⛵☁️[3.25] The dirty Scorpion-tail|CI Trickster CI|140M+ Herald of Agony Minion|Arachnophobia Allstars

I really appreciate the work that's gone into all these guides, especially to try and replicate the same build across multiple ascendancies, but the post structure and the PoB's are very messy and unorganised. Copying and pasting these guides between ascendancies has left the posts and PoB links full of irrelevant or incorrect information, and it's not very clear how to progress through the build if the tree suddenly changes to ranger, for example.

Constructive feedback fully intended, so here are some suggestions to help make things a bit clearer.

At the moment, each of the posts follows the same structure:

* Current patch notes
* Build title
* PoB links
* Quotes and posts
* more videos
* even more videos
* TLDR section
* Build description of scorpion and spiders
* Video showing boss kill
* Countdown section showing build potential
* Why X section, includes additional spoiler section with a comment
* PoE Content ranking, every type of content is in a spoiler, even if it's just one line
* Build Pros, includes spoiler section with some notes
* Build Cons
* Appreciation and thanks section
* further thanks and appreciation section
* Index/Navigation, The ordering of this section is out of date, and should also be at the top of the post, not halfway through!
* Path of Building section
* Build up and balance defenses and damage
* Gear section
* Gem section
* Another gear section, Includes subsection around spider management
* Another gem section
* Jewel section
* Cluster jewel section
* Flasks
* Ascendancy/Bandits/Pantheon
* Tips for levelling/league start
* Managing ailments, spell suppression, attributes, resistances, mana, skills, crafting
* Endgame section
* Trading section
* Section under construction
* changelog
* Sanctum



It's a lot of everything, and there is a lot of overlap between sections, not even getting into the vast number of unnecessary spoiler tags.

Just as a suggestion, I feel as though the following post structure would be a bit easier to read and follow:

* Build Title
* tagline (e.g. +++ Herald of Agony arrives in 40M +++, The leading and most successful guardian-minion-build (1.4M views) takes a tour as trickster!)
* Index
* Introduction (what the build does, who it is for, etc.)
* Pros and Cons of the build
* PoB Links
* Build mechanics (how and why does the build work?)
* Comparing build using other ascendancies
* Levelling section:
* ----Skills
* ----Gear (you could also include the trade links here)
* ----Bandits, ascendancies, etc.
* Endgame section:
* ----Skills
* ----Gear (you could also include the trade links here)
* ----Cluster jewels (and here)
* ----Bosses/encounters
* Trouble-shooting section:
* ----Damage checks
* ----Managing ailments, resistances, etc.
* ----Other FAQs
* Thanks and appreciation section
* Other links and resources (put all of the boss videos, links to other builds etc. here)


In terms of the Path of Building links, I feel as though they need a good clean up too. There's old stuff in there which could be put out as a separate PoB link if needed, and there are so many variations of the build that it's not exactly clear on progression.

In terms of feedback for the build itself, it's very much an endgame build as the levelling section is very light on health/es. Perhaps these guides would be even better as purely an end-game guide, where it could focus purely on characters level 90+?

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mojoflux написал:

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Hi Mojoflux!

Thank you a lot for the great feedback and suggestions!

Yes, I want to streamline the build and some pob also soon and some adjustements are needed to be edited. Thank you for the very, very good tipps and critics! I will use a lot soon.
It's a long and high optimized build, so I need my time.
I hope to correct the wrong small details soon, and the final pob's are of course already completed and ready to use. The index/navigation is updated only every 2-3 leagues, sorry.

--- "...and there are so many variations of the build that it's not exactly clear on progression."

As guardian the build was sometimes used for racing into the guardian-leaderboards, and for a fast starting the variations are of course needed for a fast low budget leaguestart.
On top some variations like weapon, amulett, shield-alternatives vary in budget extreme each league.
Of course almost all variations are already separated and hidden in spoilers titled "alternatives" and you can simply follow the tldr-spoiler with the recommended key-items or start copying the final pob.

The videos, the weapon, the skill and trigger, the jewel-variations, the skills in levelling, perhaps also the the crafting and ubers-spoilers need optimizations for sure.

Most thematics are already edited and cleared the tradelinks are cleaned up.
The divergent and anomalous gem qualities and some trees in the pob were removed and the spoilers were streamlined.

I could clean some stuff more up - but then many budget- and leaguestart-tipps would be needed to be searched out by the users and a short guide was not my personal goal. I love the min-maxing and optimizing multiple mechanics in poe too much.

And of course I too often watched arachnophilias missing ele-resis, bleeding immunity on a flask, withers with a balance of terror, etc., so that I mention these important key-mechanics in more than one spoiler of the long guide.


---"it's very much an endgame build as the levelling section is very light on health/es."

As trickster with the heartstopper ascendancy you level full tanky int red maps.

The build focus on stacking avoidances, many defensive layers, auras and immunities and different sources of substain and beside CI 3-5 more keystones and instead focussing on stacking es.

Compared to the former popular typical 3.20/ 3.21 YouTube HoA trickster builds of aer0 or or of Dr3adful this Arachnophobia Trickster here is doubling the ehp and trippling the damage.

So it's easy possible to full juice 10k whisps in red maps with almost all map- and altar-mods in only 3k es remaining extreme tanky in full immortality.
You can easy afk simu wave 30 and facetank almost all content. The pinnacle bosses are stinged into the arena's grounds by the Herald of Agony in fascinating 3-4 seconds.

I entered myself as trickster extreme comfortably and with only around 20 chaos red t14 maps with 40 c red t14, so I wanted to add the Arachnophobia HoA-Trickster as the tanky ascendancy. A new video-showcase will follow too.

The Arachnophobia Trickster is completed.

Streamlined the order of the build

Cleaned up and improved almost all spoilers and the tradelist
Reworked especially "skills and trigger", "gear", "tipps for levelling" and many more
Improved many details
Added a spoiler about 75% spell block
Improved the guidings about sorrow of divine, rational doctrine and brutal restraint, poe-content and favoured maps, cyclone - blazing salvo set-up, and many more
Added Magic find chapter

Improved the pob

Two new videos to show some performance and tankyness of the herald-build are published:

Phoenix in 3 sec, Hunger in 5 sec, Exarch in 4 sec, etc.

https://youtu.be/1eCs-z_wMLk


Mapping and crawling at the full juiced, empowered, delirious bazar, no hh, no mageblood, T16, lvl 98.5, 1.5M ehp

https://youtu.be/T6IFVWgeW30

where is the updated pob ? the ones you shared have alternative gems...

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Fabiofun1986 написал:

where is the updated pob ? the ones you shared have alternative gems...

Hi Fabiofun!

The build and the pob-community-fork is without alternative gems.

Only the pobb.in webpage shows the old gems even when all skills are 3.23-versions without alternative qualities.
In general the pob will be cleaned up and improved after the patchnotes and before the leaguestart.

Did you updated the pob and use the community-fork?
Or did I overlooked something?

Yeah i saw pobb.in , WIth pastebin , its cool. thanks for pointing it out but I recommend to make one cleaner or 3.24 :D has too much outdated stuff :P

The allstars in [3.23] Affliction

The Whispering Woods of Arachnophilia

That [3.23] was one of my all time favoured leagues - so high flexibility in building, so much possibilities to full juice map-content, the new valdo-puzzle-maps, and so top by 10000 whisps buffed currency-drops were outstanding fun and action-gameplay with empowered mobs.

Traditionally I try to summarize the allstars in the league some days before the new league and patch-notes are published.

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League mechanics



Poison HoA vs. other minion builds



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Improvements of the build




Leaderboards and Leaguestart



Trading



Popularity of the build


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Outlook: 3.24, Champion, Jugg and more

I wanted to play this... was sold, then opened the POB.
The worst POB i've had the displeasure of opening if i'm honest.

It's a total clusterf*** of information and way way too many pages.

Can you try to please simplify the POB so leveling, maps, then end game please?

There's no way in hell anyone is going to be able to figure out the steps needed to play this. It's like learning to play a piano at league start imho.

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Nevzat написал:

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To be honest - you simply need only to copy the pob and use the tl;dr. In lategame use the checklist defences too when you are not so experienced in poe.

To know a bit about mana-reservations and about clusters used in this build is not that difficult and guided in separated spoilers, and yes, sure, poe in general is sometimes complex as we all know.

This build optimizes and stacks some more mechanics as other squishy builds and is as result guiding more layers of defences and keystones. So as a result it's more complex too of course.

And with the returning tattoos maximizing and balancings will be more fun in Necropolis.

The guide goes for that into depth, yes.