[3.10] Herald of Agony Mana Guardian | 2.5 Minute Sirus 8 | Deathless T19 100% Delirium

Just wanted to share my experience of why I was dying in the past few days.

The only time I'd die is when I fight legion in a corrupted T16 with nasty mods and there's a lot of corrupting blood legion rares. I sometimes panic waste my flasks and well corrupting blood kills me from time to time.
Corrupting blood cannot be inflicted on you is mandatory for this build I think, when it comes to late game.

The cheapest option is to do it on a Tempered Spirit which you can get for 2-4 chaos uncorrupted, even 1c if you're lucky.

Took me about 15 jewels before I got one, and it was well worth it.

If anyone is done with their SKin of the Loyal / Lords with corrupted implicit "+1 to level of socketed gems" please pm me i'd like to buy it.

Actually lvl 94, got 11 800ES whitout watcher's eye. Running 3 auras without bots

Just swapped to Cyclopean Coil with rare boot (without Cannot be frozen actually)

Anything to change or must be upgrade ? (still need shaper's and Skin with +1)

Summon Skeleton Experiment (Thanks NSUCK for the inspiration)

I won't add this to the main page just yet, still feels weaker than Herald of Agony with equal gear.

Level 94 POB: https://pastebin.com/Jy36PS1x

You will need a 4 Red 2 Blue Skin of the Loyal, and Vaal Skeleton or Summon Skeleton, Melee Physical Damage, Multistrike, Ruthless, Empower and Minion Damage.

Very slight tweaks to the tree as we do not need the golden rule socket for this build, and we can pick up more minion life/damage/regeneration passives.

I believe Carnage and Host Chieftains with Blood Magic, Meat Shield and Minion Life are superior for this build as we lack ways to get frenzy charges otherwise. 75K health with 100% defensive AI from meat shield is not Stoneskin Flayer's 175K health, but should survive most contents and you are probably not going to deep delve with skeletons. For Sirus you can always switch back to Stoneskin Flayers.

Pros:

1) 475K per Skeleton x 11 is 5.2 million single target damage, more than double the damage of Herald of Agony's single target damage at equal gear level. However in practice I still feel Herald of Agony kills bosses considerably faster.

2) If you can afford a Vaal Skeleton level 21, it gives you one of the best big damage cooldown in the game.

3) 4 Red 2 Blue Skin of the Loyal, if you can get +2 to socketed duration gems corruption, or +1 to socketed gem corruption, is 25% MORE damage each, heaven forbid you get both. Many people are not aware of the power of +2 duration corruption, so you may be able to get one for cheap.

4) You will have 4000 more energy shield than Herald of Agony at equal gear level, as you will be able to use discipline, put Primal Spirit or Utmost Might on your amulet and with two rare rings to cap your resistance, you can add a lot more intelligence, strength, mana and energy shield. You also have far less mana reservation problems.

5) Skeletons are stronger vs Sirus, as you don't need to stack Virulence in phase 3 and can DPS him more consistently.

6) This build will be significantly cheaper, as Skin of Loyal is off meta color and you do not need to buy a very expensive Circle of Nostalgia.

Cons:

1) You have to choose between acceptable clear speed or single target. Switching to melee splash will reduce your damage by 30% per Skeleton and your single target boss damage really struggles.

2) Your clearing speed is still vastly inferior to Herald of Agony even with melee splash. You can't compete with full screen pierce.

3) It is debatable how easy/hard it is to get all 11 Skeletons to attack the same boss versus getting 40 consistent virulence stacks. Skeletons die very easily and when you re-summon you lose DPS.

I still believe the Herald of Agony build is stronger across more contents. However if you can get a cheap corrupted Skin of Loyal or if you are simply bored with Herald of Agony, it is a cheaper, fun alternative that is also easier with the Sirus encounter. I am hoping for a melee buff to take Skeletons (or Herald of Purity) over the top.

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Archaelies wrote:

If anyone is done with their SKin of the Loyal / Lords with corrupted implicit "+1 to level of socketed gems" please pm me i'd like to buy it.

I have an 2g/2b/2r I might consider selling since I'm messing around a bit with another char and won't need it on that one. Depends on what price though.

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Maarys wrote:

Actually lvl 94, got 11 800ES whitout watcher's eye. Running 3 auras without bots

Just swapped to Cyclopean Coil with rare boot (without Cannot be frozen actually)

Anything to change or must be upgrade ? (still need shaper's and Skin with +1)

Spoiler

Personally the first thing I'd do is work on getting at least some cannot be frozen boots and if you can afford it some that have that and cannot be chilled. They have some listed around 5-6ex or you can craft them yourself for about 3.5ex depending on your luck with getting the right boots to multimod.

There's some other tweaks you could make to mini max your gear better but running cannot be frozen / chilled really saved me from my main deaths. Once you do that you can switch over to Bastion of Hope as well and change your Pantheon to Lunaris with avoid chained projectiles.

Between the belt, boots, Bastion of Hope, and the Pantheon change it would make you immune to Chill, Freeze, Ignite, Shock, & Stun as well as greatly increasing your block and spell block chance.

Hey mates!

Can someone desecrate Flayers so I can rise em?
@DarkHelius for in game whisper and inv.

Thanks!

upd: got em, thanks.. can pm me if you need to, get to my ho and desecrate

Add me to the people who killed Sirus with this build. Really great guide. Also great discussion in the thread. I relied heavily on the initial guide as well as subsequent posts to get my kill.

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Mythrol1 wrote:

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Maarys wrote:

Actually lvl 94, got 11 800ES whitout watcher's eye. Running 3 auras without bots

Just swapped to Cyclopean Coil with rare boot (without Cannot be frozen actually)

Anything to change or must be upgrade ? (still need shaper's and Skin with +1)

Spoiler

Personally the first thing I'd do is work on getting at least some cannot be frozen boots and if you can afford it some that have that and cannot be chilled. They have some listed around 5-6ex or you can craft them yourself for about 3.5ex depending on your luck with getting the right boots to multimod.

There's some other tweaks you could make to mini max your gear better but running cannot be frozen / chilled really saved me from my main deaths. Once you do that you can switch over to Bastion of Hope as well and change your Pantheon to Lunaris with avoid chained projectiles.

Between the belt, boots, Bastion of Hope, and the Pantheon change it would make you immune to Chill, Freeze, Ignite, Shock, & Stun as well as greatly increasing your block and spell block chance.

So sweet thx for your answer ! i will try to find a good resistance boot with cannot be forzen & chilled.

About the mana reserve, are you only using 3 auras or are you able to run 4 auras ?

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Maarys wrote:

Actually lvl 94, got 11 800ES whitout watcher's eye. Running 3 auras without bots

Just swapped to Cyclopean Coil with rare boot (without Cannot be frozen actually)

Anything to change or must be upgrade ? (still need shaper's and Skin with +1)

Spoiler

Hey, man. Just wondering how you got the ring with so much resists. did you use catalyst orbs and craft it, or did you just simply buy on the market? thank you.