⛵☁️[3.25] The Arachnophobia Allstars| Chaos Guardian CI|The dirty Scorpion-tail|Herald of Agony 150M+

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+++ With Examples for trading prices 10 days after leaguestart +++
(Example prices: online trades only, 2nd cheapest offer)

Index

1. Levelling gear lvl 1 - 75
2. GEAR ENDGAME (Lvl 40-100)
3. Flasks
4. Mandatory and important jewels
5. Skillgems lvl 21, Awakened Support-Gems
6. Small clusterjewels Manamanagement, Spell Suppression, Ailment avoidances
7. Medium clusterjewels - Damage with Pure Agony
8. Large Clusterjewels with Spellblock, AoE, and Voices etc.
9. Tattoos
10. Omens and Oils



1. Levelling Gear lvl 1 - 75



2. GEAR ENDGAME (LVL 60 - 100)



3. Flasks


4. Mandatory and important jewels



5. Gems Level 21 (Damage), Awakened Gems (Damage), Alternate Gems (Virulences)



6. Small Cluster jewels Manamanagement, Spell Suppression, Ailment Avoidances



7. Medium damageclusters, B.I.S. with Pure Agony



8. Voices and large Clusterjewels with Spellblock / AoE-Chainexplosions / Resis & Attr Veteran Defender / etc.



9. Tattoos



10. Omens and Oils

A history of all leagues and all former updates are documented on page 474 of the guardian-ascendancy, third post:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25258179

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/474

Special but mostly outdated stuff of this build is noted on Page 50 of our longnecked arachnophobia neighbours:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/50


To be edited / soon:



10.8.24

+++ It's time to Jugg +++


1.8.24

Updated some minor details for 3.25
Added belt Ynda`s stand in combination with high ar/ev gear for 200-400 ward as recommended starter set-up before SoL
Added the new +2 max cold-resis viridian jewel in melding of the flesh set-up
Streamlined some lists of poe-tradelinks


20.7.24

[3.25] drops the anchor.

A lot buffs and some nerfs were adjusted in the news.


10.7.24

Waiting for docking of the patchnotes 3.25
Added some 3.25 news
Improved the "Tipps for beginning, levelling, gearing and leaguestart"
Added rare iron flask in mageblood-flask-set-up (+800 to +1000 es)
Corrected some rankings in "flasks"
Improved some spoilers in "crafts"


2.7.24

1.5M views in the guardian-ascendancy


21.06.24

***** The Champ arrives *****

Improved all pob's with the cheap 5-passives-voices (before only guided in the large-clusters spoiler)
Improved explanations in "tipps for levelling", "gear", "keystones", "faq"
Improved "checklist defences", "faq"
Improved the spoilers about flat dr / damageshiftings in "The Ubers"
Improved and streamlined many poe-tradelinks
Improved the layouts of some spoilers


5.6.24

Expanded, reworked and improved the guidings in the checklist damage / composition of agony for HoA-crit-scaling and full 100M-250M dps
Added in FAQ the spoiler "HoA-AI"
Added a spoiler "es and ehp" in "balancing & managing" (located before in checklist defences)
Reworked the spoilers "gear" and "HoA poison - The Adorned"
Minor changes to watcher's eye mod-ranking
Streamlined and improved many more spoilers details of the build


24.5.24

Changed default mapping-skillset until 90 HoA-virulences / 100 M damage to:

cyclone - awakened cast while channling - tornado of elemental turbulences - ball lightnings of orbiting

Added "overlord" as large cluster for fortify cyclone
Improved the spoiler "skills and trigger", "crafts", "gear", "jewels", "The crawler raises", "tl;dr", "countdown" and some more
Scaled the new meta-HoA-set-up to 260M with maata`s teaching, spirit offering, assasin's mark, vicious bites.


12.5.24

Added a new minmax-HoA-meta set-up: 176M damage, 20M ehp. Thanks to mrflamee!
Added and improved a new spoiler "recovery" in "balancing & managing" (it moved out from checklist defences / fire and other ailments)
Added plaguebringer + bone barrier-variation in the necro-spoiler "ascendancy"
(with good manamanagement +10% damage, +20% ehp, 700 es-leech/sec gained)
Improved "the composition of agony - checklist damage"
Improved Pro and Contra
Improved some poe-tradelinks
Improved and updated "the ubers"
Streamlined some build-details
Finally I did not forget to add my new personal b.i.s. spoiler "The details of the Ascendancies" next to "Faq" so that now the different ascendancies need less special updates

Published a new t-17 video


29.4.24

Improved the mageblood-section and mageblood-pob's
Added an Iron reflexes tree-variation
Added the spoiler "The b.i.s.-upgrades" in "endgame"
Added circle of ambition, thanks to max 1203!
Added arcane surge for castspeed and es-leech
Added cheap variation tides of time for mapping


2M

The next keystone of totally combined 2M arachnophobiatic views in united 4 arachnophil ascendancies-forums dropped on the 22.4.24 in [3.24] Necropolis.


18.4.24

Reworked the pob-notes
Reworked the"flasks", the "manamaster" and the "skillmanager"
Improved the layout of the build
Added The Adorned


10.4.24

PoB's improved.

Added tree/item/skill-tabs in pob for "HoA lvl 34 - ubers - damage" improving damage around 20% with darkness enthroned, +2 triggerwand/ +2 dark seer / +1 chaos-mastery "corruption" / +3 Cold iron point, + chaos golem of the maelstroem - feeding frenzy
Damage raised as Necro from 48M to 60M!
HoA's next tipping point lvl 34 reached.
Tanky edition damage raised from 37M to 42M!
CIP switched to +2 triggerwand / the dark seer +700 es.


8.4.24

Improved the vixens entrapement-gloves + anathema ring set-up-variation
Added large chaoscluster overwhelming malice and Touch of cruelty
Added in maps sin's rebirth stibnite flask as alternative for withers
Added the dark seer sceptre as variation (+700 es)
Improved the spoilers "skills & trigger", "HoA-supports", "ailments", "countdown", "alternative jewels", "large clusters", "interesting clusters", "composition of damage"


25.3.24

Updated the pob
Streamlined pob
Started a spoiler about tattoos
300k views necro


18.3.24

Waiting for patchnotes [3.24] Necropolis

Started updating new flask-qualities, sapphire flask, melding of the flesh-set-up
Added a spoiler about ranking of all CI recovery-mechanics by investments and effects in "Checklist defences" and in "Fire and other ailments - Recovery and dot"
Added a new chapter "The crawler raises - Herald of Agony caught the POE world by storm" telling the paths of progress of the crawler.


27.2.24

Added weblinks to the paintings of the layout in spoiler "informations"

https://www.instagram.com/patrick_lemke_play

www.patricklemke.com

Added a new Trickster-videoshowcase: https://youtu.be/1eCs-z_wMLk
Improved chapters lab-runner/ heist with a guide about movementspeed in spoiler poe-content
Outsourced the history of the build: updates and last leagues moved to guardian-forum page 474:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/474

Added es-leech setups with tempestshield and ball lightning of static and the leech-mastery ethereal feast to active recover before gearing CI watcher's eyes. belt and shield


2.2.24

Completed the Arachnophobia Trickster

Streamlined the order of the build
Cleaned up and improved almost all spoilers and the tradelist
Reworked especially "skills and trigger", "gear", "tipps for levelling" and many more
Improved many details
Added a spoiler about 75% spell block
Improved the guidings about sorrow of divine, rational doctrine and brutal restraint, poe-content and favoured maps, cyclone - blazing salvo set-up, and many more


3.1.24

Added Magic find chapter
Improved many pob's and spoilers


27.12.23

1 1/2M views of guardian-arachnoooophilias, 1/4M necros and 150 k pathfinder - big, that's the passion to sting


23.12.23

Improved and updated many spoilers


6.12.23

[3.23] Affliction arriving

All PoB's are updated.
Started updating the build (skills like firestorm of pelting and static ball-lightnings added etc.)
Added some advices for the affliction-ascendancies (new charms, mark of penance)
Improved the pob's
Added a new cyclone set-up with channelling blazing salvo - returning projectiles
Added new levelling boot variation unaffected by poison
Added new malevolence variation against Ubers


18.8.23

[3.22] The crawlcestors League is upcoming.

All pob's are updated and optimized.


10.7.23

Added variations levelling gear before aegis aurora like malachais loop shield, graven secret belt, etc.


24.04.23

0.2M


31.3.23

⊙⊙⊙⊙ Published the new sisterbuild in the Pathfinder-ascendancy ⊙⊙⊙⊙

With the patchnotes of [3.21] Crucible it's very valuable to use the new Wither and Occu-points.

Mageblood is inbuilt with 100% flask-uptime and 100% spell suppression, 65% full spellblock and 30-45 M damage are easy reachable

With the new projectiles-behaviour anomalous faster projectiles is added for 60% chance to return & double damage after pierce.

With the crit-imminities in poison-mastery changed the major pantheon


22.2.23

Added the way to 100% spell suppression in the section mageblood-belt in spoiler "gear" and some tipps in "the ubers"
More early large clusters veteran defender for resis for more early melding of the flesh were pathed.
Improved some small details
Improved some pob-tradelinks for implicits of shield, helmet, rings etc.


8.2.23

*** Published another new showcase ***

Added Uber-Exarch and UU-Elder videos in the Arachnophilias' build (Necro)

Improved spoiler "FAQ"
Improved some tradelinks and the order of the clusters-tradelinks


2.2.23

○○ 50 pages of discussions, questions and arachnophilia in the necromantic build ○○


29.1.23

Improved levelling trees lvl 85 + lvl 90: pathing earlier to +1 chaos mastery and the last clusterslot
Improved in "the keystones" the explanations for ghost dance and wicked ward
Added Stone of Lazhwar as cheap starting amulet
Cleaned up and improved section other cheap starting amulets in poe-trade-links


22.1.23

*** Published a new showcase ***

Some bosses - Exarch in 5 seconds, Eater in 5 seconds, Facetanking Shaper's Beam

Added "firestorm " for many cwc set-ups: singletarget, virulences while moving, cyclone
Added variation support "increased duration" for storm burst: only when fullchannelled 40% more virulences
Moved spoiler "attributes requirement" into "important mechanics" and ranked the twists
Improved some spoilers more
Cleaned up some stuff pob


17.1.23

Thanks a lot to VahnNoa for perfect crafting guides (boots, clusters)! (Added in "important mechanics" and on page 50)


8.1.23

*** New Order ***

Improved structure and order of content
Improved and simplyfied pob-skill-tabs, item-tabs
Updated pob-notes
Separated "gear" and "skills and trigger, auras and styles"
Improved "checklist defences" and "checklist damage"
Improved "the composition of agony", "melding of the flesh" and many more spoilers
Added 100% minion chance to poison variation (with pathing jewel-slots or darkness enthroned-belt)


29.12.22

Added for using "United in dreams" jewel "Balance of Terror" and "Inflict Withered on hit after using despair"
Improved minor guidings and small details in many more spoilers

Added guardian-pob: United in Dreams, Uul-Netol's vow, 1x ghastly eye jewels each 15% minion poisonchance:
40M are reached, 87% +max-resis, still infinitive ehp

Added necro-pob: United in Dreams, Uul-Netol's vow, 2x ghastly eye jewels each 15% minion poisonchance:
55M are reached, 87% +max-resis, still infinitive ehp


23.12.22

*** 1.2M views of the Arachnophobiatics ***
Improved guiding "melding of the flesh": Added examples for resis-numbers
Changed void sphere to phantasmal void sphere
Added in spoiler "skillmanager" the tip: 3 free sockets and 1 free flask with United in Dreams instead Arakaali's


20.12.22

Cleaned up the list of levelling/ starter gear in the poe-trade-links
Updated "Build up and balance your defences and damage" (former "Choose your edition")
Updated examples of trading prices in the poe-trade-links


12.12.22

□□□ 100000 views of the Arachnophilias □□□


9.12.22

*** [3.20] Leaguestart- The Forbidden Sanctum of Arachnophilia ***

Converted and updated all pob's
Changed despair on hit-ring to trigger cws or selfcasted lvl 20 despair after [3.20] hex-buff:
up to 5M more damage
Added and improved the spoiler "The Ubers" (Necro in spoiler "Endgame", Guardian on Page 50, before integrated in "boss-hunting")
Improved spoiler "triggers"
Improved many more spoilers


3.12.22

Waiting for pob-updates [3.20]
Started improvements new firesong jewel/ ailment-durations, skillmanager, manamaster etc.
Improved the spoiler "The recipe of damage", "tipps for levelling", etc.

200000 views Youtube ChannelPlayL


21.11.22

Switched in (anomalous) purifying flame for generating virulences in maps instead before void sphere

Swapped in faster casting for stormburst for generating virulences +es on hit singletarget.

Added alternative weapon united in dreams / severed in sleep with buffed minions poisonchance.

Cleaned up many pob-trees.
Improved some pob-trees.
Cleaned up and improved pob-skill-tab.


14.11.22

Added large cluster alternative +10% Resis, 30% Ar and Ev: Battle-Hardened + Master the Fundamentals


5.11.22

Corrected and improved flasks-set-up in pob-item-tab "mageblood"
Added some advices in gear/ belt-section


27.8.22

1.1M views of the build

Many small adjustements in the guardian and necro-build


14.8.22

Published some gifs and videos: Facetank the maven's memory game - the allstars trousers are the longest/ most shortest
(default set-up and gear, 1 elemental damage-reductions flask, frostshield, molten shell)
Added in pob alternative trees for dual-wielding (with new tanky heartbreaker-dagger for example possible)/ 2H-Staff. Still not optimized: ascendancies es radiant faith, time of need or bastion of hope block/ spellblock and possible es-leech
Added in the tradelinks page 50 in the alternatives of gearslots the most interesting new [3.19] buffed uniques (dagger heartbreaker, shields, armours)


9.8.22

**** Published the sister-build "The Arachnophilia Allstars" ****

Started already in may 22 as Occultist but did never finished that because Occu's hard to max defences and castspeed/ virulences returned now with 3.19 known patch-notes again as necro: best ascendancy for boss-hunting with great to balance tankyness

Added [3.19] Lake of Kalandra pob-trees with known changes helmet/chaos/reservation-mastery
Added rankings and Pros-Cons Guardian/ Necromancer/ Occultist
Improved some details in the build and many tab-titles in pob, added some tradelinks with the new buffed uniques
Switched in bastion of hope as tanky ascendancy for levelling


17.7.22

Added lethe shade as keystone against high dot of Uber-Bosses instead wicked ward
Improved some spoilers
Added some new videos tanking maven, tanking shaper-beam, tanking uber-shaper slam, tanking 2 bosses simultan simulacrum wave 30etc.


10.7.22

Improved the pob's in small details (es / mana-passives)
Improved "skillmanager"
Improved spoiler "boss-hunting"
Improved almost all spoilers in "Variations"


6.7.22

Added many skills and supports for individual choice like void sphere, glascial cascade, Flame wall, voltaxic burst, blade vortex in "gear, skills, links", section gloves


3.7.22

Improved and balanced many pob-trees (was before only edited in the final trees)
○ some es into melding of the flesh
○ 100% all elemental-ailments-immunities with arcane guarding and boots
○ aul's uprising determination reserves no mana to swap in sublime form with resistances for melding of the flesh

Improved some spoilers page 50 (boss-tips, clusters)


25.6.22

For science!:

Added in the pob the Full_Glascannon & + Full_Glascannon Item-Tab (Uul Netol's amulet: Predator, The Squire shield feeding frenzy, awakened minion damage, awakened melee physical damage, awakened multistrike, awakened empower HoAg, Vessel of Vinktar):

89.7M shaper damage :-)


22.6.22

Added the pob-tree and pob-item-tab for using "the melding of the flesh" with the aura "purity of ice", for 87-90% all elemental resistances


9.6.22

Improved tipps for the melding of the flesh in "jewels and clusters"
Improved tipps in "movement": flamedash
Changed Storm Brand to Divergent Storm Brand
Improved many trading-links page 50
Improved details and layouts of many more spoilers


29.5.22

AWESOME KEYSTONE:

1M VIEWS


22.4.22

Less clicks for virulences in maps
Added a nice variant for mapping:

storm burst - (awakened) cast while channeling - ball-lightnings - storm brand


15.4.22

Updated Index


17.3.22

900000 views


26.2.22

Improved "dps-checks" in spoiler "endgame"
Improved spoiler "important clusters" in "jewels and clusters"
Improved "Pack of Purity", HoP, in "variants": 13M damage with phantasms and 100% chaosconversion
Improved some tradelinks page 50


17.2.22

Updated pob, balanced tree, boots and amulet anoint into 100% elemental ailment-immunities (before 60%-100%)

Improved the set-ups in "fire and other ailments"--> 100% ailments-immunities, "gear, skills, links" section boots and in tradelinks page 50 the b.i.s. boots


12.2.22

⊙⊙⊙ 800k views of the thread ⊙⊙⊙

Imroved levelling tree in pob "mapping lvl 90 before aul's uprising" and some other levelling trees


7.2.22

Improved order of spoilers
Added and improved some tradelinks page 50
Improved "Tipps for beginning and levelling"


28.1.22

***Patch-Notes Siege of the Atlas ***
No nerfs, castspeed-buff, sniper's mark pemrament selfcast possible

Added separated tabs and trees in pob for keystones divine shield and resolute technique (cyclone) on skin of the lords
Improved some items- and some more tree-tabs in pob


19.1.22

Shaddrak started a fantastic thread about speedlevelling and Balaar's new speedlevelling record!
Added the link in the spoiler "Tipps for levelling"

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3228456


17.1.22

*** Added siege of the atlas * mars attacks teaser ***

After a lot more testings I changed ghost dance/evasion-setup to rank 1 keystones body-armour
Buffed wicked ward with es-mastery
Improved section watcher's eye (es-recharge mod)


9.1.22

+++ Thank you Balaar for the great video with the new record in speed-levelling! +++

Updated PoB: All levelling-trees and the levelling-items-tabs and levelling-skills were improved

Added 2 optimized trees for Divine Shield/ Wicked Ward integrated keystones in Skin of the lords in the PoB

Improved spoiler "Tipps for Levelling"
Improved many other spoilers
Improved many tradelinks page 50

2.1.22

×××× 700k views ××××

29.12.21

Improved explanations in the spoiler "Choose your edition"
Improved some tradelinks page 50

22.12.21

Added spoiler "scourge-stats" in trade-links page 50
Improved many tradelinks page 50


14.12.21

Thanks a lot to Monik390!
He added a set-up and variation with stormburst + cycloning on page 334 and a great guide and tipps for high simulacrums and beyond Nemesis farming on page 334.
Optimized to start farming high content with several exalts / hour

Added spoiler "simulacrums"
Improved spoiler "gear, skills, links": section gloves
Improved "the compositions of agony" in "gear, skills, links"


13.12.21

Added spoiler "TL;DR"


10.12.21

100k views of playL Youtube

Added on page 50 the differents of monik390's variation of the build (65% less ehp, 10% less damage, infight gemswaps) in "HoA vs HoA - comparing older and different HoA - builds


6.12.21

Improved PoB and added a "Voices_Clusters_70_Virulences"- Edition for high density content like simulacrum wave 30/ deep delve etc.

With voices clusters you can improve to 65 or even 70 virulences, take in despair as second curse with the poisoning curse-mastery, activate feeding frenzy in the arakaali's spiders links, and the minion damage-mastery in simulacrum or delve almost nonstop grants "unholy might". This raises your damage to total in high density content on kill up to interesting 24M shaper/ 44M delve-deep-dong-damage

Improved spoiler "Choose your edition"
Improved spoiler "make hatred, not grace"
Improved sections gloves and section rings in "gear, skills, links"
Improved spoiler "skillmanager"
Improved "Introduction"
Improved "This build in [3.16] Scourge" page 50
Improved spoilers in "tradelinks" page 50

29.11.21

Some spoilers got too hard and too long to read.
I added many and a lot spoilers for better overview into:

"gear, skills, links"
"manamanager"
"tipps for levelling"

Added shortlist levelling gear in "tipps for starting and levelling"

27.11.21

-Keystone ghost dance is new rank 1 for 150+ stacked scourges
Iron reflexes remains b.i.s. against sirus, shaper and delve

-Es on hit with Ball-lightnings with anomalous spellecho and faster casting supported is new rank 1 watcher's eye (discipline-) mod with ghost dance's lower recovery es/ block

Improved spoiler "Tipps for starting, levelling and gearing"
Improved order of spoilers "poe-tradelinks" page 50


24.11.21

Changed set-ups:

With divergent HoA lvl21 and 80-100% poisonchance spellecho instead chance to poison
Anomalous pierce instead pierce

Added again spoiler "level 100" from subspoiler "endgame" and improved it

Improved spoiler:

"skillmanager"
"manamanager"
"jewels and clusters"
section amulet-anoints, gloves
added variants and improved tradelinks page 50

and a lot more

22.10.21

With Eber's Unification, void gaze, 15 withers, awakened void manipulation and spirit offering a strong fullchaos-team of skills raises and change in. The new fulldamage 100% chaosconversion, fullblock, shows 17.5 M shaper-damage.

Thank you again monik390 for nice and fine gearing and pathing!

21.11.21

Improved many spoilers

20.11.21

600k allstars-view - thank you a lot!

18.11.21

With the shock-immunities of tempest shield the "vessel of vinktar" as alternative flask became high interesting in "Flasks"
Improved spoiler "checklist defences" (dangerous mapmods expanded)
Improved spoiler "flasks and sulphur"
Improved spoiler "fire and other ailments"
Added a lot explanations in section gloves in "Gear, skills, links"

14.11.21

+++ New B.I.S. helmet Eber's Unification +++

Fullblock reaches now 9.2-12.5 M with Eber's Unification Hubris Circlet and skillreservations are much easier without memory vault.

Glancing Blows reaches new 12.2 M, 150k ar, 3k es/ block.

Full Damage edition update reaches new top peak of 18 M.

Awakened unbound ailments new b.i.s. support for raise spifers of arakaali's fang: thank you a lot monik390


3.11.2021

***** Olohyp_scSC is NUMBER 1 in guardian-soloplay, number 5 in scourge-guardian-leaderboard overall! CONGRATULATIONS! *****

Improved "introduction"
Updated pob-screenshots
Improved spoiler "manamanager"


31.10.21

*** 500 k / 0.5 M views - I never believed that the build would create so much interests! ***
*** The allstars are most popular build in the guardian ascendancy in poeninja-rankings (19% used) ***
*** 100k views in 10 days! - woooow & wuuuw ! ***


30.10.21

Upated and improved the spoilers:

"the dirty scorpion tail"
"make hatred, not grace"
"gear, skills, links": rankings auf auras
"boss-hunting": new spot for militant faith / transcendence


29.10.21

Improved spoiler "manamanager"

Improved pob:
Added mapping lvl 93-97 item set and tree in pob
Added levelling items in notes of pob

Improved and updated spoilers:
- 21 is only half of the truth
- gear, skills, links: order of auras
- fire and other ailments
- tipps for levelling

Improved and updated spoilers on page 50:
- updated and improved many poe-trade-links
- Improved sources of stats
- Improved CI Transformation


26.10.21

Improved pob

Added spoiler "Fullblock vs Glancing blows, Time of need vs Bastion of hope" page 50

Updated some tradelinks page 50
Added spoiler "CI Transformation" page 50


24.10.21

Improved pob with divine shield, wicked ward and armour es-mastery: es-recharge increased by armour
Improved all pob's with threads of hope and divine shield and Sovereignity - Thanks again a lot to Arkanis_Gath and Humtol!!
Squeezed in "tempest shield" full-geared
Updated spoilers: Fire and other ailments
Updated many other spoilers and improved them

Added videos facetanking minotaurier and phoenix

22.10.21

*** LEAGUESTART SCOURGE 3.16 ***

Updated & improved pob https://pastebin.com/uV3T5uhS

Added and improved leaguestarting "The Allstar's shoppinglist" in first spoiler page 50 and PoB:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/50

updatedranking keynotes for bodyarmour in "gear, skills, links" and tradelist
"manamanagement" is 3.16 ready updated

21.10.21

Added Glancing Blows edition pob

Improved fullblock edition pob

Added flickerstrike / whirling blades to trigger attackblock of bastion of hope if needed

Improved and updated many spoilers
Added some poetradelinks page 50
Improved poe-trade-links with "cheap offer!"
Improved poe-trade-links with "best of best!"


20.10.21

Thank you so much Luetjeminze!!

I never experienced such a skilled skilled poe-pob-er!
So much fun to celebrate with you this game and hack!
We path it nice again soon!

Levelling tree published
Glancing blow edition updated - thank you too Humtol!!
Updated a lot of spoilers
Added some tradelinks clusters page 50


19.10.21

400000 Arachnophobiatic views --- wooooow!!


18.10.21

PoB fullblock ready, gear 3.16 edited
Levelling pob improving much - Thank you Hauke a lot!
Updated a lot spoilers


So many interesting strategies and Helsingborg posts in these days - it's an amazing waiting for leaguestarting 3.16


17.10.21

Updated bodyarmour: keynotes for 3.16
Started updating "the dirty scorpion-tail" for 3.16
Started to list the new uniques in poetradelinks page 50
Edited, improved and added chapters/spoilers in "poe-tradelinks" page 50 for a better index, overview and shortcuts

15.10.21

Added video "full blight map"
Added video "drox"
Removed keynote 3.16 phase acrobatics from several spoilers
Added teaser buffs 3.16 top of build

12.10.21

Added spoiler "ratings and rankings of the build" on page 50
Added a spoiler "speedlevelling" on page 50
Added and improved some tradelinks in spoiler "poe-tradelinks" page 50

11.10.21

Added page 194 outview on [3.16] Scourge league, summarizing the 3 manifestos about ailments, core defences and manareservations in the upcoming patch

Edited:

started to edit in advance [3.16]:
Removed "energy from naught" of "interesting clusters" because of nerf
Started to edit keynote "phase acrobatics" as valuable keynote on body armour Skin of the lords
Started to edit keynote "elemental equilirium" in spoiler "make hatred, not grace"

29.9.21

Improved pob's 9M & 12M Make hatred, not grace full damage builds (feeding frenzy spiders, +2 skillgem-level amulet)
Improved spoiler "make hatred not grace"
Improved some links in "poe trade links and lists" page 50

26.9.21

Improved "This build in 3.15 Expedition" page 50, page 190

24.9.21

Improved spoiler "other ailments", page 1, and "hardcore" page 50: how to reach 80% - 100% elemental ailments immunities

23.9.21

Added video double shaper (2x) wittnessed by maven

21.9.21

Added video Simulacrum wave 18-20
Added link to video goodguygaming3 introductioning the build 3.15 Expedition - - thank you a lot!

20.8.21

Improved levelling trees in "Tipps for beginning, levelling, gearing, trading and Leaguestart":
Head soon with level 55 to "serpentine spellslinger" for 25% more chance to poison --> virulences --> damage
Improved some links (split personality, clusters) in spoiler "Links & Lists for poetrade"

12.8.21

300 000 views - thank you very much and lot! Arachnophilia!

8.8.21

Added spoiler "Free skills fullgeared / skill alternatives" page 50
Improved spoiler "sources of stats" page 50
Improved spoiler "crafting clusters, gear and gems" page 50
Improved: "poe-tradelinks", "map mods" page 50
Improved "make hatred, not grace"

5.8.21

Added Index in spoiler "Links & Lists for poetrade" page 50
Changed "awakened vicious projectiles" to "anomalous vicious projectiles", 0.1M more damage
Changed "melee physical damage" of spiders singletarget to "multistrike" for more attackspspeed and more withers
Improved sections about spectres/ support spectres/ frenzy charges/ enfeeble in "make hatred, not grace" and poe-trade links: alternatives hungry loop page 50

4.8.21

Improved spoiler "flasks and sulphur"
Improved spoiler "boss-hunting": craft flasks with Instilling Orb
Improved spoiler "skillmanager" - wanted mods like es/ hit discipline and critreductions determination to change out watcher's eye

29.7.21

updatet reduced manamultipliers in "dirty scorpion tail" (patch)

26.7.21

Added spoiler "Why guardian? Why HoA?"

24.7.21

Updated / corrected pob's:
stormbrand limited to level 1
stalwaart commander instead self-control edition 55

Improved section defences in spoiler "tipps for levelling and leaguestart"
Improved spoiler "leaguestart-gear" in spoiler "poe-trade links" page 50

23.7.21

Improved "Tipps for beginning, levelling and Leaguestart"
Updated "manamanager"

22.7.21

Updates almost completed:

"countdown"
"introduction"

"Choose your edition"
"path of building"
"gear, skills, links"

"the dirty scorpion tail"
"skillmanager"
"flasks and sulphur"

"blizzard"

Page 50:
"map-mods"
"blight-maps"

21.7.21

***** PATCHDAY 3.15 EXPEDITION *****

Started updating the spoilers:

"the dirty scorpion tail"
"manamanager"
"skillmanager"
"gear, skills, links"
"flasks and sulphur"
"introduction"



Started otimizing tree, waiting for full changelog 3.15 and complete stats of the new skillgems Banner of defiance (armour), Sentinels of absolution, Reaper minion


18.7.21

Added jewel variation "unnatural instinct", inserted next to pain attunement 350 energyshield in spoilers "jewels and clusters" and "skillmanager".

Thank you helloicanseeu for the variant!

11.7.21

Improved getting virulences automatical triggered, also while moving:

Anomalous ball-lightnings - storm brand - anomalous poison support - gmp - faster casting integrated in rare gloves

Thank you a lot elatycs for starting with ideas about storm-brand!


2.7.21

Noted in "contra" before:
"sometimes difficult for blight".

Corrected into: "with awakened fork perfect screencleaner for blight-maps"

Hehehe!

Added a spoiler "blight maps" on page 50.

Thank you helloicanseeu!

26.6.21

Added new option: Stacking virulences 60 singletarget: storm brand / Swift brand / anomalous poison support / faster casting

Added video: facetanking Elder, with transcendence keystone, page 50 in spoiler "more videos"

Added new PoB: Transcendence in spoiler "boss-hunting"


25.6.21

Added video: militant faith / keystone transcendence (around 97% elemental damage reductions and resistances) Cortex t18 court in spoiler "boss-hunting"

Added video: facetanking Hydra (& Maven)

23.6.21

Aded "awakened fork" as alternative in the spoilers "the dirty scorpion tail"
Thank you Zanzum!

21.6.21

Improved order of spoilers

Added separated spoiler "checklist for damage and defences" (before in spoiler "faq")
Added separated spoiler "Controls / keybindings / movement" (before in spoiler "faq")


Improved spoiler "faq"
Improved spoiler "gear, skills, links"
Improved spoiler "ideal clusters"
Improved spoiler "boss-hunting"
Improved just there explanations "militant faith"
Improved explanations in spoiler "make hatred, not grace"
Improved some other explanations and spoilers

16.6.21

200000 .......

15.6.21

Added alternative storm brand for cws / cwdt / cwc cyclone
Added alternative storm burst set-up instead ball-lightnings page 50
Thank you a lot elatycs!

Added alternative replica pure talent to get spellblock/ free skill with rare boots / free cluster slot instead conjured wall etc.
Improved a lot poetradesearch links with corrupted blood-immunities or 1% less skill reservations on page 50

11.6.21

Improved some poetradelinks page 50
Added workarounds for starting without aul's uprising
Improved checklist damage in "faq"
Improved spoiler "hardcore" page 50

9.6.21

Increased spoiler "Experiences of gamers with this build - Quotes and Posts" page 50

8.6.21

Added spoiler "Improving and upgrading without currency" on page 50: Tipps improving and farming

2.6.21

Added video The Elder

Added videos page 50:

The Formed
Chimera

not deathless:

Ueber Atziri
Cortex Boss (killed him before deathless)

1.6.21

Improved spoiler "map-mods", page 50, with 12 and more "most easy map-mods"
Improved spoiler "Pro"
Improved poe-trade-links page 50 (order, rare ring etc.)
Added video "The Formed", 1:01 min (forgot to raise spiders in invitation)

28.5.21

Improved "boss-hunting" for elemental-damage-dealers like Ueber-atziri or Maven: alternative "transcendence" keynote with militant faith timeless jewel etc.

Thank you 2rdd!

Added 3 videos (with militant faith/transcendence):
Redeemer 9 seconds
Synthesis Boss
Maven x10 invitation

Improved tradelinks page 50 (belt-jewel spellblock)

26.5.21

Added some defensive large clusters trading links on page 50
Corrected 2 jewel-links on page 50.
Thank you IamTheSunLiightHi!

25.5.21

100 pages of discussions and arachnophil mentions in the thread - and this is in the young build's first complete league.

Arachnophobiatics gamers quintupled in poeninja also elegant.

A lot Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars in the top leading positions of all poeninja challenge-rankings: Guardian, HoA, hardcore

22.5.21

Improved spoiler "other ailments".

17.5.2021

Added poe-trade-links for bis-megamegaclusters
Added poe-trade links for watcher's eye best in slots
Added poe-trade-links for implicit curses on ring and rare gloves
Added poe-trade-links for boot-enchants and boot implicits
Added poe-trade-links for high es/ mana/ armour on helmet and shield
Added poe-trade-links for watcher's eye multiple and b-i-s - mods
Improved "faq"
Added spoiler "usable cluster skills" on page 50
--- Thank you a lot Ziumbala! ---


14.5.21

150000 views

12.5.

Improved order of spoilers page 50
Improved spoiler "faq" and checklists
Improved some more spoilers

9.5.21

Improved explanations in "boss=hunting", "Soul ripper", "faq: checklist damage"

6.5.21

Improved order of spoilers

Added separated sections of spoilers
Improved some titles of spoilers

Added "checklist damage" in "faq"

Improved checklist "energy-shield" page 50
Improved spoilers: flasks, gear, make hatred not grace, choose your Edition, some more

5.5.21

Thank you a lot CLloyd0! So funny & fine video:

CLloyd0 tanktest

/ The head is bald but their neck is longer -
the allstars need two minotauriers
to scratch & relax
their very long necks /


(facetanking double minotauriers, full shocked, full aoe, full crits, Maven, no flasks, no buffs) - that is Allstars-style!
Lol, hehe! I love it!
Added gif and video.

4.5.21

Added videos TrueEdge facetanking Regenerationmaster - thank you a lot TrueEdge!

Improved "Tipps for starting"
Improved list for poetrade page 50
Improved "jewels and clusters"
Improved "flasks and sulphur"

2.5.21

Moved/ Copied complete spoilers page 25 to page 50 for better handling/ not splitting up content
Improved spoiler "Skillmanager"
Improved "Faq"
Improved checklist in "faq"
Improved order of spoilers page 50
Improved shoppinglist on page 50
Added tip for "corrupted blood cannot be inflicted" as implicit corruption on clusterjewels again, solely on flask is not reliable
Corrected some numbers of definitive defensive edition (after nerf renewal and rotten claws)
Added/ changed pictures/ screenshots

29.4.21

Improved "Choosing your Edition and balance your setup", combined path of building with guide 50 - 55 - 60 virulences

Added winter orb as variation, channeled virulences, thank you mytrasher!

Added cluster crafting guide on page 50. Thank you LiQuss!


28.4.21

... 100 000 views .... woow, that's arachnophil!

25.4.21

Added a complete list on threadpage 50 with all links in poetrade for complete gear:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/50


Improved Order of spoilers
Improved some spoiler-titles
Updated most pob - some pob's are messing up manareservation, but work and are tested with steps 1-8 in manamanagement

23.4.21

Added on page 25 spoiler with 3.14 trading prices and links

Improved spoiler ascendancy with different order for hc

20.4.21

Added on page 44 / 45 / 25 tipps for gearing with low budget level 50-90 in first days of Ultimatum League

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/44

16.4.21

Ultimatum 3.14 :

stalwaart commander got nerfed 25%, our armour will lower from around 140000 buffed to 137000 - no problem we have high overcapped 90% pdr.

Crafting attributes and implicit ailments avoidances got buffed slightly. We will reach enough dex a bit more easy and get a bit more freeze immunity.

11.4.21

Added videos:

Another Sirus A8 deathless, facetanking meteors and all beams (+ awakened spell-echo drop)
Conqueror Baran 5 seconds kill

Added videos on page 25:

Maven invitations the Twisted, the Hidden deathless

10.4.21

Added Video 100% Delirium map Atoll with 2× delirium-bosses, multiple damagemods, full juiced, no Headhunter

8.4.21

New spider modellings are awaiting in Poe 2
Helmet seem to get easier to enchant - yeeeeaah
Defences seem to be important again in Ultimatum mechanics - nice

5.4.21

A twinbuild with some smaller changes is under construction and in development.

Take a look into "The magic 77 - Mana Minion Mass Summoner Mix" for an impressing swarm:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3078153


4.4.21

Added "The Arachnophil 100" in "Harry Potter mass Summoner"
Improved "Harry Potter mass Summoner"

1.4.21

Added Video 10x Maven
Added Video The Redeemer (12 seconds)

Improved spoiler "The golden rule"
Added rare gloves with slower projectiles in "gear, skills, links"

28.3.21

Added videos:
Shaper & UE & Maven witnessed

26.3.21

Added Boss-Hunter Level 100 Edition in spoiler "path of building": 55 virulences, sniper's mark, 6.1 mill shaper-damage
Added videos: tanking Sirus a8, tanking Phoenix + Explosion
Added video full delirium with belt headhunter in "full null"
Improved spoiler "leaguestarting" and spoiler "boss-hunting"

24.3.21

Added a spoiler "- HoA vs HoA - Stats and styles of different/ older
Herald of Agony builds" on threadpage 25
Added screenshots Passive tree lvl 1 - 90 in "Tipps for starting, levelling, gearing"

22.3.21

Added path of building calculations of ehp- pools, buffed and unbuffed, in " index of defences", "intro / countdown" and "path of building"

21.3.21

Added spoiler "skills and sockets management",
14 possibilities to get a free socket

Improved spoilers "gear, skills, links", "Leaguestart", "FAQ", "path of building pob", "Make Hatred, not Grace", "Full Null", "pro", "movement skills" in "possibilities of keybindings" in "FAQ", "the hidden ones and shaper-tipps"

19.3.21

Added section "Leaguestart" in spoiler "Tipps for levelling, starting and gearing".
Improved tipps for starting and gear alternatives in the spoiler.

15.3.21

Added timeless jewel "elegant hubris" as jewelvariation. optimal jewel offers slum lords 2x, 160% minion damage for 4 points, but jewel slot needed on medium rare cluster for offensive Edition55.

Thank you Zakk777!

14.3.21

Added section: free to choose movement and blink skills in spoiler "faq" ---> "keybindings" Thankk you baboen!
Added stibniteflask in "flasks and sulphur" when blindings are nowhere on gear, skills, minions, clusters

12.3.21

Improved tipps for levelling and gearing
Added a low budget gear - setup and starting gear overview lvl 75-95
Improved Thanks & Greetings

8.3.21

Improved Order of spoilers
Improved Levelling and gearing
Improved Manamanagement

7.3.21

Added "prismatic dance" to recommended cluster combinations
Added Grips of the counsil to "Make Hatred, not Grace"

6.3.21

Improved: Switched in "Divergent Frostshield" - more damagereduction of 30% in chilling shield-area with divergent gem-quality.

5.3.21

+++ Many changes in gear, flasks, clusters and curses. Thank you Dragonow for a very interesting and very nice new boots-setup! +++

4.3.21

Improved order of watcher's eye mods: discipline additional spell block raised up, to free 2x Circles of Nostalgia with dex and increased duration on rare boots or windshrieks. Thank you Dragonow for the very nice gear-setup!

28.2.21

30000 views! Wooooow!
A lot of lvl 99, 98, 97, 96, 95 - total arachnophilia!

Greetings and thanks aded! Thank you a lot grimjack, zerber and jmccaw!

The build improved a lot. Optimized 15 spoilers.

Added videos, added gloves section, added more bodyarmour variations like imbalanced guard.

27.2.21

+++ Heralds of Purity variation is guided in the spoiler "Pack of Purity" +++ Mass Summoner Guardian variation: Spiders & spirits & scorpions in "Harry Potter Senior"
Added Video 31 minions, Mass Summoner, Harry Potter Senior
Improved Intro and 7 spoilers

26.2.21

Improved a lot of spoilers

25.2.2

Improved Order of spoilers
Improved 21 spoilers
Added displays of items etc.

...

16.2.21

+++ 20 days + 20000 views. Thank you a lot and enjoy a lot the Allstars! 20000 x arachnophilia!! I never thought that Arachnophobiacs will get so fast into the two most trending mana- and minionbuilds! +++

Former updates of 2021: [3.13] Ritual / Echoes of the Atlas, [3.14] Ultimatum, [3.15] Expedition + Changelog continued on page 345, second post:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/24473857

....

Aegis aurora: es on spell block and attackblock, b.i.s. in maps and high density and with iron reflexes on skin of the lords against fast spell-hits of Sirus, Exarch or big physical slams of shaper etc.
≥ trickster's es-recharge on spell suppression
≥ frost shield
≥ vaal discipline es-recharge in maps
≥ graven's secret and power charges on crit support
≥ watcher's eye es on hit
≥ against the Ubers lethe shade
≥ major pantheon of arakaali
≥ guardian's time of need
≥ trickster's soul drinker and es-leech with cwc ball lightning of static lvl 20 and ethereal feast
≥ ghost dance
≥ divine shield on skin of the lords
≥ bottled faith with Zealot's Oath / or Sorrow of the divine
≥ faster casting / onslaught flask-suffix / supportgem / additional fast hitting skills like void sphere, necros' castspeed and necros increased skill durations, for faster es on hit / es-leech
≥ other ascendancies es-leech with cwc ball lightning of static lvl 20 and ethereal feast
≥ wicked ward
≥ 2 passives for one more power charge for graven's secret
≥ es leech flask-suffix
≥ 2% es-reg in es-mastery, es on spell suppression, etc.

Only one unique boss of the vaal-side areas killed me two times. His name is something like stormbringer or stormdrinker and he uses a very fast leap slam attack. (I guess, while he is jumping and slaming the minions and lightning balls cannot target him. I suggest there were also vaal-map-mods like ... unique boss... 198 % additional lightningdamage ...560% faster attacks... 980% additional physical damage ... and only one single unvulnerability shrine next room to him... Run when you see him, hihi.)
Tzteosh, Hungering Flame, a beyond-Boss, is sometimes depending on the mapmods, not easy too.
Phoenix's charged explosion aoe can oneshot since [3.18]. Keep range!

For the bosses with physical-degenerations-beams or aoe-beams (like plaza, orchard, mineral-pools, terrace, garden, high-garden) you have to use hidings like pillars to interrupt their degen-beams and move and let your minions do the job. Don't try to facetank them. When you activated divine shield and wicked ward or lethe shade, or take in a endurance charges with "enduring composure", you can very often facetank them too, but I would not check it out in t16 red-maps, hehe.

Some other bosses are impossible to tank too, like the rotten core-map, bramble valley and foundry-bosses are rippy.
Some attacks of the shaper and groundeffects of maven you have to move around. But you have a much longer time to react to their most damaging attacks.

In the Halls of the grandmasters two of the very last grandmasters and a few Expedition-mob-types have high block and regenerations and are immortal for our normal setup. You have to debuff them on top with Block Chance Reduction Support and frostbomb and use dot with chance to poison switched into HoAg-supports.

Hardcore

Often the arena in the quest "Raffinery Tharthanic powder" is buggy!

The HoA-crawler spawns / stand outside the arena! Be careful, open a townportal and portal back in again to get the HoA-crawler into the boss-arena!


A lot of endgame-bosses like Elder or Sirus are checked for facetanking. But you still have to walk around their aoe-grounds.

Maven's invitations instead are easy for our setup, only "the feared" and maven herself remain difficult with groundeffects and memory games.

Hunt them on your level-ups if you do not want to fear the exp-penalty. They remain rippy when you react one time not fast enough.

It is common when you die in the first tries of these endgame bosses. When you know their attacks and know how to move out of their damagepeaks you will kick them nice and hard back.


Map mods and atlas awakening level




Ailments, Flasks, Elemental Damagereductions



Flasks-set-ups




Anti-freeze Aquamarine against Shaper, Uber Elder, The Hidden, Maven, Sirus, Aul





Anti-Shock Topaz against the hidden, maven




Anti-Fire Ruby against Searing Exarch, Ueber-Atziri, Phoenix




Anti-Curse against Ueber-Atziri





Movement





Safe periods to raise the spiders




Damage and singletargetsupports



ALL BOSSES



More explanations for "the hidden ones"

I personally would rank most dangerous map-mods in this order:

1) No mana recovery (reroll or use enduring mana bottle)

Most dangerous: reduced aura effects mean a lot reduced defences and recovery and when you use purity of ice it's getting rippy in combination with other mods.

Searing exarch-altar-mods can be rippy and multiple.

Go a bit slower in:

2) when you are not full geared / without overcapped resistances: elemental-equilirium, elemental weakness, perhaps take in a bismuth-flask for more resistances

3) Less maximal elemental resistances in combination with multiple other elemental damage mods

4) less armour and block in combination with other damage- or increased crit mods - go slower, be careful, don't pull too much mobs at once

5) vulnerability cursed - be careful with physical dot- and aoe damage, when anti-bleeding flask is empty and vaaldiscipline on cooldown you need fast reactions and stopp moving while bleeding and wait careful for time of need regenerations

5) multiple (3x or 4 x) damage mods like 100% more added lightning, 100% more cold, increased critdamage and some other damagedealing stuff combined

6) without tempest shield: shocked ground/ increased shocks - don't stand too long on shocking ground, move more or take in Soul of Arakaali, the anti-shock pantheon


Mods of maps and invitations like "the feared":

In the mods "temporal chains" and "enemies have #% chance to avoid poison" you loose much damage because of reduced castspeed and less virulences. Don't take them in "the feared" or "the hidden", you need your full damage too.


Most easy map mods:

1) Chaos damage / poison damage mods: 100% immune
2) Burning ground / Ignites / Ailments: 100% immune
3) reflected damage: almost 0
4) chained projectiles also no danger
(only with phantasms-support don't pull too much at once)
5) elemental equilirium: full geared we have 40% overcapped resistances and are not affected
6) charges gained by monsters: no problem
7) Attack speed increased: mainly offers more es on block for us
8) crit-mods: we are immune after first hit with pantheon of solaris and have fullgeared enough es for explosion of critting exploding strongboxes. In combinations with multiple-red-maps-damage-mods map careful
9) cold-damage mods: we have 81% cold-resistances
10) temporal chains: no problem, we have frostblink, but do less damage with less cast speed/ less virulences.
Be careful: As mod of maven invitations "the feared" and "the hidden" temporal chains can be very dangerous, you need damage of fast virulences and fast movement in these invitations
11) other curse mods (beside vulnerability): we are permament 80% immune. In some multiple debuff/ damage/ elemental mods go slower

12) all other mods not listed above in "mods to go a bit slower / dangerous mods": no known problems too.

Dangerous maven invitation mods:

Be very careful with the mods of the invitation "the feared" or "the hidden".

Temporal chains, chills and increased chills or enemies have chance to avoid poison lowers your cast speed/ movementspeed/ virulences/ damage.

Dangerous Scourge [3.16] Mods:

- see above, max your ignite immunities with minor pantheon summit map and harvestcrafts on jewels, above 150-200 scourge-stacks be very careful

Dangerous Expedition [3.15] Mods:

- "remove # % es on hit" - as Ci fast & deadly, also blocked hits are taken hits
- "overwhelm 100% phys damage reduction" - we have high es/ block, but very dangerous

- "chaos-immune": avoid and don't use white triad grips

Special chainstun-situation

- In 1:10000000 cases you can be chain-stunned near to an unvulnerability shrine. In these very rare cases your molten shell cannot kill a unvulnerabel buffed mob to raise spiders/ generate virulences / HoA automatic. When there are mobs able to stun or freeze you, you can get chain-stunned or chain-freezed.

https://youtu.be/eftLkTeKeIQ

4 W Sockets Triad Grips




Crafting b-i-s Divergent HoA gem level 21, empower lvl 4 etc. ...




Crafting Eldritch Boots



More

You find a poe-tradelink in the shopping checklist. For some notables you have to adjust some passives or gear or pantheon like chills, shocks, ignites, blindings etc.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/k9nRYeQu5

For megalomaniac clusters take for example:



Best Top Rank 1

Pure Agony (damage)

Top Rank 2

Manamanagement:

Sublime Form
Uncompromising
Self-Control
Pure Guile (for jewel melding of the flesh)

Rank 3

100% ailment avoidances / 100% reduced ailment durations

Elegant form (ailment avoidance)
Flexible Sentry (reduced ailment duration + block/spellblock)


Rank 4

attackblock, spellblock, resistances for melding of the flesh

Conjured wall spellblock
mystical ward spellblock
enduring ward
second skin
viciuous guard
prodigiuous defences
magehunter spellblock
flexible sentry
one with the shield attackblock
rote reinforcement attackblock

veteran defender
sublime form
enduring composure

septic spells
wish for death


Rank 5

Energyshield etc.

Will shaper es
energy from naught es
openess es

Explanations:




__________________________________________________________

Variations:





__________________________________________________________

Useful for the build:

1. Maven (awakened gems)
2. Heist (Gems)
3. Delve (Aul's uprising)
4. Temple Alva & betrayal (white socketed triad grips)
5. Essences (boots)

Bosses

1. SIRUS is easy to farm with a Skin of the Lords Iron Reflexes and molten shell all his attacks are easy to facetank

2. UNENDING HUNGER: Regret divine shield, he debuffs extreme armour and regeneration with "corrosive hunger" when you don't kill him fast enough.

You can specialize fast some supports, skills and gear:

Singletarget (Bossing)

Multistrike spiders

Vile Toxins
Predator
or Default Pierce
Sniper's mark

Virulences:
Storm Burst
for movement: Storm Brand with Runebinder


High Density (Blight, Delve, etc.)

Divergent/ Awakened melee splash spiders

Awakenend Fork
Awakened Chain
Anomalous Pierce
Despair / other Hexes
Frostwall cws

Virulences:
Ball-Lightnings with watcher's eye es on hit with discipline
Cyclone
Storm Brands
Anomalous Tempest Shield


Asenath's Gentle Touch Gloves
Headhunter

In endgame we mainly build up evasion and spellblock without glancing blows for close to trippled ehp.

Fullblock vs Glancing blows

Damagereductions fullblock:

(50-)60% attackblock +75% spellblock /2 × 100% damagereduction = average 6750% dr
with bastion of hope 2/ 5 sec 15%= 9% more/2 average= 7150 dr and more continious attackblock 2/5 sec

- in maps a rumi's concotion flask caps your blockings up to 75% easy, only bossing you do not get capped blockings

- fullblock raises 250% the capacities of your molten shell and frostshield in damagepeaks (like full delirium-maps or deep delve)

Damagereductions Glancing blows:

75% attackblock /75% spellblock /2 × 35% damagereduction = average 2625% dr, but 7-12% more es/ block

Advice: in 3.16 with nice blockclusters and masteries use fullblock with 200% more average damagereductions of course!

Time of need vs Bastion of Hope

Time of need

+ Most important: you don't need cwdt and can use cws
+ 80% permament curseresistances is huge in cursed mapmods and frees up a bottle-suffix
+ each 4 seconds 2.5k es regenerations (equal to 7.5% es-reg average) is great too

Bastion of Hope

- Most important: stun-immunities raises from 60% to 100%: these forces us to prefer cwdt over cws - a huge downside as CI, cws is much better to use full level 20 frostshield (20-39% damagereductions, 4k/es sec) and sniper's mark autotriggered
+ You get 2% attackblock on the transferpoint
+ You get average 8-13% more attackblock
+ You can switch in 2 passives more because of 10% spellblock triggered

A good bastion of hope set-up is:

Bastion of Hope instead Radianth Faith (500-600 es less)

CwC:
storm burst (lvl1) - (awakened) cast while channeling (lvl5) + divergent frostshield (lvl 21) - (anomalous) ball-lightnings (lvl 1)

Cwdt instead Cws

Anomalous Cwdt lvl 4 - Void sphere - Sniper's mark - Divergent Storm Brand (with runebinder)

Iron reflexes instead ghost Dance on Skin of the lords

(no evasion, more divine shield and es/ block and armour)

Fit in all skills (movement, curse, increased duration) of the spoiler "gear, skills, links" and like in the pob.

When you are full geared with additional spellblocksources on clusters or shield or watcher's eye, granted skills on aegis aurora, additional sources of integrated "increased duration" on rare boots, etc. or more free slots obtained like listed in the spoiler "skillmanager", or when you have a b-i-s watcher's eye, b-i-s megalamana clusters etc. it's possible that you have 1 up to 3 free skillslots in endgame.

Then you can choose what you prefer or take in:

- phase run for movementspeed (no blink cooldown, mousebutton 1 automatic triggered on movement)
- anomalous reckoning blocks debilations on your encounters for 10% less dealing damage
- shield charge, in rare boots with both increased duration and fortify integrated, to move and get in delves fortify buff (or cyclone, a bit faster and better aoe, to get fortify buff)
- stone golem (taunt, meat shield)
- withering step (speed, dodge, phasing, faster mapping with damage of withers)
- zombies, spectres (carnage chieftains, curse bots, etc.), summon holy relic, golem or animate guardian in a hungry loop, with supports like meat shield (taunt s also) and/ or feeding frenzy, defensive Felder with empower, fortify, minion life, elemental army for exxample

More possibilities:

- holy relic (regeneration) for defences, if possible linked to feeding frenzy for a big boost of damage
- enlighten for better manamanagement
- sigil of power
- tempest shield 25% spellblock
- void sphere
- a different amulett anoint or helmet enchant

When you also have enough mana with clusters etc. take in additional budget auras like:

- vitality (regeneration)
- defiance banner (10% mana) (taunt) for defences
- dread banner (10% mana) (7% damage, impales) or precision (4% damage) for damage
- aspect of the cat or spider or crab skill (25% mana) added on belt for example
- arctic armour (25% mana) is worth a try also

Holy relic linked to feeding frenzy is for damage best when you have 2 free slots or want to balance defensive skillslots into offensive skills.

In theory set-ups like spectres in a hungry loop (frenzy charges 1M more damage, enfeeble curses 17% damagereductions), Animate guardian or Zombies in hungry loop, or tempest shield (spellblock) or added curses (windshriek boots, punishment etc.) are more options, but have downsides also.

More variants

Precision, Dread Banner, Aspect of the spider, etc.

HoA gelevels and damage

Virulences and Damage

More Explanations jewel "The Golden Rule"



Raising spiders

Raising the Herald of Agony

Summon the spiders & scorpion




Magic 77


The Arachnophil 100


Harry Potter Senior


Mana Minion Mass Summoner Mix MMMMAAA

"

Spartan1407 wrote:

Hello!
just wanted to ask is there much difference in survivability and clear speed between Vatinas spiders HoP build and this version?

- In clear speed the HoA has 5-7 long ranged 4x splitting (or for blight maps also forking projectiles) hitting 20 up to 70 targets with each projectile hitting for 7 M and more.

- The Hop has 4-5 melee minions, no splash, only slam with cooldown, each HoP slams with around 1.4 M.

- HoA has 100-200% aded movement speed, HoP slow cyclone

This build reaches fullgeared 7.6 k es, buffed 3.1 k es on block, uses with armour+ es mastery powered up wicked ward and divine shield.

The HoP build offers 7.1 k es and buffed 1.8k es/ block.

HoP offers better meatshields and moving of cycloning, in all other stats HoA build offers more defences and much more damage.

More detailed stats 3.14:

1) 70000 armour of Vatinas build of HoP against 140000 armour this HoA/ The Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars. This is important for some big physical hits. Here HoP don't have enough armour for big hits (see poewiki for armours dimishing returns. 140000 Ar of HoA is fitting much better with often 40% more physical damage reduction than only 70000 Ar).

2) 1400 against 2800 es/ block - HoA recovers faster and in damagepeaks much better

3) HoA is better scaleable for high damage with pure agony and virulences and 15 witherstacks, HoP offers only reduced cooldowns on medium clusters for their attacks.

4) HoP Sentinels dies often and must be raised again, it has also in melee range a lot of downtimes - HoA raised earlier with ranged attacks, and the crawler has much more area of damage with his long ranged projectiles also. You can scale up with 55-60 virulences easy against a small loss of added quality of life on one medium cluster or without double curses. Then the Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars reach 3 mill. damage more as a typical HoP set-up. With cyclone you can move in small melee range, with spellecho of this Arachnophilia HoA build you have enough ball-lighnings everytime on the screen, but you have to stand 0.3 seconds to cast 2 of them. So cyclone is a bit smoother in movement.

5) HoA has with pierce support and helmet enchant much more, minimum around 4 times more total damage on mobs like in delve, blight, delirium, rituals or other high density areas. Count 4 x dps in mapping with it's tail projectilesattack (it is the HoA Standard attack with no cooldown) and pierce support and helmetenchant offers another 2x projectiles. HoP charge and slam attacks have cooldowns and only a small area of damage and no longe range. HoP offers no splash, only small melee area of damage and no pierce.

(For better comparing with equal defences of both builds count "hatred" in place of it's defensive "grace" for HoA in: 11-13 mill. total shaper- damage. HoP cannot obtain more auras because of not enough reduced manareservation. HoP must change gear, lower it's HoP-supports, change around 7 passives and use a different annoint to get more mana for another set-up. HoA has the possibility to switch in a second Circle of Nostalgia for more mana and dps and 8 up to 14 mill. damage shaper- singletarget damage and looses only frostwall for around 10.5 mill. damage or one Quality of life-skill and two passives (like raze and pillage or rotten claws) for around 12.9 mill. shaper-damage and 160 mill. mapping-damage.)

HoP is in single target around equal or around 10% increased damage, but only when The Arachnophobiacs are using their most defensive setup with 2-3 x more ehp than the HoP. The HoP movement is 60% slower and has less damageuptimes (first you have to reach melee the target with it cycloning). HoA can also change pierce if it is wanted for better singletarget, switch ring or support with hatred or freeding frenzy, but scaling more virulences stacks are recommended for raising damage in this build.

6) The weak spots like degens, aoe and not blockable hits are equal and are the same in both builds. HoA has in his setup an additional sulphurflask for the cooldowns of time of need and vaal discipline.
And of course don't forget numbers and factors of total damage taken, multiple mapmods, crits, etc. :

The more dodge, vaal grace, pantheon, evasion, phasing, overcapped resistances when you are debuffed and doublecurse (when you choose a defensive second one) of the allstars are not only a bit better than the very, very fine build of Vatinas, to reduce total damage taken:

For example you get often multiples damagetypes and sources, degen and hits or aoe at the same time of one boss or one mob and you have to count the total damage taken in these encounters and moments. And here the Agonyca Allstars are shining and charming hot with double and tripple ehp for all damage types.

7) I don't want forget two advantages of HoP in ehp and defence here at this comparing the tails and arms:

-the Sentinels can take damage as meat shield and can taunt. But only melee and they die fast in some encounters, maps and bosses and there are some disadvantages in playstyle as wrote before and in the build of the allstars spoiler "HoP". So for example HoP have also to deal with chained projectiles and so this advantage is in some other situations very dangerous.
When HoA takes Summon Phantasms-Support in the Allstars have 11 taunting and hindering and meatshielding Phantasms-minions too.

- you can move while cycloning. But as said before, for hard bosses the 2 possibilties of HoA's hybrid style: melee and ranged raising the Herald, is best to deal with high lvl 10x maven invitations, shaper, ueberatziri etc.) and with HoA you can easy switch to cyclone also. The Agonyca Allstars are able to stand outside high damage areas of bosses and stack the virulences ranged. Old HoP must cyclone melee in these damagepeaks.
When the Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars take "storm brand" in they obtain almost the same freedom of movement and still don't need to to move into melee distance.

8) Fortify's 20% damagereduction of melee HoP is a minimum of 50% weaker compared against HoA divergent frost shield 30% dr and it's 60% dr against ranged attacks, and the added chill effect of frost shield results in -15 % attackspeed of melee mobs.
Combined with bodyguards/ knockback frostshield's 60% dr get very often op, and much better than fortify's 20% dr.
And also HoP has to attack and hit to trigger fortify, frostshield is triggered also ranged on stun and block and don't need to hit or attack.

9) Other managuardian builds get into problems when their molten shell, guardian skill or vaal discipline is in cooldown - the Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars start then with their dodge and spelldodge of vaal grace and withering step for these cooldowns.

10) HoP is missing phasing, elusive, evasion, dodge, soul of solaris, vaal grace, overcapped resistances, double curses, movement speed and some more layers of defences and synergies of defences etc.

Overall

Total the Arachnophobia Allstars have double and tripple ehp against all damagetypes with their 17 walls of defences, and against physical damage quadruple ehp.

You have circa 4× more multipletarget damage and 3x more mappingspeed and 2x more substain / es on block. You loose around 5% singletarget but you can easy balance your damage up if you want to.

(see spoiler "Index of defences", see Path of Building for ehp)

Monik390 did a 3.16 gemswapping cyclone stormburst -variant, glancing blows



I love the older 3.10 HoA build of HitmanTb and Shadowtitan, I played it a lot and it remains in offensive aspects of damage fine:

- You loose damage with "Divergent withering Touch", but get faster 15 withers. Both works almost equal. I would advice overall to the ordinary gem.
- Divergent melee splash support: more splash damage: nice with hydrosphere?

- Anomalous summon skeletons for make hatred, not grace set-ups (Minions can't be Damaged for 1.5 seconds after being Summoned)

- Divergent generosity for hatred-setup (more aoe that spiders get the aura too when attacking distant mobs)
- Anomalous cast while Chanelling - more attackspeed (cyclone support alternative)
- Anomalous hypothermia support in hatred or chill-setups (increased chance to freeze, HoA alternative)
- Impale Support, Attacks have 10% increased Impale Effect, Anomalous Supported Attacks have 10% chance to Impale Enemies on Hit
Divergent Supported Skills have 5% chance to inflict an additional Impale on Enemies they Impale (HoA support alternative)
- Divergent Vulnerability - chance to maim
- Anomalous Void Sphere (cws alternative)- 40% reduced Skill Effect Duration, 40% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
Divergent vicious projectiles supports - less damage than awakened vicious projectiles, but chance to impale (with impale support in setup recommended for singletarget)

- Divergent Withering step (20% chance not to remove Buff on Skill use) will not help much because we use often and fast skills.

to be edited...

Precision: + 7% damage crawler, 10 % spiders

Rallying Cry: 0.5 % damage crawler, 4 % spiders

Dread banner: crawler + 7% damage, 1 impales 3% damage

Aspect of the spider: hinder x% damage

Vitality: es-regeneration

Enduring cry: physical dot- resistances

Taunting totem: taunt

Void sphere and tempest shield: automatical triggered virulences

To be edited: attackblockclusters

1 Added Passive Skill is Aerialist
1 Added Passive Skill is Antifreeze
1 Added Passive Skill is Battle-Hardened
1 Added Passive Skill is Bodyguards
1 Added Passive Skill is Burden Projection
1 Added Passive Skill is Call to the Slaughter
1 Added Passive Skill is Capacitor
1 Added Passive Skill is Clarity of Purpose
1 Added Passive Skill is Conjured Wall
1 Added Passive Skill is Darting Movements
1 Added Passive Skill is Disease Vector
1 Added Passive Skill is Disorienting Display
1 Added Passive Skill is Dragon Hunter
1 Added Passive Skill is Eldritch Inspiration
1 Added Passive Skill is Elegant form
1 Added Passive Skill is Enduring Composure
1 Added Passive Skill is Energy From Naught
1 Added Passive Skill is Evil Eye
1 Added Passive Skill is Exploit Weakness
1 Added Passive Skill is Fasting
1 Added Passive Skill is Fire Attunement
1 Added Passive Skill is First Among Equals
1 Added Passive Skill is Flexible Sentry
1 Added Passive Skill is Genius
1 Added Passive Skill is Hibernator
1 Added Passive Skill is Insulated
1 Added Passive Skill is Invigorating Portents
1 Added Passive Skill is Liquid Inspiration
1 Added Passive Skill is Mage Hunter
1 Added Passive Skill is Mindfulness
1 Added Passive Skill is Molten One's Mark
1 Added Passive Skill is Mystical Ward
1 Added Passive Skill is Non-Flammable
1 Added Passive Skill is Openness
1 Added Passive Skill is Peace Amidst Chaos
1 Added Passive Skill is Powerful Ward
1 Added Passive Skill is Practiced Caster
1 Added Passive Skill is Precise Commander
1 Added Passive Skill is Prismatic Carapace
1 Added Passive Skill is Prismatic Dance
1 Added Passive Skill is Prodigious Defence
1 Added Passive Skill is Pure Agony
1 Added Passive Skill is Pure Guile
1 Added Passive Skill is Purposeful Harbinger
1 Added Passive Skill is Raze and Pillage
1 Added Passive Skill is Readiness
1 Added Passive Skill is Renewal
1 Added Passive Skill is Replenishing Presence
1 Added Passive Skill is Rotten Claws
1 Added Passive Skill is Savour the Moment
1 Added Passive Skill is Scintillating Idea
1 Added Passive Skill is Second Skin
1 Added Passive Skill is Self-Control
1 Added Passive Skill is Septic spells
1 Added Passive Skill is Shifting Shadow
1 Added Passive Skill is Spring Back
1 Added Passive Skill is Stalwart Commander
1 Added Passive Skill is Stubborn Student
1 Added Passive Skill is Thaumophage
1 Added Passive Skill is Uncompromising
1 Added Passive Skill is Untouchable
1 Added Passive Skill is Veteran Defender
1 Added Passive Skill is Vicious Bite
1 Added Passive Skill is Will Shaper
1 Added Passive Skill is Winter Prowler
1 Added Passive Skill is Wish for Death
1 Added Passive Skill is Wizardry


For summon phantasms supports: Blessed rebirth


Variation rare boots, 3x pure agony, sniper mark







Posted by
elatycs

Hi Chromino,

congratulations and big thanks for this awesome build.
I have played until lvl 93 so far and having a blast.

I would also like to make some contribution to the build as I have adapted minor
things to suit my playstyle. Those may come in handy for others as well:


Storm Brand/Storm Burst as a Ball Lightning Alternative - more free Support Slots
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I personally don't like ball lightning. I have replaced it entirely with Storm Brand in my gloves for AOE/Mapping (much smoother as it is detached). In Ultimatum challenges for example it still reaches 55 herald stacks easily due to aoe hits/chaining (golden rule assumed).
As I have added Culling support on one of the free sockets this not only gives me ~10% more damage for the harder mobs but also makes writhing jar pretty much obsolete (except for longer bosses/smoother map start).

On Bosses I use Storm burst - even without any further support-gems or storm brand this suffices to reach 55 herald stacks when focussing the boss. Drawback is, you have to stand still and channel (usually not a problem with frost shield in this build).

Thanks a lot to Grimjack68!

Jack did the for minions difficult "burtok challenge" in the ritual league with the following steps:


"Just used this to beat the Burtok challenge... kill him while he's bleeding and you are affected by bone roil. Such a pain in the rump.

The things I had to switch out:
- Helmet to Speaker's Wrath
- Pull Raze and Pillage off the jewel (can't have ignite)
- Swapped HoAgony for HoPurity
- Put in a Flame dash for movement
- Removed the dagger to disable spiders
- Socketed Vulnerability curse
- 2 writhing jars
- Minor pantheon to Ryslatha

I cleared the map first with the usual setup, then used this just for the boss.

With only physical damage from the HoP, and no firing at the boss myself, Speaker's wrath helm prevents him from dying. Takes a while to grind him down to zero health, but with Flame dash you can bounce out of his bone roil so there's no real risk of dying.

You'll have to hit your writhing jars and frost nova to re-summon your sentinels a few times. Do this away from the boss, so you don't accidentally hit him with anything and kill him at the wrong time.

Once he's at zero life, wait for him to cast bone roil, dash into it, and manually cast vulnerability on him. Now there's a chance for the sentinels to cause bleed, and he'll pop instantly when this procs.

Then put all your gems and gear back to normal and move on with your life. Try to forget all about this challenge and how badly it sucked.

Full disclosure: I bought 15 Necropolis maps for this, and I blew this 7 times before I actually got it, each time learning one more bit of chaos / bleed / poison / fire damage that I had missed the last time."

Immortal with 2800 es/ block, facetanking most bosses:

https://youtu.be/2L6UDiDYbac

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Channel Play L:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1eBRrTgGPb5pcHvUXyd_HA

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Facetanking map-mob with fullblock-edition 3.16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXyTQip0yI



Maven & the formed minotaurier, phoenix, hydra, chimaera
... forgotten to raise spiders, only HoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LIRbCTWrYM

Elder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0_g1-e0ZXI&t=11s

Hydra & Maven A9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIjH_umjY6U&t=12s

Facetanking Elder with timeless jewel militant faith / keystone Transcendence
60 virulences, Transcendence with Militant Faith, 97% elemental resistances and reductions , 120000 Armour transforms to 90% elemental damage reductions, 70% (lowered) resistances, Total 97 % elemental reductions - physical damagereductions: 20% ascpect of crab, 15 % enduring composure / endurance charges, 15% basalt flask, 4 % minor pantheon gruthkul, total 54 %

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTTqFpIIQvc

Baran 8 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mKBvzrA04&t=58s

The Redeemer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3K1Pod7Jsw#t=00m21s

Facetanking Drox

https://youtu.be/uwuvHgbM2gA

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Other users

T3amjester cycloning Ultimatum

https://youtu.be/GywroXpBEig

facetanking Regenerationmaster of Ultimatum

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Magic 77 Manaminionmasssummoner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rrWh1vdEk#t=00m28s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-eDG-hIuDc (barrows)


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Al Hezim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXh4TW14DkA



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Not deathless fights, offensive edition 60 virulences:

... still practising the beats Ueber Atziri Queen of Vaal ...

(with militant faith / transcendence)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caYutvUzGag

Cortex relic chambers map Boss
Multiple damage and crit-mods, killed him earlier deathless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4VbIQCgfI


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Super - spider - summoner- uncle, spiders vs spiders, spiderspeed in crystall ore mine map:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q_inb0Kd8E

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Lvl 99, courtyard map,

T17 Courtyard with bossmods, Sirus Conqueror influenced, Baran Crusader, Maven, Red Beasts mod, Tane, Bloodlines, Nemesis, etc. lol :-)

Nice and premium: lags.

https://youtu.be/5f1v7ICqa64

Full juiced Delirium A8, sorry for a lot of lags!
Vaal skills did not activated in combats because of lags, lol. Less lags -> less damage taken. Without recording much better frames are farmed. Sorry for recording on i53570, no ssd, wifi. No headhunter.
With headhunter is faster, see spoiler "Full Null"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOHL96iZZQk (part 1 with juicing and delirium boss Kosis, The Revelation at 5:30 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPSse1WXINo (part 2 with arena at 5:00 min)

T17 waste pool, delirium in ordinary atlas map, no Headhunter ;-)

https://youtu.be/BR_uFgjyj2s


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The Formed - Minotaurier, Phoenix, Chimera, Hydra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lmLitTpwrA


"The Hidden Ones" 3.13 Maven Invitation, 4 Breachlords, multiple damage mods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUzXtPfzuF0


"The Twisted Ones", 4 elder-guardians, Awakened 8
cursed, crit, aoe, attackspeed mods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fmNwhr92mU

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Baran, 9 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mKBvzrA04


Sirus, A8, facetanking all beams and all meteors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27aLdMfnYzw

https://youtu.be/Rl3572Zmsyk?t=114

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Militant Faith / Keystone Transcendence

120000 Armour transforms to instead 90% elemental damage reductions
Then 70% lowered resistances
Total 97 % elemental reductions

Cortex Boss Court T18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExRtiszlH4o


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Christoffer Johansson full delirium & cyclone

https://youtu.be/0vJGyroVArU

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T18 Burial Chambers - lvl 99,+ Maven, Bonus: opening exploding strongbox with 2x damage-mod + 1x 94 % added damage mod + EE at 3:09f min ;-) -

https://youtu.be/9gYZgMwLZRs

marshes, lvl 99, Maven, T16, 2 x Harbingers, Bloodlines, ats-mod, etc...

https://youtu.be/1xq2kpmcXvQ

Chimera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVjBqNZrEQ

Facetanking Hydra t17, only cold iron point dagger, phantasms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiWWfE3tl2M

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More

Pier Map, T 16, Lvl 99
https://youtu.be/6-X7MLgE8uA


T18 Burial Chambers - lvl 99,+ Maven, Bonus: opening exploding strongbox with 2x damage-mod + 1x 94 % added damage mod + EE at 3:09f min ;-) -

https://youtu.be/9gYZgMwLZRs


TrueEdge facetanking T15 Ultimatum trial without Auluprising, without ironreflexes keynote, reduced maximalresistances and double damage map-mod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hlLB--yRwE

frannyx04 with the Arachnophobia Allstars:

Maze, make hatred, no grace, cyclone instead of ball-lightnings:
https://youtu.be/wZ70fVl0V2g

Level 90:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVF565oBS4&t

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Maven x10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Jd9aKQjqw

Minotaurier Lair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeGpahDTdk&t=9s


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4 emblems fight legions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoHDmH63KQk

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Harry Potter Senior
Manaminionmasssummoner Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ6LirFj60w (city square)


Magic 77
Manaminionmasssummoner: Spirits, Skeletons, Zombies, spiders, scorpions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rrWh1vdEk#t=00m28s

FranX04 Maze, lvl 95, Hatred + 60 virulences, some varied gear:

https://youtu.be/BA7DSOiMRTQ


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Facetanking Phoenix

https://youtu.be/RLJ0bGMhRfs?t=14

Facetanking Drox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs_SQWEBX4U

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"I have to give you an award Chromino, Minotaur has been my nemesis as long as I can remember - even with all of the other 'tanky' builds I've played" -

You are a standing in the strikes and crits of 2 minotaurs, maven summoned some other killers, the cave-ceiling-aoe drops on your head. You are full shocked, full debuffed and facetank without molten shell and without flasks and without vaalskills...

That is awesome, okay.
That is Allstars-style!
High arachnophil!



CLloyd0 facetanking 2 minotauriers, full shocked, full aoe, full crits, Maven, no buffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J5IVh0oIPg

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FrannyX04 with the Agonyca ArachnophobiaAllstars:


Minotaur, Lvl 94, varied skills, buffs and cyclone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a85ngGEANl4&feature=youtu.be


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Cyclone Melee set-up (the older different build in this video plays only half the damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUF_foY7B3U

Thanks to AlikuTV!

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Ruins and Baran
Flasks down and spiders in holidays - so the crawler has all the fun alone: half the damage... Lvl 99.
https://youtu.be/vWCCnn_GGF0

About defences:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3142343

Mapping-damage






In all defences the Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars offer 3 times more ehp like other ascendancies and setups like:






gladiator shopping:

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/XMWlBKsP

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/Xm5bPy4fP

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/ebgv54UL

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/G5y6zeohb

Thanks to monik390!

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705/page/287#p24396858


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1. Cold Iron Point vs Arakaali's Fang.
CIP a pretty viable alternative at some point, being budget and gameplay friendly.

When it is best to use CIP:

Spoiler
Mid-budget.

There is a huge damage breakpoint of Herald of Agony at lvl 31, with CIP it can be achieved for a lot cheaper:

- The skin of the Lords (+2)
- Empower lvl 3 (+4) or Awakened minion damage lvl 3 (+1) + Empower lvl 2 (+3)
- Chaos Mastery on the passive tree (+1)
- HoAg lvl 21 (lvl 20 is doable if u have both Empower lvl 3 and Aw minion damage lvl 3)
- CIP (+3)

At this point, when you can get hoag lvl 31 with CIP and cannot with AF, the damage gap between CIP and Arakaali's Fang is the lowest with just ~10%.

Pros and cons of CIP vs AF:

+ No spiders gameplay (This is insanely big QoL for those who can't get used to spiders summoning).
+ Free flask slot. Many options here.

- Damage is still lower
- Wither + spell totem + multiple totems is a must-have for bosses, but it dies fast.
- Chain (Awakened) or fork (Awakened) support is required instead of the pierce - more mana problems. I elaborate on this below.
- No onslaught.


When it is best to use Arakaali's Fang:

Spoiler
Low budget and High budget.

On a low budget, just 3-link spiders will do more damage than your entire 6-link HoAg (no skin of the lords, no empower, no awakened gems, no chaos mastery, etc). So, it must be a chase item early.

On a high budget, when you can get lvl 31 hoag using AF, it overshadows CIP by a very huge margin (~20%) again.

Pros and cons of AF vs CIP:

+ More damage anyway.
+ Pierce is fine, spiders finish damaged monsters.
+ Reliable Wither (spiders don't die), and apply it all time.
+ Onslaught

- Clunky. I elaborate on how to deal with it below.
- More expensive. 4ex week 1? 1ex week 3? CIP price got down for 10 times already.


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2. Spiders. How to Arakaali's Fang.

Well, the most clunky part of this build. No need to deny it, bc it's obvious. Even I felt really bad with the default self-casting setup at first, so I had to find alternatives last league.

Spoiler
To summon spiders there are 2 conditions required:

1. Corpses nearby.
2. Kill.

You won't summon spiders if you just press flask and kill worms w/o corpses around. You won't summon any spiders if enemies or allies kill worms first.

The normal way to summon spiders is:

I. Desecrate, twice (or in the middle of the dead pack).
II. Kill worms.

But, in normal circumstances this feels clunky af, bc u had to stop ur mapping to summon worms pretty often, right?
Or are you getting pissed by failing to summon for whatever reason? No corpses, no kills, enemies and crawler around hunting YOUR worms, etc.

I know how it feels, bro.

And here are BEST ways to deal with it:

Spoiler
1. Cold Iron Point. No spiders - no problem, right? Most obvious solution. Trading a bit of damage for QoL. It's reasonable, doable, why not.

2. Gravebind. Budget mapping option, very good. Literally, a lifesaver on early mapping.

Why:
Spoiler


3. Culling strike. This was the best solution prior to 3.16, before gravebind was introduced.

Explanation:
Spoiler


4. Unbound Ailments instead of Minion Damage in Arakaali's Fang. Chromino, please.

How it works:

Spoiler


Bonus: Corpsewalker boots.

They automate desecrate (creating corpses out of the air), but in short - not worth it. Boots slot is too precious to waste it on corpsewalkers.

Gloves

1. I personally love most "of spite". You get a visual signal something is hitting you and it chill effects are nice for a bit slowing and debuffing attackers.

2. For offensives "of the grave" is fine, the skulls kills some small mobs and activate your ascendancy onslaught buffs faster when other minions are not raised.

All gloves enchantments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCHjf_ENbQ


Boots

1. For boots best enchant is movement speed. For faster mapping and faster walking out of aoe's.

2. Stun resistances are not wrong for some situations

3. Third best on boots is life or es-regeneration, when vaal discipline and time of need and bottled faith are on cooldowns it offers a small bit more reaction time against dot's and degens.

4. Nice are also increased Attack and Cast Speed if you've Killed Recently or dodges.

There are also fine implicits:

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/ErgYqk0C5

Belt

1. For belt with withering step the elusive buff against ailments is best: 20% chance to Avoid Elemental Ailments while you have Elusive. When you are moving out of damagepeaks it helps a lot against ailments.

2. 30% reduced Effect of Curses on you while on Consecrated Ground (combined with bottled faith)

3. 300 Evasion while phasing is also nice when you use phasing of withering step/ phase run.

It's not easy for me personally as editor of the build trying to rank & rate the performance of the allstars and I base the numbers mainly on typical viewings of Youtube and twitch (of videos which very often don't show the downsides of their builds). I base the ratings also a bit on pob's numbers, damage-uptimes, the budget not on leaguestart weekend, poeninja-rankings. I do not compare to some former imbalanced op-builds (like early aurastackers before 3.14) that were nerfed because of heavy powercreeps.

So or so or so - let's start!

I added also a new spoiler "Rankings and ratings of the allstars" on page 50 of the thread.

Levelling 8/ 10



Leaguestarting 8/ 10



Tankyness 10/ 10



Mapping 9 - 10/ 10



Singletarget Edition "fullblock-edition" 9-12.5 M: 8/10
Singletarget 100% chaosconversion edition 60, 17M 9/ 10
Singletarget Highway 70 to damage Voices clusters 24M: 9.5/ 10



Cheapness/ Budget 8/ 10



SSF 5/ 10



HC 8/10

+++ 3.14 - In all 10 challenges of the trialmaster the Arachnophobia Allstars have ultimative max defences for all 10 fights. +++



In these days the price-peaks of the first weeks of 3.14 league ultimatum are gone, some hotfixes were done and even when I am personally trying to build up Heralds with a gladiator I want to try some notes:


- Thank you for all the input and fun!

With your help and questions I was able to improve the build a lot. Me myself as ordinary in rl visual worker learns a lot about writings. It's first time I enjoy writings much.

But my english improves very relaxed really slow too, lol, sorry again, I hope it's giving some shivers of astonishing language!

- especially thanks a lot for the impressing and funny videos CLloyd0 and TrueEdge recorded! Great! I love them much!

- with your input and questions I was further able to add the "manamanager" and the "skillmanager", so it's much more easy to adjust your setup to your level, gear, prefered content, special goals, etc...

It's very interesting and fun too because it also shows a lot mechanics about poe and the fascination to max out a build in endgame with these spoilers. Yes, they remember of minigames like their titles also, hehe.

I am special really proud that it offers a lot more individualisations in path of exile and answers for complex questions than some other builds.

- I think the build-tankyness and ability to facetank is top and it's a special joy to play poe without oneshots.
Many gamers walked again into top levels without much experiences gained before in path of exile.

When you max up the gear and build of course there remain a lot questions about each individual set-up to get the final 10% more damage or defences. Just ask!

- especially in ultimatum trials the build performs amazing. With all layers of defences it's one of the very few builds in poe which can facetank all waves, all damage-types, all damage-peaks of high tier trials in red maps with all difficult mods.

- Level 100's are reached a lot in top challenge-positions. In softcore and awesome in hardcore too.
All challenges 40/ 40 were completed.

Also not fullgeared the Arachnophobiatics are full 100 levelled - imposant!


HC Level 100 reached

100 reached first time in 3.14 Ultimatum! Wooooow, that is arachnophil!

Congratulations! Basloxxx did it! OPettysLastVastMast did it!

I am verrrrryyy happy that the build performs for guardians in hardcore with HoA well too. Seems that also in hard hardcore with some not traded gear the Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars are prepared for the full journey.

Some gear is extreme hard to get in hc and workarounds with different flasks and clusters are hard to balance out, but some exiles did it! Congrats! Knicks!

The started spoiler "hc" page 50 needs more input. If you like to, I am very interested in more tipps and anecdotes!

I'm in fever 🔥 too on your thrilling road and it's amazing which challenges you not fear! Fascinating!


Updates of the build:

- I made a complete renewal to the order of spoilers and some spoiler-titles to offer a better overview. I added a guide for choosing the fitting edition of the build. I hope it helps a little bit for your orientation.

- smaller chapters about "map mods", "blight maps", "more tipps for maven, ueber-atziri, shaper" for flasks set-ups etc., and some more were added also on page 50

- The new checklists damage and defences are a big help for much gamers and the guide to choose the Edition and balance defences and damage.

- The new complete list of all poe-trade-links for all gear and jewels and clusters with all alternatives on page 50 of the thread offers a big improvement for qualities of life and shopping, thank you again ziumbala!

- Maven remains a bit dangerous and rippy as well as Ueber Atziri all times, but all 40 challenges were made and they were kicked in their arachnopobiatic fears, yuchuu, much congratulations!

- An update for autotriggered virulences with Storm brand even while moving offers faster levelling, faster mapping and more possibilities in boss-fights for your freedom of movement. Thank you elatycs! You started with this nice and fine fitting idea!

- Especially the beast Ueber-Vaal-Queen Atziri got a new, special tailored variant setup with the timeless jewel militant faith and "transcendence" for more easy dealings with her elemental aoe's.
Thank you again 2rdd for this great combination fitting very nice into the build!

Trade



Popular?

- I never would have believed before - much more than 99999 / now 180000 views and I guess soon 100 / now more than 100 pages discussions and helps are extremely top full arachnophil!


- The popularity and use of Herald of agony by Guardians quintupled this league.... wooow, total arachnophil!

Thank you a lot!

I hope you support and help me further and that you enjoy this swarmy, fulltank, stitchy, shortlegged, longnecked build!

This build in [3.15] Expedition

Now a lot of all expeditions were done, experiences were completed, a blizzard was seen and the masses of hack & slay of first and second month of league were finished. It's time again to add some thoughts about scorpions, spiders and allstars!


Weekend of Leaguestart

In the first week of 3.15 the build of the allstars was not as well performing as in last leagues 3.14 or 3.13.

Aurabots for groups and dominating blow-mainskill were leading the guardian charts in the levels around 95 in the first week of the expedition-league.

Arakaali's fang, the blue nightmare and memory vault were very, very popular, much requested and tophigh and also overpriced traded. The Arakaali's fang was for some days the most or one of the most expensive traded unique piece in whole poe with 2-3 exalts. So some gamers did not got central piece of the Arachnophobia Allstars in the first days of the league and used the variant of cold iron point daggers instead ...

Again the tankyness combined with comfortable top damage was extreme popular for leaguemechanics, only 2 damagenotes were not nice fitting for blockbased CI - Builds.


Patches, Hotpatches and Patchnotes

Skin of the loyals and skin of the lords were bugged and did dropped 5 days without any blue sockets, so it was impossible to optimize manareservations and damage in leaguestart. Pob was also bugged and it was hard to optimize best mana reservations in the app.
Mana multipliers were increased much and then patched with lower reservation-reductions again. After the third patch of ggg the Arachnophobiatics were able to free up a skillreservationslot again on helmet, rings or amulet-anoint without b.i.s.-gear or to use 2-6 different passivepoints.


Performing of the build in [III.XV]

5 days later...

Some days later, after the stormy start, the Arachnophobiatics were climbing the poeninja-rankings again. A lot level 100's were reached and more of the most arachnophils climbed into the top guardian-rankings and heralds-rankings again like in the leagues before.

Also without optimized gear level 100 was reached easy and many Arachnophobiatics got to the top of the top 40 / 40 completed challenges.
This happened some days later as in the leagues before because of the globalnerfs of expeditionsleague (damagenerfs, supportsnerfs, flasksnerfs) and bugged colours of armoursockets and highpriced or even overpriced poe-trading in the leaguestarting-days.

Also top hardcore-levels 98 and above were reached again.


Popularity of the build

Progressing & following to [3.14] Ultimatum 50% more exiles used arachnophil guardians and 60% more climbed into the top leaderboard of guardian-ascendancy with HoA and Arakaali's fang. Last league already the build proved to be tasty, fine mixed and maxed and climbed into top positions and reached an incredible quintupled range of users. Now 80% of Scorpionminions choosed the guardian-ascendancy and - that is a new peak! On top around 90% users in the guardian-ascendancy follow and fellow the Agonyca Arachnophobia Allstars. The forumthread counts now 50000 views each month and 190 pages of discussions, individualizations and tipps - that is extreme interesting. The Herald of Agony is the second top build of the guardians now and raises fast further.

So so so - the build is booming loud!!

Arachnophobiatic!!


Goodguygaming3 introduced also the build on twitch and YouTube as the best startingbuild with minions in the guardian ascendancy #1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR86eiBMiTY&t=80s

Thank you very much goodguygaming3!


Development of the build

This league only small changes were added to the build, like the new b.i.s. Divergent Herald of Agony level 21 gem with 40% increased chance to poison, the new basalt flask with mooooooree armour as very nice flask possibility and the crafted automatical triggered & used anti-ailments flasks as a big q.o.l. upgrade.

Anomalous poison support was changed and nerfed to chance to poison, poison damage was buffed a little bit. As a result I optimized the pathing for levelling to arrive faster to the new used serpentine spellslinger for 90% chance to poison, more virulences and damage even starting without Divergent Herald of Agony.

The levelling tipps and guide were improved much and were better ordered, also the poe-tradelinks page 50 were developped much better and obtained a clean-up and better index and ranking.

A levelling section for path of building is still in progress - thank you a lot Hauke! Arachnophilia!

Some smaller spoilers like "Why Guardian? Why HoA?" and on page 50 were added, spoilers on page 50 like "More Tipps for Shaper, Maven, the Feared" and "Crafting clusters and gear" were improved.
I improved the spoiler "other ailments", page 1, and "hardcore" page 50 with an better overview how to reach 80% - 100% elemental ailments immunities and I listed the defensive layers against all other ailments as well as flasks against special bosses more clearly.


Invitation and request for help and crafting

Because I am not much experienced with crafting, I would be very, very happy when an Arachnophobiatic would make & create a small crafting guide for the rare gloves with high es, faster casting, slower projectiles, and the rare boots with increased duration, and the stygian belt and amulet with increased skillgemlevels. Because many new poe-gamers use the build it would be a big upgrade for the Arachnophilias!


The build in Poe-Trade

As I wrote above Arakaali's fang, the blue nightmare and memory vault were expensive in leaguestart for 8, 9 days, but after got lower more reasonable prices again. Workarounds were no problems with cold iron point dagger and Rumi's concoction or replica pure talent.

Level 100 and 40 / 40 were again reached without b.i.s. gear, without maxed bodyarmour, without aul's uprising, without shiel corruptions, without bottled faith etc.

After the first week....

Amulett aul's uprising was expensive again as last league. Empower gems and bottled faith reached some new tophigh prices in trade.

Much very nice rare gloves were often crafted and easy plus cheap to get. Also Stygian belts, helmet enchants, the circle of nostalgia, nice watcher's eye and all clusters were traded well and cheap.

Overall the build's prices in traiding raised a bit - mainly for empower gem, flask bottled faith and aul's uprising.



Thank you a lot! I enjoy the community, the discussions, the questions and the individualizations and variations very much!

Quotes

+++ 2 legs, 6 legs, 8 legs, it does not matter! The first one birthday +++ 1 Year of the build +++ 1M views of the build +++

Experiences of gamers with this build - Quotes and Posts



Ever since I played this build the first time.. I am not finding any other build even remotely tanky enough for me to play and enjoy.

I dont want to keep playing the same build over and over again but this build is just so overpowered that I am going to play it for a third league in a row.

Posted by
sidp2201


Yes, this build is literally *THE* tank. Other builds that are tanks should be compared to this build. I've played most of the other tank builds, and some of them are nearly as good as this, but nothing quite measures up.

On the down side, after playing this, everything you'll play will feel like a glass cannon! :)
Current league IGN: Grimjack_Expdition_HOAG
Feel free to message me in game if I'm on.

Posted by
grimjack68


My best build ever.

Posted by
monik390


I’m going to start with this just to avoid rolling six alts this league then end up here anyway like last league.

Posted by
Ariakan80


Definitely the most "complete" build I've ever played. Easily does all content.

Posted by
AboveAverage


Sry for double post 53mln and when I'll be done I'll be 60 mln dps xD

Posted by
Volratheron


Thanks a lot for the guide. A lot of stuff to learn but so far looking really good only level 76 and can do delve 200 and t16 maps.

Posted by
Mckoch


Many thanks to Chromino for this build.

My first build that able to melt almost everything with stress free gameplay.
My first Sirus A9 deathless something near in 3 minutes.
Maven not a problem at all. All ultimatums is a joke (except some unlucky ones)

And much more that i like - its so flexible, you can play with this build and adjust it how you like. More damage - no problem, more defence - no problem, different skills - no problem, you able to tweak it how you like. I am even not using spiders, because i don't like to spawn them and etc. Maybe i will play with some ascendancy passives, because without Phantasm supports i didn't have enough "Allies" near with me to get permanent Onslaught and etc.

Posted by
Zlatoruk


This is definitely the best build i've ever played.

Even though this is my 1st time meeting Sirus & tbh i'm quite slow & unskilled, I've managed to beat him deathless just now- tanking almost all his attack. I even forgot to switch from melee splash to multisrike for the spider.
I even dont have the anomalous HoA gem & many other gems also not at full quality but the build still very strong.

Before this i dont even bother to explore the atlas killing conquerors & sirus on my own due to squishy build.
Thank you very much for the build.

Posted by
chaoswind7


the build rocks..I am not dying and i am not afraid going into any fight coz 1 shots or other shits the game throw at u :)
THANK YOU Chromino :)

Posted by
AlexAndonov


...congratulations on the build. I've been having so much fun with her.
Thank you!

Posted by
Huntezudo


Hi there. Great build, easily cleared most things with the early versions and transitioned largely deathless to the late 90s! Cheers!

Posted by
CalmdownUK


Thanks Chromino for this build, it is dam awesome, I cleared Simu for 1st time today :O
Sure is tanky as hell! The damage is decent too!
I recorded wave 30 just for fun~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLLguN5Fo8s

Posted by
Grassygarden


Hi chromino !

I don't need any advice, i just want to thank you for this awesome build and guide, with ton of informations and help !
Just reached 140k armor with grace and iron reflexes, i feel like i'm immortal.
It's the first time i really feel having a powerful build, so really, thank you!

Posted by
Ertiks


Build is very nice, I am basically unkillable

Posted by
joshuagress12345


Thank you Chromino for keeping this up to date!
It's going to be a great league.
BTW. I have a funny story to share, when I started to test the build at the end of Expedition, I accidentally opened a No Mana Regen map without knowing it. So I raised my 20 spiders and proceeded through the map, and then suddenly I realized I had no more mana left. "Well shit" I thought to myself, but I continued with spiders only and their number went down a bit a few times but they kept killing and re-summoning themselves and they cleared 3/4 of the map before I finally had to TP out and get a mana flask! So I cleared 3/4 of a T12 map with 0 skills used and buttons pressed except movement. Amazing.

Posted by
Jadran


I have to give you an award Chromino, Minotaur has been my nemesis as long as I can remember - even with all of the other 'tanky' builds I've played - I almost ALWAYS die way too much to Minotaur. Too lazy to learn his attacks/patterns? Idk!

Well, not so much a problem any more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J5IVh0oIPg

Posted by
CLloyd0


Being able to afk ultimatum and also survive the trialmaster is crucial and this build absolutely allows you to do that even without the broken iron skin and aul amu combo. Being CI and immune to corrupted blood with a jewel is just a blessing in ultimatum (5 or even 6 affixes that doesn't effect this build at all) and the recovery from block is insane.

Posted by
Robale


Best build ever. My first A8 Sirius Kill deathless. Came close to dying 1-2 times. I love this awesome playstyle!

Posted by
mrflamee


Just came to post I did this build last league and was great.
Now that I have some gear, (FAR from BIS, crappy annoint, no watcher eye, so much to improve) it feels much more powerful than last time.
I league start this build with zero currency, and built it up quick.
Damage is better, even though I only reach lvl 30 HOAG so far (with emp 4 will be lvl 31)

Sirus a8 easy dies in a few minutes. T16 bosses die in few seconds.
Maven invitations, bosses die before new ones spawn, with mods no problem.
All conquerors and maven invitation (formed, twisted, etc) die easy.
For some reason the damage is just much better this league. And also super tanky of course, with no grace or iron reflexes.
When this build I can finally get BIS gear the game is really easy mode.
Great build again!

Posted by
VistaChris


Thank you for one of the best builds ever done! :)
I just switched to it from farming with freezing pulse totem.. was tired of dying. Now I cannot die lol... :D

Thanks again Chromino!

Posted by
Astarotte


"...played with it and Sirus 8/9 made me feel like walking in the park.

Thanks for what I currently consider the best build."

Posted by
radius540


We are rolling now!!! Thanks for all the help my dude! Killed Sirus A8 ez, 0 deaths. Running some real juiced up maps.

Posted by
NotAMage


I dont know any other build that gets you so cheap into red maps.

Posted by
Humtol


Love this.
Thank you for this build. At last I got to 38/40 since Harbringer.

Sirius down, Uber Atziri down (first time!), Uber Elder down (first time!), new bosses down (deathless), Simulacrum 30 done, uber Chayula down (first time, deathless, and with 6-players party standing outside), Feared down (first time), each Maven crucible fights done deathless (not Feared...).

In the end I could learn the fights, go around my colour-blindness and end the league with satisfaction.

Maven fight:
- Vaal Molten Shell can save you from memory game explosion,
- self-casted Molten Shell and Frost Shield with Ruby+Saphir+Topaz buffs can save you from memory game
- focus on placing DoT's in the middle of arena (this kills us in the final stage)

Easiest? Uber Chayula (I went to get coffee mid-fight xD).

Posted by
Fukurokage


[...]amazing build i love it.

Posted by
Belphag0r


Build is very nice, I am basically unkillable

Posted by
joshuagress12345


This build is awesome when you start to get some gear. OK I am only mapping till t7 now, but in Ultimatums I really don't care what is the next reward, because I actually can't die. Once got somehow stuck in a T7 on a rune from Baran, surrounded by enemies. Could not cast, could not move and could not flask. I stoud there for solid 30 seconds, geting hammered on. Sure my ES drop once to 40%, but half a second and two blocks later, it was full again.

Its really is an awesome Build if you want to play relaxed PoE. For me its perfect in Ultimatum since I don't have to dodge anything. My adaptive resolution in Ultimatum drops so low, I can't even tell where the Chaos cloud (chaos immune is op), the frost orbs or the lightning circles are. I just stand there and hammer away.

My only issue is: I have sometimes a hard time to spawn spiders in fights like the maven trials. But the agony crawler will kill them sooner or later anyway.

Posted by
4nthraxx


This build is insane! Facetanking t16 awlvl 9 fully juiced trialmaster feels incredible. And my character was only lvl80 that fight.
I admire your work.

Posted by
dimka_po


This build is leaguestart friendly, as it use almost no special items to make it work.
Everything is a must have which increase the build by a lot, but even without the Skin of the Lord, the build can work...

With no expense (and no brain), with basic stuffs (no cluster, no jewels, no ring, no amu), Glancing Blow, and just Aegis, and 2 casual flask, you can already achieve :
- 5k es
- 30k armour
- 500k DPS
- 600 es on block
- 75/75 block chance
- capped resistance (75/80/76)

... At lvl 80
Seems already pretty good for a 10c build, no ?
Most of the builds don't reach this much tankyness / DPS combo with such "investissment".

Also, note that the build may be a leaguestart friendly, it's not a beginner friendly as there is a lot special mecanics in it, and you have to know it to leveling and playing it right.

Posted by
Chimnei_Moon


Im playing Mana Guardian every league. U can easly farm all content while drinking beer and eating pizza. I dont use spiders tho cos i hate this mechanic, I prefer more dmg for my scorpion. U are making hell of a work and forum thread is a masterpiece. And dont forget that time is mana friend ;)

Posted by
Chujogrom


just wanted to tell you i love this build i pretty much make it once every league. since im pretty bad at the game a tank build with decent dps is really nice (also thanks for updating it pretty often saved my ass last league lol)

Posted by
elazhan


I played this build for first time at the end of 3.15 (I only played this league + syndicate), I played it as if I was league starting, no bonus gear from my main etc to see how I could start - was super easy. Was quickly running high end content, and even cleared A8 Sirus at 87 without even having all my gems capped.

Posted by
Trelander


I love this build. I'm playing Scourge as my first PoE league ever, i'm noob as fck. I don't understand anything (atlas, crafting, delve/mining, maps). But i love this build. I expect that this build would be playable trought the Leagues. My idea is to dominate this build in 2 or 3 leagues ^^ Thanks a lot. I hope you could up more content :)

Posted by
David ML


First time playing - having an absolute blast with my arachnids!
Thank you again for this build!

Posted by
CrowbarSr


What I can say, on a sirus a8 the only thing I dodged - meteor, simply because I don't dare to take it =) Everything else was just facetanked.
All degens besides giant balls were overhealed by ES on hit.

I didn't record this fight, but all I did - mostly just stood in one place and casted my crap.

In simulacrum with cyclone against normal monsters it feels freaking good. And against Kosis with storm burst, it is amazing too. I could save a lot of time just facetanking his barrage instead of dodging it. The only thing I have to dodge against kosis now is his super slam.
[...]
Did some bosses yesterday (2x maven 10, the hidden, sirus a8, maven boss fight) and 2 simulacrums. Besides 1 mandatory death on maven's last memory game, everything else was deathless and quite trivial.

As for maps, ugh... Whatever juice, whatever tier, whatever scourge stack, whatever mods besides no regen. I can steamroll it all at ease.

I will go full delve after finishing the feared and other peak encounters. Really wonder which depth will stop me =)
[...]
In any case, in 3.16 this build is a lot better than in any previous leagues in all fields, be it damage or tankiness.

Posted by
monik390


I love this build, im using a headhunter and its so fun haha im inmortal

Posted by
antofazul


Just wanted to say thanks for the build. Funniest I played so far and on my way to lvl 100. Kinda unkillabble, especially since I found Mageblood.

Posted by
DimitriusC


Thank you for the amazing build, Chromino! 2nd time playing this build in the new league and it's so fun and tanky :)

Posted by
mrflamee


I delved a lot tonight and basically just ran around the entire time not having to do anything or pay much attention.
I've been debating rearranging all my shield/block nodes on the tree to get to 38% both block chances and then going GB, but I just feel so untouchable with the full 100% block that I'm not sure if I want to give it up.

Posted by
cdnza


Feeling incredibly tanky and well rounded, haven't died once since I went CI at around lvl 69 or so.

I can pretty much just sit in any ultimatum and agony/spiders just destroy everything.

Might try to take this build to 100 considering how tanky this build is feeling.

Thanks for an awesome build guide

Posted by
TrancedOuT


Once you have the items listed by the build you're literally unkillable.
I haven't died to ANY Ultimatum and completed all waves standing afk and just pressing flasks and ball lightning.

And i dont even have the Grace amulet and the Iron Reflexes armour yet. With it it would be like a Terminator :)

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Posted by
Hey0cean


This build is incredible.I am lvl 73 and i can face tank t15 ultimatum indefinetely standing in stone circle and spam ball lightning, vaal discipline, molten shell and flasks. I have only 5000 es and 3000 mana. I have barely any cluster jewel.lol.full build at lvl 100 with all gear is immortal i think.lol

Posted by
dovahkin1986


Thanks for the build, it's just crazy how I can survive easily 150 stacks of scourge, juiced glennach nemesis 3 and mapping is super smooth, just obliterating everything.

Posted by
Jimm


Oh and I do get occasionally stun locked… it’s annoying because I don’t like to be stuck, but I don’t die so it’s ok.

Posted by
Ariakan80


Chromino u are the best :D
Yesterday I made changes and I have applied some things of your comment (Armor, flask, gems and make a wishlist :D)
Now I feel like I could eat the world.

Posted by
Belegrost


This build is waaaay tankier even on leveling already. I'm level 65, have white gloves (34 itemlevel), blue chest (27 itemlevel) and some random crappy rares from the ground (like leaguecontent-corrupted dagger 6 ilvl from the 1st act lmao).
And I literally die only if really believe in my immortality. I died 6 times for now and 4 times I just yolo run into big packs of everything. 2 because of afking.

You can imagine occultist's survivability with this gear level :D

But I never used Herald of Agony cause people commented here a lot of hard leveling times through this skill. I used Herald of Purity all the way in those crappy white 4-link gloves - HoP + Minion Damage + Summon Phantasm + Added Fire Damage. Plus 4link Storm Brand + Ball Lightning + Chance to Poison + Faster Casting (lol I need to fix this link I suppose :D).
And thats basically all, I don't have any cool items (brought Anvil for, maybe, 1c, that's all). I don't have 6links, don't have actually any other working links. Use steelskin on left mouse button and ~5 levels ago activated Determination.

I have dominating blow in my chest but I don't use it. Just too lazy to use anything except Flame Dash + Arcane Surge besides two 4L I mentioned before.

PoB is little chaotic, but you can find a ton of useful info on 50 page of this topic. It was the most helpful discovery for me here.

Posted by
allumino


thanks for your build, really easy to play when you know how to summon the spiders without panicking during a boss or a fight with a screen full of monsters

Memory vault + dagger + aegis aurora = you can start printing currency. Upgrade after upgrade ... facetanking while watching tv sirus 6, 9 waves of ultimatum T16 etc. still working on upgrading, need more exalted

Posted by
luvahiz


Hey,
just wanted to say thank you for the great and insanely detailed build guide. So much fun to see what kind of potential builds in this game can reach.
Anyways cheers for this guide.

Posted by
a2b12


Hey thx for one of the best and well written guide i‘ve seen so far.

Posted by
sh0wtimeye


Almost level 91 and 0 deaths from this build. I've never felt so tanky before in PoE.

Posted by
TrancedOuT


I did league start with it as well, sure it has been a bit of a struggle

but now i am at a point i am steamrolling maps already with a dead here and there

Posted by
Solidwolf


I feel almost unkillable at the moment lol. It really is disgusting what I can afk tank. This build is amazing and I really appreciate the help to get me where I am now. I am destroying all content now and im focusing on just leveling. I am switching out my gems for bosses. I bought another chest also with 3 greens 2 blues and a red. So I can now flip flop the build to add phantoms if I feel like it. They clear maps really well.

Posted by
sedenko


I ended up running t12 maps on pre-ci, life version, with a 5 link in a ashrend, without any problems! strong build

Love this build and guide!
It was love at first sight.

Posted by
xACID_KVLTx


And you don't need BIS items at all. At the moment, I don't use Skin of the Lords with Iron Reflexes nor Aul's amulet. I use +1 gems corruption torso (which could as well be normal Skin of the Loyal) and +2 gems amulet (which costs around 4ex, but you could use +1 gems amulet which is very cheap). I killed A9 Sirus with this setup and it was easy, deathless.

Posted by
Wermine


Hey Chromino & contributors,

just wanted to say thanks for the guide(s). Reached level 100 for the first time and also cleared Simulacrum Lv30.

Keep up the good work!

Posted by
7kuu


Hello guys, hi Chromino,
thanks for the amazing build guide! Let the spiders reign!

Posted by
dapake


Map clear is excellent. Spiders do enough damage by themselves to kill anything short of bosses, and they are FAST.

I've played the aura stacker, and the damage on bosses here is going to feel weak by comparison. The tank, on the other hand, isn't second tier to anything. :)
This is why Chromino has tongue in cheek renamed Sirus' DIE beam to a healbeam, because we can literally stand in it to restore our energy shield.

I leveled 3 builds to 95+ in Expedition, league starting with this one. The currency I made with the Allstars funded an Explosive Trapper and a Forbidden Rite Totem build - without selling any gear from this one, I might add.

I constantly get into debates in /global when folks ask for the tankiest build available, and most folks push Jugg options. Or the Aura stack, which has a decent tank, but seriously relies on dealing enough damage to kill anything threatening. Nobody else uses Sirus' DIE beam to heal. :)

Posted by
grimjack68


[...] good I love the build !!

Posted by
Trentolin


You put up a legendary guide AND a crazy "shopping list" for literally every situation/budget [...] Not to mention builds unique "mana reservation" min-maxing type which allows you to do so much stuff that you CANT do without buying KEY expensive items [...]

Thanks for all your efforts! Amazing guide.

Posted by
feelthepain


Hello, this is the most comprehensive guide I've ever seen, bravo. Even GGG can't do that much. :)
Thanks for your efforts.

Posted by
Woneerfyalp


Sirus 8, deathless.

I only have 6955 energy shield, nonetheless, I can tank anything he throws. (Ok, I didn't attempt the chaos storms, or the meteor hit.) Little shots, DIE beam, corridor zig zag (don't bother dodging, this is the best chance to DPS him, just soak up the hits) even the spinning quad beam has very little effect.

Took longer than it should have because I forgot to switch my pantheon to refill my writhing jars over time, so just the ... short legged dirty tail. That description still makes me laugh every time!

I have to say, this build guide is *Awesome*. The level of detail, the various options, the explanations around gear / tree / skill gem choices are top notch. But what really makes this stand out is the raw language. I just can't stop giggling when I read about the "short legged" "dirty scorpion-tail" "premium lags"... the fun just keeps coming. I have never seen a more entertaining build thread, and I've been here a long... long... Long time.

Posted by
grimjack68


Finally hit level 100 with this build (none of that stupid AFK 5 way stuff either). It was an uphill battle, especially with the Delve 600 challenge but getting 40/40 was very fulfilling.
Thank you for the build, Chromino. I've played it two leagues in a row now and love it. It has been an absolute blast after a really rough league start.

Arachnophilia!

Posted by
CrowbarSr


Yep, my work on the build paid off really well.
In this league, my build is a lot better than it was in 3.15. Did so many improvements, got a lot more damage and tankiness.

So far so good.

Started with dom blow, since it's a very natural and the easiest way to lvl guardian, made it up to red maps with no gear bought. Switched to CI at lvl 8x with the budget alternative stuff, and made it possible to complete one of the hardest things in the game in my way.

Feels amazing.

Good luck with your things, exiles. This build is amazing when done right.

Posted by
monik390


Sirus A8 completed (first time ever)...

Posted by
Valsacar


I'm having very much fun with that build. Using full chaos conversation and tiny deviations in the tree.
Tons of damage for mapping and bossing. All content is possible. A9 Sirus and Uber Elder are nearly to easy ;)
About 10 Million PoB Damage, 6.6k ES, 71/71 Block. Feeling very tanky.
Getting 60 Virulence Stacks against bosses is also pretty well to do with the Storm Burst. Storm Brand is perfect for fast and agile mapping.

Thank you for @Chromino for the great guide. And everybody else for the great discussion.

Keep crawling and sting on.

Posted by
ElShrimpo


it's funny how sirus' die beam actually heal me instead of damaging me 😂

Posted by
zcythustk


Ooookay, after some struggle in the beginning (levelling was okay, map transition without some extra currency was painful, as I mentioned before) i've managed to get spiders and its just amazing. [...]
I can't actually tank EVERYTHING in game, but, well, mostly I can facetank things in moments where other builds couldn't even dream of. It defnately will improve with gear, cause I have only ~5.5ES for now and some items really need to be changed asap.[...]
Overall really great and VERY tanky build if you have some patience.

Posted by
allumino


Hi there,

made the 100% Chaos conversion Hoag and so far I'm really enjoying it. Reached Level 100 and destroying all content with ease!!! Thank you for the detailed Guide! Hoag on lvl 31 Slams with 6x Pure Agony & Cult-Leader!

It was a rough league start though, especially to get the Arakaali's Dagger in the first few days!

Posted by
paco2304


Thanks a lot for the work, this is the first time i see such a detailed guide.

Posted by
altevg


This is a very, very tanky build with enough DPS.
Elder/Shaper/Sirus (especially Sirus) fights are a joke using builds. I can pretty much stand in 1 space and dont bother avoiding anything while fighitng Sirus and never die =)

Posted by
Vladis

The build is awesome (which is why I keep coming back to it) and tanky as hell.

Posted by
Valsacar


I am currently enjoying this build quite a lot.
This build is like a small community within the game, which is just awesome.

Posted by
iuiz


It will be way better. I played this build last league, eventually killed everything, Sirius, Maven, etc. Just afked on Al-Hezmin in the centre of his arena cause of CI. He couldn't even make a scratch.
In a matter of tank your armor numbers should grow big for Aegis Aurora and slightly after ~60k it will be almost unkillable in normal circumstances.

Posted by
allumino


alright so at this point, I don't think I can make any more changes to what I have without spending 30ex for armor and amulet.. with that being said, this is probably one of the chilliest builds I've played in a long time. Scourge feels safe most of the time until I hit about 90 corruption stacks, I did sirus 8 yesterday and face tanked his beams and meteor. Maven invitations feel a bit tippy but that's on me since I'm new to the fights. All in all worth all the investment and headache to make the build how it is now !

Posted by
dpham99


Facetanked Minotaur like a boss with 4.8 es.

Posted by
RestInPieces


Hi, thanks for a great build (the most enjoyable minion gameplay I've ever played).

Posted by
Arrihon


Thank you so much,
Even without boss gems( I forgot to change), I got my first Sirus kill and that too A9. I died a few times as I am not familiar with all his stages but I did not think that I would be able to kill him before.

This build has spoilt me so much.. I dont think I can play any other build from now.

Posted by
sidp2201


I am enjoying the fact that im rarely - if ever - dying and rolling right along. im taking my time so i haven't done any major bosses yet, but mapping has been easy enough

this build though is very well thought out and planned, down to the smallest detail, and i appreciate the thought and time thats gone into it

Posted by
Soulstrike628


Chromino, thank you for building and maintaining this. I leveled to 80 now and I am slowly starting to hunt for needed gear.

It took me a while to wrap my head around the build and its complexities, but now I begin to appreciate all the thought that went into it, the multiple layers of defense and offence, the interactions between parts of the build, etc. Absolutely love playing it and I don't even have the dagger yet.

My hat off to you sir.

Posted by
Jadran


Hi, this build is really charming and thx your hard work on this guide!

Posted by
seventhcat


But yeah I love the build. My reflexes aren't really great so something tanky was needed. I have seen my share of hairy situations i know none of my other chara could have dealt with. It's less DPS than a lot of other options, but it's very delicately balanced and when the pieces start falling in place it's downright exhilarating. Anyway, love it, just need to finish gearing !

Posted by
Wolrajh


Great guide, really loving it!

Posted by
tatiloco


Great build so far, starting to feel pretty tanky, now gotta work on damage but getting expensive now. :P

Posted by
chronicbint


I've played over a dozen builds and this is only the second one strong enough to finish W30 which is very satisfying.

Well done with this off-meta masterpiece for sure, thanks again.

Posted by
WarPig17


I totally recommend it, it gives what it promises. Congratulations for the guide.
I bought the melding flesh and I'm even more immortal than I was lul.

Posted by
Sputnik01


36 challenges done, not going for 40 this league - probably taking Christmas off. Overall very enjoyable and chill build.

Posted by
qwertz


biggest change for me was swaping out of GB, 35% dmg reduction vs 100% dmg reduction is huge difference, rarly see my es drop from 100% since then.

Posted by
Kenavru


Just wanted to say thank you Chromino, I've been having a great time with this build and it allowed me to finally get that GG end game drop I've always dreamed of getting. Always hoped for a Mirror but a Mirror worth item will do :D!



Posted by
Haiatu


Amazing build. Just compeleted wave 30 of simulacrum with only 1 death (face tanked his big explosion and I'm not even sure what happened lol)
Started the league as witch, but I'm soooo glad I tried this one out! It absolutely crushes

Posted by
Kurnis


A8 Sirus down... This build is the best tank in my poe history. It even beats double nebuloch marauder or Mjolner discharge. I wonder how can I die :) ?

Posted by
Astarotte


I am really enjoying this build. Even with basic essentials and no expensive items I can take red maps easily without even coming close to dying.

Posted by
sidp2201


First just want to say thanks for this guide. Made this last night to play with a friend and I cant stop playing it. Im having a blast.

Posted by
Khesahn20


Thank you!

All in all, this build has been a lot of fun, especially the reactions from friends whenever I did Sirus carries for them, refusing to dodge anything he threw at me :D Scourge has been a great league for this build

Posted by
Jeskojay


Chromino, thanks for putting together and sharing a very nice build. This thread is full of good vibes.

Posted by
melkorien


Hi Chromino,

I am very satisfied with the build, yesterday I did Sirus 9 without taking any risks, Die is not able to kill me,
Congratulations for the great and solid build.

Posted by
radius540


Hello, I'm loving the build, although, I'm big noob
I also really enjoy the fact that every single upgrade shows improvement in the build, as I am a player that usually focuses strongly on one character

Posted by
Lakeyour


Hey Chromino!

Build is great, been enjoying it. Still a bunch of stuff to upgrade and fix on my part but it's going great.

Posted by
Yan_n


Finally done with the grindy part of this league!

Reached Level 100 and did 40 Challenges on the same day. All with this build, never played anything else since the start of this league over a month ago.

This was the smoothest ride ever after getting the 3 core uniques... before them I died like 4 times every t1 map^^

I played since beta and could never reach level 100 on any other character... this should be proof enough for the insane tankiness of this build :D

Normally I never play a build twice but I really consider it, if there are no huge nerfs etc... let's see!

Thank you so much for the support with this guide chromino and mabye we see us again next league (:

Posted by
Robale


Thanks again for epic build!

Posted by
VistaChris


Thanks for making this build btw, really enjoyed it so far. Love the variety it offers while still having decent damage and clearspeed, being able to do all mods and content and being tanky enough to survive most, if not all, uber boss attacks.

Posted by
4U71SM


[...] I want to take this character as far as i can, since it's the most fun I've had in a long time in POE!

Posted by
Soulstrike628


Did play this in 3.14 and was 96,5 within 3 weeks and that was with a skin of the loyals, not skin of the lords (was ~5ex away from affording it). Quitted there because I wasted to much time in POE because the build was so much fun :), Failed 3 Ultimatums in total in that time and got to the boss 5 times. It was just to easy if you didn't care about rewards, when you could not die anyway.

That comes from a player who is REALLY bad. I could not figure out how to spawn spieders in Boss fights. So they took some time, but this build gives you time to learn fights.

With this build I got my first:
Sirus (up to 7)
Shaper
Elder
Uber Elder I fucked up because I invited maven to my first try ever.
All breachstones.

And that all within 3 weeks.

Posted by
Humtol


Love the build!!! And even more so the guide God tier!
Rerolled from ranger and I feel unkillable :)

Posted by
ezakhiel


This build is amazing, and the POB is amazing. There is far more effort in the POB than basically any POB that exists.

Posted by
sp0dey


I'd check out the herald of agony guardian build (or herald of purity)..
I'm running it this league and it's a tank. With less than 5ex invested you can facetank Sirus at A6, do T16 maps with ease, delerium maps, normal & uber atziri and so forth.
It's not screen wide explosion fast but gets the job done quick and safely.
If you get more currency you can blow 30-50ex on this build to get all BIS items and facetank everything. But with 5ex you can run pretty much all content.
It's not meta so a lot of items are dirt cheap (like 10chaos for boots, 15choas chest, 10c gloves etc etc).

have a look:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3019705

Posted by
R3kt3m


Absolutely loving this build.

Posted by
blaw001


YouTube goodguygaming3 about the build:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR86eiBMiTY&t=80s

Full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR86eiBMiTY




Happy birthday! One year of Arachnophilia! Let's swarm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPh_Gi7PCqs