[3.26] The dirty Scorpion-Tail|Herald of Agony| Chaos-Cyclone-Necro|The Arachnophobia Allstars 270M

As information for all other Arachnophobiatics:

This discussion is about "somebody" who is so high skilled that he overlooked exact 20x in the build, in the pob and in the HoA-skillgem that chance to poison is needed. He did used HoA with 20% poisonchances (instead 80%) and did not understood that without own poisonchances and HoA-virulences the skill Herald of Agony does not work.

He writes himself he generates ingame only 20 Herald of Agony-virulences, but means to need to rant. To mention: By default the Allstars use 97 HoA virulences, that's 40x times the damage he dealt.

He plays in legacy-standard and is enraged that in standard prices are more expensive as in leagues.

He used 15% spell block instead recommended 60%. He decided to not use spell suppression further. In this style, his own style, he takes 500% more damage of spells.

As result he guesses the build is squishy - without realizing he is himself missing spell suppression, spell block, endurance charges, armour, poisonchances, etc.

That is totally okay for him (and I love it very much too when someone varies HoA), but of course the HoA-Allstars-build here guided uses much more tanky mechanics and much more damage - more as 4000% (sic) more.

The whole drama is documented on the pages here in the forum. I and other users tried to help him fixing his set-up many times, he thanked it with insultings.

I myself learned that it's only lost game- and lifetime trying to talk with him.

I dont see the problem of some people here...

I play this build and for me it is really easy to play.

I have 4300 ES, with 70 virulences good damage, and other good defences and never die.
immun against all alliments, and that all for really cheap 200 chaos for now...

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Azuralia_M#0695 написал:

I dont see the problem of some people here...

I play this build and for me it is really easy to play.

I have 4300 ES, with 70 virulences good damage, and other good defences and never die.
immun against all alliments, and that all for really cheap 200 chaos for now...

Sometimes I do not understand them too.

Sometimes ago there was somebody else complaining about prices of better rolled meldings of the flesh. He forgot at the same time that the build had inbuilt +30% overcapped resis and that lower +29% overcapped resis work without problem also.
Of course very often you never get an appropriate answer about when you give them the answer to their problem.

Overall I totally agree, HoA is simpel and develops cheap and straight above lvl 40.
There are so many exiles too doing their first pinnacles, ubers, lvl 100 and 40/40 with the allstars-build.

Thanks and I wish good loot to you Azuralia.

Thx i like the build much.
Only some mercenaries eqipment advices dont work.

looks like they only can use on hit effects.
all skills on items like the gaze from Eber's Unification or summons from Servant of Decay dont work in my testings

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Azuralia_M#0695 написал:

Thx i like the build much.
Only some mercenaries eqipment advices dont work.

looks like they only can use on hit effects.
all skills on items like the gaze from Eber's Unification or summons from Servant of Decay dont work in my testings

yes, vorana`s march boots and eber's helmet do not work on merc or are bugged. I moved them down to the merc-variations and noted it there. From the wording mercs use skills and should benefit, but it seems that Eber's does not support mercs.

I took Ylfeban trickery-helmet instead for shockings and hexes and hope Eber's get unbugged.

Thank you for reporting Servant of Decay, I correct it soon too!

Edited: Corrected in 3.26 news and guidings and I correct merc-helmet switch in pob-custom mods soon.

10 bosses at once, as HoA-Hybrid-Scion-Tank this league, in thumbed around 25K to 100K es+life recovery / sec, 89% resis, 5 ed-charges, flesh and stone, damage still unoptimized (HoA-dps in the video could be tenfolded by 1000% spending 30 divs), ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCA_kRpr0vA

(HoA jumps in best summer-mood up at 00:16-00:17 sec. Archnophilia! ;-) )

Hey. I have been playing POE for very long time but never have i found such a good and detailed guide that explained to me what i was always doing wrong. I played lots of leagues but never made it past tier 14 in most builds, even RF because people are not pointing out how to progress.

But your guide made me understand the game and how to fix even basic problems. Like buying specific gem to fix X, buy this item to get Y etc. Majority of people that are doing YT builds or whatever with 0 explanation why for example they are not getting ignited or die randomly from bleed or corruption or so(even found a guy that promised to only spend 3d on a build but when i made it with 5 uniques and everything perfectly from his pob, later on i found out he had bloated merc with 50d worth of items...). But this guide and especially the "lvl 37 to red maps to pinnacles to ubers in [3.26]" Made my experience so good that i finally finished 150+ delve and killed AUL or even killed a Beidat from beyond in a tier 16+ map, while basically afking haha.
In this league i had made like 3 builds and have spend around 5d on most of them( i know its bad but i just cant progress with most of the builds as even 8k hp with 90% armour and 80% ress were making me die randomly so i never made any currency) And these 3 builds couldnt kill AUL, i tried to even get mercs with cold ress auras but nothing. Meanwhile when i spend like 2 D on this build, i was facetanking AUL and killed him under 3min.

I think this will be the main build of my future leagues as its just incredible how safe it feels and how much the dmg increases by buying few agony clusters.

But i just have one question. How do we use or where do we put the Runegrafts? I just cant find anything about as there are lots of explanations and spoilers so its hard to find specific things sometimes haha.