[3.9] Cyclone Summoner - Heralds of Agony and Purity, Summon Holy Relic - League starter

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KäptnSharky wrote:

You want to get as much %life from the tree as you can get. The "reduced mana cost from skills" is just an additional rather irrelevant bonus. Combat stamina wouldnt be entirely bad, but life regeneration from tree is less important than %life.

About "reduced mana reserved": As soon as you have "the coming calamity", it sets your mana reservation to fixed 45% per herald. So "reduced mana reserved" does not change anything at all. For leveling, unitl you have a calamity, it might be usefull of course. I would still just stick to the guide though.

Why do we want as much hp % as we can from the tree ?

So in the end I will be left with 10% of mana to use on cyclone, right ?

Thanks for answering :)

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kiteohatto wrote:

Why do we want as much hp % as we can from the tree ?

So in the end I will be left with 10% of mana to use on cyclone, right ?

Thanks for answering :)

High maximum life is very critical for not dying. % max life from the tree and flat max life on your gear are very important.

Yes, you will have 10% Mana left.

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KäptnSharky wrote:

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kiteohatto wrote:

Why do we want as much hp % as we can from the tree ?

So in the end I will be left with 10% of mana to use on cyclone, right ?

Thanks for answering :)

High maximum life is very critical for not dying. % max life from the tree and flat max life on your gear are very important.

Yes, you will have 10% Mana left.

Last question for now. I have 2 claws, 1 with 91% phys damage modifier and 1 with 50% and +14% attack speed.

Do the minions scale off my phys damage or i can safely npc the 90% phys and use the attack speed one ?

Posting to update on my experience with the build.

It's demolishing content. As soon as you get herald of agony with a cyclone with added poison, it's GG. The only times I've died this league so far is from syndicate content insta-gibbing me, and from the darkness in delve (granted I'm not too far into delve yet).

I've found that using this unique claw to be very useful for leveling. It frees up my cyclone to add faster attacks instead of added poison. While you only have 80% chance to poison (ish), you still hit reliably enough that I haven't noticed it in the 20 or so hours I've used the claw.

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kiteohatto wrote:

Do the minions scale off my phys damage or i can safely npc the 90% phys and use the attack speed one ?

Phys damage on your weapons does not affect minions at all.

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kiteohatto wrote:

Last question for now. I have 2 claws, 1 with 91% phys damage modifier and 1 with 50% and +14% attack speed.

Do the minions scale off my phys damage or i can safely npc the 90% phys and use the attack speed one ?

Phys damage on the claw is irrelevant - strongly recommend local attack speed modifier (the highest you can get on a mana gain on hit base) until your elder claw.

Thanks for that claw suggestion!
I got tabula rasa, should I run with herald of agony or purity until i can get my hands on a 5L suggested chest ?

I've tried both, but i can't decide.

I have poison chance jewels and that claw so the agony gets summoned quick as well.

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kiteohatto wrote:

Thanks for that claw suggestion!
I got tabula rasa, should I run with herald of agony or purity until i can get my hands on a 5L suggested chest ?

I've tried both, but i can't decide.

I have poison chance jewels and that claw so the agony gets summoned quick as well.

Agony for sure. Or you can use 4L Agony, 3L Purity (I think).

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systemplayerlost wrote:

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kiteohatto wrote:

Thanks for that claw suggestion!
I got tabula rasa, should I run with herald of agony or purity until i can get my hands on a 5L suggested chest ?

I've tried both, but i can't decide.

I have poison chance jewels and that claw so the agony gets summoned quick as well.

Agony for sure. Or you can use 4L Agony, 3L Purity (I think).

Cant use both due to them being 50% reserve each

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kiteohatto wrote:

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systemplayerlost wrote:

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kiteohatto wrote:

Thanks for that claw suggestion!
I got tabula rasa, should I run with herald of agony or purity until i can get my hands on a 5L suggested chest ?

I've tried both, but i can't decide.

I have poison chance jewels and that claw so the agony gets summoned quick as well.

Agony for sure. Or you can use 4L Agony, 3L Purity (I think).

Cant use both due to them being 50% reserve each

Assuming no Coming Calamity you can use the following at 88% reservation:

Herald of Agony-Minion Damage-Pierce-Vicious Projectiles

Herald of Purity-Minion Damage-Melee Physical Damage

So...these 2 dropped, which one do I equip ? Both look really strong.