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

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antmit wrote:

Vaal skeletons actually did make certain fights better. I think it was easier for bossing because the AI for skeletons seems to be better than the HOA AI.

It made boss fights a lot easier for me
Summon skeleton has 0 cast time. If you use ball lightning, you're literally standing there for for .75 sec (or less if you have % spell cast speed). After I summon skeletons, I just run around until they die and occasionally recast, which they actually did not die too often. I had to slow down on reflect maps and summon more but otherwise for bossing I thought it was better. I did make the mistake of having taunt on my skeletons through an abyss jewel. DO NOT DO THIS! Keep the flayer spectres with taunt. This is probably why some of you are losing your sksletons quickly. If you have taunt for all minions then your skellies will get melted.

With skeletons, I had curse with vuln on a ring and enfeeble on my gloves with whispers of doom. so that freed up a trigger on my weapon or a gem in general. I then ran carrion golem to buff the skeletons.

Also with skeletons, you have the vaal skill which summons like 40+ skeletons. Destroys bosses

I think for mapping, hoag is better because of the pierce and spread, but then when you boss, pierce is not the best gem to use. Skeletons are pretty fast with melee splash

This game is about trade offs, hard to find an awesome bosser and mapper.

Personal opinion is that for bossing skeletons is better. allows for a faster reacting character. ball lightning slows you down and you have to predict stuff or get faster spell casting.

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Nugsterx wrote:

How do i run hatred and HoA without dropping 5 exalts on a Circle of Nostalgia ring with reduced mana reservation on HoA? i have all the ring talent points.

Is that the only way or am i missing something?

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hitmantb wrote:

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Hjelpen93 wrote:

I have some problems with auras, what is the cheapest way to run Hated + skitterbots? I'm using vicius projectile for my agony and have a CoN with 37% reduce at the moment

1) Conqueror's Efficiency
2) Enlighten 3
3) Two corrupted jewels with +1% to mana reservation reduction
4) Remove Clarity as it is useless without Watcher.

Run this in POB and you should get it.

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neenjafus wrote:

I believe my skeletons were level 30 also and I also didn’t like it as much as hoa. I very much liked having discipline and I did notice the extra defense but it was just clunky for mapping. I switched back and it felt much smoother although not as tanky.

I’ve since added 2 or 3 levels to hoa getting up to 31. I’ve dropped a bit of es down to 14k (no watchers eye) but the dps is insane and gameplay feels so smooth now. I’m only at awakened 5 but sirus was no problem although I died once, it was to me screwing up a storm so not related to the build. Otherwise he and his conquerors drop quite quickly.

I highly recommend lvl 31 hoa if you can do it. Even if you lose 500 es or so, it’s worth it!

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Markuchi wrote:

Even with a decent amulet im losing 1500ES for 22-24% more damage.
Using your Amulet on my build im losing 1500ES also.
Im not sure its worth it. Maybe once ive hit level 100 ill look into it.
Those amulets seem cheap enough.

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Mythrol1 wrote:

Btw, has anyone been running Aligned Spirits over Utmost Int? It's a bit of an ES loss (my build shows about 500ES) but it increases my dps by nearly 200k. Wondering if it's worth it.