[3.22] The dirty Scorpion-tail 46M |The Arachnophilia Allstars| Chaos-Necromancy| Herald of Agony CI

(Default allstars-set-up and gear in the clip: 5.3 k es, SoL ghostdance, 40k ar unbuffed, offensive clusters, offensive helmet and offensive gloves triad grips, around 18M damage, real full 60% spellblock unbuffed, no gb, +88% max resistances, no mageblood, no vaal skills, 100% all elemental-ailments-immunities, 1 elemental damagereduction flask up, molten shell up, divergent frost shield up.)

Maven x10 invitation

https://youtu.be/xxiNjKgYnrY

The Forgotten 31 seconds

https://youtu.be/Gk2SLZuF96k

Bonus: Facetanking all attacks of Uber Atziri:
https://youtu.be/rRgsoWWqAGQ

Tanking hunger's slam
https://youtu.be/z-s4GgDQuMM
https://youtu.be/t4nBLo_3CK8

Bonus: Minotaurier's suicide:
https://youtu.be/GZ-67dRx6cY



Occultist videos

Facetanker Herald of Agony & Phantasms vs Hydra

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAmLDd89hkk



Facetanker Herald of Agony & Phantasms vs Shaper

https://youtu.be/WUnxEPdNeY4?t=349


Facetanker Herald of Agony & Phantasms vs Baran

https://youtu.be/ZII0tU1zwSA?t=21


Facetanker Herald of Agony & Phantasms vs The Twisted

https://youtu.be/SbDGNSfuNRU?t=16

Monik390 facetanking Simulacrum wave 30:

https://youtu.be/S9m_ZbyPHvY

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

The shortest edition is:

Get:

Helmet + HoA-efficiencies-lab-enchant
Circle of Nostalgia
Aegis Aurora
Watcher's eye with es on hit
Balance of Terror or Glorious vanity for withers with transformed passive ritual shadows
4-6 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Skin of the Lords /Loyals
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 31 with empower and awakened gems. For defences get 4k es, melding of the flesh and 85% resis, 100% ailments-avoidances, spellblock and use 3-4 big defensive auras for infinitive ehp.

That's all.

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. far down at the total bottom of the build you find all poe-tradelinks and budget-variations in the last spoiler

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

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.

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 60% 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.

With 20 withering, blinding and knockbacking spiders and a lot millions more more damage with all damage-clusters it reaches millions more of damage than other herald-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, 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
75% spellblock and 60-70% real fullblock with 100% dr, 75% dr of max. and optimized 10000 Molten Shell
8-9% max elemental resistances
9-0% buffed evasion, 90% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 90-190 % additional movementspeed, unique 9-18M ehp
100 % Chaosresistance and 100% permament immunity against all elemental ailments
110 % overcapped allresistances, ready for debuffs, scorch, elemental-degens and -equiliriumed maps
12 - 89 M shaper-damage

The charm of the necromantic choice is "Unnatural Strength"/ Unholy Might Ascendancy to max up the top HoA-singletarget-damage of all ascendancies.

- As jugg, trickster, champ, raider or scion you reach good tankyness but don't finalize top minion-damage and need more investments for HoA-virulences, castspeed, chaos- and the golden rule/ self-poisoning-immunities.

- As necro, guardian or occu you can reach best damage (20M-100M). Necro scales the best in singletarget-damage, occu in high density and guardian best in tankyness.

Visit also our long necked neighbour old bros "The Arachnophobia Allstars":

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

Ascendancies__Guardian_Necro_Occu_Pathfinder

DPS singletarget___4______1____3___2

DPS high density___3______2____1___2

Tankyness_________1_____1.5___4___1

Levelling Lvl 1-75__1______1____3___2

Gearing Lvl 60-95__2______3____3___1


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Pro Necromancer and Guardian have in the end best tankyness in infinitive ehp.

Necro reach most singletarget-boss-damage, has most flexibility and some ups levelling.

Pathfinder gets early an ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood and her 100% spell-suppression has some advantages against many Ubers.

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

Guardian has great damage in high density with minion-mastery-unholy-might (25% after kill), but depends more on 5 minions/ allies for onslaught buff.

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

Occultist 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/resis/melding and castspeed/virulences.

Notes:
DPS high density Guardian / Occu with minion-mastery "unholy might buff"

Prices ---- equal by now, some differences in lategame (forbidden flesh and flame) hard to plan -----



- HoAg has huge range of attacks and 5-7 piercing projectiles. Enjoy full fast mapping with the shortlegged crawler in endgame. You reach 3-8x more ehp than most other witch-builds and in the offensive editions still as top tank 50M and up to 90M when focussing on 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 and bodyarmour are high expensive in the first days of last leagues! See "contra" just below! - but in starter- and budget-gear extreme fast already with cheap alternatives.

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

In end of first week in league often ranked first top 1 in the guardian-ascendancy soloplay, leaderboard of necromancers already archieved in week 2 of the first active league of the build!

Valuable, cheap and alternative gear for each slot.


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, 50-100k 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?


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 in the last spoiler at the buttom 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. The build and pob are in many spoilers designed like a toolbox. 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 solo-levelled necro deathless to 100 in full juiced red delirium-maps with increased-swarms and density of full buffed exarch-altars.
Earlier I played lvl100 guardian myself with t16 red maps, heists and deeper delve.
While most other builds go only for high damage and only 20-200k ehp, this build's focus on defences, enabling 1M - to inf* ehp and lvl 100 in all content.

Melee and ranged playstyle combined

Tank & Cast-style is definitiv more fun as kite & hide

All minions are immortal - optimal for boss-hunting

90% - 190% additional movementspeed fullgeared

Allrounder

Best fitting for simulacrums, sanctums, 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 slots.

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.

You have in a optimal build only 4 open bottle slots (1 is reserved for writhing jar) - when you don't use United in Dreams.

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

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

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

When you take the tanky nodes "only" 20 - 50 millions singletarget shaper-dps. That is more than enough for all bosses. You will rush through the maps with your 150% added movement and 42 mill. piercing and splitting mapping-damage. You have no downtimes of your damage because you are tank and you have both melee and ranged DD's. But sorry, you don't oneshot the Ubers and need some seconds more for Maven and Shaper.

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

In leaguestart often alternative 2c gear is needed in these and in the shield-slot because of pricefixers/ 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, but valuable, starter-gear-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 Dragonow for a very interesting boots-setup, to Zakk777 and helloicanseeu for jewel-alternatives, to Humtol for pob- and apep's-details, to mytrasher and elatycs for great spider and virulence skill-possibilties and to VahnNoa for perfect crafting-guides!

Thank you CLloyd0 and TrueEdge for tanktests and great & funny videos and to Betta-ah Gaming for great guides.

Thanks to 2rdd for alternative ele-dr with transcendence and to cdnza for upper pathing!
To erigol07 for arachnophil supports and more!

A lot thanks to Arkanis_Gath for best slot of hope!

Balaar created and pushed a perfect HoA speedracer!

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

1. Important Build-News
2. New Videos

3. TL;DR
4. Introduction
5. GIF - facetank 2 minotauries

6. Videos

7. Countdown

8. Pro
9. Contra

10. GIF - Oneshot Legion

11. Thanks & Greetings

12. Index / Navigation

13. Path of Building
13.1 Configuration PoB

14. Choose your edition - balance your defences and offensive
Progression of gear and levels

15. Gear (Panorama: all items)
16. List of all trading links page 50

17. Composition of damage

17. Gear, Skills, Links
17.1. Gloves: generating virulences
17.3. Skin of the Lords keystones

18. Flasks and Sulphur
18.1 Jade/ Basalt/ Graniteflask, triggers and suffixes
18.2 Bottled Faith against dot
18.3 Soul Ripper: spam Vaal Skills
18.4 Enduring mana flask
18.5 Alternative flasks


19. Jewels and Clusters

19.1. The Golden Rule: virulences
19.2. Pure agony
19.3. Thread of hope
19.4. Melding of the Flesh
19.5. Split Personality: ES
19.6. Forbidden Flame/ Flesh
19.7. The Watcher's Eye: ranking of mods
19.8. Large clusters
19.9. Belt jewel
19.10. Alternative jewels
19.11. Important Clusters and their ideal combinations
19.12. Bodyguards: knockbacks

20. Ascendancy, Bandits, Pantheon, Attributes Requirements
Advices for labyrinths

21. Tipps for: starting, levelling, leaguestart
21.1 Levelling
21.2 Leaguestart tipps
21.3 Gearing low budget

- Important Mechanics -

22. Fire and other ailments: Igniteresistance, 100% immunities
22.1 Other ailments: Freeze, Corrupted Blood, Dot

23.The dirty scorpion-tail: different socket-colours of bodyarmour, HoAg and damage, manamultipliers

24. Manamanager
24.1 Manamaster: + 16 more ways of skill-efficiencies

25. Skillmanager - 15 ways to free up skillsockets

26. Blizzard: How to raise the spiders, corpses, aoe
27. Crafting clusters, boots, gloves, jewels etc.

28. Controls / keybindings / movement:
Examples and triggers

- Endgame -

29. Level 100
Defensive skills, frostwall

30. Boss-Hunting - tipps
30.1 Long boss fights: Sirus, Shaper or Maven

31. Simulacrums

31. Specialisations and Individualisations
personal goals, leagues-content, belt headhunter & mageblood

32. checklists damage

33. checklist defences: When you die often: what stats to check

34. FAQ
34.1. Links for poewiki, path of building, poeninja

- Explanations / Variations / Informations -

35. 21 is only half of the truth: knockback and damagereduction of frostshield

36. Make Hatred, Not Grace: More damage
37. Don't panic: More Duration
38. Harry Potter Senior: Phantasms-support, Mass-Summoner
39. Pack of Purity | How to try Herald of Purity
40. Whispers of doom: 4 curses
41. Full Null and headhunting

42. What is this kind of language?

43. page 50: Updates / Changelog
44. ...Yippie... Let the spiders dance

Page 50 of the old*bro longneckneighbour "The Arachnophobia Allstars - Guardian CI" shows:

- Experiences of gamers with this build - Quotes and posts of users
- build-ratings
- ranking map- and invitation-mods
- blight maps
- hc / hardcore
- HoA vs HoA, HoA vs HoP other builds
- Fullblock vs Glancing blows
- More Videos
- Full Changelog
- etc.

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

PoB all Final trees + Levelling trees

Here we crawl:

Select the item-tab "final items"

https://pastebin.com/3bdCXXcq

https://pobb.in/3bdCXXcq

Path of Building



Combinate everytime the pob-tree with the pairing item-tab:



--- Build works also lowbudget with 60 virulences --- 9 - 50M pinnacle-boss-damage ---

--- pob is sometimes calculating unreserved mana not correct - pob's manamanagement is tested and work ---- disable envy ---- pob sometimes disables 20 spiders after gearswaps, then activate/ check them again / count them 20x ---- count in manually 11 phanatasms with "physical projectiles" when used


Passive Tree, Path of Building


Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better raise spiders and ehp.

-----

Configurations PoB:

Configure HoA the tail-attack, 40-85 virulences, 15 withers, and 10-45 poison stacks on enemies (for calculating vile toxins) to get the correct dps.

Add enemy is: Unholy might (new necro ascendancy), minion-mastery increased offerings (singletarget), minions are on full life, flesh or spirit or bone offering, grace, discipline enabled if used phantasms: 11x, physical projectiles.

For valuable comparing shaper-damage it is recommended to change melee-splash on dagger to multistrike and pierce on body armour to vile toxins or marked predator.

If used, add ignited (raze and pillage), bleeding (vulnerability), moving (knockback).

For even better calculation add the 10 % increased damage taken of shocked/ consentrated ground vessel of vinktar/ bottled faith.

While mapping: 5 projectiles of the scorpion (with helmet enchant: 7) plus anomalous 6x piercing the targets with pierce support, with awakened fork x7, up to 101 targets.

On all dps-calculations first the singletarget shaper-dps is stated and showed.

----- Because almost all builds stats and notes their aoe damage, cooldown-skills-damage, are counting in chaining-damage, cooldown buffs and full charged skills, maxed not permament supportbuffs, never possesed 10-mirrors pieces, mageblood and low-budget 100-divs vaal regalias as starting-gear, crit hits peakdamage, and a lot other not alltime-up permament standard-attack-damage, I decided also to not only mention alone the singletarget shaper-dps in the spoilers and added further factors about the total damage. -----

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 easy to develop your manamanagement around lvl 80.

With the HoAg-helmet enchant, 3 small clusters and an amulet for aura-reservation-efficiencies you manage 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 tempestshield to bone offering. When you reach 100% ailments-immunities with eldritch-boots you are already geared for almost all content.

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


2.) Boss-Hunter 70 Edition 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, bearing Uul's Netol's Vow amulet and wielding United in Dreams finalize against the last Ubers your 50M damage in still remaining full tankyness.


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

Boss-Hunter Edition 80 Fullblock

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 60-80 virulences. Final place in the cherry jewel the golden rule.


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 sniper's mark and despair)

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.

(divergent) storm burst (lvl 2) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) + faster casting (lvl 20) + (vaal) firestorm (lvl 1)

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

+40% more virulences with faster casting-support for stormburst
+ divergent storm burst
+ increased aoe harvestcraft/ implicit on 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', 'firestorm' or 'unearth' stack virulences beside.

==》 You choose the best virulence-skill-generators in the following spoiler "gear, skills, links" in the section "gloves".

IV.) Double with self-poisoning your stacking of virulences with 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 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)
■ weapon severed in sleep and HoA-phantasms-support
■ spelltotems - multiple totems - wither (15)
■ Anomalous Herald of Agony + Withering Touch support + Anomalous Pierce + (Returning) Anomalous Faster Projectiles

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

Alternatives




■ 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 in a darkness enthroned-belt and when wanted pathing for one more jewel-slot stacked 2-3 ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit".

You can also choose forbidden flesh and flame with void beacon or profane bloom for beautifull pop-aoe or use malevolence.


==》 For all important factors please head to the spoiler "checklist damage" at the bottom of the build.

==》 All gear poetrade-links, their b.i.s.-upgrades, alternatives and budget-variations and levelling-recommendations you find in the last spoiler at the buttom of the build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/24587360


Especially in wide open designed maps, areas and in arenas against bosses + ubers you reach leading damage with "United in Dreams".



United in Dreams / Severed in Sleep - 60% HoA poisonchance is since [3.19] a full buff to minions - best 25% more damage.

Severed in sleep, with HoA-phantasms-support in combination, grants easy full 15 withers in [3.21] Crucible.

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

Alternatives:




Body Armour





--- The Keystones ---

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




This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:







1-2 Circles of Nostalgia / Unset Ring






Upgrades with metamorph-catalysts



Uul & Aul - The Amulet





Anoint




Helmet





Gloves






Boots







Belt, Rings, Boots and belt-jewel

Free stats and suffixes

Simply styles

(divergent) storm burst (lvl 2) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) + faster casting (lvl 20) + (vaal) firestorm (lvl 1)







Cast while Channeling

Create your own style

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




Other Trigger



Convocation / Predator



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



One Button - Lazy Style



Auras



Tanky skills



Withers



Curses



Vaal skills



Movement



==》 Visit in "important mechanics" the spoiler "skillmanager" for 15 ways to free up a skillgemsocket when needed


Keybindings / Controls



Level of gems



Alternate Skillgem Qualities



Free skill-sockets

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


The Golden Rule - golden damage



Balance of Terror or Glorious Vanity - Withers



Ancestral vision



The Melding of the flesh



The Watcher's Eye



Belt jewel / 1-3 Ghastly jewels



Split Personality - es + dex




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

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.

Immunities and avoidances against ignites and freezes are before crafting/ getting eldritch boots nice too.

In the spoiler "Important mechanics" is a basic guide to craft clusterjewels.

Small Clusters Manamanagement



Pure Agony - pure damage

Medium clusters



Large Clusters

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.

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" to counter the tripple bleeding-damage while moving.
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 with watcher's eye es on hit and virulences. When you don't use anomalous purifying flame in the cwc-set-up or bottled faith, curse-immunities are, before you maxed your defences, sometimes 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 2-4 charge when you are hit by an enemy" are the best. Also blocked hits/ spellhits count as been "hit". They are mandatory for many charges in long-boss-fights, swap unique flasks out against bosses.


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.



Iron flasks are the perfect alternative of doubled +400 es in damagepeaks when you reached high evasion and blockings.

Use:

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

Special flasks

Bandits: Lunch for the crawler



Ascendancy: Take them in this order:



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/3bdCXXcq


Speed-Levelling

Balaar perfect organized the racing and pushed the HoAg to the new champion of speed-levelling!
[3.16] Scourge, act 10, all points + labs, 3:43 hours, starting duelist 1 minute, then templar. He made a golden and great video - totally awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPuDWeKqs6Q

Shaddrak wrote a fantastic thread about the crawler-speedrun:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3228456

Levelling and starting:

Maindamageskills Act 1-3

Flame wall, Summon Raging Spirits, Storm Brands and/ or Blight is the fast act 1- damage.

Always max your skillgem-levels!
Do not limit some gem-lvls 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 storm burst 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.


Storm brand - chance to poison - faster casting - Ball lightning

Cast some storm brands. When you want more damage and on bosses cast ball-lightnings / or storm burst too.
/ or inverse: Cast storm burst /or ball-lightnings, when you want to move in boss-fights cast 3x storm brands also.

Storm brand and Absolution are already available act 1, as reward after the quest "The Siren's Cadence".

You can get the core-skills HoA, chance to poison support and ball-lightnings 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 fight as your meatshield too!

Max always dex and HoA-lvl!

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.


When you start early with Herald of Agony, link your spellattack 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" and 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 cwdt vulnerability (or despair) and sniper's mark as curses.



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

Beside HoAG for ranged screencleaning Vaal skeletons or Vaal absolution are the recommended second skills for some burstdamage and are effective until around lvl 70.

Vaal skeletons - feeding frenzy - melee physical damage

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

You start the swarm in act 1 and can keep it up to act 8-10 or even in maps.
You selfcast or trigger them with arcanist brand etc.

Variation


You can skill carrion golem linked to "feeding frenzy" for another damagebuff.

At the bottom of this build you find the complete gear, variation and ranked tradelinks of levelling- and starter-gear.


Act I-III levelling with srs / absolution / flame wall / 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 ...



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% 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 Granite and Basaltflask use molten shell now. Take in the golden rule juwel for singletarget virulences and damage. Add Cast hen 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 +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



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 is designed to detect your last vulnerability and to kill you when you miss solely only one small defensive layer.

Start to check step by step the spoiler "checklist defences".


Further you can turn direction into more tankyness also with some skills.

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 casted when stun they are autoteiggered 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 or other skills. 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 on moving – your own movement will not be walled.
Withering step skills both into evasion and damage with instant withers.


Void sphere

Control the crowds with the gravity-effects and tanky triggered interruptions. Best lvl 1, phantasmal quality 20. Good to selfcast or to link in cwdt.


Tanky cwc

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


Tanky Bone Offering

Full attackblockings are best obtained with Bone Offering. With already high evasion your tankyness is buffed top into a never-get-hit-style. Also very nice to unskill tempestshield for another free skillslot and easy manamanagement. Unearth for corpses is best for some virulences or when prefered the better visual design of desecrate.


Tanky Keystones, tanky clusters

The Allstars stack so much damage that it is easy to switch some points, clusters etc. from offensive to defences, 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.


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 curse

Or you can turn in maps tanky enfeeble in your cws-links or on hit on gloves.


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. ;-)

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

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


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 allover penetrating and degenerating your resistances with oneshot-aoe's and deathly fast instant dot.
That means also you can do or counter ubers a bit better with 500M cast-on-death or other glascannon-skills and -builds. 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 will 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 it's probably most easy against Uber-Exarch, Uber-Shaper, Uber-Sirus, Uber-Cortex 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 should have geared the melding flesh and +max 85%, better +87-89% with impossible escape or winterprowler etc. all elemental resistances
■ 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".


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 b.i.s. against the spellhits of Maven and Exarch.

■ 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) change wicked ward to lethe shade when you already reached 100% ailment-avoidances.

■ 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 resis

Use:

■ A Rubin Flask against Exarch, Atziri
■ A Sapphire Flask against Shaper, Elder, Uber Elder, Aul
■ A Topaz-/ Vessel of Vinktar-flask against Eater of Worlds, Cortex, Maven
■ Stacked armour/ Granite/ Jade + Iron Reflexes /Basalt is great against shaper, u-elder

Damagetypes and more



Uber-Shaper, Uber-Eater: Spell Suppression




■ you don't need the anti-bleeding flask-suffix against shaper, sirus (only corrupting blood), exarch, cortex. Against by the maven-brain spawned bosses rng and only sometimes needed.
■ An increased castspeed flask-suffix increases virulences and stacks faster the Herald of Agony-damage

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

Auras

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

■ Selfcasting Molten Shell, Vaal Molten Shell and Divergent Frostshield 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 punishment. Switch out sniper's mark.

■ For HoA-virulences skill:
Storm burst - faster casting - awakened 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-dps beside the 30-40M peak-dps of storm burst).


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 or path to the curse-mastery "steeped into the profane".

■ against Uber Bosses or deep Aul 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 and resis.

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

■ Absolution, chaos golem or anomalous skeletons buffing feeding frenzy could 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: "Cleansing" of Uber-Exarch, "Hunger" of Uber-Eater, "Take this" of Uber-Maven
■ 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-dps beside the 20-40M peak-dps of storm burst).
■ PoE-bosses react very, very slow when they need to turn around.
Move every 2-3 seconds to the backside of the Uber.


More ...


Boss-Hunting: Sirus, Shaper, UE, Ueber-Atziri, Maven

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.

Recommended stats:

100% ailments-immunities or 40% overcapped resistances
12-15M damage
Awakened cast while channeling lvl 5
Aegis aurora
Corrupted Blood immunity

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 full optimizing auras, defences and keystones.

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, triggered & channeled 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 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 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
■ 12M 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 an 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 with


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

Unnatural Strength - Unholy might (4 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/ awakened fork (5M)

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)

Alternative Buffs

bottled faith, vessel of vinktar (each 1 M)
Feeding Frenzy-buff with absolution /chaos golem /anomalous vaal skeletons feeding frenzy (1.5M)
flesh offering (2M)
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 quicksilver-flask or on other flaks "used when you start bleeding"?
- anti-ignite and anti-curse before you got immunities on boots or with purifying flame?
- 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 and bone offering?
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!
- Use often phantasmal 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"?

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, 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.

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

- Try out phantasmal void sphere for tanky interruptions and much damage-uptime

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

8. Do you often die of dot/ degen?

Use a watcher's eye es on hit for much active recovery.
Take in Wicked Ward in combination with the ar /es-mastery by armour increased recharge.
When you reached 100% ailment-avoidances take in Lethe Shade.
CwC Purifying flame or Bottled Faith are great tanky.

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 4000 to 6000 energyshield 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 6 k es are enough.
■■ With crit-reductions of sanctum of thoughts and full solaris-pantheon path for 5.5 k es
■■■ With 100% ailment-immunities and 70% full 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), "Arcane focus" (300), the Es-travelling-passives at the witch starting point, "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.

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

■ 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.

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:

■ 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

13. 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

14. Know the dangerous Atlas-passives:

■ Séance
■ Wrath of the cosmos

15. 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.


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

17. ... 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/3bdCXXcq

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".

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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 the next spoiler 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 into the last spoiler of the build for a complete list of gear with all poetradelinks and examples for prices and cheap variants:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/24587360

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I don't have enough Mana / / My skills don't trigger / I cannot use all supports of HoA / 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 and -reductions 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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I cannot raise my spiders / have problems raising spiders.

In the spoiler "Important mechanics": "Wormphilia - raise your spiders" are all tipps.

2× desecrate, 1× writhing jar, 1 x storm burst, -brand or frostblink

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I am searching for a special information/ alternative/ What is Path of Building / Poe- Wikipedia / Poe-Ninja:

Explanations:




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Variations:





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Informations:

You can reduce / lower the item-filters.

To get cheaper, easier and more tradeoffers, open in the tradelinks the added filters of searching and delete, exchange, reduce, or also of course increase some added stats and filters manually.

Take/ change in some links manually "increased efficiency" instead former 3.15 "reduced reservations" instead former 3.13 "less mana reserved", GGG changes these stats all leagues, for: Rings, helmet enchant, jewel implicits, etc.


Index

1. Levelling gear lvl 1 - 75
2. GEAR ENDGAME (Lvl 40-100)
3. Flasks
4. Mandatory and important jewels
5. Skillgems lvl 21, Awakened Support-Gems, Alternate Skillgem Qualities
6. Small clusterjewels Manamanagement / Winter Prowler
7. Medium clusterjewels - Damage with Pure Agony
8. Large Clusterjewels with Spellblock, Veteran Defender, Voices etc.
9. More Variants gear
10. More Variants jewels
11. Oils



1. Levelling Gear lvl 1 - 75



2. GEAR ENDGAME (LVL 60 - 100)



3. Flasks


4. Mandatory and important jewels



5. Gems Level 21 (Damage), Awakened Gems (Damage), Anomalous/ Divergent Gems



6. Small Cluster jewels Manamanagement / Winter Prowler



7. Medium damageclusters, B.I.S. with Pure Agony



8. Large Clusterjewels with Spellblock / Veteran Defender / etc.



9. More Variants Gear:


10. More Variants Jewels



11. Oils