Aurabot/Cursebot Support Lich

I would highly recommend switching to my pure mana stacking version of curse bot once you can as it provides a more solid amount of damage to all allies: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/paychak-4dql06/builds/28156fe1-5d09-4848-a610-8ccc86a2ac20

This is a pure support build meant to buff your allies and weaken your enemies. Perfect for a duo setup or group party play! We aim to maximize the Unholy Might granted by the Lich ascendancy to buff all ally damage and stack curse + slow magnitude to slow enemies to a crawl and weaken their damage as much as possible.

Here's a quick list of some of the buffs/debuffs this build can give when optimized:

120% Temp Chains slow

-21% enemy move speed hinder

-111% all res Ele Weakness

-37% all res Exposure

-92% chaos res Despair

80% Wither (enemies take up to 80% increased chaos dmg)

12% enemies take increased damage from all sources

-55% enemy dmg Enfeeble

9.5% critical weakness (enemies have +4.5% base chance to be crit)

Enemies have 33% chance to explode for chaos dmg when killed

Allies gain 60%+ of dmg as extra chaos dmg

Allies deal 190%+ increased dmg

+Whatever other mods you have on your sceptre ^^

These numbers can go up/down depending on your gear, but even on a very cheap budget setup your numbers won't be all that far from what's listed here. The PoB code on this page shows some more optimized gear.

Just stay near your allies to give them damage. Any enemies that get remotely close will be slowed/weakened and take massively increased damage from your allies. Use Frost Bomb on tanky enemies to lower their resistances further.

Unholy Might gives allies 30% of damage as extra chaos. Every 100 flat mana you have will increase the magnitude of unholy might by 4% (Ex: 1000 flat mana = 40% increased magnitude of Unholy Might. 30x1.4 = 42. So 1000 flat mana gives allies 42% of damage as extra chaos). Assuming you get 2500 mana by end game, that's 60% of damage as extra chaos for allies.

Withering Step will make enemies take up to 50% increased damage from the Unholy Might buff that you're giving to all your allies. With a Fenumus Rune of Draining in your gloves that jumps to 60% (though you can use Serpent Talisman's instead for overall curse effect). Combined with the wither effect nodes on the passive tree, we reach 80% wither effect which multiplies all the chaos damage your allies now deal. Plus you can socket a Talisman of Egrin in your Darkness Enthroned belt for up to another "enemies take 12% increased damage".

With the new Elemental Weakness curse enemies have -49% to all elemental res. Despair gives -49% to chaos res. That's NOT including all your stacked curse/aura effect from passives and gear (which, yes, more than offsets the penalty from Blasphemy). Fully geared, you're looking at about -110% ish ele res and -90% ish chaos res for all enemies with your Blasphemy setup. So now you're giving your allies more damage, making enemies take more damage, and destroying enemy resists to make them take EVEN MORE damage.

Finally, you're also slowing enemies to a crawl with Temporal Chains (115%+ slow) and drastically lowering their damage with Enfeeble (-53% ish dmg) to hugely increase group survivability ^_^

8/22/25 - Updated for upcoming 0.3 league.

9/2/25 - Updated with newly released 0.3 skill tree and gems.

9/5/25 - Added pathing on passive tree to the "Withered Away" notable.

9/7/25 - Updated overall build based on what I'm using in game now.

10/3/25 - Added more optimized gear to "Set 2" and an updated PoB code showing the more optimized setup.

10/5/25 - Revised pathing on passive tree to be far more efficient, boosting defenses AND giving stronger curses

12/10/25 - Updated for upcoming 0.4 league.