[3.26]The dirty Scorpion-Tail|Herald of Agony|Minion-Cyclone-Guardian|Arachnophobia Allstars 191M

Set-up in the clip [3.22]: 5.3 k es, +88% max resis, 1 ele-dr flask up, molten shell and divergent frost shield up.

Path of Building

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

1) Select the landing "Crit-HoA Final Tree" with the item tab "Crit-HoA Final items" and the skill-tab "Crit-HoA Final gems"
2) "Levelling" trees with item tab "Levelling items" and skill tab "Levelling skills"

3) Other keywords like "Poison-HoA", "Iron Reflexes", "Chainexplosions Asenath's", "Tanky", "Melding of the flesh", "Mageblood", "The Adorned", "The b.i.s.-upgrades 1360M"- trees with pairing titled items- and skills-tab

Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better many maths.

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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.

Enable: determination, grace, discipline, minions are on full life

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

The ehp: recovery /es on block is checked for mapping.
Aegis aurora generates infinitive substain in high density.

Against Ubers max hit taken is often more important.

If used count in: with the jewel rational doctrine: enemy is on "profane ground", intimidated.


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Because almost all builds....

are full in fantasy correcting their 2 wither-stacks to 15,
are counting their in juiced mods and in big aoe's always dying glascannon-0-hp support-spectres in,
are optimistic overwriting their supportbuffs from temporary to timeless,
deal awesome full chained-damage against singletargets, ramped up with 9 keys snapshotted after 2 gearswaps,
wear never possessed, but desired 10-mirrors pieces, low-budget 3-mirror vaal regalias as starter-gear or astonishing 7 socket-body-armours,
wield impulsive in 5 weeks crafted weapons and default available double corruptions on each piece,
back out of poe-history returning +5 rings,
are tanky 6 layers of portals and 4 relaxed regex-map-filters 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 but no b.i.s.-pieces in the pob.

Some Guardians - Baran, Al-Hezim, Phoenix
https://youtu.be/QDakIXO7eng
Some bosses - Exarch in 5 seconds
https://youtu.be/1eCs-z_wMLk
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
Simulacrum
https://youtu.be/rBo_sVS5JI4
The Elderslayers
https://youtu.be/gjbWT-g70Z4
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:

The Full Example gear progression t-1 to t-16:

--> https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25977437

Stack and max:

■ poison-tattoos and passives for your own 80-100% poisonchances for spellhits
■ HoA-gem-levels
■ 9-12 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 for the tanky auras
■ the CI-recovery shield and watcher's eye
■ 100% spell suppression
■ 60-75% spellblock
■ guard-skill molten shell and frostshield


Get the key-gear:

2 Circles of Nostalgia or Ambition
Small clusters uncompromising - sublime form - self control
9-12 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Skillgems Ball lightning of orbiting, Tornado of elemental turbulence
Golden Rule jewel
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 #7- (or #5-) passives voices large clusters
Tattoos poison-on-hit
Aegis Aurora shield
Watcher's eye with es on hit
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 four
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 with passives and poison on hit-tattoos for production of HoA-virulences with your own spells.
Get the cheap starters: Apep's Slumber or Ghastly Theater shield, Rainbow Stride boots, Darkness Enthroned, 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 start to outsource resistances and attributes from gear onto the transferpoints of clusterjewels and onto ghastly jewels.

With 2 rings 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 9-12 medium clusters. For this insert 3 cheap large clusters 5-passives voices into the tree.

Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp around lvl 70-85:
Arriving in the second and third large cluster you max also your defences by aurastacking and switch in more 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 from gear on jewels, clustertransfers, implicits, tattoos and league-mechanics to get more free passives and capacities for damage, tankyness and qol.

Attractive corruptions & doublecorruptions are gathered and best rare pieces are sniped or crafted.

Melding of the flesh and a sapphire flask raise ele-max-resis to tanky 85-90%.

The hunt for some additional fitting megalomaniacs clusters with hundreds of interesting combinations begins.


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 98 up to 113 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 200-1000M shaper-damage - or walk relaxed into tankyness, qol or an unholy might-minion-mastery beside.

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 gang of of purity, heralds in the mortal physical realm, fighted hard, slow and melee.

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 with fastings 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. In the Delve depth race the build reached rank 3.

[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 ball lightnings of orbiting and homing tornados of turbulences 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 grant more easy withers and frees up one more jewel slot.

The Adorned was unbugged and the HoA-poison-setup (abyss-jewels / belt) turned total flexible. 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.

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 and 85-90% all max-resis returned again in lategame.

The Champ arrives in the team and can stack high 95% flat damagereductions and 250 k armour.



[3.25] Settlers - Half a billion

Spell block, ward and endurance charges were buffed, in exchange determination was nerfed. Taste of Hate became useable for 25% more fast 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. For the new t-17 standard the immortal minion fits simply perfect.

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.


Phrecia

In "The Legacy of Phrecia" cheapest geared the build reached 660M, up to 1.1 billion damage in the herald-event-ascendancy.


[3.26] Secrets of the Atlas: A full billion

In Secrets of the Atlas the buffed buddy Animate Guardian sides us. Dps and ehp are doubled.
200 M in lowest budget top tanky and up to 1.4 B are stinged.


Meta-ready?

With these huge buffs to movement, qol, defences and damage the Herald of Agony is probably meta-minion ready again. I don't see since [3.24] another minion-build to scale up better. B.i.s. geared in high-budget 1360M 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 are squishy in 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

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.
The build stacks skill-efficiencies to use all big tanky auras to line up the long row layers of defences: flat dr, armour, spell suppression, evasion, block and spell block, to overstack infinitive recovery of es on block.

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.

The mechanics

In this unique style the best of both worlds of the tanky western and eastern passivetree is united. The deterministic uptimes of evasion, ghost dance and divine shield protect you safe in the undeterministic downtimes of blockings.

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

Beyond the build reaches out for the tanky 90% +max resis beside 100% chaos-, crit-, dot- and ailment-immunities.

The countdown

The delicious team of components massive collaborates and impressive lifts off 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- 000 ES recovery /sec with vaal discipline, 2 layers of chain-explosions possible
3- panicskills, 3 curses, 3 different damagetypes united, 30M autobombing, 35M continuous dot
4- 000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered
5x Cc: maim, hinders, chills, slows, knockbacks - all mobs are in slow-mo, 50-100 minions possible as mass-summoner
60% more damagereductions against ranged attacks in frostshield
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% additional movementspeed, 85-89% elemental resistances
9-0% flat dr, 90M-1360M selfbuffed peak-damage
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

We can facetank almost all bosses.

The damage

Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's crawling immortal scorpion-minion. In higher minion-skill-levels the herald of chaos is probably the highest damage-scaling minion in Wraeclast and is buffed into more than a billion dps by stacking medium clusters of "pure agony". It's center is the dirty tailsting clearing five times each second two screens in top-tier-range.

The Allstars define unmatched flexibility with unending possibilities in the whole poe-system. Dozens skills can be utilized and transformed into triggering in high fullspeed the chaos-minion-projectile-damage of the ranged attacks of the scorpion.
Ball lightnings, cyclone, tornadoes 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 tornadoes, void spheres and storm brands the herald is autobombing, with minion-poison 35M are balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active casted channelling orbiting ball lightnings buffing the chaos strike clone-beast into fullspeed and initializing 100 to 1300M-fullscreen-chainexplosions.

Which Prices / Budget?

Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.25]:

■ 15 chaos for yellow t5
■ 50 chaos for red t13
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red t15
■ 2-5 div skin of the lords/loyals for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for 25M damage and juiced red t16
■ 20-50 div for 50M damage, t17 and ubers
■ 50-70 div for 200M damage.

30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.

■ 100 div for 300M damage.
■ 400 div for 600M damage
■ 800 div for 900M damage
■ 1600 div for 1300M damage

That's an around 80% smaller budget compared to meta-bamas, squishy spectres, etc.

Heralds and minions are often chosen for their quality of life and automatic damage-qualities. Everything dies around you. Your herald finishs your job while you yourself are already relaxed looting.

The eight useable ascendancies alternate 30%-40% in damage, tankyness and recovery and have their own specialities.

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

Without much poe-experiences start relaxed into PoHoA as Trickster for total best tankyness.
With good poe-experiences and the know-how to avoid sometimes dot go Necro to kick'n sting more damage (or choose the "total tank"-pob).
Select Scion, Pathfinder and Champ for the good mix.
Use Guardian or Pathfinder for easy levelling, Occu for speedmapping.

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

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Ascend.:__Guardian_Necro_Occu_Trickster_Pathfi_Champ_Jugg_Scion

DPS singletarget___3____1____2____3____3____3____4____2

DPS high density___3____1____1____3____2____2____4____2

Tankyness_________1____3____3____1____2____1____2____2

With mageblood____1____3____3____1____2____2____3____2

Levelling Lvl 1-75__1____1____3____1____1____3____3____2

Gearing Lvl 60-95__1____3____3____1____1____2____3____2


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+ + The Ranking + +

1. 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

2. 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, extreme flexible in the ascendancy. Best to scale into 500-1300M HoA-crits when you focus on dps.

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

3. Guardian - More Auras, Born to block

Guardian has more auras, nice es-regenerations, early full blockings with cyclone and easy levelling with the radiant crusade-minion. In lategame hard to scale above 400M.

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

4. Scion

Pure flexibility. Easy to build in 90% max-resis.

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

5. Pathfinder

Pathfinder gets early an ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood, inbuilt withers and is free to choose the belt slot. That is eg equal to 4 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.

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

6. The Champ

Best flat dr. The champ with all buffs reaches flat 95% damage-reductions against all hits.
Fortification, increased aura-effects, armour and evasion fit tight.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3529075

Occu

Occultist, included in the necro-pob, scales top clearspeed with profane bloom in high density. Best with investments for forbidden flame and flesh.

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


Recommended only for specialisations: Hiero, Glad

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Which Herald?

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, Herald of Ice needs 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, that's 2-8x more than most other minion- and herald-builds. Let it sting!

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 doubled more ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the 20M-casual-common builds of PoEGuy, Jorgen, Aer0, Snolaz, Verlyna's etc. on YouTube and in PoeVault.

The Secrets of Juice

Ordinary rush through the atlas to the bosses for the atlas-voidstones and farm a bit currency in easy content. 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 11-mod-maps. Juice it full, unbuffed content is worthless!

In many YouTube Channels (like Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Crouching_Tuna, sirgog, POEGuy, Grimro, 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. Full juice, full loot.

Atlas | Mapping | Altars | 8-mods 9/10


Bosses 8/10


Abyss 10/10


Harvest 10/10


Einhar | Bestiary 10/10


Ultimatum 10/10


Essences | Strongboxes | Red Vaal Temples 10/10


Harbinger 10/10


Beyond 10/10


T17 9/10


Delirium | Simulacrum 9/10


Rogue Exiles | Anarchy 9/10


Delve 9/10


Expedition 9/10


Betrayal 9/10


Blight 9/10


Ubers 8/10


Ritual 8/10


Breach 8/10


Legion 8/10


Heist | Lab-Runner | Movementspeed 8/10



Alva | Incursion 7/10


Sanctum 5/10

Leaguestarter?

Overall not best, not cheapest 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 1 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 200M to 500M to 1000M.
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 1300M damage out there?

Beginner-friendly - but complex:

Budget: much cheaper than many metabuilds, no mageblood, no expensive equipment
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 stat-details and many budget-variations.
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
80% 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.
HoA is 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, HoA-rings and 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 allubers. 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 autobomb-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 1100M 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 journey into the fine arts of 500M dps HoA-crawling.

Produce with your own poisoning and fast hitting spells Agony-virulences.

Increase the HoA-base damage by increasing HoA-skill-levels with gear, empower and awakened supports.

The HoA-base-damage and attackspeed is multiplied by the total number of HoA-virulences. So the key is to insert more large clusters to insert more medium clusters of more 'pure agony'-notables for more max HoA-virulences.

Many 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 and for more rare jewels for + cold-resis equal to + max-resis.

Then we continue to scale up further with withers, curses, dot-multiplier and a row of debuffs and buffs.

Finally b.i.s. geared for balancing into dps we invest into HoA-critical chances and damage with 3 grand spectrums and arrive in hundreds of millions damage in the lategame.

Thumbed almost each of the following sections 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 (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, belt) > 100% Chaos-Conversion > HoA-crits > Spirit offering > increased miniondamage (rings) > aoe-chain-explosions (gloves asenath's gentle touch) > culling strike > support-minion feeding frenzy





■ Spell Poison | Virulences ■

Whenever you poison with your spellhits and other skills, you generate agony-virulences.
With more virulences your Herald will hit faster and harder.

Poisonchances and physical or chaos-damage-components of your skills are basic components to poison.
For pure elemental skills i.e. the nostalgia-ring or ebers-helmet add the chaos-component.

Final as CI place in the cherry jewel the golden rule to double it.

Skill up minimum 80%, 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% passives fatal toxins / swift venoms / toxic strikes
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 ball lightnings, tornados of elemental turbulences, 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 110 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 aoe implicit / harvestcraft / resolute technique (cyclone) 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 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 / +4 / +8 rare amulet
+2 the Dark Seer / +2 Maata's Teaching
+2 Rare Helmet

+ 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 6-9x medium clusters "pure agony".

They are our leaders for damage.

Virulences are a complete unique multiplier for Herald of Agony.
Each adds +5 maximal HoA-virulences. Basic +20% miniondamage is increased beyond.

Further the HoA-gemquality 23% and Ashes of the stars 30% add 13 virulences. You can reach fast 98 up to 113 virulences.

80 counted virulences quadruple the damage compared to slow 40.
In the lategame with more voices-clusters your damage is tenfolded with 113 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, ball-lightnings, 3 tornados and other skills. 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 supportgems 300% are increased. Above higher increasements have not much effectivity.


■ HoA - Poison ■

Now we scale up the HoA-poison until we reach the poe-engine's hardcap of dot at 35.7 M.

■ Get 4-5 rare yellow ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit"
■ 2 of them are doubled by the belt darkness enthroned belt
■ Begin with the HoA-support awakened unbound ailments, but later around 70M total damage, around the hardcap of 35M poisondot, switch unbound ailments to predator, damage on full life, vile toxins or other supports.
■ with the jewel Amanamu's gaze for 30% more dot-damage you reach early the poison-dot-hardcap, switch it out later too.
■ Against the Ubers dot is much more effective. Set the pob-configurations to Ubers to calculate the 300% extended poison-hardcap correct when you farm them.
■ HoA-crits add a 50% dot-multiplier.

Variation




■ 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
■ minion mastery unholy might Herald of Agony (2) + Withering Touch support (5) (+ Pierce and Returning Projectiles 10)
■ 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 Cursed Ground or an Arcanist brand.
■ In maps the curses can be also triggered with: tempestshield / storm brand etc. - hextouch - despair - temporal chains
■ Whispers of doom, vixen`s entrapements, an anathema-ring 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 skillsockets and to be triggered with gloves-implicits, arcanist brand, hextouchs etc.
■ In a 4-5 curses-set-up stepping into "steeped in the profane" can be reasonable.


■ 100% Chaos-Conversion ■

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, and awakened void manipulation.


■ Next Level: Chain-Explosions ■

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

Your effective ingame-clearspeed quickens.


■ The Voices ■

■ With 1-4 voices clusters you scale so much HoA-base-damage that you need less investments into HoA-poison.
■ Pathing into the third and fourth large cluster also without voices can be valuable.
■ At the same time you reach so many jewel slots, that your hunt for unique megalomaniac-medium clusters begins. When you get b.i.s.-ones (with manamanagement of sublime form, self control, suppression and ailment-immunities of elegant form, enduring composure, damagenotables like vicious bites and renewal) you can balance for a good megalomaniac around 10% dps more in best geared.


■ 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-40M 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 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

■ Blindings, with a dark seer, on a jewel or tattoo, add accuracies for some HoA-hits.
■ The +1 chaos mastery "corruption" buffs withers and damage awesome.
■ Use a minion-offence-mastery.
■ 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

■ Still not socketstarved? For the final cuddling culling strike?
■ A chaos golem of the maelstroem / dark marionette-spectre / animate guardian or in maps vaal skeletons featuring feeding frenzy buff up.

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 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 300M use only best gear, and a bit tankyness is exchanged against 600M.




■ 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, 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)
■ or alternatively instead Icicle Mines of Sabotage - Minefield with the Mastery Mines cannot be damaged (against bosses, 60 mana-reserved, 500% crit-chances)
■ 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% crit-chances, 40-70% crit-damage)
■ Assassin's mark (3 HoA-power charges, +1.5% crit-base, 150% increased crit-chances, +56% crit-damage)
■ Pathing 5 passives into into "fearsome force" (80% crit-chances, 60% crit-damage)
■ 3 Grand spectrum cobalt jewels with minion crit multiplier (90% crit-damage)
■ Profane ground of the jewel Rational doctrine (10% increased curses, 100% crit-chances)
■ Vicious bite on large or unique medium clusters (stackable, 30% crit-chances, 15% crit-damage)
■ Brittle ground boots-eldritch-implicit (2% crit-base)
■ Bottled faith (2% crit-base)

In total we reach a 8-17% crit-base,
multiplied by 500-1100% increased crit-chances,
resulting into 80-100% HoA-crit-chances,
to procc 250-350% 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 | Lethe Shade | Iron Reflexes





+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 or b.i.s. the increased aoe-corruption-implicit is chosen.

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 tanky balancings

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 atlas-strategies are guided to multiply your experience gained for the contemporary league. Delving boosts perfect exp in lower levels, later often beyond, breach, harbinger and abyssal are recommended.

You do not want to die in the levels 98 to 100 and to be honest: GGG designed all mapmods, altars and bosses 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, be afraid of in wispswoods 3000%++ buffed soul-eaters, and use some of the following tanky optimizations.

Edition Full-Tank (62M - 52M ehp):
https://pobb.in/LzmeetH4


Omens


Wear an Omen of Amelioration in your inventory.


Tanky Charges

Use a small or an unique megalomaniac cluster "enduring composure" for endurance charges and switch the Elixier of the unbroken circle to a rare ward flask.


Tanky clusters, tanky auras

Take 1-2 more small cluster sublime form or self control, and /or a reservation- / mana-mastery / amulet-anoint charisma, then use "flesh and stone" (or "purity of ice").

The Allstars stack so much damage that it is easy to switch in more small clusters also to 100% ailments-immunities in "elegant form", or to "veteran defender" for easy maxing 87%-90% resis with "the melding of the flesh", or to more Es or more blockings.


Tanky Tree

3 passives for the shield-mastery 'arcane guarding', and 3 for the es-mastery 'written in blood' and doubled es of the helmet, and slots for more +2 cold-resi-jewels are fast pathed.

When next by path "Lethe shade" as additional keystone when you have 95% ailment avoidances, or to "Influence". Wicked Ward is great too.


Tanky Atlas

Use 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"


The Tanky Skills

Further you can turn into more tankyness simpel with skills.
Switch out the squishy chaos-golem and clunky unearth + spirit offering and skill instead into tankyness.


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 situations frostwalls are BiS.

Frost walls length is fine on lvl 1. Dont build them too long and strong with higher levels when you want sometimes to walk around without cyclone and phasing.


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 or Enduring cry with Zealot's Oath for es-regeneration and 50% curse-immunities.

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


Tanky spheres, knockbacks and cc

Control the crowds with the gravity-effects, hinders and interruptions of void sphere. Best lvl 1, quality 20. Good to link to cwdt.

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 or hinderings on a tattoo, with maim on a tattoo, or also with chills and freezes i.e. of frostshield. Full stacked cc 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.


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- or HoAg-supports. ;-)

Cws/ Cwdt triggered Absolution, 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 content like t-17 bosses and rippy mods, U-Cortex and The Feared on your level-ups.
They remain dangerous. One too slow reactiontime or one not known aoe-attack 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
■ awakened fork instead pierce
■ high es-base boots
■ a third mod on your watcher's eye
■ double-b.i.s. rings- and shield-implicits
■ more jewels-, clusters- and gear-corruptions
■ good and better voices clusters for more damage with more pure agony
■ b.i.s. rolled unique megalomaniacs with pure agony, sublime form /self-control /elegant form /when you scale HoA-crits vicious bites
■ a +6 to HoA-levels skin of the loyals
■ the tanky mageblood with the adorned-jewel and set-up
■ a rare +8 amulet (2x +4 to Level of all / physical / chaos skill gems)

■ other cheap stuff ;-) like a soul ripper-flask for mapping, awakened empower lvl 5, lvl 6 qu 20 awakened supports, more lvl 21 / qu 23 gems, as necro and champ 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 1000 and more M.

As example:

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw

Hybrid life + es set-up in non chaos-content and against most ubers



Select CI or no CI

Hybrid Life + Es + Unaffected by poison on elevated hunter-boots:

■ All Ubers, exceptional U-Sirus
■ Especially against shaper, eater, exarch, elder, uber elder, cortex, maven, aul, atziri, other pinnacles and other non chaos-including poe-content the chaos immunities of CI or chaos-resis are not needed.
■ Against U-Cortex the Arakaali's pantheon full maxed should be enough.
■ Only by RNG sometimes valuability is granted beside against Maven`s summoned mapbosses.
■ When you have obtained the 2-mods discipline/vitality watcher`s eye es on hit + life on hit it`s hybrid recovery is op-tanky
■ As Guardian and Scion for 2 free passives Zealot's Oath


CI, geared above 3.5k es, in chaos-including content:

■ Against Sirus, Chayula, Kosis, Al-Hezmin, The Feared and in Ultimatums CI remain very tanky.

So you can regret CI.

As result hybrid life+es has two huge advantages for hunting the Ubers:

1) 1.8k life added against oneshots
2) the lifeflask for some recoveries in dot and after damagepeaks





Unaffected by poison

Far the best is the elevated prefix "Unaffected by poison" on rare boots to counter the golden rule's downsides.

Switch to a +2 life / +2 energyshield dark seer sceptre.
Use a life or hybrid-flask beside.

A recovery-mastery like circle of life turns attractive too.

Or switch out 2-3 medium clusters instead into HoA-poison (300% incr Uber-dot-cap), HoA-crits and the +1 chaos-mastery and go without the Golden Rule.

Alternatives



Hybrid in maps



When you want to go full hybrid also in maps and other content, get 1x the mod "+43% to chaos-resis while affected by herald of agony" on the ring circle of nostalgia and use in the es-mastery: "30% of chaos-damage does not bypass es".

Further the golden rule builds up chaos-resis in high density. More can be added on rare gear, ghastly jewels and on 1 passive fatal toxins.

The chainreaction | The Recovery-question


More life-recovery

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.

Recommended stats:

100% ailments-immunities, 20% overcapped resistances
12-15M damage
Awakened cast while channeling lvl 5 against stuns
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


T-17 Bosses

Cyclone close to the bosses.
In closest range most es on hits are procced by your ball lightnings and tornadoes.

For relaxed facetankings use further melding of flesh and aura flesh and stone.

Most easy to farm:

Citadel >> Abomination >> Fortress >> Sanctum >> Ziggurat

Boss-Guide: https://youtu.be/xcYtpB8k9g4?si=F4wOJdybx55vLecm

Unbreakable, Fortress: avoid increased aoe map/altar-mods, they fill almost the whole arena with his death-zones.

Lycia, Sanctum: Stay close, keep up es on hit, use flamedash.

Catharina, Ziggurat: High phys damage-dealer, do not roll additional damage on mapmods and altars. Keep range from the death-zone of her high dot-weapon stuck in ground (audio-sign "kulemak!"). Move over small totems.


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 to Ubers to calculate the extended poison-hardcap above 35M correct.


In my experiences it's probably most easy to reach the farming-quality-status against:

Uber-Cortex > Uber-Exarch > U-Eater, U-Sirus > UU-Elder > U-Shaper

Hunt U-Cortex on a level-up if you do not want to fear the exp-penalty.

Ubers 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



Abberath, Grutkhul or Ralakesh | Minor Pantheon



Flasks and resis | Dominant elements and ailments



Auras



Uber Dot | Lethe Shade



Flat Damagereductions | Damageshiftings | Iron Reflexes



Examples Uber-Oneshots



HoA-supports | Skills



Dps



Movement


More ...


Dangerous Mapbosses



ALL BOSSES


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

Because much damage can be outsourced into clusters, abyss jewels, the minion-mastery unholy might after kill, grand spectrums, etc., and the defences are stacked with auras, the golden crawler retains easy 200M dps and more in magic find-style gear. Switching out the gear is extreme easy possibly in this build.

Path 3 passives to presage and for sovereignity / influence on the tree and/or use a second small cluster sublime form to change out the rings to magic find gear.

Use low manamultiplier like awakened unbound ailments.
Visit the "manamaster" for much more possibilties.

I recommend to regear into mf in the order:

flasks > boots > helmet > belt > ring > gloves > weapon > amulet > bodyarmour

In fulljuiced maps 25M damage were always enough for me and I did not need more. When you get the fourth or fifth medium cluster with 'pure agony' you will rush through the maps topspeed. But there are faster builds of course out there than minions.

This build safe you in endgame with unique optimized defences first.
In such decisions Poe is almost always about finding the fitting balances of offensive and defensive for your goals and content. ... Do you want to farm fast, do you want to boss-hunt, do you want solo-self-levelling to lvl 100, which content like the ubers, delve, blight etc. do you prefer or do you need an Allrounder build for the mix without too much gear-swaps... ?

Some want the relaxed tank, some want the oneshot-killer. Some like the league fast and cheap, others the long race for full b.i.s.
Everyone will find his goal in this comprehensive guide.

In the end the top damage is scaled high especially with the medium clusters and HoA-lvls. Voices clusters can lift you to 112 virulences to stitch Wraeclast into the ground in half a billion damage.


My own favourite is the dramatic playstyle of the scorpion. The combinations all the flexible skills, the fast spiders, phantasms or meat shield-zombies or skeleton mages I like very much. I want a swarm of minions. I love to optimize a build and trade for best gear in slot, I like to level high 99-100, to optimize the build more with the final passives and implicits, I hate the grinding. And the visuals of spells, like ignites of raze and pillage, skills and mapdesigns are important for me to love playing a game. I love to try out and optimize all kind of skills, gear and supports. And I enjoy to write+optimize this build too, to find a unique build like here full optimizing auras, defences and keystones.

On the opposite I don't like speedfarming & grinding too much, I dislike too much dungeon-maps, Alva and temples are boring for me, but good exp., crafting is not so interesting for me, in hardcore I am afraid of loosing beloved gear, I prefer facetanking instead movement and too much kiting, .... lol, hehe, exactly all this is offered by this build. Firing the balls out, stacking virulences and damage was for me the most wonderful and enjoying playstyle in whole poe until now.


On a lot of points this build is managable to specialize on special situations with many different HoA-multipliers, triggered & channeled skills, masteries, large, small and unique clusters, jewels, auras, pantheon, flasks, gloves, ring, belt, boots, amulet, league-mechanics, etc.... I do not know a more flexible build until now.
This build plays both melee and ranged. And all our minions are immortal. Optimal for full challenges in all content.

100% ailments-immunities, melding of the flesh with 90% max resistances, the meta-mageblood-belt offer new level-ups in defences in this build. Yes, you can facetank many ubers with this build.

If you want another different playstyle, you can change your belt to the curious, funny and high damage offering and also defences buffing headhunter and try some new experiences in next level lags.