[3.6] Tahreyn's 83/83 Block Herald of Agony Gladiator - Über Elder Viable

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Tahreyn wrote:

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Milamber9 wrote:

From the dev manifesto that was posted recently:
"Herald of Agony has had its minion damage per Virulence reduced, as the skill provided a huge amount of power for very little passive investment."

Does anyone know enough details to make a call on if that will kill this build? I had planned on playing it again in 3.7.

Unless they really gut it it hopefully shouldn't reduce the damage by too much, you'll might want to get some extra minion dmg nodes or prioritise minion damage on your weapon though.

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Herald of Agony
Now causes Agony Crawler to deal 6% increased physical damage per virulence you have at gem level 1 (from 10%), up to 12% at gem level 20 (from 19%).

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Nekar1869 wrote:

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Tahreyn wrote:

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Milamber9 wrote:

From the dev manifesto that was posted recently:
"Herald of Agony has had its minion damage per Virulence reduced, as the skill provided a huge amount of power for very little passive investment."

Does anyone know enough details to make a call on if that will kill this build? I had planned on playing it again in 3.7.

Unless they really gut it it hopefully shouldn't reduce the damage by too much, you'll might want to get some extra minion dmg nodes or prioritise minion damage on your weapon though.

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Herald of Agony
Now causes Agony Crawler to deal 6% increased physical damage per virulence you have at gem level 1 (from 10%), up to 12% at gem level 20 (from 19%).

I would say they gutted this build for end game. Basically 480% down from 760% or now it does 66% of the damage it did...

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Ginboy wrote:

I have to thank you for you build. After a big break from poe (my last league was prophecy and started to play again by the end of betrayal league) In Synthesis I finished every possible content and the bosses with your build. Though cortex lvl 83 and uber elder were still pretty hard. Not only that I reached lvl 100 but and completed all the challenges 40/40! Though I didn't necessary followed everything the same like explained in your build but in the end its still ended up quite nicely and the crazy thing i could still upgrade my equipment for the better dps. I could afford better equipment like onslaught boot etc but at that point I saw no point in upgrading the equipment. Anyway, thank you for your build.

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Nekar1869 wrote:

I would say they gutted this build for end game. Basically 480% down from 760% or now it does 66% of the damage it did...

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chockdoo wrote:

You have to add in +XXX% increased minion damage in the equation though.

Let's say we have +200% increased minion damage we get (480+200)/(760/200)=71%

Could this build survive doing 71% of the damage it did earlier ? (havn't played it myself)


Trying to decide what to start out with for SSF, and going duelist I could always respec when i got some shit to play around with.
Plan is to grab a +2 helm and run cyclone in a tabula with curse on hit, add a holy relic or somethin on top.

Other than the damage-nerf, i feel that the build got mostly buffs with molten shell, possibly faster and other things.

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Tahreyn wrote:

It's more like ~950 down to ~670, you'll need to add the other sources of increased damage too. It's still a big nerf to the damage, but not quite as bad as 1/3.

In terms of actual damage. You'll still be able to hit 1m+ dps with the recommended setup, which is still a good number. Another effect of virulence providing less increased damage is that now it might actually be worth finding jewels and rings that has minions deals increased damage mods on them.