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

Don't do skelebuilds it very bad for mapping.

12/22 Update

Removed the Skeleton alternative build for now. I thought it was a decent alternative until I started doing more T16 blight and Alva temple, it is clearly not on the same planet in mapping speed compared to Herald of Agony with max frenzy charges and full screen damage. Honestly Herald of Agony's mapping speed with poacher's mark / hatred / generosity is very underrated. It really clears a full screen at a time if there is no walls!

More importantly I am not sure why but Herald of Agony seems to do WAY more single target boss damage as well, even in situations where boss is surrounded by all 11 Skeletons the health bar goes down WAY slower than Herald of Agony. And this is without crazy luxury upgrades like +2 herald of agony level wand or body armor.

I suspect this is because the agony crawler does a shotgun kind of spread? So while tail spike on paper is just 1.8 million shaper damage, the boss is getting hit by multiple projectiles? Coupled with 100% up time as an invulnerable minion, it is just so good.

If you really have problem with Awakener, it is still an alternative, but I think with your help I can add some Awakener tips instead. My apologies if you tried Skeletons and did not like it. It is a shame, I really wanted it to work because with discipline + emperor's mastery replacing golden rule + one extra INT/mana ring, I had 23k energy shield . . .

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lordaverage42 wrote:

I really think the variant of running bastion of hope + time of need and dropping unwavering crusade is worth a mention in the guide. I still feel like i'm absolutely destroying deathless uber elders and juiced up t16 maps (not to mention ~400 depth auls so far). Maybe unwavering crusade is good before you have everything nicely set up and dps isn't fully there but idk this just seems way better to me from when I first made the switch thanks to someones suggestion.

I am currently doing this and am much happier as I can now truly "facetank" most t16 juiced morph bosses even and still get away with my consistent 75%+ chance to block spell and attack damage. I don't even have agony lev 21 with empower 4 either, no bonus dmg ring too. 12k hp and I haven't died once from 90-93 while face tanking everything. I think the bonus the pride jewel gives is great for stacking with the reckless defense jewel also for another 8% block chance (I haven't even noticed the negatives from this jewel at all).

On another note, I think the breathstealer gloves are an excellent option for mapping as the map fills up with aura pods everywhere which give huge bonuses to allies and ourself, this makes metamorph mobs super easy as they go from full to 0 sometimes if increased damage or speed pod drop at the start of the fight.

Did sirus deathless level 6 today, I kept getting frozen and beamed over and over again but I was able to still survive because of all the tankyness and dodge (also the corrupted inflicted blood jewel is necessary).

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lordaverage42 wrote:

I really think the variant of running bastion of hope + time of need and dropping unwavering crusade is worth a mention in the guide. I still feel like i'm absolutely destroying deathless uber elders and juiced up t16 maps (not to mention ~400 depth auls so far). Maybe unwavering crusade is good before you have everything nicely set up and dps isn't fully there but idk this just seems way better to me from when I first made the switch thanks to someones suggestion.

It is almost 20% LESS damage vs stun immunity and 20% more spell block. It is totally up to you. I personally don't have a problem with stuns, if I do I can always take Brine King. More damage is just more enjoyable to play for me personally, especially with the damage sponge bosses in 3.9 . . .

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Jones27 wrote:

I had no money to empower, I got armor with 1 blue, 2 red, and 3 green.

" minion damage/ damage on full life/ maim/ herald of agony/and pierce "

Any suggestions for last green gem?

Vicious projectile.

The slight draw back to this is higher mana reservation, so you will need to finesse a bit more to squeeze in hatred/skitterbot later.

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cbaist4488 wrote:

Hey i was looking to make this build it looks fun but i seen the pastebin is on last leagues passive tree, is there an updated tree im not seeing?

For some reason POB export tree / URL shrink does not export as 3.9.

There is zero change to our tree (for now anyways) from 3.8 to 3.9, so feel free to use it as-is.

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hitmantb wrote:

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Jones27 wrote:

I had no money to empower, I got armor with 1 blue, 2 red, and 3 green.

" minion damage/ damage on full life/ maim/ herald of agony/and pierce "

Any suggestions for last green gem?

Vicious projectile.

The slight draw back to this is higher mana reservation, so you will need to finesse a bit more to squeeze in hatred/skitterbot later.

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Can someone help me? My damage is too low, what can I do to improve? taking too long to kill boss.

Hey! I'm currently starting the Build and I was wondering what auras I should use during leveling and when I switch at 68. Since my money is currently limited I'm only going to buy a Astramentis, Memory Vault and a 4r 2g Skin.

Thanks in advance for and suggestion!

I spent a bit on the skeleton build and it wasn't that good. Now I gotta shell out 4ex again for the right color skin of the loyal (might not though and just regret orb into another build).

I did do agony crawler before so I prob will reroll into something else again.

Also. Pro tip. Get a +1 to sockets corrupted tabula as budget replacement if you don't have the correct skin of the loyal socket colors. We still face tank a lot off stuff anyways, but with this you can actually kill stuff and map well with agony crawler.

To activate Radiant Crusade don't we need 1 more minion? 2 Spectres and 2 skitterbots - or does agony crawler count too when it's up?


Also how is EE benefitial - it does not reduce phys dmg resist, right?