[3.10] Herald of Agony Mana Guardian | 2.5 Minute Sirus 8 | Deathless T19 100% Delirium
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antmit wrote:
Hi all
Just wanted to share my vaal skeletons update.
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in terms of amulet, you can actually craft something pretty insane for a physical build. you need a hunters amulet with +1 intelligence gems and no other hunter mods. a warlord amulet with pride reservation and no other warlord mods. combine the two with an awakener's orb and you have a +1 amulet with 25% pride reservation. which is pretty fucking huge because you can change annointment and drop charisma, or take a different helm enchant. dread banner aura effect is decent, flesh offering attack speed, skeleton dmg, etc etc.
Just discovered that if you use a Thread of Hope with the large ring in the jewel socket next to Conduit, you can allocate the mana reservation from theleadership cluster and Soul Siphon from shadow. Figured this might be useful for someone.
Hi all
Just wanted to share my vaal skeletons update.
https://pastebin.com/iSC3XHHA
Again, i don't know how to configure POB to show the true damage, but I can tell you that most content is a joke. My playstyle is to shield dash, cast summon skeletons, then move on to the next pack. I don't really do anything other than pick up currency. I do so much damage I don't flask for anything but bosses. I also pretty much never use any of the vaal skills except vaal summon skeleton for bosses
i also am using the animated guardian variant with 2 flayers, 2 carnage chieftains
my skeletons are at lvl 30, animated guardian/spectres at 26, golem at 22
I am using the full physical build, no more hatred or EE.
If someone wants to help me buy this ridiculously expensive 60ex skin of the loyal with +1 socketed +2 duration with the colors I use i would greatly appreciate it LOL
besides that armor upgrade, I could also use a rare +1 int amulet. Those two upgrades should take me to lvl 33 skellies! WOW
I have 15k es without watchers.
other key differences
1. shield charge. I use spiritual command so minion atk spd+ now makes me zoom zoom
2. tree changes, dropped the tempered spirit on the right side to get 8 nodes back. Instead got spiritual command, sacrifice, righteous army, and hopefully redemption after i hit 98
3. jewel changes -- no tempered spirit or golden rule, i use from dust/to dust now but these are now "quality of life" jewels as opposed to dmg/es
4. ascendancy changes -- time of need, bastion of hope, radiant crusade, radiant faith. unwavering crusade isn't needed anymore because I use a watchers with spell block when discipline, intimidate on hit when pride
other thoughts
1. I could probably hit 75% spell block if I went back to rainbowstrides but I'm too lazy to change my ring for more resistances. If I get more res on my upcoming amulet, maybe I could do it. I would risk being chilled/frozen but that's just a flask change.. I like the ailment immunity because i'm super lazy and i hate flasking.
2. likewise i could probably get more ES with a new rare belt as well but I'm not really dying to anything at the ES that I'm at
3. as I level up my minion gems, I can probably reduce the number of minion life nodes I took to deal with durability problems and switch it over to more ES and DPS again
4. physical reflect maps suck, but are doable with the same playstyle. just need to cast summon skeletons more often
Do you really feel your single target boss damage is significantly better than Herald of Agony?
You can test with say a T16 map. I got a cheap 2 duration armor and 700k per skeleton, bosses STILL don't seem to go down faster than Herald of Agony with 3-4 million damage.
Maybe we can do a white map test to be accurate.
Last edited by hitmantb#6251 on Jan 10, 2020, 12:41:14 PM
I've still got quite a few exalts so i'm upgrading my gear here and there when I get good deals. What would I craft on a belt/amulet? Just looking for the ideal stats to go for. Figured i'd keep on the lookout for it since i've got all my resists from boots/ring.
projectile speed is absolute awful. you have to meta craft it.
craft prefixes cannot be changed, scour, multimod minion attack speed and trigger. total cost is like 4ex. do that and you have a 30ex+ weapon. i have all the crafts if you need some help
Last edited by crazypearce#3760 on Jan 10, 2020, 12:47:59 PM
First of all, nice guide. This is the build I’ve been looking for since day 1: lazy and tanky
I have a few questions:
What about boots and gloves enchantments?
Why hatred and not another dps aura (anger, precision)? Is the damage way better?
Bastion of hope seems so much better than time of need, am I missing something? Or is it because I use an anti-curse flask
Is Golden Rule that useful, or more quality of life? I feel like I’m always at max stack during fights
Which other class could support this build?
Any other affix could be useful on Watcher’s eye? The mana to ES cost 40 exalted, way too much for a casual like me
Hi all
Just wanted to share my vaal skeletons update.
-snip-
in terms of amulet, you can actually craft something pretty insane for a physical build. you need a hunters amulet with +1 intelligence gems and no other hunter mods. a warlord amulet with pride reservation and no other warlord mods. combine the two with an awakener's orb and you have a +1 amulet with 25% pride reservation. which is pretty fucking huge because you can change annointment and drop charisma, or take a different helm enchant. dread banner aura effect is decent, flesh offering attack speed, skeleton dmg, etc etc.
wow that's interesting. i have no idea about the awakener orb stuff so that's really cool
I bought a +1 int amulet with 40 to all attr so i'll be running that now. lvl 31 skellies. Lost about 1k es, down to 14343 ES . Might play with the tree a bit to get some more ES back but i don't think I need it. at this point it feels like real luxury messing around
700k X 12 skeletons = 8.4 mil dps
+ 40 skeletons from vaal skeleton at 300k dps? = 12 mil dps
I also have a lot of physical pen
don't go by POB, for Hoag again, you need to go off of average virulence stacks to get true DPS. putting 40 in there is unreasonable because 40 immediately decays to 38 or so. 35 in a single target situation is probably more realistic.
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hitmantb wrote:
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antmit wrote:
Hi all
Just wanted to share my vaal skeletons update.
https://pastebin.com/iSC3XHHA
Again, i don't know how to configure POB to show the true damage, but I can tell you that most content is a joke. My playstyle is to shield dash, cast summon skeletons, then move on to the next pack. I don't really do anything other than pick up currency. I do so much damage I don't flask for anything but bosses. I also pretty much never use any of the vaal skills except vaal summon skeleton for bosses
i also am using the animated guardian variant with 2 flayers, 2 carnage chieftains
my skeletons are at lvl 30, animated guardian/spectres at 26, golem at 22
I am using the full physical build, no more hatred or EE.
If someone wants to help me buy this ridiculously expensive 60ex skin of the loyal with +1 socketed +2 duration with the colors I use i would greatly appreciate it LOL
besides that armor upgrade, I could also use a rare +1 int amulet. Those two upgrades should take me to lvl 33 skellies! WOW
I have 15k es without watchers.
other key differences
1. shield charge. I use spiritual command so minion atk spd+ now makes me zoom zoom
2. tree changes, dropped the tempered spirit on the right side to get 8 nodes back. Instead got spiritual command, sacrifice, righteous army, and hopefully redemption after i hit 98
3. jewel changes -- no tempered spirit or golden rule, i use from dust/to dust now but these are now "quality of life" jewels as opposed to dmg/es
4. ascendancy changes -- time of need, bastion of hope, radiant crusade, radiant faith. unwavering crusade isn't needed anymore because I use a watchers with spell block when discipline, intimidate on hit when pride
other thoughts
1. I could probably hit 75% spell block if I went back to rainbowstrides but I'm too lazy to change my ring for more resistances. If I get more res on my upcoming amulet, maybe I could do it. I would risk being chilled/frozen but that's just a flask change.. I like the ailment immunity because i'm super lazy and i hate flasking.
2. likewise i could probably get more ES with a new rare belt as well but I'm not really dying to anything at the ES that I'm at
3. as I level up my minion gems, I can probably reduce the number of minion life nodes I took to deal with durability problems and switch it over to more ES and DPS again
4. physical reflect maps suck, but are doable with the same playstyle. just need to cast summon skeletons more often
Do you really feel your single target boss damage is significantly better than Herald of Agony?
You can test with say a T16 map. I got a cheap 2 duration armor and 700k per skeleton, bosses STILL don't seem to go down faster than Herald of Agony with 3-4 million damage.
