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

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antmit a écrit :

I have heard in many places that impale is not calculated correctly in POB. There's suppposedly some fork that does calculate it correctly, but honestly I'm not sure how much I trust people external to GGG to understand how anything is calculated unless it came from GGG as definitive.
The best measure I can have is "feel" and a stopwatch. I know I am mapping faster now, I know some bosses are melting faster. I know the only problem I have are those immortal totems because I have to find it (no pierce), but I also know I don't have to deal with proximity bubbles. This game is all about tradeoffs, what matches me doesn't match someone else.
To me the biggest plus is i can spawn skeletons, and then i can run away and focus on not dying to stupid crap like degens or boss attacks. I just did a map while I was on a conference call. lol

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NSUCK a écrit :

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hitmantb a écrit :

Do you really feel your single target boss damage is significantly better than Herald of Agony?

You can test with say a T16 map. I got a cheap 2 duration armor and 700k per skeleton, bosses STILL don't seem to go down faster than Herald of Agony with 3-4 million damage.

Maybe we can do a white map test to be accurate.

I'm not sure if its his configuration or what, but the DPS on that phys build he's running is half of what mine is with hatred.

If I get some good lag free play I'll try to record some boss kills.

I played around with PoB today testing reservation helms like he has, I came to the conclusion that skeleton damage enchant is better (DPS gain from helm was about 70k per skeleton, adding discipline reduction and adding a banner was about 40k less per).

Also, an AG update. I may re-buy gear and try again. I know the patch changed/removed some metamorph abilities. I believe they removed the one that shotgunned me and killed my AG.

*drooling over the chest he mentions, +1 skills +2 duration* too bad I don't run any green sockets.

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Mecielle a écrit :

Wll, didn't count HoGm. PvP rules are enabled there.

I also didn't include really deep delves in my statement. I am around 800 right now and on some nodes with extra rippy mods they do drop to 60-70%. But as I mentioned, one proc off the shield, which happens pretty much every second in Delve, and their bars rocket back to 100 in a couple of seconds.

But I can se them dying from some big damage spikes in like 1300+ depth or something.

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hitmantb a écrit :

What I am trying to say is, I actually bought the +2 duration armor and played the 700K per skeleton build. And my boss damage still felt lack luster with all 11 skeletons attacking. I event went multistrike instead of melee splash.

On paper it is 8 million vs 4 million, in practice Herald of Agony kills faster.

I will do two white map minotaurs and post the POB / video later.

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Sonidox a écrit :

pierce and vp have different mana multipliers, you can't just swap them without changing auras

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Smerte a écrit :

How do you guys deal with gem swapping? I mean swapping Pierce -> Vicious projectiles and Poacher's mark -> projectile weakness against tough bosses. Do you just keep these gems in your inventory? I'm asking this because I just got awakened vicious projectiles that I would like to level up aswell, so I have it on my weapon swap and obviously if I swap weapons, all my spectres disappear since they are socketed into the shield..

Oh and by the way, if someone could help me with spectres I would greatly appreciate it! I've been delving in +200 depth for ever but haven't seen Primeval Fortress or Primeval Chamber.. My in-game in @PantlessProject

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Smerte a écrit :

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Sonidox a écrit :

pierce and vp have different mana multipliers, you can't just swap them without changing auras

Yeah I know, I just have more unreserved mana when running pierce (which obviously isn't good but it's the best solution I've come up with). Do people who run only 2G sockets on their chest just skip pierce entirely?