🌬️⛵☁️[3.25] The dirty Scorpion-tail|Chaos-Necromancy|Herald of Agony CI-Arachnophobia Allstars|600M+

Set-up in the clip [3.22]: 5.3 k es, offensive gear, +88% max resis, no mageblood, no vaal skills, 1 ele-dr flask up, molten shell up, divergent frost shield up.

Arachnophilia!

HoAg and minions remain unchanged.
Tattoos are not removed.

Spellblock was buffed, but the build lost 3k armour with a nerf to determination. We simply equalize this totally by the buffed ward and endurance charges, or by switching a no longer needed spellblockcluster into an ar/ev-cluster.


The buffs

With the huge buffed ward of the elixier of the unbroken circle, which is doubled by skin of the lords, we get each 2 seconds additional 10% ehp. The buffed enduring charges add another 15% more flat ehp.
So in total great 20-30% flat additional dr / ehp are obtained in [3.25].

With the new taste of hate and some +max/cold-resis we gain 25% more ele-ehp before we use the melding of the flesh.

Looks like a great league for HoA again!

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

More videos:

Here we crawl:

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

HoA-poison gear (86M): https://pobb.in/3bdCXXcq
Example HoA-poison-crit gear (165M): https://pobb.in/GPVQc1ci
Example Ultra-crit-gear (604M): 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) "The Adorned"-tree with the pairing "Adorned" item-tab
4) "Mageblood" tree with "Mageblood" items-tab
5) "Iron reflexes" tree with pairing "Iron Reflexes" items-tab
6) The "Chainexplosions Asenath's gloves + large chaos-cluster", "Tanky", "The b.i.s.-upgrades 604M - HoA lvl 40", "Rainbow strides" - trees with pairing titled items- and skills-tab

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), 40-112 virulences, 15 withers, and 10+ poison stacks on enemies (for calculating vile toxins) to get the correct dps.

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

For valuable comparing shaper-damage it is recommended to change pierce in the HoA-support to damage on full life-Support, vile toxins, or marked predator.

The recovery /es on block -ehp is configured for mapping. Aegis aurora generates infinitive substain in high density. Against Ubers max hit taken is important also.

Further:




----- Because almost all builds are counting their in juiced mods and in big aoe's always dying glascannon-animate guardians and squishy 0-hp support-spectres in, are full in fantasy correcting their 2 wither-stacks to 15, are optimistic overwriting their supportbuffs from temporary to timeless, know only full chained-damage against singletargets, ramped up with 9 buttons snapshotted after 2 gearswaps, wear never possessed 10-mirrors pieces and low-budget 3-mirror vaal regalias starter-gear, use awesome 7 socket-body-armours, wield impulsive in three weeks crafted weapons, default available double corruptions on each piece, out of poe-history returning +5 rings, are tanky 6 layers of portals 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 and not b.i.s.-pieces in the pob. -----

The short edition

Stack your own poisonchances to 80%, HoA-levels, medium clusters of pure agony, ghastly jewels with minion chances to poison on hit, sources of withers withering step & sin's rebirth, skill-efficiencies in the tree and on small clusters, auras, CI-recovery, spell suppression, spellblock, guard-skills.

Get the key-gear:

2 Circles of Nostalgia or Ambition
Small clusters uncompromising - sublime form - self control
5-12 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Skillgems Tornado of elemental turbulence, Ball lightning of orbiting
Asenath`s gentle touch gloves for curse on hit and map-clearspeed
3-6 abyss jewels minion chance to poison on hit
Darkness Enthroned
Sin's Rebirth-flask / other source of full 15 withers
Rumi's Concoction flask
Cheap 5-passives voices large clusters
Tattoos poison-on-hit
Aegis Aurora shield
Watcher's eye with es on hit
Golden Rule jewel
80%-90% manamultiplier helmet
Amulet anoint
Skin of the Lords / Loyals

Ashes of the Stars
Empower and Awakened HoA-supports


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 damagescaling
4. "gear" - section body-armour for the keystones as CI, section gloves asenath`s for maps / triad grips / vixens for singletarget-bosses
5. "jewels": the first three
6. "skills": HoA-virulences etc.
7. "checklist defences / details of the ascendancies / faq"
8. far down at the total bottom 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)

Stack 80% poisonchances on the tree with poison on hit-tattoos and other sources for production of HoA-virulences with your own spells.
Get the cheap starters: Rainbow Stride boots, Ghastly Theater shield, Darkness Enthroned, the first Ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit.
Get needed dex and resis on other gear and for HoA a 5 /6 link Body Armour or Replica Alpha's howl.

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


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

Relaxed master your manamanagement around lvl 50 with the 3 small clusters "uncompromising", "sublime form" and "self-control". Simultan outsource more 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 4-12 medium clusters.

Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp around lvl 80-85:
Arriving in the second large cluster you max also your defences and switch in more wanted jewels and small clusters.
You reach an unique record of 1M-inf*Ehp.


4.) 100% Chaos-Conversion: 40-80 M shaper-damage

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

The hunt for some additional fitting megalomaniacs clusters with hundreds of interesting combinations begins.
Attractive corruptions & doublecorruptions are gathered and best rare pieces are sniped or crafted.


5.) The Highway to damage 100-600 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 voices clusters or also the fourth large cluster you improve further stacking 97 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 for high damage over time.
Now you scale finally into HoA-crits with Maata's Teaching and additional curses on top for total convincing 160-600M shaper-damage - or walk relaxed into tankyness, qol or an unholy might-minion-mastery beside.

When wanted get the Adorned and blue magic corrupted abyss-jewels for a free belt-choice.
With mageblood you add more resis on flasks. Some spell suppression moves there out also. Melding of the flesh and a sapphire flask raise ele-max-resis to tanky 90%.

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, heralds in the mortal melee physical realm, fighted hard.

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 added 30% chaosdamage. 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



Leaderboards [3.14] to [3.15]



[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 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 returning tattoos buffed the build in value of 5-10 passives. 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.
With the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre I united chaos-scaling with HoA-crits as next multiplicator imba on top in low-budget.
In these HoA-crit-optimizations the build-damage raised in total full 100% into 500M.

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 returned and 90% max-resis are used again in lategame good geared.

The Champ arrives in the team and can stack high 50%-80% flat damagereductions and 250 k armour.



3.25 Settler

Spell block, ward and endurance charges were buffed, in exchange determination was nerfed. Taste of Hate became useable for 25% more ele-ehp. Asenath's gloves for more clearspeed with chainexplosions in maps were added. The max HoA-skill-lvl 40 is claimed with the new +8 amulets.

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.


Half a billion? Meta-ready?

With these huge buffs to movement, qol and damage the Herald of Agony is probably minion-meta ready again. I don't see since [3.24] another minion-build to scale up better. For the new t-17 standard the immortal minion fits simply perfect. B.i.s. geared in high-budget 600M damage are stinged in tanky 300k-1M ehp.

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw

Holy Relics reach only 25% of the capacities in damage and only 50% of the defences of HoA. Spectres, AG and Golems are squishy in juiced 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 page 474 of our longnecked arachnophobia neighbours:

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

The defences

This build reaches out to max the long row layers of defenses.
It stacks the big tanky auras, flat dr, armour, spell suppression, spell block, ailment- and dot-immunities, 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 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- layers of chain-explosions, 2 curses, 2000 ES recovery /sec with vaal discipline
3- panicskills, 3 different damagetypes united: 10M autotriggered autobombing, 30M continuous dot, 60-600M selfbuffed peak-pamage
4- 000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered
5-0% to 90% flat dr, 50-100 minions possible as mass-summoner
60% and more damagereductions against ranged attacks in frostshield, in the tanky belt 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
8-0% buffed evasion, 80% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 80-180 % additional movementspeed
9-0% max elemental resistances in lategame
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
12M - infinitive* ehp easy possible

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 probably 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. Dozens skills can be utilized and transformed into the chaos-minion-projectile-damage of the ranged attacks of the scorpion.
Ball lightnings, cyclone, tornados and 50 more fast skills can be used to tickle the scorpions' tail.

In this build a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities is mixed and united. With tempestshield, autotriggered void spheres and storm brands the herald is autobombing, with minion-poison half the damage is balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active casted channelling homing tornados or storm bursts buffing the beast into fullspeed and initializing 500M-fullscreen-chainexplosions.

Which Prices / Budget?

Thumbed, example 4 days after leaguestart [3.25]:

■ 15 chaos for yellow t5
■ 30 chaos for yellow t11
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red t14
■ 2-5 div skin of the lords/loyals for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for juiced red t16
■ 20-40 div for t17 and ubers

30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.

■ 60-200 div in the dps-upgrade-editions for 100-200M damage.
■ 300 div - 3 mirrors for ultra-b.i.s. 400-600M damage.

That's 80% less compared to meta-bamas, squishy spectres, etc.

----- Trickster is most cheap for early best tankyness, Necro most cheap for damage, Pathfinder for the mix. Some differences in lategame vary and are hard to plan. -----

Which Build?

- 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 easy doubled up, or also quintuppled times, more ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the 15M-casual-common builds of Aer0, Snolaz and Verlyna's on YouTube and in PoeVault.

Which ascendancy?

The ascendancies alternate 20-30% in damage, tankyness and recovery.

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

Start relaxed into PoHoA as Trickster for total best tankyness.
With good poe-experiences go Necro to kick'n sting more damage, but you will need know-how to avoid sometimes dot.

Select Champ and Jugg for also almost immortal mapping, Scion or Pathfinder for the mix, use Guardian for easy levelling.

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.

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Ascend.:___Guardian_Necro_Trickster_Pathfi_Champ_Jugg_Scion

DPS singletarget___3____1____2____3____2____3____3

DPS high density___3____1____2____3____2____3____3

Tankyness_________2____3____1____3____1____2____3

With mageblood____1____1____1____1____1____1____1

Levelling Lvl 1-75__1____1____1____2____3____3____2

Gearing Lvl 60-95__2____3____1____2____2____3____2


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+ + The Ranking + +

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

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. Best to scale into 600-800M when you focus on dps.

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

The Champ

Best flat dr. Fortification. The champ with all buffs reaches flat 70% attack- and 85% spell-damage-reductions against hits.
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

It's time to Jugg!

Be careful: Need mandatory 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

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 500M.

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. In the good mix, but need to be careful with flasks-debuffing-mods and possessed thief's grip-mobs.

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

Scion

Pure flexibility.

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


Recommended only for specialisations: Hiero, Occu, Glad

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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 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, Herald of Ice is rare, they need to be optimized again.

HoAg has huge range of attacks and 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 100-600M dps in endgame and high content. You reach also 1M ehp, 2-8x more than most other minion- and herald-builds. Let it sting!

The Secrets of Juice

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

In many YouTube Channels and -guides (like Grimro, Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Crouching_Tuna, sirgog, POEGuy, 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 | Mapping | Altars | Back to Basics 9/10


Bosses 8/10


Abyss 10/10


Harvest 10/10


Einhar | Bestiary 10/10


Ultimatum 10/10


Essences | Strongboxes | Anarchy 10/10


Harbinger 10/10


Beyond 10/10


T17 9/10


Delirium | Simulacrum 9/10


Blight 9/10


Legion 9/10


Expedition 9/10


Betrayal 9/10


Ubers 8/10


Delve 8/10


Ritual 8/10


Breach 8/10


Heist | Lab-Runner | Movementspeed 8/10



Alva | Incursion 7/10


Sanctum 5/10

Leaguestarter?

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter! Without experiences CI, auras and clusters are not quickest to upbuild. Shield and bodyarmour are expensive in the first days of last leagues! See "contra" just below! 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, fulljuiced t-17 farming, valdos, the Feared simultan, 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 500M.
Top 1 substain with max keystones and aegis aurora, no one-shots, facetank most bosses
Top 1 total defences: real fullblock, 100% ailment-avoidances, 50k 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?
Top 1 meta-minion: Is there another minion-build in more than half a billion damage 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-scalings - 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 many budget-variations and stat-details.
Comprehensive checklists for damage and defences, checklists for all stats.

Relaxing 100% chaos- and 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.
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

The best out of both worlds - smooth moving of cyclone combinated with ranged spells
100% - 150% additional movementspeed
Tank & Cast-style is definitiv more fun as kite & hide
Chaos-damage and dot penetrates es and many defences of many bosses
Different damagetypes united in HoA as trigger: selfbuffed damagepeaks, homing tornados, continuous poison-dot, autotriggered counter-damage

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, shocking and caustic 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 and voices - but still much cheaper and more flexible as other meta-builds.

In Ssf HoAg is strong extreme not optimized, but 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, 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 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 bosses. You will rush through the maps with your 150% added movement and 42-142 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 autotriggered 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 800M 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 500M dps 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 our own poison-spellhits. The HoA-virulences multiply the HoA-base-damage.

More 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, more resis, and b.i.s. geared for balancing into dps with 3 grand spectrums into HoA-crits.

Then we continue to scale up further with withers, curses, dot-multiplier and more debuffs and buffs. Finally we invest into HoA-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, etc.) > aoe-chain-explosions (gloves asenath's gentle touch and large chaos-cluster unspeakable gifts) > utility (culling strike > support-minion feeding frenzy)





■ 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 your skills are basic components. For pure elemental skills i.e. the nostalgia-ring add the chaos-component.

Final place in the cherry jewel the golden rule.

Skill up minimum 85%, better 100% chance to poison:

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

While levelling:
25-40% 2 passives fatal toxins / venoms
20% curse mastery whispers of doom
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.
Limit them to lvl 1, quality 20 to reduce their manacosts.

Until 100 virulences:
cyclone (lvl 1) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) - ball lightning of orbiting (lvl 1) - tornado of turbulence (lvl 1)

Above 100 virulences against singletargets:
storm burst (lvl 2) - cwc - ball lightning of static (lvl 1, qu 0)

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% onslaught ring-implicit / onslaught-flask

Alternative increasements:


'Tempestshield', 'cwdt - void sphere', other channeled & triggered skills, and also for offerings used 'arcanist brand - unearth - spirit / bone offerings' 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 Dark seer (tankyness). Facetank much to debuff with your void gaze of the helmet Eber's Unification and fire almost nonstop spells for full damage.
Progress in lategame to the rare b.i.s.-pieces.


■ HoAg-supports and gem-levels ■

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 / +8 rare amulet
+2 the Dark Seer / +2 Maata's Teaching
+2 Rare Helmet
+1 chaos mastery "corruption"

+ awakened vicious projectiles
+ in maps, dungeons and other content: pierce / returning projectiles / awakened fork
+ against endgame-bosses predator / vile toxin / withering touch / 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 basic 20% miniondamage.
HoA-gemquality 23 and Ashes of the stars add virulences beyond.
Virulences are a complete 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 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.


■ Increased damage ■

200% default increased miniondamage is stacked with the 2 herald-rings circle of ambition/ of nostalgia. With the clusters and supports 300% are increased. 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 them with the jewel The Adorned. A cheap Adorned rolled 90% is in average early already perfect.
■ with the jewel Amanamu's gaze 30% more dot-damage you reach early the hardcap of the poe-engine for poison-dot
■ HoA-support awakened unbound ailments: Around 80M total damage, around the hardcap of 35M poisondot, switch unbound ailments to predator, damage on full life, vile toxins or other supports.
■ 50% dot-multiplier of HoA-crits

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 (9 withers)(+ ashes of the stars 12)(+enhance 14)
■ Sin's rebirth stibnite flask in maps (15)
■ temporal chains equal to 33% longer duration of withers
■ chaos-mastery corruption 20% increased effects of withers
■ necro ascendancy unnatural strength HoA (3-5)
■ in maps a large /or a unique medium chaos-cluster with "overwhelming malice" (0-15)
■ Chaos Golem of the Maelstroem - feeding frenzy (5) - multistrike (8)

Alternatives


■ Curses ■

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

■ In maps temporal chains is reliable best spreaded on hit on the gloves implicts or in asenath's gentle touch-gloves.
■ In lategame Assassin's`s mark is used for HoA-crits.
■ For bosses the curses are prepared served on an arcanist brand.
■ In maps the curses can be also triggered with: tempestshield / storm brand / storm burst etc.- hextouch - despair - temporal chains
■ Whispers of doom, vixen`s entrapements, an anathema-ring and "infused" on the tree, windscream-boots or a b.i.s. amulet-implicit add the elegance of 3, 4 and more curses.
■ 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 curses-set-up stepping into "steeped in the profane" can be reasonable.


■ 100% Chaos-Conversion ■

is the necromantical speciality with "unnatural strength" in her ascendancy.
In other ascendancies 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 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.


■ Next Level: Chain-Explosions ■

In high density-content the gloves asenath's gentle touch produce beautiful chainexplosions all over the screen.
With "unspeakable gifts" on a large chaos-cluster a second layer of explosions is stacked.

Your effective ingame-clearspeed quickens.


■ 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 and simulacrums wave 15
■■■■■ 14M-25M for valdo-maps and juiced t17
■■■■■■ 16M-30M 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 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.

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■ The Bonus ■

■ Use all the league-mechanics!!

Direct Buffs

■ Blindings, with a tattoo, on a jewel or dark seer, are adding accuracies for some HoA-hits.
■ The +1 chaos mastery "corruption" buffs withers and damage awesome.
■ Forbidden flame and flesh are powerful for i.e. the occultistic void beacon.
■ 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 / dark marionette-spectre / animate guardian or in maps vaal skeletons featuring feeding frenzy buff up.
■ Still not socketstarved? For the final cuddling culling strike?

Not full recommended:

■ 100M - More, more, more ■

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 is 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 3 curses and some HoA-crits, for 150M you need strong voices, to almost oneshot the Ubers in 400M use only best gear, and a bit tankyness is exchanged against 600M.

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


■ The Voices ■

■ With 1-4 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, damagenotables like vicious bites and renewal) 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 add nice damage.




■ 150-600M HoA-Crits ■

Really best in slot geared with strong voices above gearlevel 100M in lategame, when you want to balance more into higher dps, and when you have the 3-curses-capacities to use assasin's mark to buff spirit offering, investments into crits can double and triple your damage one more time.

■ Mataa`s Teaching sceptre is the best crit-base (10-12% crit-base)
■ 3 Grand spectrum cobalt jewels with minion crit multiplier (90% crit-damage)
■ Assassin's mark (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%), and on the boots-eldritch-exarch-implicit (17%). (150% up to 250% increased crit-chances, 40-70% increased crit-damage)
■ Pathing 5 passives into into "fearsome force" (80% increased crit-chances, 60% increased crit-damage)
■ Profane ground of the jewel Rational doctrine (10% increased curses, 100% increased crit-chances)
■ Vicious bite on large or unique medium clusters (stackable, 30% crit-chances, 15% crit-damage)
■ Bottled faith (2% crit-base)

In total we reach a 12-16% crit-base,
multiplied by 400-600% crit-chances,
resulting into 80-95% HoA-crit-chances,
to procc 300-400% HoA-crit-damage.

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

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.











The Body Armour





■■■ The Keystones ■■■

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





+2 The dark seer shadow sceptre, +2 energyshield and mana per level, adds convincing tanky +700 es, malediction and blindings in the mix with awesome damage and a bit better manamanagement. Total top tanky 25% more ehp.

Finally in lategame, when we prefer focussing into attractive 100M-600M dps, the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre turns b.i.s. somewhere around having strong voices, tasteful selected small clusters for a perfect manamanagement, using the third curse assasin`s mark, and reaching capacities to invest into high HoA-crit-scaling.

Ordinary we start before 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.

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.
The harvestcraft increases aoe on the weapon for spells like storm burst or better the increased aoe-corruption-implicit are chosen too.

Alternatives:



This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:



Aegis Aurora


2 x Circles of Nostalgia / or 1 x of Ambition





Upgrades with fertile-catalysts



The Amulet - Ashes, Uul & Aul



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

Starters, variations and lategame


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



HoA-crits | Grand Spectrums | Rational Doctrine | Lategame



+ Max-Resis | The Melding of the flesh



Alternative jewels for hc, leaguestart, etc: Ancestral Vision / Storm Shroud / Forbidden Flame and Flesh / Balance of terror / Thread of Hope / Unnatural Instinct / Brutal Restraint / Split Personality / Impossible Escape / Calamitous Vision / Light of Meaning etc.

The clusternotables are "pure agony" for high damage on medium clusters and skill-efficiencies to stack defensive auras with small clusters. The clustertransfers beside stack high resistances, attributes and increased effects to free up passivepoints and gearstats.

Clustertransferpassives

Prefixes

On all small aura-clusters the most wanted prefix is 6% increased efficiency and 35% increased effects of small passives for best manamanagement.

Some added energyshield or mana-reg is a cheap useable prefix.

Suffixes

Needed Resis and All attr are added on every suffix of the clustertransferpassives. Also mana-reg is nice.
When Magebane is used some added Dex for more spell suppression is always welcomed beside.

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

Implicit

Corrupted blood immunity, Increased reservation efficiency, and in high density the synthesis-mod Mana gained when block are the most interesting implicits.

Exalt-slam the clusters when possible.

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

Small Clusters | Manamanagement | Spell Suppression | Ailment Avoidances



Medium clusters - Pure Agony - Pure damage



Large Clusters

Poisonchances, spell suppression, resis, ailment- and bleeding-avoidances

The following Tattoos can switch and fix easy needed stats and suffixes into your set-up to balance and cap them.
Passives on the tree and clustertransfers and stats on your gear turn much more flexible with tattoos.
Optimal inprinted the tattoos buff the build in value of 5-10 passives.

==> Stack some needed all attr / int / str on the cluster-transferpassives or visit the spoiler "attributes" in "important mechanics" for many possibilities.

With the timeless jewel elegant hybris, commissioned to Caspiro for the keystone Supreme Ostentation, you can tattoo your whole tree when wanted.


Best-in-slot Tattoos



■ Tattoo of the Tawhoa Shaman (int): 5% to poison on hit to switch out 2-6 poison-passives of fatal toxins and the curse mastery or when very urgent needed even serpentine spellslinger

■ Tattoo of the Ramako Shaman (dex): +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 (int): 3% es

■ Tattoo of the Tasalio Warrior (dex): blindings when you don`t use the dark seer


Ailments

■ Tattoo of the Kitava Rebel (str): 10% chance to avoid bleeding - recommended while cycloning, in combination with bleeding-avoidances on ghastly jewels 100% can be reached
■ Tattoo of the Ngamahu Shaman (str): 10% reduced ignite durations - 4x needed for 100% with the minor pantheon of abberath
■ Tattoo of the Arohongui Scout (dex): 10% avoid chill and freeze - great to reach easy 100% freeze avoidances to switch pantheon of brine king early to arakaali


Resistances

■ Tattoo of the Arohongui Moonwarden (dex): +6% Cold Resistance, most interesting in combination with the jewel "the green nightmare" next to magebane for spell suppression as jugg, scion, or champ

... other ele-resis are prefered stacked on clustertransfers, but you can use:

■ Tattoo of the Valako Stormrider (int): +6% Lightning Resistance
■ Tattoo of the Ngamahu Firewalker (str): +6% Fire Resistance


Utility

■ Tattoo of the Hinekora Shaman (int): good 8% increased Mana Regeneration Rate - can be stacked to balance out the passives of "mystic bulwark" or "mana flows" too
■ Tattoo of the Ramako Fleetfoot (dex): 2% Movementspeed is always great
■ Tattoo of the Tawhoa Herbalist (dex): 4% flaskdurations are everytime strong, especially as pathfinder and scion


Crowd control | cc (with our skills and spells fast triggered):

■ Tattoo of the Tukohama Brawler (str): Knockbacks
■ Tattoo of the Tasalio Bladedancer (str): Maim (with cyclone / attacks)
■ Tattoo of the Tasalio Shaman (int): Hinders (when you don`t use tornados or void spheres)


Others

■ Journey Tattoos of the Soul (+30 int-notes): +40 es, use it 2x for +450, 3x for +1100 and 4x for +2500 es
■ Tattoo of the Valako Shieldbearer (str): +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
■ Tattoo of the Hinekora Deathwarden (int): 6% reduced Effect of Curses on you
■ Tattoo of the Rongokurai Warrior (str): 6% increased Armour
■ Tattoo of the Rongokurai Turtle (int): 5% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes, stack to switch 4 passives serpentine spellslinger
■ Journey Tattoo of the Mind: +30 to maximum Mana, equal to a bit skill-efficiencies

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.

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.
For the different mageblood set-up visit the belt-section in the gear-spoiler.

Utility-flasks


1) 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. Sin's Rebirth stibnite generates full withers beside.



2) A Granite/ Rumi's concoction flask is the second choice.



3) Only until you get high recovery with aegis aurora, watcher's eye es on hit and graven's secret, a Sorrow of the Divine, crafted "used when you use a lifeflask" and combinated with a life-flask, is cheap recovery.


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

5) More tankyness with a Basaltflask follows next.


6) Elixier of the Unbroken circle add tanky endurance charges for flat ele- and phys-damagereductions.




7) Taste of Hate is like tanky 15-20% more elemental ehp with aegis aurora until you use the melding of the flesh. Beside cold-resis it's freeze-immunities let you use early the arakaali-pantheon in place of the brine king.

More unique flasks


We need mandatory the flask-suffixes:

1) Always first one flask with stop- and antibleeding until you reached 100% avoidances on abyss-jewels and implicits.

Versus corrupted-blood take also permament immunity on a jewel's implicit.

2) The second effective flask-suffix is increased armour.

3) Other missing ailment-immunities, curse-immunities, added resistances to overcap resis, or increased movementspeed are welcomed.

And more...

Rare elemental and basalt-flasks against bosses


Prefixes


Quality

Get high flask-qualities. 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. ...

Mageblood flask-set-up



Special flasks

Bandits: First: Alira ---> Then: Lunch for the crawler



Pantheon:



Ascendancy: Take them in this order:

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

Moving style | until 100 HoA-virulences


cyclone (lvl1)- (awakened) cast while channelling (lvl 5) - ball lightning of orbiting ( / - ball lightning of static (lvl 1) - tornado of elemental turbulence (lvl 1) / frost shield



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


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


Second Maindamageskill | Scorpions and Spirits | 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 > Returning Projectiles > Despair > Void sphere > Cwdt - Steel skin / Immortal call > Vicious projectiles > Vile toxins > Determination > Tempestshield > Vaal skeletons > Temporal chains > Convocation > Phantasms-support > Frost shield .....


Third damageskill | Vaal skeletons | Act 3 - 10





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



Budget & Leaguestart: Starting-Gear


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Path on ...



Withers and Weapon




The Golden Rule | Hybrid-Recovery


When you want to use the Golden rule early against singletargets, start into a hybrid life+es-setup with the maw of the conquest and an instant life-flask beside the sorrow of the divine-flask to recover es until you get an aegis aurora or a watcher's eye with es on hit.
A Shaper ring or Cybil's paw for life on spellhit are possible too.


CI Transformation

When you start dying sometimes of chaosdamage and poison, around lvl 70-80, or when you afford the currency for the watcher's eye or shield aegis aurora, 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.

We need to get immunities against bleedings on a flask, and on a jewel against corrupted blood (or before against such inflicting bosses high flask-uptime / rotate 2 flask-suffixes).

As CI we need also immunities against burning ground, maxed in the minor abberath pantheon with a divine vessel often in the summit map. Alternative a fire attunement cluster or burning ground-immunity-boots do it.

No later than now use the auras determination and vaal discipline. 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!


Ascendancies

As necro you can use Bone Barrier with the keystone ghost reaver for 800 es-leech/sec and switch it later to Plaguebringer. With ethereal feast you leech 1400 es /sec, with the leech mastery 10% is instant leeched.

As as Trickster activate right now also "Wicked Ward" and "Spell Breaker", as guardian the keystone "Zealoth's Oath" in "Time of Need", as Jugg get "Zealot's Oath" for "Retiring" best on a Skin of the lords as keystone.

CI-Recovery


Sorrow of the divine combinated with a life-flask, temporal rift, the timeless jewel elegant hybris for cadiro supreme decadence (lifeflasks as es), ward-based rare gear, in maps Soul Ripper (spam vaal discipline), or the Vessel of Vinktar flask with the keystone ghost reaver, are cheapest es-recovery.

For further more active es-recovery you could use Enduring cry together with the keystone Zealot's Oath on the tree.


Later the combination of a Ynda`s stand - belt and a high armour + evasion - bodyarmour stacks 2000 - 4000 ward automatical recovered each 2 seconds. Ynda`s stand rised a lot in price, use only when you get the belt cheap.


Pure damage

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

In this build you have around 60-70 suffixes and 10-20 implicits and slots on clusters, jewels, helmet, boots and 10-30 flexible tattoos. Stats and implicits of ghastly jewels are further doubled by darkness enthroned or the adorned. Prefixes are used for high es and mana. 2-4 strong synthesis-implicits on the rings and 2-3 strong aura-mods on the watcher's eye are used beyond.

Finally passives, masteries, flasks, pantheon, cluster-notables, the amulet-anoint, and keystone on SoL are combined to cap your resis, spell suppression, attributes and skill-efficiencies as well as to stack mana-reg, recovery, ailment-immunities, es or to balance in skillgems for damageuptime and qol.

Switch overcapped stats always into other more needed stats.

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


Fire, Bleedings and other ailments - Crits, curses, stuns, dot and degen



Attributes



Resistances



Recovery



100% Spell Suppression



75% Spellblock



90% Flat Damagereductions


Es | Ehp


Manamanager



Mana-Regenerations



Manamaster



Skillmanager



Crafting Gear, Gems, Clusters

Level 100

The Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars are ready, skilled and geared to experience grinding and farming the way to lvl 100 in all t-16 content.

On youtube often atlas-strategies to multiply your experience gained are available for the contemporary league. Often breaches and beyond are recommended.

You do not want to die in the levels 98 to 100 and to be honest: all mapmods, each altar and every boss are designed by GGG 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", lower the juice and use some of the following tanky optimizations.

Edition Full-Tank (32M, infinitive* - 52M ehp):
https://pobb.in/LzmeetH4


Omens


Wear an Omen of Amelioration in your inventory.


Further you can turn direction into more tankyness simpel with skills.
Switch out the squishy chaos-golem and clunky offering and balance instead into tanky 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 cwdt lvl 1 or cast when stunned they are autotriggered and simply the best against all types of ranged attacking enemies.

I use them also 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 cyclone and phasing.


Tanky Atlas

Use tanky passives in your atlas:
■ + max-resis and movement with the delve-note "Packed with Energy"
■ the tanky shrine-effects in "Supplication" and "Syncretism"
■ take a rest at the "Wellspring of creation"


Phasing / Withering Step


With cycloning or 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, hinders and tanky triggered interruptions. Best lvl 1, quality 20. Good to selfcast or to link in cwdt.


Tanky es-reg

Frostshield binded to cwc, cws or to cwdt adds 1000-4000 es / sec as buffer. Choose the skill-level which feels comfortable.

Take the tanky Bottled faith, or cwdt/cws/cwc purifying flame with Zealot's Oath for 5% es-regeneration and 50% curse-immunities or enduring cry for tanky endurance charges.

Take in maps the soul ripper flask to spam vaal discipline.


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 of tornados and void spheres or hinderings on a tattoo, with maim on a tattoo, or also further with chills and freezes of an aquamarine flask. Full stacked you can watch the mobs in slow-mo.


Tanky curses

You can turn in maps tanky enfeeble in your cws-links or on hit on gloves. Temporal chains and punishment are tanky too as well.


Tanky Keystones, tanky clusters

The Allstars stack so much damage that it is very easy to switch some points, clusters etc. to 100% ailments-immunities, to "enduring composure" on a cluster to use a soul ripper flask, to maxing 87%-90% resis with "the melding of the flesh", to Es and blockskills, or to grab "lethe shade" against dot and degen on the tree.

Wicked Ward is great too.


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 skills-, 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.


Tanky Bone Offering

As Necro or as Scion full attackblockings are best obtained with Bone Offering, top to turn into a never-get-hit-style. Switch the ascendancy "mistress of sacrifice" in.


No bosses, no t-17

When you are not a very experienced player, combat the hardest encounters like maven fights, shaper, ueber-atziri or some t-17 bosses and rippy mods 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.

Rich like a bitch.

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

■ a +2 rare helmet, best high es or high es+ar-based, for 10%+12% mana-efficiencis and 2 more useable suffixes and 1 more useable prefix, or a 80% mana-multiplier ebers-helmet for easy mana-management
■ 2 curses on hit as gloves-implicit for a lot qol and a free trigger and a free socket
■ the amulet ashes of the stars with the implicit "you can apply an additional curse" for one more curse, 5 free passives instead whispers of doom or to switch out vixens entrapement-gloves
■ on all clustertransfers 35% increased effects and t1 all resi / all attr-suffixes
■ b.i.s. rolled unique megalomaniacs with pure agony, sublime form /self-control /elegant form /when you scale HoA-crits vicious bites
■ the mageblood for 88-90% max-resis with melding of the flesh, a better rolled the adorned-jewel and set-up
■ good and better voices clusters for more damage with more pure agony and for more jewel-sockets
■ high es-base boots
■ a third mod on your watcher's eye
■ a +6 to HoA-levels skin of the loyals
■ a rare +8 amulet (2x +4 to Level of all / physical / chaos skill gems)

■ other cheap stuff ;-) like double-b.i.s. rings- and shield-implicits, awakened fork instead pierce, a soul ripper-flask for mapping, awakened empower lvl 5, lvl 6 qu 20 awakened supports, more lvl 21 / qu 23 gems, some more jewels-, clusters- and mageblood-corruptions, as necro or occu forbidden flesh and flame, a perfect selected elegant hybris, full optimizations in the league-mechanics, etc. ...

With more budget you can quintuple your arguments of damage to bring over the messages and lessons of our crawling dirty herald in full convincing 600 and more M.

As example:

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw

Simulacrums

Use in the last waves a taste of hate, or sapphire-, a rubin-, or topaz- / vessel of vinktar- flask against the main-elemental-damage to complete also 2 bosses simultan easy.

Recommended stats simulacrums:

100% ailments-immunities, 30% overcapped resistances
12-15M damage
Awakened cast while channeling lvl 5 against stuns
Aegis aurora
Watcher's eye with es on hit mod
Corrupted Blood immunity
80% maxresis against dominant damagetype wave 27-30 (elemental flasks, taste of hate or melding of the flesh)
4k es

T17 further recommended stats:

85% maxresis melding of the flesh / taste of hate
20M damage

Valdos

Take out Arziri first, then shaper. Sirus and Chayula ordinary heal you great with much es on spell block.

The singletargets

The Ubers are designed as final endgame-goals - not to facetank, not to block, not to evade, disabling your recovering, and allover penetrating your resistances with oneshot-aoe's and deathly fast instant dot.
That means also you can counter ubers a bit better with 1000M cast-on-death or other glascannon-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 multiple layers of all global defences and can facetank almost all the pinnacle-bosses, against Ubers the balancing into flat damagereductions, dot-reductions, max-resis, damage, damage-uptime and movement is mandatory.

You will need every slot and every 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-numbers are often as important as ehp in the pob.

Against the Ubers dot is very effective, set pob-configurations also to Ubers to calculate the extended poison-hardcap above 35M correct.

In my experiences it's probably most easy against Uber-Cortex > Uber-Exarch > U-Eater, Uber-Sirus > Uber-Shaper > 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 how to move out of their damagepeaks you will kick them nice and hard back.


Defences



Flasks and resis | Dominant elements and ailments



Chaos and CI | Hybrid and Life | The Recovery-question



Abberath, Grutkhul or Ralakesh | Minor Pantheon



Flat Damagereductions | Damageshiftings



Uber Dot | Lethe Shade



Examples Uber-Damage



Auras



HoA-supports | Skills



Dps



Movement


More ...


Dangerous Mapbosses



Map and Maven invitations mods



ALL BOSSES


The elephant in the room | The shield-question | 2 damageskills