Gear, Jewels and Flasks (PoE Keepers of the Flame)

Gear Summary

These items strike a balance between power and cost-effectiveness. If you want to explore more options for Gear and Flasks for both budget and high-end, or get more information on alternatives and speciality items, please ensure you read this page in its entirety.

If you are a newer player and you are unfamiliar with crafting, please check out this guide from Velyna as it goes over a lot of very important things and might be helpful to you: Click here .

Our recommendation:

Item Slot	Item Name
Head	Rare Eternal Burgonet
Amulet	Rare Turquoise Amulet
Chest	Glorious Plate
Gloves	Unique Gloves Tanu Ahi
Boots	Titan Greaves
Belt	The Magnate
Rings	Rare Two-Stone Ring (Cold / Lightning Resistances) or Amethyst Ring
Weapon	Despot Axe

Armour

Helmet

Rare Eternal Burgonet is our go-to for this slot as it has tremendous amounts of base armour values. Any other high armour base will suffice.
Prioritise stats as follows:

• Life roll
• Any resistance you can get (until capped)

Ideally, you want an accuracy modifier here to permit a higher life roll before you brick Precise Technique, but it might be rough to source early.

Chest

Use a rare Glorious Plate. We don’t need much from our chest piece, but it must not have an influence so it doesn’t interfere with our sorely needed eldritch modifiers.
You should stat-budget your chest as follows:

• High armour
• Preferably resistance modifiers
• Physical Damage reduction mod – This could be expensive to roll, and if you can’t land it craft the 3% instead. It’s much better than nothing.
• Life roll. If you can’t get a chest that fills the rest of these requirements with a life roll, use the 15% mastery and it’ll be fine. But since the life roll changes flat life rolls are better again. Accuracy mod on helmet also plays into whether this is a good idea or not.
  This is all your chest needs to be. If you hit any resistance, that is a welcome bonus as it reduces pressure in other places.

Gloves

The unique Gloves Tanu Ahi are unrivalled for this slot. It provides us with both Adrenaline and Onslaught and both of these bonuses are incredibly strong. The gloves are also extremely cheap. They can be surpassed later on with really, really well-crafted gloves but this guide will not take the glove slot to that point.

Boots

Rare Titan Greaves are our recommended go-to boots, but any base type with high armour will do.
Prioritise stat-budget as follows:

• Movement Speed
• Life
• Resistances (until capped)

Alternatively, you can use the unique Death's Door boots. Personally, I prefer them since extra Endurance Charges are incredibly valuable, but the choice is entirely yours.

Weapon

For this slot, we want a big Two-Handed Axe. Our primary recommendation for this is going to be a Despot Axe. You want as high Attack Speed and Base Damage as possible:

• High #% Physical Damage
• Flat Physical Damage to attacks
• Attack Speed

Accessories

Amulet

The unique Carnage Heart amulet is our go-to choice here. It gives us Attributes and Resistances which is exactly what we want it to do. It will occasionally give us a damage boost when fighting rares, but this is insignificant. It’s cheap and it does what we need it to.

• Attributes (until capped)
• Life
• Resistances (until capped)

Rings

Rare Two-Stone Ring if needed for resistance caps, or double Amethyst Ring. We do not need any influenced bases here as they will be solving fairly basic things for us. Prioritise stat-budget as follows:

• Life
• Resistances (until capped)
• There’s a luxury option here for Damage Taken Recouped as life. But it will make the rings more expensive.
• Open Prefix for -mana cost craft. This is very important.

Belt

The Magnate is our clear and realistically only real contender here. The chance for double damage is great, the chance for triple damage is straight-up insane. The fact that it also comes with all elemental resistance is just icing on the cake. This is why we need to stay above 400 strength!

Jewels

There are several extremely useful things we can get from rare jewels. We will list our primary recommendations, as well as some honorary mentions.
Our primary recommendations are as follows:

• Global Physical damage
• Attack Speed
• #% Maximum life
• #% of Damage taken Recouped as Life
• Physical damage with Axes
• Physical damage with Two-Handed Weapons

Honourable mentions go to:

• Elemental Resistances
• Attributes if needed
• Immunity to Corrupted Blood