⛵☁️[3.25] The Arachnophobia Allstars| Chaos Guardian CI|The dirty Scorpion-tail|Herald of Agony 150M+

Set-up in the clip [3.22]: 5.3 k es, offensive gear, +88% max resis, no mageblood, no vaal skills, 100% ailment-immunities, 1 ele-dr flask up, molten shell up, divergent frost shield up.

Arachnophilia!

HoAg and minions remain unchanged.
Tattoos are not removed.

Spellblock was buffed, but the build lost 3k armour with a nerf to determination. We simply equalize this totally by the buffed ward and endurance charges, or by switching a no longer needed spellblockcluster into an ar/ev-cluster.


The buffs

With the huge buffed ward of the elixier of the unbroken circle, which is doubled by skin of the lords, we get each 2 seconds additional 10% ehp. The buffed enduring charges add another 15% more flat ehp.
So in total great 20-30% flat additional dr / ehp are obtained in [3.25].

With the new +2 max cold-resi-jewels melding of the flesh is used again. Or taste of hate adds 25% more ele-ehp before.

Looks like a great league for HoA again!

Select the "Final Tree" and the item-tab "Final items" and the skill-set-tab "Final gems"


Path of Building

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

1) "Levelling" trees with item tab "Levelling items" and skill tab "Levelling skills"
2) "Final Trees" with the item tab "Final items" and the skill-tab "Final gems"

3) "The Adorned"-tree with the pairing "Adorned" item-tab
4) "Mageblood" tree with "Mageblood" items-tab
5) "Iron reflexes" tree with pairing "Iron Reflexes" items-tab
6) The "Chainexplosions Asenath's gloves + large chaos-cluster", "Tanky", "The b.i.s.-upgrades 604M - HoA lvl 40", "Rainbow strides" - trees with pairing titled items- and skills-tab

Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better many skills and ehp.

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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 (for calculating vile toxins) to get the correct dps.

Add / enable: determination, grace, discipline enabled, minions are on full life

For valuable comparing shaper-damage it is recommended to change pierce in the HoA-support to damage on full life-Support, vile toxins, or marked predator.

The recovery /es on block -ehp is configured for mapping. Aegis aurora generates infinitive substain in high density. Against Ubers max hit taken is important also.

Further:




----- Because almost all builds are counting their in juiced mods and in big aoe's always dying glascannon-animate guardians and squishy 0-hp support-spectres in, are full in fantasy correcting their 2 wither-stacks to 15, are optimistic overwriting their supportbuffs from temporary to timeless, know only full chained-damage against singletargets, ramped up with 9 buttons snapshotted after 2 gearswaps, wear never possessed 10-mirrors pieces and low-budget 3-mirror vaal regalias starter-gear, use awesome 7 socket-body-armours, wield impulsive in three weeks crafted weapons, default available double corruptions on each piece, out of poe-history returning +5 rings, are tanky 6 layers of portals stacking, 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 and not b.i.s.-pieces in the pob. -----

Some Guardians - Baran, Al-Hezim, Phoenix
https://youtu.be/QDakIXO7eng
Facetanking Maven's Memory Game:
https://youtu.be/Dv1MWYqWnYE
Full juiced red Dunes Delirium t16
https://youtu.be/cu8pbz5aTVE
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
Some Synthesis
https://youtu.be/_RyFERW3vks
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

More videos:

The short edition

Stack your own poisonchances to 80%, HoA-levels, medium clusters of pure agony, ghastly jewels with minion chances to poison on hit, sources of withers withering step & sin's rebirth, skill-efficiencies in the tree and on small clusters, auras, CI-recovery, spell suppression, spellblock, guard-skills.

Get the key-gear:

2 Circles of Nostalgia or Ambition
Small clusters uncompromising - sublime form - self control
5-12 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Skillgems Tornado of elemental turbulence, Ball lightning of orbiting
Asenath`s gentle touch gloves for curse on hit and map-clearspeed
3-6 abyss jewels minion chance to poison on hit
Darkness Enthroned
Sin's Rebirth-flask / other source of full 15 withers
Rumi's Concoction flask
Cheap 5-passives voices large clusters
Tattoos poison-on-hit
Aegis Aurora shield
Watcher's eye with es on hit
Golden Rule jewel
80%-90% manamultiplier helmet
Amulet anoint
Skin of the Lords / Loyals

Ashes of the Stars
Empower and Awakened HoA-supports


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

1. "Tipps for beginning and levelling" when you want to level the campaign with HoA
2. "Path of building" for configurations
3. "The composition of agony" for the damagescaling
4. "gear" - section body-armour for the keystones as CI, section gloves asenath`s for maps / triad grips / vixens for singletarget-bosses
5. "jewels": the first three
6. "skills": HoA-virulences etc.
7. "checklist defences / details of the ascendancies / faq"
8. far down at the total bottom you find all poe-tradelinks and budget-variations in the last spoiler

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, used or unused tempestshield and clusters. You can switch the set-ups fast.

1.) Levelling (until t12 maps)

Stack 80% poisonchances on the tree with poison on hit-tattoos and other sources for production of HoA-virulences with your own spells.
Get the cheap starters: Rainbow Stride boots, Ghastly Theater shield, Darkness Enthroned, the first Ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit.
Get needed dex and resis on other gear and for HoA a 5 /6 link Body Armour or Replica Alpha's howl.

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


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

Relaxed master your manamanagement around lvl 50 with the 3 small clusters "uncompromising", "sublime form" and "self-control". Simultan outsource more resistances and attributes from gear onto the clustertransferpoints and onto ghastly jewels.

With 2 circles of nostalgia, all skill-reservation-efficiencies, and on top the 90% (or better 80%) manamultiplier-helmet corruption and the amulet-anoint you manage your mana to activate all big tanky auras to stack all global basic defences and keystones.

When you get a watcher's eye with es on hit and reach on the tree 95-100% spell suppression and have crafted well rolled flasks you are already geared for almost all content.

3.) Boss-Hunter 20 M - The Damage

Easy around lvl 60 you start to optimize your damage with full "pure agony" on all 4-12 medium clusters.

Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp around lvl 80-85:
Arriving in the second large cluster you max also your defences and switch in more wanted jewels and small clusters.
You reach an unique record of 1M-inf*Ehp.


4.) 100% Chaos-Conversion: 40-80 M shaper-damage

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

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

The hunt for some additional fitting megalomaniacs clusters with hundreds of interesting combinations begins.
Attractive corruptions & doublecorruptions are gathered and best rare pieces are sniped or crafted.


5.) The Highway to damage 100-600 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. With voices clusters or also the fourth large cluster you improve further stacking 97 up to 112 virulences against the last Ubers in still remaining full tankyness.
Your HoA-base-damage skyrocks with the raising virulences. So in effect you need less minionpoison for high damage over time.
Now you scale finally into HoA-crits with Maata's Teaching and additional curses on top for total convincing 160-600M shaper-damage - or walk relaxed into tankyness, qol or an unholy might-minion-mastery beside.

When wanted with mageblood you add more resis on flasks. Some spell suppression moves there out also. Get the Adorned and blue magic corrupted abyss-jewels for the free belt-choice.

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 zealand to boost the clear speed in the mines of Nico.

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, 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 out of the sands at the beaches of Wraeclast 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 added 30% chaosdamage. I optimized the pathing and skills and supports and almost 100% flasks-uptimes were reached before the famous belt mageblood was born. I reworked the selection of large and small clusters using their buffs of [3.11] Harvest. I stacked the aura-notables and stalwart commanders to build in Grace. 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.

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



Leaderboards [3.14] to [3.15]



[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 homing tornados of turbulences and ball lightnings of orbiting fit perfect into the cyclone movement skill-set with full damage-uptime. The golden rule is now not needed before lvl 90.

The returning tattoos buffed the build in value of 5-10 passives. The new unique herald-ring circle of ambition was introduced for smaller fine suffixes. The changes to unholy might and the sin's rebirth-flask enable to build in some es-leech and grant more easy withers and frees up one more jewel slot.

The Adorned was unbugged and the HoA-poison-setup (abyss-jewels /belt /weapon) turned total flexible. As variation the +2 dark seer fits great for fast tankyness.
With the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre I united chaos-scaling with HoA-crits as next multiplicator imba on top in low-budget.
In these HoA-crit-optimizations the build-damage raised in total full 100% into 500M.

It seems that the mageblood turns much easier to farm each league and it teams up great with the 100% global defences by Skin of the Lords. With the changes to the sapphire flask the melding returned and 90% max-resis are used again in lategame good geared.

The Champ arrives in the team and can stack high 50%-80% flat damagereductions and 250 k armour.



3.25 Settler

Spell block, ward and endurance charges were buffed, in exchange determination was nerfed. Taste of Hate became useable for 25% more ele-ehp. Asenath's gloves for more clearspeed with chainexplosions in maps were added. The max HoA-skill-lvl 40 is claimed with the new +8 amulets. 85-90% all max-resis returned.

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.


Half a billion? Meta-ready?

With these huge buffs to movement, qol, defences and damage the Herald of Agony is probably minion-meta ready again. I don't see since [3.24] another minion-build to scale up better. For the new t-17 standard the immortal minion fits simply perfect. B.i.s. geared in high-budget 600M damage are stinged in tanky 300k-1M ehp.

https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw

Holy Relics reach only 25% of the capacities in damage and only 50% of the defences of HoA. Spectres, AG and Golems are squishy in juiced t-17. BaMas are nice, but clunky. 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 page 474 of our longnecked arachnophobia neighbours:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/474

The defences

This build reaches out to max the long row layers of defenses.
It stacks the big tanky auras, flat dr, armour, spell suppression, spell block, ailment- and dot-immunities, keystones and recovery.

The Arachnophobia Allstars are using a special combination of gear like the shield aegis aurora and skin of the lords. High buffed global defences multiply your Es, your flasks, the aura determination and triple with grace.

Following the Allstars take wonderful the intensive full bath in the united composition of all northern tanky keystones. Ghost Dance, Divine Shield, Zealoth's Oath, and Wicked Ward recover, regenerate and recharge in quadrophony. As back-up the graven's secret belt can recoup all the time.

Then this team of components begin massive to collaborate, lift off and impressive quintuple to:

0- oneshots
1- the only one tanky tank of tanks. 1000 es on block, 1000 es when hit, 1000 es on hit/ sec,
2- layers of chain-explosions, 2 curses, 2000 ES recovery /sec with vaal discipline
3- panicskills, 3 different damagetypes united: 10M autotriggered autobombing, 30M continuous dot, 60-600M selfbuffed peak-pamage
4- 000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered
5-0% to 90% flat dr, 50-100 minions possible as mass-summoner
60% and more damagereductions against ranged attacks in frostshield, in the tanky belt 60% of elemental damage taken recouped
7-5% spellblock and 50% real fullblock with 100% dr, 75% dr of max. and optimized 5000 Molten Shell
8-0% buffed evasion, 80% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 80-180 % additional movementspeed
9-0% max elemental resistances in lategame
100 % spell suppression, 100% elemental ailment-immunities, 100% crit-immunities, 100% chaos immunities
110 % overcapped allresistances, ready for debuffs, scorch, elemental-degens and -equiliriumed maps
12M - infinitive* ehp easy possible

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

We can facetank almost all bosses.

The damage

Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's crawling immortal scorpion-minion. In higher skill-levels the herald of chaos is probably the highest damage-scaling minion in Wraeclast. It's center is the dirty tailsting clearing five times each second two screens in top-tier-range.

The Allstars stack unmatched flexibility with unending possibilities in the whole poe-system. Dozens skills can be utilized and transformed into the chaos-minion-projectile-damage of the ranged attacks of the scorpion.
Ball lightnings, cyclone, tornados and 50 more fast skills can be used to tickle the scorpions' tail.

In this build a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities is mixed and united. With tempestshield, autotriggered void spheres and storm brands the herald is autobombing, with minion-poison half the damage is balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active casted channelling homing tornados or storm bursts buffing the beast into fullspeed and initializing 500M-fullscreen-chainexplosions.

Which Prices / Budget?

Thumbed, example 4 days after leaguestart [3.25]:

■ 15 chaos for yellow t5
■ 30 chaos for yellow t11
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red t14
■ 2-5 div skin of the lords/loyals for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for juiced red t16
■ 20-40 div for t17 and ubers

30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.

■ 60-100 div in the dps-upgrade-editions for 100-200M damage.
■ 200 div - 2 mirrors for ultra-b.i.s. 400-600M damage.

That's 80% less compared to meta-bamas, squishy spectres, etc.

----- Trickster is most cheap for early best tankyness, Necro most cheap for damage, Pathfinder for the mix. Some differences in lategame vary and are hard to plan. -----

Which Build?

- Yes, it's true: This high optimized in-depth Arachnophilia-guide just right here in the official poe-forum reachs 200%, up to 4000%, more damage and easy doubled up, or also quintuppled times, more ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the 15M-casual-common builds of Aer0, Snolaz and Verlyna's on YouTube and in PoeVault.

Which ascendancy?

The ascendancies alternate 20-30% in damage, tankyness and recovery.

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

Start relaxed into PoHoA as Trickster for total best tankyness.
With good poe-experiences go Necro to kick'n sting more damage, but you will need know-how to avoid sometimes dot.

Select Champ and Jugg for also almost immortal mapping, Scion or Pathfinder for the mix, use Guardian for easy levelling.

Since the necro-buff in [3.24] often I update the flexible necro-ascendancy first.
Other ascendancy-improvements follow sometimes delayed a few day later.

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Ascend.:___Guardian_Necro_Trickster_Pathfi_Champ_Jugg_Scion

DPS singletarget___3____1____3____2____2____3____2

DPS high density___3____1____3____2____2____3____2

Tankyness_________2____3____1____2____1____2____2

With mageblood____1____1____1____1____1____1____1

Levelling Lvl 1-75__1____1____1____2____3____3____2

Gearing Lvl 60-95__2____3____1____2____2____3____2


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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-slot. Able to free gear the boots-slot or the sol-keystone.

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

2. Necro - The DD

Necro reaches the leading singletarget-boss-damage. The charm of the necromantic choice is "Unnatural Strength"/ Unholy Might Ascendancy to max up the top HoA-singletarget-damage of all ascendancies. Flexible to choose the gloves-slot or flexible third curse when needed, extreme flexible in the ascendancy. Best to scale into 600-800M HoA-crits when you focus on dps.

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

3. Scion

Pure flexibility. Easy to build in 90% max-resis.

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

4. Pathfinder

Pathfinder gets early an ascendancy-inbuilt mageblood, inbuilt withers and is free to choose the belt slot. That is eg equal to 4 jewel-slots with the darkness enthroned-belt.
Most easy to build in melding of the flesh for tanky 85-90% max-resis on top without mageblood. In the good mix.

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

5. The Champ

Best flat dr. The champ with all buffs reaches flat 95% attack- and spell-damage-reductions against hits.
Fortification, 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, best synergies with keystone Glancing blows, Graven's secret, and hybrid life+es variations wearing the Stasis Prison.

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

It's time to Jugg!

Be careful: Need mandatory Sin of the lords keystone Zealot's Oath !!
Minion-Jugg starts a bit slow and cannot be scaled above 400M, but later speedy and ramps up endurance charges and extreme good regenerations. Retiring.

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

Born to block

Guardian has nice es-regenerations, early full blockings with cyclone and easy levelling with the radiant crusade-minion. In lategame hard to scale above 500M.

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


Recommended only for specialisations: Hiero, Occu, Glad

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HoT, HoP, HoA, HoI, HoAg

Herald of Ash is used simply as 7th link for fire- and ignite builds for faster mapping or as wormblaster-meme. Herald of Thunder is builded with self-damaging loops as autobomber specialized in mapping. Herald of purity was a long time sucessfull as tank and bosser too, both as guardian and as necro, Herald of Ice is rare, they need to be optimized again.

HoAg has huge range of attacks and 5 - 10 - 35 - 105 piercing, splitting, forking and returning projectiles.

Enjoy full fast mapping with the shortlegged crawler in endgame and facetank bosses like U-Sirus, U-Cortex, U-Exarch. The crawling dirty sting-king reaches millions more of damage than other herald-builds. It shines with it's characteristics in full chaos-damage and unique 100-600M dps in endgame and high content. You reach also 1M ehp, 2-8x more than most other minion- and herald-builds. Let it sting!

The Secrets of Juice

Ordinary farm a bit currency in easy content, then rush through the atlas to the bosses for the atlas-voidstones. After choose 2-3 content-mechanics you enjoy and buff them as far as possible with all relating atlas-passives and atlas-keystones, scarabs and the map-device.

In many YouTube Channels and -guides (like Grimro, Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Crouching_Tuna, sirgog, POEGuy, Subtractem, etc.) farming strategies with optimized atlas-trees and juicing favoured maps are explained to maximize high synergies and more factors of currency-drops.

Optimized farming strategies easy quintuple your gained currency or exp. Juice it full!

Atlas | Mapping | Altars | Back to Basics 9/10


Bosses 8/10


Abyss 10/10


Harvest 10/10


Einhar | Bestiary 10/10


Ultimatum 10/10


Essences | Strongboxes | Anarchy 10/10


Harbinger 10/10


Beyond 10/10


T17 9/10


Delirium | Simulacrum 9/10


Blight 9/10


Legion 9/10


Expedition 9/10


Betrayal 9/10


Ubers 8/10


Delve 8/10


Ritual 8/10


Breach 8/10


Heist | Lab-Runner | Movementspeed 8/10



Alva | Incursion 7/10


Sanctum 5/10

Leaguestarter?

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter! Without experiences CI, auras and clusters are not quickest to upbuild. Shield and bodyarmour are expensive in the first days of last leagues! See "contra" just below! But in starter- and budget-gear fast already with cheap 2 alch- and -c alternatives. Valuable, cheap and alternative gear for each slot.
Racing and Speed-Levelling possible: Balaar top 1 A10 Pts+Labs - HoAg in 3h42m51s
I recommend to level with poisonous concoction 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 85 with cheapest gear without awakened 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, fulljuiced t-17 farming, valdos, the Feared simultan, 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 500M.
Top 1 substain with max keystones and aegis aurora, no one-shots, facetank most bosses
Top 1 total defences: real fullblock, 100% ailment-avoidances, 50k armour, 75% evasion, 90% max-resis, 100% spellsuppression, 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 half a billion damage out there?

Beginner-friendly - but complex:

Budget: much cheaper than many metabuilds
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, CI, aura-stacking, the world of clusters and jewels, HoA, minion-crits, multiplied damage-scalings - 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 many budget-variations and stat-details.
Comprehensive checklists for damage and defences, checklists for all stats.

Relaxing 100% chaos- and poison-immunity

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-swarms and 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.
While most other builds go only for 20-200k ehp, this build's focus on defences, enabling 1M - to inf* 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

The best out of both worlds - smooth moving of cyclone combinated with ranged spells
100% - 150% additional movementspeed
Tank & Cast-style is definitiv more fun as kite & hide
Chaos-damage and dot penetrates es and many defences of many bosses
Different damagetypes united in HoA as trigger: selfbuffed damagepeaks, homing tornados, continuous poison-dot, autotriggered counter-damage

Allrounder

Best fitting for t17, simulacrums, delve, bossing, deliriums, logbooks, heists, blights etc.
All minions are immortal - optimal for boss-hunting
Easy to balance and to specialize for individual content and goals in endgame.
Much space to play and vary with skills, passives, keystones, clusters, supports and gear slots.
In groupplay great supporting with auras and curses.

On maps with the No-Mana-Recovery-Mod you have to take in an enduring-mana bottle and must map slow or reroll.

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

Overall not best, not cheap and not easy leaguestarter!
Shield and armour are expensive in the first days of last 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, amulet and voices - but still much cheaper and more flexible as other meta-builds.

In Ssf HoAg is strong extreme not optimized, but much more difficult to collect the CI-unique-gear, HoA-rings and clusters.

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

When you take the tanky nodes "only" 50 - 500 millions singletarget shaper-dps. That is more than enough for all bosses. You will rush through the maps with your 150% added movement and 42-142 mill. piercing and forking mapping-damage. You have no downtimes of your damage because you are tank and you have ranged DD's, dot and autotriggered damage. But sorry, you don't oneshot the Ubers compared to the glascannons and only-bossers in the neighboorships.

Because the poe-engine hardcaps the HoA-lvl and dot-damage not easy to buff above 800M damage.

Hack'n sting!

Mix the max! High-impact infos are incoming.

This fine composed recipe with the full dozen seasoned components tastefully serve full arachnophilia in passion for destruction.
Here starts the guide to journey into the fine arts of 500M dps HoA-crawling.

The key is to increase the HoA-base damage by increasing HoA-skill-levels with gear, empower and awakened supports. We insert more large clusters to insert more medium clusters to use more pure agony for more HoA-virulences, which are generated with our own poison-spellhits. The HoA-virulences multiply the HoA-base-damage.

More 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, more resis, and b.i.s. geared for balancing into dps with 3 grand spectrums into HoA-crits.

Then we continue to scale up further with withers, curses, dot-multiplier and more debuffs and buffs. Finally we invest into HoA-critical chances and damage and arrive in hundreds of millions damage in the lategame.

Thumbed almost each new section doubles the damage of the former sections.


■ 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 generated ingame > HoA-skill-lvls (base damage improved with HoA-supports and gear) ≥ HoA-medium-clusters Pure Agony (base damage, attackspeed) > Withers ≥ Curses (Despair, Temporal chains, more curses) > HoA-poison / Ghastly jewels / The Adorned > 100% Chaos-Conversion > HoA-crits > Spirit offering > increased miniondamage (rings, clusters, etc.) > other buffs (aoe-explosions > feeding frenzy supportminion ≥ culling strike)





■ Virulences ■

Whenever you poison with spellhits and other skills, you generate agony-virulences and your Herald will hit faster and harder.
Poisonchances and physical or chaos-damage-components of your skills are basic components. For pure elemental skills i.e. the nostalgia-ring add the chaos-component.

Final place in the cherry jewel the golden rule.

Skill up minimum 80%, better 100% chance to poison:

20% HoAg-buff
25% 2 passives serpentine spellslinger
40-80% 8-16 tattoos of the tawhoa shaman

While levelling:
25-40% 2 passives fatal toxins / venoms
20% curse mastery whispers of doom
40% chance to poison supportgem/ or integrated in rare gloves

Equal to 100% more HoA-virulences: With the jewel "the golden rule" you double with self-poisoning your stacking of virulences against singletargets.

Alternative increasements:


■ Skills ■

We choose the most fast hitting spells with lowest mana-costs in whole poe - like tornados of elemental turbulences, ball lightnings or storm bursts - to generate full virulences.
Simultan they scale up our fast es on hit-recovery and witherings.
Limit them to lvl 1, quality 20 to reduce their manacosts.

Until 100 virulences:
cyclone (lvl 1) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl 5) - tornado of turbulence (lvl 1) - ball lightning of orbiting (lvl 1)

Above 100 virulences against singletargets:
storm burst (lvl 2) - cwc - ball lightning of static (lvl 1, qu 0)

Increased quality, onslaught / castspeed, increased aoe and increased duration stack the virulences faster up with lowered delay.

+ 30% to skillquality by ashes of the stars
+ increased resolute technique (cyclone) / aoe implicit / harvestcraft on weapon
+ 20% onslaught ring-implicit / onslaught-flask

Alternative increasements:


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

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



■ Gear up ■

Fuse it all in the armour Skin of the Lords.
Wield the +2 Dark seer (tankyness). Facetank much to debuff with your void gaze of the helmet Eber's Unification and fire almost nonstop spells for full damage.
Progress in lategame to the rare b.i.s.-pieces.


■ HoAg-supports and gem-levels ■

Climb up and crawl to the HoA tipping-gemlevels 23 / 28 / 29 / 34 / max. 40 (Quality 23)

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

+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)
+1 awakened miniondamage
+1 awakened void manipulation

+1 ashes of the stars / +8 rare amulet
+2 the Dark Seer / +2 Maata's Teaching
+2 Rare Helmet
+1 chaos mastery "corruption"

+ awakened vicious projectiles
+ in maps, dungeons and other content: pierce / returning projectiles / awakened fork
+ against endgame-bosses predator / vile toxin / withering touch / damage on full life-support

Alternative increasements:





■ Full Agony ■

Insert soon and as early as possible max 6-12x medium clusters "pure agony".

They are our leaders for damage.

Each adds 5 HoA-virulences and basic 20% miniondamage.
HoA-gemquality 23 and Ashes of the stars add virulences too.
Virulences are a complete unique multiplier for Herald of Agony.

80 counted virulences quadruple the damage compared to slow 40.
In the lategame with more currency for more voices-clusters your damage is tenfolded with 112 virulences compared to 40.

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, 3 tornados of elemental turbulences, ball-lightnings, and other skills like fullchanneled storm bursts. 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. Double them manually for the golden rule. Alternative compare the gained es /on hit-rating.


■ Increased damage ■

200% default increased miniondamage is stacked with the 2 herald-rings circle of ambition/ of nostalgia. With the clusters and supports 300% are increased. Above higher increasements have not much effectivity.


■ More Poison ■

Now we scale up the HoA-poison until we reach 100% minion chance to poison on hit or until the poe-engine hardcaps the dot at 35.7 M.

■ the darkness enthroned belt to double 2 rare yellow ghastly jewels with "15% minion chance to poison on hit"
■ with enough resis/attr in other spots get instead 3 well rolled blue corrupted magic ghastly jewels. Double them with the jewel The Adorned. A cheap Adorned rolled 90% is in average early already perfect.
■ with the jewel Amanamu's gaze 30% more dot-damage you reach early the hardcap of the poe-engine for poison-dot
■ HoA-support awakened unbound ailments: Around 80M total damage, around the hardcap of 35M poisondot, switch unbound ailments to predator, damage on full life, vile toxins or other supports.
■ 50% dot-multiplier of HoA-crits

Against the Ubers dot is much more effective. Set the pob-configurations to Ubers to calculate the extended poison-hardcap correct when you farm them.



■ Withers ■

15 wither-debuffs almost double the damage:

■ withering step (9 withers)(+ ashes of the stars 12)(+enhance 14)
■ Sin's rebirth stibnite flask in maps (15)
■ temporal chains equal to 33% longer duration of withers
■ chaos-mastery corruption 20% increased effects of withers
■ in maps a large /or a unique medium chaos-cluster with "overwhelming malice" (0-15)
■ Chaos Golem of the Maelstroem - feeding frenzy (5) - multistrike (8)

Alternatives


■ Curses ■

despair (damage) + temporal chains (buffing poison- and withers, debuffing the mobs) are mixed into the recipe.

■ In maps temporal chains is reliable best spreaded on hit on the gloves implicts or in asenath's gentle touch-gloves.
■ In lategame Assassin's`s mark is used for HoA-crits.
■ For bosses the curses are prepared served on an arcanist brand.
■ In maps the curses can be also triggered with: tempestshield / storm brand / storm burst etc.- hextouch - despair - temporal chains
■ Whispers of doom, vixen`s Entrapements, an anathema-ring and "infused" on the tree, windscream-boots or a b.i.s. amulet-implicit add the elegance of 3, 4 and more curses.
■ Sniper's mark, punishment and enfeeble are valuable. Of course they need again to be triggered with gloves-implicits, arcanist brand, hextouchs etc. and skillsockets are needed.
■ In a 4-5 curses-set-up stepping into "steeped in the profane" can be reasonable.


■ 100% Chaos-Conversion ■

4 white-socketed triad grips are needed.
Alternative only in maps investing 5 passive-points into the minion offence mastery for unholy might is valuable too.

The conversion almost doubles the effects of your chaos- and poison-curses, withers, the poison-dot-damage, awakened void manipulation, eber's unification and later of forbidden flame and flesh void beacon too.


■ Next Level: Chain-Explosions ■

In high density-content the gloves asenath's gentle touch produce beautiful chainexplosions all over the screen.
With "unspeakable gifts" on a large chaos-cluster a second layer of explosions is stacked.

Your effective ingame-clearspeed quickens.


■ 25M ■

Dps- Checks

■ 6M damage are really for sure enough and best for t16-mapping and lvl 100 farming
■■ 8M are enough to kick Maven
■■■ 10M for juiced red T16 and for Ueber Elder
■■■■ 12M for the feared and simulacrums wave 15
■■■■■ 14M-25M for valdo-maps and juiced t17
■■■■■■ 16M-30M 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-17 and almost 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 Bonus ■

■ Use all the league-mechanics!!

Direct Buffs

■ Blindings, with a tattoo, on a jewel or dark seer, are adding accuracies for some HoA-hits.
■ The +1 chaos mastery "corruption" buffs withers and damage awesome.
■ The flasks bottled faith (in combination with Zealot's Oath keystone) or vessel of vinktar scale each some extra 10% damage up when chosen.

Supports

■ A chaos golem of the maelstroem / of the horde / dark marionette-spectre / animate guardian or in maps vaal skeletons featuring feeding frenzy buff up.
■ Still not socketstarved? For the final cuddling culling strike?

Not full recommended:

■ 100M - More, more, more ■

From here and onwards the clusters, passives, HoA-supports, poison and crits often need to be calculated individually. How much tankyness, es, ehp and qol is valuable in your favourite played poe-content? Do you reach the meta-possibilities of the famous mageblood? Which b.i.s.-pieces, voices and unique medium-clusters can you snipe, farm, afford or craft on your own? That are the factors.

100M can be reached fast with 3 curses and some HoA-crits, for 150M you need strong voices, to almost oneshot the Ubers in 400M use only best gear, and a bit tankyness is exchanged against 600M.

If you you are boarding to full damage serve your composition of destruction in the deep love of the dirty scorpion-tail.


■ The Voices ■

■ With 1-4 voices clusters you scale so much HoA-base-damage that you need less investments into HoA-poison.
■ At the same time you reach so many jewel slots, that your hunt for unique megamaniac-medium clusters begins. When you get b.i.s.-ones (with the manamanagement of sublime form and self control, suppression and ailment-immunities of elegant form, damagenotables like vicious bites and renewal) you can balance for each good megalomaniac around 10-15% dps more in best geared.
■ Pathing into the fourth large cluster also without voices can be valuable. A large chaos- or minion-damage-cluster add nice damage.




■ 100-600M HoA-Crits ■

Really best in slot geared with strong voices above gearlevel 100M in lategame, when you want to balance more into higher dps, and when you have the 3-curses-capacities to use assasin's mark to buff spirit offering, investments into crits can double and triple your damage one more time.

■ Mataa`s Teaching sceptre is the best crit-base (10-12% crit-base)
■ 3 Grand spectrum cobalt jewels with minion crit multiplier (90% crit-damage)
■ Assassin's mark (3 HoA-power charges, +1.5% crit-base, 150% increased crit-chances, +56% 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%), and on the boots-eldritch-exarch-implicit (17%). (150% up to 250% increased crit-chances, 40-70% increased crit-damage)
■ Pathing 5 passives into into "fearsome force" (80% increased crit-chances, 60% increased crit-damage)
■ Profane ground of the jewel Rational doctrine (10% increased curses, 100% increased crit-chances)
■ Vicious bite on large or unique medium clusters (stackable, 30% crit-chances, 15% crit-damage)
■ Bottled faith (2% crit-base)

In total we reach a 12-16% crit-base,
multiplied by 400-600% crit-chances,
resulting into 80-95% HoA-crit-chances,
to procc 300-400% HoA-crit-damage.

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

More crit-scaling :

==》 All gear poetrade-links, their b.i.s.-upgrades, alternatives and budget-variations and levelling-recommendations you find in the last spoiler at the buttom of the build.











The Body Armour





■■■ The Keystones ■■■

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





+2 The dark seer shadow sceptre, +2 energyshield and mana per level, adds convincing tanky +700 es, malediction and blindings in the mix with awesome damage and a bit better manamanagement. Total top tanky 25% more ehp.

Finally in lategame, when we prefer focussing into attractive 100M-600M dps, the +2 Maata's Teaching sceptre turns b.i.s. somewhere around having strong voices, tasteful selected small clusters for a perfect manamanagement, using the third curse assasin`s mark, and reaching capacities to invest into high HoA-crit-scaling.

Ordinary we start before with a cheap +3 Cold Iron point dagger. It's our low-budget-taxi to the next tipping point HoA-lvl 23/28/29/34.

Weapon-Type

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

Weapon-Quality / Implicit

With cyclone the implicit resolute technique burst more HoA-virulences.
The harvestcraft increases aoe on the weapon for spells like storm burst or better the increased aoe-corruption-implicit are chosen too.

Alternatives:



This shield is the fixing point of recovery and substain:



Aegis Aurora


2 x Circles of Nostalgia / or 1 x of Ambition





Upgrades with fertile-catalysts



The Amulet - Ashes, Uul & Aul



The "ashes of the stars" best buffs our damage. The generating of virulences, cyclone- and tornados movementspeed or storm burst is enhanced and the quality and level of many more active utility-skills, like withering step, 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.

Starters, variations and lategame


Anoint



Helmet





Gloves




Boots






Belt

Attributes



Resistances



Fire and other ailments



100% Spell Suppression



75% Spellblock



Manamanager



Manamaster



Skillmanager



Crafting Gear, Gems, Clusters

Level 100

The Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars are ready, skilled and geared to experience grinding and farming the way to lvl 100 in all content.

You do not want to die in the levels 98 to 100 and to be honest - yes, the truth is that all mapmods, each altar and every boss are designed to detect your last vulnerability and to kill you when you miss solely only one small defensive layer.


So you can further balance into defences and blocks not only with the passivepoints on your tree and your clusters, also with skills you can turn direction into more 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 cwc, cwdt etc. they are autotriggered and simply the best against all types of ranged attacking enemies.

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

Frost walls length is fine on lvl 1 or lower, quality 0. Dont build them too long and strong with higher levels when you want sometimes to walk around without phasing.


Purifying tank

Take Purifying flame (or Frostshield) binded to cwc, cws or cwdt for 5% es-regeneration and 50% curse-immunities.


Tanky knockbacks and cc's

Push back the blind mob out of your frostshield.
Add in a tattoo or in your cwc-set Glascial Cascade. Nice stackings with temporal chains and hinderings on another tattoo.


Tanky Keystones, tanky clusters

The Allstars stack so much damage that it is easy to switch some points, clusters etc. to 100% ailments-immunities, to maxing 87%-89% resis with "the melding of the flesh", to more recovery with more keystones, to Es and blockskills.

When you already obtained 100% ailment-avoidances, grab with 4 passives lethe shade against dot and degen.

Wicked Ward is great too for more uptime of regenerations with the ar/es-mastery.


Tanky cursing

Or you can turn in tanky enfeeble.


Innocent spirits / Meatshields

I myself personally would never, never, never advice to misuse the 11 cute souls of the summon-phantasms-supports as cannon fodder - but it's a tormenting fact that they would block and gulp thousands of hits in your place to guard your way safe to 100 when you heartless sacrifice them. Please not place them in your spiders- or HoAg-supports. ;-)

As downside they use capacities of your frostshield and chain projectiles.

Cws/ Cwdt triggered Absolution, Anomalous vaal skeletons, a chaos golem buffing feeding frenzy or even wither totems also meatshield great.


When you are not a very experienced player, combat the hardest encounters like maven fights or ueber-atziri on your level-ups.
They remain dangerous. One too slow reactiontime or one, last after-fight not known explosion of the ueber-elder outside Zana's shield are not welcomed in these final levels.

All other content you can do deathless and in fast playstyle every time. You don't depend on 5-ways, breachstones or other carrying-services like other builds.

The Ubers are designed as final endgame-goals - not to facetank, not to block, not to evade, and instead instant allover penetrating + degenerating your resistances with oneshot-aoe's and deathly fast instant dot's.

That means also that you can beat or counter ubers a bit better with 500M cast-on-death or other glascannon-skills. But the Allstars do the job the same with some ups and downs.

While in ordinary content of PoE the Allstars build up unique high tankyness and multiple layers of all global defences, armour, evasion, block, and can facetank almost all pinnacle-bosses, against Ubers the balancing into damage and movement is mandatory. You need every slot optimized, some of the best implicits and know-how of all of the ubers' attacks. With The Allstars you need against some of the Ubers (Exarch etc.) strong gear to scale the HoA-damage even more up in the dps-race against increasing aoe-s filling the uber-arenas (Maven, Sirus).

In my experiences probably most easy is against Uber-Exarch, Uber-Shaper, Uber-Cortex, Uber-Sirus and UU-Elder to reach farming-quality-status.


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 es on hit with the watcher's eye


More Defences



■ against the physical damage dealers Uber-Shaper (Slams) and fast spellhit-beams of Uber-Sirus Iron Reflexes as integrated keystone in Skin of the Lords is b.i.s. maxing pdr and doubling es on block.
It is also strong against the spellhits of Maven and Exarch.

Only against Eater keep in evasion/ ghost dance and change your minor Pantheon to Soul of Grutkhul/ or Garukhan.


Flasks and special resis

Use:

■ A Rubin Flask against Exarch and Ueber Atziri
■ A Sapphire Flask against Shaper, Uber Uber Elder, Aul
■ A Topaz-/ Vessel of Vinktar-flask against Eater of Worlds, Maven


Auras

The Ubers don't attack with classical hits and use mostly degen, penetrations, dot and aoe.

■ So you can balance out the aura "grace" and it's manamanagement like "sublime form" and switch in "enlighten" instead.


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/ awakened fork-gem of your herald-of-agony. Vile toxins is the prefered support or awakened unbound ailments or predator.

■ Change out convocation too.

■ Selfcasted or triggered storm brands, firestorms - or void spheres deal damage also nonstop while you are moving in the arenas (equal to around 10-20M dot- beside the 20-40M peak-dps).

Damage

■ Use more large Voices-clusters and more "pure agony"-medium-clusters or path for jewel slots with ghastly-jewels minion's chance to poison.

■ 20-30M damage should have been reached.

■ Much more expensive but also easy that's with the b.i.s. mageblood-belt.

■ A chaos golem of maelstrom buffing feeding frenzy help a bit too for more continuous damage.

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
■ Channel firestorms and cast storm brands or void spheres for virulences while moving.
■ 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

Use in the last waves 27-30 a rubin-, or sapphire-, or topaz-flask against the main-elemental-damage to complete also 2 simultan bosses easy.

Monik390 optimized a channeling setup with swapping gems cycloning in the waves and stormburst for the bosses, offered on page 334:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/334#p24447710

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

■ the mageblood for 89% max-resis with melding of the flesh
■ a 80% mana-multiplier helmet for easy mana-management and to switch out a small cluster
■ 2 curses on hit as gloves-implicit for a lot qol and a free trigger and a free socket
■ the amulet ashes of the stars with the implicit "you can apply an additional curse" for one more curse, 5 free passives instead whispers of doom or to switch out vixens entrapement-gloves
■ voices clusters for more damage with more pure agony and for more jewel-sockets
■ other cheap stuff ;-) like a third mod on your watcher's eye, b.i.s. and double rings- and shield-implicits, a +6 to HoA-levels skin of the loyals, a soul ripper-flask for mapping, a better rolled the adorned-jewel and set-up, some more jewels- and clusters-corruptions, b.i.s. rolled unique megalomaniacs, etc. ...

More ...

Because much damage can be outsourced into clusters, abyss jewels and the minion-mastery unholy might after kill etc. the golden crawler retains easy 20M dps and much more in magic find gear.

Path 3 passives to presage and for influence/ sovereignity on the tree to change out the rings to magic find gear.

I recommend to regear into mf in the order:

flasks > boots > helmet > belt > ring > gloves > weapon > amulet

In fulljuiced maps 10M damage were always enough for me and I did not need more. When you get the fourth 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 almost always about finding the fitting balances of offensive and defensive for your goals and content. ... Do you want to farm fast, do you want to boss-hunt, do you want solo-self-levelling to lvl 100, which content like the ubers, delve, blight etc. do you prefer or do you need an Allrounder build for the mix without too much gear-swaps... ?

My own favourite is the dramatic playstyle of the scorpion, the stacking of high defences for the maximal damage-uptime, and the combinations of the skill with the fast spiders (...or phantasms or meat shield - zombies or skeleton mages I liked very much). I want a swarm of minions. I love to optimize a build and trade for best gear in slot, I like to level high 100, to optimize the build more with the final passives and implicits, I hate the grinding. And the visuals of spells, 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, defences and keystones.

On the opposite I don't like speedfarming & grinding too much, I dislike too much dungeon-maps, Alva and temples are boring for me, but good exp., crafting is not so interesting for me, hardcore I am afraid of, I prefer facetanking instead movement and kiting, .... lol, hehe, exactly all this is offered by this build. Firing the balls out, stacking virulences and damage was for me the most wonderful and enjoying playstyle in whole poe until now.

So on a lot of points this build is managable to specialize on special situations with masteries, large, small and unique clusters, auras, pantheon, flasks, gloves, ring, belt, boots, amulet, triggered & channeled skills, league-mechanics, etc.
This build plays both melee and ranged. And all our minions are immortal. Optimal for full challenges in all content.

100% ailments-immunities, melding of the flesh with 89% max resistances, or the meta-mageblood-belt offer new level-ups in defences in this build. Yes, you can facetank maven's memory game fullgeared with this build.

If you want another different playstyle, you can change your belt to the curious, funny and high damage offering and also defences buffing headhunter and try some new experiences in next level lags.

In the end the top damage is scaled high especially with the medium clusters. Voices clusters can lift you to 50M and more damage with 80 virulences. Or bear the 7th link of amulet Uul Netov's Vow and The Squire to stitch Wraeclast into the ground in full 89M.

Checklist defences:


1. Check your elemental resistances. They have to be capped and have to be all 75++%.

2. Check your flasks.

- Do you have antibleeding on one flask-suffix?
- anti-ignite and anti-curse before you got removals in the ascendancy and immunities on gear and jewels or with purifying flame?
- Is the quality of all your flasks 25-30%? With flasks reduced charges used, charges gained when hit or longer duration?


3. Check your pantheon.

- Do you have in the minor Pantheon and immunity to burning ground?
As CI it's most important to recharge your es. Max the Pantheons with divine vessels in the maps.

4. Check your blockings.

- Do you have max 60-75% spellblock? When not you need blockings on Rumi's concotion?
It's your priority for recovery against the spellhits of the big bosses!
Against final bosses it's best not depending on Rumi's Flask and use a rare granite flasks.
- Do you have 40% attackblock and high 60% evasion of grace? Or without grace 60% attackblock?

5. Other basics & playstyle

- Do you use and spam Molten Shell and Vaal Discipline? Use them often!
- Use often void sphere and convocation!
- Do you have 4 ascendancies in the labyrinths done?
- Do you have activated all the auras "Determination" for high ar and es on block-recovery and "Grace" and "Discipline"?
- Did you reached 100% spell suppression? Stack "elegant form" (or "untouchable" or "aerialist") on small and unique medium clusters to fix simultan your ailment avoidances until you obtained it on the watcher's eye, on tattoos, sol, etc.


6. Do you have obtained all the important jewels in the passive tree?

- Do you have "corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" on one implicit on one jewel or 100% uptime flask? A lot bosses can kill you very fast without.

- Use "the golden rule" not before transformed to CI (or before CI not without "maw of the conquest")


7. Check your tanky skills

While your defensive skill gems like determination, molten shell, frost shield, (vaal) discipline, grace, 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 on your gear it is dangerous and you have to level them a bit before returning in high content.

- Use void sphere for tanky interruptions and much damage-uptime
- Or cast when damage taken lvl1 - frost wall lvl1
- Or curse with enfeeble instead temporal chains
- temporal rift can be one more panicbutton for recovery

- Do you have enough mana, 80-110, so that all tanky skills are triggered?


8. Do you often die of dot/ degen?

Stack more Recovery:




9. Do you often die of ailments?

Please take a look in the spoiler: "fire and other ailments" to reach 100% ailments-immunities with eldritch-boots.
Visit also "Pantheon". Use fast the shield anti-ailments-mastery.


10. Check your ehp and es

You need fullgeared around 3500 energyshield + life against oneshots. Estimated and thumbed. In my experiences. In juiced t16 maps.
With 90 % pdr you will never be oneshotted and when there are blockable hits, you will get healed fast and nonstop.

Collecting more recovery, damage-avoidances, +max-resis and building up more layers of defences is finally much better as raw es. Reach 200k-700k total ehp to feel immortality in almost all poe-content.

■■■■■ When your defences, auras and armour are builded up 5.5 k are enough.
■■■■ With crit-reductions of the poison-mastery serpentine spellslinger path for 5 k
■■■ With 100% spell suppression 4.5 k are top tanky
■■ With 100% flasks-uptime 4 - 4.5k are great
■ With 100% ailment-immunities and 70% full spellblock 3.5k - 4k guard you in immortality

■ rare gloves (300-600) or the jewel "split personality" with es/ int (200-300) grant needed energy shield before you get it on other slots.

■ Use beside an elixier of the unbroken circle (+400 es) /iron flask and / or the dark seer +2 shadow sceptre (+700 es, +30% ehp).

■ Get high es-rolls on Eber's and aegis with 28-30 % quality (hillock, beastcraft, tainted armourer's scraps). Stack more es-tattoos. When possible get some added es on cluster-transferpoints. They multiply a lot, 3x, with your SoL and passives.

■ Path passives in "influence" in the tree.

■ Or further exchange a large or also a medium cluster into defences with spellblockings, +max resis, ailments-immunities or +es like veteran defender, introspection, energy from naught, savour the moment. Often you find great unique medium megaclusters.


11. Do you have problems with a special boss?

==》 Please take a look into "boss-hunting" in "endgame".

12. Know the dangerous map-mods:

■ "no mana recovery" (reroll or use enduring mana flask)
■ "less armour and block"

Much too much multiple mods mounted up like:

■ "reduced effect of auras"
■ multiple damage / vulnerabilities / reduced maximal resistances - mods


13. Know the dangerous altars:

■ only before 90-100% ignite-immunities: searing exarch-altars
■ in lower levels: meteorits on flask-usage
■ most exarchs' and eater's altar-mods are fast and rippy stacked to many 100's % additional damage. Choose first the chaos-mods as CI, the ailments-mods when you are 100% immune, with optimized absorbation-charges of the graven's secret belt or melding of the flesh the elemental-mods, etc.
■ of course choices like -50% resis when you don't have 35% overcapped resis


14. Know the dangerous atlas-passives:

■ Séance
■ Wrath of the cosmos


15. Know also the safety-atlas-wheels:

■ + max-resis with the delve-note "Packed with Energy"
■ the tanky shrine-effects in "Supplication" and "Syncretism"
■ the additional aura of Huck geared in Heist with "The dutiful Soldier"


16. Know the dangerous invitation-mods:

■ In the mods "temporal chains" and "enemies have #% chance to avoid poison" you loose much damage because of reduced castspeed and less virulences.


17. Visit the spoiler "endgame" ==》 "Level 100" to balance some skills into defences like frostwalls, enfeeble, and more.


18. When you want to take the total tanky road, you can squeeze in "the melding of the flesh" on top for 82-87% max-resis. Visit in "jewels" the "variations".


19. You could improve with forbidden flame and flesh and Hiero's sanctuary of thoughts ...


20. ... or do you have enough currency for better the best ..... for the meta-mageblood-belt?


21. Remember

You will need in different poe-content to balance your tankyness and damage different.

Of course fast, ranged, lethal and instant autotriggered damage is almost equal to a deluxe-defensive layer, because stinging your enemies down prevents them from dealing more damage to you.

But you need only 6-15M damage in juiced red maps! So you can easy balance much capacities of the build into more defences whenever wanted.

Dps- Checks

In my experiences you can best choose your set-up around these preconditions to balance your build:

■ 6M damage are really for sure enough and best for t16-mapping and lvl 100 farming
■■ 8M are enough to kick Maven
■■■ 10M for juiced red T16 and for Ueber Elder
■■■■ 12M for the feared, valdo-maps and simulacrums wave 30
■■■■■ 15M-30M for t17 and the Ubers

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

Don't worry! The spoiler "TL;DR" shows everything needed for the build.

Start to copy easy the tree-tabs equal to your lvl:

https://pastebin.com/PckSa20v

All set-ups work great.
Don't worry when you miss some stats of the best-in-slot-gear.

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I don't sting enough damage

Check step by step in the spoiler "the composition of agony - the cocktail of damage" all 12 needed components.

When you miss of them one or two, you often miss half the damage too.

Path early to the next medium cluster "pure agony" and next ghastly jewel, get HoA lvl 21, empower 4, awakened supports, storm burst, 85% poisonchance, 15 withers, 2 curses and 3-5 ghastly jewels with minion chance to poison on hit.

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I don't have enough energy shield / I die very often

In endgame, red t16, simulacrum wave 30, or t17 you need mandatory to stack 20 layers of defences. Follow the "checklist defences" step by step for all ranked important layers of defences and recovery and more tanky tipps.

Focus on recovery and 100% spell suppression.

Use the dark seer sceptre for +700 es and +25% more ehp.

I need more dex / str / resis

Visit in "Balancing & Managing" the "Attributes Requirements" and "Resistances".

Insert early the next clusters and ghastly jewels for more useable cluster-transferpoints for more dex / str / resis.

Or get on a large cluster the "veteran defender" or a "split personality"-jewel.

Visit page 50 for the tailored tradelinks for clusters.


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Do you have some tipps for levelling and gearing?/ What are the prices for this build and gear?/ What are alternatives and lower budget-variations until getting the best gear?

Please scroll up in the build to the spoiler "Tipps for starting, levelling and gearing". In the pob's are levelling trees, items and skills included in separated tabs.

Take a look on page 50 of the thread for a complete list of gear with all poetradelinks and examples for prices and cheap variants:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/50

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I don't have enough Mana / My skills don't trigger / Can I use different socket-colours on the armour for the Herald / I cannot activate all auras:

First aid: Use one more small cluster with sublime form, also for additional resis, or path with 3 more passives to sovereignity instead to influence on the tree.

Please take a look at all possibilities of mana-management in the spoilers:

1) spoiler: Balancing & Managing - Important Mechanics" ---->"Manamanager" ++ ----> "Manamaster"

2) spoiler: "Skills and Trigger" ----> "The dirty scorpion-tail" (manamultipliers of all HoA-supports)

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