Ziggy on Herald of Agony and Pathfinder:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

"most damage you receive is in enormous spikes"? Citation please.

This is his personal experience and he doesn't need any citations to share it.

go watch any HC streamers rip clips on twitch. lol

most deaths are things that can be avoided, but not reacted to - especially with slow moving life flasks. its why everyone and their mother uses instant life flasks.

things are getting better now since we have introductions like loreweave etc but this has been a topic for the past two years or w/e it was when they globally buffed mobs.

Funny. A large part of the rips I saw was because of getting stunlocked, moving too close to oneshot aoe boss attacks or failing to notice that they stood on desecrated ground or got corrupted blood on them. The former two can barely get reactively countered at all, you can only try to predict them and the latter two are EASILY dealt with using life flasks.

^ That is the whole point, you can also deal with corrupted blood and desecrate without a life flask, you use them as a stop gap for when you balls something up and have to recover faster than your normal build allows, if you are reliant on them you'll always fall short eventually.

Its a big part of why trappers sucked prior to the rework, no recovery? No hope

I can see some builds getting pretty strong with calamity setup.

Go high survival/minion nodes(if possible) on tree, use both the new heralds in calamity with with 4 support gems and you have a nice amount of minions to deal the damage while you hop around with near flask nodes/immunities keeping poison stacks up/culling etc.

I'm seriously thinking about a dominating blow, 80% poison from tree is enough, fast claws assassin,
with herald of agony and purity... get in some golems and spectres, it's a fucking zoo :D
Biggest army ever about to go wild

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Shagsbeard wrote:

"most damage you receive is in enormous spikes"? Citation please.

I'd say that's true in spirit but untrue in technical detail. The vast majority of damage you receive is not in enormous spikes in my experience, but that damage is almost totally non-threatening and unimportant. Almost all damage that in any way endangers you is received in enormous spikes.

PoE is just not a game where you die to attrition or depletion of resources in most cases unless you are just not paying attention. You die to one or a couple big hits in almost every case. Lab Traps and bleeds can be notable exceptions.

Arakali's Fang, Lycosidae, Herald of Agony, Spectral Throw, spider army go!

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Mythabril wrote:

Arakali's Fang, Lycosidae, Herald of Agony, Spectral Throw, arachnid army go!

Fixed.

Scorpions aren't spiders, but they are arachnids.

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Chrom wrote:

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Mythabril wrote:

Arakali's Fang, Lycosidae, Herald of Agony, Spectral Throw, arachnid army go!

Fixed.

Scorpions aren't spiders, but they are arachnids.

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other orders of organisms.[

To add Something to the Topic, I'm thinking about going poison reave assassin (or blade flurry), just to stack a few Poisons and let the minion clear or use Caustic Arrow with 60% Poison together with Mirage Archer and let our Crawler kill straglers with a powerfull Viper/Flurry/DS weaponswap for Bosses.