S-TIER | BUILD MAGICIENNE NAVIRA FRACTURING MINION (@SpudTheKing) | SAISON 5

Build Video

Build Overview

This Navira Sorceress build rests on a single idea, pushed all the way: cover the screen in chilled ground, then blow it up. The command skill Navira the Last Mirage shatters every patch of chilled ground carrying an enemy and deals massive spell damage, with very high freeze potential. And freezing an enemy recreates chilled ground thanks to Frost Nexus. The loop closes in on itself and never stops as long as there’s something left to kill.

The rest of the setup exists to feed this loop. Ice Nova lays down the first sheet of ice, provided it’s infused with cold: that’s the role of Cast on Minion Death paired with Powered by Verisium, which turns your minions’ deaths into elemental infusions. The wolves from Wolf Pack, made explosive by Minion Instability and Infernal Legion II, die in a loop and provide the fuel. Encroaching Ground then grows each ice zone until it doubles in size.

For bosses, the ice sheet isn’t enough, and that’s where Kelari, the Tainted Sands comes in. This second Djinn hits hard with physical damage and becomes the single-target removal tool, backed by Armour Break III and Kurgals Leash. On defense, the Disciple of Varashta relies on Chaos Inoculation and roughly 10,000 energy shield, with Temporal Chains maintained as an aura via Blasphemy. Between the curse’s slow and the chilled ground’s slow, monsters simply can’t land a hit on you anymore.

Strengths / Weaknesses

Skill Gem Setup by Step

This build offers 6 progression steps from leveling to the final build. Select a step to see its corresponding gem setup.

FINAL Endgame Endgame MELTER Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Interludes

FINAL Endgame

12 skills • 58 gemmes

Kélari, les Sables souillésKelari, the Tainted Sands

Navira, le Dernier mirageNavira, the Last Mirage

BlasphèmeBlasphemy

Déclenchement lors de la mort d'une CréatureCast on Minion Death

Nova de glaceIce Nova

Ravageurs squelettiquesSkeletal Reaver

Offrande de douleurPain Offering

Mages de l'orage squelettiquesSkeletal Storm Mage

Meute de loupsWolf Pack

Mages de givre squelettiquesSkeletal Frost Mage

Tireurs d'élite squelettiquesSkeletal Sniper

DisciplineDiscipline

Endgame MELTER

11 skills • 44 gemmes

Kélari, les Sables souillésKelari, the Tainted Sands

Navira, le Dernier mirageNavira, the Last Mirage

Mages de givre squelettiquesSkeletal Frost Mage

Mages de l'orage squelettiquesSkeletal Storm Mage

BondissementPounce

Guerrier squelettiqueSkeletal Warrior

Brutes squelettiquesSkeletal Brute

Tireurs d'élite squelettiquesSkeletal Sniper

Ravageurs squelettiquesSkeletal Reaver

Incendiaires squelettiquesSkeletal Arsonist

Clercs squelettiquesSkeletal Cleric

Act 1

9 skills • 15 gemmes

Tireurs d'élite squelettiquesSkeletal Sniper

Drain de manaMana Drain

Guerrier squelettiqueSkeletal Warrior

Bombe de givreFrost Bomb

BondissementPounce

Drain d'essenceEssence Drain

Tempête d'ossementsBonestorm

Mur de flammesFlame Wall

ContagionContagion

Act 2

10 skills • 18 gemmes

Kélari, les Sables souillésKelari, the Tainted Sands

Mages de givre squelettiquesSkeletal Frost Mage

BondissementPounce

OrageThunderstorm

Tromperie de KélariKelari's Deception

Offrande de douleurPain Offering

Guerrier squelettiqueSkeletal Warrior

Levée de bouclierRaise Shield

Incendiaires squelettiquesSkeletal Arsonist

Tireurs d'élite squelettiquesSkeletal Sniper

Act 3

14 skills • 27 gemmes

Kélari, les Sables souillésKelari, the Tainted Sands

Guerrier squelettiqueSkeletal Warrior

Offrande de douleurPain Offering

OrageThunderstorm

Mages de givre squelettiquesSkeletal Frost Mage

Mages de l'orage squelettiquesSkeletal Storm Mage

Tromperie de KélariKelari's Deception

Malédiction de KélariKelari's Malediction

Jugement de KélariKelari's Judgment

Levée de bouclierRaise Shield

Incendiaires squelettiquesSkeletal Arsonist

Ravageurs squelettiquesSkeletal Reaver

Tireurs d'élite squelettiquesSkeletal Sniper

BondissementPounce

Interludes

14 skills • 27 gemmes

Kélari, les Sables souillésKelari, the Tainted Sands

Mages de givre squelettiquesSkeletal Frost Mage

Mages de l'orage squelettiquesSkeletal Storm Mage

BondissementPounce

OrageThunderstorm

Tromperie de KélariKelari's Deception

Guerrier squelettiqueSkeletal Warrior

Offrande de douleurPain Offering

Navira, le Dernier mirageNavira, the Last Mirage

Jugement de KélariKelari's Judgment

Levée de bouclierRaise Shield

Incendiaires squelettiques Skeletal Arsonist

Ravageurs squelettiques Skeletal Reaver

Tireurs d’élite squelettiques Skeletal Sniper

Recommended Equipment

• Sceptre: the centerpiece. Look for spirit, an extra level to all minion skills, and the modifier that increases allies’ damage in your presence. The planner runs a rare one-socket Stoic Sceptre, fitted with Xipocado’s Soul Core of Dominion. A second socket obtained via vaal orb lets you add an augment geared toward command skills.
• Helmet and amulet: prioritize levels to minion skills. The amulet also brings spirit, ideally via a fractured +50 base.
• Belt: armour, maximum energy shield, stun buildup, and damage with command skills. The version with two levels to minion skills runs around 100 divines, and is easily skipped.
• Gloves and boots: these are the two slots to run through the Verisium anvil to reach the required 66 runic ward. The Bones of Ullr boots remove the spirit cost of undead minions.
• Rings: the build wears Evergrasping Ring, which grants minions extra chaos damage, paired with a rare minion damage ring. Breach catalysts noticeably improve these rolls for two or three exalted orbs.
• Focus and body armour: energy shield and resistances, nothing exotic. The focus can take a corrupted implicit granting levels to minion skills.
• Flasks: a standard life flask, and Uhtred’s Chalice on the mana side.
• Jewels: sapphires with critical strike chance and critical damage bonus for minions, minion damage, and maximum energy shield obtained via diluted Liquid Fire.

Gameplay Tips

• Always prime with Ice Nova: without a first layer of ice, Navira has nothing to fracture. Astral Projection is there to make sure the nova lands on the pack instead of at your feet.
• Keep moving: enemies slowed by the chilled ground and by Temporal Chains can no longer catch up to you. Running straight into the pack is safer than going around it.
• Spam your command skills: every use maintains the Puppet Master buff and opens a 15% chance to trigger the Archon, which grants an extra 200% cooldown recovery.
• Use Pain Offering before a boss: sacrificing minions inflates your damage, at the cost of the Muster bonus. On a good sceptre, the trade is well worth it.
• Never put Last Gasp on the wolves: they need to die to generate the infusions. This support is reserved for skeletons you want to keep alive in your presence.
• In Breach and rituals, let the monsters come to you: the higher the density, the more the fracture pays off.

The infinite loop of the Navira Sorceress build

It all starts with Navira the Last Mirage. Her fracture skill only hits chilled ground occupied by an enemy, which makes her useless in open space but devastating in a tight pack. Spell damage is high and freeze lands almost every time.

That freeze is what closes the loop. Frost Nexus creates chilled ground for every enemy frozen by the skill, and Encroaching Ground expands that area second after second, up to 100% more surface. You fracture, the fracture freezes, the freeze lays down more ice, and the next fracture finds even more ground to work with. On a dense map, half the screen ends up permanently under ice.

Damage, meanwhile, comes from Muster, which grants 7% more damage per distinct type of raisable minion summoned. Hence the skeleton menagerie in the setup: frost mages, storm mages, snipers, reavers. None of them are there to kill, they’re there to count. Djinns count too, which makes the bonus worthwhile even without summoning much else.

Priming the ice: Cast on Minion Death and Powered by Verisium

The loop has one weak point: its start. Chilled ground is needed before the first fracture, and that’s what Ice Nova provides, as long as it’s infused with cold.

The infusion comes from Powered by Verisium, a very low-level Kalguuran skill that generates elemental infusions usable by any skill. The low level is deliberate: the runic ward cost stays low, which avoids sacrificing too much energy shield to the Verisium anvil. It’s triggered by Cast on Minion Death, so minions need to die near you, regularly.

Hence the role of Wolf Pack. With Minion Instability and Infernal Legion II, the wolves charge into the pack, explode, die, and restart the machine. Romiras Requital and Amanamus Tithe turn those deaths into small defensive and offensive bonuses along the way. Above all, don’t give them Last Gasp: a wolf that survives produces no infusion.

Kelari, the boss-killing tool

Against a single target, a carpet of ice doesn’t do much anymore. That’s where Kelari, the Tainted Sands takes over, with damage that’s mostly physical.

Her setup differs from Navira’s on one specific point: where Navira runs with Bidding III to spit out the fracture as often as possible, Kelari settles for Bidding II and keeps room for pure damage supports. Kurgals Leash adds chaos, Hulking Minions grows it without a reservation penalty, and Armour Break III cracks open a boss’s guard. Well-geared players swap out armour break for a Breach support that lets chaos damage eat through armour instead, but the budget version holds up perfectly well.

Crafting the belt and sceptre on a budget

The belt gets crafted in a Breach, aiming for two minion modifiers from the base, then filling it out with exalted orbs. A cheap essence of insanity then strips a random suffix. The hope is that it takes off the charm charges line and leaves the immobilisation buildup intact. When the belt survives, a vaal orb guarantees two corrupted modifiers instead of one. That line alone brings close to 500 energy shield.

For the sceptre, the goal is twofold: two sockets and spirit. A rare sceptre with a minion skill level, uncorrupted and already carrying one socket, costs around two divines. Hit it with a vaal orb, and with a bit of luck you get the second socket, letting you stack two damage augments with the command skills.

The longer route goes through a fracturing orb to lock the minion skill level, which secures the rest of the craft. The success rate sits around one in three, so save this step for a base that’s worth it. Once the line is locked, alloys and omens become risk-free.

The passive tree: energy shield, crits and Puppet Master

The Navira witch build’s tree reads in three stages. The start is entirely devoted to maximum energy shield and its recharge rate, since Chaos Inoculation cuts life down to 1 and makes the shield your only bar.

Next comes the offensive block: critical hit chance and minion damage, picking up everything along the way. On the left, the presence area and spirit nodes unlock the bonus that grants minions increased damage with command skills for every different minion type in your presence. It’s the same principle as Muster, applied to the tree.

The third block is corrective. Chaos Inoculation drops your stun threshold dramatically, so the stun recovery and ailment threshold nodes become mandatory. On top of that come arcane buff duration and the elemental resistances granted during those buffs. The jewels, meanwhile, stay simple: sapphires with minion crits, minion damage and maximum energy shield.

Skill Tree