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

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CarbotZergling123 wrote:

EHP is shown as infinite because the average recovery on block is high enough that it is functionally impossible for a normal monster to kill you, turn off the show recovery on block or whatever its called option in the config portion of PoB to look for ehp improvements, however if you are getting onehit, you don't care about ehp you want more max hit. For this and many other builds ehp is a worthless indicator, what you want is as much max hit and as much recovery as you can possibly get.

Also your single biggest issue is just your generally low ES pool. 4k es will still see you get randomly onehit a lot, you want something like a phys max hit of 20kish to do sim without needing to worry about a onehit. The suppression wheels are only really going to help against some ubers and oftentimes suppress just won't be enough and your only option is to block or dodge. I'd recommend dropping most of the stuff on the right side and grabbing an es wheel + es mastery for a bunch more survivability and armor and es mastery for 10% less phys taken.

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CarbotZergling123 wrote:

Ghost dance is mostly just a little bit of a safety net for your build in that it will help keep your es up when you fail to block but don't get oneshot. Lethe shade is huge against degens but in general should not be allocated unless you are doing specific fights with degens as it has little use otherwise and can make any ailment you aren't immune to much worse to deal with. If at all possible I would recommend freeing up 4 points to take the left side of the chaos damage wheel over at witch and chaos mastery +1 chaos gems/lose 10% life on using chaos skill, its basically a free +1 to HoA and increased wither effect is a bonus to a damage multiplier that isn't very loaded. Wicked ward on this build is very nearly useless, recovery on block means that you should be basically always at full es in a dense environment, vaal discipline as the panic button does wicked wards job but vastly more reliably and longer when fighting a single dangerous enemy, its not far out of your way but it doesn't actually help the build that much since you still need to stop taking damage long enough to get the recovery started and then it offers a 4 second grace period in which your es recharge cannot be canceled by damage.

Also why are you running despair on hit gloves and the actual despair curse, from what I remember the despair on hit will functionally always override the cast curse so theres no real benefit to running it. If nothing else maybe swap it out for a golem? Lightning and Chaos are both pretty good options for this build and you wouldn't even need to change around socket colors. Or swap in temporal chains, since you appear to have whispers of doom allocated, temp chains got nerfed a lot in 3.22 but its still 25% more poison damage and a bit of enemies act slower.

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CarbotZergling123 wrote:

I am not actually certain on the exact breakpoints for efficiency on another cult-leader/pure agony cluster vs the wither wheel with +1 chaos mastery but it looks life you've already got +20 virulence from clusters, and the new quality is +5 as well iirc. 65 max virulence is incredibly difficult to sustain against a single target, 70 should be harder still if you even have a viable medium cluster socket for it. The wither wheel is going to be more reliable damage against single targets unless you can reliably sustain the increased virulences, which I am uncertain of, blazing salvo + returning projectiles hits a lot but I ran into issues using storm burst + woke CwC ball lightning w 100% poison chance not being enough to sustain more than 60 virulences reliably against a single target last league. Additionally there is the virulence effect breakpoint to consider, at level 31 the agony crawler attack speed bonus from each virulence increases, hitting that is worth significantly more than 5 more virulence and some increased minion damage. Your herald of agony is currently level (21 (gem) + 2 (lords) + 5 (empower) + 1 (woke minion damage)) 29, the chaos mastery is unfortunately not quite enough on its own to bring you to the increased aa speed breakpoint, have you considered swapping auls to a herald of agony replica dragonfang and anointing champion of the cause? With the res efficiency nerf to dragonfang in 3.23 it may not quite work allow you to stack all the auras aul's does anymore but it is a significant damage increase, you may however need to anoint champion of the cause instead of soul of steel to fit everything.

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CarbotZergling123 wrote:

Swap damage on full life for empower and get an awakened minion damage, herald of agony scales incredibly well with additional gem levels, especially if you do manage to hit level 31 where the attack speed per virulence increases. Additionally you need to cap your chance to poison in order to maintain high virulence against a single target, I do not think you currently have it capped (25% from herald of agony + 25% on the tree is only 50% chance to poison, running chance to poison support would help significantly but would require swapping gravens for a decent crystal belt and would reduce survivability vs ele damage a bit). Additionally you are running the wrong gloves, 6 link on your virulence stacker is not actually that useful unless you're using it to get chance to poison and run a CwC set up with power charge on crit for gravens. You will deal massively more damage by swapping over to a 4x white socket triad grip to convert all of the agony crawler's damage to chaos. Additionally one of your nostalgias has the wrong mod, you do basically no damage, your chaos damage does not matter, instead get a second res efficiency/crawler damage circle. You should also take the left side of the chaos damage wheel near the top left of the tree and chaos mastery for +1 HoA levels, you are missing an enormous amount of damage from the increased wither effect and + gem level. Furthermore you did not cap your minion poison chance, three ghastly eye jewels totalling at least 40% chance to poison should significantly increase your dps.