[3.11] Bashtart's HERALD OF PURITY GUARDIAN: cheap starter & endgame boss farmer with insane dps!

Highly recommend adding in Arena Masters w/ Stoneskin Flayers. They don't seem to go down very easily - and provide +40% increased attack, movement, cast speed to you and your minions (inside the radius). I think i'd be willing to drop Stone Golem (at least in this league with the abundance of Small Clusters w/ defensive nodes) for FF + Minion Attack Speed + Culling Strike.

For next league, I think i'd be able to run Stone Golem + Meat + FF + Spectre. Seems like FF + Meat negate eachother (so Neutral), but all buffs from both gems are retained.

For anyone interested gonna post again how i modified Bashtart's Build for my playstyle. Credits to Bashtart for getting me into HoP build :)

So i ended up lvl 98 in Delirium and my purpose was to modifia HoP for Sirus 8 and fast clear map at least as fast as possible for this build i ended up with these items below



https://pastebin.com/jEXMGNqL You can check the jewels on my tree. There is some room for improvement on jewels there but minor , most important are the "Cannot be maimed" "Immune to Silence" "Mininos Hinder %"

For Pantheon i got Soul of Shakari for "Immune to Poison" and "Soul of Lunaris" for some extra Def

Lets talk about dmg. I dont know how much dps is exactly i cant calculate from PoB but compared to Gnomiro's mine the dmg numbers as almost equal on PoB but my build has Aspect of the Avian on Helm so i get tremendous buff on my minions.

We got wyrmsign gloves for "Rampage" and trust me if you can play around the explosions you gonna love HoP and Wyrmsign.

I tried to craft Amulet for +1 Physical gems but i failed 3-4 times and i quited was too expensive to keep going on

One of the most important thing i like in this build is the Immune to Bleed from chest and max Chaos resist from "Allocated Cleansed Thoughts" on amulet

For Heal we got the "Forbidden Taste" due to max chaos resist it has no effect on you.

7.5 K life with double daggers i ok i think.

There are some minor other stuff from my build i might be missing but you can check them on the pastebin link

One improvement i wanted but i was not able to aquire was a corrupted circle of Guild with "Cannot be ignited" implicit . I saw one in trade once with the specific Reduced Mana for HoP and the Damage on Minions but he was not selling it.

Anyway if anyone is interested feel free to ask ingame .
Cheers

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quodlike wrote:

https://pastebin.com/jEXMGNqL You can check the jewels on my tree. There is some room for improvement on jewels there but minor , most important are the "Cannot be maimed" "Immune to Silence" "Mininos Hinder %"

Your PoB configuration page is empty so it shows only ~600k of dps per sentinel.

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fong249 wrote:

Highly recommend adding in Arena Masters w/ Stoneskin Flayers. They don't seem to go down very easily - and provide +40% increased attack, movement, cast speed to you and your minions (inside the radius). I think i'd be willing to drop Stone Golem (at least in this league with the abundance of Small Clusters w/ defensive nodes) for FF + Minion Attack Speed + Culling Strike.

Thanks for the tip, will try one arena master with two stoneskin flayers.

EDIT:

Well it was some work to find the Arena Master. Need to spawn Drox and when he spawns he needs to spawn the portals where the Arena Master comes from. Those portals won't come up always when Drox does. Well now I have one arena master and two stoneskin flayers. Just killed Drox and Shaper and Arena Master survived those. I hope it survives Sirus also, that would be important. You probably can respawn these with Desecrate though(?) so it won't be so difficult to find them when you lose one.

Hey guys, really interested in trying this build in a new league. I was also looking at using Dominating blow with HoP. Can someone tell if it's worth it or it's better to stick to this build with BV + HoP setup? Thanks

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fensuta wrote:

Hey guys, really interested in trying this build in a new league. I was also looking at using Dominating blow with HoP. Can someone tell if it's worth it or it's better to stick to this build with BV + HoP setup? Thanks

Depents on patch notes HoP is strong in general but aquiring the propers rings is an issue at the start of the League

Hi, Bashtart.

Will there be any changes in this assembly?

Fiksinator - if you read pages probably 55 on, there is a wealth of modifications from the baseline model that Bash put together. Bashtart's baseline still is fantastic and provides good balance of defense and offense. Some of us have gone more defensive, some more offensive. There is a glass cannon build by TallTimbers that is insane DPS, and then Gnomiro put together a strong but a little more defensive build as well.

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fiksinator wrote:

Hi, Bashtart.

Will there be any changes in this assembly?

We have to wait for the patch notes to know for sure but I am 95% sure that this build will be very strong next league again. Cluster jewels will be harder to get and more expensive and probably get nerfed a bit.

Hi, I'm wondering if it is still viable due too Ring nerf?

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Am3n wrote:

Hi, I'm wondering if it is still viable due too Ring nerf?

I musst have missed it... What exactly do you mean with ring nerf?