[Phrecia] The dirty Scorpion-Tail|660M|Herald of Agony|CI Cyclone-Necro|The Arachnophobia Allstars

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Lindean#3649 wrote:

So what do You think about the Widowhail + Rearguard version of the build?
I've tried to follow Your guide but is so overwhelmingly complex. And it feels a lot of information can be cut out. For example - why include like 10 possible virulence generation setups/skills instead of like two/three best ones?
I had lucky drop from sailing which ended up netting me 4 divs but I had no idea how to proceed with 5 socket voices costing around 3 divs each and overall very limited availabilty of the items listed in the guide itself made me jump to the bow side but I don't like the feeling of it.

I see that You started playing the event, how do You manage without convocation? Crawler is so dumb. Don't You feel squishy? Getting through campaing with HoA was one of the WORST experiences in my entire poe1 carrier.

Bowskills are too squishy and clunky in my experiences. Most worst is that they are far too slow for high-virulences-HoA. You will be limited to low virulences with much lower, around 1/10, damage in lategame.

You need only the 5 passives voices, they are enough for 660M dps. Their prices go ordinray fast down. You need better voicesonly when you want to reach 1.2 up to 1.5B damage. But for all poe-content the 5-passives are perfect.

About skill-variations, it`s written in the intro of the skills for HoA-virulences. It`s almost unique in poe that a single skill is so versatile. When you like to test out skills, that spoiler will be interesting. When not, simply go with the default cyclone - cwc - ball lightning of orbiting, it`s the best mix for smooth moving and virulences.
I liked to write a comprehensive guide too, not only a copy-my-pob-thread like others, and took in variations in subspoilers.

Yes, convocation is recommended.

Probably you did something different. HoA is not the fastest, but is useable for speedlevelling when you have some poe-experiences.
I had not much time to play until now. I started with flamewall, then poisonous concoction+HoA, then switched early into solely HoA as damageskill. I simply switched in a second recouping-mastery for more recovery, damage is already far more than needed, so I pathed for early 100% spell suppression also to "quickstep".
With 3 chaos and 2 fusings I obtained enough gear for red t-5 until now with lvl 70, still using also some blue rings from lvl 40 and lvl 24 onwards and amulet from lvl 18 onwards into maps, still without clusters, still on a 1-c 5-link, HoA gem level is 16, lol. So, to be honest, with the herald-tree it`s a bit too easy overall until now, hehe.