Herald of Agony Cursebot 7 curses and up to 19 million dps for pushing Delves

Hi this guide will be shorter than my other ones, I am pressed for time right now. The build uses Rain of Arrows with Quill Rain to immediately curse entire screens of enemies from a distance, slowing them to a halt. This build is first and foremost intended for delving, but can do Uber Elder as well, despite the reduced curse effect, because the damage is still good enough.

THIS BUILD IS ABSOLUTELY NOT HARDCORE VIABLE. I repeat, it is intended for pushing Delves with a "don't get hit" strategy.

Agony Crawler builds suffer from a general lack of clear and damage since it is a one minion build. This build supplements this flaw in several ways.

1. Projectile Weakness curse allows infinite pierces
2. Profane Bloom (Occultist) applies when minions kill cursed enemies and is supported by gem links in Herald of Agony
3. Up to 11 Minion Jewels with Speed/Attack Speed modifiers to ensure the crawler is always in range and rapid firing, because its attack speed without HEAVY modification is a problem
4. Curses and EE to strip resists away. The Crawler uses Physical to Lightning and has Generosity linked with Hatred. (Potentially hatred effect rings as well) Almost all of the crawler's damage is elemental and can freeze/shock any rare it doesn't one shot in high delves
5. Reduced Accuracy, Immense slows, and boosted avoidance. After curses, the build has 95% Evade chance against non-unique enemies and slows non-uniques by 101% with Temporal Chains. It also takes close to a third of natural damage from non-on-death effects.
6. Automated Offerings and Desecrate
7. Cursing from Range
8. Crawler cannot miss from Poacher's Mark and gains frenzy charges.
9. Crawler has over 17% critical chance from Assassin's Mark and gains power charges taking the build to ~50% critical chance
10. Rain of arrows benefits from Quill Rain projectile speed and almost immediately curses everything. It has innate targeting built into it and splash, meaning everything is consistently cursed. There are two rain of arrow setups, what I do is hold down q and tap w and both go off in about a quarter of a second.

In short, the crawler strips around 150 cold resist and 200 lightning resist, pierces all targets, gains all relevant charges. It hits hard as fuck against Delve enemies.


So what's the catch?

This.


Anyway, the build still manages to rarely die to anything unless its a phased boss. (I think Core map with AOE is harder than Uber Elder for this build, the dude gets stunned/frozen FOREVER.) Uber Elder isn't that bad because the only mechanic which really glitches out from freezes/stuns is the portal phases. Yes, this build hits hard enough to freeze/stun basically everything and freezes against non-uniques will last forever from Temporal Chains. It requires a little finesse to do Uber Elder, but anyone who is experienced should be able to do it with relative ease.

I think this build could easily be the best curse bot build in the entire game. It allows the player to be immensely useful in party and do millions of damage. There are a few bottlenecks like convincing people to enchant Asenaths or using Fossils for TC effect, but it should still be fine as a league opener due to the large amount of uniques and jewels. (You can get resists on jewels with alts early.)

Anyway, I'm keeping my eyes peeled for passive tree/unique items/rare modifiers in the next update that will push this build even further beyond what it is now. Here's the POB link.

https://pastebin.com/KkJRQTTU

Current version for doing Uber Elder (Done with delves)

https://pastebin.com/rjuK7EHi

Currently I run Doedre's with resist corrupts and Headhunter because I have one. Early league that is obviously not an option and against bosses a rare is better. However, the additional speed and perks you can get from Headhunter make it a good option for delves. Apart from that there isn't much room for improvement/swaps in gear.

Asenaths chant automation is mandatory, you will die casting things. This build attacks like 8 times a second but has 0 cast speed. Casting sucks.

Grip of the council is a lot of damage and freeze.

All +curse items are pretty much fixed as each curse is around 20% more damage or provides vast utility. Windscreams increase the radius of curses applied in Asenaths.

A fire arrow quiver ensures EE can be applied with minimal investment.

Coming Calamity ensures 5% mana is left over for skill usage. This is plenty. +1 is huge but I still did Uber Elder without it as a test.

Quill Rain is the best bow and is dirt cheap. Buy the cards and chance it. Even the blind one I got was only 2 exalts.

Here is a screenshot of the tree to be used in the event of a tree update. Gear will still load in POB so that is fine as is.


Allocate CI for fungal layouts.

A final note:
Its kind of refreshing not giving a single fuck about life on gear after how much I min-maxed my Gladiator. And yes, I'm that dick who is going to leave shocked toggled. This build is ultimately for Delves and every rare which isn't one shot is nearly dead anyway after the first hit.

Don't do Hydra. It has like 80% poison avoidance.


Edit: Now that I have stopped pushing Delves (boredom) I allocated back a lot of life nodes and removed acrobatics so fewer on death mechanics constitute one shots.

Here are some videos, I will add more later.

750 Delves
https://youtu.be/rwRBHC9uZYs

Sextant T16 Map
https://youtu.be/Ex3t1twjir8

Forge of the Phoenix
https://youtu.be/ytQ6uKpkApo

Shaper
https://youtu.be/UqdHS2SAJME

Interesting a curse bot tat have offensive capability. Sign me up :) Upload a video pretty please.

A video would really help here. :)

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Here are two videos, I will be uploading more later.

https://youtu.be/Ex3t1twjir8

https://youtu.be/ytQ6uKpkApo

https://youtu.be/UqdHS2SAJME

Sure 80% less curse effect is bad, but curses still make the fight trivial. If 360p is the only available version, check back later. Youtube is slow at loading the 1080p versions.

Here's a video of what the build is designed for. The first zone is reduced curse effect, and as you can see its still not really a problem. The only trouble mod is enemies cannot be slowed.

https://youtu.be/rwRBHC9uZYs

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Rhaegar_G wrote:

Here's a video of what the build is designed for. The first zone is reduced curse effect, and as you can see its still not really a problem. The only trouble mod is enemies cannot be slowed.

https://youtu.be/rwRBHC9uZYs

What's the tree and setup for this version of the build, because unlike the 3K health listed in the first post, this version has a much more acceptable 5.1k Life + 1.3K ES.

gear pls

How about delve bosses? Found it hard to do delve 500 bosses on my blade vortex occultist.

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Adambjjoz wrote:

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Rhaegar_G wrote:

Here's a video of what the build is designed for. The first zone is reduced curse effect, and as you can see its still not really a problem. The only trouble mod is enemies cannot be slowed.

https://youtu.be/rwRBHC9uZYs

What's the tree and setup for this version of the build, because unlike the 3K health listed in the first post, this version has a much more acceptable 5.1k Life + 1.3K ES.

If you want to push delves 3k/5k makes close to 0 difference and its better to have acrobatics and significantly more damage to one shot rares.

However, since I decided to do some more leveling I allocated more life nodes and I'll be leveling to 95.

My profile will not be private until the start of next league, so feel free to make use of POB's import feature.

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liquidSG wrote:

How about delve bosses? Found it hard to do delve 500 bosses on my blade vortex occultist.

Bosses are going to require pretty much perfect mechanical play to do after about 600, so I don't bother doing them on this character anymore.