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

Is this league start viable? I see a lot of uniques down there. Should I start with something else and then respec into this?

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mititeluvlad93 wrote:

Is this league start viable? I see a lot of uniques down there. Should I start with something else and then respec into this?

5) This is not a SSF build or league starter like Necromancer Skeletons/Holy Relic. Upfront investment and specific gear pieces are needed.

Says so in the first post under cons.

I think I will start as another summoner guardian and later try this one.

Wow, this was the biggest single patch nerf to a build in a very long time. I guess I was right when I said this was the best all around build in the game. I tried pretty much all other meta builds and nothing came close unless you are a ranger player who can solo Aul without taking a single hit.

Taking my current character with 18K energy shield, 2.4 million shaper damage, I will end up with 11K energy shield, 1.8 million shaper damage. Still a tier 2 character in my opinion, and may move back into tier 1 if we can replace some of the items below with new notables.

1) Shaper's Touch - Halved the benefit of mana and energy shield gain
2) Grand Spectrum - Now gives critical chance instead of mana, can be replaced by rare expensive jewels
3) Tempered Spirit - Now gives movement speed instead of mana
4) Soul Ripper spam on Vaal Molten Shield is not a thing any more, this basically says if you want to deep delve, be good at the game and play a ZHP ranger build, this will ensure tank builds can not go above 1200

Spirit offering no longer gives Necromancer insane regen, not to mention a huge buffer for skeletons and zombies, skeleton damage also nerfed by 40% so our main competition in Necromancer is significantly weaker as well.

As a standard-only player it will be very difficult for me to maintain this guide. If anyone wants to take over this guide feel free to use some or all of it. I may just take a league off and come back when notables hit standard.

I will be very curious to see which ascendancy/build takes the throne of Necromancer and Guardian. My early pick is Essence Drain and Cyclone with all the new notables. Golem summoner is still good.

A lot of the uniques this build uses isn't great anymore. Would be interesting to see what the alternatives are, and would we still get at least 10k ES?

Don't know how to recover all the nerfs for mana and energy shield, but is probably a best choice to change from HoA to Purity and cyclone + impale.
GGG nerfed my will to play 3.10

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Icebanana7 wrote:

Thanks for making this awesome build. I hit lvl 100 with for the first time. Now I just hope that the build will at least be playable in 3.10 and wont get completely destroyed. The radiant faith + shaper's touch + grand spectrum + HoaG nerfs all at once might really hurt.

jinx? lol

RIP

Herald of Agony
Agony Crawler now deals 5% increased physical damage per Virulence you have at gem level 1 (from 6%), up to 9% at gem level 20 (from 12%).
this is nothing tbh
This was needed cause of the jewel that gives +5 virulence stacks

the spirit offering nerf is a bit yikes i guess but even so we used it more for dmg then anything else
the spectres nerf and this makes it so they are more squishy i guesss

the grandspectrum nerf is big but yah with the new jewels you can make it so its not that big
since you can get insane stats with them
shapers touch prob will still be bis i think
but yah in general we are the same
happy they didnt nerfed us that much

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CutieSabba wrote:

Herald of Agony
Agony Crawler now deals 5% increased physical damage per Virulence you have at gem level 1 (from 6%), up to 9% at gem level 20 (from 12%).
this is nothing tbh
This was needed cause of the jewel that gives +5 virulence stacks

the spirit offering nerf is a bit yikes i guess but even so we used it more for dmg then anything else
the spectres nerf and this makes it so they are more squishy i guesss

the grandspectrum nerf is big but yah with the new jewels you can make it so its not that big
since you can get insane stats with them
shapers touch prob will still be bis i think
but yah in general we are the same
happy they didnt nerfed us that much

Ascendancy nerf + Shaper's Touch nerf hurts.

Tempered spirit and grand spectrum are replaceable, albeit with much more expensive items.

But yes the +5 stacks of herald of agony should help make up the damage lost.

I guess we also have to replace Spirit Offering and Feeding Frenzy now. Any early ideas?