[3.20]The Arachnophobia Allstars|100% Chaos Guardian CI| The dirty Scorpion-tail | Herald of Agony

The pob and many spoilers are designed like toolboxes for your individual specialisations.

The shortest edition:

Get:
Skin of the Lords
Aegis Aurora
Circle of Nostalgia
Helmet + enchant
6 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Awakened HoA-supports

In endgame max 80% poisonchance and your generated HoAg virulences to 60-80 with 4-8 medium clusters "pure agony" and HoAg-lvl to 31 with empower and awakened gems. For defences get melding of the flesh and 85% resis, 100% ailments-avoidances and use 4-5 big defensive auras for infinitive ehp.

Ordinary you need only:

1. "Tipps for beginning and levelling"
2. "Path of building"
3. "Build up defences and damage"
4. "The composition of agony"
5. "gear" - section body-armour
6. "skills": virulences
7. "jewels": "melding of the flesh"
8. "checklist defences/ damage/ faq"
9. Visit thread-page 50 for the tradelinks and budget-variations

This build reaches out to chain the long row layers of defenses.
It stacks and max auras, armour, +max-resistances, real fullblock, recovery and 100% ailment-immunities.

The Arachnophobia Allstars are using a special combination of gear like the shield aegis aurora and skin of the lords. High increased global defences multiply your Es, your flasks, the aura determination and triple with grace.

Following the Allstars take the intensive full bath in the wonderful united composition of 4 keystones. Ghost Dance, Divine Shield, Zealoth's Oath and Wicked Ward recover, regenerate and recharge in quadrophony.

Then this team of components begin massive to collaborate, lift off and impressive quintuple total to: 18M ehp, 90 % physical dr, 95% evasion, a new top substain of 1-3k / on max 50% block and 75% spellblock, 2 k es/ sec and 1k es when hit.
It's like drinking every second some lifeflasks and your blockings are never limited. This means that in combat hits and spellhits heal you nonstop.


Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's immortal dreamteam-mix of ranged and melee minions. It's center is the sting of the Herald of Agony, and 20 speedful spiders can add a wonderful aggressive style for shining clean screens.

The dirty scorpion-tail reaches millions more of damage than other guardian-minions builds. It shines with it's characteristics in full chaos-damage and unique unmatched defences in endgame and high content.


We can facetank almost all bosses. Double damagefractions of ranged and melee minions.
The dream-team of scorpions and spiders!

0- oneshots
1- the only one tanky tank of tanks, 1000 es -on block -on hit -when hit
2- curses, 2000 ES recovery /sec with vaal discipline and wicked ward and in Time of Need
3- panicskills
4- 000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered
5-0 and more minions possible as mass-summoner
60 % and more damagereductions against ranged attacks in frostshield
75% spellblock with 100% dr, 75% dr of 10000 Molten Shell, 70% curse-immunities
89% + max elemental resistances
9-0% buffed evasion, 90% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 90-190 % additional movementspeed
100 % Chaosresistance, 100% permament immunity against all elemental ailments
110 % overcapped allresistances, ready for debuffs, scorch, etc.
12 - 89 M shaper-damage, unique 12M to inf* ehp

- As jugg, trickster, scion, champ, pathfinder or raider you reach good tankyness, but don't finalize top minion-damage.


Ascendancies__Guardian_Necro_Occu

DPS singletarget___2______1____3

DPS high density___2______3____1

Tankyness_________1_____1.5___4

Levelling__________1______1____3


The charm of the choice: Guardian has great tankyness and damage in high density with minion-mastery-unholy-might.

For focus on the Ubers choose Necro.

Occultist is most squishy but scales top clearspeed with profane bloom. Hard to max with more needed investments in castspeed/ resis /tankyness.

Guardian and Necro have in the end best tankyness in infinitive ehp.


- Melee HoP map slow, HoAg has huge range of attacks and 5-7 piercing projectiles. Enjoy full 2-3 x faster mapping, 2-3x more ehp with this build and 15-50M, 200-400% more damage.
Let's sting!

No one-shots


Facetank most bosses


Endgame: Max up your build into leading positions - soloplay guardians rank 1 reached


Leaguestarter:

Racing and Speed-Levelling possible: Balaar top 1 A10 Pts+Labs - HoAg in 3h42m51s

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter! Shield is high expensive in first days of league! But in the category guardian with minions ranked second or third.

In end of first week in league often ranked first top 1.

Valuable, cheap and alternative gear for each slot.

Ready for red mapping early. 6M dps, 400k ehp possible already at lvl 85 with cheapest gear without awakened supports because the HoA scales top damage with medium clusters, curses and withers.
But you will need the know-how to scale & balance HoA-damage, recovery, clusters and manareservations.

Top 1

40/40 challenges completed - all content viable.
All Ueber-Bosses down, the Feared simultan, Simulacrum wave 30 farming, Delve 1000, etc...

Top 1 substain with 4 keystones and aegis aurora

Top 1 total defences: 89% allresistances with melding of the flesh, real fullblock, 100% ailment-immunities, 60-100k armour, 95% evasion, 18M 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 guardian minion-damage: "100% Chaosconversion" reaches up to 50M shaper-damage.

HC viable

Also without top-gear:

Large es/ block is most safe against poe's lags and disconnects.

HC lvl 100 reached, see page 50 spoiler "Hardcore".

Beginner-friendly:

Budget: much cheaper than many metabuilds

Uniques in most slots

Complete poe-trade-links listed page 50 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: many mechanics of poe are explained in the guide. You learn to balance mechanics like auras, mana, minions, trigger, clusters and can dive deep into the world of poe.

100% Chaos Immunity

Ready to level to 100.

I played 100 myself with high maps, heists and deeper delve.

While most other builds go only for high damage and only 20-200k ehp, this build focus on defences, enabling 1M - to inf* ehp and lvl 100 in all content.

Melee and ranged playstyle combined

All minions are immortal - optimal for boss-hunting

90% additional movementspeed

Allrounder

Best fitting for simulacrums, delve, bossing, deliriums, logbooks, heists, blights etc.

Easy to balance and to specialize for individual content and goals.

Much space to play and vary with skills, passives, keystones, clusters, supports and gear.

In groupplay great supporting with auras and curses.


More styles for fun in endgame:

On maps with the No-Mana-Recovery-Mod you have to take in an enduring-mana bottle and must map slow.

Without United in Dreams you have only 4 open bottle slots (1 is reserved for writhing jar).

Heavy ground damage can still kill you (exception is our immunity to burning and shocking ground).

In Ssf HoAg is extreme strong also not optimized, but is beside also much more difficult to max the CI-unique-gear and HoA-rings, the helmet-enchant and clusters.

You will need your time and some know-how to balance in endgame each 3 levels your damage / clusters / amulet / boots and your defences / auras / keystones.

When you take the tanky nodes "only" 20 - 50 M singletarget pinnacle-dps. That is more than enough for all bosses. You will rush through the maps with your 150% added movement and 36 M piercing and splitting mapping-damage. You have no downtimes of your damage because you are tank and you have ranged DD's. But sorry, you don't oneshot Ubers and need some seconds more for Shaper and Maven.

Not cheap when you max your watcher's eye, empower and implicits - like in other builds.

In leaguestart often cheap alternative 2c gear is needed in the shield-slot because of 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.
The cheap starter-variations will carry you also safe to lvl 100.

Vatinas: His build made this build possible. For my own I changed only 60 passive points, clusters, the mainskill, 5 more skills, 8 support-gems and half the gear and jewels. The mechanics, gear and deep explanations I learned and experienced from your skills and build! Thank you again for your so interesting and top amazing build!!

[3.13] A CI HoP + Spiders Guardian - 70K armour, 1400 ES on block, millions of DPS || My 1st lvl 100

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2554248/page/1

Hitmantb and Shadowtitan: This helped me so much to get a new love in path of exile!
[3.10] Herald of Agony Mana Guardian | Deathless T19 100% Delirium

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2663126/page/1

Thank you Luetjeminze for doing a great levelling pob!

Oldboi on PoeNinja-Builds: Your Build is perfect, but a bit fluffy-geared. ;-)

monik390: You did the max-op-optimizations and a lot great tipps, set-ups and ... discussions ;-) !

FrannyX: You helped a very lot improving this build with questions and video! You made great tipps for gloves, rings and damage-setups!

Thanks to Kaevar and ShatteredEssence! Thank you grimjack68, Zerber and jjmccaw! So many good advices, views and vibes, thematics and, also very important, questions you put into the arachnophil community, build and thread.

Thank you to Zakk777 and helloicanseeu for jewel-alternatives, to Humtol for apep's-details, to mytrasher and elatycs for virulence skill-possibilties and to VahnNoa for crafting-guides!

Thank you CLloyd0 and TrueEdge for great & funny videos.

Thanks to erigol07 for arachnophil supports and more!

Balaar created and pushed a perfect HoA speedracer!

I enjoy the community and discussions and questions very much and learn a lot! Thank you!

PoB all Editions + Levelling trees

Here we crawl:

https://pastebin.com/PckSa20v



--- pob is calculating unreserved mana not correct - manamanagement is tested and work ---- disable envy ---- pob is sometimes disabling arakaali's fang + raise spiders: enable them manually counted 20x for correct damage





Passive Tree, Path of Building


Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better ehp, etc.

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Configurations PoB:




Buffed 9.03 M ehp in 3.17:

This build shows improving paths of easy scaleable gear-set-ups.

Damage and defences are balanced a bit different with gloves, amulet, tempestshield and clusters and you can switch the set-ups easy and fast.

1.) Starter Set-up

Begin relaxed to develop your manamanagement around lvl 80.

With the HoAg-helmet enchant, 3 small clusters and an amulet for aura-reservation-efficiencies you master your mana to activate all big auras.

With 2 large clusters for spellblockings and a flask Rumi's concoction you max your defences and recovery and switch out tempestshield.
When you reach 100% ailments-immunities with eldritch-boots you are already geared for almost all content.

You can already plug in 5 passives of the chaos-mastery +1 for HoA lvl 31 for more damage when wanted.


2.) Boss-Hunter 70, Fullblock 20 M shaper damage

Easy around lvl 90 you optimize your damage with full "pure agony" on all medium clusters.

Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp: Arriving in the third large cluster around lvl 90 and with resis on every cluster-transferpoint you take in your melding of the flesh. You start stacking +85% up to +89% + max all resistances. Your substain is multiplied using 3 - 5 keystones.

You reach an unique record of 1M-inf* Ehp.


3.) 100% Chaos-Conversion-Edition: The Highway to damage 20-50 M shaper-damage

Now lift off into full force in the elegancy of white triad grips.

When you builded up poisonchance with a Divergent HoAg lvl 21 gem, it's your final boarding time for "100% Chaosconversion".
Used for The Feared, UE and Simulacrum Wave 30 it's still played top tanky for safe 100 levels.

With voices clusters you improve further to 30M shaper-damage. Stacking 80-85 virulences and bearing Uul's Netol's Vow amulet you finalize also 40M damage against the last Ubers in still remaining full tankyness.

With the Squirel with 150k ehp like common squishy occus ;-) 89M are possible.

Boss-Hunter

All gear, their budgets, their b.i.s.-upgrades, alternatives, cheap levelling-variations as poe-trade-links and crafting gems, gloves etc.-guides are found on page 50 of this thread:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/50

Let's sting!



Mix the max! This fine composed recipe with the full dozen seasoned components tastefully serve full arachnophilia in passion for destruction.

Shake up and stack up the coctail of damage for shining clean screens with


■ Virulences ■

Whenever you poison with storm burst and other skills, you generate agony-virulences and your Herald will hit faster and harder.


I.) Skill up minimum 80% chance to poison:

20% HoAg-buff
20% additional poisonchance of Divergent HoAg lvl 21
25% 2 passives serpentine spellslinger
20% curse mastery (whispers of doom: use 2 curses despair + sniper's mark)

While levelling:
40% chance to poison supportgem or integrated in rare gloves

Alternative increasements:



II.) We choose the most fast hitting spell with lowest mana-cost in whole poe - storm burst - to generate full virulences.
Increased castspeed, increased aoe and increased duration stack the virulences faster up with lowered delay.

+ 40% more virulences with faster casting-support for stormburst
+ 20% onslaught-ascendancy
+ aoe divergent storm burst
+ increased aoe harvestcraft/ implicit weapon

Or while levelling: Kalisa's grace gloves

Alternative increasements:



Check the counter in the storm burst icon. 10-14 fast fullchanneled burstings are great for 70-90 virulences.


III.) 'Tempestshield', additional 'storm brands', 'void sphere' or other channelled & triggered skills like 'purifying flame' or 'firestorm' stack virulences beside.

==》 You choose the best virulence-skill-generators in the following spoiler "skills".

IV.) Double with self-poisoning your stacking of virulences with cherry-picking the jewel "the golden rule"


■ Full Agony ■

V.) Insert soon and as early as possible max 6-9x medium clusters "pure agony".

They are our leaders for damage.


VI.) Check the counter in the green HoAg-Aura-Icon for the needed continuous 60-80 virulences-stacks singletarget.
(Alternative check in pob the full combined gained es/ on hit-rating.)

Maxed 80 counted virulences quadruple the damage compared to slow 40.


■ HoAg-supports and gem-levels ■

VII.) Climb up and crawl to the HoA tipping-gemlevels 28 / 29 / 34.

The HoA scales crispy heavy with gemlevels, awakened supports and empower.

+21 Divergent HoA lvl 21
+3 empower lvl 4
+4 2x +2 skin of the lords
+1 awakened miniondamage
+1 awakened void manipulation

+1 chaos mastery "corruption"

+ awakened vicious projectiles, + against endgame-bosses anomalous vile toxin /in other content anomalous pierce/ awakened fork

Alternative increasements:




■ Withers ■

VIII.) 9-15 wither debuffs almost double the damage:

■ Anomalous withering step (- increased duration) (9 withers)
(+ashes of the stars 12, +enhance 15)
■ jewel balance of terror and "inflict withered ..." + selfcast despair + storm burst (15)
■ jewel glorious vanity + transformed notable ritual of shadows + stormburst (15)
■ spelltotems - multiple totems - wither (15)
■ gloves abhorrent interrogation (15)
■ cluster eternal suffering (5)
■ in maps: vaal anomalous skeletons - withering touch - feeding frenzy

When you use "Arakaali's fang":
■ Arakaali's fang with withering touch - multistrike (max 15)


■ 2 Curses ■

despair + temporal chains or sniper's mark are mixed in.


■ Gear up ■

Fuse it all in the armour Skin of the Lords. Wield the "United in dreams"-sword.

If you you are boarding to full-damage serve your composition of destruction in the deep love of the dirty scorpion-tail:

IX.) Facetank much to debuff with your void gaze of the helmet Eber's Unification and fire almost nonstop stormburst for full damage.

X.) Triad Grips with 4 white sockets add elegance of millions of damage in the 100% Chaos-Conversion.

XI.) Use more voices-clusters for more medium clusters with "pure agony".

"Uul netol's vow"-amulet is scaling further up to big 50M damage against the Ubers when wanted.


■ More Poison ■

XII.) On your belt-jewel or starting with 2 on a darkness enthroned-belt and when wanted pathing for another jewel-slot stack 2-3 ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit". You could use malevolence too.

Especially in wide open designed maps, full juiced content and in arenas and against bosses + ubers United in dreams is full of damage.

Use jewel "balance of terror", convocation and when wanted anomalous vaal skeletons + feeding frenzy.

Harvestcrafted or an implicit with increased AoE on the weapon burst more HoA-virulences.


Alternative:



Body Armour


Take the trinity of auras. Then upgrade to the quadrophony of the Lords.

The 2 x +1 level of skills skin of the Lords serve more damage up for our agony. Sometimes you also need less defences when your enemies are faster killed. For all content we love the damage to onehug the mobs strong and instant.

All Gems have to be corrupted!

This is the best balanced combination of supports.
Also 4 or 5 correct socket colours are enough.
==》 For different socketcolours dive to the spoiler "the dirty scorpion tail"


--- The Keystones ---

Ghost dance - Iron Reflexes - Lethe Shade - Divine Shield - Wicked Ward - Runebinder




This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:






1-2 Circles of Nostalgia / Unset Ring






Upgrades with catalysts



Aul & Uul - The Amulet





Anoint




Helmet





Gloves





Boots







Belt

On your jewels and clusters the implicits most worthfull are corrupted blood-immunity and increased skill-efficiency crafted with vaal orbs.


The Golden Rule - golden damage





The Melding of the flesh




The Watcher's Eye




Belt jewel / 1-3 Ghastly jewels



Balance of Terror / Glorious Vanity




Split Personality - es + dex





Alternative jewels: Forbidden Flame and Flesh / Brutal Restraint/ Thread of Hope / Unnatural Instinct / etc.

On your jewels and clusters the implicits most worthfull are corrupted blood-immunity crafted with vaal orbs.

Exalt-slam the clusters when possible.
High resistances (fire, lightning, and you can change them with your harvest-craft-bench) and needed Dex and Str are great added on every clustertransfer.

6% efficiencies and increased effect of small passives are on the small clusters b.i.s.

A bit added Es is welcomed beside.

==》 Visit the tradelinks on page 50 for the fitting tradefilters.


In "important mechanics" is a basic guide to craft clusterjewels.



Small Clusters - Manamanagement



Medium clusters - Pure Agony - pure damage



Large Clusters

Simply-style

Simply Bossing: (divergent) storm burst (lvl3) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) + faster casting (lvl 20) + firestorm

Simply Mapping: (divergent) storm burst (lvl3) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) + faster casting (lvl 20) + (anomalous) purifying flame (lvl 4)







Cast while Channeling: Create your own styles

(divergent) storm burst (lvl3) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl5) + X + X



Other Trigger



Withers



Curses



Tanky skills



Vaal skills



Convocation / Predator



The dirty scorpion-tail - Supports and Mana of Herald of Agony



Movement



Auras



==》 Visit in "important mechanics" the spoiler "skillmanager" for 16 ways to free up a skillgemsocket when needed


Level of gems




Alternate Skillgem Qualities



Free skill-sockets



Keybindings

Your flasks need a lot of love in endgame.
Invest maximal into their charges of your defences.

Armour, Evasion and Ward are doubled by our Skin of the Lords.

We need mandatory suffixes:

1) always first one flask with stop- and antibleeding:

Clever in the menagerie beastcrafted on a quicksilver flask + withering step lmb-triggered + "used when you use a travel skill".
Versus corrupted-blood take also permament immunity on a jewel's implicit.

2) the second effective flask-suffix is increased armour

3) third castspeed buffs up virulences and with a watcher's eye es on hit. When you don't use anomalous purifying flame in the cwc-set-up or bottled faith, curse-immunities are, before you maxed your defences, very interesting too.

Use instilling orbs and crafting bench to autotrigger your other flasks "when charges reach full".

Flask-prefix "Masochist's` / 'Flagellant's' / Sinner's " gain charges when you are hit" are the best. Also blocked hits/ spellhits count as been "hit". In long boss-fights swap unique flasks for gained charges out.


Flasks

Rumi's concoction is recommended when you are missing much block.

You can only benefit from 1x + 1500 armour on 1 granite flask and only 1x #% increased armour-suffix. Don't take 2x same type of flasks.



An ironflask is the perfect alternative of doubled +400 ward in damagepeaks when you reached high evasion and fullblock.



Bottled Faith is the headhunter for tanks. I don't mean the fine 10% more damage, I mean the killing d.o.t. & degen our high defences don't work against. Here we need Regeneration. Take the optimal Bottled Faith to not miss the consecrated ground with big and beautifull increased area. Expensive endgame-gear.

Use:

■ A Rubin Flask against Exarch and Atziri
■ A Sapphire Flask against Shaper, Aul in deep lvls and Uber Elder
■ A Topaz/ Vessel of Vinktar flask against Eater of Worlds


Special flasks

Bandits: Lunch for the crawler





Ascendancy: Take them in this order and choose:





Pantheon:

Levelling Guide and alternative skills



For smooth, safe and fast starting please check and scroll through the progressing levelling trees and separated items- and skill-tabs in the PoB and right here the thematically spoilers.

https://pastebin.com/PckSa20v


Speed-Levelling



Levelling and starting:

Maindamageskills Act 1-3

Stormbrands, Flame wall, Raging Spirits, Holy Flame Totem is the fine early damage.
Vaal skeletons for bosses, ball-lightning (higher skillgemlevel), Freezing Pulse are strong alternative set-ups in early acts 1-3 for mobs and aoe-damage.

Or gain, like Balaar, as duelist on the strand splitting steel + chance to bleed + onslaught and transfer the gems to the templar.

Always max your skillgem-levels!
Do not limit storm brand-lvl like in the endgame!


Scorpions and Spirits, Maindamageskill, Act 3-10

Herald of Agony is levelling a bit slow, but a very relaxing and safe minion build. With using storm brand (and if possible tempestshield too) linked to chance to poison you stack up virulences to raise your crawler and damage. You can move faster as with other skills and uninterrupted. Throw your brands and just move on. Against bosses spam also storm burst (or ball-lightnings).

Storm brand - faster casting - chance to poison - Storm burst

You can get the core-skills HoA, chance to poison support and ball-lightnings first time in end of act 3 in the library after completing the quest "A Fixture of Fate" by Siosa.
Support it with phantasms for much more damage-uptime and they fight as your meatshield too!
Max always dex and HoA-lvl!
Storm brand and Absolution are already available act 1, as reward after the quest "The Siren's Cadence".


When you start early with Herald of Agony, link your attack like storm brand to "chance to poison support".
You need "chance to poison" as supportgem 40% and on the passive tree to raise the scorpion. Head soon to another 25% poisonchance of "serpentine spellslinger" or with 2 curses "whipsers of doom" and the curse-mastery 20% and increase the damage of your HoA with more castspeed and virulences.

Use skill "convocation" to get your crawler into enemies' proximity shields and at your side in smaller dungeons.

Buff the damage with vulnerability, despair or sniper's mark as curses.

Use HoAg - Summon-Phantasms-Support - Minion damage - Damage on full life - Vile toxins - Vicious projectiles - Fork / or Added Fire damage etc. as fast as possible with maximal skilllevel and 4, 5 and 6 links for your mainskill.

Use when wanted a second damageskill Act 1 / 3 - 10: Absolution

Beside HoAG for ranged screencleaning and your storm brands the sentinels of Absolution are the recommended added skill for damage.

Absolution - spell echo or faster casting - physical to lightning support - minion damage - phantasms - added fire damage - controlled destruction -

From Act 4 you can vary with Arcanist Brand for automatic triggering with 2 more brands of brand mastery or with phantasms. You start the swarm in act 1 and can keep it up to act 8-10 or even in maps.

Heralds of Purity - phantasms - minion damage - minion speed/maim

is a strong variation with more added damage when you have enough mana or feel tanky enough to use one defensive aura less. The HoPs double the damage of their supporting piercing phantasms.


Act I-III levelling with stormbrand:




Defences Act 1-10



Movement



Dexterity !!!



Follow your ascendancy in the labs.



Mana and auras



Clusters




Levelling gear 3 --> 4 --> 5 --> 6 --> 7 links



Passive tree, before CI, leaguestart with presage, with only basic clusters:




Path on ...




CI Transformation

When you start dying sometimes of chaosdamage and poison, around lvl 70-80, it's your time for the last keynote Chaos Inoculation. Transform into Chaos Immunity/ CI of this build.
You can use all CI-core items with pure energy-shield of the build with level 62-70 and should count 55-70% block- and spellblockchance.

Start with the strong and cheap severed in sleep weapon and apep's slumber shield before you get the arakaali's fang, aegis aurora and the watcher's eye es on hit. Use wicked ward and the ar/es-mastery.
No later than now use the auras determination and (vaal) discipline. Activate right now also the keystone "Zealoth's Oath" and change out your lifeflasks, hybridflasks and lifegear and -passives, with Graniteflask use molten shell now. Take in the golden rule juwel for singletarget virulences and damage. Welcome into your new life in immunity to chaos!

Pure damage

For more damage head always early to the next medium clusters with "pure agony", the minion-mastery, the +1 chaos-mastery and use minion chance to poison on ghastly jewels.


Level 100 Fullblock with completed clusters




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Leaguestart:


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Starting gear

Attributes, Mana, Es Requirements



Fire and other ailments



Manamanager



Skillmanager



Crafting Gear, Gems, Clusters

Level 100

The Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars are ready, skilled and geared to experience grinding and farming the way to lvl 100 in all content.

You do not want to die in the levels 98 to 100 and to be honest - yes, the truth is that all mapmods, each altar and every boss are designed to detect your last vulnerability and to kill you when you miss solely only one small defensive layer.


So you can further balance into defences and blocks not only with the passivepoints on your tree and your clusters, also with skills you can turn direction into more 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 cwc, cwdt etc. they are autotriggered and simply the best against all types of ranged attacking enemies.

I use them also sometimes for the encounters in delve and for heists instead sniper's mark. In these special situations frostwalls are BiS.

Frost walls length is fine on lvl 1 or lower, quality 0. Dont build them too long and strong with higher levels when you want sometimes to walk around without phasing.


Phasing / Withering Step


With phasing – take your withering step or phaserun on the left mouse-button one triggered – your own movement will not be walled.


Purifying tank

Take (Anomalous) Purifying flame (or Divergent Frostshield) binded to cwc, cws or cwdt for 5% es-regeneration and 50% curse-immunities.


Tanky knockbacks

Push back the blind mob out of your frostshield.
Add in your cwc-set with Glascial Cascade or skill Divergent Sniper's Mark.


Tanky Keystones, tanky clusters

The Allstars stack so much damage that it is easy to switch some points, clusters etc. to 100% ailments-immunities, to maxing 87%-89% resis with "the melding of the flesh", to more recovery with more keystones, to Es and blockskills.

When you already obtained 100% ailment-avoidances, grab with 4 passives lethe shade against dot and degen.

Wicked Ward is great too for more uptime of regenerations with the ar/es-mastery.


Tanky cursing

Or you can turn in maps tanky enfeeble in your cws-links/ other triggers.


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 spiders- or HoAg-supports. ;-)

As downside they use capacities of your frostshield and chain projectiles.

Cws/ Cwdt triggered Absolution, Anomalous vaal skeletons, a chaos golem buffing feeding frenzy or even wither totems also meatshield great.


When you are not a very experienced player, combat the hardest encounters like maven fights or ueber-atziri on your level- ups.
They remain dangerous. One too slow reactiontime or one, last after-fight not known explosion of the ueber-elder outside Zana's shield 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.

The Ubers are designed as final endgame-goals - not to facetank, not to block, not to evade, and instead instant allover penetrating + degenerating your resistances with oneshot-aoe's and deathly fast instant dot's.

That means also that you can beat or counter ubers a bit better with 500M cast-on-death or other glascannon-skills. But the Allstars do the job the same with some ups and downs.

While in ordinary content of PoE the Allstars build up unique high tankyness and multiple layers of all global defences, armour, evasion, block, and can facetank almost all pinnacle-bosses, against Ubers the balancing into max-resis, damage and movement is mandatory. You need every slot optimized, some of the best implicits and know-how of all of the ubers' attacks. With The Allstars you need against some of the Ubers (Exarch etc.) strong gear (Uul Netov amulet) to scale the HoA-damage even more up in the dps-race against increasing aoe-s filling the uber-arenas (Maven, Sirus).

In my experiences probably most easy is against Uber-Exarch, Uber-Shaper, Uber-Cortex, Uber-Sirus and UU-Elder to reach farming-quality-status.


Mandatory defences

■ you should have reached 100% permament freeze-ailment-immunities against the cold-dealers shaper, elder, ueber elder, maven, aul, sirus / Shock immunities against world-eater, sirus, cortex, maven / Ignite immunities against sirus, exarch, atziri, maven.
■ you need corrupted blood immunities on a jewel/ the belt-jewel and in the Pantheon burning-gound-immunities against Sirus
■ You need es on hit with the watcher's eye
■ Use in pob the "Final Tree - The Ubers". Often you find a better unique megamaniac cluster in place of the small cluster "winterprowler".
■ you should have geared the melding flesh and +max 85%, better +87-89% with impossible escape or winterprowler etc. all elemental resistances


More Defences



■ against the physical damage dealers Uber-Shaper (Slams) and fast spellhit-beams of Uber-Sirus Iron Reflexes as integrated keystone in Skin of the Lords is b.i.s. maxing pdr and doubling es on block.
It is also strong against the spellhits of Maven and Exarch.

Only against Eater keep in evasion/ ghost dance and change your minor Pantheon to Soul of Grutkhul/ or Garukhan.

■ Against many Ubers-Bosses with much dot-damage (Uber-Maven, Sirus, Shaper, Exarch, Cortex, UU-Elder) change wicked ward to lethe shade when you already reached 100% ailment-avoidances.

■ Against Uber Maven and Uber Cortex 87-89% max-resis are recommended.

■ With a mageblood and quarzflask, rare eldritch gloves, "inveterate" on tree and "elegant form" or "untouchable" on (unique) clusters you can reach tanky 100% spell suppression to facetank also U-Shaper and U-Eater.


Flasks and special resis

Use:

■ A Rubin Flask against Exarch and Ueber Atziri
■ A Sapphire Flask against Shaper, Uber Uber Elder, Aul
■ A Topaz-/ Vessel of Vinktar-flask against Eater of Worlds, Maven


Auras

The Ubers don't attack with classical hits and use mostly degen, penetrations, dot and aoe.

■ So you can balance out the aura "grace" and it's manamanagement like "sublime form" and switch in "enlighten" and "uncompromising" instead.

■ Balancing out tempestshield is well possible too. Get more spellblock for recovery with aegis aurora on the tree and clusters.


Skills

■ Selfcasted Molten Shells, Vaal Molten Shells and Divergent Frostshields makes you tanky in phases like Shaper's bullet hell, Exarch's Thousand Suns, Sirus Meteors, and also The Maven's Memory Game.

■ Change out the pierce/ awakened fork-gem of your herald-of-agony. Anomalous vile toxins is the prefered support or awakened unbound ailments or divergent predator.

■ Change out convocation too.

■ Use the curses: despair and temporal chains (/or on ubers lowlife punishment). Switch out sniper's mark.

■ For HoA-virulences skill:
Storm burst - faster casting - cwc - firestorm

It offers the best uptime of virulences and enables most movement.

■ Selfcasted or triggered Storm brands, firestorms - or phantasmal void spheres deal damage also nonstop while you are moving in the arenas (equal to around 10-20M dot- beside the 20-40M peak-dps).

Damage


■ United in Dreams improves damage 25%.

■ Use more large Voices-clusters and more "pure agony"-medium-clusters or path for jewel slots and increase with ghastly-jewels minion's chance to poison.

■ you should switch in damage of +1 chaos-mastery "corruption" because the sequenzes to deal damage between moving decrease much shorter and the Ubers defend with another added 70% damagereduction.

■ 20-30M damage should have been reached.

■ Use jewels balance of terror + selfcast despair or jewel glorious vanity+transformed passive ritual of shadows or spelltotem- multiple totem - wither for full 15 withers instead arakaali's fang.

Alternative




■ Squeeze in an Uul Netol amulet with socketed Awakened Unbound Ailments to increases damage 40% further, most easy set-upped with a small or unique medium cluster "uncompromising" for manamanagement and an enlighten-support linked to the auras. Or unskill grace and instead the sublime form-cluster use a ghastly-jewels with 15% minion's chance to poison on hit.

■ Much more expensive but also easy that's with the b.i.s. mageblood-belt.

■ Absolution, chaos golem or anomalous skeletons buffing feeding frenzy help a bit too for more continuous damage.

Movement

■ Don't try to facetank their biggest mainattacks, degen-effects and aoe-s.
All their minor attacks you can tank.
■ You need practise in their attacking-mods. Almost all have accustic signals.
■ Kite: "Hunger" of Uber-Eater, "Take this" of Uber-Maven
■ Channel firestorms and cast storm brands or void spheres for virulences while moving.
■ PoE-bosses react very, very slow when they need to turn around.
Move and circle every 2-3 seconds to the backside of the Uber.
■ For movement use flamedash or divergent frostblink

Use in the last waves 27-30 a rubin-, or sapphire-, or topaz- / vessel of vinktar- flask against the main-elemental-damage to complete also 2 simultan bosses easy.

Monik390 optimized a channeling setup with swapping gems cycloning in the waves and stormburst for the bosses, offered on page 334:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/334#p24447710

In maps 6M damage were always enough for me and I did not need more. When you get the fourth 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 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... ?

My own favourites are the combinations of skills with the fast spiders (...or phantasms or meat shield - zombies or skeleton mages I liked 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, 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 a build too, to find a unique build like here managuardian with full optimized auras, defences and keystones, hehe.

On the opposite I don't like speedfarming & grinding too much, Alva and temples are boring for me, but good exp., crafting is not so interesting for me, hardcore I am afraid of, I prefer facetanking instead movement and 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.

So on a lot of points this build is managable to specialize on special situations with masteries, large, small and unique clusters, auras, pantheon, flasks, gloves, ring, belt, boots, amulet, channelled & triggered skills, etc.
This build plays both melee and ranged. And all our minions are immortal. This is optimal for full challenges in all content.

100% ailments-immunities, melding of the flesh with 89% max resistances, or the meta-mageblood-belt offer new level-ups in defences in this build.

Yes, you can facetank maven's memory game with this build.

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

In the end the top damage is scaled high especially with the medium clusters. Voices clusters can lift you to 30M and more damage with 80 virulences. Or bear the 7th link of amulet Uul Netov's Vow + The Squire to stitch Wraeclast into the ground in full 89M.

Long necks & short legs.


2 legs, 6 legs, 8 legs, it does not matter. 20 - 50 M of damage on 166 legs enjoy full our tendencies of destruction.


Dps- Checks


In my experiences you can best choose your set-up around these preconditions to balance your build.
You can easy switch with a few clicks from more tankyness to more damage and back by changing clusters, passives, amulet and gloves.

■ 6M damage are really for sure enough and best for t16-mapping and lvl 100 farming
■ 8M are enough to kick Maven
■ 10M for Ueber Elder
■ 12-15M for the feared and simulacrums wave 30
■ 15M-30M for the Ubers


Checklist for damage

All components and combinations are guided in the spoiler "Chromino's Fine Composition of Agony and Arachnophobia". Here is the shortlist for a average arachnophobiatic, lvl 97, HoA lvl 31, 80 virulences, 75% minionchance to poison in [3.20]:

HoA-Virulences

For full damage: Facetank much and cast nonstop:
More & fast storm bursts / ball-lightnings / + 3× storm brands etc. -> more virulences: Double virulences = Quadruple damage


stacked 80%-100% chance to poison, castspeed and aoe
The golden rule (double virulences), 3x storm brand +20, runebinder +10, tempestshield +15, voidsphere +25 virulences, ball-lightnings +50, storm burst +70

HoA lvl 31




Further Damagesources

Ascendancy

Onslaught buff ascendancy (2 M)
intimidated debuff ascendancy (1 M)

Withers

15 withers of balance of terror/ glorious vanity/ spell totems/ spiders
or anomalous withering step (8 M)

Curses

despair (5M)
maps: sniper's mark (2 M + 5 projectiles)
singletarget: temporal chains (3M)


HoA-Supports

vile toxins singletarget instead pierce (6M)

Clusters

1 medium cluster +5 virulences pure agony (each 4M)
1 large minion damage clusters (2 M)

Gear

Eber's unification / void gaze (3 M)
4 whitesockets of triad grips (5M)
United in Dreams 60% minion-poisonchance (4M)
2 ghastly jewels 30% minion-poisonchance (2M)
Uul Netol's Vow amulet + damage on full life (8M)

Other Buffs

bottled faith, vessel of vinktar (each 1 M)
Feeding Frenzy-buff with absolution /chaos golem /anomalous vaal skeletons feeding frenzy (2M)
flesh offering (1 M)
culling strike (3M)


==》 More, more, more

Checklist defences:

1. Check your elemental resistances. They have to be capped and have to be all 75++%.

2. Check your flasks.

- Do you have antibleeding on one flask?
- Do you have autotriggered flasks like anti-bleeding "used when you use a travel skill" on the quicksilver-flask or on other flaks "used when you charges reach full"?
- anti-ignite before you got immunities on boots and anti-curse without purifying flame/bottled faith?
- Is the quality of all your flasks 20%? With flasks charges gained when hit?

3. Check your pantheon.

- Do you have in the minor Pantheon and immunity to burning ground?
As CI it's most important to recharge your es. Max the Pantheons with divine vessels in the maps.

4. Check your blockings.

- Do you have max 60-75% spellblock? When not you need blockings on Rumi's concotion?
It's your priority for recovery against the spellhits of the big bosses!
Against final bosses it's best not depending on Rumi's Flask and use a rare granite flask including "charges gain when hit"!
- Do you have 40% attackblock and high 60% evasion of grace? Or without grace 60% attackblock?

5. Other basics

- Do you use and spam Molten Shell and Vaal Discipline? Use them often!
- Do you have 4 ascendancies in the labyrinths done?
- Don't use cast when stunned in combination with bastion of hope
- Do you have activated all the auras "Determination" for high ar and es on block-recovery and "Grace", "Discipline"?

6. Do you have obtained all the important jewels in the passive tree?

- Do you already use 'the melding of the flesh'?
It's since [3.18] meta to max resistances to 85%-90%!
Focus on resis to use early this central jewel for tankyness.

- Use "the golden rule" not before transformed to CI (or before CI not without "maw of the conquest")
- Do you have "corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" on one implicit on one jewel? A lot bosses can kill you very fast without.

7. Check your tanky skills

While your defensive skill gems like determination, molten shell, frost shield, (vaal) discipline, grace etc. are levelling up, you will get a lot more defense with raising levels of course. When you have too much too weak lvl 1 gems socketed on your gear it is dangerous and you have to level them a bit before returning in high content.

- Do you use "Divergent": Frost Shield, Sniper's mark etc. for some divergent tanky effects?

- Do you have enough mana, 80-110, so that all tanky skills are triggered?

8. Do you often die of ailments?

Please take a look in the spoiler: "fire and other ailments" to reach 100% ailments-immunities with eldritch-boots.
Visit also "Pantheon". Use fast the shield anti-ailments-mastery.

9. Check your Es

You need total minimum around 4000 to 6000 energyshield for all content. Estimated and thumbed. In my experiences. Try to get more to get more reaction time in damage-peaks!
With 90 % pdr you will never be oneshotted and when there are blockable hits, you will get healed fast and nonstop.

Collecting more damage-avoidances, +max-resis and building up more layers of defences is finally much better!

■ When your defences, auras and armour are builded up, 6k es are enough.
■■ With crit-reductions of sanctum of thoughts and full solaris-pantheon path 5.5 k es
■■■ With 100% ailment-immunities and 70% spellblock 5 k es are great.
■■■■ With "melding of the flesh" 87 % all maxresis 4.5 k es are fine top tanky.
■■■■■ With mageblood 3.5 - 4 k es guard you in immortality

■ "Unnatural calm" (300 es), "Insightfulness", rare gloves (300-600) or the jewel "split personality" with es/ dex/ int (200-300) grant needed energy shield before you get it on other slots.

■ You should use beside elixier of the unbroken circle (400 es) /iron flask .

■ Don't forget your ascendancy Radiant Faith! The less unreserved manapoints you have, the more ES you get. You need only 80-110 unreserved mana points for skills and supports remaining. When you have more switch out reservation efficiencies.

■ Use more slots of energy shield and armour on your boots (150-250), belt (50) and jewels. Get high es-rolls on Eber's and aegis with 28-30 % quality (hillock, beastcraft, tainted armourer's scraps). When possible get some added es on cluster-transferpoints.

They multiply a lot, 3-4x, with your SoL and passives.

■ Or further exchange a large or also a medium cluster into defences with spellblockings, +max resis, ailments-immunities or +es like veteran defender, introspection, energy from naught, savour the moment. Often you find great unique medium megaclusters

10. Do you have problems with a special boss?

==》 Please take a look into "boss-hunting" in "endgame".

11. Know the dangerous map-mods:

■ "no mana recovery" (reroll or use enduring mana flask)
■ "less armour and block"


Much too much multiple mods mounted up like:

■ without melding of the flesh "reduced maximal resistances"
■ "reduced effect of auras", especially with purity of ice without overcapped cold-resistances
■ multiple damage/ vulnerabilities - mods

12. Know the dangerous Altars:

■ only before 90-100% ignite-immunities: searing exarch-altars
■ most exarchs' and eater's altar-mods are fast and rippy stacked to many 100's % additional damage. Choose first the chaos-mods as CI, the ailments-mods when you are 100% immune, with optimized melding of the flesh the elemental-mods, etc.
■ of course choices like -50% resis when you don't have 35% overcapped resis

13. Know the dangerous Atlas-passives:

■ Séance
■ Wrath of the cosmos

14. Know the dangerous Invitation-mods

■ In the mods "temporal chains" and "enemies have #% chance to avoid poison" you loose much damage because of reduced castspeed and less virulences.


15. Do you often die of dot/ degen?

Take in Wicked Ward.
When you reached 100% ailment-avoidances take in Lethe Shade.
Use a watcher's eye es on hit for much active recovery.
CwC Purifying flame or Bottled Faith are great tanky.

16. Visit the spoiler "endgame" ==》 "Level 100" to balance some skills into defences like frostwalls, enfeeble and more.

17. You could improve with forbidden flame and flesh and Hiero's sanctuary of thoughts ...

18. ... or do you have enough currency for better the best ..... for the meta-mageblood-belt?

The build is very complex.../ Where should I start?

Don't worry! The spoiler "TL;DR" shows everything needed for the build.

In endgame max your generated HoAg virulences to 60-80 with 80% poisonchance and castspeed and your HoAg-lvl to 31 with empower and awakened supports. For defences use 4-5 big auras and melding of the flesh for 87% resis, that's all.

Start to copy easy the tree-tabs equal to your lvl:

https://pastebin.com/PckSa20v

The spoilers and the pob are developed like toolboxes to fit into different levels, different budgets, different poe-content, individual playstyles, prefered skill-trigger etc..

Also without optimized gear the build is the tanky tank of the tanks.
All set-ups work great.
Don't worry when you miss some stats of the best-in-slot-gear.

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I don't sting enough damage

Check step by step in the spoiler "the composition of agony - the cocktail of damage" all 12 needed components I.) to XII.)

When you miss of them two, you often miss half the damage too.

Path early to the next medium cluster "pure agony", get HoA lvl 21, empower 4, awakened supports, storm burst, 85% poisonchance, 15 withers, 2 curses, the minion- and the +1 chaos-mastery.

Take also a look into the "checklist damage" for all ranked factors.

For the Ubers change the Aul to the Uul amulet, grace to enlighten, and use awakened unbound ailments.

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I don't have enough energy shield / I die very often

Take a look in the spoiler above "checklists defences" for all important layers of defences.
Focus on resis to use early the "melding of the flesh".

I need more dex / str / resis

Visit in "Balancing & Managing" the "Attributes Requirements".

Visit in "jewels" the "melding of the flesh".

Probably get on a large cluster the "veteran defender" or a "split personality"-jewel.

Insert early the next cluster for more useable cluster-transferpoints for more dex / str / resis.

Visit page 50 for the tailored tradelinks for clusters.


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Do you have some tipps for levelling and gearing?/ What are the prices for this build and gear?/ What are alternatives and lower budget-variations until getting the best gear?

Please scroll up in the build to the spoiler "Tipps for starting, levelling and gearing". In the pob's are levelling trees, items and skills included in separated tabs.

Take a look on page 50 of the thread for a complete list of gear with all poetradelinks and examples for prices and cheap variants:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/50

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I don't have enough Mana / My skills don't trigger / Can I use different socket-colours on the armour for the Herald / I cannot activate all auras:

Please take a look at all possibilities of mana-management in the spoilers:

1) spoiler: "Manamanager" ++ ----> "Manamaster"

2) spoiler "skills and trigger" --> "The dirty scorpion-tail" (manamultipliers of all HoA-supports)

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