[3.24]The dirty Scorpion-tail 70-170M|Arachnophilia Allstars|Chaos-Necromancy|Herald of Agony CI

The Ultimate!

Immeasurable!

Indescribable!

With the new "Unholy might"-ascendancy the necromanter became THE alternative to templar! Let's sting, the scorpion raises!

60-80% more attackspeed for the Herald of Agony! 1% per virulence - WOOOOW, that is awesome!!

On top it's the far best scaling minion for the new unholy might-ascendancy beside as an immortal minion it's not affected by the 3.19 minions life- and defences-nerfs.


After the great buff to our defences and stacking of auras and our armour skin of the lords in [3.16] it is another next step into deep arachnophilia.



●●●● Balance manifesto ●●●●


A long manifesto arrived and it will need some time and the final patch notes to optimize the allstars. Overall a big buff hits us full for HoA-damage and -levels and a nerf to melding of the flesh walk in too. Perhaps a poison- or bleeding- HoA and different support-minions will be new variations!



New bone-minion-ring is anounced!

Minion damage possible on shields! New minion-wands interesting!

New +2 minion-gem-implicit-corruption on body armours or gloves - mmhmm, I still not gaze a possibility how it would replace skin of the lords 2x +2 levels all gems HoA+ empower or creates the possibilty of HoA-gloves. Lionseye vision-crusader-plate-armour +2 will be more interesting for clearing in high density.

For us most interesting:
Helmets can now roll +1–+2 to Level of all Minion Skill Gems - that is a big great variation to Eber's Unification and we get much more flexible in gearing! With crafting an eldritch-helmet we gain 12% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills and increased despair-effect. Top! Also the next tipping point Hoa-lvl 34 is in close sight and now arrives when we max the build! Benchcraft!

Phantasms buffed!

Spiders are nerfed -because we use them much more as utility to buff with withers and they deal only 15-20% of our total damage it will remain a strong possibility. Simply change unbound ailments to feeding frenzy... We loose a bit clearspeed or simply take in 11 phantasms as HoA-support in maps. No problem at all, but other set-ups with CIP, United in dreams, phantasms, spectral spirits turn more interesting, so we would get an open flask slot etc.

On the other side - with the removals of minion-poison-penalty it looks like it's in the end a small buff or only very tiny small nerf for arakaali's..... and last not least ... Arakaali's fang will be perhaps in leaguestart cheaper.

Haste buff - interesting, especially for melee cycloning with high virulences

New necro - ascendancy unholy might - HoA-witch becomes charming

Spirit offering changed into crits - very interesting, let's see, we can stack with ancient skull, minion mastery, vicious bites and gravepact or use simply flesh offering.

Minions poisoning, igniting and bleeding buffed great - very interesting. Let's wait for the patch-notes. It's already a buff to the vulnerability-curse (and also to despair) with divergent sniper's mark before using white triad grips. It offers in the end more damage and perhaps a bit more flexibilty on the gloves-slot. With the high HoA base damage and high ats scaling poisoning up looks most promising.

Reservation mastery nerf - We can compensate with an eldritch-helmet increased efficiencies-implicit or 1 passives more is needed somewhere else or we use one reservation mastery in total less. Going without "influence" will be one way. Probably/perhaps we balance into third large cluster to max up the big HoA-buff and use simply one clusterskill more for easy manamanagement or more easy a bit HoA-efficiencies of herald-efficienies-mastery "presage".
It's already now a great possibility to stack spell block on large clusters or bone offerings with mistress of sacrifice and to go without tempest shield - so not much will change, but auras were nerfed a bit with a bit lesser increased effects and other passives become more valuable.

Flasks charges gained when hit nerf - sh%$#@ of course mageblood becomes even wide further more b.i.s. and it fits perfect in the build. Overall the build is not flasks-depepending. Not a big problem.

Sniper's mark - no more flasks charges gained for writhing jar, we could compensate in minor ryslatha-pantheon against bosses without burning ground, let's see and we need to balance it out or improve our flask-management ingame. We are already in 100% ailments-immunities and lethe shade is a great keystone already used against ubers, so we can run on burning ground and change the pantheon.
Perhaps in the end spectral spirits and phantasms will take the spider's job or do we unite with Vorana's March's Arbalists? With the HoA buff are many new combinations possibel ...

Melding of the flesh - added max resistances penalty 4% - that is a 30% nerf, around 30% more elemental damage taken - in our build not the biggest problem because we use so many defensive layers and easy cap 75% real full spellblock.
Perhaps aegis aurora get cheaper in leaguestart again.

The variation apep's supremacy and/ or stacking some +max resistances with clusterskills like prismatic carapace and prismatic dance and impossible escape etc. is not too bad too.

The variation 100% spell suppression at our side of the tree got harder with hard decreasements on gear when I overlooked nothing? But it remains a possibility: 22% Instinct, 25% with an impossible escape and 4 passives (with "entrench" we would again get flask-charges for writhing jar), 15% watcher's eye with grace, 10-20% 1-2x elegant form, 10% quartz-flask... that is 82-92%. With the new rare helmet-suffixes and eldritch-implicits it's a nice choice to reach out.

No changes to aegis aurora, determination and molten shell.


+++ 60%-80% buffed attackspeed +++ Much flexibilty in gearing with new helmet-prefixes +2 lvl, HoA's next tipping point lvl 34 arrives! +++

Many legendary pieces were top buffed in 3.19 Lake of Kalandra.

While the new Rainbowstride boots and Heartbreaker-dagger bring in some advantages in times of levelling, the big buff of minion-poisoning without the downscaling before enables to max the sword "United in dreams". It's 60% chance to poison is like one half more HoA-support, millions more damage.

In wide open maps and areas the HoA develops full range and force without the spiders swarm of Arakaali's fang. And it's easy to scale doubled 30-40M damage in remaining 95% defences.

I added all infos in the build and on ghastly-jewels minion-poisonchance as prefered damage-stat.

I tested again hundreds of skills and supports to generate 70-90 HoA virulences by 85% poisonchance continuous singletarget.

Storm burst remains far best. I linked in faster casting by default for 50% better buffing es on hit with the watcher's eye's discipline-mod and/ or quality of life storm brands in maps.

And purifying flame is surprisingly another great channeled second skill. It's es-regeneration and curse-immunities synergizes great for the allstars too. It hits two times and reach full virulences in most situations.

After selling a b.i.s. Cold Iron Point and b.i.s. Lethe Shade Skin of the Lords in Standard I personally got first time hands on a mageblood belt.

So I drank all flasks and tried out many set-ups.

And I am still more trying out with much fun....

The buff is big with the 140% increased global defences of the build. You reach by default 100k armour and permament bleeding immunities are very relaxing. The increased movementspeed is so nice permament. Imba.

It's straight possible to change out Aul's uprising and fit in an Uul-Netol's amulet for 40% more damage with mageblood, presage on the tree and 2× circles of nostalgia. With United in dreams this set-up doubles damage to 40M and more and still remaining in infinitive ehp.

This is close to reaching Uber-Bosses farming-status in almost full tank-capacities.

Perhaps meta-ready.

As fifth unique flask I added an Ironflasks for the by SoL doubled 400 ward as strong alternative.

I added more large cluster alternatives so it's easy to get strong large clusters cheap and early.

I cleaned up and improved the clarity of the pob-skill-tab.

I developed in details some pob-trees.

Because the juggs and tricksters far not optimize their offrensives and set-ups until now I will perhaps publish the allstars build in these interesting tanky ascendancies at some time too.