[3.10] Herald of Agony Mana Guardian | 2.5 Minute Sirus 8 | Deathless T19 100% Delirium

12/20 Update:

In honor of Darkee's amazing SSFHC Awakener kill, feel free to try a skeleton variant of the build! The only item you need is a Skin of Loyal with different colors, and the tree is exactly the same, and it is cheaper as well as you do not need to get a Circle of Nostalgia.

You keep all the same tankiness and get 3 million shaper damage if all 11 skeletons are up （how likely this is to happen vs keeping 35-40 stacks of virulence is debatable of course). You also get an extra 35% aura like discipline. Ideas on further improving the variant is welcome!

POB: https://pastebin.com/zZ3PWzCp

For spectres, tanks like Stoneskin Flayer does a wonderful job. Traditionally skeletons lack the same "body" zombies give you. 4 x 180K health gives you a tremendous front line.

If you are doing easier content, feel free to switch to blood magic supported carnage / host chieftains for faster clear.

nice build

I Crafted the Charisma Passive on my astramentis. Dont need Enlighten or the Reduction jewel to use HoAg + hatred + either skitter or Discipline

How do you deal with stun with this build?

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Furywrath เขียน:

I Crafted the Charisma Passive on my astramentis. Dont need Enlighten or the Reduction jewel to use HoAg + hatred + either skitter or Discipline

Great tip! Easily the most straight forward way to get hatred + skitter! Will update the guide's mana reservation section.

I grabbed a 5R Skin of the Loyal for Skeletons, swapping Minion Damage for Multistrike (Since you don't use Vaal?). This is a cheaper option, and PoB is telling me it's better, but I'm guessing I'm missing a downside to it. Is it comparable?

Knowledge appreciated.

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hitmantb เขียน:

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Furywrath เขียน:

I Crafted the Charisma Passive on my astramentis. Dont need Enlighten or the Reduction jewel to use HoAg + hatred + either skitter or Discipline

Great tip! Easily the most straight forward way to get hatred + skitter! Will update the guide's mana reservation section.

Not really sure how spending 3ex on oils and losing ES from no Utmost Might is more straight forward than just buying an Enlighten 3 for 150c.

On the Skellie thing, Melee Splash swapped for Multistrike for single target needs to be in there. Without Splash you will crawl through maps, and Multistrike is insane for bossing. I would take out Maim for that. Still same colors.

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Decaped เขียน:

I grabbed a 5R Skin of the Loyal for Skeletons, swapping Minion Damage for Multistrike (Since you don't use Vaal?). This is a cheaper option, and PoB is telling me it's better, but I'm guessing I'm missing a downside to it. Is it comparable?

Knowledge appreciated.

Hmm are you using hatred with generosity? In my POB minion damage is clearly better than multistrike by about 15%. Although of course if 5R/1B is MUCH cheaper, it is totally fine to use it.

Please post your POB whenever. I am still trying to optimize the skeleton variant. Right now summon skeleton, minion damage, maim, melee physical damage, ruthless, empower 4 seem to give best results with hatred/generosity/elemental equilibrium (I put storm brand in weapon to auto trigger it).

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Mecielle เขียน:

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hitmantb เขียน:

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Furywrath เขียน:

I Crafted the Charisma Passive on my astramentis. Dont need Enlighten or the Reduction jewel to use HoAg + hatred + either skitter or Discipline

Great tip! Easily the most straight forward way to get hatred + skitter! Will update the guide's mana reservation section.

Not really sure how spending 3ex on oils and losing ES from no Utmost Might is more straight forward than just buying an Enlighten 3 for 150c.

I think it can open up to some VERY interesting choices if you use Charisma AND enlighten 4. You will be able to save passive points and possibly squeeze in more auras. Hatred + Skitter at same time is pretty expensive to activate with shaper's glove corruption +1 socketed gem level so hard to get.

You don't really want to use Conqueror's Efficiency in late game because it wastes a full jewel socket. I really have to play around with POB more, too many choices with all the mana reservation reduction options! Will post more optimized POB over time for sure.

On the Skellie thing, Melee Splash swapped for Multistrike for single target needs to be in there. Without Splash you will crawl through maps, and Multistrike is insane for bossing. I would take out Maim for that, not sure why it is in there anyway, Multistrike gives a ton more DPS. Still same colors.