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

Do we need to refund any passives from lvl 68 to 94 tree? And why are more minions better for us again?

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jonnyj03 wrote:

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Mecielle wrote:

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jonnyj03 wrote:

How in the world do you get 8k ES at 68? I have the gear you listed. Could use a better ring... But don't see a ring giving me 4k ES

Dude, what? This is a new one :D

You havent done a lab, are still a Templar at level 68 and are surprised that things that this Guardian build promises aren't there? I mean, the guide talks about it in detail. And the 68 tree also has the labs done.

First lab will get you that ES when you take Radiant Faith and reserve almost all your mana. Then you should be at around 8400 ES.

Then if you can afford 3 mana Grand Spectrums, focus your next levels on getting the jewel sockets, socket the 3 Grand Spectrums and you will have another 2000 ES.

lol!

I blanked, thought I did Lab was so confused haha. Should I use Grand Spectrums over the other Jewels? I have the 4 suggested.

Also, when can I drop lesser poison for poison?

Well, get Radiant Faith and then see what the Grand Spectrums give you. But don't use them over Golden Rule, Tempered Spirit or Healthy Mind, Golden Rule is ery much needed to keep max Virulence stacks againsts bosses and Tempered Spirit and Healthy Mind both give a ton of mana, which gets transformed into ES by Radiant Faith.

You can change to Poison support when you get chaos damage added from some source. Thats why you use Lesser Poison for the start, it adds chaos damage to your Ball lightning, enabling it to poison. For this build the chaos damage comes from Circle of Nostalgia. One with only the Herald of Agony mana reservation mod is pretty cheap, maybe 15c, and helps you run more auras. Thats good enough for the start. Later on you might want to upgrade to one with the damage mod too.

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TheChosenOne_ wrote:

Do we need to refund any passives from lvl 68 to 94 tree? And why are more minions better for us again?

Don't think you need to respec any passives. Well, apart from any life nodes you took while leveling of course.

And its not that more minions are better, it is that we need to have 5 to get Onslaught from out Ascendancy. So 4 minions + the Crawler. WHich would be 3 Spectres + 1 Golem for the start, and when you can bring your Spectre gem to level 25 it is just 4 Spectres.

Its normal for Mana Guardian HoA builds to only run with 75% resist? does not became problematic in Awakening 8 (Elemental Weakness)?

Sirus Down... lvl 93

no deathless cause i sux on storms (dont know really what to do with...)


12K es only.

Ok so I am lvl 68 and I'm 93% done with my lvl 68 build. I just need to get the 3rd and 4th ascendancy, get anointment on ammy, get the flasks and level up to 72 to use this




I have 7.7k es, 14.2k armor, 80% psyical dmg reduction but res kinda sucks with 70fire,75(85) cold res and 59 light res. I am pretty happy I achieved this cause lvling was freaking terrible and I used up exactly 8ex from one item I sold which was the most expensive item I ever sold. I can't play it now but tomorrow night I can. Can't wait to try it out. My current gear is below. If you guys got any opinions on anything please comment.

Hello! I managed to get a properly colored mortal conv. chest, so i decided to give this build a try. Levelling feels great so far, but i have one problem with mana reservation. As i understand, i have to reserve as much as possible to get the most benefits from ascendancy, but because of MC i cant use auras other than Hatred. At this point, with skitterbots, hatred and dread banner i have 6% unreserved mana, and i cant increase amount reserved using other auras. Does that mean that i have to not skill any reduced mana reserved passives and not use enlighten?

finally got a belt, took maybe 600c worth of spamming. shame it hit 8% res cause other than it's rolled all the right stats, albeit not t1, but i can't really complain about that

just need to change boots now to fix res and i'm all good to go

Apart from Gem levels, what should I aim for in terms of equip? Kind of need a goal now, else I'll be bored farming lol

Snacked a Memory Vault with the Skitterbot Enchant for 8 Ex. Finally I can also run Flesh and Stone on top. Too bad I needed like another 4 Ex to get Charisma, rolling my Ring to 40% und buying a Golden Rule with 1% reduced Mana. Well Money gone, but I am happy.

The Hunter Amulet with +1 Chaos Gems and the +2 Skin of the Loyal will be my last long term goal in terms of gear. If I reach these two I might even go for optimizing my Timeless Jewel.

When I started this guide during Christmas because my Arc Miner was too squishy I never expect that I would keep so long onto this build and also put so much currency in it. I also think the people here and that this thread is so active, is also doing its part in keeping me invested in it. Its nice to see how other people are approaching things or when they share new ideas.

Thanks for that. You guys here are awesome.

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guifa11 wrote:

Its normal for Mana Guardian HoA builds to only run with 75% resist? does not became problematic in Awakening 8 (Elemental Weakness)?

Well, take a look at my gear if you want, apart from the HoAg helmet enchant, I am kind of done.

I hope I don't overwhelm you, but you asked for it :D

I see a lot of upgrade potential: +1 Shapers Touch, +1 Skin, a good belt, Empower 4 (Or even 3, why are you using a 2 when a 3 costs like 15c?, buy a 3 and level the 2 in your weapon switch, levels are everything for HoAg), a third Grand Spectrum (like 700 ES right there), Awakened Minion Damage, Awakened Vicious Projectiles, Lethal Pride with Intimidate on hit.

And that is before you can start to do the mana reservation game of fitting as many auras as possible into your build. Like I am running HoAg, Hatred, Skitterbots, Flesh and Stone and a high level clarity. I have 50 mana unreserved in my single target setup.

But if you are asking for one big goal to aim for, I would say try to bring your HoAg to the level 31 breakpoint. There are only two things missing, an Empower 4 and a +1 corrupted skin. To get that breakpoint where HoAg gets a huge damage boost, it is even worth to use sub-optimal colors in a +1 corrupted skin. I used a 4g2r for a long time for example. Or a 3g3r or even 2g2r2b works. They are a lot cheaper than the better colors.

As I said, take a look at other peoples gear and skills to get ideas for upgrades.

On the topic of upgrades, I upgraded my boots from:



to



Gets me a 700 ES boost and my resists are still fine. Only 500 ES away from 20000 ES, but dunno where I would get that from.

That was the 6th pair of boots with the mana mod and the two resists I bought. Needed to annul them and bricked the first 5 pairs. This one worked out luckily. Could be a better base, but can't have everything I guess. The other downside is that I have to run lab to enchant them... Luckily today is an ok lab day, no golden door.