⛵☁️[3.25] The Arachnophobia Allstars| Chaos Guardian CI|The dirty Scorpion-tail|Herald of Agony 150M+
" I mean it's not really a huge deal which blink you use, but frostblink definitely compliments the build the most. It's a great source for chill, it can actually deal some damage, and it's great for jumping from pack of mobs to another and as a bonus it's instant. It also has some nice synergy with cwc. Flame dash is mostly better for jumping max range or spamming the skill without having any mobs close by, like traveling open areas or backtracking. " As far as I know cws always targets whoever stunned you, and will mark them, even if your mouse is on another target. |
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" Cyclone works perfectly fine on map bosses, it's only on major bosses (almost all of which you are starting from hideout anyway) require a gem swap to maximize damage. |
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The allstars in [3.17] Astramentis
ARACHNOPHILIA!  ** The Atlas besieged !! ** ** Mars Attacks!! ** ** Unhappily Tentacles! Not any stings, no tails! ** Guardians will tank it all !! ** ** The Siege of the atlas ends and arrives in it's last weeks, the sentinels strike back. As every few months I try to summarize a bit the league, challenges, leaderboards, changes of the build and trading market. After the big buff last league with almost doubling the damage of the Herald of Agony and great buffed global defences in this tanky build, this time the focus lay on the atlas, new bosses and new jewels. Improvements of the build and PoB
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Lvl 90 I added the pob the tree- and item-tab "Lvl 90 fullblock before aul's uprising" to guide better reaching full defences with added small clusters and amulet-variations on lowbudget early around lvl 90. Less clicks for virulences I added a nice alternative: storm burst - (awakened) cast while channeling - ball-lightnings - storm brand HoP - Heralds of Purity variation
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I optimized and maxed much the HoP-variation of the build. It reaches 13M and more damage with phantasms-support and triad grips. That means it kicks 50% more damage and tank tripple with 300% more ehp as other guardian-hop-builds. New gear variants boots, amulet, jewels 100% elemental ailments immunities with boots
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The new exarchs and world eater - implicits and many almost b.i.s. boots with ailment-immunities in the market made it cheap and easy possible to reach 80% and also 100% all elemental ailments immunities. I changed the boots and amulet anoint for this great tanky upgrade in endgame. Our high efficient 95% default evasion enables to balance some attackblock instead into 100% reduced duration of ailments or 100% avoided ailments. Ashes of the stars
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The surpriseful cheap traded amulet "ashes of the stars" is a new great amulet-alternative and is second best choice close behind aul's uprising and great to reach HoAg lvl 31 without 5 passives chaos mastery. But it needs investments on the valuable jewelslots to use instead sublime form and self-control on a cluster to activate grace and or also determinates the amulet-anoint into "charisma" or gearing two times circles of nostalgia rings. It's 30% skill quality offers: 30% increased poisonchance Divergent HoAg 15% increased castspeed ball-lightnings/ storm brand: much more virulences. Increased duration molten shell/ spirit offering 15% more damagereductions Divergent Frostshield 3% spellblock or +3 chains Divergent/ anomalous tempestshield 60% more knockbacks Divergent sniper's mark 3 more withers - total 12 withers with anomalous withering step etc. Forbidden Flame and Flesh
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The 2 expensive endgame-reward-jewels Forbidden Flame and Flesh jewels enables to build in the extreme strong Hierophant's ascendancy "sanctuary of thoughts" for easier manamanagement and some more energyshield (instead 2 split personaliy jewels int/ es). The melding of the Flesh
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A set-up with 88-90% elemental resistances became possible with the new jewel "melding of the flesh", aegis aurora, purity of ice & increased aura effects as alternative.
In most content the default set-up is already toptanky and offers other possibilities on skillslots, the jewelslot, boots and rings. But against some elemental-damage-dealers like Maven squeezing in the melding of the flesh is very nice and tanky. Burning tar, new bosses and map-mods
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The burning tar-groundeffects in the searing-exarchs-maps-mods were very dangerous and very rippy in the first weeks of leagues to all CI's, many builds and to this build. After 6 weeks GGG patched the "tar"-damage tag to an ordinary "burning" tag and and lost gladly these fast damagepeaks before without resistances and defences to develop against. Almost all new bosses were designed with not blockable oneshotting-attacks. The build offers big tankyness for almost all new bosses, atlas-mods and challenges, but knowing some boss-attacks remain mandatory. Trading, leaguestart and the first week in league
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Tradingmarket was really hard and rough again. The arakaali's fang was traded 3 days for 6 exalts as almost most expensive unique weapon. Aegis aurora around 2 exalts. Eber's Unification with 75% enchant and aul's uprising were not much available on the market in the first days, while other helmets with hoag enchants instead were very cheap. Overall many arachnophilia users not obtained the dagger in first 5 days and only got it some days later. They used Cold iron point dagger or replica advancing Fortress instead again. The arakaali's fang is not a leaguestarter-gearpiece when you not get or farm the first 2-6 exalts. Also Cold Iron point dagger was around 35 chaos not cheap traded. Triggerwands are instead craftable easy, or replica advancing fortress or heartbreaker were priced only 1-3 chaos. At the same time needed clusters were traded extreme early and cheap for 1 chaos, awesome strong watcher's eyes for 1 exalt, the strong alternative amulet ashes of the stars for 1 exalt and less, empower and other gems for half prices as last league, aul's uprising after 2 weeks nice cheap 7 exalts, body-armours and b.i.s. armours and b.i.s. boots and voices clusters much cheaper as in all former leagues.... To summarize simply: After the first 5 days it was the best league ever to collect b.i.s. gear for the Allstars!! Poeninja challenge guardian sololeaderboards rank 1, 2 and 3 again
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Congratulations to ArachnoXoli! The Managuardian soloplay ranking was leaded after 5 days top 1 by far by TheRealXoli/ ArachnoXoli with the Arachnophobia Allstars. He loved the build and had a blast. Later in league he tried out lightningsable, laserweaponforce using the dark force as Inquisitor. Congratulations to Grassygarden and to Brandonarchnemis! After 2 weeks Grassygarden feasted rank 2, Brandonarchnemis won rank 3. Also while a new great youtube-ball-lightnings build of CaptainLance9 arrived in the guardian-ascendancy, the Allstars keep leading the boards for soloplayers and are the most successfull minionbuild outside the squishy glascannon-witch-set-ups! Popularity of the build
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Betta-ah Gaming made a great starter budget 5 ex' video-guide explaining many mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2O4j9Bwd2k Twitch Streamer craftzwerg played the build into endgame. The build was copied on Youtube. In the guardian-ascendancy the allstars were by far the most popular build in the first half of the league again, with a great active arachnophil community like in the last leagues. It's the most popular minionguide in the templarclass again too. But: Overall the league was dominated by a strong meta of 60% witches and raiders and in the second half of the league the ball-lightnings-Youtube-build of CaptainLance09 was more often choosed in the guardian-ascendancy. New video-guide
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Betta-ah Gaming made a great starter budget 5exalts video-guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2O4j9Bwd2k Thank you a lot Betta-Ah-Gaming! Arcachnophilia! I am personally close to publishing perhaps a Herald of Agony witch / occultist / necromancer - build with all the possibilities of the new defensive layers. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3264207 It's clearing maps extreme fast & strooonkk, but has downsides against singletargets and in defences and is struggling much against dot and groundeffects. The guardian-ascendancy will remain simply best because of the better pathing and more synergies of the ascendancy. It's not rocketscience-time: https://youtu.be/QJW_8EcNzUY Especially I am satisfied that again many Arachnophobiatics climbed top full 100 levels first time in poe. Thank you a lot for all the interesting questions and discussions! Let them crawl! Last edited by Chromino#4813 on Apr 28, 2022, 2:08:04 PM
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" I just wanted to add that with 20% ele ailment avoidance from skill tree and one of each ignite/freeze/chill (and shock if you're not using tempest shield) avoidance implicits on cluster jewels from harvest craft combined with a 35% T1 craft on boots and a tier 4 eater of the worlds implicit will reach 100% immunity to all elemental ailments without expensive orb gambles to reach T5/6 or needing any other sources. " Also having tried multiple combinations of skill tree + ashes + jewels I can add some results I've had. For example you can use the amulet even without sublime form by just using sovereignty+one passive next to it + reservation mastery (15% increased mana res efficiency) and two circle of nostalgia rings with hoag res OR one circle of nostalgia ring and +2% implicit on some jewels. However without a 90% reservation cost implicit on a helmet you will end up with noticeably low unreserved mana without the forbidden combo which will most likely force you to use one passive for 10% increased mana reservation efficiency of herald skills. Same option helps even more noticeably if you end up having very low unreserved mana using only one circle of nostalgia. If you're using forbidden flesh+flame however it's very easy to achieve enough unreserved mana for all procs even without two rings or maximizing mana res passives, all without sublime form. Finally using just one circle of nostalgia, the forbidden combo + mana res on all possible jewels you can reach perfect balance and even drop the passive next to sovereignty, swap reservation mastery for dps node or increased aura effect instead if you get: 1) sublime form and uncompromising from two separate small clusters with only 2 added passives and 25% or 35% increased effect OR 2) same but 3 passives without increased effect OR 3) one of the two reservation notables on a 3 added passives and 25/35% inc. effect + a megalomaniac with the other notable and pure agony |
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Good Day everybody :)
I wanted to ask if effects from the Pantheon are simply added upon effects i gain from the tree/cluster jewels? Choosing Soul of the Brine King resulted in an increase of 100% of freeze avoidance. Soul of Abberath on the other hand did not result in an increase of less duration of ignite. Thought i could achieve with Abberath and ignite implicits on a clusterjewel and Flexible Sentry complete ignite immunity. Or is this simply an interface/display bug? |
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" Abberath is reduced ignite duration, it doesn't elevate your chance to avoid being ignited altogether, they're two separate effects. |
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Thanks for the reply :)
what i wanted to confirm is if the 60% ignite duration reduction stack with the 25% reduced elemental ailment duration from flexible sentry as well with 15% ignite duration reduction from an implicit on a cluster jewel. The 40% from flexible sentry and the jewel are displayed, the 60% from abberath not. That was all :) |
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" Ah, my bad, I admit I only just glanced at your post in a rush. I don't see any reason it wouldn't stack and reach 100%, just remember duration doesn't work on ground effects if I recall correctly. Must be a display bug, maybe just test it with a strongbox or something? And speaking of hasty replies; I forgot to mention in my earlier post about mana reservation that it was all done using eber's and grace + discipline + determination + defiance banner. Last edited by met_ku#2805 on Apr 25, 2022, 1:32:51 PM
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hi great build btw i love it. fast question does crimson dance stack bleed with vulnerability with the agony crawler or spiders. or am i best to put my despair back on thx :)
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Good build.
PM if you are interested in purchasing. Last edited by wkaos#3348 on May 1, 2022, 6:27:21 AM
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