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

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Chromino#4813 escribió:

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Garusch#6965 escribió:

Currently Level 80, with "basic" equip but only 3 pure agony jewels, but it feels really cool to play.

My only problem is to maintain many virulence stacks on single target bosses with cyclone - lv5 awakened cwc - tornado of turbulence - ball lighting of orbiting
I have 100% poison chance and golden rule jewel but i get maybe 20-25 stacks constantly. Maybe that will be resolved in higher levels, but yeah i like it so far :)

thank you for the guide !

Thank you a lot Garusch too! Arachnophilia!

Ordinary your set-up should generate 120 HoA-virulences singletarget continuous without problems.

Do you have the needed chaos or physical damage-component on elemental skills?
I.e. circle of nostalgia, eber`s unification helmet, some jewels or the supportgem chance to poison add it. Without pure elemental skills cannot poison.

Or perhaps there was a map- or altar-mod "avoid poison"? Or further a very few bosses - skeletals, mechanical constructs, spiders - have some inbuilt poison-avoidances.

And remember, there are 2 separated poisonchances, your 1) own and 2) of minions:

1 - for yourself, capped 80-100% on HoA-aura, the tree with serpentine spellslinger, fatal toxin and poison tattoos.

2- for your Herald, capped on ghastly jewels and with the belt "darkness enthrouned" with the tag "minion chance to poison".

Hey thank you for the reply... i feel a little bit dumb now LOL
I forgot the Chaos Damage on the Spell Damage of Orb and Tornado ... I played for years, but new to poison, as you can tell :-D

Thank you so much for pointing that out, it flows a lot better now.

My little Crawler Baby has 50% Chance to Poison :)

Edit: I am now instant at 68 Virulence... :D

hi chromino
i some maps that have mod: "Monster have 84% chance to avoid poison, ..."
my chance to poison is 140 but the virulence stack's very low, always below 35.
please give me some advices in this situation

Started as BAMA, but ended up switching to this build, and I’m having an absolute blast! Still got a ways to go, but I already have the BIS necklace ready and waiting. Haha. Just need to get up some strength and resists (probably going with melding). Seriously, thank you for all the time and effort you put into this guide. I’ve come back to it so many times, and it really shows how much passion you have for it! I also sniped as BIS Chest piece for bossing under 3D!!

I'm having a tough time deciding what to drop for Grace though, or just wait till I get more levels and can transition into the final form. I'm playing Guardian so I went with adding the flesh and stone aura for sure. I also have enough dex for the tattoo route..for now.

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lcmedia03#1446 escribió:

hi chromino
i some maps that have mod: "Monster have 84% chance to avoid poison, ..."
my chance to poison is 140 but the virulence stack's very low, always below 35.
please give me some advices in this situation

Yes, that is a map-mod more comfortable to reroll, especially with juiced atlas in t-17 or invitation the Feared.
Below in t-16 etc. also much lower generated HoA-virulences are enough without problems when the HoA is good builded up.

I personally pull simply many mobs to the tougher enemies, then full HoA-virulences are generated for the tougher targets.
This sometimes work not in boss-arenas.

The skillgem "vaal breach", or the ring "the hateful accuser", can solve the problem, but simply reroll or skip though single targets is more comfortable.

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Chromino#4813 escribió:

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lcmedia03#1446 escribió:

hi chromino
i some maps that have mod: "Monster have 84% chance to avoid poison, ..."
my chance to poison is 140 but the virulence stack's very low, always below 35.
please give me some advices in this situation

Yes, that is a map-mod more comfortable to reroll, especially with juiced atlas in t-17 or invitation the Feared.
Below in t-16 etc. also much lower generated HoA-virulences are enough without problems when the HoA is good builded up.

I personally pull simply many mobs to the tougher enemies, then full HoA-virulences are generated for the tougher targets.
This sometimes work not in boss-arenas.

The skillgem "vaal breach", or the ring "the hateful accuser", can solve the problem, but simply reroll or skip though single targets is more comfortable.

oh thank you very much. Arachnophilia!

How important is minion chance to poison still? Neccessary to max it out?

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mrflamee#4135 escribió:

How important is minion chance to poison still? Neccessary to max it out?

for having constant virulence stacks it isnt important, tho it spikes the dot damage up a lot.
so in terms of raw damage it is important.

personally i run with around 60% or the like, as i cannot fit in more ghastly eye jewels.

Thanks. How about the Golden Rule? Is it a must? Would love to free up an additional jewel slot.

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mrflamee#4135 escribió:

Thanks. How about the Golden Rule? Is it a must? Would love to free up an additional jewel slot.

i feel you, but you cannot do without it maintaining high virulence stacks.
a must it is!

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mrflamee#4135 escribió:

How important is minion chance to poison still? Neccessary to max it out?

No, Poison-HoA is no longer the best damage-scaling.
Crit-HoA scaling or the mix with the strong darkness-enthroned-belt is reaching much more dps.

I myself start ordinary Poison-HoA (dark seer sceptre, ghastly jewels) and above lvl 97 above 70M damage gear-level I balance into Poison-Crit-HoA (maata's teaching, grand spectrums, rational doctrine, fearsome force).

Poison-HoA is more tanky with the Dark Seer and 15 divs cheaper and no b.i.s.-ghastly jewels are needed.

But in 3.26 you can outsource so many important stats onto the Mercs: curses, purity of ice for 90% resis, frostshield, as hybrid discipline, malediction, phys-dr, slow-immunities, crit-immunities, etc. and Animate Guardian: culling strike, curses, fortify etc., so the building is extreme flexible, with hundreds of balancings between char, merc and Ag, even more flexible as in all the leagues before.

On the other hand 40M are enough for all poe-content and ubers, so balancing into the tank-edition instead crits is the more relaxed playstyle.