Because I actually go t-16.5 and t-17 double titanic of lineage and + of treasure + gigantic Rogues Exiles, by 400% increased atlas-mods buffed, beyond enlightened further with delirium-orbs, in wildwoods by wisps 3000-4000% empowered, and last with eater-altars boosted, I gear a bit more tanky, somewhere in around 80M-100M damage with the additional aura flesh and stone, 90% max-resis and elegant hybrid supreme decadence. This league as Hybrid-Crit-HoA-Scion and only 10M poison-dot.
The build can facetank easy every juiced content, in a budget of 80 divs (in that maxed juice most others need 200-800 divs+++).
It's fun of sting as always and an awesome HoA-league. So much flexibility! Much more as ever before.
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Dernière édition par Chromino#4813, le 24 août 2025 à 09:54:14
Correct. Yes, really, it`s him, it`s the Scorpion! Our beloved old friend shortleg (perhaps ;-) )!
The League of Scorpions is confirmed! It`s Sting-Time!
Our Herald of Agony and Chaos, our Poison-crawler, stings them all back.
Also the [3.27] Hiveborns'- Twitch-drop shows the arachnophilic league-theme. A spider companies our scorpion, the dream-team is united.
With our Aegis Aurora all high density-poe-mechanics like Breaches heals us infinitive nonstop in battle 1k-5k es on block. 75% block and spellblock are easy stacked (fullblock on tree and clusters or with keystone Glancing blows).
The huge 2-screen-wide projectile-range of HoA is fitting to stabilize fast the bosss-breaches.
Our cyclone-movement-mainskill fits perfect for uninterrupted 100% damage-uptime in breach-runs with perfect quality of life of smooth 1-button movement+damage united.
More about HoA and breaching ...
Spoiler
Almost each league I farmed juiced breaches and did breach-stones-runs for the high exp.
It's a one of the most fun-mechanics. Also full juiced in the Allstars's-gear it was always trivial easy because we have evasion, attackblock, es and life on hit and on block, ghost dance, flat dr and more layers of defences and recovery. So I hope breaches will turn more challenging and more rewarding joy.
Awakened fork multiplies HoA's basic 5 projectiles x7 to oneshoot 35 targets. B.i.s. in open designed maps, breaches and for harbingers.
Can be further linked with awakened gmp/pierce/chain/returning to up to 70->110->180->360 projectiles, 4x to 7x times each second oneshotting the Breach.
Returning Projectiles combinated with pierce covers 2 screens also in the HoA's backside in breaches, ravaged blights, delve and 5-ways or is combinated with Sniper's Mark to hit bosses twice after piercing or splitting.
Some AoE can be easy plugged in with Animate Guardian's Asenaths Gentle Touch or as Occu or as Necro with forbidden flame and flesh Profane Bloom.
Chayula | CI
Spoiler
We have stacked already nice 180% increased energyshield, so the Allstars activate with 1 passive 100% chaos-immunity CI again (as by default from [3.13] to [3.24]) against Chayula (teasered purple in the Keeper of Flames 3.27-logo).
Staying Hybrid Life+Es, when new Secrets- / Breaches-Ubers are introduced, is full perfect too with our 95 % flat dr, 75% capped chaos-resis and our Arakaali-pantheon.
Chayula was always already early trivial because we evade and block his harmless skills.
Our key-unique bodyarmour Skin of the Lords / Skin of the Loyals drops in Chayula's flawless breaches, so it will become one of the typical league-uniques and will be probably good and cheap available.
To be edited
New Ascendancies - Bloodlines
The new alternative ascendancies fit awesome for necros, trickster, guardians, juggs, champs, scions, etc.
All HoA-ascendancies are able to free up 2-6 ascendancy-points.
Only the pathfinder needs to invest instead into "spiked concoction" on a cluster or path 2 passives into "druidic rite" / or other flask-masteries in the tree.
Further of course forbidden flame and flesh can carry in one more ascendancy notable.
Examples | To switch out | To switch in:
Spoiler
By default at first recommended ascendancy-notables to switch out:
Trickster: One step ahead
Necro: Plaguebringer, or very flexible take a look into necro's spoiler "ascendancy", i.e. simply gear 4w triad grips-gloves for 100% chaos-conversion and switch out Unnatural Strength and Mindless Agression
Guardian: Time of Need, Bastion of Hope
Pathfinder: Master Alchemist, Nature's Boon
Champ: Very flexible, can switch out the most less wanted damage/defences
Jugg: Unrelenting, beyond flexible also
Scion: Flexible, keep the guardian-passives probably
Occu: Keep the Profane Bloom in maps
Bloodlines to switch in
Ritual Nameless Bloodlines: Switch in only life-, hybrid- and enduring mana-flasks, also with utility-suffixes, also the Grasping nightshade sporebloom tincture for cyclone-withers.
Alternative Divination Distillate for item rarity and Writhing jar for minion offence mastery for unholy might after kill or bearing Arakaali's fang are interesting too
Then use elegant hubris supreme decadence, perhaps further petrified blood, be unaffected by poison for free boots-choice (i.e. rare eldritch boots, rainbow strides, bubonic trails), eg balance of terror jewel for withers, and use 3 rings (i.e. shaper ring, shavronne revelation etc. on 3. slot)
Chaos Bloodline Ultimatum Trial Master - Vaal discipline can be stacked with runegraft of the soulwick to 2 vaal souls each sec. With the reservation mastery and more duration 18 secs vaal discipline-uptime is easy reached.
Also Vaal Impurity of Ice, Vaal Grace, Vaal Molten Shell etc. can be nice buffed
Harvest - Unleash: Unleash set-ups for lowered manacosts instead cast while channeling
New guard-like skill 4000 damage absorbed
The Grafts - Implantated new skills
The 2 implantated Backgrafts are introduced to fill gaps in the build. We can use them flexible to buff most wanted defences, HoA-virulences, brittle, cc or a bit damage.
Genesis tree
A big new second corrupting / vaal orbing-like risky gamble.
Because the Allstars are specialists for using much unique gear and flexible on each slot, probably that's the most interesting new league-mechanic.
Crafting in the genesis tree "Birthed" uniques Circles of Nostalgia, Aegis Aurora, CIP, Eber's, Triad Grips, SoL, Ashes, etc. will be extreme interesting.
Other new skillgems
The new kinetic int-gems look at first sight fast enough to be channeled, unleashed or triggered for HoA-virulences (i.e. the new wall of force instead tornadoes or ball-ligtnings).
Of course they need to be tested ingame and optimized.
Spectres forever
The new reviving Spectres will throw some charges, auras and curses in again.
Of course the whole build works without spectres too, and we can focus simply on the immortal HoA when wanted.
New alternative gear
Spoiler
- Probably not recommended -
A new helmet that gives headhunter to linked minions was introduced in the showcase:
Link skills can target damageable minions
Your linked minions take 73% less damage
On killing a rare monster, a random linked minion gains its modifiers for 60 seconds
That helmet would fit to buff the AG, Golem or the support-spectres.
Spell Suppression nerf
"Spell Suppression now prevents 40% of Damage from Suppressed Hits and Ailments they inflict (previously 50%)."
The Allstars are much less affected (compared to all other builds with spell suppression as major layer of defence) with their 90% flat dr, flat +max resis of melding of the flesh and their mix of defensive layers. But maxing the +max resis above 85% to 90% becomes more valuable.
More Patchnotes 3.27
Spoiler
Minion Attacks now inherently always hit. (equal to +5-10% more damage)
Poisonous Concoction: Now has 22-537 to 33-806 Added Chaos Damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 30-716 to 44-1073), and Added Chaos Damage is equal to 4-16% of Flask's Recovery Amount if Charges were consumed from a Life Flask (previously 3-11%). - as our recommended levelling skill now less recommended. HoA, cyclone and spells become more interesting while levelling in place of poisonous concoction.
Trickster
The Heartstopper Notable Ascendancy Passive Skill now grants Every 10 seconds, Take 50% less Damage from Hits for 5 seconds (previously 40%), and Take 50% less Damage over Time for 5 seconds (previously 40%).
The Soul Drinker Notable Ascendancy Passive Skill no longer has 20% increased Attack and Cast Speed while Leeching Energy Shield.
The Spellbreaker Notable Ascendancy Passive Skill no longer has +20% chance to Suppress Spell Damage, and now has Prevent +15% of Suppressed Spell Damage while on Full Energy Shield (previously 10%).
The One Step Ahead Notable Ascendancy Passive Skill now has Your Action Speed is at least 90% of base value (previously 108%), and Nearby Enemy Monsters' Action Speed is at most 90% of base value (previously 92%). - will be switched to one of the new bloodline-ascendancy
The detonation speed of most Monster Volatile Cores can no longer scale with attack or cast speed. Additionally, the ability for some sources of Volatile Cores to ignore block, evasion, and spell suppression has been removed. Volatile Cores from the Tier 17 Map modifiers and specific Ritual Monsters have also had their damage reduced. ( One of the most unconfomfortable t-17 mods got nerfed to normal lethality.)
Most PoB-configurations are updated for [3.27].
All PoB's minor adjustements, PoB exportations into 3.27, and all until now unrevealed league-content will be updated soon until leaguestart.
Dernière édition par Chromino#4813, le 25 oct. 2025 à 07:04:55
■■■ 2.5M arachnophobiatic views in united 7 arachnophil ascendancies ■■■ Cyclone is reborn again as channelskill for 100 HoA-virulences: ■■■
■■■ cyclone - cast while channelling - ball lightnings of orbiting (lvl1) - tornados of elemental turbulences (lvl1) ■■■
[3.26] HoA arrives in a billion. Here we sting!
[3.26] CI Crit-Poison-HoA-Champ gear (197M, 5M+ ehp), low budget, allrounder, boss-hunter, all levelling and all alternative trees: https://pobb.in/84HaEGFa
Example for Specialisation Necro-DD:
DD-Necro Ultra-crit-gear (1300M, 560k ehp), u-high budget, for speedfarming Ubers, but less tankyness and qol: https://pobb.in/3ZbX5FCw
Configurations PoB:
Spoiler
Path of Building
Combinate everytime the pob-tree with the pairing titled item-tab and the pairing skill-tab:
1) Select the landing Loadout / Tree "Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA" with the item-tab "Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA"-items and the skill-tab "Hybrid Life+Es Poison-HoA"-gems
2) "Levelling" trees with item-tab "Levelling items" and skill-tab "Levelling skills"
3) Other Loadouts and Keywords like "CI:", "Crit-HoA", "The b.i.s.-upgrades 1300M", "Iron Reflexes", "Mageblood", "The Adorned" - trees with the pairing titled items- and skills-tabs
Use the community fork Path of Building to calculate better many maths.
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Configurations PoB:
Configure HoA the tail-attack (in the leftside columne), 40-112 virulences, 15 withers, and 10+ poison stacks on enemies (for calculating vile toxins) to get the correct dps.
Enable: determination, grace, discipline, minions are on full life
For valuable comparing shaper-damage change pierce in the HoA-support to vile toxins or marked predator.
The ehp: recovery /es on block is checked for mapping.
Aegis aurora generates infinitive substain in high density.
Against Ubers max hit taken is often more important.
If used count in with the jewel rational doctrine: enemy is on "profane ground".
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Because almost all builds....
are full in fantasy correcting their 2 wither-stacks to 15,
are optimistic overwriting their supportbuffs from temporary to timeless,
deal awesome full chained-damage against singletargets, ramped up with 9 keys snapshotted after 2 gearswaps,
wear never possessed, but desired 10-mirrors pieces, low-budget 3-mirror vaal regalias as starter-gear or astonishing 7 socket-body-armours,
wield impulsive in 5 weeks crafted weapons and default available double corruptions on each piece,
back out of poe-history returning +5 rings,
are tanky 6 layers of portals and 4 relaxed regex-map-filters 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 but no b.i.s.-pieces in the pob.
/ Annihilation, of Exarch, in 2 secs /
+++ Top Nr.1: No oneshots +++ Facetanking Sirus's "heal-beams", Ueber-Maven's "cascade of health" +++ Without mageblood +++ Immortal Minions +++
■ for your own 80-100% poisonchances for spellhits passives, poison-support and tattoos
■ skill-efficiencies in the tree and small clusters for the tanky auras
■ HoA-gem-levels
■ 9 medium clusters of pure agony
■ ghastly jewels with minion chances to poison on hit
■ sources of withers: withering step & sin's rebirth
■ the CI-recovery shield and watcher's eye
■ 100% spell suppression
■ 50% spellblock
■ guard-skill molten shell and frostshield
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, section gloves asenath`s for maps / triad grips / vixens for singletarget-bosses
5. "jewels": HoA-virulences, Recovery etc.
6. "skills": HoA-supports etc.
7. AG, Merc: necro- page 100
8. "checklist defences / details of the ascendancies / map-mods / faq"
9. "all poe-tradelinks" and budget-variations you find 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 flesh and stone, tempestshield, enfeeble, ed-charges-uptime and clusters. You can switch the set-ups fast.
1.) Levelling - Until t12 maps
Stack 80% poisonchances with passives and poison on hit-support for production of HoA-virulences with your own spells.
Level with the starters:
Ghastly Theater
Cybil's paw
Maw of the conquest
Golden Rule jewel
Skillgems Ball lightning of orbiting, Tornado of elemental turbulence
2 Circles of Nostalgia
Darkness Enthroned
Rainbow strides
Get needed dex and resis on other gear and for HoA a 5 /6 link Body Armour.
2.) Starter Set-up - The Mana-Management
Get the key-gear:
Small clusters uncompromising - sublime form - self control
9 Medium Clusters Pure agony
Cheap #7 / or #5-passives voices large clusters
3-5 abyss jewels minion chance to poison on hit
Sin's Rebirth-flask / other source of full 15 withers
Rumi's Concoction flask
Asenath`s gentle touch gloves for curses on hit
Tattoos poison-on-hit
Aegis Aurora shield
Watcher's eye with es on hit
80%-90% manamultiplier helmet
Amulet anoint
Skin of the Lords / Loyals
Head always as early as possible to cheap small clusters for auras and medium clusters for "pure agony".
Relaxed master your manamanagement around lvl 50 with the 3 small clusters "uncompromising", "sublime form" and "self-control".
Simultan start to outsource res, attr, bleeding- and ailment-immunities from gear onto the transferpoints of clusterjewels and ghastly jewels.
With 2 rings 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.
Easy from lvl 60 you start to optimize your damage with "pure agony" on full 9 medium clusters. For this insert 3 cheap large clusters #7 / #5-passives voices into the tree.
3.) Lvl 80: Boss-Hunter 20 M - The Damage
Harmonically in simultaneity you tripple up your ehp around lvl 70-90:
Arriving in the second and third large cluster you max also your defences by aurastacking and switch in more jewels and small clusters.
You reach an unique record of 1M-inf*Ehp.
Get:
Ashes of the Stars
Empower and Awakened HoA-supports
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.
Move some auras, curses, and skills over to the Mercs and AG.
Turn auras like Purity of Ice and Discipline over to the Frosthand-Merc.
Gear the Merc further up with curses, slow-immunities and phys-dr.
4.) Lvl 90: MinMax 40-80 M shaper-damage
Melding of the flesh and a sapphire flask raise ele-max-resis to tanky 85-90%.
Outsource all needed attributes, resis, bleeding-avoidances, spell suppression and mana-reg from gear on jewels, clustertransfers, implicits, tattoos and league-mechanics to get more free passives and capacities for damage, tankyness and qol.
Attractive corruptions & doublecorruptions are gathered and best rare pieces are sniped or crafted.
The hunt for some additional fitting megalomaniacs clusters with hundreds of interesting combinations begins.
5.) The Highway to damage 100-1000 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 3 voices clusters you slay 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 for total convincing 200-1000M shaper-damage - or walk relaxed into tankyness, an unholy might-minion-mastery, or farm a mageblood for qol.
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The Infos
So take your dozen from this build:
The crawler raises - Herald of Agony caught the POE world by storm
Spoiler
Scorpions & Spirits, Agony & Arakaali
HoAg, HoP, HoT, HoI, HoA
Originally five heralds, one for each of the five damagetypes in wraeclast, were sent out from the islands of Chris to boost the clear speed 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]
Spoiler
In these ancient leagues all heralds were often crossover stacked with more heralds to be elemental converted, supported by the aura hatred, the grips of the counsil and the keystone elemental equilirium. These heraldstackers were often the leading meta-skills in [3.4] Delve and following.
Of course fast in [3.5] Betrayal league the multiple-damage-scaling of herald-stackers and in [3.7] Legion the HoA-virulences-damage and agony-uptime with cluster-notables were deep, dark and bitter nerfed by 40%. Merciless aegis aurora es on block was halfed.
The Mana guardians
Finally as Mana Guardian this chaoscrawler caught the POE world by storm when POEDan took it to a whopping 1359 hardcore delve level in [3.7] Legion. He had something like 27K energy shield, 40K armor, and well over 1 million in Shaper DPS. In Metamorph league [3.9], the build was used again by Daser in SSFHC delve competition and he finished second place with 1071 depth with far less gear than Dan's 1085 depth Baron Zombie guardian.
The deep nerf
A second time in [3.10] Delirium the hammer swinged - another 30% nerf to HoAg-damage was thrown out. The support-spectres as well as the animated guardian we're nerfed step by step and lost their former immortality from [3.13] Ritual league by league until [3.15] Expedition and even further sinking into the [3.19] Lake of Kalandra.
In [3.13] Ritual I introduced the new guide "The Arachnophobia Allstars" focussing much more on armour- and aura-stacking with more clusters and aul's uprising, with iron reflexes on Skin of the Lords, solely exclusive designed with immortal minions, with evasions of minion-blindings. With more curses and full withers I buffed up spirit offering, in that time another 30% more chaosdamage. I optimized the pathing and skills and supports and with fastings 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 optimize 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. In the Delve depth race the build reached rank 3.
So in [3.14] Ultimatum the HoA-allstars-guardian was popular again and No1-rank in the solo-leaderboards of the Guardian-leaderboards, No1 in the forum, and leading the arachnophobiatic dream-team of scorpions and spiders with arakaali's fang. HC lvl 100 Rank 1 was easy reached too.
In [3.15] Expedition the tipping level-point of HoA lowered from lvl 31 down to lvl 29, enabling different weapons and different amulets.
One league later in [3.16] Scourge the damage of HoA-virulences was buffed around 25%. The new awakened gems were upgrading the HoA totally awesome too.
The auras determination, grace, and as well discipline were hard buffed in relation to stats on gear. Ghost dance and divine shield were introduced on the tree for Hybrids and CI's. Armour overall was huge buffed 50% against bigger hits.
With the nerfs of Glancing Blows, to the memory vault, to the blindings and blue nightmare the Allstars turned into the reformations of the full-block-editions, Tempestshield shaped HoA as autobomber.
Balaar reached with HoA the new poe-record in speed-levelling.
In total the damage reached 90% more damage as one league before. 24M.
In [3.17] Astramentis / Siege of the Atlas managuardian leaderboard rank 1 was climbed again after 3 days.
For science a pob-squire-glascannon was optimized. 89.7 M shaper damage. In 150k ehp like common squishy skeleton-mages-meta-minion-builds.
The crawler raises 200% [3.19] to [3.23]
Spoiler
In [3.19] Kalandra poison-minions got buffed around 200%. The King of Sting in his mix of 60% physical and 40% chaos-damage was full prepared to raise again into s-tier damage like the SRS Summon Raging Spirits. The hexes temporal chains and despair were buffed imba into the top. Skin of the Lords and many uniques were buffed. 4w socketed triad grips became the one and only b.i.s. So cast-while-channelling trigger and setups were getting more and more interesting and were urgent needed two leagues later for 90 HoA-virulences. The beloved classic balls of lightning needed to be removed. In maps the minion-offence-mastery walked in with unholy might with 40% more damage - another step into 40M damage, without headhunter, without meta-expensive gear.
In [3.19] the Necro got the perfect 8th HoA-link-support deluxe with "unnatural strength" in her ascendancy, so I optimized and introduced the new HoA-Necro - The Arachnophilia Allstars.
Also in [3.19] the CI-Trickster was buffed extreme tanky, but I optimized the other ascendancies and waited until [3.23] to publish this new tank at last.
In [3.21] Crucible the Pathfinder joined the Allstars-team with 30% more chaos-damage of withers and her easy 100% uptime of utility-flasks.
New defences
With some small buffs in the reservation-efficiencies and ressources of spell suppression moving from gear into the tree and the nerfings to the melding of the flesh-jewel, and reacting to the ele-penetrations of most of the Ubers, the build switched in it's 3th large cluster, the 5th and the 6th medium cluster and travelled into the eastern world of the tree into 100% spell suppression.
Molten shell was halfed. Recovery and substain needed to be fixed - and the graven's secret was detected.
100 virulences - 100M damage
In [3.23] Affliction the helmet-enchant and alternate skillqualities were nerfed and removed, on the other side default HoA-skill-quality was transformed into virulences and so in result the amulet ashes of the stars was very nice buffed.
With the new ball lightnings of orbiting 110 and with the new quality to storm burst 120 and more virulences are reliable stacked in 0.3 secs and continuous the highest es on hit with the traditional watcher's eye is triggered beside.
Poisonous concoction was chosen as the new easy levellingskill.
The final HoA-tipping-point lvl 34, up to lvl 39, was claimed. The poe-engine hardcaps the crawler's dps-dot.
2M
The second keystone of totally combined 2M arachnophobiatic views in united 4 arachnophil ascendancies-forums dropped on the 22.4.24 in Necropolis.
HoA arrives in 250M
In [3.24] the former default HoA-virulences- generator stormburst was happy buried in peace and good mood in the graveyards of the Necropolis. After many leagues cyclone is reborn again as valuable channelskill for 100 virulences. The ball lightnings of orbiting and homing tornados of turbulences fit perfect into the 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 grant easy withers to free up one more jewel slot.
The Adorned was unbugged and the HoA-poison-setup (abyss-jewels / belt) turned total flexible. 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.
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 and 85-90% all max-resis returned again in lategame.
The Champ arrives in the team and can stack high 95% flat damagereductions and 250 k armour.
[3.25] Settlers - Half a billion
Spell block, ward and endurance charges were buffed, in exchange determination was nerfed. Taste of Hate became useable for 25% more fast ele-ehp. Asenath's gloves for clearspeed in maps were added. The max HoA-skill-lvl 40 is claimed with the new +8 amulets. For the new t-17 standard the immortal minion fits perfect.
The time arrived to Jugg. Great regenerations in all juice.
Hiero- and Gladiator-variations were pathed, last the Scion launched and the circle of the Allstars closed.
Phrecia
In "The Legacy of Phrecia" cheapest geared the build reached 660M, up to 1.1 billion damage in the herald-event-ascendancy.
[3.26] Secrets of the Atlas: A full billion
Reacting to the merc-group-debuff of 25% higher damage taken the build turned from CI over into hybrid life+es.
Dps and recovery were doubled.
The buffed buddy Animate Guardian sides us too.
200 M in lowest budget top tanky and up to 1.3 B are stinged.
Meta-ready?
With these huge buffs to movement, qol, defences and damage the Herald of Agony is probably meta-minion ready again. I don't see since [3.24] another minion-build to scale up better. B.i.s. geared in high-budget 1360M damage are stinged in tanky 300k-1M ehp.
Holy Relics reach only 25% of the capacities in damage of HoA. Spectres are squishy in 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 necro-page 100:
Simply by the smooth movement with cyclone we automatical launch poisoning fast hitting spells which autotrigger a ranged fighting scorpion-minion.
The defences
The Arachnophobia Allstars are using a special combination of gear like the shield Aegis aurora and Skin of the lords. The build stacks skill-efficiencies to use all big tanky auras. Then high buffed global defences multiply your Es, your flasks, the aura determination and triple in grace.
This way the long row layers of all defences is lined up: flat dr, armour, spell suppression, evasion, block and spell block.
Following the Allstars take wonderful the intensive full bath in the united composition of all northern tanky keystones. Ghost Dance, Divine Shield, Zealoth's Oath, Wicked Ward and Supreme Decadence recover, regenerate and recharge in quadrophony.
Infinitive recovery is overstacked with es on block, es when hit and es on hit.
The mechanics
In this unique style the best of both worlds of the tanky western and eastern passivetree is united. The eastern deterministic uptimes of evasion, ghost dance and 100% spell suppression protect you safe in the western nondeterministic downtimes of blockings and divine shield.
This means that in combat all taken and all dealed hits, spellhits, blocks and spellblocks heal you nonstop.
It's like drinking every second some lifeflasks and your blockings are always unlimited.
Beyond the build reaches out for the tanky 90% +max resis beside 100% chaos-, crit-, dot- and ailment-immunities.
The countdown
The delicious team of components massive collaborates and impressive lifts off to:
0- oneshots
1- the only one tanky tank of tanks. 1000 es on block
2- 000 ES on hit/sec, 2000 life on hit/sec, 2000 es when hit, 2000 es recovery/sec with vaal discipline
3- panicskills, 3 curses, 3 different damagetypes united, 30M autobombing, 35M continuous dot
4- 000 ES/sec frost shield autotriggered
5x Cc: maim, hinders, chills, slows, knockbacks - all mobs are in slow-mo, 50-100 minions possible as mass-summoner
60% - 75% spellblock and 50% real fullblock with 100% dr, 60% more damagereductions against ranged attacks in frostshield
75% dr of max. and optimized 5000 Molten Shell, 75%-100% chaos immunities
80% buffed evasion, 80% physical damagereduction against big hits and crits, 85-89% elemental resistances
90% - 95% flat dr
100 % spell suppression, 100% bleeding-, 100% poison-, 100% elemental ailments-, 100% crit-immunities
110 % overcapped allresistances, ready for debuffs, scorch, elemental-degens and -equiliriumed maps
12M - infinitive* ehp, 1200M dps possible, 12-25k+ Es and Life recovered / sec
We can facetank almost all bosses.
The damage
Offensive it's very effective and balanced with it's crawling immortal scorpion-minion. In higher minion-skill-levels the herald of chaos is probably the highest damage-scaling minion in Wraeclast and is buffed into more than a billion dps by stacking medium clusters of "pure agony". It's center is the dirty tailsting clearing five times each second two screens in top-tier-range.
The Allstars define unmatched flexibility with unending possibilities in the whole poe-system. Dozens skills can be utilized and transformed into triggering in high fullspeed the chaos-minion-projectile-damage of the ranged attacks of the scorpion.
Ball lightnings, cyclone, tornadoes and 50 more fast skills can be used.
In this build a dramatic cocktail of 3 different damagequalities is mixed and united. With tempestshield, autotriggered tornadoes, void spheres and storm brands the herald is autobombing, with minion-poison 35M are balanced into continuous d.o.t., and the peak-damage is active whirling cyclone to channel orbiting ball lightnings to tickle the chaos-clone-beast-crawler's tail into fullspeed and initializing 100M to 1300M-fullscreen-chainexplosions.
Which budget?
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Which Prices / Budget?
Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.26]
(Price-details on necro-page 100)
■ 15 chaos for yellow t5
■ 50 chaos for red t13
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red t15
■ 2-5 div skin of the lords/loyals for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for 25M damage and juiced red t16
■ 20-50 div for 50M damage, t17 and ubers
■ 60-100 div for 200M damage.
30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.
The prietails you find on necro-page 100.
■ 150 div for 300M damage.
■ 400 div for 600M damage
■ 800 div for 900M damage
■ 1500-2500 div for 1300M damage
That's an around 80% smaller budget compared to meta-bamas, squishy spectres, etc.
Which ascendancy? Why HoAg?
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Heralds and minions are often chosen for their quality of life and automatic damage-qualities. Everything dies around you. Your herald finishs your job while you yourself are already relaxed looting.
The eight useable ascendancies alternate 30%-40% in damage, tankyness and recovery and have their own specialities.
Choose your class depending on your poe-experiences, your playstyle and your favourite poe-content:
Without much poe-experiences start relaxed into PoHoA as Trickster for total best tankyness.
With good poe-experiences and the know-how to avoid sometimes dot go Necro to kick'n sting more damage (or choose the "total tank"-pob).
Select Scion, Pathfinder and Champ for the good mix.
Use Guardian or Pathfinder for easy levelling, Occu for speedmapping.
Since the necro-buff in [3.24] I often first update the flexible necro-ascendancy.
Other ascendancy-improvements follow a bit delayed.
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.
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, extreme flexible in the ascendancy. Best to scale into 500-1300M Ultra-HoA-crits when you focus on dps.
Guardian can easy use more auras. Nice regenerations, early full blockings with cyclone and easy levelling with the radiant crusade-minion. In lategame hard to scale above 400M.
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.
Best flat dr. The champ with all buffs reaches flat 95% damage-reductions against all 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.
Occultist, included in the necro-pob, scales top clearspeed with profane bloom in high density. Best with investments for forbidden flame and flesh.
It's time to Jugg!
Stay Hybrid or needs 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.
Good manareg, 80% recoupings of elemental hits with graven secret belt.
God of Block - Gladiator
Full 90% attack- and spell block, but 0% evasion and 0 ghost dance. Interesting for Iron Reflexes.
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Which Herald?
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 bosser, Herald of Ice needs 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, that's 2-8x more than most other minion- and herald-builds. Let it sting!
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 ehp, substain and avoidances compared to the 20M-casual-common builds of PoEGuy, Jorgen, Aer0, Snolaz, Verlyna's etc. on YouTube and in PoeVault.
Atlas | Ranking all POE-Content
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The Secrets of Juice
Ordinary rush through the atlas to the bosses for the atlas-voidstones and farm a bit currency in easy content. After choose 2-3 content-mechanics you enjoy and buff them as far as possible with all relating atlas-passives and atlas-keystones, scarabs, deli-orbs and the map-device in 11-mod-maps.
In many YouTube Channels (like Empyriangaming, Palsteron, Crouching_Tuna, sirgog, POEGuy, Grimro, 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. Full juice, full loot. Unbuffed content is worthless!
Atlas | Mapping | Altars | 8-mods 9/10
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Awesome range/aoe and capacity of almost all altars and t17- and map-mods. With the cyclone skill-set almost perfect movement.
Aegis aurora is traditionally the almost b.i.s.-piece of gear in whole poe for infinitive recovery in high increased mob-size and with density juiced content.
Max with a divine vessel the minor pantheon of abberath for exarch-altars and overcap resis for eater-altars.
Fastest in open designed layouts like dunes, jungle valley, strand, cemetary, graveyard, coves, dried lake, etc.
Not optimal in crangled dungeon-maps like toxic sewers.
Bossing | Destructive Play 9/10
Spoiler
All guardians trivial afk.
With some medium clusters you almost oneshot most pinnacle bosses early also.
As tank forgiving many mistakes.
Facetank Exarch, Sirus, Shaper etc. easy full geared.
High damage, but a bit complex to max HoA-virulences singletarget.
Abyss 10/10
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Almost perfect. Tanky early.
Harvest 10/10
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Perfect. Tanky with aegis aurora. Use void spheres and storm brands for easy 100% damage-uptime.
Don't forget an anti-bleeding flask-suffix.
Einhar | Bestiary 10/10
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Almost perfect. Tanky.
Ultimatum 10/10
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Afk. Perfect. Many mods add funny more es on block. Total immortal in the damage peaks with inf* ehp.
Corrupted blood immune, also 80%-90% cold/ele-resis. Choose also the chaos/poison-trials with immunity and ats-mods.
Easy, facetanks also corpse-explosions with a bit gear.
Harbinger 10/10
Spoiler
Perfect.
Don't facetank in juiced content the big blue bossy bear.
Beyond 10/10
Spoiler
Easy,
Fullgeared facetank all beyond-bosses.
T17 9/10
Spoiler
Great to farm. Can high juice the maps.
Can facetank most attacks of the bosses.
Almost perfect, can run most mods. Need not often to reroll mods.
Delirium | Simulacrum 9/10
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Almost perfect. Afk wave 15, 6-7 rewards, easy 100% delirious maps. Ailment-immune, all global defences maxed, infinitive recovery by aegis aurora, unaffected by stuns with awakened cwc, overcapped resis.
Low geared kite charged explosion-attack of kosis.
Rogue Exiles | Anarchy 9/10
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Not far from perfect, tanky a*f*, can facetank all fulljuiced titanic delirious gigantic 8-mods Rogue Exiles.
Delve 9/10
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Until lvl 1000 almost perfect. Infinitive recovery by aegis aurora.
With specialisations dive to 2000 and deeper:
Cast, trigger or channel frostwalls, use mageblood, melding of the flesh and 90% max-resis.
Expedition 9/10
Spoiler
Tanky, be careful only with chaos-immune-rune-monster-mods.
Build the dynamite around.
Avoid overwhelming phys-dr and removing es on hit-mods.
Betrayal 9/10
Spoiler
Perfect.
Be careful as Pathfinder: One boss removes flask-effects.
Blight 9/10
Spoiler
With storm brands of indecision and void spheres easy. Tanky. Top 1 wide range.
Support HoA by pierce combinated with returning projectiles.
With anointed rings and asenath's gloves Ravaged blights turn trivial.
In small areas build kill-boxes with seismic towers > then chilling > empowering > chain-shocking devices.
Cover large areas using the scout-minions and stun-meteors buffed with empower-towers.
Ubers 8/10
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Does easy all Ubers already cheap geared.
Can facetank almost all attacks of Sirus, Exarch, Cortex - and also a lot of shaper and eater. Can instant-skip some phases of some ubers.
100% spell suppression against eater and other resi-penetrations. CI against Sirus, Iron reflexes possible against U-Shaper.
When you want to facetank uber-oneshots, like maven's memory game, a few specializations are needed.
Turn hybrid life+es with boots unaffected by poison.
Medium gear is needed to be specialized into Ubers-farming like 8-button cast-on-death 1000M glascannons or 10 mirrors-mines-builds.
Ritual 8/10
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You need to keep up the es on hit, or trigger frostshield, or kite a bit the degen-beams in bitter cold- and glacial-rituals.
All other rituals are trivial.
Don't camp near the pain totems in violent-rituals, better kill them from range.
Breach 8/10
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A bit slow, but great tankyness.
Use "awakened fork" in the HoA-supports.
Very good to farm the flawless breach-realms in the cyclone-set-up.
Legion 8/10
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Use the legion-atlas-passive Protracted Battle or Timeless Conflict.
With void spheres or phantasms best activating the legions.
Good 5-way farmer.
Heist | Lab-Runner | Movementspeed 8/10
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Around 250%-350% movementspeed easy obtainable.
Tanky at heist-doors and against Izaro.
Switch the body-armour to the queen of the forest and stack a bit more evasion on tree and on a jade- and stibnit-flask or gear the devoto's devotion helmet or squeeze in the aura haste.
Use a rubinflask in heists against generals and traps. Selfcast frostshield when you want to facetank doors.
Use as lab-runner the Minor Pantheon of Ralakesh and a cluster-notable "fire attunement" when wanted for trap-immunities. Stack some armour and pdr against Izaro.
Best as Pathfinder (early 100% flask-uptime) or as Trickster (Queen of the forest buffed by Escape Artist). With mageblood 9/10.
+50% queen of the forest body-armour
+25% devoto's devotion helmet
+20% aura haste with Huck
+12% watcher's eye grace-mod
Alva | Incursion 7/10
Spoiler
Use cyclone and/or the Time Dilation atlas-passive.
One architect penetrates physical damagereductions and armour and deals a lot d.o.t.
No problem as trickster.
Sanctum 5/10
Spoiler
In a few layouts too short damage-uptime. Not easy to deal damage around dungeon-corners.
Switch in arakaali's fang as weapon for aggressive spiders and damage around corners.
Specialize them for singletargets with withering touch - multistrike - awakened unbound ailments. You can switch aegis aurora to the squire-shield too.
Use tornados of elemental turbulences, void spheres and storm brands supported by phantasms as meatshields. Use convocation and the HoA-supportgem predator.
PRO
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Leaguestarter?
Overall not best, not cheapest and not easy leaguestarter! Without experience 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 1 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 at once, Simulacrum wave 15 7 rewards, Delve 2000, etc...
Endgame: Max up your build into leading positions - soloplay guardians rank 1 reached
The perfect guide for min-maxers and individualists - there are always upgrades to hunt from 10M to 100M to 200M to 500M to 1000M.
Top 1 life+es: one of the very seldom valuable Hybrids
Top 1 sustain: with max keystones and aegis aurora 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 1300M damage out there?
Beginner-friendly - but complex:
Budget: much cheaper than many metabuilds, no mageblood, no expensive equipment
Uniques in most slots: Know-how of crafts not needed
Complete poe-trade-links listed in the last spoiler at the buttom of the thread
Because you can facetank most bosses without danger, it's a nice time to learn more about their abilities, attacks and mods.
Not only a "copy my pob-link!"-build:
Sorry, this is probably one of the most expanded and longest builds in the forum. Complex and strong poe-mechanics - all global defences, 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 stat-details and many budget-variations.
Comprehensive checklists for damage and defences, checklists for all stats.
1 button-build
Relaxing 100% 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, Scion lvl 80-100 died 4x in 3.26 16.5 content.
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 three worlds combinated - smooth moving of cyclone launching fast spells which autotrigger a ranged minion
Tank & Cast-style is definitiv more fun as kite & hide
HoA-Chaos-damage and HoA-poison-dot instant penetrates es and many other defences of 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.
HoA is 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 and with Mercs great supporting with auras and curses.
CONTRA
Spoiler
On maps with the No-Mana-Recovery-Mod you have to take in a shaper-ring or 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 as other meta-builds.
In Ssf HoAg is strong extreme not optimized, but much more difficult to collect the 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, recovery, trigger, keystones, jewels and clusters and to balance the mana. 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 ubers. 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 autobomb-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 1200M damage.
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/ Black Star down /
Poison damage per second is capped at 37 million. try again.
Poison damage per second is capped at 37 million. try again.
Yes of course, we all know that a long, long time, the ggg-engine caps all dot exact at 35.7M, what`s the problem?
HoA does hit- (50-300M), crit- (0-800M) and dot-damage (15-36M) united in this build.
In one pob the HoA-dot overflows by 200k a tiny little bit the ggg-engine-dot-hardcap, no problem, that`s less than 0.1% of the total 250M HoA-damage in that pob (in ordinary content, not expanded hardcap against ubers of course too) - did you meant that?
Dernière édition par Chromino#4813, le 23 oct. 2025 à 15:39:58
