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

Hey, i started playing this build, but after getting a 6L bow i decided to try it with rain arrow (can't keep 50 in single target) or barrage (can keep 60 virulence on any target number) and felt quite good. Got a bow with +1 level to socketed gems, +1 level to socketed dexterity gems and +2 level to socketed support gems. So a level 20 gem Herald of Agony socketed in this bow became level 27. And for quiver i'm wearing Soul Strike which gives me 120 es and 80% faster start of energy shield recharge, and because of that, Wicked Ward (I had no life or es regen before anyway).

And also i'm running Incandescent Heart body armour, to completely negate 25% of elemental damage taken, since we're immune to chaos. And it gives a good amount of armour and es.

I'm not using hatred yet because i have only 5% free mana with 4 heraldry, 38% reduced herald from circle and level 3 enlighten. Also didn't picked any reduced mana reserv from tree yet, i'm still level 75 and doing great in early red tier maps. Killing bosses in 3 seconds and tanking considerably good. Got 10k armour and 6K es now, but still have a lot to allocate in tree and improvements on gear.

I'm also using minions large cluster because without hatred would be a waste using lightning. I've got 2x rotten claws giving 40% impale chance to minions (total 67% with dread banner), which is a nice damage boost, around 40% more phys damage. And 2x Raze and Pillage which is a great damage boost too.

I'm leaving the PoB bellow so you can take a look, and since PoB doesn't calculate virulence after 40 stacks, i added the bonuses to a jewel alongside bonuses from clusters which PoB doesnt calculate, to get a more real info. My question is: do you think this version of this build is even with yours? I mean, i'm leveling this mainly to kill Sirus (my main is a coc icenova and can't kill sirus at all even running deathless simulacrum and 5 orbs delirium t16). I really wanna know if this way i'll be much behind in damage or tankyness, what would be sad because i really like this bow playstile. Reminds me from World of Wacraft Beastmastery Hunter.

https://pastebin.com/hWygXb25

Please and thank you for your awesome guide, the most detailed i've ever read. And sorry for my english, it isn't my native language.

Little Trick to Store Spectres on another fast character as a "Backup"

This isn't my idea, nor is it a new idea; but I suspect some of the newer players might not have heard of it.

1. Get your Stoneskin Flayers (or whatever specialist spectres you want) on your MAIN

2. Buy a level 1 raise spectre & desecrate from the vendor & something super cheap & low level to shove them in.

2. Make a PvP Character (make sure you have a spare character slot)

3. PvP characters are "born" level 28, so allocate Death Attunement in the tree.

4. Switch back to your main in your hideout. Desecrate a few puddles of Flayers.

5. Switch to your PvP toon and summon 2 of your flayers or whatever spectre.

6. Go back to your main and play, safe in the knowledge that you have a "backup" in case you lose your spectres due to silliness like enchanting the helm that you have your RS gem in.

Hope this helps out some newer guys.

one question
how Kyuhlee get 11k dps in pob? even with his gear my pob doens't show this damage
there is something I missing?

Is there a variant of this build that will work in Standard, or are the cluster nodes essential to make this build work post-nerf?

Hello again, I got to level 346 Mine and reached the Primeval Fortress, but I cannot defeat the Crystal King he either strait up 2-3 shots me, or I die to crystal stuff on the ground.
I watched the fight but I just believe I die to easily is this a weakness of the build or am I doing something wrong.
Also there is burning ground in the room and I am forced to take soul of Aberath otherwise there are just 2 many ground effects.

Any ideeas?

P.S.

IF anyone needs Stonekin Flayers pls send me a msg in game.

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An1m4ls_ wrote:

one question
how Kyuhlee get 11k dps in pob? even with his gear my pob doens't show this damage
there is something I missing?

POB doesn't count additional virulence stacks from cluster jewels. To get 60 stacks in pob you need to manually add the damage and atack speed to some jewel or smth like that.

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llpu3paK wrote:

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An1m4ls_ wrote:

one question
how Kyuhlee get 11k dps in pob? even with his gear my pob doens't show this damage
there is something I missing?

POB doesn't count additional virulence stacks from cluster jewels. To get 60 stacks in pob you need to manually add the damage and atack speed to some jewel or smth like that.

do you know how i do it?

@ An1m4ls_

easiest way is you create a jewel with all that missing stats:

I made a socket on one of my items wich usually dont have one like amulet
-just edit a line at the end-
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Has 1 Abyssal Socket
---------------------------------

than I ceated an abyss jewel with just the stats I want to be reflected
for example 4x Pure Agony nods give +20 virulence stacks and 4x20% increased damage.
You just edit the following lines to your created jewel
--------------------------------------------------------------

Minions deal 80% increased physical damage
Minions deal 1960 to 3640 additional Physical Damage
---------------------------------------------------------------

where the minion deal x to y additional phys damage is the multiplication of your damage per stack x 20 additional stacks

In my case with HoA lvl 27 it is:
98 - 182 per stack ( see penultimate row of your HoA gem stats)

Finally add the jewel to your build and place it into your created socket on the amulet

have fun

Ice_Fire

Hi everyone, I played this build quite some time now. Had alot of fun min/maxing and so on.

I killed all bosses with it that i wanted to, easy. Single target dps is amazing! The only "Con" i can say is the map clearing take some time to get use to. I manage to hit +/-8500es witch was enough for me.

Im looking to sell of all my gear on my guardian to get more currency to try out other builds.

I spend well over 150ex on my gear. If u maybe wana try this build out and dont wana go over the all buying, msg me ingame and gime me a offer on all gear on my Guardian called MiniCrazyX.

BW
MiniCrazy

Is it better to keep ball lightning at level 1 or 20? POB has it at 20, but I see some people have it at 1.
Same question for Tempest Shield.
It looks like for mapping it is better to use level 1 to avoid getting rekt by elemental reflect.
And simulacrum 20 might require higher level to reliably apply Elemental Equilibrium.
Correct me if I am wrong.