[3.24] Herald of Agony CI - The dirty Scorpion-tail| Inbuilt Mageblood|Poison-Minion-Pathfinder 59M

(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.)

3.24

In [3.24] Hoapolis the returning tattoos will free up full geared around 8 passivepoints and the keystone on skin of the lords. Some spell suppression notes and Chance to poison can be switched out. B.i.s. geared 11-14 passives will be free to spend.

Nice possibilities to path instead are the +1 chaos-mastery for damage, or ethereal feast for es-leech (with ball lightning of static lvl 20, quality 0) and recovery, or sovereignity for easy mana-management and free to choose amulet-anoint.

The allstars will also stack around 20% more ehp with es on tattoos in the build.

With corrupting flasks for 30% quality cheaper and faster 100% flask-uptime is obtained.

With the new sapphire flask (+5-10 % increased max cold-resi) the synergies of aegis aurora and melding of the flesh become again much more valuable. 90% all max resis are fast reached.

The boot-slot will become flexible and can be switched out to 10% more damage or easy management with the rainbow stride-boots. In general some movementspeed will get in too.

Because the allstars travel much across int- and dex-notes and can get needed attributes easy on clustertransfers the build turns in 3.24 much more easy for all optimizations.

The necromancer get much substain with ghost reaver and es-leech when wanted.

The pathfinder get more easy 100% flask-uptime with some tattoos.

Capping attack block get possible too.

In rippy not to scip league-content and the new t17 map-mods the HoA-build defend with much more tanky defensive layers as other builds.

Crawling in the Crimsom Temple, red t16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hgtjDMpm4

With best greeting to all bosses - here The Allstars crawl!(Facetanking memory game II)
https://youtu.be/uZsTnP0_Xpc

Tanking Uber-shaper's slam etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25w1Mpw9ktA

Tanking Exarch, all spells and fire of 1000 suns:
https://youtu.be/GSLRVrEiXsA

Tanking sirus (with iron reflexes, tank his healbeams frontal, then they are healing best!)
https://youtu.be/0_B9-vYWo0Y

Maven x10 invitation

https://youtu.be/xxiNjKgYnrY

The Forgotten 31 seconds

https://youtu.be/Gk2SLZuF96k

Some Synthesis
https://youtu.be/_RyFERW3vks

"Stand still! Tank health!" (Maven)
https://youtu.be/wWMGeUmFeTE

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 budget, level and specialisations.

The short edition

The key-gear

Get:

2 Circles of Nostalgia
Small clusters sublime form - uncompromising - self control
Aegis Aurora
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
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. Get chances to wither on a jewel balance of terror / glorious vanity or as pathfinder in the ascendancy.
For defences get 3.5k es, 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": HoA-virulences
7. "jewels"
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

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, tempestshield 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 clusters, and a 5 /6 link Body Armour.


2.) Starter Set-up

Begin easy to develop your manamanagement around lvl 80 with the 3 small clusterjewels "uncompromising", "self-control" and "sublime form".

With 2 circles of nostalgia, these 3 small clusters, charisma and / or sovereignity aura-reservation-efficiencies, and on top the 90% manamultiplier-helmet corruption 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 with 100% flask-uptime you are already geared for almost all content.

You can easy plug in more ghastly-abyss-jewels with minion chance to poison on hit, a minionmastery for unholy might or the +1 chaosmastery "corruption" for more damage when wanted.


3.) 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:
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 shaper-damage

Now lift off into full force in the elegancy of white triad grips and bear the Ashes of the Stars amulet.
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 50M shaper-damage.
Stacking 80-85 virulences 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.

A long time ago - the meta of herald-stackers

In the ancient leagues the Herald-minions were often scaled, stacked and supported with the aura hatred, the grips of the counsil, and the keystone elemental equilirium and these heraldstackers were often one of the meta-skills in [3.4] Delve and following.

Of course fast in [3.5] Betrayal league the multiple-crossover-damage-scaling of herald-stackers and in [3.7] Legion the HoA-virulences-damage and agony-uptime with cluster-notables were deep, dark and bitter nerfed by 40%. Merciless aegis aurora's es on block was halfed.


The Mana guardians

Finally as Mana Guardian the HoA-crawler caught the POE world by storm when POEDan took it to a whopping 1359 hardcore delve level in [3.7] Legion. He had something like 27K energy shield, 40K armor, and well over 1 million in Shaper DPS. In Metamorph league [3.9], the build was used again by Daser in SSFHC delve competition and he finished second place with 1071 depth with far less gear than Dan's 1085 depth Baron Zombie guardian.



The deep nerf

A second time in [3.10] Delirium the hammer swinged - another 30% nerf to HoA-damage was thrown out. The support-spectres as well as the animated guardian we're nerfed step by step and lost their former immortality from [3.13] Ritual league by league until [3.15] Expedition and even further sinking into the [3.19] Lake of Kalandra.


[3.13] The historic first Allstars-video "Endgame": Necropolis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3pKO3RIFo



The Arachnophobias and Arachnophilias

In [3.13] Ritual I introduced the new guide "The Arachnophobia Allstars" focussing much more on armour- and aura-stacking with more clusters and aul's uprising, with iron reflexes on Skin of the Lords, solely exclusive designed with immortal minions, with evasions of minion-blindings, with more curses and marks and withers, with maximal high supported spirit offering. I optimized the pathing and improved selection of clusters, skills and supports and almost 100% flasks-uptimes were reached before the famous belt mageblood was born. I combinated HoA with withering spiders of arakaali's fang. The build was designed as total tank and I reached in that times immortal 3k es /block stinging in 5M shaper-damage.


[3.13] Facetanking Sirus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl3572Zmsyk



So in [3.14] Ultimatum the HoA-allstars-guardian was popular again and No1-rank in the solo-leaderboards of the Guardian-leaderboards, No1 in the forum, and leading the arachnophobiatic dream-team of scorpions and spiders with arakaali's fang. HC lvl 100 Rank 1 was easy reached too.

In [3.15] Expedition the tipping level-points of HoA were buffed and lowered from lvl 31 down to lvl 29, enabling building in different weapons as the former almost meta +3 CIP or +2 triggerwands and different amulets.

[3.15] Infinitve* ehp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnteQs472d8






The big buff

One league later in [3.16] Scourge the damage of HoA-virulences was buffed around 25%. The new awakened gems were upgrading the HoA totally awesome too.

The auras determination and also grace as well as discipline were hard buffed in relation to stats on gear. Ghost dance and divine shield were introduced on the tree for Hybrids and CI's. Armour overall was huge buffed 50% against bigger hits.

With the nerfs of Glancing Blows, to the memory vault, to the blindings and blue nightmare the Allstars turned into the reformations of the full-block-editions.
Tempestshield was introduced and perfect fitting to skill the qualities of HoA as autobomber.

Balaar reached with HoA the new poe-record in speed-levelling.

In total the damage reached 90% more damage as one league before. 24M.





In [3.17] Astramentis / Siege of the Atlas managuardian leaderboard rank 1 was climbed again after 3 days.


Scaling up dps & qol, no hh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hgtjDMpm4


1M

In [3.18] Sentinel the keystone 1M views of arachnophilias was scored.
The new seventh digit dropped at 29. may 22.


Here the Allstars crawl! Facetanking the Maven's Memory Game:
https://youtu.be/Dv1MWYqWnYE


For science a pob-glascannon was optimized. 89.7 M shaper damage. In 150k ehp like common squishy other skeleton-mages-meta-minion-builds.


The crawler raises

In [3.19] Kalandra poisoning minions got buffed around 200%, and the King of Sting in the mix of 60% physical and 40% chaos-damage was full prepared to raise again into s-tier damage like the fast hitting SRS Summon Raging Spirits. The hexes temporal chains and despair were buffed imba into the top. 4w socketed triad grips became the one and only b.i.s. So cast-while-channelling trigger and setups were getting more and more interesting and were urgent needed two leagues later for 90 HoA-virulences. The beloved balls of lightning needed to be removed, the offerings too. In maps the minion-offence-mastery walked in with unholy might with 40% more damage - another step into 40M damage, without headhunter, without meta-expensive gear.

In [3.19] the Necro got the perfect 8th HoA-link-support deluxe with "unnatural strength" in her ascendancy, so I optimized and introduced the new HoA-Necro - The Arachnophilia Allstars.

Also in [3.19] the CI-Trickster was buffed extreme tanky, but I optimized the other ascendancies and waited until [3.23] to publish this new tank at last.

The necro raises - farming the delirium-dunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu8pbz5aTVE





In [3.21] Crucible the Pathfinder joined the Allstars-team with 30% more chaos-damage of withers and her easy 100% uptime of utility-flasks.


New defences

With some small buffs in the reservation-efficiencies and capacities and ressources of spell suppression moving from gear into the tree and the nerfings to the melding of the flesh-jewel and the Allstars' 89% max-resis and reacting to the ele-penetrations of most of the Ubers, the builds switched in it's 3th large cluster and into the 5th and 6th medium clusters and travelled into the eastern world of the tree into 100% spell suppression.

Recovery and substain needed to be fixed - and the graven's secret was detected.


100 virulences

In [3.23] Affliction the helmet-enchant and alternative skillqualities were nerfed and removed, on the other side default HoA-skill-quality and so in result the amulet ashes of the stars was very nice buffed.

Poisonous concoction was chosen as new best scaleable levellingskill. With the new quality to storm burst and the new ball lightning of static 90 and more virulences are reliable stacked in 0.3 sec and easy almost continuous triggered. The ball lightnings of static also enable now to build in on one skillsocket easy some es-leech beside the high es on hit with the known watcher's eye.

Now 100 HoA-virulences by default are in close reach first time.
Socketed into dialla's malefaction 120% increased HoA quality, +30 virulences, in total 115 virulences with 3 voices, as Necro with CIP 80M-pinnacle-damage, in them included 35.8 M by the poe-engine capped nice poison-dps-dot, already are crawled.


2M

And the next keystone of total combined 2M views will be counted in probably soon .....


[3.24] Necropolis - is the new meta-league of necros and minions coming in?

==> The History of all leagues and of the progress build and all former updates, are noted on page 474 of our longnecked arachnophobia neighbours:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/474

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 buffed 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 the 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, 1000 es/ sec recharge uninterrupted
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, 600 es /sec simultan active and passive autotriggered es-overleech
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, 100% flask-uptime
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

Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's crawling immortal s-tier ranged scorpion-minion. It's center is the sting of the Herald of Agony clearing 2-screen-wide.

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.

This build mixes a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities. 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 King of the sting

20 melee speedful spiders can add a wonderful aggressive style for shining clean screens in a arachnophobia dreamteam when wanted too in the variations. Double damagefractions of ranged and melee minions are possible. The dream-team of scorpions and spiders is possible!

With blinding and knockbacking minions and a lot millions more more damage with all damage-clusters the crawling dirty sting-king 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.

- Sorry, yes, it's true: These high specialized and in-depth Arachnophobia-Allstars-guides just right here in the official poe-forum reach easy 2.5x up to 25x multiplied damage and easy doubled 2x up to quintuppled 5x times more ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the casual-common builds of Aer0, Snolaz or Verlyna's on YouTube or in PoeVault.

- As jugg, champ, or scion you reach good tankyness but don't finalize top minion-damage and need more investments for HoA-virulences, castspeed, chaos-resis and the golden rule/ self-poisoning-immunities.
The charm of the pathfinding choice is the 100% flask-uptime, an early ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood, and her 100% spell-suppression has advantages against many Ubers.


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

- The Skin of the Lords almost doubles the effects of Granite, Jade and Ironflasks with global defences as pathfinder. And these buffs are again maxing the recovery of the aegis aurora-shield. The wither-capacities max up the 100% chaos-converted HoA-damage on top.



Ascendancies__Guardian_Necro_Occu_Trickster_Pathfinder

DPS singletarget___3______1____2____4____2

DPS high density___3______1____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 for Occu, league mechanics) hard to plan. -----

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

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.
Most easy to build in melding of the flesh for tanky 87% max-resis on top without mageblood.

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-tier peak-damage. Able to choose flexible the boots-slot.

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


Guardian has great damage in high density with minion-mastery-unholy-might (25% after kill) and high nice es-regenerations, early full blockings and easy levelling with the radiant crusade-minion, but is a slow bosser.

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

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/forbidden flame and flesh/resis/melding and castspeed/virulences. Last choice when you want tankyness.


HoT, HoP, HoI, HoA, HoAg

Herald of Ash is used simply as 7th link for fire- and ignite builds for faster mapping or as wormblaster-meme. Herald of Thunder is builded with self-damaging loops as autobomber specialized in mapping. Herald of purity was a long time sucessfull as tank and bosser too, both as guardian and as necro.

HoAg has huge range of attacks and in 5 - 10 - 35 - 105 piercing, splitting, forking and returning projectiles.

Enjoy full fast mapping with the shortlegged crawler in endgame and facetank bosses like U-Sirus, U-Cortex, U-Exarch. You reach 2-8x more ehp than most other minion- and herald-builds and in the offensive editions still as top tank 40M in 1.6 M ehp and up to 90M when focussing on damage. Let's sting!

Ordinary choose 2-4 content-mechanics and buff them as far as possible with all relating atlas-passives, scarabs and the map-device and travel across a bit map-substain beside.

In many YouTube Channels and -guides (like SnooBAE85, Grimro, Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Subtractem, etc.) farming strategies with optimized atlas-trees and juicing favoured maps are explained to maximize high synergies and more factors of currency-drops. Juice it full!


Atlas / Mapping 9/10


Pinnacle Bosses 8/10



Ultimatum 10/10


Abyss 10/10


Harvest 10/10


Einhar / Bestiary 10/10


Essences 10/10


Harbinger 10/10


Beyond 10/10


Delirium / Simulacrum 9/10


Blight 9/10


Legion 9/10


Expedition 9/10


Ubers 8/10


Delve 8/10


Ritual 8/10


Breach 8/10


Heist 8/10

Lab-Runner 8/10

(Movementspeed)



Alva / Incursion 7/10


Betrayal 6/10


Sanctum 6/10

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.
I recommend to level with poisonous concoction, toxic rain etc., see "tipps for levelling", when you are not very experienced with HoA and minions and a bit balancing and crafting.

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 3 keystones and aegis aurora
Top 1 total defences: mageblood happy hour inbuilded, real fullblock, 100% ailment-removals, 80k armour, 75% evasion, 1M ehp buffed against all damagetypes - with frostshield counted in even much, much more, 100% spellsuppression, 87% max resis on top possible when wanted. Is there any other build with these defence-capacities out there?


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- and poison-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.
I played pathfinder to lvl 100 and Trickster deathless in lvl 90-98 too.
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

Allrounder

Best fitting for simulacrums, delve, bossing, deliriums, logbooks, heists, blights etc.
Easy to balance and to specialize for individual content and goals.
Much space to play and vary with skills, passives, keystones, clusters, supports and gear 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.

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

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter!

Shield and armour are high expensive in the first days of last leagues! - but in starter- and budget-gear extreme fast already with cheap alternatives.
I recommend to level with caustic arrow, toxic rain e.g., see "tipps for levelling", when you are not experienced with HoA and minions and a bit balancing.

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-corruption 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.

As Pathfinder HC not recommended:

There are a few mobs (eg betrayal) which can remove flask-effects and one alva-architect attacks like you are Non-CI with his dot.
Go Pathfinder-HC only with extreme poe-experiences. Quin69 and many others already Had unmmerciful deaths.


Also without top-gear:

Large es/ block is most safe against poe's lags and disconnects, but you need a different flask-set-up as in soft-core.

HC lvl 100 reached in the guardian-ascendancy.

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.

Thanks to amnesiaCR / lifer0se on poeninjabuilds for a great cyclone - returning blazing salvo set-up, 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: key-items, progress
4. Introduction
5. GIF - facetank 2 minotauries

6. Videos

7. Countdown

8. Pro
9. Contra

10. GIF - Black Star 3 sec record / Oneshot Legion

11. Thanks & Greetings

12. Index / Navigation

13. Path of Building
13.1 Configuration PoB

14. List of all trading links page 50

15. Composition of damage

16. Gear (Panorama: all items)
17. Gear, Skills, Links
17.1. Gloves: generating virulences
17.3. Skin of the Lords keystones

18. Flasks and Sulphur
18.1 Granite/ Jade/ Basalt/ Ironflask, 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. The Watcher's Eye: ranking of mods
19.4. Split Personality: Attributes, ES
19.5. Ancestral Vision
19.6. Large clusters
19.7. Abyss jewels
19.8. Alternative jewels
19.9. Melding of the Flesh
etc.
19.11. Important medium Clusters and their ideal combinations


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 "Final Tree" and the item-tab "final items" and the skill-set-tab "final gems endgame"

https://pastebin.com/AjnUL1mf

https://pobb.in/AjnUL1mf


Path of Building


Combinate everytime the pob-tree with the pairing titled item-tab and the pairing skill-set-tab:

1) "Levelling" trees with item tab "Levelling items" and skill tab "Levelling skills"
2) "Final Trees" with the item tab "Final items" and the skill-tab "Final gems"

3) "Tanky" tree with the pairing "Tanky" item-tab (graven's secret belt, united in dreams weapon)
4) "HoA Lvl 34 - Damage - The Ubers"-tree with item tab ""HoA Lvl 34 - Damage - The Ubers" and skill-tab ""HoA Lvl 34 - Damage - The Ubers" (chaos golem of the maelstrom and feeding frenzy, no convocation, enlighten instead grace, etc.)


--- pob is sometimes calculating unreserved mana not correct - pob's manamanagement is tested and work ---- disable envy ----


Passive Tree, Path of Building


Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better many skills and ehp.

-----

Configurations PoB:

Configure HoA the tail-attack (in the leftside columne), 40-100 virulences, 15 withers, and 10-45 poison stacks on enemies (for calculating vile toxins) to get the correct dps.

Add / enable: minions are on full life, determination, grace, discipline enabled

If used count in: with the jewel rational doctrine: enemy is on "profane ground", phantasms 11x, physical projectiles.

Disable envy of the united in dreams-sword, it always activates after item-swaps.

For valuable comparing shaper-damage it is recommended to change pierce in the HoA-support to damage on full life-Support, or vile toxins, or marked predator, and when used on dagger arakaalis fang melee-splash to multistrike.

Further:



While mapping: 5 projectiles of the scorpion (with helmet enchant: 7) plus 4x 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. -----

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 lvl2, 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 / or onslaught 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', 'firestorm' or 'unearth' 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)
■ pathfinder ascendancy nature's reprisal + storm burst (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.) Use more voices-clusters for more medium clusters with "pure agony".

"Uul netol's vow"-amulet is scaling only a little bit further damage when wanted.


■ 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 a 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.


==》 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/24926597













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



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


Harvestcrafted quality increases AoE or with the implicit on the weapon to burst more HoA-virulences.

Alternatives:




Body Armour





--- The Keystones ---

Divine Shield - Iron Reflexes - Ghost dance - Lethe Shade - Magebane




This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:







2 Circles of Nostalgia






Upgrades with fertile catalysts



The Amulet - Uul & Aul





Anoint




Helmet





Gloves






Boots






Belt

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


The Golden Rule - golden damage



The Watcher's Eye



2-5 Ghastly jewels




Split Personality - es + str / dex / int




Ancestral vision / Stormshroud / Clusterjewel elegant form




Amanamu's Gaze





Alternative jewels: Thread of Hope / Rational Doctrine / Melding of the flesh / Unnatural instinct / Forbidden Flame and Flesh etc.

Exalt-slam the clusters when possible.

Needed Resis and Str/Attr are great added on every clustertransfer.

Some added Dex for Magebane or some Es is welcomed beside.

Resistances can be changed with your harvest-craft-bench for balancing from lightning into cold / fire.

6% efficiencies and 25% / 35% increased effect of small passives are on the small clusters often b.i.s. too.


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

Small Clusters Manamanagement


Pure Agony - pure damage

Medium clusters


Large Clusters

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

==> Stack some needed attributes like str on the cluster-transferpassives and visit the spoiler "attributes" in "important mechanics" for more possibilties.


Best-in-slot Tattoos


Tattoo of the Tawhoa Shaman: 5% to poison on hit to switch out 2 passives of fatal toxins

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

Tattoo of the Hinekora Warrior: 3% es

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

Journey Tattoo of the Mind: +30 to maximum Mana per Allocated Journey Tattoo of the Mind - equal to a little bit skill-efficiencies

Tattoo of the Valako Shieldbearer: +1% Chance to Block Attack Damage - stack it to the max for recovery with aegis aurora and Iron reflexes on skin of the lords, push out grace and ghost dance


Resistances

Tattoo of the Arohongui Moonwarden: +6% Cold Resistance, also interesting in combination with the jewel "the blue nightmare"

Tattoo of the Valako Stormrider: +6% Lightning Resistance, also interesting in combination with the jewel "the green nightmare"

Tattoo of the Ngamahu Firewalker: +6% Fire Resistance


Ailments

Tattoo of the Arohongui Scout: 10% avoid chill and freeze - great to reach easy 100% avoidances

Tattoo of the Ngamahu Shaman: 10% reduced ignite durations - 4x needed for 100% with the minor pantheon of abberath

Tattoo of the Kitava Rebel: 10% chance to avoid bleeding - in combination with bleeding-avoidances on ghastly jewels 100% can be reached


Utility

Tattoo of the Ramako Fleetfoot: 2% Movementspeed is always great

Tattoo of the Tawhoa Herbalist: 4% flaskdurations are everytime strong, especially as pathfinder


Crowd control cc, with our spells and stormbursts fast triggered:

Tattoo of the Tukohama Brawler: Knockbacks

Tattoo of the Tasalio Shaman: Hinders


Others

Tattoo of the Hinekora Shaman: 8% increased Mana Regeneration Rate - stack them to push out the passives of "mystic bulwark" when wanted

Flasks



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.

Because there are some mods with flask-effects-removals and -debuffs remaining, best and recommended is to get high ele-resis on the gear and clusters (a large cluster veteran defender, a second sublime form cluster, etc.) and utilize the flasks only for overcapped ele-resis.

We need mandatory the suffixes:

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

2) Es-leech "of draining" adds nice recovery with ball lightning of static lvl 20 and tempestshield.

3) Third increased castspeed buffs up with watcher's eye es on hit and mandatory stacks faster high HoA-virulences. Also an onslaught-flask is great for cast- and movementspeed.

4) The fourth effective flask-suffix is increased armour.

5) Added resistances to overcap resis or increased movementspeed are welcomed too.

Before you maxed the minor pantheon of abberath choosing ignite removals- and immunities are recommended. Curse-immunities, before you maxed your defensive layers, are interesting too.


Use instilling orbs and crafting bench to autotrigger your other flasks "reused at end of this flask-effect".

In lower levels autotrigger your flasks "when you become ignited" (ignites), "when you start bleeding" (bleeding), or the ward-flask "when you hit an unique monster ..." etc. .

To reach full permament 100% flask uptime you need mandatory:

■ the flask-mastery "careful conservationist"
■ just there also 1 passive 10% longer flask-duration
■ great are also the notables "spiked concoction" or "fasting" on a unique medium megacluster

■ 25%-30% quality of all flasks

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.

■ item lvl 83+ of the flasks
■ to craft the t1 flask-prefix of either:
- 38% increased duration best on: bismuth, sapphire, ruby, topaz, basalt, stibnite flasks
- 28% reduced charges used best on: basalt, quicksilver, silver, gold, iron flasks
- 47% increased charge recovery best on: granite, jade, quartz flasks

When you have problems reaching 100% flasks-uptime you need to add:

■ Stack some Tattoos of the Tawhoa Herbalist 4% flaskdurations
■ Alchemist Genius obtained with a brutal restraint-jewel or spiked concoction on a cluster
■ or more flask charges with "repleneshing remedies" next to "charisma"


- the flask-prefixes "Masochist's` / 'Flagellant's' / Sinner's " gain 2-4 charge when you are hit by an enemy" are also very valuable with Iron reflexeses or without evasion and in lower levels. Also blocked hits/ spellhits count as been "hit".

Because there are some mods removing and debuffing flasks-effects, best and recommended is to get high ele-resis on the gear and clusters and on a flask only utilized for overcapped ele-resis.

■ activate the flasks at the starting of a map

■ Swap unique flasks out for rares 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.


Use a sorrow of the divine-flask until you get an graven's secret, aegis aurora and a watcher's eyes with es in hit. The Sorrow of the Divine slowly regenerates around 60% es when needed against dot- and degen-damagetypes.



Elemental Flasks



Use always the elemental- and basalt flask against:

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


Special flasks

Bandits: Alira / Lunch for the crawler



Ascendancy: Take them in this order:



Pantheon:

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

Use minimum 80% chance to poison to get more HoA damage with maximal virulences like shown in the spoiler "composition of damage"

Ranged HoA-virulences

storm burst (lvl 2) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) - (with graven's secret:) power charge on crit + ball lightning of static (lvl 20, qu 0)

Channeled tornados of elemental turbulence or storm brands of indecision are nice fitting too.

Moving melee style

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







Create your own style - Cast while Channeling

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



Keybindings / Controls



Level and quality of gems



Alternate skills




Free skill-sockets

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/AjnUL1mf


Speed-Levelling



Levelling and starting:

Maindamageskills Act 1-3 or until first minion-mastery Ravenous Horde and first clusters



Of course you can switch to the slower HoA whenever you want. The Herald will get faster with the wither-ascendancy, the first minion-mastery Ravenous Horde and Unholy Might, as soon you get or craft clusters with pure agony, ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit, gemlevels and a weapon like CIP or United in Dreams.

Scorpions and Spirits, Maindamageskill, Act 3-10



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





Act I-X levelling


Defences Act 1-10



Movement



Dex !!




Follow your ascendancy in the labs.



Mana and auras



Clusters




__________________________________


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. Activate right now also the keystone "Zealoth's Oath" when you use life-reg and 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, regret the evasion-mastery for it. 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 needed the +1 chaos-mastery "corruption".

Fire and other ailments - Dot and recovery



100% Spell Suppression



Attributes, Mana, Es Requirements



Resistances



75% Spellblock



Manamanager



Manamaster



Skillmanager



Crafting Gear, Gems, Clusters

Level 100

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

You do not want to die in the levels 98 to 100 and to be honest - yes, the truth is that all mapmods, each altar and every boss is designed to detect your last Hidden vulnerabilities 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 gravity-effects and tanky triggered interruptions. Best lvl 1, quality 20. Good to selfcast or to link in cwdt.

Tanky cwc

Take tanky fFrostshield binded to cwc, cws or cwdt or Purifying flame in combination with Zealot's Oath for 5% es-regeneration and 50% curse-immunities.


Tanky Kkeystones, 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 and cc's

Push back the blind mob out of your frostshield.
Add in a tattoo for knockbacks or in your cwc-set Glascial Cascade. It synergizes and stacks great with temporal chains, with hinderings on a tattoo or also with chills and freezes.


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, 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.


Omens

Wear an Omen of Amelioration in your inventory.


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 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. Use flask-suffixes and pantheon for the immunities
■ you need corrupted blood immunities on a jewel/ the belt-jewel and in the Pantheon burning-gound-immunities against Sirus
■ you need 100% spell suppression
■ 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) you can change in lethe shade when you already reached 100% ailment-avoidances.


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 (or also the combination of flask taste of hate + belt graven's secret)

Damagetypes and more



■ 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 3% max-resis with the unique jewel "impossible escape" around Imbalanced guard are great.

■ More elemental damage-reductions flasks are possible too and even the "melding of the flesh" with purity of ice and aegis aurora and "winterprowler" on 2 small clusters for 85-89% max-resis.

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" or also "arctic armour" or "sigil of power" instead.


Skills

■ Selfcasting Molten Shell, Vaal Molten Shell and 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. Vile toxins is the prefered support or awakened unbound ailments or 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 - ball-lightnings
of static / or firestorm

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

■ 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-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





■ In some set-ups 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 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 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:

12-15M damage

100% ailments-immunities with Ancestral vision, eldritch boots and shield-mastery
Awakened cast while channeling lvl 5 (stun-immunities)
Aegis aurora
Corrupted Blood immunity
Watcher's eye es on hit

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.

Switching out the gear is extreme easy possibly in this build.

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, because the high defences are important for the 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.

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 (of static)/ + 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


Withers

15 withers of ascendancy and 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)


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