[3.27]The dirty Scorpion-Tail|Herald of Agony|Cyclone-Guardian|Arachnophobia Allstars 246M-470M

Set-up in the clip [3.22]: 5.3 k es, +88% max resis, 1 ele-dr flask up, molten shell and divergent frost shield up.

Path of Building

Combinate everytime the pob-tree with the pairing titled item-tab and the pairing skill-tab:

1) Select the landing PoB-Tree / Loadout "Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA" with the item-tab "Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA"-items and the skill-tab "Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA"-gems

2) "Levelling" trees with item-tab "Levelling items" and skill-tab "Levelling skills"

3) Other Loadouts and Keywords like "1000M Saqawal`s Nest Aspect of Avian", "1800M ....", "CI: Crit-HoA", "Iron Reflexes" - trees with the pairing titled items- and skills-tabs

Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better many maths.

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Configurations PoB:

Configure HoA the tail-attack (in the leftside columne), 40-112 virulences, 15 withers, and 10+ poison stacks on enemies (for calculating vile toxins) to get the correct dps.

Enable: determination, grace, discipline, minions are on full life

For valuable comparing shaper-damage change pierce in the HoA-support to vile toxins or marked predator.

The ehp: recovery /es on block is checked for mapping.
Aegis aurora generates infinitive substain in high density.

Against Ubers max hit taken is often more important.


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Because almost all builds....

are full in fantasy correcting their 2 wither-stacks to 15,
deal awesome full chained-damage against singletargets, ramped up with 9 keys snapshotted after 2 gearswaps,
wear never possessed, but desired low-budget 2-mirrors vaal regalias as starter-gear and astonishing 7-sockets body-armours,
wield impulsive crafted 12-L weapons double corrupted,
back out of poe-history returning +5 rings,
are tanky 6 layers of portals and 5 relaxed regex-map-filters stacking,
drink their own new magic flasks out of the poe 3-future filled with only 10 individual unique stats,

.... and are editing quite interesting more funny personal pob-configurations, I decided to use only common to medium to good gear but no b.i.s.-pieces in the pob.

Some Guardians - Baran, Al-Hezim, Phoenix
https://youtu.be/QDakIXO7eng
Some bosses - Exarch etc. in 5 seconds
https://youtu.be/1eCs-z_wMLk
Facetanking Maven's Memory Game:
https://youtu.be/Dv1MWYqWnYE
T17 tank all attacks of Bosses Citadel + Fortress
https://youtu.be/UzFRqY7whvc
Full juiced red Dunes Delirium t16
https://youtu.be/cu8pbz5aTVE
Baran, Veritianas, Al Hezim, 10x Invitation, Sirus, Elder, Delirium Crimson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWDsGw6B0hM
Budget 50 chaos, example levelling and leaguestart, HoA lvl 18 qu 0
https://youtu.be/v_0m9_bWtxU
Tanking sirus (with iron reflexes, tank his healbeams frontal, then they are healing best!)
https://youtu.be/0_B9-vYWo0Y
Monik390 facetanking Simulacrum wave 30:
https://youtu.be/S9m_ZbyPHvY

A Full Example gear progression cheap to b.i.s., lvl 1 to lvl 100, t-1 to t-17 to ubers, is shown on necro-page 100:

--> https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25977437

Stack and max:

■ for your own 80-100% poisonchances for spellhits passives, poison-support and tattoos
■ skill-efficiencies in the tree and small clusters for the tanky auras
■ HoA-gem-levels
■ 9 medium clusters of pure agony
■ ghastly jewels with minion chances to poison on hit
■ sources of withers: withering step & sin's rebirth
■ the CI-recovery shield and watcher's eye
■ 100% spell suppression
■ 50% spellblock
■ guard-skill molten shell and frostshield

With poe-experiences ordinary you need in the long build:

1. "Beginning and levelling" when you want to level the campaign with HoA
2. "Path of building" for configurations
3. "HoA step by step - The composition of agony" for the damagescaling
4. "gear" - section body-armour for the keystones
5. "jewels": HoA-virulences, Recovery etc.
6. "skills", "HoA-supports"
7. AG, Spectres: necro-page 100
8. "flat dr / checklist defences / details of the ascendancies / map-mods / faq"
9. "all poe-tradelinks" and budget-variations you find in the last spoiler
10. the 3.27 league-news on necro-forum page 122

Build up your defences and damage

This build shows improving paths of gear-set-ups. Mana, damage and defences are balanced a bit different with the weapon, belt, used or unused flesh and stone, tempestshield, enfeeble, ed-charges-uptime and clusters. You can switch the set-ups fast.

1.) Levelling - Until t12 maps

Stack 80% poisonchances with passives and poison on hit-support for production of HoA-virulences with your own spells.

Level with the starters:

Ghastly Theater
Cybil's paw
Skillgems Ball lightning of orbiting, Tornado of elemental turbulence
Circle of Nostalgia
Shaper ring life+mana on spellhit
Darkness Enthroned / Stygian vise
Rainbow strides

Maw of the conquest
Golden Rule jewel

Get needed dex and resis on other gear and for HoA a 5 /6 link Body Armour.


2.) Starter Set-up - The Mana-Management

Get the key-gear:

Small clusters sublime form (- uncompromising)
9 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Cheap large clusters #7 / or #5-passives voices
3-5 abyss jewels minion chance to poison on hit
Sin's Rebirth-flask / other source of full 15 withers
Rumi's Concoction flask
Tattoos poison-on-hit
Aegis Aurora shield
Watcher's eye with es on hit
+2 minion or 80%-90% manamultiplier helmet
Amulet anoint
Skin of the Lords / Loyals

Head always as early as possible to cheap small clusters for auras and medium clusters for "pure agony".

Relaxed master your manamanagement around lvl 50 with the 3 small clusters "sublime form" and "uncompromising".

Simultan start to outsource res, attr, bleeding- and ailment-immunities from gear onto the transferpoints of clusterjewels and ghastly jewels.

Gather a fellowship to move the auras discipline and vitality and other skills over to the spectres.
Throw all hexes with the AG's helmet Ylfeban's Trickery.

With the rings circle of nostalgia, more skill-reservation-efficiencies and a shaper-ring you manage your mana to activate the big tanky auras grace + flesh and stone to stack all global basic defences and keystones.

Easy from lvl 60 you start to optimize your damage with "pure agony" on full 9 medium clusters. For this insert 3 cheap large clusters #7 / #5-passives voices into the tree.


3.) Lvl 80: Boss-Hunter 20 M - The Damage

Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp around lvl 70-90:
Arriving in the second and third large cluster you max also your defences by further more aurastacking and switch in more jewels and small clusters.
You reach an unique record of 1M-inf*Ehp.

Get:

Ashes of the Stars
Empower and Awakened HoA-supports

When you get a watcher's eye with es on hit and reach on the tree 90-100% spell suppression and have crafted well rolled flasks you are already geared for almost all content.


4.) Lvl 90: MinMax 40-80 M shaper-damage

Melding of the flesh and a sapphire flask raise ele-max-resis to tanky 85-90%.

Outsource all needed attributes, resis, bleeding-avoidances, spell suppression and mana-reg from gear on jewels, clustertransfers, implicits, tattoos and league-mechanics to get more free passives and capacities for damage, tankyness and qol.

Attractive corruptions & doublecorruptions are gathered and best rare pieces are sniped or crafted.

The hunt for some additional fitting megalomaniacs clusters with hundreds of interesting combinations begins.


5.) The Highway to damage 100-1000 M

Around lvl 95 when you want to full max you decide to gain the b.i.s.-status on each piece of gear, jewel and each implicit.

You crawl into the final HoA skill-lvls 34-40. With 3 voices clusters you slay the last Ubers in still remaining full tankyness.
Your HoA-base-damage skyrocks with the raising virulences. So in effect you need less minionpoison for high damage over time.

Now you scale finally into HoA-crits with Maata's Teaching, additional curses and Saqawal`s Nest for total convincing 180-1800M shaper-damage - or walk relaxed into tankyness, or farm a mageblood for qol.

Scorpions & Spirits, Agony & Arakaali

HoAg, HoP, HoT, HoI, HoA

Originally five heralds, one for each of the five damagetypes in wraeclast, were sent out from the islands of Chris to boost the clear speed in the mines of Nico.

Two heralds were designed as outliners to be empowered as new mainskills. The gang of of purity, heralds in the mortal physical realm, fighted hard, slow and melee.

Last the only one single raised. Shaped as a scorpion the herald of chaos was immortal born in the endless dunes of arachnophilia and crawled out of the sands at the beaches of Wraeclast to raise his small dirty sting.

A long time ago - The meta of herald-stackers [3.4] to [3.12]



[3.13] The historic first Allstars-video "Endgame": Necropolis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3pKO3RIFo


The Arachnophobias and Arachnophilias

In [3.13] Ritual I introduced the new guide "The Arachnophobia Allstars" focussing much more on armour- and aura-stacking with more clusters and aul's uprising, with iron reflexes on Skin of the Lords, solely exclusive designed with immortal minions, with evasions of minion-blindings. With more curses and full withers I buffed up spirit offering, in that time another 30% more chaosdamage. I optimized the pathing and skills and supports and with fastings almost 100% flasks-uptimes were reached before the famous belt mageblood was born. I reworked the selection of aura-notables on small clusters using their buffs of [3.11] Harvest to optimize Grace with stalwart commanders. I combinated HoA with withering spiders of arakaali's fang. The build was designed as total tank and I reached in that times immortal 5k es on block stinging in 5M shaper-damage. In the Delve depth race the build reached rank 3.

[3.13] Facetanking Sirus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl3572Zmsyk



Leaderboards [3.14] to [3.15]

So in [3.14] Ultimatum the HoA-allstars-guardian was popular again and No1-rank in the solo-leaderboards of the Guardian-leaderboards, No1 in the forum, and leading the arachnophobiatic dream-team of scorpions and spiders with arakaali's fang. HC lvl 100 Rank 1 was easy reached too.

In [3.15] Expedition the tipping level-point of HoA lowered from lvl 31 down to lvl 29, enabling different weapons and different amulets.


[3.15] Infinitve* ehp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnteQs472d8


The big buff [3.16] to [3.18]




The crawler raises 200% [3.19] to [3.23]





2M

The second keystone of totally combined 2M arachnophobiatic views in united 4 arachnophil ascendancies-forums dropped on the 22.4.24 in Necropolis.



HoA arrives in 250M

In [3.24] the former default HoA-virulences- generator stormburst was happy buried in peace and good mood in the graveyards of the Necropolis. After many leagues cyclone is reborn again as valuable channelskill for 100 virulences. The ball lightnings of orbiting and homing tornados of turbulences fit perfect into the cyclone movement skill-set with full damage-uptime. The golden rule is now not needed before lvl 90.

The returning tattoos buffed the build in value of 5-10 passives. The new herald-ring circle of ambition was introduced for smaller fine suffixes. The changes to unholy might and the sin's rebirth-flask grant easy withers to free up one more jewel slot.

The Adorned was unbugged and the HoA-poison-setup (abyss-jewels / belt) turned total flexible. The +2 dark seer fits great for fast tankyness.
With the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre I empowered chaos-scaling by crit-scaling as next multiplicator imba on top in low-budget.

It seems that the mageblood turns much easier to farm each league and it teams up great with the 100% global defences by Skin of the Lords. With the changes to the sapphire flask the melding and 85-90% all max-resis returned again in lategame.

The Champ arrives in the team and can stack high 95% flat damagereductions and 250 k armour.



[3.25] Settlers - Half a billion

Spell block, ward and endurance charges were buffed, in exchange determination was nerfed. Taste of Hate became useable for 25% more fast ele-ehp. Asenath's gloves for clearspeed in maps were added. The max HoA-skill-lvl 40 is claimed with the new +8 amulets. For the new t-17 standard the immortal minion fits perfect.

The time arrived to Jugg. Great regenerations in all juice.
Hiero- and Gladiator-variations were pathed, last the Scion launched and the circle of the Allstars closed.


Phrecia

In "The Legacy of Phrecia" cheapest geared the build reached 660M, up to 1.1 billion damage in the herald-event-ascendancy.




[3.26] Secrets of the Atlas to [3.27] Keepers: A full to four billions

Reacting to the merc-group-debuff of 25% higher damage taken the build turned from CI over into hybrid life+es.
Dps and recovery were doubled.
In a new fellowship the qol-buffed spectres and animate guardian sides us.
200 M in lowest budget top tanky and up to 1.8 B are stinged, and as DD-groupplay-glascannon 4B.


Meta-ready?

With these huge buffs to movement, qol, defences and damage the Herald of Agony is probably meta-minion ready again. I don't see since [3.24] another minion-build to scale up better. B.i.s. geared in high-budget 1800M damage are stinged in tanky 250k-1M ehp.

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw

Holy Relics reach only 25% of the capacities in damage of HoA. Spectres are squishy in t-17. BaMas are nice, but clunky. HoA is as downside a bit more complex to build, but needs only a much lower budget.



==> The History of all leagues are noted on necro-page 100:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3264207/page/100#p25977445

Heralds and minions are often chosen for their quality of life and automatic damage-qualities. Everything dies around you. Your herald finishs your job while you yourself are already relaxed looting.

Simply by the smooth movement of the channelskill cyclone we automatical launch poisoning fast hitting spells which autotrigger a ranged fighting scorpion-minion.


The defences

The Arachnophobia Allstars are using a special combination of gear like the shield Aegis aurora and Skin of the lords. The build stacks skill-efficiencies and spectres to use all big tanky auras. Then high buffed global defences multiply your Es, your flasks, the aura determination and triple in grace.
This way the long row layers of all defences is lined up: flat dr, armour, spell suppression, evasion, block and spell block.

Following the Allstars take wonderful the intensive full bath in the united composition of all northern tanky keystones. Ghost Dance, Divine Shield, Zealoth's Oath, Wicked Ward and Supreme Decadence recover, regenerate and recharge in quadrophony.
Infinitive recovery is overstacked with es on block, es when hit and life and es on hit.

The mechanics

In this unique style the best of both worlds of the tanky western and eastern passivetree is united. The deterministic eastern uptimes of evasion, ghost dance and 100% spell suppression protect you safe in the nondeterministic western downtimes of blockings and divine shield.

This means that in combat all taken and dealed hits, spellhits, blocks and spellblocks heal you nonstop.
It's like drinking every second some lifeflasks and your blockings are never limited.

Beyond the architecture of our tree with many clusters and jewels let us reach 90% +max resis beside almost all tanky auras and 100% crit- and ailment-immunities.

The countdown

The delicious team of components massive collaborates and impressive lifts off to:

0- oneshots
1- the only one tanky tank of tanks. 1000 es on block
2- 000 ES on hit/sec, 2000 life on hit/sec, 2000 es when hit, 2000 es recovery/sec with vaal discipline
3- panicskills, 3 curses, 3 different damagetypes united, 30M autobombing, 35M continuous dot
4- 000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered
5x Cc: maim, hinders, chills, slows, knockbacks - all mobs are in slow-mo, 50-100 minions possible as mass-summoner
60% - 75% spellblock and 50% block with 100% dr, 60% more damagereductions against ranged attacks in frostshield
75% dr of max. and optimized 5000 Molten Shell, 75%-100% chaos immunities
80% buffed evasion, 80% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 85-89% elemental resistances
90% - 95% flat dr
100 % spell suppression, 100% bleeding-, 100% poison-, 100% elemental ailments-, 100% crit-immunities
110 % overcapped allresistances, ready for debuffs, scorch, elemental-degens and -equiliriumed maps
12M - infinitive* ehp, 1200M dps possible, 12-25k+ Es and Life recovered / sec

We can facetank almost all bosses.

The damage

Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's crawling immortal scorpion-minion. In higher minion-skill-levels the herald of chaos is probably the highest damage-scaling minion in Wraeclast and is buffed into more than a billion dps by stacking medium clusters of "pure agony". It's center is the dirty tailsting clearing five times each second two screens in top-tier-range.

The Allstars define unmatched flexibility with unending possibilities in the whole poe-system. Dozens skills can be utilized and transformed into triggering in high fullspeed the chaos-minion-projectile-damage of the ranged attacks of the scorpion.
Ball lightnings, cyclone, tornadoes and 50 more fast skills can be used.

In this build a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities is mixed and united. With tempestshield, autotriggered tornadoes, void spheres and storm brands the herald is autobombing, with minion-poison 35M are balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active channelling whirling cyclone to launch orbiting ball lightnings tickling the chaos-clone-beast-crawler's tail into fullspeed and initializing 100M to 4000M-fullscreen-chainexplosions.


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Which Herald?

HoT, HoP, HoA, HoI, HoAg

Which Prices / Budget?

Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.27]

(Price-details on necro-page 100)

■ 15 chaos for yellow t5
■ 50 chaos for red t12
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red t15
■ 4-6 div watcher's eye for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for 25M damage and juiced red t16
■ 20-40 div for 50M damage, t17 and ubers
■ 40-80 div for 200M damage.

30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.


■ 150 div for 300M damage.
■ 400 div for 600M damage
■ 800 div for 900M damage
■ 1500-3000 div for 1200M-4B damage

That's an around 80% smaller budget compared to meta-bamas, squishy spectres, etc.

The eight useable ascendancies alternate 20%-40% in damage, tankyness and recovery and have their own specialities.

Choose your class depending on your poe-experiences, your playstyle and your favourite poe-content:

Without much poe-experiences start relaxed as Trickster into PoHoA for total best tankyness.
With good poe-experiences and the know-how of balancing and to avoid sometimes dot go Necro to kick'n sting more damage (or choose the "total tank"-pob).
Use Guardian for easy levelling.
Select Scion, Pathfinder and Champ for the good mix, Occu for speedmapping.

Since the necro-buff in [3.24] I often first update the flexible necro-ascendancy, other ascendancy follow a bit delayed.

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Ascend.:__Guardian_Necro_Occu_Trickster_Pathfi_Champ_Jugg_Scion

DPS singletarget___3____1____2____2____3____3____4____3

DPS high density___3____1____1____2____2____2____4____2

Tankyness_________1____3____3____1____2____2____2____2

With mageblood___1____3____3____1____2____2____3____2

Levelling Lvl 1-75__1____1____3____1____1____3____3____2

Gearing Lvl 60-95__1____3____3____1____1____2____3____2


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+ + The Ranking + +

1. Trickster - The Tank

The Trickster grants an immortal mix of defensive layers and es-recharge against d.o.t. Can facetank most d.o.t.-bosses with Lethe Shade. More flexible in the body-armour-slot. Able to free gear the boots-slot or the sol-keystone.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3477280

2. Necro - The DD

Most easy to plugg in tanky spectres, AG and golem for more auras, hexes and other skills.
Flexible to choose the gloves-slot, flexible in the ascendancy.
Necro also reaches the leading singletarget-boss-damage. The charm of the necromantic choice is "Unnatural Strength"/ Unholy Might Ascendancy to max up the top HoA-singletarget-damage of all ascendancies.

Best to scale into 1000-4000M Ultra-HoA-crits when you focus on dps.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3264207

3. Guardian - More Auras, Born to block

Guardian can easy use more auras. Nice regenerations, early full blockings with cyclone and easy levelling with the radiant crusade-minion. In lategame hard to scale above 400M.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705

4. Pathfinder

Pathfinder gets early an ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood, inbuilt withers and is free to choose the belt slot and a watcher's eye mod. That is eg equal to 4 jewel-slots with the darkness enthroned-belt.
In the good mix.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3361513

5. The Champ

Good flat dr, reaches flat 95% damage-reductions against all hits.
Fortification, increased aura-effects, armour and evasion fit tight.
With iron reflexes fast 200k amour and the farming status against U-Shaper, U-Sirus, U-Eater is finalized.
Also most interesting for specialized armour-stacking, best synergies with keystone Glancing blows, Graven's secret, and hybrid life+es variations wearing the Stasis Prison.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3529075

6. Scion

Pure flexibility. Easy to build in 90% max-resis.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3562552

7. Occu

Occultist, included in the necro-pob, scales top clearspeed with profane bloom in high density. Best with investments for forbidden flame and flesh.

8. It's time to Jugg!

Stay Hybrid. Needs as CI Sin of the lords keystone Zealot's Oath.
Minion-Jugg starts a bit slow and cannot be scaled above 400M, but later speedy and ramps up endurance charges and extreme good regenerations. Retiring.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3549881


Recommended only for specialisations: Hiero, Glad

The Secrets of Juice

Ordinary rush through the atlas to the bosses for the atlas-voidstones and farm a bit currency in easy content. After choose 2-3 content-mechanics you enjoy and buff them as far as possible with all relating atlas-passives and atlas-keystones, scarabs, deli-orbs and the map-device in 11-mod-maps.

In many YouTube Channels (like Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Crouching_Tuna, sirgog, POEGuy, Grimro, etc.) farming strategies with optimized atlas-trees and juicing favoured maps are explained to maximize high synergies and more factors of currency-drops.

Optimized farming strategies easy quintuple your gained currency or exp. Full juice, full loot. Unbuffed content is worthless!

Atlas | Mapping | Altars | 11-mods 9/10


Bossing | Destructive Play 9/10


Abyss 10/10


Harvest 10/10


Einhar | Bestiary 10/10


Ultimatum 10/10


Essences | Strongboxes | Red Vaal Temples 10/10


Harbinger 10/10


Beyond 10/10


T17 9/10


Breach 9/10


Delirium | Simulacrum 9/10


Rogue Exiles | Anarchy 9/10


Delve 9/10


Expedition 9/10


Betrayal 9/10


Blight 9/10


Ritual 9/10


Ubers 8/10


Legion 8/10


Heist | Lab-Runner | Movementspeed 7/10



Alva | Incursion 7/10


Sanctum 2/10

Leaguestarter?

Overall not best, not cheapest and not easy leaguestarter! Without experience auras and clusters are not quickest to upbuild. Shield is expensive in the first days of leagues! See "contra" just below! But in starter- and budget-gear fast already with cheap 2 alch- and 1 c-alternatives. Valuable, cheap and alternative gear for each slot.
Racing and Speed-Levelling possible: Balaar top 1 A10 Pts+Labs - HoAg in 3h42m51s
I recommend to level with poisonous concoction etc., see "tipps for levelling", when you are not experienced buffing HoA and minions.
Ready for red mapping early. 6M dps, 400k ehp possible at lvl 85 with cheapest gear without awakened supports because the HoA scales most damage with easy to craft medium clusters, cheap ghastly jewels, curses and withers.
In end of first week in league ranked first top 1 achieved in the guardian-ascendancy soloplay, leaderboard of necromancers already archieved in week 2 of the first active league of the build.

Top 1

40/40 challenges completed - all content viable.
All Ueber-Bosses down, fulljuiced t-17 farming, valdos, the Feared at once, Simulacrum wave 15 7 rewards, Delve 2000, etc...
Endgame: Max up your build into leading positions - soloplay guardians rank 1 reached
The perfect guide for min-maxers and individualists - there are always upgrades to hunt from 10M to 100M to 200M to 400M to 1000M to 4000M.
Top 1 HoA-build (often copied, but never passed): Yes, it's true: This high optimized in-depth Arachnophilia-guide just right here in the official poe-forum reachs 200%, up to 4000%, more damage and ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the 20M-casual-common builds of PoEGuy, Oscrix, HeavyHeals, marty, Jorgen, Aer0, Snolaz, Verlyna's etc. on YouTube and in PoeVault.
Top 1 life+es: one of the very seldom valuable Hybrids
Top 1 sustain: with max keystones and aegis aurora facetank most bosses
Top 1 total defences: 90% max-resis, 100% spellsuppression, 100% ailment-avoidances, blockings, 50k armour, 75% evasion, 1M+ ehp buffed against all damagetypes - with frostshield counted in even much, much more. Is there any other build with these defence-capacities out there?
Top 1 meta-minion: Is there another minion-build in more than 1800M damage out there?

Beginner-friendly - but complex:

Budget: much cheaper than many metabuilds, until 750M no mageblood, no expensive equipment
Uniques in most slots: Know-how of crafts not needed
Complete poe-trade-links listed in the last spoiler at the buttom of the thread
Because you can facetank most bosses without danger, it's a nice time to learn more about their abilities, attacks and mods.
Not only a "copy my pob-link!"-build:
Sorry, this is probably one of the most expanded and longest builds in the forum. Complex and strong poe-mechanics - all global defences, aura-stacking, the world of clusters and jewels, HoA, minion-crits, multiplied damage-scalings, CI, AG, spectres - are united and explained in the guide. The build, the pob and many spoilers are designed like a toolbox for you. You learn step by step to scale damage up. Selecting your own individual favourite triggers and skills, to free-up skill-sockets, to manage mana and to optimize clusters and the passive-tree is explained. Dialectical strategies and variations for all levels are shown. You can dive deep into the world of poe. It's a massive in-depth build explaining stat-details and many budget-variations.
Comprehensive checklists for damage and defences, checklists for all stats.

Relaxing 100% poison-immunity.

At the same time not easy to balance all stacked mechanics and defensive layers of the build.

Ready to level to 100.

I solo-levelled Necro deathless to 100 in full juiced red delirium-maps with increased-swarms and density of full buffed exarch-altars.
Earlier I played lvl100 Guardian myself with t16 red maps, heists and deeper delve.
I played Pathfinder to lvl 100 and Trickster deathless in lvl 90-100 in full delirium-beyond-juiced 10k wisps-affliction. As Champ lvl 90-99 were done with 2 deaths, relaxed in low 3k es, in allflames-necropolis high juiced maps, b2b, rogueexiles, delirium and beyond. Jugg died 4x in lvl 80-100 in max-juided beyond - delirium - ritual - ultimatum mapping, Scion lvl 80-100 died 6x in 3.26 16.5 content.
While most other builds go only for 20-200k ehp, this build's focus on defences, enabling 1M - to inf* ehp and lvl 100 in all content.

HC viable

Also without top-gear: Large es/ block is most safe against poe's lags and disconnects.
HC lvl 100 reached

Ranged and melee playstyle combined

1 button-build
The best out of three worlds combinated: channeled smooth moving of cyclone launching fast spells which autotrigger a minion attacking in ultra-wide range 2 screens
Tank & Cast-style is definitiv more fun as kite & hide
Different damagetypes united in HoA as trigger: selfbuffed damagepeaks, homing tornados, continuous poison-dot, autotriggered counter-damage
HoA-Chaos-damage and HoA-poison-dot instant penetrates es, ar and many other defences of bosses

Allrounder

HoA is immortal - optimal minion for boss-hunting
Best fitting for t17, 100% deli, simulacrums, delve, bossing, heists, ravaged blights etc.
Easy to balance and to specialize for individual content and goals in endgame.
Much space to play and vary with skills, passives, keystones, clusters, supports and gear slots.
In groupplay and for companions great supporting with auras and curses and as DD with 4 B dps.

On maps with the No-Mana-Recovery-Mod you have to take in a shaper-ring or enduring-mana bottle and must map slow or reroll.

Heavy ground damage can still kill you (exception is our immunity to burning, shocking and caustic ground).

HoA-convocation into proximity shields has a 1.5 sec cd.

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter!
Shield is expensive in the first days of leagues.
In leaguestart often alternative 2c gear is needed in these slots because of pricefixers/ high prices.
High prizes are often leaguestart prizes. Ongoing in league they will change. Support and demand changes through the first weeks much in trade.
Not cheap when you max your watcher's eye and amulet - but still much cheaper until 1000M as other meta-builds.

In Ssf HoAg is strong extreme not optimized, but much more difficult to collect the clusters and unique gear.

Complex to max - not easy to optimize all mechanics and clusters. You will need your time and some know-how to scale HoA-damage, recovery, auras, keystones and jewels and to balance the mana. But as result you learn in this build almost everything about many core-mechanics, global defences and tanky keystones in the whole northern and eastern tree.

When you take the tanky nodes "only" 50 - 500 millions singletarget shaper-dps. That is more than enough for all ubers. You will rush through the maps with your 420 mill. piercing and forking mapping-damage. You have no downtimes of your damage because you are tank and you have ranged DD's, dot and autobomb-damage. But sorry, you don't oneshot the Ubers compared to the glascannons and only-bossers in the neighboorships.

Because the poe-engine hardcaps the HoA-lvl and dot-damage not easy to buff above 4000M damage.

Hack'n sting!

Mix the max!

This fine composed recipe with the full dozen seasoned components tastefully serve full arachnophilia in passion for destruction.
Here starts the journey into the fine arts of 1000M dps-damage HoA-crawling.

Produce with your own poisoning and fast hitting spells Agony-virulences.

Increase the HoA-base damage by increasing HoA-skill-levels with gear, empower and awakened supports.

The HoA-base-damage and attackspeed is multiplied by the total number of HoA-virulences. So the key is to insert large voices-clusters to insert more medium clusters of more 'pure agony'-notables for more max HoA-virulences.

Many jewels slots are produced collateral which are used for ghastly jewels for minion chances to poison, for more small clusters for mana-management for more tanky auras and for more rare jewels for + cold-resis equal to + max-resis.

Then we continue to scale up further with withers, curses, dot-multiplier and a row of debuffs and buffs.

Finally b.i.s. geared for balancing into dps we invest into HoA-critical chances and damage with 2-3 grand spectrums and arrive in hundreds of millions damage in the lategame.

Thumbed almost each of the following sections doubles the damage of the former sections.


■ TL;DR | Show me the scaling | The Ranking of all HoA-buffs ■

Shake up and stack up the coctail of damage for shining clean screens with:

Poisonhits for HoA-virulences > HoA-skill-lvl 34 (improved with HoA-supports and gear) ≥ HoA-medium-clusters Pure Agony (base damage, attackspeed) > Withers ≥ Curses (Despair, Assassin's mark) > HoA-poison (Ghastly jewels, belt) > 100% Chaos-Conversion > HoA-crits > Spirit offering > frenzy & power charges > increased miniondamage (rings) > AG > Golem > aoe-chain-explosions (gloves asenath's) > culling strike > feeding frenzy





1. The Production of HoA-virulences


■ Spell Poison for Virulences ■

Whenever you poison with your spellhits and other skills, you generate agony-virulences.
With more virulences your Herald will hit faster and harder.

Mandatory to poison are poisonchances and additional physical- or chaos-damage-components.
For our pure elemental skills i.e. the nostalgia-ring or chance to poison supportgem add the basic chaos-component.

Final place in the cherry jewel the golden rule to double it.

Skill up minimum 80%, better 100% chance to poison:

20% HoAg-buff
25% 2 passives serpentine spellslinger
40-55% 8-11 tattoos of the tawhoa shaman

While levelling also:

40% chance to poison supportgem / or integrated in rare gloves
25% passives fatal toxins
20% passives swift venoms / toxic strikes


Alternative increasements:




■ The Golden Rule ■

Equal to 100% more HoA-virulences: With the jewel "the golden rule" you double with self-poisoning your stacking of virulences against singletargets.


■ Fast Spells ■

We choose the most fast hitting spells with lowest mana-costs in whole poe - best are the ball lightnings of orbiting to generate full virulences.
Tornados of elemental turbulences or storm bursts are fast too.
Simultan they scale up our fast es on hit-recovery and witherings.
Limit them to lvl 1, quality 20 to reduce their manacosts.

Until 110 virulences:
cyclone (lvl 20) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) - ball lightning of orbiting (lvl 1) - aw increased aoe / or - tornado of turbulence (lvl 1)


Increased aoe, quality, onslaught / castspeed, and increased duration stack the virulences faster up with lowered delay.

+ 30% to skillquality by ashes of the stars
+ increased aoe implicit / harvestcraft / resolute technique (cyclone) on weapon
+ 20% onslaught ring-implicit / onslaught-flask

Check the counter in the green HoAg-Aura-Icon for the needed continuous 60-120 virulences-stacks singletarget.
Alternative check in pob the hit rates for maximal poison stacks of your combined cyclone, ball-lightnings, 3 tornadoes and other skills. Calculate them without increased poison-durations, but instead increase them by 20%, adding a thumbed 0.4 sec for the delayed fadings of HoA-virulences. Double them manually for the golden rule. Alternative compare the gained es on hit-rating.

Alternative Storm Burst:


'Tempestshield', 'cwdt - void sphere', other channeled & triggered skills, and also for offerings used 'arcanist brand - unearth - spirit offerings' compose HoA-autobombing-quality for maximized damage-uptime and a lot qol.

==》 You choose the best virulence-skill-generators in "skills & trigger".




2. The HoA-Base-damage

■ HoAg-supports | HoAg-gem-levels | Gear up | More damage ■

Climb up and crawl to the HoA tipping-gemlevels 23 -> 28 -> 29 -> 34 -> max. 40 (Quality 23)

The HoA scales heavy with all-, minion-, spell-, chaos-, phys-, dex- skill-gemlevels, awakened supports and empower.

+21 HoA lvl 21
+3 empower lvl 4
+4 2x +2 skin of the lords / +6 Skin of the loyals (2x+1 to socketed, +2 to minion gems)
+1 awakened miniondamage
+1 awakened void manipulation

+1 Ashes of the stars / +4 / +8 rare amulet
+2 the Dark Seer / +2 Maata's Teaching
+1 / +2 Rare Helmet

+ awakened vicious projectiles
+ in maps: pierce / returning projectiles / awakened fork
+ against endgame-bosses: predator / vile toxin / withering touch / damage on full life-support

Alternative increasements:





■ Full Agony & Pure Agony ■

Insert soon and as early as possible 9x medium clusters "pure agony".

They are our leaders for damage.



Virulences are a complete unique multiplier for Herald of Agony.
Each adds +5 maximal HoA-virulences. Basic +20% miniondamage is increased beyond.

Further the HoA-gemquality 23% and Ashes of the stars 29% add 13 virulences.

We reach:

40 basic
45 by 9 medium clusters (9 x 5 = 45)
5 by 23% HoA-quality
8 by 29% Ashes of stars

==> 98 virulences


■ The Voices ■

■ Pathing into the third (and fourth) large cluster let you reach 9-12 slots for 9-12 medium clusters "pure agony", for optimal HoA-base-damage of in total 98 HoA-virulences (up to 113).
■ At the same time you reach so many jewel slots, that your hunt for unique megalomaniac-medium clusters begins. When you get b.i.s.-ones with manamanagement of sublime form, enduring composure and damagenotables like vicious bites and renewal, you can balance for a good megalomaniac around 10% dps more in.


■ The Maths of HoA ■

■ A Starter-HoA-Lvl 21 gem deals 51-94 flat Phy-Dmg +9% Inc. Dmg. +5% ATS per one virulence.
At basic low 40 virulences that’s 2040-3760 flat Phy-Dmg + 360% Inc. Dmg + 200% ATS.

■■■ A typical Allstars-HoA-Lvl 35 gem deals 177-329 flat Phy-Dmg, +12% Inc. Dmg., +6% ATS per one 1x virulence.
At typical default 98x virulences in cheap gear like HoA gem quality 20%, ashes amulet and 9x medium clusters pure agony, that’s 17346-32242 flat Phy-Dmg, +1176% Inc. Dmg, + 588% ATS to be scaled up further.

8 x

■■■■■ Compared to HoA-lvl 20 in slow 40 virulences our default HoA-lvl 35 in 98 counted virulences octuplicate and eightfold the HoA-basedamage to be upscaled further with our long row of all the following multiplicators.




3. The Upscaling

■ Increased damage ■

■ 270% miniondamage are increased collateral with the 9 clusters "pure agony"
■ 1200% by the HoA-virulences
■ 50% by the HoA-supportgems
■ 0-200% with the herald-rings circle of nostalgia / ambition

Above higher increasements have not much effectivity.


■ HoA-Minion-Poison ■

Now we scale up the HoA-poison until we reach the poe-engine's hardcap of dot at 35.7 M.

■ Get 2-5 rare yellow ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit"
■ double 2 of them by the belt darkness enthroned
■ Begin with the HoA-support awakened unbound ailments, but later around 70M total damage, around the hardcap of 35M poisondot, exchange it to predator, damage on full life or vile toxins.
■ with the jewel Amanamu's gaze for 30% more dot-damage you reach early the poison-dot-hardcap, switch it out later too.
■ Against the Ubers dot is much more effective. Set the pob-configurations to Ubers to calculate the 300% extended poison-hardcap correct when you farm them.
■ HoA-crits add a 50% dot-multiplier.

Variation



■ Withers ■

15 wither-debuffs almost double the damage:

■ Withering step (9 withers) (+ ashes of the stars 12) (+enhance 14)
■ Sin's rebirth stibnite flask in maps (15)
■ Chaos Golem of the Maelstroem (8) + 50% increased effect of withers
■ Temporal chains equal to 33% longer duration of withers
■ chaos-mastery corruption 20% increased effect of withers
■ minion mastery unholy might Herald of Agony (2) + Withering Touch support (5) (+ Pierce and Returning Projectiles 10)


Alternatives


■ Curses ■

Despair (damage) + Temporal chains (buffing poison- and withers) + Assassin's mark are mixed into the recipe.

■ Despair, Punishment, Temporal Chains and Enfeeble are valuable.
■ 4 low level hexes are outsourced on the AG's, or Merc's, helmet Ylfeban's Trickery to ignore the curse-limit or 2 on gloves Asenath's Gentle Touch or a blasphemy-spectre.
■ In maps i.e temporal chains is reliable best spreaded on hit on your gloves implicts.
■ In maps the hexes can be also spreaded with eg: tempestshield - hextouch - despair - temporal chains
■ In lategame Assassin's mark for HoA-crits or before Sniper's mark are thrown.
■ For bosses the curses are prepared served on Arcanist brand, Cursed Ground, or Shield charge - Battlemage's cry
■ The b.i.s. amulet-implicit, Whispers of doom-anoint, Vixen`s entrapements, or an Anathema-ring add the elegance of 3, 4 and more curses.
■ In a 4-5 high level-curses set-up stepping into "steeped in the profane" can be reasonable.


■ 100% Chaos-Conversion ■

HoA original deals 40% physical and 60% chaos-damage.

The gloves 4 white-socketed triad grips are needed.

Alternative only in maps investing 5 passive-points into the minion offence mastery for unholy might is valuable too.

The conversion into 100% chaos-damage almost doubles the effects of your withers, chaos- and poison-curses, of HoA-poison-dot-damage and awakened void manipulation.




25M

Dps- Checks

■ 6M damage are for sure enough for t16-mapping and lvl 100 farming
■■ 8M are enough to kick Maven
■■■ 10M for juiced red T16 and for Ueber Elder
■■■■ 12M for the feared and simulacrums wave 15
■■■■■ 14M-25M for valdo-maps and juiced t17
■■■■■■ 16M-50M for the Ubers

Congratulations! At this level you are ready for all content.

You sting pinnacles down in a few seconds, oneshot the screen and are able to farm juiced t-17 and all ubers.
By this point you can consider yourself done. You've got everything, you're good.

When you progress further you enter the famous top 1% in the game.

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw


■ The Companions | The Charges ■

■ Max your Spectres, AG, Merc and Golem.
■ Grant frenzy charges (or also power charges) to HoA with the Support-spectres or Merc (12% more HoA-base-dps, 45% incr. HoA-ats).
■ The final cuddling culling strike is hugged by AG and Kingmaker.
■ Still not socketstarved? A chaos golem of the maelstroem / spectres / animate guardian or vaal skeletons are featuring feeding frenzy.


■ Chain-Explosions ■

Can be geared on your AG.

In high density-content the gloves Asenath's gentle touch produce beautiful chainexplosions all over the screen.
Also with "unspeakable gifts" on a large chaos-cluster a second layer of explosions can be stacked.

Your effective ingame-clearspeed quickens.


■ Use all the league-mechanics! ■

■ The Lycia-Bloodline: Eg summon a Holy Flame Totem or channel purifying flame of revelation for Profane Ground, Chaotic Might and Malediction.
■ Grafts are featuring eg brittles or saps, shocked ground and the third guard skill heart of flame (visit HoA-necro-page 122).




100M - More, more, more

From here and onwards the clusters, passives, HoA-supports, curses, poison and crits often need to be calculated individually.

■ How much tankyness, es, ehp and qol is valuable in your favourite played poe-content?
■ Which b.i.s.-pieces, voices and unique medium-clusters can you snipe, farm, afford or craft on your own?
■ Do you reach the meta-possibilities of the mageblood?

That are the factors.

100M can be reached fast with 3 curses, for 200M you need some HoA-crits, to almost oneshot the Ubers in 500M use only best gear, and a bit tankyness is exchanged against 1000M.


■ Direct buffs ■

■ A minion-offence-mastery, "fearsome force" for HoA-crits and "death attunement" for +1 spectre add i.e. in maps HoA-Unholy might after kill
■ The +1 chaos mastery "corruption" buffs withers and damage.
■ Blindings, with a dark seer, on a jewel or tattoo, add accuracies for some HoA-hits.
■ Forbidden flame and flesh for i.e. the occultistic void beacon.


Not full recommended:



■ 150M -1000M HoA-Crits ■

Good geared above gearlevel 150M in lategame, only when you want to exchange a bit tankyness and qol into more bossing-burst-dps, investments into crits can double, triple and octuplicate your damage one more time.

Switch out the ghastly jewels and temporal chains of the Poison-HoA set-up, switch into the Crit-HoA loadout:

■ Mataa`s Teaching sceptre is the best crit-base (9.5-11.5% crit-base)
■ Assassin's mark for 3 HoA-power charges (+1.5% crit-base, 150% increased crit-chances, +56% crit-damage)
■ Buff crits high with Arcanist brand - Unearth - Spirit offering
Increase the effects of offerings by quality (13%), with ashes of the stars (18%), in the minion offence mastery (20%), or also on the boots-eldritch-exarch-implicit (17%). (150% up to 250% crit-chances, 40-70% crit-damage)
■ Pathing 5 passives into "Fearsome force" (or amulet-anoint) (80% crit-chances, 60% crit-damage)
■ Profane ground of the jewel Rational doctrine / Lycia Bloodline (10% increased curses, 100% crit-chances)
■ Mercenarie's / Animate Guardians's Kingmaker (50% crit-damage)
■ Brittle ground, on AG eldritch-implicit-boots (2% crit-base)
■ 2 - 3 Grand spectrum cobalt jewels for minion crit multiplier (40% - 90% crit-damage)
■ Vicious bite on large or unique medium clusters (stackable, 30% crit-chances, 15% crit-damage)
■ Use as trigger Battlemage's Cry - Shield charge (2.5% crit-base)
■ Bottled faith (150% crit-chances)
■ Against bosses alternatively instead: Icicle Mines of Sabotage - Minefield with 4 passives the Mastery "Efficience Explosives" -> "Mines cannot be damaged" (60 mana-reserved, 500-650% crit-chances)


In total we reach a 12-17% crit-base,
multiplied by 500-1300% increased crit-chances,
resulting into 80-100% HoA-crit-chances,
to procc 300-400% HoA-crit-damage.

The HoA-crittings add beyond a huge +50% damage over time multiplier to remaining HoA-poison.

More crit-scaling :


■ The Bonus | 1000M - 4000M ■


■ Especially with the mageblood shift over to the pob-loadouts: Saqawal`s Nest + Aspect of the Avian for 48% HoA stings doubled damage.

==》An example gear progression for each piece lvl 1 until b.i.s. you find on necro-page 100:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25977437

==》 All poetrade-links for all gear, the alternatives, levelling-recommendations, starters and b.i.s.-upgrades you find in the last spoiler at the buttom of the build also.











The Body Armour





■■■ The Keystones ■■■

Ghost Dance | Divine Shield | Lethe Shade | Glancing Blows | Magebane | CI Chaos Inoculation | Iron Reflexes





Ordinary we level up with the Cybil's Paw for recovery and our low-budget-taxi to the next tipping point HoA-lvl 23/28/29/34 is the +3 Cold Iron point dagger.

Then +2 The dark seer shadow sceptre, +2 energyshield, and further as Hybrid +2 life or as CI +2 mana per level, adds convincing tanky +700 es, malediction and blindings in the mix with awesome damage. Total top tanky 25% more ehp.

Finally in lategame, when we prefer focussing into attractive 200M-1400M dps, the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre turns b.i.s. somewhere around having some free jewelslots, tasteful selected small t-1 clusters for a perfect manamanagement, using the second curse assasin`s mark, and reaching capacities to invest into high HoA-crit-scaling.


Weapon-Type

For cyclone you need a 1-hand melee weapon base-type (sceptres, claws, daggers, etc.), for spells all weapontypes and wands fit.

Weapon-Quality

Go to the harvestcraft to increase crits for Maata's, or to increase aoe for the dark seer.

Weapon-Corruption-Implicit

Maata's: Crits
Dark Seer: AoE
CIP: Unholy might on kill, or Resolute technique bursts a few Cyclone-HoA-virulences


Alternatives:



This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:



Aegis Aurora


Shaper-ring / 1-2 x Circles of Nostalgia | as CI: 1 x of Ambition / Shavronnes




Upgrades with fertile-catalysts



The Amulet - Ashes, Uul & Aul



+3 Replica Dragonfang's Flight is a strong starting amulet when you snipe it cheap.

Then "Ashes of the stars" best buffs our damage. The generating of virulences, tornados or storm burst is enhanced and the quality and level of more active utility-skills, like withering step, resis of spectres and buffs of golems is supported.

B.i.s. is the additional implicit "You can apply an additional curse". All the cheaper amulet-starter-variations get much stronger with this implicit also.

The ashes is more than enough for all poe-content, but when you farmed really a lot currency with good atlas-strategies in the late endgame, a rare 2x +4 = +8 to all / chaos / physical skillgem-levels is the totally b.i.s. and lead the Allstars into 1B to 2B dps, deluxe-bonus is +4 endurance-charges.


Starters and variations


Anoint



Helmet





Gloves




Boots






Belt

Attributes



Resistances



Fire and other ailments



90% Flat Damagereductions



100% Spell Suppression



75% Spellblock



Manamanager

Level 100

The Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars are ready, skilled and geared to experience grinding and farming the way to lvl 100 in all content.

You do not want to die in the levels 98 to 100 and to be honest - yes, the truth is that all mapmods, each altar and every boss are designed to detect your last vulnerability and to kill you when you miss solely only one small defensive layer.


So you can further balance into defences and blocks not only with the passivepoints on your tree and your clusters, also with skills you can turn direction into more tankyness.


Tear up the wall


Blocking with whole walls is a level-up in safety and protection.

In a warding basis you can combine your skills with freaky frostwalls - linked to cwc, cwdt etc. they are autotriggered and simply the best against all types of ranged attacking enemies.

I use them also sometimes for the encounters in delve and for heists. In these special situations frostwalls are BiS.

Frost walls length is fine on lvl 1 or lower, quality 0. Dont build them too long and strong with higher levels when you want sometimes to walk around without phasing.


Purifying tank

Take Purifying flame (or Frostshield) binded to cwc, cws or cwdt for 5% es-regeneration and 50% curse-immunities.


Tanky knockbacks and cc's

Push back the blind mob out of your frostshield.
Add in a tattoo or in your cwc-set Glascial Cascade. Nice stackings with temporal chains and hinderings on another tattoo.


Tanky Keystones, tanky clusters

The Allstars stack so much damage that it is easy to switch some points, clusters etc. to 100% ailments-immunities, to maxing 87%-89% resis with "the melding of the flesh", to more recovery with more keystones, to Es and blockskills.

When you already obtained 100% ailment-avoidances, grab with 4 passives lethe shade against dot and degen.

Wicked Ward is great too for more uptime of regenerations with the ar/es-mastery.


Tanky cursing

Or you can turn in tanky enfeeble.


Innocent spirits / Meatshields

I myself personally would never, never, never advice to misuse the 11 cute souls of the summon-phantasms-supports as cannon fodder - but it's a tormenting fact that they would block and gulp thousands of hits in your place to guard your way safe to 100 when you heartless sacrifice them. Please not place them in your spiders- or HoAg-supports. ;-)

As downside they use capacities of your frostshield and chain projectiles.

Cws/ Cwdt triggered Absolution, Anomalous vaal skeletons, a chaos golem buffing feeding frenzy or even wither totems also meatshield great.


When you are not a very experienced player, combat the hardest encounters like maven fights or ueber-atziri on your level-ups.
They remain dangerous. One too slow reactiontime or one, last after-fight not known explosion of the ueber-elder outside Zana's shield are not welcomed in these final levels.

All other content you can do deathless and in fast playstyle every time. You don't depend on 5-ways, breachstones or other carrying-services like other builds.

The Ubers are designed as final endgame-goals - not to facetank, not to block, not to evade, and instead instant allover penetrating + degenerating your resistances with oneshot-aoe's and deathly fast instant dot's.

That means also that you can beat or counter ubers a bit better with 500M cast-on-death or other glascannon-skills. But the Allstars do the job the same with some ups and downs.

While in ordinary content of PoE the Allstars build up unique high tankyness and multiple layers of all global defences, armour, evasion, block, and can facetank almost all pinnacle-bosses, against Ubers the balancing into damage and movement is mandatory. You need every slot optimized, some of the best implicits and know-how of all of the ubers' attacks. With The Allstars you need against some of the Ubers (Exarch etc.) strong gear to scale the HoA-damage even more up in the dps-race against increasing aoe-s filling the uber-arenas (Maven, Sirus).

In my experiences probably most easy is against Uber-Exarch, Uber-Shaper, Uber-Cortex, Uber-Sirus and UU-Elder to reach farming-quality-status.


Mandatory defences

■ you should have reached 100% permament freeze-ailment-immunities against the cold-dealers shaper, elder, ueber elder, maven, aul, sirus / Shock immunities against world-eater, sirus, cortex, maven / Ignite immunities against sirus, exarch, atziri, maven.
■ you need corrupted blood immunities on a jewel/ the belt-jewel and in the Pantheon burning-gound-immunities against Sirus
■ You need es on hit with the watcher's eye


More Defences



■ against the physical damage dealers Uber-Shaper (Slams) and fast spellhit-beams of Uber-Sirus Iron Reflexes as integrated keystone in Skin of the Lords is b.i.s. maxing pdr and doubling es on block.
It is also strong against the spellhits of Maven and Exarch.

Only against Eater keep in evasion/ ghost dance and change your minor Pantheon to Soul of Grutkhul/ or Garukhan.


Flasks and special resis

Use:

■ A Rubin Flask against Exarch and Ueber Atziri
■ A Sapphire Flask against Shaper, Uber Uber Elder, Aul
■ A Topaz-/ Vessel of Vinktar-flask against Eater of Worlds, Maven


Auras

The Ubers don't attack with classical hits and use mostly degen, penetrations, dot and aoe.

■ So you can balance out the aura "grace" and it's manamanagement like "sublime form" and switch in "enlighten" instead.


Skills

■ Selfcasted Molten Shells, Vaal Molten Shells and Frostshields makes you tanky in phases like Shaper's bullet hell, Exarch's Thousand Suns, Sirus Meteors, and also The Maven's Memory Game.

■ Change out the pierce/ awakened fork-gem of your herald-of-agony. Vile toxins is the prefered support or awakened unbound ailments or predator.

■ Change out convocation too.

■ Selfcasted or triggered storm brands, firestorms - or void spheres deal damage also nonstop while you are moving in the arenas (equal to around 10-20M dot- beside the 20-40M peak-dps).

Damage

■ 30M damage should have been reached.


Movement

■ Don't try to facetank their biggest mainattacks, degen-effects and aoe-s.
All their minor attacks you can tank.
■ You need practise in their attacking-mods. Almost all have accustic signals.
■ Kite: "Hunger" of Uber-Eater, "Take this" of Uber-Maven
■ Channel firestorms and cast storm brands or void spheres for virulences while moving.
■ PoE-bosses react very, very slow when they need to turn around.
Move and circle every 2-3 seconds to the backside of the Uber.
■ For movement use flamedash

When you still not ran out of currency, you should upgrade:

■ the mageblood for 89% max-resis with melding of the flesh
■ other cheap stuff ;-) like a third mod on your watcher's eye, b.i.s. and double rings- and shield-implicits, some more jewels- and clusters-corruptions, b.i.s. rolled unique megalomaniacs, etc. ...

In fulljuiced maps 50M damage were always enough for me and I did not need more. When you get the fourth medium cluster with 'pure agony' you will rush through the maps topspeed. But there are faster builds of course out there than minions.

This build safe you in endgame with unique optimized defences first.
In such decisions Poe is almost always about finding the fitting balances of offensive and defensive for your goals and content. ... Do you want to farm fast, do you want to boss-hunt, do you want solo-self-levelling to lvl 100, which content like the ubers, delve, blight etc. do you prefer or do you need an Allrounder build for the mix without too much gear-swaps... ?

My own favourite is the dramatic playstyle of the scorpion, the stacking of high defences for the maximal damage-uptime, and the combinations of the skill with the fast spiders (...or phantasms or meat shield - zombies or skeleton mages I liked very much). I want a swarm of minions. I love to optimize a build and trade for best gear in slot, I like to level high 100, to optimize the build more with the final passives and implicits, I hate the grinding. And the visuals of spells, skills and mapdesigns are important for me to love playing a game. I love to try out and optimize all kind of skills, gear and supports. And I enjoy to write+optimize this build too, to find a unique build like here full optimizing auras, defences and keystones.

On the opposite I don't like speedfarming & grinding too much, I dislike too much dungeon-maps, Alva and temples are boring for me, but good exp., crafting is not so interesting for me, hardcore I am afraid of, I prefer facetanking instead movement and kiting, .... lol, hehe, exactly all this is offered by this build. Firing the balls out, stacking virulences and damage was for me the most wonderful and enjoying playstyle in whole poe until now.

So on a lot of points this build is managable to specialize on special situations with masteries, large, small and unique clusters, auras, pantheon, flasks, gloves, ring, belt, boots, amulet, triggered & channeled skills, league-mechanics, etc.
This build plays both melee and ranged. And all our minions are immortal. Optimal for full challenges in all content.

Guardian - Born to Block

■ Get all attr / str / dex and resis on clustertransfer-passivepoints.
■ Can use easy and a lot poison on hit int-tattoos.
■ Can easy switch tempestshield out. Then don't forget shock-immunities and counterattacks like cwdt - void spheres for autotriggered damage.
■ No inbuilt withers, stacked sources of withers needed.
■ Some inbuilt recovery.
■ Flesh and Stone is the recommended additional aura for 25% flat dr.
■ And can easy use the ring Shavronne's Revelation for +800 es and full mana-reg

Wooop, the Wall of wisdom is incoming

Sorry, this time there is no TL;DR available, this is itself the TL;DR to crawl beyond red T-16's.
This checklist summarizes 20 layers of defences out of all spoilers above.
The stacked 200k up to 2M ehp will show immortality to you.

1. Check your ele- and chaos-resistances.

- Your elemental resistances have to be capped and have to be all 75++%.
In t-17 and against Ubers 85-90% are much better.
- Your chaos-resis should as hybrid have reached in maps 50-75% against chaos-dd-rogue exiles, chaos-dd-bosses, in ultimatums, etc.
Use 1x +43% chaos-resis on one circle of nostalgia.


3. Get the central permament layers of defences against bleeding and against corrupted blood

- Get permament bleeding-avoidances on 2 jewels.
Double one of them in the belt darkness enthroned.
Bleedings while cycloning are lethal.
- Get beyond permament "corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" on one implicit on one jewel.
A lot bosses can kill you very fast without.
- Alternative use high flasks-uptimes, or alternate the minor pantheon to ralakesh.


3. Check your flasks.

- Do you have antibleeding on one flask before it's permanent reached on ghastly jewels?
- Do you have autotriggered flasks like "used when you start bleeding"?
- anti-ignites before you got immunities on Sin's rebirth autotriggered "used when you become ignited"?
- Other flasks enchanted "When you hit a rare or unique enemy"?
- Is the quality of all your flasks 20-30%? With rare flasks charges gained when hit, less charges used or longer duration?


4. Check your pantheon for burning ground-immunity!!

- Did you maxed with divine vessels the minor Pantheon of Abberath (often in the summit or estuary map) and have immunity to burning ground? As CI it's most important to recharge your es.
When not use "fire attunement" on a cluster.


5. Do you have active recovery?

- Use a shaper-ring life on spellhit.
- Use a elegant hubris supreme decadence to use your instant life-flask simultan for your es.
- The watcher's eye with the discipline/vitality-mod es+life on hit is the key for high active es+life recovery.


6. Do you have enough mana-reg for nonstop life+es on hit?

- Do you have enough mana, 70-110, and also 50-60 mana-reg and 2% mana-recoupings, so that all tanky skills and in all times es on hits are continuous triggered?
- Use on the shaper-ring mana on spellhit.
- Whirl in close range to bosses to always keep up the highest es on hit.


7. Check your tanky auras and your tanky spectres

- Did you stacked all your auras? Do you have activated all the auras "Determination" and "Grace" and "Discipline", and "Vitality" and "Flesh and Stone" and "Tempestshield"?
- Outsource 3-4 auras on your spectres.
- Get a life-flask "of the necromancer" for the companions.


8. Do you often die of ailments, crits and stuns?

- Use fast the poison-mastery against by crits inflicted ailments.
- Cloth the AG in Garb of the Ephemeral against all slowings and crits.
- Get additional bleeding- and ailment-avoidances on abyss-jewels and other jewel-implicits.
- Start with the Brine King against freezings and stuns, with the AG switch to Arakaali.
- Visit the "Pantheon" when you need other specializations.
- Use awakened cast while channeling against stuns.
- Or use the shield anti-ailments-mastery against chain-freezes and -ignites.
- Please take a look in the spoiler: "fire, bleedings and other ailments" and into "details of the ascendancies" to reach 100% ailments-immunities with tempestshield, AG's Garb of Ephemeral, eldritch-boots or /-gloves, and more against all dangerous ailments.


9. Do you have all important jewels and reached 100% spell suppression and 85% max-resis or additional ele-dr?

- 100% spell suppression not reached? Stack "elegant form" (or "untouchable" or "aerialist") on small and unique medium clusters to fix also combined your ailment avoidances until you obtained it on the watcher's eye, sol, on tattoos and with league-mechanics.
- Or use "The Green Nightmare" + cold-resis tattoos around.
- Are you ready for taste the hate or melding the flesh with +max-cold-resis in high poe-content?
- Use "the golden rule" not before "unaffected by poison" prefixed on helmet or boots or transformation to CI.


10. Check your other tanky skills

- Do you use and spam Molten Shell and Vaal Discipline? Use them often!
- While your defensive skill gems like determination, molten shell, frost shield, (vaal) discipline, grace, flesh and stone, cast when stunned are levelling up, you will get a lot more defense with raising levels of course. When you have too much too weak lvl 1 gems socketed it is dangerous and you have to level them a bit before returning in high content.

- Switch out the squishy clunky dumb chaos golem or switch out unearth + spirit offering, use instead cast when damage taken lvl1 - frost wall lvl1
- in your lower levels vaal skeletons are effective meatshields
- switch one curse to enfeeble
- use often void sphere, ranged skills and convocation!
- cyclone inside a frostshield against dangerous content
- temporal rift can be one more panicbutton for recovery when you are granted with best reaction-times
- Visit the spoiler "endgame" ==》 "Level 100" to balance more skills into defences


11. Other Basics & Playstyle

- Do you have all 4 ascendancies in the labyrinths done?
- Rebalance overcapped stats and suffixes into other useful stats
- Ingame fullgeared it's practical often the best choice to search high density to run into the next mobs. More es on block, more es and life on hit on multiple targets and more HoA-virulences are triggered and more regeneration from Divine shield or as Jugg is gained.


12. Check your blockings.

- Do you have maxed high spellblock? When not you need blockings on Rumi's concotion?
It's your priority for recovery against the spellhits of the big bosses!
- Do you have 30% attackblock and 60% evasion of grace? Or without grace 50% attackblock?


13. Do you stacked enough recovery? To not die too often in dot and degen?

Raw ES does not grant survivability, substain does.
Stack more recovery.

Ranking of all recovery-mechanics by investment and effectivity


==> For more variations visit the "checklist stats" ==> "recovery"



14. Check your flat dr. Check your ehp. Check your es.

The build balances much into defensive layers, mitigation, flat damagereductions, avoidances, immunities and recovery and not much into increased life+es.
Captain Lances prooved with his 20-mirrors int-stackers that also high 25k es-bubbles can be melted down in 0.5 sec in high poe-content.
Collecting more recovery, damage-avoidances, pdr + armour, +max-resis, building up more layers of defences and last not least a bit movement is finally much better as simply raw es.
Reach 400k-500k total ehp to feel immortality in almost all poe-content.

"Ehp" in the pob-calculations matters for high density, damagepeaks in maps and for all fast hitters.
"Max hit taken" instead matters for hard hits of outliners like the Shaper slam and Ubers, for stacked high juiced map-mods multiplying damage, and a few instant crits taken.

Against oneshots you need fullgeared a total minimum around 4000 life+es when all your defences are builded up. Estimated and thumbed. In my experiences. In juiced t17 maps. In simulacrums wave 15 and against ubers 4-5 k es+life are recommended.

Get more ehp and es to get more reaction time in damage-peaks and for uber-bosses when your frostshield or molten shell and all flasks are simultanous on their cooldowns.
With 90 % pdr you will never be oneshotted and when there are blockable hits, you will get healed fast and nonstop by aegis aurora and the watcher's eye es on hit.

■■■■■ When your global defences, auras and armour are builded up 5.5 k are enough.
■■■■ With aegis aurora and crit-reductions of the poison-mastery serpentine spellslinger path for 5 k
■■■ With 100% spell suppression 4.5 k are top tanky
■■ With a watcher's eye life+es on hit and high flask-uptimes 4-4.5k are great. In valdos and simulacrums 4-4.5k are mandatory needed against the big hits and against some ubers a hybrid variation 4k es + 2k life is guided in "boss hunting - the ubers" too.
■ With 100% ailment-immunities, increased max-resis and 90% flat dr 3.5k - 4k will show immortality to you in t17.

Es is multiplied a lot, 3x, with your SoL and passives.

More es and ehp can be fast switched in:


==> For more energy visit the "checklist stats" ==> "es | ehp" and "95% flat dr"


15. Do you have problems with a special boss?

==》 Please take a look into "boss-hunting" in "endgame".
Specialize your flasks, your minor pantheon and use Predator as HoA-support.
Against Ubers go hybrid life+es with the prefix on boots unaffected by poison.

To procc highest es on hit often it`s best to cyclone facetanking close to bosses with enough mana-reg for continuous full ball-lightnings.


16. In high poe content like U-Shaper, U-Maven, juiced ele-mods in t17, etc., squeeze in "the melding of the flesh" on top for 85-90% max-resis. Visit the "jewels".


17. Do you have enough currency for better the best ..... for the meta-mageblood-belt?


18. Care and be aware about the details of your ascendancy.
==> Visit the spoiler on guardian-forum-page 483 / 500.


19. Know the atlas, the mods and your build - visit the spoilers "atlas & mapmods" and "faq".


20. Remember

Overall you need only 6-30M damage in all poe-content. Above 20-30M you are free to balance much capacities of the build easy into more defences and qol.

Dps- Checks

In different poe-content it's recommended to balance your tankyness and damage different.
In my experiences you can best choose your set-up of needed damage around the preconditions:

■ 6M damage are really for sure enough and best for t16-mapping and lvl 100 farming
■■ 8M are enough to kick Maven
■■■ 10M for juiced red T16 and for Ueber Elder
■■■■ 12M for the feared and simulacrums wave 15
■■■■■ 14M-20M for valdo-maps and juiced t17
■■■■■■ 16M-40M for the Ubers

The tanky editions of this build are balanced into hardest poe-content like 80% delirious Gigantic Titanic Rogue Exiles 600% increased atlas-mods 11-mods T-17-maps or Ubers. In many other content you can instead balance into dps like the pob-variations show.
Of course ranged and instant triggered damage is almost equal to a deluxe tanky-defensive layer. Fast killed enemies will never deal any more damage to you.
Without tankyness in reverse you will have to need to move and kite more, will have lower damage-uptimes and not alive you deal zero-damage.

21. Know the atlas and the mods

Since [3.24] introduced build-disabling t-17 mods, which are beside high multiplying the debuffs of atlas-, altars- and map-mods, and when you run 8- and 11-mod-maps, exact knowledge about map-rolling is mandatory needed.

T-16 map-mod-filter-regex: "!ur$|gen|non|on,"

Know the dangerous t-16 map-mods:
■ "no mana recovery": reroll, or use a shaper-ring mana on spellhit, or an enduring mana-flask
■ "reduced effect of auras": from stacked 300% increased atlas-mods upwards change out ghost dance in t17 because your es will not recover without evasion.
■ "less armour and block": switch molten shell to immortal call. From stacked 600% increased atlas-mods upwards in t-17 change out divine shield of skin of the lords because your es will not recover without armour. Keep range, map slow, or reroll.
■ "monsters reflect #x% damage" - zero danger for ourselves, but will kill often our mercs in high density: Equip Merc 1-2x with the ring "sibyl's lament", or reroll, or pause, or revive your merc

Know the dangerous and uncomfortable t16.5 and t17-mods:

T-17 map-mod-filter-regex:
"!lati|ur$|rune|gen|wni|non|wb"

■ reroll increased aoe Fortress-boss
■ reroll additional damage mods Ziggurat-boss
■ "reduced mana recovery": reroll or use a shaper-ring mana on spellhit or an enduring mana flask
■ against bloodstained sawblades, drowning orbs, instable cores move always non-stop (or die or reroll)
■ In the mod "enemies have #% chance to avoid poison" you loose much damage because of reduced virulences. Do not combinate with 300% increased atlasmods in t-17! This push your damage down to low HoA-virulences.

The build is very complex.../ Where should I start?

Simply take the in pobb.in or pob opening first popping-up pob, the landing pob, it's best optimized, not the disabled and greyed out alternatives.
Start to copy the "Hybrid life+es Poison-HoA" tree.

Don't worry! The decisive spoiler "TL;DR - The short edition" shows everything needed for the build.
Get the guided key-gear, clusters, flasks, jewels and manage your mana for the big tanky auras and defences.
Of course take also your time to read the mouseover/hover-texts of the skillgems, gear, etc. and poe-wikis.

About the build:


Also without optimized gear the build is the tanky tank of the tanks.
All set-ups work great.
Don't worry when you miss some stats of the best-in-slot-gear.

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I don't sting enough damage

Check step by step in the spoiler "HoA step by step - the composition of agony - the cocktail of damage" all needed components.

When you miss of them one or two, you often miss half the damage too.

Reach 80-100% poisonchances for your own spellskills for HoA-virulences like guided there. Check the number in the green HoA-icon for the needed continuous full 70-110 HoA-virulences against singletargets.

Get HoA lvl 21, qu 23, empower 4, awakened supports. Path early to the next voices for the next 3 medium cluster "pure agony" and next 3 jewel-slots for minion-poison on ghastly jewels also for attr and resis, and b.i.s.-geared for HoA-crits.


The maths | Scale the Max | Examples:


Use ball lightnings, tornado of elemental turbulences, 15 withers, 2-3 curses.

Balance overcapped stats into more medium cluster pure agony and more jewel slots.

HoA-damage-buffs:

Poisonhits for HoA-virulences generated ingame > HoA-skill-lvls (improved with HoA-supports and gear) ≥ HoA-medium-clusters Pure Agony (base damage, attackspeed) > Withers ≥ Curses (Despair, Temporal chains, more curses) > HoA-poison (Ghastly jewels, belt) > 100% Chaos-Conversion > HoA-crits > Spirit offering > frenzy & power charges > increased miniondamage (rings) > AG > Golem > aoe-chain-explosions (gloves asenath's gentle touch) > culling strike > feeding frenzy


Maps <> Bosses

■ HoA-supports: In maps you want always pierce (120%) or awakened fork (130%), against big bosses instead Predator / Signal Prey (130%), Awakened Unbound Ailments (120%), Awakened Void Manipulation (130%), Withering Touch (130%) or Vile Toxins (130%).


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I don't have enough energy shield / I die very often

In endgame, from red t16 onwards, you need mandatory to stack 20 layers of defences. Each missing layer can kill you. Follow the "checklist defences" step by step for all ranked important layers of defences and recovery and more tanky tipps.


Pray in the pantheon for the hotty burning abberath with divine vessels against burning ground.
Get early immunities against Bleedings and Corrupted blood on ghastly jewels.
Your flasks need a lot of love.
Shocks and freezes and stuns are deadly ailments also. Use elegant form on a cluster for the perfect mix of spell suppression and elemental ailment avoidances.
Get the poison-mastery against crits and critical ignites, use the shield-mastery against chain-freezings.
Use the dark seer sceptre for +700 es and +25% more ehp.
Get a Runegraft of Fortress for +500 es.
Focus on recovery and 100% spell suppression.
Take Endurance charges in for best flat dr with the flask "Elixier of the Unbroken circle" or with "Enduring Composure" on a megalomaniac or small cluster.
Balance overcapped stats into other needed suffixes and individual fitting tattoos.
Get the melding of the flesh for high poe-content.
Use the league-mechanics. Ordinary you get 10-20 free passives when you balance in their benefits like tattoos, charms, crafts, mercs, etc.
Choose the "Tanky"-pob and squeeze in the aura "flesh and stone".
You need enough mana and mana-reg for your spells and continuous gained es on hit.
Keep up always high es on hit with many ball lightnings.

The better you copy the pob on each single stat, the better results you will get. Also when all suffixes are quite flexible to be built in, I do not know a better pob.


To CI or not to CI?

Only in juiced T-17 Ultimatums or against U-Sirus I would not miss CI 100% chaos-resis, in all other content the Hybrid is awesome immortal too and with almost doubled recovery better skilled and geared against dot-damage.

The Hybrid set-up is especially recommended as Necro, Pathfinder and as Champ.

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I need more dex / str / int / resis / I need more poisonchances / bleeding- / ailment-avoidances / spell suppression

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Do you have some tipps for levelling, gearing and progression?/ What are the prices for this build and gear?/ What are alternatives and lower budget-variations until getting the best gear?
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I don't have enough Mana / My skills don't trigger / I cannot use all supports of HoA / Can I use different socket-colours on the armour for the Herald / I cannot activate all auras:


How do you get the mana-bubble filled in your videos?
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Is the crawler-ai special?

The HoA-skill is not looking so impactful?

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