[3.24]The Arachnophobia Allstars|100% Chaos Guardian CI|The dirty Scorpion-tail|Herald of Agony 50M

The short edition

Get the key-gear

Get:

2 Circles of Nostalgia
Small clusters sublime form - uncompromising - self control
Aegis Aurora shield
Rumi's Concoction flask
Watcher's eye with es on hit
Graven's Secret belt
4-6 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Skin of the Lords /Loyals
90% manamultiplier helmet
Balance of terror jewel
Empower and Awakened HoA-supports

In endgame max 80% poisonchance and castspeed and your generated HoAg virulences to 60-80 with medium cluster "pure agony" and your HoAg-lvl to 32 with empower and awakened gems. Get chances to wither on a jewel balance of terror / glorious vanity.
For defences use 3-5 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": HoA-virulences
7. "jewels"
8. "checklist defences, /faq"
9. at page 50 you find all poe-tradelinks and budget-variations

Build up and balance your defences and damage


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

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

1.) Levelling (until t12 maps)

Get the cheap Rainbow Stride boots, the cheap Ghastly Theater shield, needed dex and resis on other gear and jewels and a 5 /6 link Body Armour.


2.) Starter Set-up

Begin easy to develop your manamanagement around lvl 70 with the 3 small clusterjewels "uncompromising", "self-control" and "sublime form".

With 2 circles of nostalgia, the 90% manamultiplier-helmet and the amulet-anoint you manage your mana to activate all big tanky auras.

When you reach on the tree 95-100% spell suppression and slot in well rolled flasks you are already geared for all content.



3.) Boss-Hunter 20 M 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:
Around lvl 90 arriving in the third large cluster to cap 70-75% spellblockings you max your defences and recovery with your belt and keystones and switch in more wanted jewels or small clusters.

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


4.) 100% Chaos-Conversion-Edition: The Highway to damage 20-50 M damage

Last lift off into full force in the elegancy of white triad grips and bear the Ashes of the Stars amulet.

The defences

This build reaches out to max the long row layers of defenses.
It stacks auras, armour, spell suppression, spell block and recovery.

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 wonderful the intensive full bath in the united composition of 4 keystones. Ghost Dance, Divine Shield, Zealoth's Oath, and Wicked Ward recover, regenerate and recharge in quadrophony. As back-up the graven's secret belt recoups all time.

Then this team of components begin massive to collaborate, lift off and impressive quintuple total 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- curses, 2000 ES recovery /sec with vaal discipline and wicked ward
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, 60% of elemental damage taken recouped
7-5% spellblock and 50% real fullblock with 100% dr, 75% dr of max. and optimized 5000 Molten Shell
8-9% max elemental resistances possible when you focus on tankyness
9-0% buffed evasion, 90% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 90-190 % additional movementspeed, unique 9-18M ehp
100 % Spell Suppression, 100% elemental ailment-immunities, 100% crit-immunities
110 % overcapped allresistances, ready for debuffs, scorch, elemental-degens and -equiliriumed maps
12 - 50 M shaper-damage

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.

We can facetank almost all bosses.


The damage

This build mixes a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities united. With tempestshield and autotriggered void spheres or storm brands the herald is autobombing, with poison half the damage is balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active casted with ranged storm bursts to tickle the crawling beast into fullspeed.

The Allstars stack unmatched flexibility with unending possibilities in the whole poe-system. The scorpion can utilize dozens skills and transform them into chaos-minion-damage of his crawling immortal dirty sting.
So the Herald of Agony is probably the most valuable poison-damage-trigger in whole poe for all fast hitting spells and skills.

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


Ascendancies__Guardian_Necro_Occu_Trickster_Pathfinder

DPS singletarget___3______1____2____4____2

DPS high density___3______2____1____3____2

Tankyness________1.5_____2____4____1___1.5

With mageblood____1_____1____2____1____1

Levelling Lvl 1-75___1_____1____3____1____2

Gearing Lvl 60-95___2_____3____3____1___1.5


Prices / Budget ----- Trickster is most cheap for high tankyness, Necro for damage, Guardian for the mix. Some differences in lategame (forbidden flesh and flame, league mechanics) hard to plan. -----


The charm of the choice: Guardian has great damage in high density with minion-mastery-unholy-might after kill, high nice es-regeneration, early full-blockings and easy levelling with the radiant crusade-minion.


Necro reaches the leading singletarget-boss-damage.

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


Pathfinder gets early an ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood and is free to choose the belt slot.

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

The Trickster grants an immortal mix of defensive layers and es-recharge, but don`t finalize top peak-damage. Able to choose flexible the boots-slot.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3477280

Occultist (in the pob of necro variation) is most squishy, but scales top clearspeed with profane bloom in high density. Occultist has the hardest difficulty with more needed investments to max tankyness and forbidden flame and flesh. Last choice when you want tankyness.

- 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!

Please visit page 474 for the History and development of the build, for the rankings and tipps of all poe-content.

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 and 447 of this thread:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25258235

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

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 and body-armour are high expensive in first days of league!
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 because the HoA scales top damage with medium clusters, curses and withers.

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 total defences: real fullblock, 100% ailment-immunities, 60-100k armour, 80% 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

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.
All minions are immortal - optimal for boss-hunting

Allrounder

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

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 clusters.

You will need your time and some know-how to balance in endgame each 4 levels your damage and clusters.

When you take the tanky nodes "only" 30 M singletarget pinnacle-dps. That is more than enough for all bosses. You will rush through the maps with your 190% added movement and 56 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 95.

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.

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! ----

Passive Tree, Path of Building

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

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Configurations PoB:

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.

Poisonchance and 4-9 medium clusters of "pure agony" are basic components to full up 60-90 virulences. Final place in the cherry jewel the golden rule.


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

20% HoAg-buff
25% 2 passives serpentine spellslinger
25% 2 passives fatal toxins
20% curse mastery (whispers of doom: use 2 curses despair and temporal chains or sniper's mark)
40% 8 tattoos of the tawhoa shaman

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.

Limit it to lvl 2, quality 20.

storm burst (lvl 2, qu 20) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) + power charges on crit (lvl 20) + ball lightning of static (lvl 20, qu 0)

Increased castspeed, increased aoe and increased duration stack the virulences faster up with lowered delay.

+ storm burst (bursting orbs hit more often)
+ 15-30% castspeed flask-suffix
+ increased aoe implicit / or harvestcraft on weapon
+ 20-40% onslaught-flask / ring-implicit


Alternative increasements:



Check the counter in the storm burst icon. 8-12 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 of peltin'stack virulences beside.

==》 You choose the best virulence-skill-generators in "skills & trigger".

IV.)With the jewel "the golden rule" you double with self-poisoning your stacking of virulences.


■ Full Agony ■

V.) Insert soon and as early as possible max 6-10x medium clusters "pure agony".

They are our leaders for damage.

VI.) Check the counter in the green HoAg-Aura-Icon for the needed continuous 60-90 virulences-stacks singletarget.

Alternative check in pob the hit rate of poison stacks of your combined fullchannelled skills storm burst and ball-lightning of static without increased poison-durations. Double them manually for the golden rule. Or compare the 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 heavy with gemlevels, awakened supports and empower.

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

+1 ashes of the stars

+ awakened vicious projectiles
+ against endgame-bosses vile toxin
/ in other content dungeons: pierce or returning projectiles
/ high budget: awakened fork

Alternative increasements:




■ Withers ■

VIII.) 11-15 wither debuffs almost double the damage:

■ withering step (- increased duration) (11 withers)
(+ashes of the stars 15, +enhance 15, increased duration support possible)
■ jewel balance of terror despair-mod: "inflict withered ..." + selfcast despair (15)


Alternatives




■ 2 Curses ■

despair + temporal chains (or sniper's mark with returning projectiles support for 10 more splitting oneshots) 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.) Farm more voices-clusters for more medium clusters with "pure agony".


■ More Poison ■

XII.) On more stacked ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit" in the tree you scale damage further up.


■ Bonus ■

The +1 chaos mastery "corruption" buffs damage best when used. Further large chaosclusters and the jewels amanamu's gaze and rational doctrine add nice damage.

The flasks bottled faith (in combination with Zealot's Oath keystone) or vessel of vinktar scale some extra damage up.

Vaal skeletons or chaos golem of the horde featuring feeding frenzy or the auras malevolence or precision activated instead grace or a third and fourth curse fitted in are buffing the damage too.

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


Harvestcraft or get the implicit Increased AoE on the weapon to stormburst some 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.

100% increased global defences buff perfect further your auras and your granite, jade, iron and basalt flasks and as results following the effects of aegis aurora's 2% of armour as es on block, of ghost dance, of divine shield and maximize last on top the capacities of molten shell and frost shield.

All Gems have to be corrupted!


--- The Keystones ---

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




This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:






2 Circles of Nostalgia






Upgrades with catalysts



Ashes, 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





Balance of Terror / or Glorious Vanity




The Watcher's Eye




2-5 Ghastly jewels


Ancestral vision / Storm shroud / Elegant form




Split Personality - es + str/dex




Amanamu's Gaze



Alternative jewels: Forbidden Flame and Flesh / Brutal Restraint/ Thread of Hope / Melding of the flesh etc.

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

High resistances (you can change them with your harvest-craft-bench) and needed Attr are great added on every clustertransfer.

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



==》 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

The following Tattoos can fix easy needed stats into your set-up to switch passives on the tree and stats on your gear.


Best-in-slot Tattoos

Tattoo of the Tawhoa Shaman: 5% to poison on hit to switch out passives of fatal toxins

Journey Tattoos of the Soul: +40 es, useable 5x

Tattoo of the Ramako Shaman: +2% chance to suppress spell damage - awesome to use a different keystone instead magebane on skin of the Lords, 5x-7x used, and to use rare pure es-based boots instead ev/es-based boots

Your flasks need a lot of love in endgame.
Invest maximal into their charges of your defences.
Armour, Evasion and Ward are doubled by Skin of the Lords.

In maps and high density unique flasks are often the best choice.
In long boss fights against Ubers rare flasks with prefixes like charges gain when hit are ordinary the better selection.

Utility-flasks

1) A Granite/ Rumi's concoction flask is the first choice.

2) Before you've got a source of full 15 withers and before you maxed the minor pantheon of abberath, Sin's Rebirth is highly recommended.

3) Until you finalize 100% spellsupression on other spots a Quartz-flask / Soul ripper is well supporting.

4) More tankyness with a Basaltflask follows next.

Unique flasks


We need mandatory the suffix:

1) Always first one flask with stop- and antibleeding.
Versus corrupted-blood take also permament immunity on a jewel's implicit.

And more...

Rare elemental and basalt-flasks against bosses


Prefixes


Quality

Get high flask-qualities. The vendors Hargan or Weylam in Sarn etc. sell 1 glasblower bauble for cheap 8 blacksmith's whetstones. Last use vaal orbs for the chance of best increased +30% flask-qualities.

Trigger

Use instilling orbs and your crafting bench to autotrigger your flasks "reused at end of this flask-effect", "when you become ignited", "when you start bleeding", and the ward-flask "when you hit an unique monster" etc. ...

Best for HoA-virulences while moving:

storm burst (lvl 2) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) - (with graven's secret:) power charge on crit + ball lightning of static (lvl 1)

Simply style

storm burst (lvl 1) - faster casting (lvl 20) - power charge on crit - chance to poison lvl 20

(+ regret some poisonchance on the tree)

Moving melee style

cyclone (lvl1)- (awakened) cast while channelling - blazing salvo (lvl1) - returning projectiles support

(+ use snipers mark as curse)








Cast while Channeling: Create your own styles

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





One Button - Lazy Style - Autotriggers



Other Trigger



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



Convocation



Auras



Tanky skills and Vaal skills



Curses and Withers



Movement



Level of gems



Free skill-sockets



Keybindings

Bandits: Alira / Lunch for the crawler



Ascendancy: Take them in this order and choose:



Pantheon:

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://pobb.in/PckSa20v


Speed-Levelling



Levelling and starting:

Maindamageskills Act 1-3 or until first minion-mastery



Of course you can switch to the slower HoA whenever you want.

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 brands (and void spheres or storm bursts too) you stack up virulences to raise your crawler and damage. You can move faster as with other skills and uninterrupted.

Throw your brands and orbs and just move on.

Storm brand (lvl1) - chance to poison - Storm burst - void sphere (lvl1)(lvl1)



Storm burst - cast while channelling - void sphere / storm brand / faster casting

Increase further the virulences and with them the damage of your HoA with more castspeed on a silverflasks and medium clusters for increased virulences.

The crawler

You can get the core-skills HoA, chance to poison support first time in end of act 3 in the library in the imperial gardens after completing the quest "A Fixture of Fate" by Siosa.

Support it with phantasms for much more damage-uptime and they will fight as your meatshields too!

Max always dex and HoA-lvl!

Use:

HoAg - Summon-Phantasms-Support - Minion damage - Vicious projectiles - Returning projectiles support - damage on full life

Get as fast as possible maximal skilllevels and 4 --> 5 --> 6 links for your mainskill.


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

Importance of order

Get as questrewards, by vendors and in trade, in the library etc. the skills and supports in order:

Poisonous concoction > Life on hit > Volley --> Greater Volley > Storm brand > Chance to poison > Herald of Agony > Withering Step > Shield charge > Phantasms-support > Minion damage > Returning Projectiles > Despair > Void sphere > Storm burst > Steelskin --> Cwdt - Immortal call > Vicious projectiles > Vile toxins > Determination > Tempestshield > Vaal skeletons > Temporal chains > Frost shield etc. .....

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





Act I-X levelling


Defences Act 1-10



Movement



Dex !!





Mana and auras



Clusters




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



Starting-Gear: Budget & Leaguestart


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Path on ...



Spiders, Speed and Withers




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% spellblockchance.

No later than now use the auras determination and (vaal) discipline. Change out your lifeflasks, hybridflasks and lifegear and -passives, with Granite and Basaltflask use molten shell now.

For more active es-recovery use leech-mastery ethereal feast with lvl 20 ball-lightning of static, lvl 20 tempestshield, lvl 20 storm burst and/or the es-leech support or a vessel of vinktar flask with the keystone ghost reaver or a sorrow of the divine-flask until you get an graven's secret, aegis aurora and a watcher's eyes with es on hit.

Take in the golden rule juwel for singletarget virulences and damage. Add Cast when stunned - frost shield as second guard skill for needed tankyness while lazy facetanking.
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 "ravenous horde" featuring unholy might in maps, the next minion chance to poison on ghastly jewels and when more is needed to the +1 chaos-mastery "corruption".

Attributes



Resistances



Fire and other ailments



75% Spellblock



Manamanager



Manamaster



Skillmanager



100% Spell Suppression



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


Tanky knockbacks and cc's

Push back the blind mob out of your frostshield.
Add in a tattoo or in your cwc-set Glascial Cascade. Nice stackings with temporal chains and hinderings on another tattoo.


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 tanky enfeeble.


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 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 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


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■ 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.


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 "malevolence" with "generosity-support" instead.

■ Balancing out tempestshield is well possible too. Get more spellblock on the tree and clusters.


Skills

■ Selfcasted Molten Shells, Vaal Molten Shells and 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. Vile toxins is the prefered support or awakened unbound ailments or predator.

■ Change out convocation too.

■ Selfcasted or triggered storm brands, firestorms - or 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

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

■ 20-30M damage should have been reached.

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

■ A chaos golem of maelstrom 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

Use in the last waves 27-30 a rubin-, or sapphire-, or topaz-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

Because much damage can be outsourced into clusters, abyss jewels and the minion-mastery unholy might after kill etc. the golden crawler retains easy 20M dps and much more in magic find gear.

Path 3 passives to presage and for influence/ sovereignity on the tree to change out the rings to magic find gear.

Use low manamultiplier like awakened unbound ailments and phantasms-support or stack more efficiencies on more clusters and path 'influence' on the tree.

I recommend to regear into mf in the order:

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

In fulljuiced maps 10M 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 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... ?

My own favourites is the dramatic playstyle of the scorpion, the stacking of high defences for the maximal damage-uptime, and the combinations of the skill 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 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, 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, triggered & channeled skills, league-mechanics, etc.
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 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 fullgeared 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.

In the end the top damage is scaled high especially with the medium clusters. Voices clusters can lift you to 50M and more damage with 80 virulences. Or bear the 7th link of amulet Uul Netov's Vow and The Squire to stitch Wraeclast into the ground in full 89M.

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-suffix?
- anti-ignite and anti-curse before you got removals in the ascendancy and immunities on gear and jewels or with purifying flame?
- Is the quality of all your flasks 25-30%? With flasks reduced charges used, charges gained when hit or longer duration?


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 flasks.
- Do you have 40% attackblock and high 60% evasion of grace? Or without grace 60% attackblock?

5. Other basics & playstyle

- Do you use and spam Molten Shell and Vaal Discipline? Use them often!
- Use often void sphere and convocation!
- Do you have 4 ascendancies in the labyrinths done?
- Do you have activated all the auras "Determination" for high ar and es on block-recovery and "Grace" and "Discipline"?
- Did you reached 100% spell suppression? Stack "elegant form" (or "untouchable" or "aerialist") on small and unique medium clusters to fix simultan your ailment avoidances until you obtained it on the watcher's eye, on tattoos, sol, etc.


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

- Do you have "corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" on one implicit on one jewel or 100% uptime flask? A lot bosses can kill you very fast without.

- Use "the golden rule" not before transformed to CI (or before CI not without "maw of the conquest")


7. Check your tanky skills

While your defensive skill gems like determination, molten shell, frost shield, (vaal) discipline, grace, cast when stunned 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.

- Use void sphere for tanky interruptions and much damage-uptime
- Or cast when damage taken lvl1 - frost wall lvl1
- Or curse with enfeeble instead temporal chains
- temporal rift can be one more panicbutton for recovery

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


8. Do you often die of dot/ degen?

Stack more Recovery:




9. 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.


10. Check your es

You need total minimum around 3500 energyshield + life for all content. Estimated and thumbed. In my experiences. In juiced t16 maps. 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 5.5 k are enough.
■■■■ With crit-reductions of the poison-mastery serpentine spellslinger path for 5 k
■■■ With 100% spell suppression 4.5 k are top tanky
■■ With 100% flasks-uptime 4 - 4.5k are great
■ With 100% ailment-immunities and 70% full spellblock 3.5k - 4k guard you in immortality

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

■ Use beside an elixier of the unbroken circle (+400 es) /iron flask and / or the dark seer +2 shadow sceptre (+700 es).

■ Get high es-rolls on Eber's and aegis with 28-30 % quality (hillock, beastcraft, tainted armourer's scraps). Stack more es-tattoos. When possible get some added es on cluster-transferpoints. They multiply a lot, 3x, with your SoL and passives.

■ Path passives in "influence" in the tree.

■ 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.


11. Do you have problems with a special boss?

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

12. 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:

■ "reduced effect of auras"
■ multiple damage / vulnerabilities / reduced maximal resistances - mods


13. Know the dangerous altars:

■ only before 90-100% ignite-immunities: searing exarch-altars
■ in lower levels: meteorits on flask-usage
■ 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 absorbation-charges of the graven's secret belt or melding of the flesh the elemental-mods, etc.
■ of course choices like -50% resis when you don't have 35% overcapped resis


14. Know the dangerous atlas-passives:

■ Séance
■ Wrath of the cosmos


15. Know also the safety-atlas-wheels:

■ + max-resis with the delve-note "Packed with Energy"
■ the tanky shrine-effects in "Supplication" and "Syncretism"
■ the additional aura of Huck geared in Heist with "The dutiful Soldier"


16. 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.


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


18. When you want to take the total tanky road, you can squeeze in "the melding of the flesh" on top for 82-87% max-resis. Visit in "jewels" the "variations".


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


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


21. Remember

You need only 6-15M damage in juiced red maps!
So you can easy balance much capacities of the build into more defences whenever wanted.

Of course fast and high, ranged and autotriggered damage is almost equal to a deluxe-defensive layer too, because it prevents all your enemies from dealing damage to you.

And you will need in different poe-content to balance your damage and tankyness different.

In my experiences you can best choose your set-up around these preconditions to balance your build.

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, valdo-maps and simulacrums wave 30
■■■■■ 15M-30M for t17 and the Ubers

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

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

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

https://pastebin.com/PckSa20v

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 and 3-5 ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit.
In maps and high density the minion mastery ravenous horde or redemption with unholy might after kill (or in also in many league-mechanics like cruicible trees and affliction that which was taken jewels etc.) adds huge 40% more damage.


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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 ranked important layers of defences needed in juiced red maps.


I need more dex / str / resis

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

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: Balancing & Managing - Important Mechanics" ---->"Manamanager" ++ ----> "Manamaster"

2) spoiler: "Skills and Trigger" ----> "The dirty scorpion-tail" (manamultipliers of all HoA-supports)

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