[3.24]Herald of Agony CI -The dirty Scorpion-tail|Minion-Pathfinder|100M|Inbuilt Mageblood

(Default allstars-set-up in the clip: 5.3 k es, SoL ghostdance, 40k ar unbuffed, offensive clusters, offensive helmet and offensive gloves triad grips, around 18M damage, real full 60% spellblock, no gb, +88% max resistances, no mageblood, no vaal skills, 100% all elemental-ailments-immunities, 1 elemental damagereduction flask up, molten shell up, divergent frost shield up.)

3.24

In [3.24] Hoapolis the returning tattoos free up full geared around 8-14 passivepoints and the keystone on skin of the lords. Some spell suppression and poison-notes can be switched out.

The allstars stack around 20% more ehp with es-tattoos in the build.

With the new sapphire flask (+5-10% increased max cold-resi) the synergies of aegis aurora and melding of the flesh become again much more valuable. 89% all max resis are reached.

The boot-slot become flexible and can be switched out to i.e. easy management with the rainbow stride-boots in place of tempestshield.

Because the allstars can get needed attributes on clustertransfers, the build turns in 3.24 much more easy for all optimizations.

The pathfinder get more easy 100% flask-uptime with tattoos.

Some Guardians - Baran, Al-Hezim, Phoenix
https://youtu.be/QDakIXO7eng
Facetanking Maven's Memory Game:
https://youtu.be/Dv1MWYqWnYE
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
Crawling in the Crimsom Temple, red t16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hgtjDMpm4
Some Synthesis
https://youtu.be/_RyFERW3vks
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
With best greeting to all bosses - here The Allstars crawl!(Facetanking memory game II)
https://youtu.be/uZsTnP0_Xpc

More videos:

Here we crawl:

Select the "Final Tree" and the item-tab "Final items" and the skill-set-tab "Final gems"

https://pobb.in/AjnUL1mf

Example ultra-gear 260M damage:
https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw


Path of Building


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

1) "Levelling" trees with item tab "Levelling items" and skill tab "Levelling skills"
2) "Final Trees" with the item tab "Final items" and the skill-tab "Final gems"
3) "Tanky" tree with the pairing "Tanky" item-tab (graven's secret belt, united in dreams weapon)
4) "HoA Lvl 34 / Damage / The Ubers"-tree with item tab ""HoA Lvl 34 / Damage / The Ubers" and skill-tab ""HoA Lvl 34 / Damage / The Ubers" (chaos golem of the maelstrom and feeding frenzy, no convocation, enlighten instead grace, etc.)
5) "Mageblood" tree with "Mageblood" items-tab
6) "Iron reflexes" tree with pairing "Iron Reflexes" items-tab
7) "The b.i.s.-upgrades 100M" tree with the "The b.i.s.-upgrades 100M" item-tab and the "The b.i.s.-upgrades 100M" skill-tab


--- pob is sometimes calculating unreserved mana not correct - pob's manamanagement is tested and work ---- disable envy ----

Passive Tree, Path of Building

Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better many skills and ehp.

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Configurations PoB:

Configure HoA the tail-attack (in the leftside columne), 40-100 virulences, 15 withers, and 10-45 poison stacks on enemies (for calculating vile toxins) to get the correct dps.

Add / enable: minions are on full life, determination, grace, discipline enabled

If used count in: with the jewel rational doctrine: enemy is on "profane ground", phantasms 11x, physical projectiles.

Disable envy of the united in dreams-sword, it always activates after item-swaps.

For valuable comparing shaper-damage it is recommended to change pierce in the HoA-support to damage on full life-Support, or vile toxins, or marked predator, and when used on dagger arakaalis fang melee-splash to multistrike.

The recovery /es on block -ehp is configured for mapping. Aegis aurora generatesoften infinitive substain and ehp in high density. In different content some different configurations are important for mechanics and optimizations.

Further:



While mapping: 5 projectiles of the scorpion (with awakened gmp: 10) plus 4x piercing the targets with pierce support, with awakened fork x7, up to 180 targets.


----- Because almost all builds are counting their in juiced mods and in big aoe's always dying glascannon-animate guardians and squishy z-hp support-spectres in, are full in fantasy correcting their 1.5 wither-stacks to 15, are optimistic overwriting their supportbuffs from temporary to permanent, know only full chained-aoe-damage against singletargets, ramped up with easy 12 buttons snapshotted after only 3 gearswaps, wear never possessed 10-mirrors pieces and very cheap low-budget 500-divs vaal regalias as starting-gear to brilliant use their remarkable rare 7-skillsockets, wielding impulsive instant in only three weeks crafted weapons with fitting double corruptions on each piece and out of the poe 3-future dropped +5 amulets, are tanky 6 defensive layers of portals stacking, drink their own individual magic flasks filled with only 10 new unique stats, and are editing quite interesting more funny personal pob-configurations, I decided to use only common to medium to good gear and not b.i.s.-pieces in the pob. -----

The short edition

Stack HoA-levels, medium clusters of pure agony, ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit, sources of withers, skill-efficiencies, auras, CI-recovery, spell suppression, spellblock, guard-skills.

Get the key-gear:

2 Circles of Ambition or Nostalgia
Small clusters uncompromising - sublime form - self control
4-6 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Skillgem Tornado of elemental turbulences
3-6 abyss jewels minion chance to poison on hit
Darkness Enthroned or Graven's Secret belt
Aegis Aurora shield
Rumi's Concoction flask
Watcher's eye with es on hit
90% manamultiplier helmet
Amulet anoint
Skin of the Lords /Loyals
Empower and Awakened HoA-supports
Ashes of the Stars


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

1. "Tipps for beginning and levelling" when you want to level the campaign with HoA
2. "Path of building" for configurations
3. "The composition of agony" for the scaling
4. "gear" - section body-armour for the keystones as CI
5. "skills": HoA-virulences for singletargets
6. "jewels": the first four
7. "checklist defences / details of the ascendancies / faq"
8. far down at the total bottom of the build you find all poe-tradelinks and budget-variations in the last spoiler

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 tempestshield and clusters. You can switch the set-ups fast.

1.) Levelling (until t12 maps)

Get the cheap starters: Rainbow Stride boots, Ghastly Theater shield, Ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit, the first cheap small and medium clusters.
Get needed dex and resis on other gear and for HoA a 5 /6 link Body Armour or Replica Alpha's howl or Crest of desire.


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

Begin relaxed to develop your manamanagement around lvl 50 with the 3 small clusterjewels "uncompromising", "sublime form" and "self-control". Simultan outsource your resistances and attributes from gear onto the clustertransferpoints and onto ghastly jewels.

With 2 circles of nostalgia, all skill-reservation-efficiencies, and on top the 90% (or better 80%) manamultiplier-helmet corruption and the amulet-anoint you manage your mana to activate all big tanky auras to stack all global basic defences and keystones.

When you get a watcher's eye with es on hit and reach on the tree 95-100% spell suppression and have crafted well rolled flasks you are already geared for almost all content.


3.) Boss-Hunter 20 M - The Damage

Easy around lvl 60 you start to optimize your damage with full "pure agony" on all medium clusters.

You can already easy plug in the +1 chaosmastery "corruption" for more damage before you get more medium clusters.

Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp around lvl 80-85:
Arriving in the third large cluster to cap 70% spellblockings you max your defences and switch in more wanted jewels and small clusters.

It's your final boarding-time to choose and switch, whenever wanted, between two set-ups:

1. Wield the cheap & tanky +2 dark seer sceptre with a darkness enthroned-belt.
2. Alternative go tanky with the united in dreams sword and the graven's secret belt for continuous recovery.

You reach an unique record of 1M-inf*Ehp.


4.) 100% Chaos-Conversion: 40-70 M shaper-damage

Lift off into full force and bear the Ashes of the Stars amulet.

Outsource all needed attributes, resis, ailment avoidances and spell suppression on clustertransfers, abyss-jewels, implicits and league-mechanics like tattoos to get more free passives and more free capacities for damage, tankyness and qol.


5.) The Highway to damage 200M

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.

Melding of the flesh and a sapphire flask raise your max-resis to 90%. With no longer needed resis on abyss-jewels The Adorned turns b.i.s. to double magic blue corrupted ghastly jewels for minionpoisonchances.

With voices clusters or the fourth large cluster you improve further stacking up to 112 virulences against the last Ubers in still remaining full tankyness.
Your HoA-base-damage skyrocks with the raising virulences. So in effect you need less minionpoison to cap your damage over time. The hunt for some additional fitting megalomaniacs clusters with hundreds of interesting combinations begins. Attractive corruptions & doublecorruptions are gathered. B.i.s. rare helmets bring in more suffixes and stats.
As final bonus you scale now into HoA-crits with Maata's Teaching and additional curses on top for total convincing 250M shaper-damage.

The defences

This build reaches out to max the long row layers of defenses.
It stacks the big tanky auras, armour, spell suppression, spell block, keystones and recovery.

The Arachnophobia Allstars are using a special combination of gear like the shield aegis aurora and skin of the lords. High buffed global defences multiply your Es, your flasks, the aura determination and triple with grace.

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, and Wicked Ward recover, regenerate and recharge in quadrophony. As back-up the graven's secret belt can recoup all the time.

Then this team of components begin massive to collaborate, lift off and impressive quintuple total to:

0- oneshots
1- the only one tanky tank of tanks. 1000 es on block, 1000 es when hit, 1000 es on hit/ sec,
2- curses, 2000 ES recovery /sec with vaal discipline and wicked ward
3- panicskills, 3 different damagetypes united: autotriggered autobombing, continuous dot, selfcasted peak-pamage
4- 000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered, 400 es/ sec leech
5-0 and more minions possible as mass-summoner
60 % and more damagereductions against ranged attacks in frostshield, in the tanky edition 60% of elemental damage taken recouped
7-5% spellblock and 50% real fullblock with 100% dr, 75% dr of max. and optimized 5000 Molten Shell
8-9% max elemental resistances in lategame
9-0% buffed evasion, 90% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 90-190 % additional movementspeed, unique 9-18M ehp
100 % spell Suppression, 100% elemental ailment-immunities, 100% crit-immunities, 100% chaos immunities
110 % overcapped allresistances, ready for debuffs, scorch, elemental-degens and -equiliriumed maps
12 - 200 M shaper-damage

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

We can facetank almost all bosses.

The damage

Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's crawling immortal scorpion-minion. In higher skill-levels the herald of chaos is the highest damage-scaling minion in Wraeclast. It's center is the dirty tailsting clearing five times each second two screens in top-tier-range.

The Allstars stack unmatched flexibility with unending possibilities in the whole poe-system. The scorpion can utilize dozens skills and transform them into the chaos-minion-projectile-damage of his ranged attacks.
So the Herald of Agony is probably the most valuable poison-damage-trigger in whole poe for all fast hitting spells and skills.
Ball lightnings, cyclone, tornados and 50 more prefered skills can be used to tickle the scorpions' tail.

This build mixes a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities united. With tempestshield, autotriggered void spheres and storm brands the herald is autobombing, with poison half the damage is balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active casted with ranged storm bursts or homing tornados buffing the beast into fullspeed.

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 zealand to boost the clear speed in the mines of Nico.

Two heralds were designed as outliners to be empowered as new mainskills. The slow gang of of purity, minionheralds in the mortal physical realm, were hard hitters only in close range.

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

In these ancient leagues all these heralds were often multiple crossover stacked with more heralds to be elemental scaled and converted, supported by the aura hatred, the grips of the counsil, cold penetrations and exposures and the keystone elemental equilirium. These heraldstackers were often one of the leading meta-skills in [3.4] Delve and following.

Of course fast in [3.5] Betrayal league the multiple-damage-scaling of herald-stackers and in [3.7] Legion the HoA-virulences-damage and agony-uptime with cluster-notables were deep, dark and bitter nerfed by 40%. Merciless aegis aurora es on block was halfed.


The Mana guardians

Finally as Mana Guardian this chaoscrawler caught the POE world by storm when POEDan took it to a whopping 1359 hardcore delve level in [3.7] Legion. He had something like 27K energy shield, 40K armor, and well over 1 million in Shaper DPS. In Metamorph league [3.9], the build was used again by Daser in SSFHC delve competition and he finished second place with 1071 depth with far less gear than Dan's 1085 depth Baron Zombie guardian.


The deep nerf

A second time in [3.10] Delirium the hammer swinged - another 30% nerf to HoAg-damage was thrown out. The support-spectres as well as the animated guardian we're nerfed step by step and lost their former immortality from [3.13] Ritual league by league until [3.15] Expedition and even further sinking into the [3.19] Lake of Kalandra.

[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 mark and withers, with the high supported spirit offering for full chaos. I optimized the pathing and skills and supports and almost 100% flasks-uptimes were reached before the famous belt mageblood was born. I reworked the selection of large and small clusters using their buffs of [3.11] Harvest. I stacked the aura-notables and stalwart commanders to build in Grace. 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.

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


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-points of HoA were buffed and lowered from lvl 31 down to lvl 29, enabling building in different weapons as the former almost meta +3 CIP or +2 triggerwands and different amulets.

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




The big buff

One league later in [3.16] Scourge the damage of HoA-virulences was buffed around 25%. The new awakened gems were upgrading the HoA totally awesome too.

The auras determination, grace, and as well as discipline were hard buffed in relation to stats on gear. Ghost dance and divine shield were introduced on the tree for Hybrids and CI's. Armour overall was huge buffed 50% against bigger hits.

With the nerfs of Glancing Blows, to the memory vault, to the blindings and blue nightmare the Allstars turned into the reformations of the full-block-editions.
Tempestshield was introduced and perfect fitting to skill the qualities of HoA as autobomber.

Balaar reached with HoA the new poe-record in speed-levelling.

In total the damage reached 90% more damage as one league before. 24M.




In [3.17] Astramentis / Siege of the Atlas managuardian leaderboard rank 1 was climbed again after 3 days.

Scaling up dps & qol, no hh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hgtjDMpm4


1M

In [3.18] Sentinel the keystone 1M views of arachnophilias was scored.
The new seventh digit was counted in on 29. may 22.

Here the Allstars crawl! Facetanking the Maven's Memory Game:
https://youtu.be/Dv1MWYqWnYE


For science a pob-glascannon was optimized. 89.7 M shaper damage. In 150k ehp like common squishy other skeleton-mages-meta-minion-builds.


200% | The crawler raises

In [3.19] Kalandra poisonminions got buffed around 200%, and the King of Sting in the mix of 60% physical and 40% chaos-damage was full prepared to raise again into s-tier damage like the fast hitting SRS Summon Raging Spirits. The hexes temporal chains and despair were buffed imba into the top. Skin of the Lords and many uniques were buffed. 4w socketed triad grips became the one and only b.i.s. So cast-while-channelling trigger and setups were getting more and more interesting and were urgent needed two leagues later for 90 HoA-virulences. The beloved classic balls of lightning needed to be removed, the offerings too. In maps the minion-offence-mastery walked in with unholy might with 40% more damage - another step into 40M damage, without headhunter, without meta-expensive gear.

In [3.19] the Necro got the perfect 8th HoA-link-support deluxe with "unnatural strength" in her ascendancy, so I optimized and introduced the new HoA-Necro - The Arachnophilia Allstars.

Also in [3.19] the CI-Trickster was buffed extreme tanky, but I optimized the other ascendancies and waited until [3.23] to publish this new tank at last.

The necro raises - farming the delirium-dunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu8pbz5aTVE




In [3.21] Crucible the Pathfinder joined the Allstars-team with 30% more chaos-damage of withers and her easy 100% uptime of utility-flasks.


New defences

With some small buffs in the reservation-efficiencies and capacities and ressources of spell suppression moving from gear into the tree and the nerfings to the melding of the flesh-jewel and the Allstars' 89% max-resis, and reacting to the ele-penetrations of most of the Ubers, the build switched in it's 3th large cluster, the 5th and the 6th medium cluster and travelled into the eastern world of the tree into 100% spell suppression.

Molten shell was halfed. Recovery and substain needed to be fixed - and the graven's secret was detected.


100 virulences - 100M damage

In [3.23] Affliction the helmet-enchant and alternative skillqualities were nerfed and removed, on the other side default HoA-skill-quality was transformed into virulences and so in result the amulet ashes of the stars was very nice buffed.

With the new quality to storm burst and the new ball lightning of static 110 and more virulences are reliable stacked in 0.3 sec and 90 virulences are easy almost continuous triggered beside the high increased es on hit with the traditional watcher's eye. The storm brands of indecision chain-clean maps.

Poisonous concoction was chosen as the new easy and best scaleable levellingskill.

Now already the final HoA-tipping-point lvl 34, up to lvl 39, is claimed. The poe-engine hardcaps the crawler's dps-dot.


2M

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



HoA arrives in 200M

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 homing tornados of turbulences and ball lightnings of orbiting fit perfect into the cyclone movement skill-set with full damage-uptime. The golden rule is now not needed before lvl 90.

The build-damage raised 25% another time in many optimizations. The new unique herald-ring circle of ambition was introduced for smaller fine suffixes. The changes to unholy might and the sin's rebirth-flask enable to build in some es-leech and grant more easy withers and frees up one more jewel slot.

The Adorned was unbugged and the HoA-poison-setup (abyss-jewels /belt /weapon) turned total flexible. As variation the +2 dark seer fits great for fast tankyness and with the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre HoA-crits can be scaled as next multiplicator in low-budget imba over the top.

It seems that the mageblood turns much easier to farm and much cheaper each league and it teams up great with the high buffed global defences by Skin of the Lords. With the changes to the sapphire flask the melding returned and 90% max-resis are used again in lategame good geared.


Meta-ready?

With these huge buffs to movement, qol and damage the Herald of Agony is minion-meta ready again. I don't see since [3.24] any other minion-build to scale up better.

Holy Relics reach only 50% of the capacities of HoA in damage and defences, Bama is a bit more clunky, Spectres are squishy in high juiced t-17. HoA is as downside a bit more complex to build, but needs only a much lower budget.

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw

B.i.s. geared in high-budget-voices in 200M damage 112 HoA-virulences are stinged in tanky 2M ehp. For the new t-17 standard the tanky build and immortal minion fit simply perfect.


==> The History of all leagues and of the progress build and all former updates, are noted on page 474 of our longnecked arachnophobia neighbours:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/474

- Yes, it's true: This high optimized and in-depth Arachnophobia-Allstars-guide just right here in the official poe-forum reach 2x up to 10x multiplied damage and easy doubled up to quintuppled times more ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the casual-common builds of Aer0, Snolaz or Verlyna's on YouTube or in PoeVault or the HoA-bleeding-duelist-build.

The ascendancies alternate 20% in damage, tankyness and recovery.

Start relaxed into Poe as Guardian for easy levelling, as Trickster for relaxing total tankyness. Go Necro to kick'n sting in full damage. Select Champion or Pathfinder for the mix.

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

Since the necro-buff in [3.24] often I update the flexible necro-ascendancy first.
Other ascendancy-improvements follow sometimes delayed a few day later.

Ascendancies_Guardian_Necro_Occu_Trickster_Pathfi_Champ

DPS singletarget___3______1____2____3____3____2

DPS high density___3______1____1____3____3____2

Tankyness_________2_____2_____4____1____2____1

With mageblood____1_____1____2____1____1____1

Levelling Lvl 1-75___1_____1____3____1____2____3

Gearing Lvl 60-95___2_____2____3____1___1.5____2

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Prices / Budget

Thumbed 10-15 chaos for yellow t5, 30 chaos for yellow t11, aegis aurora 1 div for red t14, skin of the lords/loyals 2-5 div for pinnacles, 10-15 div for juiced red t16, 30-50 div for t17 and ubers. 40% less when you craft some stuff yourself.
Ultra-B.i.s. gear 80% less compared to Bama, golems, etc.

----- Trickster is most cheap for high tankyness, Necro most cheap for damage, Pathfinder for the mix. Some differences in lategame (forbidden flesh and flame, league mechanics) varies and are hard to plan. -----

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Necro - The DD

Necro 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. Flexible to choose the gloves-slot or flexible third curse when needed. Extreme flexible in the ascendancy.

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

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

The Champ

The Champ reaches with iron reflexes fast 200k amour and the farming status against U-Shaper, U-Sirus, U-Eater. Fortification. The build with all buffs reaches flat 50% attack- and 75% spell-damage-reductions against hits. Flexible to balance into more tankyness in the ascendancy.
Also 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

Born to block

Guardian has nice es-regenerations, early full blockings with cyclone and easy levelling with the radiant crusade-minion. In lategame hard to scale above 200M.

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

Pathfinder

Pathfinder gets early an ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood, inbuilt withers and is free to choose the belt slot. That is eg equal to 3 jewel-slots with the darkness enthroned-belt.
Most easy to build in melding of the flesh for tanky 85-90% max-resis on top without mageblood. Can reach 200-250M. In the good mix, but until full geared need to be careful with flasks-debuffings.

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

Occu

Occultist (in the pob of necro variation) is most squishy, but scales top clearspeed with profane bloom in high density. Occultist has the hardest difficulty with more needed investments to max tankyness/forbidden flame and flesh. Last choice when you want tankyness.

Contra - The downsides of the Ascendancies

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HoT, HoP, HoA, HoI, HoAg

Herald of Ash is used simply as 7th link for fire- and ignite builds for faster mapping or as wormblaster-meme. Herald of Ice is rare and needs to be optimized again. Herald of Thunder is builded with self-damaging loops as autobomber specialized in mapping. Herald of purity was a long time sucessfull as tank and bosser too, both as guardian and as necro.

HoAg has huge range of attacks and in 5 - 10 - 35 - 105 piercing, splitting, forking and returning projectiles.

Enjoy full fast mapping with the shortlegged crawler in endgame and facetank bosses like U-Sirus, U-Cortex, U-Exarch. The crawling dirty sting-king reaches millions more of damage than other herald-builds. It shines with it's characteristics in full chaos-damage and unique 100-200M dps in endgame and high content. You reach also 1M ehp, 2-8x more than most other minion- and herald-builds. Let's sting!

Ordinary you choose 2-3 content-mechanics and buff them as far as possible with all relating atlas-passives and atlas-keystones, scarabs and the map-device and travel across a bit map-substain beside.

In many YouTube Channels and -guides (like SnooBAE85, Grimro, Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Crouching_Tuna, sirgog, Subtractem, 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. Juice it full!


Atlas | Back to basics | Mapping | Altars 9/10


Pinnacle Bosses 8/10


T17 10/10


Abyss 10/10


Harvest 10/10


Einhar | Bestiary 10/10


Ultimatum 10/10


Essences | Strongboxes | Anarchy 10/10


Harbinger 10/10


Beyond 10/10


Delirium | Simulacrum 9/10


Blight 9/10


Legion 9/10


Ubers 8/10


Delve 8/10


Ritual 8/10


Breach 8/10


Heist | Lab-Runner | Movementspeed 9/10



Expedition 7/10


Betrayal 7/10


Alva | Incursion 7/10


Sanctum 6/10

Leaguestarter:

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter! Shield and bodyarmour are expensive in the first days of last leagues! See "contra" just below! CI, auras and clusters are not quickest to upbuild. But in starter- and budget-gear fast already with cheap 2 alch- and -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, the Feared simultan, Simulacrum wave 30 farming, Delve 1000, valdos, t17, 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 1k to 1M to 10M to 100M to 250M dps.
Top 1 substain with max keystones and aegis aurora, no one-shots, facetank most bosses
Top 1 total defences: real fullblock, 100% ailment-avoidances, 80k armour, 75% evasion, 90% max-resis, 100% spellsuppression, 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?

Beginner-friendly - but complex:

Budget: much cheaper than many metabuilds
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, CI, aura-stacking, the world of clusters and jewels, HoA, minion-crits, multiplied damage-scaling - are united and explained in the guide. The build, the pob and many spoilers are designed like a toolbox. You learn to use and select your own individual triggers and skills, to free-up your skill-sockets and to optimize clusters and the passive-tree. 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 many budget-variations and stat-details.
Comprehensive checklists for damage and defences, checklists for all stats.
At the same time not easy to balance all stacked mechanics and defensive layers of the build.

Relaxing 100% chaos- and poison-immunity

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, Trickster deathless in lvl 90-100 in full delirium-beyond-juiced 10k wisps-affliction and Champ deathless 90-97 in allflames-necropolis-juiced maps.
While most other builds go only for high damage and only 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

Melee and ranged playstyle combined

The best out of both worlds - smooth moving of cyclone combinated with ranged spells
Different damagetypes united as HoA-trigger: selfbuffed damagepeaks, homing tornados, continuous poison-dot, autotriggered and autobombing counterdamage,
Tank & Cast-style is definitiv more fun as kite & hide
Chaos-damage and dot penetrates es and many defences of bosses
90% - 190% additional movementspeed

Allrounder

Best fitting for t17, simulacrums, delve, bossing, deliriums, logbooks, heists, blights etc.
All minions are immortal - optimal for boss-hunting
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 great supporting with auras and curses.

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

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

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter!
Shield and armour are expensive in the first days of last 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, amulet, empower and implicits - but still much cheaper and more flexible as other meta-builds.

In Ssf HoAg is strong extreme not optimized. But the ssf-mode is much more difficult to collect the CI-unique-gear and HoA-rings and manamanagement-clusters.

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

When you take the tanky nodes "only" 30 - 70 millions singletarget shaper-dps. That is more than enough for all bosses. You will rush through the maps with your 150% added movement and 42 mill. piercing and splitting mapping-damage. You have no downtimes of your damage because you are tank and you have ranged DD's, dot and autotriggered damage. But sorry, you don't oneshot the Ubers and need some seconds more for Maven and Shaper compared to all the glascannons and only-bossers in the neighboorships.

Because the poe-engine hardcaps the dot-damage not easy to buff above 300M 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 guide to journey into the fine arts of HoA-crawling.

The key is to increase the HoA-base damage by increasing HoA-skill-levels with gear, empower and awakened supports. We insert more large clusters to insert more medium clusters to use more pure agony for more HoA-virulences, which are generated with poisonspellhits. The HoA-virulences multiply the HoA-base-damage. More jewels slots are produced collateral.

Then we start to scale up further with withers, curses, poison, dot-multiplier, and more debuffs and buffs. Finally we invest into the last multiplier Critical chances and damage and arrive in hundreds of millions damage in the lategame.

Thumbed almost each new section 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 generated ingame > HoA-skill-lvls (base damage 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 / The Adorned > 100% Chaos-Conversion > HoA-crits > Spirit offering > increased miniondamage (rings, clusters, etc.) > other buffs (feeding frenzy supportminion ≥ culling strike)





■ Virulences ■

Whenever you poison with spellhits and other skills, you generate agony-virulences and your Herald will hit faster and harder.
Poisonchances and physical or chaos-damage-components of the skills are basic components. For pure elementalskills the eber's helmet adds a chaos-component.

Final place in the cherry jewel the golden rule.

Skill up minimum 80% chance to poison:

20% HoAg-buff
25% 2 passives serpentine spellslinger
25% 2 passives fatal toxins
20% curse mastery whispers of doom
40% 8 tattoos of the tawhoa shaman

While levelling:
40% chance to poison supportgem/ or integrated in rare gloves

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

Alternative increasements:


■ Skills ■

We choose the most fast hitting spells with lowest mana-costs in whole poe - like tornados of elemental turbulences, ball lightnings or storm bursts - to generate full virulences.
Simultan they scale up our fast es on hit-recovery and witherings.

Until 90-100 virulences:
cyclone (lvl 2) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) - tornado of turbulence - ball lightning of orbiting

Above 90-100 virulences against singletargets:
storm burst (lvl 2, qu 20) - cwc - ball lightning of static (qu 0)

Limit them to lvl 2 to reduce the manacosts and to be not rounded down to zero by the poe-engine.
Increased quality, onslaught / castspeed, increased aoe and increased duration stack the virulences faster up with lowered delay.

+ 30% to skillquality by ashes of the stars
+ increased resolute technique (cyclone) / aoe implicit / harvestcraft on weapon
+ 20-40% onslaught-flask / onslaught ring-implicit

Alternative increasements:


'Tempestshield', additional 'cwdt - void sphere', other channeled & triggered skills, also for offerings used 'arcanist brand - unearth - bone/spirit offering' and counterattacks like "reckoning" or "vengeance" compose HoA-autobombing-quality for maximized damage-uptime and a lot qol.

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



■ Gear up ■

Fuse it all in the armour Skin of the Lords. Wield the +2 Maata's Teaching (HoA-crits), +2 triggerweapon or -wand (a bit qol), +2 Dark seer (tankyness) or United in dreams-weapon (in lower levels HoA-poison).
Bear the Ashes of the stars for more virulences and damage.

Facetank much to debuff with your void gaze of the helmet Eber's Unification and fire almost nonstop spells or stormburst for full damage.


■ HoAg-supports and gem-levels ■

Climb up and crawl to the HoA tipping-gemlevels 23 / 28 / 29 / 34.

The HoA scales heavy with gemlevels, awakened supports and empower.

+21 HoA lvl 21
+3 empower lvl 4
+4 2x +2 skin of the lords
+1 awakened miniondamage
+1 awakened void manipulation

+1 ashes of the stars
+2 Maata's Teaching / +2 triggerweapon / wand / +2 the Dark Seer
+1 chaos mastery "corruption"

+ awakened vicious projectiles
+ in maps, dungeons and other content: pierce or returning projectiles / higher budget: awakened fork
+ against endgame-bosses vile toxin / withering touch / predator/ damage on full life-support

Alternative increasements:





■ Full Agony ■

Insert soon and as early as possible max 6-12x medium clusters "pure agony".

They are our leaders for damage.

Each adds 5 HoA-virulences and some basic 20% miniondamage.
It's a complete effective unique multiplier for Herald of Agony.

80 counted virulences quadruple the damage compared to slow 40.
In the lategame with more currency for more voices-clusters your damage is tenfolded with 112 virulences compared to 40.

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, 3 tornados of elemental turbulences, ball-lightnings, and other skills like fullchanneled storm bursts. Calculate them without increased poison-durations, but instead increase them by adding a thumbed 0.5 sec for the delayed fadings of HoA-virulences. Double them manually for the golden rule. Alternative compare the gained es /on hit-rating.


■ Increased Miniondamage ■

200% default increased miniondamage is stacked with the 2 herald-rings circle of ambition/ of nostalgia. With the clusters 300-400% are used. Above higher increasements have not much effectivity.


■ More Poison ■

Now we scale up the HoA-poison until we reach 100% minion chance to poison on hit or until the poe-engine hardcaps the dot at 35.7 M.

■ the darkness enthroned belt to double 2 rare yellow ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit"
■ with enough resis/attr in other spots get instead 3 well rolled blue corrupted magic ghastly jewels. Double and more them with the jewel The Adorned. A cheap Adorned rolled 125% is in average early already perfect.
■ HoA-support awakened unbound ailments. Around 100M total damage, with hardcapped poisondot of 35.7M, switch awakened unbound ailment to predator, damage on full life, vile toxins or other supports.
■ with the jewel amanamu's gaze's 30% more dot-damage you reach early the hardcap of the poe-engine for poison-dot
■ 50% dot-multiplier of HoA-crits

In lower levels you can also start with:

■ the united in dreams sword for 60% poisonchance


Against the Ubers dot is much more effective. Set the pob-configurations to Ubers to calculate the extended poison-hardcap correct when you farm them.



■ Withers ■

15 wither-debuffs almost double the damage:

■ withering step (11 withers)(+ ashes of the stars 15)
■ pathfinder nature`s reprisal (5-15)
■ chaos-mastery corruption (equal to 20% more withers)
■ Chaos Golem of the Maelström - feeding frenzy (5)

Alternatives


■ Curses ■

despair (damage) + temporal chains (buffing poison and debuffing the mobs) are mixed into the recipe.

■ Reliable temporal chains is best spreaded on hit on the gloves implicts.
■ In maps the curses can be triggered with tempestshield / storm brand / storm burst etc.- hextouch - despair - temporal chains
■ Against bosses the curses are prepared served on an arcanist brand.
■ Whispers of doom, an Anathema-ring and "infused" on the tree, Vixen`s Entrapements, Windscream-boots or an b.i.s. amulet-implicit add the elegance of 3, 4 and more curses.
■ Assasin`s mark, sniper's mark, punishment and enfeeble are valuable. Of course they need again to be triggered with gloves-implicits, arcanist brand, hextouchs etc. and skillsockets are needed.
■ In a 4-5 curse-set-up stepping into "steeped in the profane" can be reasonable.


■ 100% Chaos-Conversion ■

4 white-socketed triad grips are geared.

The conversion almost doubles the effects of your chaos- and poison-curses, withers, the poison-dot-damage, awakened void manipulation, eber's unification and later of forbidden flame and flesh void beacon too.


■ 25M ■

Dps- Checks

■ 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, valdo-maps and simulacrums wave 30
■■■■■ 15M-30M for juiced t17 and the Ubers

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

You sting pinnacles down in a few seconds and are able to farm simulacrums, juiced t-17 and almost 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 Bonus ■

■ Use all the league-mechanics!!

Direct Buffs

■ The +1 chaos mastery "corruption" buff our withers and damage awesome when used.
■ Blindings are adding accuracies for some HoA-hits.
■ The flasks bottled faith (in combination with Zealot's Oath keystone) or vessel of vinktar scale each some extra 10% damage up when chosen.

Supports

■ A chaos golem of the maelstroem / of the horde featuring feeding frenzy (or in maps the vaal skeletons) can be socketed in.
■ Vaal lightning trap could add 15% in maps.
■ Still not socketstarved? For the final cuddling culling strike?

Not full recommended:

■ 100M ■

From here and onwards the clusters, passives, HoA-supports, poison and crits often need to be calculated individually. How much tankyness, es, ehp and qol are valuable in your favourite played poe-content? Do you reach the meta-possibilities of the famous mageblood? Which b.i.s.-pieces, voices and unique medium-clusters can you snipe, farm, afford or craft on your own? That are the factors.

100M can be reached fast with the Adorned, 3 curses and good HoA-crits, for 150M you need some voices, to almost oneshot the Ubers in 200M use only best gear, and a bit tankyness is exchanged against 250M.

If you you are boarding to full damage serve your composition of destruction in the deep love of the dirty scorpion-tail.


■ More clusters and voices ■

■ 1-2 cheap 5-passives-voices are maxing your capacities of damage.
■ With voices clusters you scale so much HoA-base-damage that you need less investments into HoA-poison.
■ At the same time you reach so many jewel slots, that your hunt for unique megamaniac-medium clusters begins. When you get b.i.s.-ones (with the manamanagement of sublime form and self control, suppression and ailment-immunities of elegant form, and damagenotables like vicious bites and renewal, etc.) you can balance for each good megalomaniac around 10-15% dps more in best geared.
■ Pathing into the fourth large cluster also without voices can be valuable. A large chaos- or minion-damage-cluster could add nice damage.




■ HoA-Crits ■

When you have the curse-capacities to use assasin's mark and spirit offering, investments into crits can double your damage one more time.

■ Mataa`s Teaching sceptre is the best crit-base (10% crit-base)
■ Assassin's mark (3 HoA-power charges, 150% increased crit-chances, +1.5% crit-base, +50% crit-damage)
■ Pathing 5 passives into into "fearsome force" (80% increased crit-chances, 60% increased crit-damage)
■ Buff crits high with Arcanist brand - Unearth - Spirit offering
Increase the effects of offerings by default (13%), with ashes of the stars (15%), in the minion offence mastery (20%), and on the boots-eldritch-implicits (15%). (150% up to 230% increased crit-chances, 40-65% increased crit-damage)
■ Profane ground of the jewel Rational doctrine (100% increased crit-chances)
■ Brittle ground, boots-eldritch-implicit (2% crit-base)
■ Bottled faith (2% crit-base)
■ Vicious bite on large or unique medium clusters (stackable, 30% crit-chances, 15% crit-damage)

In total we reach in lategame a 10-16% crit-base,
multiplied by 500-600% crit-chances,
resulting into 70-95% HoA-crit-chances,
to procc 150-250% HoA-crit-damage.

The HoA-crittings add beyond a huge +50% to damage over time multiplier to the HoA's poison-dot.

More crit-scaling :

==》 All gear poetrade-links, their b.i.s.-upgrades, alternatives and budget-variations and levelling-recommendations you find in the last spoiler at the buttom of the build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/24926597











Body Armour





■■■ The Keystones ■■■

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





Since [3.24] Necropolis you can easy balance your whole build into damage or into tankyness with the choice of your weapon, your belt and 5 passives on the tree.

Ordinary we start with a cheap +3 Cold Iron point dagger. It's our low-budget-taxi to the next tipping point HoA-lvl 23/28/29/34.
Then better the +2 The dark seer shadow sceptre, +2 es / mana per level, adds nice tanky +700 es, malediction and blindings in the mix with awesome damage and better manamanagement. Total top tanky 25% more ehp.

In lategame finally the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre turns b.i.s. somewhere around HoAg-levels 34, enough jewel slots for a perfect manamanagement, using the third curse Assasin`s mark and with the Mageblood, Adorned and Voices reaching capacities to invest into HoA-crit-scaling.

Weapon-Type

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

Weapon-Quality / Implicit

With cyclone the implicit resolute technique burst more HoA-virulences.
Harvestcrafts increases aoe on the weapon for spells like storm burst or get better the increased aoe-implicit.

Alternatives:



This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:



Aegis Aurora


2 Circles of Ambition / of Nostalgia





Upgrades with fertile-catalysts



The Amulet - Ashes, Uul & Aul



The "ashes of the stars" best buffs our damage. The generating of virulences, tornados- and cyclone-movementspeed or of storm burst is enhanced and the quality and level of many more active utility-skills, like withering step, 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.

Starters and variations


Anoint



Helmet





Gloves





Boots






Belt

The Golden Rule - golden damage



The Watcher's Eye | Es gained on hit | Active recovery



HoA-poison | Ghastly jewels | The Adorned | Amanamu's Gaze | Dot-Damage



The Melding of the flesh | + Max-Resis



Rational Doctrine | HoA-crits




Alternative jewels: Balance of terror / Ancestral Vision / Storm Shroud / Thread of Hope / Unnatural Instinct / Forbidden Flame and Flesh / Brutal Restraint / Split Personality / The Coming Calamity etc.

Clustersuffixes | Clustertransferpassives

Needed Resis and Str/Attr are great suffixes added on every clustertransfer. 25/35% increased effects of small passives or added energyshield are the most wanted prefixes.

Some added Dex for Magebane or some Es is welcomed beside.

Exalt-slam the clusters when possible.

Resistances can be changed with your harvest-craft-bench for balancing from cold into fire, lightning etc.

In the spoiler "Important mechanics" is a basic guide to craft clusterjewels.

Small Clusters Manamanagement



Medium clusters - Pure Agony - Pure damage



Large Clusters

The following Tattoos can balance and fix easy needed stats into your set-up to switch passives on the tree and stats on your gear.

==> Stack some needed attributes like str on the cluster-transferpassives and visit the spoiler "attributes" in "important mechanics" for more possibilties.


Best-in-slot Tattoos


Tattoo of the Tawhoa Shaman: 5% to poison on hit to switch out 2-6 poison-passives of fatal toxins, curse mastery, serpentine spellslinger etc.

Tattoo of the Ramako Shaman: +2% chance to suppress spell damage - awesome to use a different keystone instead magebane on skin of the Lords, 5x-7x used, and to use rare pure es-based boots instead ev/spell suppression-based boots

Tattoo of the Hinekora Warrior: 3% es

Journey Tattoos of the Soul: +40 es, useable 5x

Journey Tattoo of the Mind: +30 to maximum Mana, equal to a little bit skill-efficiencies

Tattoo of the Valako Shieldbearer: +1% Chance to Block Attack Damage - stack it to the max for recovery with aegis aurora and Iron reflexes on skin of the lords or to push out grace and ghost dance


Resistances

Tattoo of the Arohongui Moonwarden: +6% Cold Resistance, also interesting in combination with the jewel "the blue nightmare"

Tattoo of the Valako Stormrider: +6% Lightning Resistance, also interesting in combination with the jewel "the green nightmare"

Tattoo of the Ngamahu Firewalker: +6% Fire Resistance


Ailments

Tattoo of the Arohongui Scout: 10% avoid chill and freeze - great to reach easy 100% avoidances

Tattoo of the Ngamahu Shaman: 10% reduced ignite durations - 4x needed for 100% with the minor pantheon of abberath

Tattoo of the Kitava Rebel: 10% chance to avoid bleeding - in combination with bleeding-avoidances on ghastly jewels 100% can be reached


Utility

Tattoo of the Ramako Fleetfoot: 2% Movementspeed is always great

Tattoo of the Tawhoa Herbalist: 4% flaskdurations are everytime strong, especially as pathfinder


Crowd control cc, with our stormbursts and spells fast triggered:

Tattoo of the Tukohama Brawler: Knockbacks

Tattoo of the Tasalio Shaman: Hinders

Tattoo of the Tasalio Bladedancer: Maim (with cyclone / attacks)

Tattoo of the Tasalio Warrior: Blindings (with cyclone / attacks)


Others

Tattoo of the Hinekora Shaman: 8% increased Mana Regeneration Rate - stack them to push out the passives of "mystic bulwark" when wanted

Flasks


Your flasks need a lot of love in endgame.
Invest maximal into their charges of your defences.
Armour, Evasion and Ward are doubled by Skin of the Lords.

Because there are some mods and mobs with flask-debuffs remaining, best and recommended is to get high ele-resis on the gear and clusters (i.e. a second sublime form cluster, etc.) and utilize the flasks best only for overcapped ele-resis.

To reach full permament 100% flask uptime you need mandatory:

■ the flask-mastery "careful conservationist"
■ just there also 1 passive 10% longer flask-duration
■ great are also the notables "spiked concoction" or "fasting" on a unique medium megacluster

■ 25%-30% quality of all flasks

Get high flask-qualities. The vendors Hargan or Weylam in Sarn etc. sell 1 glasblower bauble for cheap 8 blacksmith's whetstones. Last use vaal orbs for the chance of best increased +30% flask-qualities.

■ item lvl 83+ of the flasks
■ to craft the t1 flask-prefix of either:
- 38% increased duration best on: bismuth, sapphire, ruby, topaz, basalt, stibnite flasks
- 28% reduced charges used best on: basalt, quicksilver, silver, gold, iron flasks
- 47% increased charge recovery best on: granite, jade, quartz flasks
■ with instilling orbs trigger them "reused at the end of flask duration"
■ Check the average flasks-uptimes in your pob. All important flasks with resis need mandatory 100% uptime.

When you have problems reaching 100% flasks-uptime you need to add:

■ Alchemist Genius obtained with a brutal restraint-jewel or spiked concoction on a cluster
■ or get 10% more flask charges gained with 1 passive "repleneshing remedies" next to "charisma"
■ or stack some Tattoos of the Tawhoa Herbalist with 4% flaskdurations
■ or wear a stygian vise belt for increased flasks-charges gained and durations buffed

- the flask-prefixes "Masochist's` / 'Flagellant's' / Sinner's " gain 2-4 charge when you are hit by an enemy" are also very valuable with Iron reflexeses or without evasion and in lower levels. Also blocked hits/ spellhits count as been "hit".

Because there are some mods removing and debuffing flasks-effects, best and recommended is to get high ele-resis on the gear and clusters and on a flask only utilized for overcapped ele-resis.

■ activate the flasks at the starting of a map

■ Swap unique flasks out for rares against bosses.


Flasks



In maps and high density unique flasks are often the best choice.
In long boss fights against Ubers rare flasks with prefixes like charges gain when hit are ordinary the better selection.

Utility-flasks

1) A Granite/ Rumi's concoction flask is the first choice.

2) Before you've got a source of full 15 withers and before you maxed the minor pantheon of abberath, ignite removals- and immunities on the Sin's Rebirth flask are highly recommended.

3) Until you get high recovery with aegis aurora, watcher's eye es on hit and graven's secret, a Sorrow of the Divine, a Vessel of Vinktar with Ghost reaver, or somewhere es-leech, like simply on a flask-suffix, optimized in combination with Sin's Rebirth chaos-conversion, is nice tanky.

4) Until you finalize 100% spellsupression on other spots a Quartz-flask / Soul ripper is well supporting.

5) More tankyness with a Basaltflask follows next.

As pathfinder only while levelling and later not recommended: Unique flasks


We need mandatory the suffix:

1) Always first one flask with stop- and antibleeding.

And more...

Rare elemental and basalt-flasks against bosses


Prefixes


Quality

Get high flask-qualities. The vendors Hargan or Weylam in Sarn etc. sell 1 glasblower bauble for cheap 8 blacksmith's whetstones. Last use vaal orbs for the chance of best increased +30% flask-qualities.

Trigger

Use instilling orbs and your crafting bench to autotrigger your flasks "reused at end of this flask-effect", "when you become ignited", "when you start bleeding", and the ward-flask "when you hit an unique monster" etc. ...

Special flasks

Bandits: Alira --> Lunch for the crawler



Ascendancy: Take them in this order:



Pantheon:

Stack minimum 80% chance to poison in the passivetree to get more HoA damage with maximal virulences like shown in the spoiler "the composition of damage"

Moving style | until 100 HoA-virulences


cyclone (lvl2)- (awakened) cast while channelling (lvl 5) - tornado of elemental turbulence - ball lightnings of orbiting




Ranged Style | until 120 HoA-virulences

storm burst (lvl 2) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) - ball lightning of static + tornado of elemental turbulences / es-leech-support

In maps channeled storm brands of indecision etc. are nice fitting too.

Caster style | until 100 HoA-virulences



More styles | Create your own style | Cast while Channeling



One Button - Lazy Style / Autotriggers - Other trigger



The dirty scorpion-tail - Supports and Mana of Herald of Agony



Convocation



Auras



Tanky skills and Vaal skills



Curses and Withers



Movement



Keybindings / Controls



Level and quality of gems



Alternate skills



Free skill-sockets

For smooth, safe and fast starting please check and scroll through the progressing levelling trees and separated levelling-items- and skill-tabs in the PoB and right here the thematically spoilers.


Speed-Levelling



Levelling and starting:

Act 1-2 Maindamageskill


Act 1-10 / 2-10 Damage- and HoA-Virulences-Skills: Poisonous Concoction | Storm Brand


Of course you can switch to the slower HoA whenever you want. The Herald will get faster with the gemlevels and ascendancies, the first minion-mastery Ravenous Horde or Redemption powering Unholy Might, as soon you get or craft clusters with pure agony, ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit, and a weapon like CIP, Dark Seer or United in Dreams.

Scorpions and Spirits, Second Maindamageskill | Act 3-10




Importance of order

Get as questrewards, by vendors and in trade, in the library etc. the skills and supports in order:

Poisonous concoction > Life on hit > Volley / Greater Volley > Storm brand > Chance to poison > Herald of Agony > Withering Step > Shield charge > Minion damage > Phantasms-support > Returning Projectiles > Despair > Void sphere > Cwdt - Steel skin / Immortal call > Vicious projectiles > Vile toxins > Determination > Tempestshield > Vaal skeletons > Temporal chains > Convocation > Frost shield .....


Third damageskill Act 1 / 3 - 10: Vaal skeletons





Act I-X levelling


Movement



Flasks + Defences + Recovery Act 1-10



Mana and Auras



Dex!!






Follow your ascendancy in the labs.



Clusters




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Levelling gear 3 --> 4 --> 5 --> 6 --> 7 links



Starting-Gear: Budget & Leaguestart


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Path on ...



Withers and Weapon





CI Transformation

When you start dying sometimes of chaosdamage and poison, around lvl 70-80, it's your time for the last keynote Chaos Inoculation. Transform into Chaos Immunity/ CI of this build.

You can use all CI-core items with pure energy-shield of the build with level 62-70 and should count 55-70% spellblockchance.

No later than now use the auras determination and vaal discipline. Activate right now also the keystone "Zealoth's Oath" when you use life-reg and change out your lifeflasks, hybridflasks and lifegear and -passives, with Granite and Basaltflask use molten shell now.

Take in the golden rule juwel for singletarget virulences and damage. Add Cast when stunned - frost shield as second guard skill for needed tankyness while lazy facetanking.
Welcome into your new life in immunity to chaos!

CI-Recovery

For more active es-recovery use sorrow of the divine-flask with an added life-flask to recover es until you get an aegis aurora, a watcher's eyes with es on hit or graven's secret.

Temporal rift, a vessel of vinktar flask and the keystone ghost reaver, or a Soul Ripper to spam vaal dicipline are useable as alternatives.
Heartbreaker dagger dualwielded is interesting in cheap budget and tanky with wicked ward.


Pure damage

For more damage, resis and attributes head always early to the next medium clusters with "pure agony" and to the next minion chance to poison on ghastly jewels.

In this build you have around 75 suffixes, implicits and slots on clusters, jewels, tattoos, boots. 2 strong synthesis-implicits on the rings, 2-3 strong mods on the watcher's eye, passives, flasks, the flexible pantheon, the cluster-notables and one keystone on SoL and the amulet-anoint are combined to cap your resis and spell suppression, to get the needed attributes and skill-efficiencies as well as to stack recovery, full ailment-immunities, es and to balance in skillgems for damageuptime and qol and more utilities.

(Rare gearpieces usually have 3 prefixes, 3 suffixes and 2 eldritch implicits. Unique gear can have 2 fitting implicits. Abyss jewels can have 1-2 implicits and 2-3 suffixes. Clustertransfers have 1 suffix, the small clusters 1 prefix and 2 suffixes.)

While gearing and levelling up use these thematic spoilers. They are designed like toolboxes whenever you need to fix and cap your stats.


Fire and other ailments, Dot and degen



Attributes



Resistances



Recovery



100% Spell Suppression



75% Spellblock



Es | Ehp


Manamanager



Manamaster



Skillmanager



Crafting Gear, Gems, Clusters and Content-Rewards

Level 100

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

Since [3.24] using scarabs of teaching in combination with the shrines atlas-passives and the "domination" map-device shrines-mod tripple and more your experience gained.

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

Start to check step by step the spoiler "checklist defences".

Omens


Wear an Omen of Amelioration in your inventory.


Further you can turn direction into more tankyness also with some skills.

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 casted when stun they are autoteiggered and simply the best against all types of ranged attacking enemies.

I use them also sometimes for the encounters in delve and for heists instead sniper's mark or other skills. 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.


Phasing / Withering Step


With phasing your own movement will not be walled.
Withering step skills both into evasion and damage with instant withers.


Void sphere

Control the crowds with the gravity-effects and tanky triggered interruptions. Best lvl 1, phantasmal quality 20. Good to selfcast or to link in cwdt.


Tanky es-reg

Take tanky Purifying flame with Zealot's Oath or Frostshield binded to cwc, cws or cwdt for 5% es-regeneration and 50% curse-immunities.


Tanky Keystones, tanky clusters

The Allstars stack so much damage that it is easy to switch some points, clusters etc. from offensive to defences, 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.


Tanky knockbacks and cc

Push back the blind mob out of your frostshield.
Add in a tattoo for knockbacks or in your cwc-set Glascial Cascade. It synergizes and stacks great with temporal chains, with hinderings on a tattoo, with maim on a tattoo, or also with chills and freezes.


Tanky curse

Or you can turn in maps tanky enfeeble in your cws-links or on hit on gloves. Temporal chains is tanky too as well as punishment.


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. ;-)

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

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


No bosses

When you are not a very experienced player, combat the hardest encounters like maven fights, shaper 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 singletargets

The Ubers are designed as final endgame-goals - not to facetank, not to block, not to evade, and instead allover penetrating and degenerating your resistances with oneshot-aoe's and deathly fast instant dot.
That means also you can do or counter ubers a bit better with 500M cast-on-death or other glascannon-skills and -builds. But the Allstars do the job the same with some ups and downs well.

While in ordinary content of PoE the Allstars build up unique high tankyness and multiple layers of all global defences, armour, evasion, spell suppression, spellblock, block, and can facetank almost all the pinnacle-bosses, against Ubers the balancing into increased es against their oneshots, max-resis, damage, damage-uptime and movement is mandatory.

You will need every slot and every single implicit optimized and also the know-how of all ubers' attacks. You need against the Ubers strong gear to scale the HoA-damage even more up in the dps-race against their increasing aoe-s filling the uber-arenas (Maven, Sirus).

Against the Ubers major attacks maximal hit taken is more important as maximal ehp in the pob. Configure in pob Ubers and their typical damage-sets to specialize against shaper slams + balls, aziri flameblasts, and more.

Against the Ubers dot is very effective, set pob-configurations also to Ubers to calculate the extended poison-hardcap correct.

Iron reflexes is possible and great against physical-ubers, CI against Sirus, 100% spell suppression against eater.

In my experiences it's probably most easy against Uber-Exarch > Uber-Shaper > Uber-Sirus, Uber-Cortex > and UU-Elder to reach the farming-quality-status.

Hunt them on your level-ups if you do not want to fear the exp-penalty. They remain rippy when you react one time not fast enough.

It is common when you die in the first tries of these endgame bosses. When you know their attacks and know how to move out of their damagepeaks you will kick them nice and hard back.


Defences



Dominant elements | Ailments and damagetypes | Flasks and Resis



Abberath or Grutkhul | Minor Pantheon



Shaper Slam | Physical DR | Iron Reflexes



Elemental Penetrations | Damage shift



Uber Dot | Lethe Shade



Auras



Skills



Damage




Movement


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