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

Just a few comments to help folk out.

First, get lvl 31 hoa if you can, it’s insane. I was able to make a +1 amulet for about 4ex and the damage increase is quite significant.

Second, I had a question a while back about hogm. I just did it t16, a8 and it was a breeze. I did have trouble with the last guy who uses scorching ray so I used a balefire on him. The scepter was basically free and I bought lvl 20 gems for a total of less than 20c. My flayers did die but eventually I just stopped resummoning them and they really weren’t needed. Little crawler just deleted nearly every mob by himself. Just make sure you resummon at least one spectre before you leave the zone so you don’t lose them.

Speaking of summoning spectres, assuming you have a trigger wand, you can just remove spirit offering. Then flame dash will cast desecrate for you every 4 seconds. I find it much easier than moving more gems around, also much faster.

I’m afl a bit but I’ll be around a fair amount today (home sick) so feel free to hit me up for spectre summoning. The way you do it is just join my hideout then cast desecrate while I’m there and you’ll get them.

Bought a Lethal Pride and after 3 Divines ended up with something that gives 5% str on the 30 str node in the radius. Also it gives the Fearsome Force minion node 10% chance to intimidate on hit, and Unnatural Calm gets 20% Armour. Corruption gives 5% strength as well but I dunno if its worth getting chaos damage nodes just for 5% str. Prism Weave also gives 20% armour but again dunno if worth wasting points on Wand nodes just for 20% armour

"

crazypearce wrote:

"

TheChosenOne_ wrote:

for a 2r4g body armor can you recommend supports for hoag?

HoAg, empower, dmg on full life, pierce, vicous projectiles and either vile toxins or hypothermia (vile toxins is more dps when you have 10 poison up but hypothermia is always active).

the dps is basically identical as the 3g2r1b setup assuming you have poison on the enemy which you always do.

you can also go for 4g1r1b if the price is similar or maybe cheaper. you use minion dmg instead of dmg on full life. the end result is actually slightly more dmg because of global minion modifiers on your wand.

the benefit of either 4g2r or 4g1r1b over the standard colours of 3g2r1b is that you need less mana reservation. it's 2% less reduction meaning you can optimize auras better, you don't need an enlighten 4 or expensive reduction jewels. but the end result is identical dps on bosses which is all that really matters. the crawler is one shotting the screen on juiced up t16s anyway when it comes to trash

A level 3 empower works just fine? Right now I have 8ex and 200c to use. Also for the gem recommendations in gloves it has multiple options. I can't afford a lvl 4 empower so looks like im gonna get a +1 glove. What should my gems be for my gloves?

"

TheChosenOne_ wrote:

A level 3 empower works just fine? Right now I have 8ex and 200c to use. Also for the gem recommendations in gloves it has multiple options. I can't afford a lvl 4 empower so looks like im gonna get a +1 glove. What should my gems be for my gloves?

lvl3 empower and enlighten are fine. you don't necessarily need a +1 glove either. they are final upgrades to optimize the build when you already have everything else in place. i only just got lvl 4 enlighten earlier today and i don't have a +1 glove either

Please can anyone tell me why this ring makes me do 0 lightning damage with my ball lightning? i bought it thinking it would give me a good boost to my HoA (cannot afford mana res reduction one yet) but it makes my ball lightning only do chaos damage with messes with my EE

"

Nugsterx wrote:

Please can anyone tell me why this ring makes me do 0 lightning damage with my ball lightning? i bought it thinking it would give me a good boost to my HoA (cannot afford mana res reduction one yet) but it makes my ball lightning only do chaos damage with messes with my EE

check your weapon. can't use EE until you swap it out for a +lvl minion wand

"

crazypearce wrote:

"

Nugsterx wrote:

Please can anyone tell me why this ring makes me do 0 lightning damage with my ball lightning? i bought it thinking it would give me a good boost to my HoA (cannot afford mana res reduction one yet) but it makes my ball lightning only do chaos damage with messes with my EE

check your weapon. can't use EE until you swap it out for a +lvl minion wand

oh wow i feel stupid. i took the ring off and it showed lightning damage on EE but that was because i then didn't have the correct stats for my weapon.

Thanks.

"

hitmantb wrote:

Level 68 will get you 8000+ energy shield, 15000 armor

What in the world am I doing wrong? I feel like I followed this guide pretty well, and only have 5100 ES and 8700 armor :-( I'm 6ex deep into this build, and even though some of my gear rolls are mediocre, i thought I'd have way more ES by now...

"

HighOfffTums wrote:

"

hitmantb wrote:

Level 68 will get you 8000+ energy shield, 15000 armor

What in the world am I doing wrong? I feel like I followed this guide pretty well, and only have 5100 ES and 8700 armor :-( I'm 6ex deep into this build, and even though some of my gear rolls are mediocre, i thought I'd have way more ES by now...

looks like you're missing a lot of important jewels that add a lot of mana

"

HighOfffTums wrote:

"

hitmantb wrote:

Level 68 will get you 8000+ energy shield, 15000 armor

What in the world am I doing wrong? I feel like I followed this guide pretty well, and only have 5100 ES and 8700 armor :-( I'm 6ex deep into this build, and even though some of my gear rolls are mediocre, i thought I'd have way more ES by now...

You are taking things like whispering of doom too early. You need the level 68 tree with tempered spirit and mana nodes. Compare the 68 POB with yours.