[3.13] TOXIC RAIN + HERALD OF AGONY Pathfinder Build (6-8K life) (UBER ELDER done!) +VIDEO GUIDE!

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Icemasta wrote:

@peetrscz, I've never made a post directed at you so I don't know what you're on about. I even said in my last post that LG seems to be a decent alternative with despair on blasphemy. Mostly been discussing with Quickfade and sharing what I've tested so far.

And? We're here on discussion boards, so I'm discussing (and presenting my findings).

I have not read whole 30 pages of thread, but the notion in 1st half of the thread is that LG is not as good as QR. I was stating that for general audience.

After all I'm more or less confirming your findings as I've never bothered with Witchfire and have been running dispair on blasphemy since beginning (with Inc AoE after I got Impresence).

So what are you on about? :)

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Angry_Roleplayer wrote:

You also need to reserve Aspect here, which i believe makes it impossible to do a 6L Herald

Nope, it's quite possible.

Now, my current plan is to use Blind as 6th link and swap Drillneck for Maloney's. Near max Maloneys is very close in damage gain to Drillneck (assuming enemy is blinded) and provides better defenses, at least for me, I have 19k evasion.

If I swap +1 TR arrow helmet for -HoA mana reservation helmet it will leave me with 16% unreserved mana with Minion damage as 6th link (according to PoB). My current links being HoA-Vicious projs-Minion Speed-Withering touch-Pierce. Looking at it now, I should probably swap VP for MD right now and leave VP as possible 6th link.

When I get there I'll see what feels better, if extra arrow or stronger scorpion.

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shinyzee wrote:

Currently lvl 36 with this build and It's working amazingly, I was just wondering, would it be possible to transition this into a CA without any changes to the tree?

With possibly a Toxic Rain setup for singletarget

Can do CA indeed. Same tree.

For you people interested in fossil crafting, http://poedb.tw/us/mod.php?cn=BaseItemTypes&an=Crimson+Jewel, this website is pretty damn good.

Select an item type from the "Mod" menu, and then check the fossils you want to see what mods are locked out or added. Certain fossil combinations can be used to lock out a ton of mods to increase your chance at those you want.

For instance, Pristine + Aberrant + Aetheric + Corroded in a crimson jewel will greatly increase the chance of getting Life/chaos damage/poison. Aetheric lowers the odds of attack rolls and crimson only has 1 spell suffix so odds aren't very high. Corroded kills any elemental mod, so resist, crit chance with elements, etc...

You can do it in 3 socketed fossils without aetheric, it just helps avoid the many attack prefixes.

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Icemasta wrote:

For you people interested in fossil crafting, http://poedb.tw/us/mod.php?cn=BaseItemTypes&an=Crimson+Jewel, this website is pretty damn good.

Select an item type from the "Mod" menu, and then check the fossils you want to see what mods are locked out or added. Certain fossil combinations can be used to lock out a ton of mods to increase your chance at those you want.

For instance, Pristine + Aberrant + Aetheric + Corroded in a crimson jewel will greatly increase the chance of getting Life/chaos damage/poison. Aetheric lowers the odds of attack rolls and crimson only has 1 spell suffix so odds aren't very high. Corroded kills any elemental mod, so resist, crit chance with elements, etc...

You can do it in 3 socketed fossils without aetheric, it just helps avoid the many attack prefixes.

Thanks, I'd love to see more of these fossil crafting suggestions for this build, especially how you'd recommend crafting a ring with the +chaos damage modifier.

I have been running this with massive success I don't see any other real gems being used on this build guide other than Herold and TR. Is there any other gem setups that are recommended? I have been using CWDT, Enfeeble and Temporal Chains just to get some heat off but I think there are more and better defensive's out there.

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zambie73 wrote:

I have been running this with massive success I don't see any other real gems being used on this build guide other than Herold and TR. Is there any other gem setups that are recommended? I have been using CWDT, Enfeeble and Temporal Chains just to get some heat off but I think there are more and better defensive's out there.

All other gem setups are located in Path of Building link

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Vickery wrote:

Thanks, I'd love to see more of these fossil crafting suggestions for this build, especially how you'd recommend crafting a ring with the +chaos damage modifier.

For a ring, flat chaos damage is master crafted, and chaos damage % is from essence, no way to delve craft that. There's alternatives though. There's projectile attack damage suffix from Elder rings. 31-35% in the highest tier, pretty substantial boost. Pristine + Serrated does the job here, can't really "zone in" more than that, and you'll get a ton of LGOH. You can use corroded to remove all elemental stats but that means no resist on that ring unless you craft it.

For an elder belt you can do Pristine + Serrated + Aberrant, good chance to get that 20-30% chaos damage, the pristine gives life, and the serrated gives us more chance to roll attack speed during flask effect.

The real bummer imho is that there are absolutely no good delve crafting for quivers.

well you can get the %chaos damage from delve craft, if you use a glyphic fossil, which adds a corrupted essence modifier. this means it has a chance to give you the % chaos damage while crafting it with other fossils.

Been using the old Mathil CA starting build, but with TR instead, and it's been working so far...

But my HP right now is so bad, that I'm considering swapping to this one just for the safety. Might wait til mapping to do so, but this looks like a pretty decent setup for getting some life on this girl before she falls over dead in one hit.

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xMustard wrote:

well you can get the %chaos damage from delve craft, if you use a glyphic fossil, which adds a corrupted essence modifier. this means it has a chance to give you the % chaos damage while crafting it with other fossils.

Corrupted Essence is the key word there, my friend! There are only 4 corrupted essences; Hysteria, Delirium, Horror and Insanity, none of which gives %chaos damage, that would be Essence of Envy.

Delirium does give 40% damage with poisons though.

Also, more notes for you Damage on Full life people out there! Summon Holy Relic works really well with toxic rain, at skill level 21 it gives me ~3% life regen per second, nothing to write home about, but certainly enough to constantly top you off, and because the regen is greater than Coralito's degen, that guarantees full life at all time (if you use Coralito).