[3.9] Cyclone Summoner - Heralds of Agony and Purity, Summon Holy Relic - League starter
" Thanks for your thoughts and learnings - please continue updating us on your progress! Later on in the league I may investigate adding an SSF section to the main guide. |
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" Using a magic Stibnite flask would be better than Witchfire Brew, but yes that's certainly an option! You can also get more minion damage on jewels yeah - unfortunately, they're very expensive right now. The guide is meant to be, well, a guide - please tinker around with different additions as you like! |
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" Hey, minion speed isn't critical, but it puts in some work for sure. You should be able to buy minion speed jewelry pretty cheaply or try crafting on your own! I'd recommend using Screaming Essence of Fear or better. In the meantime, you can just use regular jewelry. As you say, the build does work on low investment :D |
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" Hey, thanks for contributing your experience! It's also my experience that Agony Crawler does heavy lifting for us, but seeing as the build is so new, I'm willing to be open to all ideas. Best of luck with the Claw crafting! That would be an insane addition if you could get it :) |
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" I'm glad you're enjoying the build so far! Please go ahead and do a bunch of testing and let us know the results. Seeing as this build is so new, I'm open to any feedback on other versions or how to improve it. Regarding the life and frenzy charge sustain, you're right on the money - it will be quite hard I think. You'll also need to find a way to sustain the mana. Best of luck! |
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" I don't think GMP is good, given Agony Crawler already gets extra projectiles (I haven't had any issues here). Faster attacks may be considerable, but with 40 virulence stacks 120% increased attack speed already. Blood Magic could be interesting in some kind of low-life variant for sure, but I'm unsure what that would look like. |
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"Ugh that was a bad suggestion on my part. I meant a Blood Magic gem linked to the Herald because some minions (spectres) have inherent mana limitations and can be boosted with Blood Magic on them. But of course the Herald itself would be Blood Magic in this case :( Last edited by tainium on Sep 18, 2018, 8:59:36 PM
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This build is ... amazing. Completed the story in <8 hours and Eternal lab at L79 (cake). One of the most fun (and powerful) builds I've played in PoE. Granted I'm only L81 (just created the character last night) I look forward to seeing how it performs with DEEP delves and such.
For those who are interested (and if the author wants to adjust the leveling section) below are my notes on how I leveled (including the order of nodes). Worked beautifully - and yes, this build ROCKS as a league starter. The one thing I'd be interested in is adjustments to min/max... Would love to see a new PoB posted with the "best of everything" for the build - but given it did shaper at L82 without eternal lab - that's awesome. And once you get Eternal lab, it's amazing! Just stay away from the 1-shot bosses like Atoll or Plateau - there's so much on the screen going on you can't see the boss 1-shot attack "notifiers". === 1: 2x Brightbeak 1: Goldrim 1: Lochtonial 1: Wanderlust 1: Tabula 1: Sidhebreath 10: 2x Princess 16: Perandus Blazon 22: Praxis 1: Smite 4: Smite+AC+Lesser Poison 1: Spiritual Command 2: RIghteous Decree 3: Spiritual Aid 4: Constitution 5: Gravepact 6: Resolute Technique 7: Barbarism 8: Berserking 9: Heart of the Warrior 10: Master of the Arena 11: Art of the Gladiator 12: Golem's Blood 13: Quick Recovery 14: Tireless Helm: Cyc+Fort+Poi+LGoH Boots: Relic+MinDam+MinLif+CD Gloves: HoP+MinDam+Ruth Chest: HoA+MinDam+SPhan+Pierce Use Bismuth Flask at beginning L38: Resist Amulet, Shield Take 1 +30 Dex Node, 1 +30 Int node (refund later) All that and a bag of chips! Last edited by Mooginator on Sep 19, 2018, 3:12:23 AM
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I'm using this amazing build now. I added a elder warlord's mark ring, +1 curse amulet, and 2, possibly 3 more endurance charges. Facetanks the planet. Using this setup also adds a ton of mana leech as well, makes not having a good gemini claw a lot better and adds a LOT of tankiness with pretty much perma end charges/IC. I may remove enfeeble all together and put in vulnerability, or increased duration to add to the already insane IC procs with that many constantly refreshing charges.
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I'm considering a downgrade on Herald of Purity to 3L or removing it altogether. The skill has several effects but the only one that we actually use is "20% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Purity when you Hit a Unique Enemy". Is that worth half our mana pool? If it were an Aura that added damage to our Minions then I'd say to keep it. Alternatively, we could try something to earn more of credit for kills while clearing so that they are at least active more often.
Effects we use Maximum 4 Summoned Sentinels of Purity 20% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Purity when you Hit a Unique Enemy Effects we waste Adds (3-25) to (5-37) Physical Damage to Spells Adds (3-25) to (5-37) Physical Damage to Attacks Summon a Sentinel of Purity when you Kill an Enemy Holy Relics, OTOH, feel like the real heavy-lifters to me. If they die while you're Cycloning then you can actually detect a distinct drop in DPS. The Crawler is also great but a bit slow and I think it might be better to link it specifically for large AOE clearing (more projectiles? Chain?) or to increase its attack speed. Last edited by tainium on Sep 19, 2018, 9:22:54 AM
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