🌬️⛵☁️[3.25] The dirty Scorpion-tail|Chaos-Necromancy|Herald of Agony CI-Arachnophobia Allstars|600M+

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Chromino wrote:

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xaeror35 wrote:

I am trying to put this build together and a bit confused by some things. Why do you have the Dark Arts wheel allocated when we are not dual wielding?

Hi Xaeror!

It's only used in the pob titled "dual wield variation". When in first days of league aegis aurora is expensive, apep slumber is the recommended shield. But dual wielding CIP's or heartbreaker dagger are possible too with "dark arts".

Take the pob's titled "final", not the "alternatives".

OK Thanks!

I have another question. This is my first time playing Arakaali Fang. How do I easily summon spiders and keep them up?

Hi, I used this: 2 x desecrate (right mouse button), storm burst, writhing jar flask

When the spiders disappear, you have to repeat this mechanic (which is why I hate it).

Looking for tips on how to play this build effectively. I feel so clunky running around in maps. This is not a very smooth playstyle IMO. Should I change to cyclone/CWC/ball lightning? how do you sustain mana in that case?

https://pastebin.com/RPTNa4zT

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xaeror35 wrote:

Looking for tips on how to play this build effectively. I feel so clunky running around in maps. This is not a very smooth playstyle IMO. Should I change to cyclone/CWC/ball lightning? how do you sustain mana in that case?

https://pastebin.com/RPTNa4zT

I sometimes use Cyclone/CWC/Withering touch/Purifying flame in Delve. Great for max virulences and wither. But I find it slow in maps and Bossfights.

Spiders are great for clearspeed in maps, but I prefer to play ranged style with just Crawler and United in Dream. But I'm a very lazy one button player :D

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xaeror35 wrote:

I have another question. This is my first time playing Arakaali Fang. How do I easily summon spiders and keep them up?

In "Gear" next to the dagger is a spoiler about raising spiders. I moved it there from former in "important mechanics". Try out other fast aoe's like flamedash or ice nova too when wanted.

In maps it's enough to simply use the flask writhing jar in the middle of mobs and corpses when you use aoe-skills like storm brand. Or channel stormburst, next to the needed corpses, and use writhing jar.

At the beginning of a map and against bosses it's like deerminator wrote and you need to generate corpses too with desecrate or unearth.
Unearth is more difficult to use, but generates HoA-virulences too. As necro arcanist brand - divergent unearth - bone offering does the job, there are enough corpses to raise spiders too with writhing jar.

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xaeror35 wrote:

Looking for tips on how to play this build effectively. I feel so clunky running around in maps. This is not a very smooth playstyle IMO. Should I change to cyclone/CWC/ball lightning? how do you sustain mana in that case?

https://pastebin.com/RPTNa4zT

Hi Xaeror35!

Arachnophilia!

That's an very, very interesting pob with Occu and brutal restraint/traitor-keystone etc....! Well done!
And the rare helmet is awesome - totally fine crafted!

When you already have good damage in the maps use for lazy virulences and less clicks setups like:

anomalous tempestshield

cwdt lvl 1/ or cws - divergent storm brand - galvanic field

divergent second wind - phantasmal void sphere lvl 1

divergent storm brand lvl 1 - hextouch - despair - temporal chains


So you alltime have 40-80 virulences up and everything dies totally automatical, without storm burst, the mobs do suicide when they attack you a bit.

In the spoiler "skills", "create your own style", there "automatic virulences / dot" are all tipps and fitting skills.

Against the map-bosses tap the hextouch-storm brand and 2 seconds storm burst - faster casting and they are down.

I added a short showcase into the introduction.

This time it's showing a bit about the damage capacities of the Herald of Agony, while also at the same time the build is facetanking some of the bigger main default attackstyles of shaper (full beam), eater (writhing mass) and exarch (annihilation).

The interesting aspect is that the HoA-build scales 40-50M pinnacle damage with it's clusters and still keep up by pob calculated infinitive ehp - 89% all resis, 90 k armour, 1.3k es on hit with 16 orbs of stormburst + 300 from channelled ball-lightning + 300 from brands, total 1.9 k es/ sec and 1.8k es on block + spellblock beside.

Other tanky skills like rf, or other herald-skills or ascendancies scale with this full tankyness and recovery ordinary around 6-12M damage, or do not reach the needed cast speed for fast HoA 80 virulences.

Some bosses - Exarch 5 seconds, Eater 5 seconds, Facetanking Shaper's Beam

https://youtu.be/0k1YaQXdnuQ

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Chromino wrote:

I added a short showcase into the introduction.

This time it's showing a bit about the damage capacities of the Herald of Agony, while also at the same time the build is facetanking some of the bigger main default attackstyles of shaper (full beam), eater (writhing mass) and exarch (annihilation).

The interesting aspect is that the HoA-build scales 40-50M pinnacle damage with it's clusters and still keep up by pob calculated infinitive ehp - 89% all resis, 90 k armour, 1.3k es on hit with 16 orbs of stormburst + 300 from channelled ball-lightning + 300 from brands, total 1.9 k es/ sec and 1.8k es on block + spellblock beside.

Other tanky skills like rf, or other herald-skills or ascendancies scale with this full tankyness and recovery ordinary around 6-12M damage, or do not reach the needed cast speed for fast HoA 80 virulences.

Some bosses - Exarch 5 seconds, Eater 5 seconds, Facetanking Shaper's Beam

https://youtu.be/0k1YaQXdnuQ

Hi Chromino,

I'm working on switching over to the Uber version of the build from the arakaali build (Loving it so far), and I have most of the b.i.s gears and gems already. However, I'm running into an issue of mana reservation where I can only run the 4 defensive auras (determination, tempest, discipline and PoI) but I don't have enough for HoAg... Other than getting a better Circle of Nostalgia (not sure it would be enough), is there anything I can do to be able to fix the build?

PoB : https://pastebin.com/5zwKLeR5

Also, I assume that is ghost dance detrimental to the build since we're not running grace, and Lethe Shade would be better?

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HenchmanNo1 wrote:

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Chromino wrote:

I added a short showcase into the introduction.

This time it's showing a bit about the damage capacities of the Herald of Agony, while also at the same time the build is facetanking some of the bigger main default attackstyles of shaper (full beam), eater (writhing mass) and exarch (annihilation).

The interesting aspect is that the HoA-build scales 40-50M pinnacle damage with it's clusters and still keep up by pob calculated infinitive ehp - 89% all resis, 90 k armour, 1.3k es on hit with 16 orbs of stormburst + 300 from channelled ball-lightning + 300 from brands, total 1.9 k es/ sec and 1.8k es on block + spellblock beside.

Other tanky skills like rf, or other herald-skills or ascendancies scale with this full tankyness and recovery ordinary around 6-12M damage, or do not reach the needed cast speed for fast HoA 80 virulences.

Some bosses - Exarch 5 seconds, Eater 5 seconds, Facetanking Shaper's Beam

https://youtu.be/0k1YaQXdnuQ

Hi Chromino,

I'm working on switching over to the Uber version of the build from the arakaali build (Loving it so far), and I have most of the b.i.s gears and gems already. However, I'm running into an issue of mana reservation where I can only run the 4 defensive auras (determination, tempest, discipline and PoI) but I don't have enough for HoAg... Other than getting a better Circle of Nostalgia (not sure it would be enough), is there anything I can do to be able to fix the build?

PoB : https://pastebin.com/5zwKLeR5

Also, I assume that is ghost dance detrimental to the build since we're not running grace, and Lethe Shade would be better?

Hi Henchman,

you have the biggest reserves in small clusters. Double their number. Try to have the necessary stats on them. Rare helmet implicit + suffix will do a lot. Enlighten lvl4 + 3 biggest auras. I assume you don't want to drop Uul-Netol. It is possible to have 5 defensive auras + HoA with Uul-Netol. However, I still prefer the Ashes. Other things are rather minor tweaks. Golden rule implicit, Unnatural instinct in the witch area, more mana wherever possible, etc.