critical strikes.

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 The Gorgon 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 critical strike damage, improved elemental damage mitigation, and better protection against ailments. Keep exploring, Exiles, and may your journey through Wraeclast be ever prosperous!

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