[3.28] The dirty Scorpion-Tail|Herald of Agony|Cyclone-Guardian|Arachnophobia Allstars 250m-2500m

Path of Building

Combinate everytime the pob-tree with the pairing titled item-tab and the pairing skill-tab:

1) Select the landing PoB-Loadout / -Tree "TT Total Tank Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA (Low budget)" with the same titled item-tab + skill-tab "TT Total Tank Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA"

2) "Levelling" trees with item-tab "Levelling items" and skill-tab "Levelling skills"

3) Other Loadouts and Keywords like "#2 flasks Mageblood", "Without Spectres", "Saqawal`s Nest Aspect of Avian", "1800M ....", "CI: Crit-HoA", "Bloodmagic-HoA", "Phrecia", "Iron Reflexes", - trees with the pairing titled items- and skills-tabs

Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better many maths.

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Configurations PoB:

Configure HoA the tail-attack (in the leftside columne), 40-112 virulences, 15 withers, and 10 poison stacks on enemies to get the correct dps.

Enable: minions are on full life

For valuable comparing shaper-damage change pierce in the HoA-support to vile toxins or marked predator.

The ehp: recovery /es on block is checked for mapping.
Aegis aurora generates infinitive substain in high density.

Against Ubers max hit taken is often more important.


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Because almost all builds....

correct full in fantasy their 2 wither-stacks to 15,
deal with 9 keys snapshotted after 2 gearswaps full-chained-damage against singletargets,
wear never possessed, but desired low-budget 2-mirrors vaal regalias as starter-gear,
and astonishing 7-sockets body-armours,
wield impulsive crafted 12-L weapons double corrupted,
back out of poe-history returning +5 rings,
stack their tanky 6 layers of portals and 5 relaxed regex-filters,
drink their own new magic flasks out of the poe 3-future filled with only 10 individual unique stats,

.... and are editing quite interesting more funny personal pob-configurations, I decided to use only common to medium to good gear but no b.i.s. - pieces in the pob.

Some Guardians - Baran, Al-Hezim, Phoenix
https://youtu.be/QDakIXO7eng
The Remembered
https://youtu.be/zNai9BW3sN8
The Elderslayers
https://youtu.be/gjbWT-g70Z4
Some bosses - Exarch etc. in 5 seconds
https://youtu.be/1eCs-z_wMLk
Tanking Exarch, all spells and fire of 1000 suns:
https://youtu.be/GSLRVrEiXsA
All Secrets-of-the-Atlas-Bosses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpwCLoiJKxY
Facetanking U-Atziri:
https://youtu.be/rRgsoWWqAGQ
Facetanking Maven's Memory Game:
https://youtu.be/Dv1MWYqWnYE
T17 tank all attacks of Bosses Citadel + Fortress
https://youtu.be/UzFRqY7whvc
Beyond and Delirium, juiced T17 Sanctuary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nD9lI5AINs
Baran, Veritianas, Al Hezim, 10x Invitation, Sirus, Elder, Delirium Crimson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWDsGw6B0hM
Crawling in the Crimsom Temple, red t16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hgtjDMpm4
Budget 50 chaos, example leaguestart 3.27, HoA lvl 18 qu 0
https://youtu.be/v_0m9_bWtxU
The older Feared
https://youtu.be/7pNJrj2sEmA
Tanking sirus (with iron reflexes, tank his healbeams frontal, then they are healing best!)
https://youtu.be/0_B9-vYWo0Y
Monik390 facetanking Simulacrum wave 30:
https://youtu.be/S9m_ZbyPHvY

A Full Example gear progression cheap to b.i.s., lvl 1 to lvl 100, t-1 to t-17 to ubers, is shown on necro-page 100:

--> https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25977437

Stack and max:

■ for your own 80-100% poisonchances for spellhits passives, poison-support and tattoos
■ skill-efficiencies in the tree and small clusters for the tanky auras
■ HoA-gem-levels
■ 9 medium clusters of pure agony
■ ghastly jewels with minion chances to poison on hit
■ sources of withers: withering step & sin's rebirth
■ the CI-recovery shield and watcher's eye
■ spectres and AG
■ 51% evasion
■ 100% spell suppression
■ guard-skill molten shell and frostshield

With poe-experiences ordinary you need in the long build:

1. "Beginning and levelling" when you want to level the campaign with HoA
2. "Path of building" for configurations
3. "HoA step by step - The composition of agony" for the damagescaling
4. "gear" - section body-armour for the keystones
5. "jewels": HoA-virulences, Recovery
6. "skills", "HoA-supports"
7. AG, Spectres: necro-page 100
8. "flat dr / checklist defences / details of the ascendancies / map-mods / faq"
9. "all poe-tradelinks" and budget-variations you find in the last spoiler
10. the 3.28 league-news on necro-forum page 132

Build up your defences and damage

This build shows improving paths of gear-set-ups. Mana, damage and defences are balanced a bit different with the weapon, belt, amulet, used or unused auras and clusters. You can switch the set-ups fast.

1.) Levelling - Until t12 maps

Stack 80% poisonchances with passives and poison on hit-support for production of HoA-virulences with your own spells.

Level with the starters:

Ghastly Theater
Cybil's paw
Skillgems Ball lightning of orbiting, Tornado of elemental turbulence
Circle of Nostalgia with chaos-resis
Shaper ring life+mana on spellhit
Burden of Truth / Darkness Enthroned / Cord Belt / Stygian vise
Rainbow strides

Maw of the conquest
Golden Rule jewel

Get needed dex and resis on other gear and for HoA a 5 /6 link Body Armour.


2.) Starter Set-up - The Mana-Management

Get the key-gear:

Small clusters sublime form + self-control (/ uncompromising)
9 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Cheap large clusters #7 / or #5-passives voices
Skin of the Lords / Loyals
Aegis Aurora shield
8-18 Tattoos poison-on-hit

2-5 abyss jewels minion chance to poison on hit
Sin's Rebirth-flask / other source of full 15 withers
Rumi's Concoction flask
Elegant Hubris
+2 minion helmet
Amulet anoint
Spectres-corpses
AG-gear

Watcher's eye es > + life on hit
Ashes of the Stars
Empower-support



Head always as early as possible to medium clusters for "pure agony" and cheap small clusters for auras.

Relaxed master your manamanagement around lvl 50 with the 2-3 small clusters "sublime form" and "uncompromising".

Easy from lvl 60 you start to optimize your damage with "pure agony" on full 9 medium clusters. For this insert 3 cheap large clusters #7 / #5-passives voices into your tree.

Simultan start to outsource res, attr, bleeding- and ailment-immunities from gear onto the transferpoints of clusterjewels and on ghastly jewels.

Gather your fellowship.
Move the aura determination and other skills over to the spectres.
Cloth the AG in a Garb of Ephemeral, throw all hexes with the AG's helmet Ylfeban's Trickery.

With the rings circle of nostalgia, more skill-reservation-efficiencies and a shaper-ring you manage your mana to activate the big tanky auras grace + flesh and stone to stack all global basic defences and keystones.

When you get a watcher's eye with es on hit and cap on the tree 90-100% spell suppression and crafted well rolled flasks you are already geared for almost all content.


3.) Lvl 80: Boss-Hunter 20 M - The Damage - The Bloodline

Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp around lvl 70-90:
Arriving in the second and third large cluster you max also your defences by further more aurastacking and switch in more jewels and small clusters.
You reach an unique record of 1M-inf*Ehp.

Run Sanctum eg with srs, or faster hire a Lycia-service on tft, for the Herald-bloodline Bitter Heresy.


4.) Lvl 90: MinMax 50-200 M shaper-damage

Melding of the flesh and a sapphire flask raise ele-max-resis to tanky 85-90%.

Outsource all needed attributes, resis, bleeding-avoidances, spell suppression and mana-reg from gear on jewels, clustertransfers, implicits, tattoos and league-mechanics to get more free passives and capacities for damage, tankyness and qol.

Attractive corruptions & doublecorruptions are gathered and best rare pieces are sniped or crafted.

The hunt for some additional fitting megalomaniacs clusters with hundreds of interesting combinations begins.


5.) The Highway to damage 200-4000 M

Around lvl 95 when you want to full max you decide to gain the b.i.s.-status on each piece of gear, jewel and each implicit.

You crawl into the final HoA skill-lvls 34-40.
Arriving in the 3rd voices clusters you slay the last Ubers.
Your HoA-base-damage skyrocks with the raising gemlevels and virulences. In effect you need less minionpoison for high dot.

Now you scale finally into HoA-crits with Maata's Teaching for total convincing 200-2000M.
Get a #3 flasks-mageblood for speed and qol and exchange Grace instead into a Jade-flask.

In b.i.s.-gear also peaks of 2000 to 8000M burstdamage are stinged.

Scorpions & Spirits, Agony & Arakaali

HoAg, HoP, HoT, HoI, HoA

Originally five heralds, one for each of the five damagetypes in wraeclast, were sent out from the islands of Chris to boost the clear speed at the beaches of Wraeclast.

Two heralds were designed as outliners to be empowered as new mainskills. The gang of of purity, heralds in the mortal physical realm, fighted hard, but slow and melee.

Last the only one single raised. Shaped as a scorpion the herald of chaos was immortal born in the endless dunes of arachnophilia and crawled in Lionswatch out of the sands of the Twilight Strand to raise his small dirty sting.

A long time ago - The meta of herald-stackers [3.4] to [3.12]



[3.13] The historic first Allstars-video "Endgame": Necropolis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3pKO3RIFo


The Arachnophobias and Arachnophilias

In [3.13] Ritual I introduced the new guide "The Arachnophobia Allstars" focussing much more on armour- and aura-stacking with more clusters and aul's uprising, with iron reflexes on Skin of the Lords, solely exclusive designed with immortal minions, with evasions of minion-blindings. With more curses and full withers I buffed up spirit offering, in that time another 30% more chaosdamage. I optimized the pathing and skills and supports and with fastings I reached almost 100% flasks-uptimes before the famous belt mageblood was born. I reworked the selection of aura-notables on small clusters using their buffs of [3.11] Harvest to optimize Grace with stalwart commanders. I combinated HoA with withering spiders of arakaali's fang. The build was designed as total tank and I reached in that times immortal 5k es on block stinging in 5M shaper-damage. In the Delve depth race the build reached rank 3.

[3.13] Facetanking Sirus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl3572Zmsyk



Leaderboards [3.14] to [3.15]

So in [3.14] Ultimatum the HoA-allstars-guardian was popular again and No1-rank in the solo-leaderboards of the Guardian-leaderboards, No1 in the forum, and leading the arachnophobiatic dream-team of scorpions and spiders with arakaali's fang. HC lvl 100 Rank 1 was easy reached too.

In [3.15] Expedition the tipping level-point of HoA lowered from lvl 31 down to lvl 29, enabling different weapons and different amulets.


[3.15] Infinitve* ehp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnteQs472d8


The big buff [3.16] to [3.18]




The crawler raises 200% [3.19] to [3.23]





2M

The second keystone of totally combined 2M arachnophobiatic views in united 4 arachnophil ascendancies-forums dropped on the 22.4.24 in Necropolis.




HoA arrives in 250M

In [3.24] the former default HoA-virulences- generator stormburst was happy buried in peace and good mood in the graveyards of the Necropolis.
After many leagues cyclone is reborn again as valuable channelskill for 100 virulences. The ball lightnings of orbiting and homing tornados of turbulences fit perfect into the movement-set with full damage-uptime.

The returning tattoos buffed the build in value of 5-10 passives.
The Sin's rebirth-flask grants easy withers alltime.

With the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre HoA-crits scaled imba into the top in low budget.

It seems that the mageblood turns much easier to farm each league. With the changes to the sapphire flask the melding and 85-90% all max-resis returned again in lategame.

The Champ arrives in the team and can stack high 95% flat damagereductions and 250 k armour.



[3.25] Settlers - Half a billion

Spell block, ward and endurance charges were buffed, in exchange determination was nerfed. The max HoA-skill-lvl 40 is claimed with the new +8 amulets.

The time arrived to Jugg. Great regenerations in all juice.
Hiero- and Gladiator-variations were pathed, last the Scion launched and the circle of the Allstars closed.


Phrecia

In "The Legacy of Phrecia" cheapest geared the build reached 660M, up to 1.1 billion damage in the herald-event-ascendancy.




[3.26] Secrets of the Atlas to [3.28] Mirage: One to four to eight billions

Reacting to the [3.26] Mercenary-group-debuff of 25% higher damage taken we turned from CI over into hybrid life+es and doubled all active recovery.
In a new fellowship the qol-buffed Spectres and AG sides us.

The [3.27] Keepers of Flame new core Herald-bloodline fits tight and is adding the inofficial 15th HoA-link Chaotic Might.

In [3.28] Mirage Awakened supports were removed. Instead HoA-crits and a new Soul Eater-HoA were buffed.

250 M in lowest budget top tanky, up to 2 B, and as Total-DD-groupplay-necro-glascannon nice 4 - 8 B are stinged.



Meta-ready?

With these huge buffs to movement, qol, defences and damage the Herald of Agony is probably meta-minion ready again. I don't see since [3.24] another minion-build to scale up better. B.i.s. geared in high-budget 1-8 B damage are stinged in tanky 250k-1M ehp.

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw

To compare: Holy Relics reach only 20% of the capacities in damage of HoA and most Pure-Spectres are too squishy in t-17. HoA is as downside a bit more complex to build, but needs only a much lower budget.



==> The History of all leagues are noted on necro-page 100:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3264207/page/100#p25977445

Heralds and minions are often chosen for their quality of life and automatic damage-qualities. While we ourself are already relaxed looting, our herald finishs our job and cleans the screen. Everything dies around us in autopilot-mod.

Simply by the smooth movement of the channelskill cyclone we automatical launch poisoning fast hitting spells which autotrigger a ranged fighting scorpion-minion.


The defences

The Arachnophobia Allstars are using a special combination of gear like the shield Aegis aurora and Skin of the lords. The build stacks skill-efficiencies and spectres to use all big tanky auras. Then high buffed global defences multiply your Es, your flasks, the aura determination and triple in grace.
This way the long row layers of all defences is lined up: flat dr, armour, spell suppression, evasion, block and spell block.

Following the Allstars take wonderful the intensive full bath in the united composition of all northern tanky keystones. Ghost Dance, Divine Shield, Wicked Ward and Supreme Decadence recover, regenerate and recharge in quadrophony.
Infinitive recovery is overstacked with es on block, es when hit, life on hit and es on hit.

The mechanics

In this unique style the best of both worlds of the tanky eastern and western passivetree is united. The eastern deterministic uptimes of evasion, ghost dance and 100% spell suppression protect you in the nondeterministic downtimes of western blockings.

This means that in combat all taken and dealed hits, spellhits, blocks and spellblocks heal you nonstop.
It's like drinking every second some lifeflasks and your blockings are never limited.

Clusters & Jewels & Resis & Auras & Spectres stacking

The architecture of our passive tree with many clusters, a lot of jewels and a set-up of high-level spectres let us shine beyond in fast reaching the full 90% +max resis, 100% crit- and ailment-immunities and beside stacking almost all tanky auras in really cheap budget.

The countdown

The delicious team of components massive collaborates and impressive lifts off to:

0- oneshots
1- the only one tanky tank of tanks. 1000 es on block, 1M - infinitive* ehp, 1000M dps fast reached, 10-20k+ Es and Life recovered / sec
2- 000 ES on hit/sec, 2000 life on hit/sec, 2000 es when hit, 2000 es recovery/sec with vaal discipline
3- panicskills, 3 curses, 3 different damagetypes united, 30M autobombing, 35M continuous dot
4-00M dps as TT Total Tank, 4000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered
5x Cc: maim, hinders, chills, slows, knockbacks - all mobs are in slow-mo, 50% attackblock, 50-100 minions possible as mass-summoner, 50% overcapped resis, ready for scorchs, ele-debuffs and ee-maps
60+% spellblock
75% dr of 5000 Molten Shell, 70% buffed evasion
8 B dps as Total-DD-Necro
90% elemental resistances, 95-99% flat dr
100 % spell suppression, 100% bleeding-, 100% poison-, 100% elemental ailments-, 100% crit-immunities


We can facetank almost all bosses.

The damage

Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's crawling immortal scorpion-minion. In higher minion-skill-levels the herald of chaos is probably the highest damage-scaling minion in Wraeclast and is buffed into more than a billion dps by cluster-stacking the medium notable "pure agony" + beyond crits, curses and the Lycia-bloodline.

It's center is the dirty tailsting, enlarging by the HoAg the smaller aoe of the channelskill cyclone into two screens of top-tier-range cleared five times each second.

The Allstars define unmatched flexibility with unending possibilities in the whole poe-system. Dozens skills can be utilized and transformed into triggering in high fullspeed the chaos-minion-projectile-damage of the ranged attacks of the scorpion.
Ball lightnings, cyclone, tornadoes and 50 more fast skills can be used.

In this build a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities is mixed and united. With tempestshield, autotriggered tornadoes, void spheres and storm brands the herald is autobombing, with minion-poison 35M are balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active channelling whirling cyclone to launch orbiting ball lightnings tickling the chaos-clone-beast-crawler's tail into fullspeed and initializing 100M to 8000M-fullscreen-chainexplosions.


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Which Prices / Budget?

Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.28]

(Prices listed piece by piece on necro-page 100)

■ 10 chaos for yellow T5
■ 40 chaos for red T14
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red T16
■ 4-6 div watcher's eye for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for 25M damage and juiced red T16.5
■ 20-40 div for 50M damage, nightmares and ubers
■ 40-80 div for 200M damage

30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.


■ 200 div for 400M damage
■ 350 div for 800M damage
■ 800 div for 1000M damage
■ 1500-3000 div for 1500M-4B-8B damage

That's an around 80% smaller budget compared to meta-bamas, squishy spectres, etc.

The nine useable ascendancies alternate 20%-60% in damage, tankyness and recovery and have their own specialities.

Choose your class depending on your poe-experiences, your playstyle and your favourite poe-content:

Without much poe-experiences start relaxed as Trickster into PoHoA for total best tankyness.
With good poe-experiences and the know-how of balancing and to avoid sometimes dot go Necro to kick'n sting more damage.
Use Guardian for easy levelling.
Select Scion, Pathfinder and Champ for the good mix, Occu for speedmapping.

Since the necro-buff in [3.24] I often first update the flexible necro-ascendancy, other ascendancies follow a bit delayed.

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Ascend.:__Guardian_Necro_Occu_Trickster_Pathfi_Champ_Jugg_Scion

DPS singletarget___1____1____2____2____1____4____5____3

DPS high density___2____1____1____2____1____4____5____2

Tankyness________1____2____3____1____2____2____2____2

With mageblood___1____2____3____1____2____2____3____2

Levelling Lvl 1-75__1____1____3____1____1____3____3____3

Gearing Lvl 60-95__1____3____3____1____1____3____4____3


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+ + The Ranking + +

1. Trickster - The Tank

The Trickster grants an immortal mix of defensive layers and es-recharge against d.o.t. Can facetank most d.o.t.-bosses with Lethe Shade. More flexible in the body-armour- and shield-slot. Able to free gear the boots-slot or the sol-keystone.

Easy and fast 150-500M DPS, much more than needed for all content max juiced.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3477280

2. Necro - The DD

More easy to plugg in tanky spectres, AG and golem for more auras, hexes and other skills.
The charm of the necromantic choice is "Unnatural Strength"/ Unholy Might Ascendancy. Flexible to choose the gloves-slot, flexible in the ascendancy.
Necro reaches the leading damage 4000-8000M Soul Eater-HoA-crits when scaled up as pure DD for groupplay.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3264207

Also 2.: Guardian - More Auras, Born to block

Guardian can easy use more auras - or flexible vary his rings. Easy full blockings without Glancing Blows. Relaxed levelling with the radiant crusade-minion.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3562552

3. Pathfinder

Pathfinder gets early half an ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood, inbuilt withers and is free to choose the belt-slot and a watcher's eye mod. That is eg equal to 4 jewel-slots with the darkness enthroned-belt.
In the good mix.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3361513

4. Occu

Occultist, included in the necro-pob, scales top clearspeed with profane bloom in high density. Best with investments for forbidden flame and flesh.

5. Deadeye

Interesting as DD, included in Pathfinder-pob.

6. Scion / Reliquarian

Much flexibility. I.e. in [3.28] the helmet Maw of Conquest and belt Burden of Truth are granted in her ascendancy.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705

7. The Champ

Increased aura-effects, armour and evasion fit tight.
With iron reflexes fast 200k amour and the farming status against U-Shaper, U-Sirus, U-Eater is finalized.
Also most interesting for specialized armour-stacking and selfcasting auras for synergies with the keystone Glancing blows.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3529075

8. It's time to Jugg!

Minion-Jugg starts a bit slow and cannot be scaled above 400M, but later extreme good regenerations. Retiring.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3549881

The Secrets of Juice

Ordinary rush through the atlas to the bosses for the atlas-voidstones and farm a bit low tier-strategies. Then after choose 2 content-mechanics you enjoy and buff them as far as possible with all relating atlas-passives and atlas-keystones, scarabs, deli-orbs, the map-device and astrolabes in 11-mod-maps.

In many YouTube Channels (like Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Crouching_Tuna, Fubgun, POEGuy, etc.) farming strategies, optimizing atlas-trees and juicing favoured maps are explained to maximize currency-drops.

Correct max the juice to multiply your gained currency or exp.
Full juice, full loot.
Unbuffed content is worthless!

Visit necro-forum-page 100 for more tipps i.e. for Ultimatums-farming.

Leaguestarter?

Overall not best, not cheapest and not easy leaguestarter! Without experience auras and clusters are not quickest to upbuild. Shield is expensive (1 div) in the first days of leagues. See "contra" just below! But in starter- and budget-gear fast already with cheap 2 alch- and 1 c-alternatives. Valuable and cheap alternative gear for each slot.
Racing and Speed-Levelling possible: Balaar top 1 A10 Pts+Labs - HoAg in 3h42m51s
I recommend to level with cobra lash etc., see "tipps for levelling", when you are not experienced buffing HoA and minions.
Ready for red mapping early. 6M dps, 400k ehp possible at lvl 80 with cheapest gear without exceptional supports because the HoA scales most damage with easy to craft medium clusters, cheap ghastly jewels, curses and withers.
In end of first week in league ranked first top 1 achieved in the guardian-ascendancy soloplay, leaderboard of necromancers already archieved in week 2 of the first active league of the build.

Top 1

40/40 challenges completed - all content viable.
All Ueber-Bosses down, Valdos, the Feared at once, Simulacrum wave 15 7 rewards, Delve 2000, etc...
Endgame: Max up your build into leading positions - soloplay guardians rank 1 reached
The perfect guide for min-maxers and individualists - there are always upgrades to hunt from 10M to 100M to 200M to 400M to 1000M to 4000M.
Top 1 HoA-build: often copied, but never passed. Yes, it's true: This high optimized in-depth Arachnophilia-guide just right here in the official poe-forum reachs 200%, up to 1000%, more damage and ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the 20-60M-casual-common builds of Crouching_Tuna, PoEGuy, Oscrix, Peuget2, HeavyHeals, marty, Jorgen, Aer0, Snolaz, Verlyna's etc. on YouTube, Maxroll and in PoeVault.
Top 1 hybrid: one of the very seldom valuable builds layering life+es+ar+ev
Top 1 sustain: with max keystones, aegis aurora and melding facetank most bosses
Top 1 total defences: 90% max-resis, 100% spellsuppression, 100% ailment-avoidances, blockings, 50k armour, 75% evasion, 1M+ ehp buffed against all damagetypes - with frostshield counted in even much, much more. Is there any other build with these defence-capacities out there?
Top 1 meta-minion: Is there another minion-build in more than 4000-8000M damage out there?


Beginner-friendly - but complex:

Budget: much cheaper than many metabuilds, until 750M no mageblood, no expensive equipment
Uniques in most slots: Know-how of crafts not needed
Complete poe-trade-links listed in the last spoiler at the buttom of the thread
Because you can facetank most bosses without danger, it's a nice time to learn more about their abilities, attacks and mods.
Not only a "copy my pob-link!"-build:
Sorry, this is probably one of the most expanded and longest builds in the forum. Complex and strong poe-mechanics - all global defences, aura-stacking, the world of clusters and jewels, HoA, minion-crits, multiplied damage-scalings, CI, charges, AG, spectres - are united and explained in the guide. The build, the pob and many spoilers are designed like a toolbox for you. You learn step by step to scale damage up. Selecting your own individual favourite triggers and skills, to free-up skill-sockets, to manage mana and to optimize clusters and the passive-tree is explained. Dialectical strategies and variations for all levels are shown. You can dive deep into the world of poe. It's a massive in-depth build explaining stat-details and budget-variations.
Comprehensive checklists for damage and defences, checklists for all stats.

Relaxing 100% poison-immunity.

When you enjoy building up and optimizing skills a lot fun - At the same time not easy to balance all stacked mechanics and defensive layers of the build.

Ready to level to 100.

I solo-levelled Necro deathless to 100 in full juiced red delirium-maps with increased density of full buffed exarch-altars.
Earlier I played lvl100 Guardian myself with t16 red maps, heists and deeper delve.
I played Pathfinder to lvl 100 and Trickster deathless in lvl 90-100 in full delirium-beyond-juiced 10k wisps-affliction. As Champ lvl 90-99 were done with 2 deaths, relaxed in low 3k es, in allflames-necropolis high juiced maps, b2b, rogueexiles, delirium and beyond. Jugg died 4x in lvl 80-100 in max-juided beyond - delirium - ritual - ultimatum mapping, Scion lvl 80-100 died 6x in 3.26 16.5 content.
While most other builds go only for 20-200k ehp, this build's focus on defences, enabling 1M ehp and lvl 100 in all content.

HC viable

Also without top-gear: Large es/ block is most safe against poe's lags and disconnects.
HC lvl 100 reached

Ranged and melee playstyle combined

1 button-build
Against Ubers: 3 buttons
The best out of three worlds combinated: channeled smooth moving of cyclone launching fast spells which autotrigger a minion attacking in ultra-wide range 2 screens
Tank & Cast-style is definitiv more fun as kite & hide
Different damagetypes united in HoA as trigger: selfbuffed damagepeaks, homing tornados, continuous poison-dot, autotriggered counter-damage
HoA-Chaos-damage and HoA-poison-dot instant penetrates es, ar and many other defences of bosses

Allrounder

HoA is immortal - optimal minion for boss-hunting
Best fitting for nightmares, simulacrums, delve, bossing, inscribed ultimatums, ravaged blights etc.
Easy to balance and to specialize for individual content and goals in endgame.
Much space to play and vary with skills, keystones, clusters, supports and gear slots.
Half an aurabot: In groupplay and for companions great supporting with auras and curses.
As the DD top huge 4 - 8 B dps.

Heavy ground damage can still kill you (exception is our immunity to burning, shocking and caustic ground).

HoA-convocation into proximity shields has a 1.5 sec cd.

Only 100-150% increased movementspeed.

Ramping up full damage is 0.3 sec delayed.

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter!
Shield is expensive (1 div) in the first days of leagues.
In leaguestart often alternative 2c gear is needed in these slots because of pricefixers/ high prices.
High prizes are often leaguestart prizes. Ongoing in league they will change. Support and demand changes through the first weeks much in trade.
Not cheap when you max your watcher's eye and amulet - but still much cheaper until 2000M as other meta-builds.

In Ssf/Ruthless HoAg is strong extreme not optimized, but much more difficult to collect the clusters.

Complex to max - not easy to optimize all mechanics and clusters. You will need your time and some know-how to scale HoA-damage, recovery, auras, keystones and jewels and to balance the mana. But as result you learn in this build much many core-mechanics, global defences and tanky keystones in the whole northern and eastern tree.

When you take the tanky nodes "only" 200 - 2000 millions singletarget shaper-dps. That is more than enough for all ubers. You will rush through the maps with your 420 M forking mapping-damage. You have no downtimes of your damage because you are tank and you have ranged DD's, dot and autobomb-damage. But sorry, you need one second longer against the Ubers compared to the only-bossers in the neighboorship.

Because the poe-engine hardcaps the HoA-lvl and dot-damage not easy to buff above 8000M damage.

Hack'n sting!

Mix and max!

This fine composed recipe with the full dozen seasoned components tastefully serve full arachnophilia in passion for destruction.
Here starts the journey into the fine arts of 1000M and more dps HoA-crawling.

Produce with your own poisoning and fast hitting spells Agony-virulences.

Increase the HoA-base damage by increasing HoA-skill-levels with gear and empower-support.

The HoA-base-damage and attackspeed is multiplied by the total number of HoA-virulences. So the key is to insert large voices-clusters to insert more medium clusters of more 'pure agony'-notables for more max HoA-virulences.

Many jewels slots are produced collateral which are used for ghastly jewels for minion chances to poison, for more small clusters for mana-management for more tanky auras and for more rare jewels for + cold-resis equal to + max-resis by melding the flesh.

Then we continue to scale up further with withers, curses, dot-multiplier and a row of buffs and debuffings.

Finally b.i.s. geared for balancing into dps we invest into HoA-critical chances and damage with 3 grand spectrums and arrive in hundreds and thousands of millions damage in the lategame.


■ TL;DR | Show me the scaling | The Ranking of all HoA-buffs ■

Shake up and stack up the coctail of damage for shining clean screens with:


Poisonhits for HoA-virulences > HoA-skill-lvl 29 / 34 (improved with empower-support and gear) ≥ medium-clusters Pure Agony (base damage, attackspeed) > Withers ≥ Curses (Despair, Assassin's mark) > HoA-poison (Ghastly jewels) > 100% Chaos-Conversion > Lycia-Bloodline > HoA-crits > Spirit offering > frenzy & power charges > AG > Golem > Spectres > aoe-chain-explosions (gloves asenath's) > culling strike > feeding frenzy





1. Gain Virulence


■ Spell Poison for HoA-Virulences ■

Whenever you poison with your spellhits and other skills, you generate agony-virulences.
With more and faster virulences your Herald will hit faster and harder.


■ A Chaos- or physical damage-component ■

is mandatory to poison with our pure elemental skills.
Add that additional basic chaos- / phys-component with:

■ the circle of nostalgia-ring
■ or exarch-implicit + chaos-damage on helmet
■ or chance to poison-support-gem


■ Minimum 80%, better 100% chance to poison ■

are then charged up:

20% HoAg-buff

40% chance to poison supportgem / while levelling integrated in rare gloves

25% 2 passives serpentine spellslinger
25% 2 passives fatal toxins
15% 3 passives toxic strikes

Switch to b.i.s. in endgame:

40-100% 8-20 tattoos of the tawhoa shaman



■ The Golden Rule ■

Final place in the cherry jewel the golden rule:
The reflected self-poisonings double our stacking of virulences.

That is equal to 100% more HoA-virulences.


■ Fast Spells ■

We choose the most fast hitting spells with lowest mana-costs in whole poe:
best are the ball lightnings of orbiting, or of static, to generate the needed full 30+ virulences /second.
Tornadoes of elemental turbulences are fast too.


Use until 110 virulences:

cyclone (lvl 20) - cast while channeling (lvl 20) - ball lightning of orbiting (lvl 1) - tornado of elemental turbulence (lvl 1)


Simultan they hit fast for more life and es on hit-recovery and for our witherings.
Limit them to lvl 1, quality 20 to reduce their manacosts.


Faster stack the virulences with lowered delay by:

■ high mana-reg with the shaper ring 3 mana on spellhit
■ +30% gemqualities by ashes of the stars
■ onslaught ring-implicit
■ increased aoe (eg harvestcraft weapon-implicit)


Check the counter in the green HoAg-Aura-Icon for the needed continuous 60-120 virulences-stacks singletarget.

Alternative check in pob the hit rates for maximal poison stacks of your combined cyclone, 5-10 ball-lightnings, 3 tornadoes and other skills. Calculate them without increased poison-durations, but instead increase them by 20%, adding a thumbed 0.4 sec for the delayed fadings of HoA-virulences. Add in manually some virulences for the bigger hitboxes of bigger bosses. Double them for the golden rule. Alternative compare the gained es on hit-rating in pob.



'Tempestshield', 'cwdt - void sphere', other channeled & triggered skills, and also for offerings used 'arcanist brand - unearth - spirit offerings' compose HoA-autobombing-quality for maximized damage-uptime and a lot qol.

==》 You choose the best virulence-skill-generators in "skills & trigger".





2. The Base-damage


■ HoAg-gem-levels | Gear up | HoAg-supports | "More" damage ■

Climb up and crawl to the HoA tipping-gemlevels 23 >> 28 >> 29 >> 34 >> maximum 40 + Skillgem-quality 23%

The HoA scales heavy with all-, minion-, spell-, chaos-, phys-, dex- skill-gemlevels and empower-support.

+21 HoA lvl 21
+3 empower lvl 4
+4 2x +2 skin of the lords / +6 Skin of the loyals (2x+1 to socketed, +2 to minion gems)

+2 Maata's Teaching
+2 / +1 Rare Helmet
+1 Ashes of the stars / +2 / +4 / +8 rare amulet

+1 chaos mastery "Corruption"

+ miniondamage, void manipulation, vicious projectiles
+ in maps: pierce / returning projectiles / greater fork
+ against endgame-bosses: predator / vile toxin / fresh meat / withering touch / damage on full life-support





■ Full Pure Agony ■

Insert as early as possible 9x medium clusters "pure agony".

They are our leaders for damage.



Virulences are a complete unique multiplier for Herald of Agony.
Each adds +5 maximal HoA-virulences. Basic +20% miniondamage is increased beyond.

Further the HoA-gemquality 23% and Ashes of the stars 29% add 13 virulences.

We reach:

40 basic
45 by 3 voices for 9 medium clusters (9 x 5 = 45)
15 more by 4 good voices for 500M++ dps
6 by 23% HoA-quality
7 by 29% Ashes of stars

==> 98 - 113 virulences


■ The Voices ■

■ Pathing into the third (and fourth) large cluster let you reach full slots for 9-12 medium clusters "pure agony" for optimal HoA-base-damage and in total 98 HoA-virulences (up to 113).
■ At the same time you reach so many jewel slots, that your hunt for unique megalomaniac-medium clusters begins. When you get b.i.s.-ones with sublime form, overwhelming malice, elegant form, vicious bites and renewal, you can balance around 10% dps more in.


■ The Maths of HoA ■

■ A Starter-HoA-Lvl 21 gem deals 51-94 flat Phy-Dmg +9% Inc. Dmg. +5% ATS per one virulence.
At low basic 40 virulences that’s 2040-3760 flat Phy-Dmg + 360% Inc. Dmg + 200% ATS.

■■■ A typical Allstars-HoA-Lvl 35 gem deals 177-329 flat Phy-Dmg, +12% Inc. Dmg., +6% ATS per one 1x virulence.
At typical default 98x virulences in cheap gear like 20% HoA gem quality, 29% ashes amulet and 9x medium clusters pure agony, that’s 17346-32242 flat Phy-Dmg, +1176% Inc. Dmg, + 588% ATS to be scaled up further.

8 x

■■■■■ Compared to HoA-lvl 20 / 40 virulences our default HoA-lvl 35 / 98 virulences octuplicate and eightfold the HoA-basedamage - to be upscaled further with our long row of all the following potentiators.


■ "Increased" damage ■

■ 270-360% miniondamage are increased collateral with the 9-12 clusters "pure agony"
■ 1200% by the HoA-virulences
■ 50% by the HoA-supportgems
■ 0-200% with the herald-rings circle of nostalgia / ambition

Above higher increasements have not much effectivity.





3. The Upscaling

The inofficial 6th to 20th HoA-supports

1st-5th
Supports in 6-link Body armour.

6th
Skin of Lords adds +2 HoA-levels and +2 to the empower-supportgem.
+4 lvl's is equal to a full additional second Empower-HoA-supportgem.

7th
HoA-poison with ghastly jewels is equal to a Chance to Poison-HoA-supportgem.

8-9th
15 withers buffed with increased effects double the HoA-damage.

10-11th
The curses Despair and Assassin's mark double the HoA-damage.

12th
100% chaos conversion / Unholy Might in the necro-ascendancy or with 4 white-sockets Triad Grips is more than equal to an additional Void manipulation-support.

13th
In the bloodline chaotic might on profane ground is equal to a Withering Touch-HoA-supportgem.

14th
Spirit Offering boosts Increased Critical Strike Chance.

15th
3 Grand spectrum-jewels are equal to Increased Critical Damage.

16th
The armour Saqawal's Nest and Aspect of the Avian boosts in 50% uptime HoA 48% - equal to a Minion Damage-support.

17-18th
Transfusion-support turns HoA into a Soul-Eater.

19-20th
Farewell to Flesh bloodline in Bloodmagic is doubling beyond the dps.



■ HoA-Minion-Poison ■

In our lower levels until gearlevel 70M dps we scale up the HoA-poison until we reach the poe-engine's hardcap of dot at 35.7 M.

(Later HoA-poison is exchanged into HoA-crits.)

■ Get 1-4 rare yellow ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit"
■ 2 of them can be doubled in the belt darkness enthroned
■ HoA-crits add a 50% dot-multiplier.
■ Against the Ubers dot is much more effective. Set the pob-configurations to Ubers to calculate the 300% extended poison-hardcap correct when you farm them.


■ Withers ■

15 wither-debuffs almost double the damage.
2 sources are perfect:

■ Withering step (9 withers) (+ ashes of the stars 12) (+ enhance 14)
■ Sin's rebirth stibnite flask in maps (15)
■ a megalomaniac cluster with "Overwhelming Malice" (10-15)
■ Chaos Golem of the Maelstroem (8-9) + 50% increased effect of withers
■ chaos-mastery Corruption 20% increased effect of withers



■ Curses ■

Despair (damage) + Assassin's mark (crits) are mixed into the recipe.

■ In lategame universal Despair and Assassin's mark for HoA-crits are thrown.
■ Before Sniper's mark and Temporal chains (buffing poison and withers) are strong too.

■ For bosses despair and the mark are prepared served on Arcanist brand or Shield charge - Battlemage's cry
■ Despair can be buffed by Hexpass.
■ The b.i.s. amulet-implicit, Whispers of doom-anoint, Vixen`s entrapements, Windscreams or an Anathema-ring add the elegance of 2, 3, 4 and more curses.

■ 4 low level hexes are outsourced on the AG's, or Merc's, helmet Ylfeban's Trickery to ignore the curse-limit or 2 on gloves Asenath's Gentle Touch or on a blasphemy-spectre.
Despair, Punishment, Enfeeble default and Temporal Chains for HoA-poison are valuable.
■ In maps the hexes can be also spreaded on hit on your gloves implicts, or eg with: tempestshield - hextouch - despair - temporal chains or Bane.
■ In a 4-5 curses set-up stepping into "steeped in the profane" can be reasonable.


■ 100% Chaos-Conversion ■

HoA original deals 100% physical and then converts 60% into chaos-damage.

The gloves 4 white-socketed triad grips are taken to finalize 100% chaos-damage.

Until we get the triad-gloves, alternative in maps a minion offence mastery, eg Death Attunement, for HoA's Unholy Might after kill has good uptime.

The conversion into 100% chaos-damage almost doubles the effects of withers, chaos-curses, HoA-poison and Void Manipulation.




25M - 50M

Dps- Checks

■ 6M damage are for sure enough for t16-mapping and lvl 100 farming
■■ 8M are enough to kick Maven
■■■ 10M for juiced red T16 and for Ueber Elder
■■■■ 20M for simulacrums wave 15
■■■■■ 30M for the feared, valdo-maps and juiced t17
■■■■■■ 40M-50M for the Ubers

Congratulations! At this level you are ready for all content.

You sting pinnacles down in a few seconds, oneshot the screen and are able to farm juiced t-16.5 nightmares and all ubers.
By this point you can consider yourself done. You've got everything, you're good.

When you progress further you enter the famous top 1% in the game.

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw


■ The Companions | The Charges ■

■ Max your Spectres, AG and Golem.
■ Grant frenzy charges (or also power charges) to HoA with the Support-spectres or Merc (12% more HoA-base-dps, 45% incr. HoA-ats).
■ The final cuddling culling strike is hugged by AG and Kingmaker.
■ Still not socketstarved? A chaos golem of the maelstroem / spectres / animate guardian or vaal skeletons are featuring feeding frenzy.


■ Chain-Explosions ■

In high density-content

■ the gloves Asenath's gentle touch geared on your AG or Merc
■ or the Foulborn Witchbane-jewel
■ "unspeakable gifts" on a megalo
■ Annihilation Support

produce beautiful chainexplosions all over the screen.

Your effective ingame-clearspeed quickens.


■ The Herald-Bloodline ■

For Bitter Heresy in the Lycia-Bloodline use

■ a Zealotry-Spectre
■ Rational Doctrine-jewel
■ or Holy Flame Totem

for Profane Ground to trigger Chaotic Might and Malediction.


■ Use all the league-mechanics! ■

■ Use the Djinn-supports Coins of power, craft mixed cluster-jewels, visit HoA-necro-page 132.




100M - More, more, more

From here and onwards the clusters, passives, HoA-supports, curses, poison and crits often need to be calculated individually.

■ How much tankyness, es, ehp and qol is valuable in your favourite played poe-content?
■ Which b.i.s.-pieces, voices and unique medium-clusters can you snipe, farm, afford or craft on your own?
■ Do you farm the meta-possibilities of the mageblood?

That are the factors.

100M can be reached fast with the Lycia-bloodline, 200M with some HoA-crits, for 250M you need 2 curses, to almost oneshot the Ubers in 500M use only best gear, and a bit tankyness is exchanged against 1000M+.



■ 100M - 1500M HoA-Crits ■

Good geared above gearlevel 100M in lategame, when you want to exchange a bit qol into more bossing-burst-dps, investments into crits can double, triple and octuplicate your damage one more time.

■ HoA (5% crit-base / 130% crit-damage)

Switch out the Poison-HoA-set-up (ghastly jewels and temporal chains), switch in instead the Crit-HoA-loadout:

■ Mataa`s Teaching sceptre is the best crit-base (9.5-11.5% crit-base)

■ Assassin's mark for 3 HoA-power charges (+1.5% crit-base, 150% increased crit-chances, +55% crit-damage)
■ Buff crits high with Arcanist brand - Unearth - Spirit offering
Increase the effects of offerings by quality (13%), with ashes of the stars (18%), in the minion offence mastery (20%), or also on the boots-eldritch-exarch-implicit (17%). (150% up to 250% crit-chances, 40-70% crit-damage)
■ Pathing 5 passives into "Fearsome force" (or amulet-anoint) (80% crit-chances, 60% crit-damage)
■ Zealotry-spectre (30% crit-damage)
■ Profane ground of the jewel Rational doctrine / Lycia Bloodline (10% increased curses, 100% crit-chances)
■ Mercenary's / Animate Guardians's Kingmaker (50% crit-damage)
■ Brittle ground, on AG's eldritch-implicit-boots (+2% crit-base)
■ 2 - 3 Grand spectrum cobalt jewels for minion crit multiplier (40% - 90% crit-damage)
■ Vicious bite on megalomaniacs (30% crit-chances, 15% crit-damage)
■ Use as trigger Battlemage's Cry (+2.5% crit-base) + Shield charge + (Blessed Call) + x
■ Alternative, without Maata's, use Scornful Herald Support (+12% base-crit, 26% crit-damage)
■ Bottled faith (150% crit-chances)

For mapping:

■ Exemplar Support (250% crit-chances, 100% crit-damage)

For bossing:

■ Fresh Meat for 10 seconds (4.2% crit-base, 75% crit-damage)
■ Icicle Mines of Sabotage - Minefield with 4 passives the Mastery "Efficience Explosives" -> "Mines cannot be damaged" (60 mana-reserved, 500-650% crit-chances)


In total we reach a 12-33% crit-base,
multiplied by 500-1500% increased crit-chances,
resulting into 80-100% HoA-crit-chances,
to procc 400-700% HoA-crit-damage.

The HoA-crittings add beyond a huge +50% damage over time multiplier to remaining HoA-poison.




■ Direct buffs ■

■ A minion-offence-mastery, "fearsome force" for HoA-crits and "death attunement" for +1 spectre add i.e. in maps HoA-Unholy might after kill
■ The +1 chaos mastery "corruption" buffs withers and reaches HoA tipping lvl 34.
■ Blindings, with a dark seer, on a jewel or tattoo, add accuracies for some HoA-hits.
■ Forbidden flame and flesh for i.e. the occultistic void beacon.





■ The Bonus | 1500M - 3000M ■

Especially with the mageblood shift over to the pob-loadouts Saqawal`s Nest + Aspect of the Avian for 50% uptime of a 48% chance that HoA stings doubled damage.



The Total - DD - Necro :


■ Soul-Eater-HoA | 3000M - 4000M ■

Transfusion-support + Corrupting Fever + Lifetap + Automation turns HoA into a Soul-Eater in +225% ats.


■ Farewell to Flesh | 4000M - 8000M ■

in the Lycia-Bloodline doubles all beyond in Bloodmagic.

==》An example gear progression for each piece lvl 1 until b.i.s. you find on necro-page 100:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25977437

==》 All poetrade-links for all gear, the alternatives, levelling-recommendations, starters and b.i.s.-upgrades you find in the last spoiler at the bottom of the build also.











The Body Armour





■■■ The Keystones ■■■

Ghost Dance | Glancing Blows | Lethe Shade | Divine Shield | Magebane | CI Chaos Inoculation | Iron Reflexes





Ordinary we level up tanky with the Cybil's Paw for recovery.

Then our low-budget-taxi to the next tipping point HoA-lvl 23/28/29/34 is the +3 Cold Iron point dagger.

Choosed by tanks is +2 The dark seer sceptre, +2 energyshield, and further as Hybrid +2 life, or as CI +2 mana per level, to add convincing +700 es, malediction and blindings in the mix with awesome damage. Total top tanky 25% more ehp. Combinate it with the HoA-crit-support "Scornful Herald".

Finally in lategame, when we prefer focussing into attractive 200M-1400M dps, the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre turns b.i.s. somewhere around having some free jewelslots, using the second curse assasin`s mark, and reaching capacities to invest into high HoA-crit-scaling.


Weapon-Type

For cyclone you need a 1-hand melee weapon base-type (sceptres, claws, daggers, swords), for spells all weapontypes and wands fit.

Weapon-Quality

Go to the harvestcraft to increase crits for Maata's, or to increase aoe for other weapons.

Weapon-Corruption-Implicit

Maata's: Crits
Always: incr. AoE for more virulences
CIP etc.: Unholy might on kill or Resolute technique




This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:



Aegis Aurora


Shaper-ring / Circle of Nostalgia




Upgrades with fertile-catalysts



The Amulet - Ashes, Uul & Aul



+3 Replica Dragonfang's Flight is a strong starting amulet when you snipe it cheap.

Then "Ashes of the stars" best buffs up damage. The generating of virulences, tornados or storm burst is enhanced and the quality and level of more active utility-skills, like withering step, resis of spectres and buffs of golems is supported.

B.i.s. is the additional implicit "You can apply an additional curse". All the cheaper amulet-starter-variations get much stronger with this implicit also.

The Ashes or Defiance are more than enough for all poe-content, but when you farmed really a lot currency with good atlas-strategies in the late endgame, a rare 2x +4 = +8 to all / chaos / physical skillgem-levels is the totally b.i.s. and lead the Allstars into 1B to 7B dps, deluxe-bonus is +4 to min. endurance-charges.




Anoint the amulet



Helmet





Gloves






Boots






Belt

Attributes



Resistances



Fire and other ailments



90% Flat Damagereductions



100% Spell Suppression



75% Spellblock



Manamanager

The tanky balancings



On youtube atlas-strategies are guided to multiply your experience gained for the contemporary league. Delving boosts perfect exp in lower levels, in the final levels often beyond, crimson-ore, breach, harbinger and abyssal are recommended.

You do not want to die in the levels 98 to 100 and to be honest: GGG designed all mapmods, altars and bosses to detect your last vulnerability and to kill you when you miss only one defensive layer.

Start to check step by step the spoiler "checklist defences", lower the juice, remain afraid of in wispswoods rippy 3000%++ empowered soul-eaters, and balance not needed damage above 50M instead into some of the following tanky optimizations.



Omens


Wear an Omen of Amelioration in your inventory.



Tanky Charges

Use the vitality-spectre or a small or an unique megalomaniac cluster "enduring composure" for endurance charges.


Tanky Tree

Fast path to:

■ 3 passives for a life-mastery, i.e. "Blood Drinker", in Skin of Lords with "15% increased maximum Life if there are no Life Modifiers on Equipped Body Armour",
■ 3-5 passives for the es-mastery 'Written in Blood',
■ in high content when AG is ripping too often: 4 into poison-mastery "Serpentine Spellslinger" for better own crit-immunity,
■ 3-5 passives for the shield-mastery "Arcane guarding",
■ to more slots for +2 cold-resi-jewels and into "Survivalist",
■ 2 into 'Entrench' to spam the life-flask nonstop,
■ 4 into a staff mastery for Unholy Might on block, to swap the flask Sin's Rebirth eg to the tanky Progenesis or Soul Ripper



Tanky Runegrafts

Imprint the tanky Runegrafts of Fortress, of Rotblood, of Warp and of Soulwick.


Tanky Atlas

Use in your atlas:
■ + max-resis and movement with the delve-note "Packed with Energy"
■ the tanky shrine-effects in "Supplication" and "Syncretism"


The Tanky Skills

Further you can turn into more tankyness simpel with skills.
Switch out the squishy chaos-golem or clunky unearth + spirit offering and skill instead into tankyness.


Tear up the wall


Blocking with whole walls is a level-up in safety and protection.

In a warding basis you can combine your skills with freaky frostwalls - linked to cwdt lvl 1 or cast when stunned they are autotriggered and simply the best against all types of ranged attacking enemies.

I use them also for the encounters in delve and for heists. In these situations frostwalls are BiS.

Frost walls length is fine on lvl 1.


Tanky channeling

Support cwc by excommunicate or infused channeling.


Tanky Es-reg

Frostshield binded to cwc, cws or to cwdt adds 1000-4000 es / sec as buffer. Choose the skill-level which feels comfortable.



No bosses, no t-17

When you are not a very experienced player, combat the hardest content like t-17 bosses, U-Cortex and The Feared on your level-ups.
They remain dangerous. One too slow reactiontime or one not known aoe-attack are not welcomed in these final levels.

All other content you can farm and do not depend on 5-ways or other carrying-services like other builds.

/ U-Neglect in 12 sec /

The Ubers are designed as final endgame-goals - not to facetank, not to block, not to evade, disabling your recovering, and allover penetrating your resistances with oneshot-aoe's and deathly fast instant dot.
While in ordinary content of PoE the Allstars build up multiple layers of all global defences and can facetank almost all the pinnacle-bosses, against Ubers the balancing into flat damagereductions, dot-reductions, max-resis, damage, damage-uptime and movement is mandatory.

That means also you can counter ubers a bit better with 10B cast-on-death or other glascannon-builds. But the Allstars do the job the same with some ups and downs very well. Good geared they are down in a few seconds.

You will need every slot and every implicit optimized and also the know-how of all ubers' attacks. You need against the Ubers strong gear to scale the HoA-damage even more up in the dps-race against their increasing aoe-s filling the uber-arenas (Maven, Sirus).

Against the Ubers major attacks maximal hit taken-numbers are often as important as ehp in the pob.


In my experiences it's probably most easy to reach the farming-quality-status against:

Uber-Cortex > Uber-Neglect > U-Fear > U-Exarch > UU-Elder > U-Dread > U-Eater > U-Shaper > U-Sirus > U-Maven



Mandatory defences

■ you should have reached 100% permament freeze-ailment-immunities against the cold-dealers shaper, elder, ueber elder, maven, aul, sirus / Shock immunities against world-eater, sirus, cortex, maven / Ignite immunities against sirus, exarch, atziri, maven.
■ you need corrupted blood immunities on a jewel/ the belt-jewel and in the Pantheon burning-gound-immunities against Sirus
■ You need life+es on hit with the watcher's eye



Skills

■ Selfcasted Molten Shells, Vaal Molten Shells and Frostshields makes you tanky in phases like Shaper's bullet hell, Exarch's Thousand Suns, Sirus Meteors, and also The Maven's Memory Game.

■ Change out the pierce/ greater fork-gem of your herald-of-agony. I.e. Vile toxins is the prefered support or predator.



Damage

■ 30M damage should have been reached.


Movement

■ Don't try to facetank their biggest mainattacks, degen-effects and aoe-s.
All their minor attacks you can tank.
■ You need practise in their attacking-mods. Almost all have accustic signals.
■ Kite: "Hunger" of Uber-Eater, "Take this" of Uber-Maven
■ PoE-bosses react very, very slow when they need to turn around.
Move and circle every 2-3 seconds to the backside of the Uber.
■ For movement use flamedash

When you still not ran out of currency, you should upgrade:

■ the amulet with the implicit "you can apply an additional curse" for one more curse
■ the mageblood for 89% max-resis with melding of the flesh
■ other cheap stuff ;-) like a third mod on your watcher's eye, b.i.s. and double rings- and shield-implicits, some more jewels- and clusters-corruptions, b.i.s. rolled unique megalomaniacs, etc. ...

Some love the relaxed tank, some want the oneshot-killer. Some like the league fast and cheap, others the long race for full b.i.s.
Everyone will find his goal in this comprehensive guide.



In fulljuiced maps 50-100M damage were always enough for me and I did not need more. Already when you get the fourth or fifth medium cluster with 'pure agony' you will rush through the maps topspeed. But there are faster builds of course out there than minions.

This build safe you in endgame with unique optimized defences first.
In such decisions Poe is often about finding the fitting balances of offensive, defensive, recovery and qol for your goals and content.
... Do you want to farm fast, do you want to overjuice the mods for best loot, do you want to boss-hunt, do you want solo-self-levelling to lvl 100, which content like the ubers, nightmares, delve, blight, groupplay etc. do you prefer or do you need an Allrounder build for the mix without too much gear-swaps... ?




As example I am myself the typical min-maxer solo-gamer-type. I love to optimize a build and trade for best gear in all slots. I like to level to 100, to optimize the build more and more and more with the final passives and implicits. I enjoy my dopamin with fullfilling my b.i.s.-gear.
And the visuals of spells, like ignites of raze and pillage, skills and mapdesigns are important for me to love playing a game. I love to try out and optimize all kind of skills, gear and supports. And I enjoy to write+optimize this build too, to find a unique build like here full optimizing auras, all defences and many keystones.

On the opposite I dislike pressured repeated speedgrinding. I prefer continuous loot-explosions above hoping for too rare jackpot-drops. I hate the grinding and picking up splinters and clicking doors to open. Too much dungeon-maps, Alvas and temples, and cleaning up kingsmarch-map-runner's stashes bore me instantly, crafting is not so satisfying for me, in hardcore I panic of loosing beloved gear, I prefer facetanking instead kiting. I not love mini-games like betrayal or crop-rotation. I execrate to commit to memory map-layouts for speedlevelling and racing. I mislike hiding juiced content behind high currency -investments and love instead improving and investing my currency into my build and gear. Atlas-strategies which need mandatory backtracking? No, not with the Allstars.




My own favourite is the dramatic playstyle of the HoA-scorpion. To choose and buff a virulences-generating skill-set-up which then again buffs the scorpion-minion which is then cloning yourself is high fun. .... lol, hehe, exactly all this is offered by this multiplied scaling Herald-skill. Firing the balls out, stacking virulences and damage was for me the most wonderful and enjoying playstyle in whole poe until now. It's a match!

Guardian - Born to Block

■ Can use easy and a lot poison on hit int-tattoos.
■ Can easy switch tempestshield out. Then don't forget shock-immunities and counterattacks like cwdt - void spheres for autotriggered damage.
■ Sources of withers needed.

■ Easy auras.
■ Easy Fullblock without Glancing Blows.
■ Flexible ring. Can push out Circle of Nostalgia.
Can i.e. easy instead use the ring Shavronne's Revelation for +800 es.

Wooop, the Wall of wisdom is incoming


Sorry, this time there is no TL;DR available, this is itself the TL;DR to crawl beyond red T-16's.
This checklist summarizes 20 layers of defences out of all spoilers above.
The stacked 200k up to 2M ehp will show immortality to you.

1. Check your elemental- and your chaos-resistances.

- Your elemental resistances have to be capped and have to be all 75++%.
In t-17 and against Ubers 85-90% are much better.
- Your chaos-resis should have reached in maps 50-75% against chaos-dd-rogue exiles, chaos-dd-bosses, in ultimatums, etc.
Use 1x +43% chaos-resis on one circle of nostalgia.


3. Get the central permament layers of defences against bleeding and against corrupted blood

- Get permament bleeding-avoidances on 2 ghastly jewels.
Double one of them in the belt darkness enthroned.
Bleedings while cycloning are lethal.
- Get beyond permament "corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" on one implicit on one jewel.
A lot bosses can kill you very fast without.
- Alternative use while levelling the Ghastly Theater shield, in lategame Mageblood for the flask-suffix, or high flasks-uptimes, or alternate the minor pantheon to ralakesh.


3. Check your flasks.

- Do you have antibleeding on one flask before it's permanent reached on jewels?
- Do you have autotriggered flasks like "used when you start bleeding"?
- anti-ignites before you got immunities on Sin's rebirth autotriggered "used when you become ignited"?
- Other flasks enchanted "When you hit a rare or unique enemy"?
- Is the quality of all your flasks 20-30%? With rare flasks charges gained when hit, less charges used or longer duration?


4. Check your pantheon for burning ground-immunity!!

- Did you maxed with divine vessels the minor Pantheon of Abberath (often in the summit or estuary map) and have immunity to burning ground? It's most important to recharge your es.
When not use "fire attunement" on a cluster.


5. Do you have active recovery?

- Use a shaper-ring life on spellhit.
- Use an elegant hubris supreme decadence to use your instant life-flask simultan for your es.
- The watcher's eye with the discipline- / vitality-mod es+life on hit is the key for high active es+life recovery.


6. Do you have enough mana-reg for nonstop life+es on hit?

- Use best on the shaper-ring mana on spellhit.
- Do you have enough unreserved mana, 70-110, and further also 50-60 mana-reg and 2% mana-recoupings, so that all tanky skills and in all times es on hits are continuous triggered?
- Whirl in close range to bosses to always keep up the highest es on hit.


7. Check your tanky auras and your tanky spectres

- Did you stacked all your auras? Do you have activated all the auras "Determination" and "Grace" and "Discipline", and "Vitality" and "Flesh and Stone" and "Tempestshield"?
- Outsource 3-5 auras on your spectres.
- Get a life-flask "of the necromancer" for the companions.


8. Do you often die of ailments, crits and stuns?

- Use fast the poison-mastery against by crits inflicted ailments.
- Get additional bleeding- and ailment-avoidances on abyss-jewels and other jewel-implicits.
- Cloth the AG in Garb of the Ephemeral against all slowings and crits.
- Start with the Brine King against freezings and stuns, with the AG in Garb of Ephemeral switch to Arakaali.


9. Do you own all important jewels?
And obtained 85%+ max-resis?
And reached 100% spell suppression?

- Are you ready for taste the hate? Or better melding the flesh with +2 max-cold-resis-jewels in high poe-content?
- 100% spell suppression not reached? Stack "elegant form" (or "untouchable" or "aerialist") on small and unique medium clusters to fix also combined your ailment avoidances until you obtained it on the watcher's eye, sol and tattoos.


10. Check your other tanky skills

- Do you trigger Immortal call or spam Molten Shell? And use Vaal Discipline? Use them often!
- While your defensive skill gems like determination, molten shell, frost shield, (vaal) discipline, grace, flesh and stone, cast when stunned are levelling up, you will get a lot more defense with raising levels of course. When you have too much too weak lvl 1 gems socketed it is dangerous and you have to level them a bit before returning in high content.

- Visit the spoiler "endgame" ==》 "Level 100" to balance more skills into defences


11. Other Basics & Ascendancy & Playstyle

- Do you have all 4 ascendancies in the labyrinths done?
- Rebalanced overcapped stats and suffixes into other useful stats?
- Use Runegrafts
- Ingame fullgeared it's practical often the best choice to search high density to run into the next mobs. More es on block, more es and life on hit on multiple targets and more HoA-virulences are triggered.


12. Check all the league-mechanics

They often support to cap tanky stats and add high defences.
Eg use the new Djinn-supports.
Like cyclone - imbued excommunicate / infused channelling.
Visit Necro-forum-page 132.


13. Check your blockings

- Do you have maxed high spellblock? When not you need blockings on Rumi's concotion?
It's your priority for recovery against the spellhits of the big bosses!
- Do you have 30% attackblock and 50% evasion of grace?


14. Do you stacked enough recovery? To not die too often in dot and degen?

Raw ES does not grant survivability, substain does.
Stack more recovery.


==> For more variations visit the "checklist stats" ==> "recovery"



15. Check your flat dr. Check your max hit taken. Check your ehp. Check your life+es.

The build balances much into defensive layers, mitigation, flat damagereductions, avoidances, immunities and recovery and not much into increased life+es.
Captain Lances prooved with his 20-mirrors int-stackers that also high 25k es-bubbles can be melted down in 0.5 sec in high poe-content.
Collecting more recovery, damage-avoidances, pdr + armour, +max-resis, building up more layers of defences and last not least a bit movement is finally much better as simply raw life + es.


■ Reach 18k phys- and chaos-max hit taken unbuffed.
■ Reach 300k ehp to feel immortality in almost all poe-content.


"Ehp" in the pob-calculations matters for high density, damagepeaks in maps and for all fast hitters.
"Max hit taken" instead matters for hard hits of outliners like the Shaper slam and Ubers, for stacked high juiced map-mods multiplying damage, and a few instant crits taken.

Against oneshots you need fullgeared a total minimum around 18k max hit taken, 4000 life+es when all your defences are builded up. Estimated and thumbed. In my experiences. In juiced t17 maps. In simulacrums wave 15 and against ubers 4-5 k es+life are recommended.

Get more ehp and es to get more reaction time in damage-peaks and for uber-bosses when your frostshield or molten shell and all flasks are simultanous on their cooldowns.
With 90 % pdr, 18k max hit taken, you will never be oneshotted and you will get healed fast and nonstop by aegis aurora and the watcher's eye life + es on hit.

■■■■■ When your global defences, auras and armour are builded up 5.5 k are enough.
■■■■ With aegis aurora and crit-reductions zu btained path for 5 k
■■■ With 100% spell suppression 4.5 k are top tanky
■■ With a watcher's eye es on hit and high flask-uptimes 4-4.5k are great. In valdos and simulacrums 4-4.5k are mandatory needed against the big hits and against some ubers a hybrid variation 4k es + 2k life is guided in "boss hunting - the ubers" too.
■ With 18k phys- and chaos-max hit taken unbuffed, 100% ailment-immunties, increased max-resis and 90% flat dr 3.5k - 4k will show immortality to you in t17.

Es is multiplied a lot, 3x, with your SoL and passives.


==> For more dr, life and energy visit the
"Checklist stats" ==> "Es | Life | Ehp" and ==> "95% flat dr | Mitigation" ==> "More dr"


16. Do you have problems with a special boss?

==》 Please take a look into "boss-hunting" in "endgame".
Specialize your flasks, your minor pantheon and use Predator as HoA-support.

To procc highest es on hit often it`s best to cyclone close to bosses with enough mana-reg for continuous full ball-lightnings.


17. In high poe content like U-Shaper, U-Maven, juiced ele-mods in t17, etc., squeeze in "the melding of the flesh" on top for 85-90% max-resis. Visit the "jewels".


18. Do you have enough currency for better the best ..... for the meta-mageblood-belt?


19. Care and be aware about the details of your ascendancy.
==> Visit the spoiler above.


20. Know the atlas, the mods and your build - visit the spoilers "atlas & mapmods" and "faq" below.


21. Remember

Overall you need only 6-50M damage in all poe-content. Above 30M you are free to balance much capacities of the build easy into more defences and qol.

Dps- Checks

In different poe-content it's recommended to balance your tankyness and damage different.
In my experiences you can best choose your set-up of needed damage around the preconditions:

■ 6M damage are for sure enough for t16-mapping and lvl 100 farming
■■ 8M are enough to kick Maven
■■■ 10M for juiced red T16 and for Ueber Elder
■■■■ 20M for simulacrums wave 15
■■■■■ 30M for the feared, valdo-maps and juiced t17
■■■■■■ 40M-50M for the Ubers

Pump up the juice.

22. Know the atlas and the mods

The poe-endgame is often about perfect juicing the maps for the most beautiful loot.

Since [3.24] introduced build-disabling mods, which are beside high multiplying the debuffs of atlas-, altars- and map-mods, exact knowledge about map-rolling is mandatory needed.


■■■ Know the dangerous t-16 map-mods ■■■

■ "reduced / no mana recovery": use the shaper-ring mana on spellhit, best with the prefix-benchraft 'channelling skills have -3 to total mana-costs', or an enduring mana flask, or reroll
■ "reduced effect of auras": from stacked 300% increased atlas-mods upwards change out ghost dance because your es will not recover without evasion. No problem with mageblood or a jade-flask.
■ "less armour and block": switch molten shell to immortal call.


■■■ Know the dangerous and uncomfortable T-16.5 and Nightmare-mods ■■■

T-16.5 / Nightmare map-mod-filter-regex, i.e.: avoid poison-avoidances / attackblock / drowning orbs:
"!wni|k at|on,"

■ reroll increased aoe Fortress-boss
■ reroll additional damage mods Ziggurat-boss
■ against bloodstained sawblades, instable cores move always non-stop, or die or reroll
■ manage drowning orbs better with AG Garb of Ephemeral

Low geared resulting into slower mapping and bossing:

■ In the mod "enemies have #% chance to avoid poison" you loose much damage because of reduced virulences. Do not combinate with 300% increased atlasmods! This push your damage down to low HoA-virulences.

■ The mod "enemies #% chance to block attacks" is multiplied by 300% map- and atlasmods to 95% of damage dealt by our herald being blocked by mobs: Map slower, reroll or squeeze in "block chance reduction-support".


Beyond most uncomfortable mods are:

■ against bloodstained sawblades and awakener patches: counter the high dot with the elegant hubris and keystone "supreme decadence", move always
■ exarch runes: map careful


■■■ Much too much multiplied mods mounted up like ■■■

■ more projectiles combinated with increased aoe can in a very few cases shotgun you
■ penetration mods boosted by multiple ele-damage / reduced maximal resistances - mods


■■■ Know the dangerous altars ■■■

■ 600 chaos-damage during flask-effects: avoid. (Or keep up recovery on hit all times)

The build is very complex.../ Where should I start?

Simply take the in pobb.in or pob opening first popping-up pob, the landing pob, it's best optimized, not the disabled and greyed out alternatives.
Start to copy the "250M TT Total Tank Hybrid life+es Poison-HoA"-loadout and tree.

Don't worry! The decisive spoiler "Z2H - TL;DR - The short edition" shows everything needed for the build.
Get the guided key-gear, clusters, flasks, jewels and manage your mana for the defences and big tanky auras.
Of course take also your time to read the mouseover/hover-texts of the skillgems, gear, etc. and poe-wikis.

Or use the awesome summarized HoAg of devon752#5895 & dougch#1328:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3264207/page/138

Key is always to head to the next voices-cluster for the next 3x medium clusters pure agony.
They enable to build in more jewels and small clusters with strong t-1 clustertransfers for all needed resis, attr, bleeding-immunities etc.


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