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

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alpihun wrote:

Hello!

So I took the guidewriter's advice and selected this as my league starter.
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I'll soon finish the acts and the first 2-3 labs, but before going CI I'll need to farm about 350-400 chaos (as I quickly calculated). In the meantime, what (cheap) gear should I use?
Just random rares with life/mana/ES/attributes/resistances? Or is there some cookie cutter alternative unique to make mapping easier?

Also, which of the needed uniques can be used before full ham CI, so I purchase them first? I think I'm going to start with a cheap 40-50c, slightly offcolor skin of the loyal.

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Sevreth72 wrote:

I've never played an ES build before. I understand life on hit/life leech, but what provides ES regen in this build, I'm assuming the ball lightning does not affect it? Does life on hit/leech work with Zeolot's Oath?

Just finished my first Lab and grabbed a super cheap skin on the loyal for more defense compared to my tabula. My ES is getting eaten through so quickly.

If someone could take a couple seconds to explain how ES regen/on hit occurs it would be greatly appreciated!

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hitmantb wrote:

01/06 Update:

Every time I think I am done, someone provides a tip that makes this build even more unfair. Ability to use hatred, skitterbot and flesh and stone together WITHOUT helmet enchant is . . . absurd, and I just realized everyone can do this with the exception of 2R-2G-2B players. Check your POB!

1) Re-wrote the section on Skin of Royal color choices. For newer players feel free to pick something with less damage and mana reservation, makes rest of your game easier/cheaper at all stages.

You will want at least 2 Green 2 Red for Herald of Agony, Pierce, Empower and Damage On Full Life. The last two skills are variable. While Vicious Projectile and Minion Damage provides the best damage and we will use it as baseline, especially with awakened gems, it is also most expensive both in term of mana reserved and price.

Don't be afraid to pick up a different color combination for cheap while you are starting out, or grab a corrupted +2 level to socketed gems Skin of Loyal if a different color is available.

Color Combination | Final Two Skills | Mana Reserved| Damage
2R-3G-1B | Vicious Projectile & Minion Damage | 100% | 100%
3R-2G-1B | Maim & Minion Damage 94% | 94%
2R-2G-2B | Deathmark & Minion Damage | 108% | 88% no mark, 111% marked
2R-4G | Vicious Projectile & Hypothermia* | 92% | 92%
3R-3G | Vicious Projectile & Maim | 88% | 89%

*For 2R-4G, use hypothermia if you have skitterbot to apply chilled, otherwise vile poison which will have variable damage depend on 0-10 poison stacks.

The lower mana cost means it is easier for you to activate the next aura at every stage until you have herald of agony, hatred, skitterbot and flesh and stone all activated. And yes this can be done without a super expensive helmet enchant. You need to max roll your Circle of Nostalgia to 40% reduced mana reservation and pick up every mana reservation trick in the guide if you are using 2R-3G-1B, and the requirement goes down immensely if you are using other combinations.

2) Updated mana reservation section, if you have all of this, you can do all three auras!

1）Conqueror's Efficiency
2) Two corrupted jewels with 1% mana reservation reduction, notice because of some really funky formulas, one jewel doesn't do anything.
3) Level 4 enlighten
4) Corrupted shaper's touch for +1 socketed gem level and you get level 5 enlighten equivalent
5) Well-rolled Circle of Nostalgia (40% is needed if you use 2R-3G-1B and Vicious Projectile)
6) Get Charisma on your amulet

If you have everything above with max roll 40% Circle of Nostalgia, you will be able to use Hatred, Skitter Bot, Flesh and Stone with Vicious Projectile, WITHOUT helmet enchant. A massive power spike without one of the most expensive enchants in the game today. If you are NOT using 2R-3G-1B or 2R-2G-2B, you can most likely do it without the max roll so play around with this in POB. (Thank you Mythrol1!)

Sample POB: https://pastebin.com/Su0kQV4N

I am going to start rolling my Circle of Nostalgia for a 40% roll, damage does not matter. Sand stance blinds everyone around you, I think I actually like it more than discipline especially against bosses like Aul. It gives our build a raider like RNG ceiling that we did not have before.

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crazypearce wrote:

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Mecielle wrote:

Ok, tested it. I don't save any passives. With all the mana reservation nodes, Charisma, Conquerors Efficiency, 40% CoN, Enlighten 5 linked to Hatred and Skitterbots, and 2x1% reduced reservation corruption I come out at 1% unreserved with VP, Pierce, Minion Damage, Empower and DOFL.

I mean it fits, but I lost 1600 ES, from the annoint and from using Conquerors Efficiency over a rare jewel. And would of course not be able to slot in my single target Vile Toxins over Pierce. Sadly in my case it doesn't seem to be worth it.

And if I see this correctly, I would need to get another 3 point jewl socket when I buy my Watchers Eye, which would result in more ES lost.

If it was only the ES I lost, I would consider it. But as I do a lot of bossing to farm currency, not being able to use the huge single target boost from slotting in Vile Toxins over Pierce would really hurt my particular usage of the build.

i would agree that the trade is not worth it sadly because you are losing a jewel socket for conquerer's efficieny. you are basically trading between 10-13% ES for 11% DR for mobs outside the aura. which seems fine if there was no other invesment needed but it severely restricts any other variants to your setup.

that being said, if you can get any %mana reduction enchant then it's definitely worth. but they are pretty much all extinct outside of the HoAg one and that's way too expensive

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CutieSabba wrote:

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You can get a skitterbot enchant pretty easily for less then 10ex. and then just need 40%roll on ring and 1 jewel with corrupt,you can even drop conqueror effiency complety and that means you can socket a ghastly jewel with mana strenght and minion dmg