[3.28] The dirty Scorpion-Tail|Herald of Agony Cyclone-Necro|Arachnophobia Allstars|240m to 7000m

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Blacryan#1317 wrote:
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Ok I will try, but not easy atm, thanks :)


https://pobb.in/Yk53JjvCqH50

Has my recent items/jewels/build. You can see its not on par w/ the main build... But its not too expensive and I'm doing insane damage.

I'd suggest get your spectres and AG setup asap, that made a MASSIVE difference in survivability for me too.


It's encouraging to be helped, thanks to you and thanks to Chromino :)

So now I'm conviced I can reach a very good dps for chea :) All I need is to be strong enough to farm Rituels, maybe it's not the best strat but last league it was wonderfull

I reached 100% spell suppression yesterday and I have noticed the big difference in survability, but I still die while inside huge packs of monsters and don't know why, maybe koz of poison or I cannot leech from them because they have block chance... no idea

For spectres I have Perfect Guardian Turtle / Judgement Spirit and Pain Artist
AG with Ephemeral / Kingmaker / Windscream / Asenath and Leer Cast
My setup was AG + Spectres + Chaos Golem of the Maelstrom + Feeding Frenzy
I swapped Feeding Frenzy for Minion Life koz they die often even I spam the Bubbling divine flask of the Necromancer, they are more tanky but the AG still die then I lose spectres and I'm almost naked against the monsters :( It's a pain


As far as I see in your actual pob, your max hit taken are already awesome, and you have good fixed spell suppression and chaos/resis.

But you lack the HoA-virulences, HoA-damage and life-recovery. And in high density the golden rule suicides you.

Get "unaffected by poison" on boots.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/Yp9myQDbcY

Take a look into "HoA step by step". Your poisonchances are low 20% and miss the golden rule etc., so you do not generate HoA-virulences. Use a poison-mastery for needed crit-immunities until you have an AG in Garb of Ephemeral.

Swap plaguebringer to bonebarrier.

Get a shaper-ring life+mana on spellhit, eg:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/q9Rwq369ug

Outsource resis+attr on ghastly-jewels, regret no longer needed passives like shown in pob.

Get the clusters pure agony and voices, follow closer the pob-tree.
Later get the Bitter Heresy Bloodline, cheapest triggered by flametotem.


So there are some things to build up!
Arachnophilia!
Last edited by Chromino#4813 on Mar 26, 2026, 9:45:18 AM
Question, if I have Triad Grip gloves w/ 4x White sockets, do I no longer need the Unnatural Strength node in necro ascendancy?
pretty sure yeah, that you wont need unnatural strength at that time, if you get that
Please define "Low Budget"
I did try to follow the 125M TT Total Tqank 1M++ EHP Poison-HOA ....(Low Budget).
First 2 Small cluster jewels i did check( the ones with sublime form) cost 15 divines each ... way worse than the ones included in budget -pob version. I gave up.
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k4t4#4378 wrote:
Please define "Low Budget"
I did try to follow the 125M TT Total Tqank 1M++ EHP Poison-HOA ....(Low Budget).
First 2 Small cluster jewels i did check( the ones with sublime form) cost 15 divines each ... way worse than the ones included in budget -pob version. I gave up.


Hey k4t4,

when you are new into poe the balancing & managing of suffixes and stats is sometimes complex.

There are 2 spoilers in the guide about typical HoA-Allstars-budgets, here they are copied for you when you missed them.

Defining "low" or "high" is not easy to do.
When you more play poe you probably will get experienced to farm a mirror and more each league, while starting a into poe and a league each one div can remain a struggle.
Eg in YouTube or here in the forums are many streamers who call 500 div cheap or in opposite 200 div expensive. So I listed the build progress and dps-checks in the game linked to their average budgets.


Which Prices / Budget?

Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.27]

(Prices listed piece by piece on necro-page 100)

■ 10 chaos for yellow T5
■ 40 chaos for red T14
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red T16
■ 4-6 div watcher's eye for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for 25M damage and juiced red T16.5
■ 20-40 div for 50M damage, nightmares and ubers
■ 40-80 div for 200M damage

30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.


■ 200 div for 400M damage
■ 250 div for 800M damage
■ 800 div for 1000M damage
■ 1500-3000 div for 1500M-4B-7B damage



Gear Trading-Prices piece by piece lategame


Example 200 M Crit-Poison-HoA, 4 days after league start 3.27

Gear

Maata's teaching 1 div and some harvest life force
Aegis Aurora + Grace granted implicit 40c - 1 div
Rare helmet +2 2 div
Rare boots Unaffected by poison 1 div
Skin of the Lords Divine Shield or Magebane, 5 correct colours 20 chaos
Circle of nostalgia onslaught 1 div
Circle of nostalgia other implicits 20-100 chaos
Darkness enthrouned 97% 1-2 div
Ashes of the stars 29% 2 div

Total: 8-10 div

Clusters

Voices 5 passives grant nothing, 3x 20c = 60 chaos
9 herald medium clusters, 9x10 chaos - 1 div, in total thumbed with a bit crafting 2 div
3 small clusters 25-35% increased effects, each 1-5 divs thumbed total 8 div

Total: 10 div

Jewels

Watcher's eye 5-25 div
Melding of the flesh -4% / -73% 4 div
2x Ghastly jewels 50-100 chaos

(not used/not needed: 3x Grand Spectrum 15 div)

Total: 9-30 div

HoAg-supports

not needed/not used: Empower 5 div

Total: 0-5 div

Others

Rumis good rolled 50 chaos
Amulet Anoint 10 chaos
Ball lightning of orbiting 10 chaos

Total: 70 chaos

The Companions | Spectre-corpses

+ Gear AG with Kingmaker: 2-3 div
+ Perfect Guardian Turtle Determination-Spectre 2-3 div
+ Perfect Judgemental Spirit Discipline-Spectre 25 chaos

Total: 4-6 div


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Total 40-60 div




The expensive b.i.s.-upgrades in lategame above gearlevel 400M

■ double rings- and shield-implicits 5-25 div
■ a third mod on watcher's eye 30-160 div
■ the amulet with the implicit "you can apply an additional curse" for one more curse 30-90 div
■ b.i.s. rolled unique megalomaniacs with pure agony, sublime form, elegant form, vicious bites 2-20 div
■ a +2 to socketed minion gems Saqawal's Nest 4g 2b / a +6 to HoA-levels skin of the loyals 5 div
■ the tanky mageblood set-up, 3 permanent flasks are enough beside life-flask and Sin's Rebith, 40-80 div
■ awakened fork instead pierce 15 div
■ a rare +8 amulet (2x +4 to Level of all / physical / chaos skill gems) 150-900 div
■ good #3p-voices clusters 40-90 div
■ better #1p-voices clusters 670 div


When you have read a bit more in this build, you learn to build in very flexible all suffixes. Then you do not need to take the pob-placements of stats to strict, eg when you see them cheaper in trade on other slots.

I e. reduce the small clusters to 25% increased effects instead 35%.
Eg I got mine almost b.i.s. clusters you see in my Mirage-char "The Herald of the Short Worm" each for 10-100 chaos this league 2 days ago and 5 days ago. He has in total a cheap budget around 12-13 div until now. Most I invested into my watcher's eye 3 mods for 9 div (2 mods for 6 div would heve been enough), medium rolled boots 1 div and aegis aurora (weaker) double-implicit 1 div. All other pieces were extreme cheap asf. Does easy and fast medium juiced t16.6 and all pinnacles. 3 deaths level 85-95 when I remember correct, all 3 deaths farming exarch's 1000 suns.

Also there are other easy workarounds guided, like congregation-support for +1 aura-spectre, then you do only need 1 cluster.

This league it looks like there are a few minor inflations again and the chaos-div ratio is changing. Some content is more farmed, other content less, like each league in Wraeclast.

Further you can constructive be involved and update the list daily or as often as you like and as often you have the free-time and I link your updates in the build, thank you.

Last edited by Chromino#4813 on Mar 23, 2026, 7:50:01 PM
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But you lack the HoA-virulences, HoA-damage and life-recovery. And in high density the golden rule suicides you.


I did not notice the poison tattoos on the pob, I bought 12, 125c each erghhh !
Now it works better to reach the max virulences :)


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Get "unaffected by poison" on boots.


Right now boots with chaos resistance + unaffected by poison are very expensive and even I can buy it I will lose the +12 spell suppression, spell suppression tattoos cost 550c each, this is very complicated


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Take a look into "HoA step by step". Your poisonchances are low 20% and miss the golden rule etc., so you do not generate HoA-virulences. Use a poison-mastery for needed crit-immunities until you have an AG in Garb of Ephemeral.


I have Kingmaker and Garb of the Ephemeral, I will buy a better helmet than Leer Cast later


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Swap plaguebringer to bonebarrier.


Works good :)


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Get a shaper-ring life+mana on spellhit, eg:


Cannot find that ring with + DEX/STR, so I lose ~50 and cannot wear my gear, I have no idea how to get out of this nightmare, If I change an item I have issues with something else



Thanks for your time :)))
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Chromino#4813 wrote:
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k4t4#4378 wrote:
Please define "Low Budget"
I did try to follow the 125M TT Total Tqank 1M++ EHP Poison-HOA ....(Low Budget).
First 2 Small cluster jewels i did check( the ones with sublime form) cost 15 divines each ... way worse than the ones included in budget -pob version. I gave up.


Hey k4t4,

when you are new into poe the balancing & managing of suffixes and stats is sometimes complex.

There are 2 spoilers in the guide about typical HoA-Allstars-budgets, here they are copied for you when you missed them.

Defining "low" or "high" is not easy to do.
When you more play poe you probably will get experienced to farm a mirror and more each league, while starting a into poe and a league each one div can remain a struggle.
Eg in YouTube or here in the forums are many streamers who call 500 div cheap or in opposite 200 div expensive. So I listed the build progress and dps-checks in the game linked to their average budgets.


Which Prices / Budget?

Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.27]

(Prices listed piece by piece on necro-page 100)

■ 10 chaos for yellow T5
■ 40 chaos for red T14
■ 1 div aegis aurora for red T16
■ 4-6 div watcher's eye for pinnacles
■ 10-20 div for 25M damage and juiced red T16.5
■ 20-40 div for 50M damage, nightmares and ubers
■ 40-80 div for 200M damage

30% less when you craft some stuff yourself.


■ 200 div for 400M damage
■ 250 div for 800M damage
■ 800 div for 1000M damage
■ 1500-3000 div for 1500M-4B-7B damage



Gear Trading-Prices piece by piece lategame


Example 200 M Crit-Poison-HoA, 4 days after league start 3.27

Gear

Maata's teaching 1 div and some harvest life force
Aegis Aurora + Grace granted implicit 40c - 1 div
Rare helmet +2 2 div
Rare boots Unaffected by poison 1 div
Skin of the Lords Divine Shield or Magebane, 5 correct colours 20 chaos
Circle of nostalgia onslaught 1 div
Circle of nostalgia other implicits 20-100 chaos
Darkness enthrouned 97% 1-2 div
Ashes of the stars 29% 2 div

Total: 8-10 div

Clusters

Voices 5 passives grant nothing, 3x 20c = 60 chaos
9 herald medium clusters, 9x10 chaos - 1 div, in total thumbed with a bit crafting 2 div
3 small clusters 25-35% increased effects, each 1-5 divs thumbed total 8 div

Total: 10 div

Jewels

Watcher's eye 5-25 div
Melding of the flesh -4% / -73% 4 div
2x Ghastly jewels 50-100 chaos

(not used/not needed: 3x Grand Spectrum 15 div)

Total: 9-30 div

HoAg-supports

not needed/not used: Empower 5 div

Total: 0-5 div

Others

Rumis good rolled 50 chaos
Amulet Anoint 10 chaos
Ball lightning of orbiting 10 chaos

Total: 70 chaos

The Companions | Spectre-corpses

+ Gear AG with Kingmaker: 2-3 div
+ Perfect Guardian Turtle Determination-Spectre 2-3 div
+ Perfect Judgemental Spirit Discipline-Spectre 25 chaos

Total: 4-6 div


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Total 40-60 div




The expensive b.i.s.-upgrades in lategame above gearlevel 400M

■ double rings- and shield-implicits 5-25 div
■ a third mod on watcher's eye 30-160 div
■ the amulet with the implicit "you can apply an additional curse" for one more curse 30-90 div
■ b.i.s. rolled unique megalomaniacs with pure agony, sublime form, elegant form, vicious bites 2-20 div
■ a +2 to socketed minion gems Saqawal's Nest 4g 2b / a +6 to HoA-levels skin of the loyals 5 div
■ the tanky mageblood set-up, 3 permanent flasks are enough beside life-flask and Sin's Rebith, 40-80 div
■ awakened fork instead pierce 15 div
■ a rare +8 amulet (2x +4 to Level of all / physical / chaos skill gems) 150-900 div
■ good #3p-voices clusters 40-90 div
■ better #1p-voices clusters 670 div


When you have read a bit more in this build, you learn to build in very flexible all suffixes. Then you do not need to take the pob-placements of stats to strict, eg when you see them cheaper in trade on other slots.

I e. reduce the small clusters to 25% increased effects instead 35%.
Eg I got mine almost b.i.s. clusters you see in my Mirage-char "The Herald of the Short Worm" each for 10-100 chaos this league 2 days ago and 5 days ago. He has in total a cheap budget around 12-13 div until now. Most I invested into my watcher's eye 9 div, medium rolled boots 1 div and aegis aurora weaker double-implicit 1 div. All other pieces were extreme cheap asf. Does easy and fast medium juiced t16.6 and all pinnacles. 3 deaths level 85-95 when I remember correct, all 3 in exarch's 1000 suns.

Also there are other easy workarounds guided, like congregation-support for +1 aura-spectre, then you do only need 1 cluster.

This league it looks like there are a few minor inflations again and the chaos-div ratio is changing. Some content is more farmed, other content less, like each league in Wraeclast.

Further you can constructive be involved and update the list daily or as often as you like and as often you have the free-time and I link your updates in the build, thank you.


I only need a exact pob for this :
"Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.27]
"40-80 div for 200M damage"
I do have 150 div available.
I only need a pob to fit this budget.
The levelling 80-100 outrange this budget by a lot for 176M dps reported in pob.
Where is this pob? for :
"Thumbed, example necro 4 days after leaguestart [3.27]
■ 40-80 div for 200M damage"

The lvl1-80 pob fits the nudged but is too weak around 200k ehp and dmg wise. is worse than my spectre build. I can do 500 delve with my spectre , I was looking for hoa build to continue to go a bit deeper so I chose 80-100 lvl section of your "budget POB" cost is insane for a regular player. you need to think about less pro players trying to do your build. I also strong believe pro players won't search builds on forums, I also believe many of us won't understand 10 pages of explanations for at least 10 variations of the build mixed all into one pob. BTW I have a insane PC... opening your pob takes around 40 seconds :), but that is fine. Do you think you can pull a pob out for around 150 divine on necro to be around 200m dps and 800k ehp? This one I can not find : "40-80 div for 200M damage". Not on this league prices. By curiosity I did search for a unset ring with str dex and life, mana on spell : DOES NOT exist, forget about T1 res on it.
THX
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k4t4#4378 wrote:

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Voices 5 passives grant nothing, 3x 20c = 60 chaos
9 herald medium clusters, 9x10 chaos - 1 div, in total thumbed with a bit crafting 2 div
3 . By curiosity I did search for a unset ring with str dex and life, mana on spell : DOES NOT exist, forget about T1 res on it.
THX


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1) Take a ring without +life. We build more into high flat magereductions, recovery and avoidances instead.

2) Until you find or craft a good rolled unset shaper-ring, take simply easy i.e. a two-stone or amethyst shaper-ring before.



In this build you have around 60-70 suffixes and 10-20 implicits and slots on clusters, jewels, helmet, boots, ring and 10-30 flexible tattoos. Stats and implicits of ghastly jewels are further doubled by darkness enthroned or the adorned. Prefixes are used for es and mana-reg. 2-4 strong synthesis-implicits on the rings and 2-3 strong aura-mods on the watcher's eye are used beyond.

Finally passives, masteries, flasks, pantheon, cluster-notables, the companions, the amulet-anoint, and keystone on SoL are combined to cap your attributes, resis, spell suppression and skill-efficiencies as well as to stack mana-reg, recovery, ailment-immunities, es or to balance in skillgems for damageuptime and qol.

So use these slots until you have full levelled up and better gear.

Take easy and simply eg the +30 attr-notes on your journey, bandit alira and on the tree "survivalist" and one additional small clusters "sublime form" until you have better gear and better clusters.

The "checklist stats", "FAQ" or on page 100 "example gear progression" show to you many easy flexible variations for this progress.
It's a bit more complex, but poe is always about this sandbox-style in suffixes gearing up, at some point playing poe it's an important aspect of the char-design.


Ordinary take always the most optimized default tank-pob. It's the best balanced pob for solo players t16.5 and allrounder.

Recommended: With 150 div you can easy use a 3-flask mageblood for more continuous movementspeed and, easy bleeding-immunities and easy resis on the mageblood-flasks.
(And for 15-30 divs also add the additional second curse on the amulet-imolicit of ashes and switch rare gloves in instead vixen's.)
Do not forget, 70M are more than enough for all other poe-content. Maxing some defences before pure dps is more fun.

https://pobb.in/3bdCXXcq

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k4t4#4378 wrote:

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I can do 500 delve with my spectre , I was looking for hoa build to continue to go a bit deeper


The HoA does easy delve 1000-1500++, with specializations easy 2000++, no problem.
Last edited by Chromino#4813 on Mar 23, 2026, 7:14:14 PM
Dont know what you all find so expensive on this build?
The most stuff is in 1-20 Chaos range and really easy too reach for no-pro player like me.

with my 3 good mods watchers eye together iam now on only 15 Div budget and have the most allready going with all 4 aura spectres and full geared AG.
Many other builds dont work with so low investments.


when you only want too buy direct only the perfect gear pierces without crafting, every build is much more expensive than normal.

Sorry I am having big troubles trying to understand the poison chance.
Is this right that campaign and early mapping we are self casting? For example I have poisonous concoction, HoA, and Ball Lightning of Orbiting.
Concoction in UI shows poison chance 85%.

But HoA only 45%.
I have 2 jewels that in total give 32% chance for my HoA minion to poison.
So what am I looking for? Am I looking for 100% HoA minion poison chance in POB?
When do I get rid of self casting poisonous concoction? Right now castinf almost Ball/Brand and run.

Do I need 100% poison chance from hand when I go to maps? Do I need 100% poison chance on my HoA minion? Any way to see his poison chance ingame, not in PoB?

Maybe a stupid question, but what's the chain of skills I use in mapping? Just run - Ball of orbiting/Brand and minion deals with everything?

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