I leveled with Guardians on Veteran (although physical but it’s very similar, especially in the beginning), they are great and would recommend using them. Just 2 of them 16 / 16 are good already and with that weapon it’s GG. You don’t need VM or Judgment for anything other than mobility / proccing devos.
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after killing Kyzog you grab Fireblast and put points into OK (1p into VM for mobility)
- I needed Righteous Fury temporarily to kill him without components
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you can choose to support your Fireblast with Word of Pain 1st node till you have more points and then respec from it and put everything into OK Mastery and Guardians
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then everything into Celestial Presence + Divine Mandate
From this point it’s easy game till 100. And you slowly transition to OP. You’ll have 6 Guardians while leveling.
Other worthwhile things are
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Conflagration for its Fire ray to support Guardians in a great way (can be farmed in Port Valbury by vendor resetting if SSF)
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Magi Visage for 1 more Guardian and +3 to the skill
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Barthollem’s Gavel of course
- important thing is to have Physical to Fire conversion prefix on the Gavel
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grabbing 2nd movement skill from FG after killing Warden (Cul of Solael I guess as they are the Fire guys)
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setting up Grim Internals so that it displays notifications about Oathkeeper’s prefix on gear
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this is so that you see yellow items that you otherwise filter out for a chance of getting +X to Guardians
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currently bugged and working only after you open Configurator window
(needs to be done one for every launch of the game) -
not that important since on Fire Guardians it’s easy to get points to the skill
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For devotions I’d start with Aetherfire from Imp and respec to Raven + Scholar + Magi a bit later. And then RR devotions and following OP.