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

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Armisal wrote:

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Nephalon wrote:

Facetank everything is kinda out the window this league.. it seems.
I too startet with this build (budget) until I noticed that for all tankiness it has shitty sustain, and that one's crucial for facetanking.

Right now I got better sustain with cwc icestorm guardian that sits just short of 27k armor (75k with flasks, iron reflexes+ shaper's touch is quite strong with int stacking), and I still can't reliably facetank the metamorphs, though its getting better and works most of the time with flasks and vaal molten shell.

But the character is almost done and leaves little room to further scale damage. It's barely enough.... but struggling with incursions and failing most blights sucks.

You can facetank, I do, I don’t even flask or molten shell anymore. I carry Sirus 8 challenges and there are multiple people lying dead in the game (so double or triple boss life) and they watch the fight and laugh. I don’t even dodge the die fat beam and it either does no damage or 50% of my life tops.

This build has made me so lazy I don’t even flask, molten shell or move to avoid things. Only the biggest of the biggest I move - shaper beam and balls, shaper bullet hell, aul’s charge and super beam and big explosion, cortex’s spinning laser at the end and big explosion, sirus’s random fire on the ground and clouds, Uber atziri stuff, Vaal temple enraged girl’s rain. It’s usually won’t kill me but the follow up does.

Of course this only works if you got the gear, and yes it’s very very expensive. I’m on 19k ES with over capped res ~95-110, regen enchant on boots, time of need, 30k armor unbuffed.

I personally took discipline over flesh and stone as it was big spells killing me more than any physical attack. I don’t deep delve outside of aul and I spend most my time just carrying uber elders, Sirus 8 challenges, auls and cortex.

About sustain, well u need the health pool to be able to wait for all the regen to kick in, without it you can’t survive long enough for the 5 sec time of need or the gradual regen from other stuff.

Face tanking here is merely a gear check or a question of The deepness of your pockets or commitment to keep on investing and upgrading.

In regards to damage, yes it’s slow AF for mapping. My 5ex ground slam juggernaut clears faster but he struggled hard vs the boss and metamorph.

Vs boss and metamorph damage isn’t as high as other builds, I know there’s 40 mill shaper dps builds out there, mine gets to 5.5 mill shaper dps and it’s good enough to carry Sirus 8 with multiple people. Yes not the best and quite expensive to get here - you need L31 hoa and maxed gems and hatred with generosity and skitterbots or spider

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Dkdox wrote:

So I hit 40/40, probably calling it for league. I was wondering if i can get buyers for my cyclone variant build, currently over 5m DPS and around 20k ES. I also have clarity watchers, lethal pride with 5% str on Death Attunment and 30+ str on the dex node there.I also have Multiple 1% mana reserve unique required jewels along with max spell and attack block. Pretty much everything is trivial. Please send me a message if interested before I pull it apart and sell in pieces. Ty

Just updating this post, already received a few offers for certain pieces, still want to sell as a full set - also upgraded 2 new pieces.


THIS IS POB for anyone who wants to check end numbers etc,

https://pastebin.com/MtZJgz9N

Only adjustment is addition of lethal pride and +1 to hoa since its not showing in POB as 31.

How to craft +1 to minion skill AND +1 to spell skill wand? It is just typical convoking wand? I used many alter orbs and nothing good happened.

OK, so while some stuff can easil kill me (Phonenix, Minotaur, Shaper), Sirius is not one of those stuffs. Hes pretty trivial with this build. :-)

Is there a better leveling guide for this? I have no idea what to be using at level 29 and my damage output is very much lacking because of it.

For those that are wondering what upgrades to get next, here is the path I took:

1. Work on capping res to survive
2. Then work on getting L21 HoAg gem and L4 empower gem for dps
3. Then work on fitting in hatred, skitter - a cheaper option is hatred and aspect of the spider, see my earlier posts on spider vs skitter. More dps step.
4. Then, you aim for 15k ES as dps is high enough and you need thickness for the next step.
5. Then you aim for L31 HoAg by sacrificing the astramentis and losing ES. Massive dps gain here.
6. Then aim for as much ES and auras you can fit in to compensate for the loss of dps in the last step. All the mana reduce things come in here.
7. Then you go back to DPS with wand upgrades, higher levels of HoAg etc. You are at super end game here.

Now, here's the items I used on my journey:

Boots with massive resistances and %ES regen enchantment. The enchantment is very important for sustain and healing. Step 1.


My super high ES str stack belt. This thing results in higher ES than most hunter stygian vises. It took me a 20ex to find a belt better than this one. Step 4.


My perfect +1 amulet to replace the astramentis. It's got such high dex it's all you need for L20 HoAg requirement in one item. The added fire res, crafted ES%, annoited charisma, it's ready to go! Step 5.


I'm personally at step 7 now, and upgrades are very minor and expensive. e.g. 5ex for each 1% dps wand upgrade or 10ex for each ~100-200 more ES. But hey, being such a hard carry pays well and affords me enough to make these upgrades.

Got a +2 dagger last night and I was super excited to try cyclone/poison/fortify.

However I seem to have problem with single target poison application. It may be the lack of attack speed? Just curious if anyone else use Cyclone. Also doesn't seem to trigger socketed spells as fast as ball of lightning?

Cyclone feels really good, free fortify AND faster mapping because you are constantly moving forward while dealing damage.

Interesting build, tempted to try it out.

However no clue what passives to go for first since no leveling progress is visible in PoB and the guide doesn't mention it...

Or the pastbin linked in the OP doesn't match the current version of the game as the other link looks totally different.

Just a heads up for everyone who is playing this build.

You won't be res capped unless you put jewels in your tree to do so.

I use a 46% reduced mana reserved hoga ring so you don't need any +1% mana reserved jewels nor do you need conq potency if you have some luxury upgrades.

I do have a clarity watchers eye, +1 gloves. I have a level 4 enlighten but level 3 is technically better.

I'm only level 76 at the moment with 12.1k es with no grand spectrum. You won't be able to use it if you are going all uniques on your gear other than your weapon, 1 ring, and your boots.

You don't need reduced mana reserve on your helmet. I don't know why that is a thing in the first place. If you have this. You won't be able to get your mana reserved to a certain %.

You won't be able to see my lethal pride but I do have one that gives 20% armor, 10% intimidate on hit, 5% increased str on whispers of doom.

https://pastebin.com/4LVCTX9Q

this is my paste bin if you want to see it. I have 409 mana left with all my aura's. 19k armor, 96% fire res, 52% cold res, 64% lightning.

After a few levels I'll have cap res due to minion abyss jewels with 10-12% cold and lightning res and other modifiers.

Take into consideration of what I'm explaining before planning your build.

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gfuseking wrote:

Just a heads up for everyone who is playing this build.

You won't be res capped unless you put jewels in your tree to do so.

I use a 46% reduced mana reserved hoga ring so you don't need any +1% mana reserved jewels nor do you need conq potency if you have some luxury upgrades.

I do have a clarity watchers eye, +1 gloves. I have a level 4 enlighten but level 3 is technically better.

I'm only level 76 at the moment with 12.1k es with no grand spectrum. You won't be able to use it if you are going all uniques on your gear other than your weapon, 1 ring, and your boots.

You don't need reduced mana reserve on your helmet. I don't know why that is a thing in the first place. If you have this. You won't be able to get your mana reserved to a certain %.

You won't be able to see my lethal pride but I do have one that gives 20% armor, 10% intimidate on hit, 5% increased str on whispers of doom.

https://pastebin.com/4LVCTX9Q

this is my paste bin if you want to see it. I have 409 mana left with all my aura's. 19k armor, 96% fire res, 52% cold res, 64% lightning.

After a few levels I'll have cap res due to minion abyss jewels with 10-12% cold and lightning res and other modifiers.

Take into consideration of what I'm explaining before planning your build.

About the res thing that’s not true. With the given tree, and only having boots and 1 ring, you can just res cap. Prismatic catalysts help here. If you have rare belt or amulet you can get res on that and it makes it easier.