Here is a unique ring from Path of Exile: Synthesis

pretty busted, way more busted than the bitchboi helm to be sure

This makes me speculate that HoAG is about to see a big nerf, cuz I really struggle to see this being added on top of it's current state.

Looking at the same pale face on both items, this would complement the Mask of the Tribunal i guess.

guys, really? herald of agony is already OP as f**k and u introduce ring which makes it x2+ times better?

Can someone tell me why this breaks the already broken herald of agony? Is it just the reduced mana reservation allowing you to stack one more support gem?

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Nephalim написал:

Can someone tell me why this breaks the already broken herald of agony? Is it just the reduced mana reservation allowing you to stack one more support gem?

It increases the reservation from 25% to 38%

woow that is good add one :) , but is very cheap 5 to 8 ex minimum

i'm gonna guess there's ruby, topaz, sapphire, and iron ring variants of this thing, one for each herald.



seems cool.


Also, based on the flavor text, Synthesis seems even more like an Elder vs Watchers origin story.

holy chris ... wait! no life? vendor!

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Nubman написал:

Lol. This right here shows GGG knows how to balance. As much as I loved it, herald of agony is already STUPIDLY OP. The only way this ring can be justified is if it is rarer than a mirror.

Looking at the implicit though, I'm guessing it's only obtainable through synthesis, so the required rings will also need insane rarity

Edit: unless HOAG is about to cop the nerf hammer, and this will bring it back in line with now, which I will be ok with :)

... this ring isn't even that good. Herald of Agony is pretty exclusively a Coming Calamity skill which fixes the mana reservation, and Herald of Agony itself is almost exclusively used for the Agony Crawler, not the poison buff it grants (poison is still not a viable build in 2019)

Will this ring make it maybe theoretically viable to run an agony crawler build without the coming calamity (via reducing the total reservation to below 45% after support gems)? Maybe. Very maybe.

What'll be interesting is if this ring comes in other variants for the other heralds. This could result in a sizeable buff to... literally any of the other heralds. In fact, if there's a herald of purity version, that could be an instant best in slot ring for facebreaker builds. Only the agony buff effect is truly mediocre in the majority of builds using agony.