[3.26]The dirty Scorpion-Tail|Herald of Agony|Minion-Cyclone-Guardian|Arachnophobia Allstars 191M

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StarofWraeclast#7485 が発言:

From many league experiences I agree Guardian/Trickster are solid choices for HoA.

I've flip flopped this league from Trickster back to Guardian because of the 50% reservation node.

While Trickster has got amazing dot protection with Lethe shade/Heartstopper/Spell breaker/wicked ward combo, Time of need is quite good too.

Any new players should concentrate on getting poison chance up ASAP
Crawler gives 20%
Poison on hit gem gives another 40% but guardian is a long ways from the poison on hit/spell nodes unlike shadow. A few poison on hit jewels/tatoos will help but chance won't be good until post campaign.

Scion is known for being a great Aurabot but it worth getting those weaker ascendency nodes for 4 more passive points?

Yes, definitive.

But with serpentine spellslinger and a chance to poison support or the curse-mastery 80-100% poison-chances are reached not too late. But the northern and eastern ascendancies are 6 levels faster at this point with fatal toxins as guardian.

HoA-scion looks really good and quite flexible. But Trickster for tankyness will not be reached. After playing all ascendancies 1-3x times already I guess she have her specialized ups also.

It will become an awesome HoA- and minion-league.

😋

man, the new big brother Animate Guardian is really great.
i love it.
mine sitting at around 92k life and doesnt even flinch in t17 maps. had to invest into +8 max res via defensive minion mastery, but maybe that is even skippable (i will see and test).
the permanent Kingmaker buff really shines and my lvl 31 Guardian deals good damage on top of my Scorpion

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DrDurdle#2646 が発言:

man, the new big brother Animate Guardian is really great.
i love it.
mine sitting at around 92k life and doesnt even flinch in t17 maps. had to invest into +8 max res via defensive minion mastery, but maybe that is even skippable (i will see and test).
the permanent Kingmaker buff really shines and my lvl 31 Guardian deals good damage on top of my Scorpion

Hehehe, yes, minion-builds are awesome in 3.26. And this allstars-build already buffs the AG and the Mercenary with 3 big tanky auras.
I will check the minion-defence-mastery soon too. Thank you.

Mercenary seems best as curse-bot, because as aura-bot he offers mostly the interesting purity of ice for melding of the flesh.

Thank you a lot Dr Durdle!
Awesome to see you here in the crawler-pages again! Arachnophilia!

Hi Chromino, it's great to see that you're always working and updating your guide. I believe it's one of the most complete and well-constructed guides for POE1.

I'm not sure if I should give HoA another chance.

1 - Which version is tankier, witch or templar? (I hate dying)

2 - How is Clear doing in your opinion? Can we finish maps in 1 to 2 minutes?

3 - How is her performance in T17?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

One more question,

4 - Knowing that I have good experience with Allstars, what do you recommend I do next? (I currently have about 100 divines)

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radius540#5205 が発言:

Hi Chromino, it's great to see that you're always working and updating your guide. I believe it's one of the most complete and well-constructed guides for POE1.

I'm not sure if I should give HoA another chance.

1 - Which version is tankier, witch or templar? (I hate dying)

2 - How is Clear doing in your opinion? Can we finish maps in 1 to 2 minutes?

3 - How is her performance in T17?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Hi Radius!
Great to see you here again! I send best arachnophilia wishes to you!

1 - Templar. Take in flesh and stone with his new buffed skill efficiency.

The necro lacks recovery, also the possible minion-league with ghost reaver is weaker.

I recommend Trickster or guardian.

2 - Yes, no problem.

First link in the HOA supports pierce and returning projectiles, so the half screen is cleared 4x each sec.

Second be sided by a fitting Mercenary.
I.e. the boiled-blood witch deals best aoe also against proximity shields and increases clear speed much. Gear her with Asenath gentle touch gloves for some smaller chain-explosions.

Top movementspeed is most easy build in with mage blood. Or a Merc with haste-aura.

3. Overall 9/10.
You need to know the dangerous t-17 mods, guided in the spoiler next to faq. I.e. when you full buff your atlas 700% incr map-explicits, your reduced auras reduce evasion and armour so as result ghost dance's and divine shield's downsides will kill you. Reroll.

Catharina Ziggurat boss has one bad aoe-ttack ("kulemak" audio-sign). Keep close to Lycia, Sanctums, for best es on hit-facetanking.

Then almost everything else is easy.

Comparing the guardian's POB with the necro POB, I couldn't understand why the necro has more armor and evasion.

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radius540#5205 が発言:

One more question,

4 - Knowing that I have good experience with Allstars, what do you recommend I do next? (I currently have about 100 divines)

Most fun in the league are the 16.5 maps and mercs probably. The build fits, you can quite flexible push the mercs and AG because we ourself grant 3 big tanky auras.

I added a spoiler "Full example gear progression" linked in tl;dr, but with your already farmed currency you can skip a lot early steps.

Currently Level 80, with "basic" equip but only 3 pure agony jewels, but it feels really cool to play.

My only problem is to maintain many virulence stacks on single target bosses with cyclone - lv5 awakened cwc - tornado of turbulence - ball lighting of orbiting
I have 100% poison chance and golden rule jewel but i get maybe 20-25 stacks constantly. Maybe that will be resolved in higher levels, but yeah i like it so far :)

thank you for the guide !

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Garusch#6965 が発言:

Currently Level 80, with "basic" equip but only 3 pure agony jewels, but it feels really cool to play.

My only problem is to maintain many virulence stacks on single target bosses with cyclone - lv5 awakened cwc - tornado of turbulence - ball lighting of orbiting
I have 100% poison chance and golden rule jewel but i get maybe 20-25 stacks constantly. Maybe that will be resolved in higher levels, but yeah i like it so far :)

thank you for the guide !

Thank you a lot Garusch too! Arachnophilia!

Ordinary your set-up should generate 120 HoA-virulences singletarget continuous without problems.

Do you have the needed chaos or physical damage-component on elemental skills?
I.e. circle of nostalgia, eber`s unification helmet, some jewels or the supportgem chance to poison add it. Without pure elemental skills cannot poison.

Or perhaps there was a map- or altar-mod "avoid poison"? Or further a very few bosses - skeletals, mechanical constructs, spiders - have some inbuilt poison-avoidances.

And remember, there are 2 separated poisonchances, your 1) own and 2) of minions:

1 - for yourself, capped 80-100% on HoA-aura, the tree with serpentine spellslinger, fatal toxin and poison tattoos.

2- for your Herald, capped on ghastly jewels and with the belt "darkness enthrouned" with the tag "minion chance to poison".