[3.28]The dirty Scorpion-Tail | Herald of Agony |Chaos-Cyclone-Scion|Arachnophobia Allstars 225-900M

Hey, @Chromino#4813!

Thanks for sharing the build!

I played it in Mirage 3.28 for over a 100 hours and really enjoyed it!
I chose the reliquarian ascendancy and followed your unique power suggestions - they work well, good choices!

I focused on the variant you call tanky low budget although I made some changes for a few reasons:

1) the "low cost" variant still requires 200-500 div to assemble. For me personally this is already a "high budget". Therefore I assembled a version for less than 100div (sacrificing a lot of dps and some tankiness in the process)
2) awakened support gems are gone from drop pool, which is a sizeable dps nerf for this build. The newly introduced imbued skill gem mechanic does not seem to work well with this skill, at least according to PoB all variants are inferior to a 21/20 HoA.
3) I stick with replica dragonflight instead ashes of the stars
4) I also skipped the flask ignite immunity for armor and 72% ignite avoidance - I definately feel that sometimes (bad), might be one of my biggest mistakes to be honest
5) couple other concessions forced by prices, such as rolls on armor/shield - I bought versions for 2-5div, whereas the ones suggested by you go closer to 50div.
6) I also let go of some dps skills, like totems and brands, in favor of a zero-button hold the mouse and zoom playstyle.

Generally I keep dying on pinnacles bosses, but 6 portals are usually enough. Anything lower than Nightmare maps feels like a breeze, most T16 or T16.5 maps don't need a 2nd portal (except for loot).

The build plays nice, easy to maintain, produces nice currency, feels chill, good fun, I appreciate the experience. Gonna recommend.

Thanks again!
May RNGesus bless your drops!

Viper

from PoB:
Total DPS 10 mil
EHP 28 k
evade 75%
blocks 66-68%
resistances 89%

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tBViper#2093 wrote:

Hey, @Chromino#4813!

Thanks for sharing the build!

I played it in Mirage 3.28 for over a 100 hours and really enjoyed it!
I chose the reliquarian ascendancy and followed your unique power suggestions - they work well, good choices!

I focused on the variant you call tanky low budget although I made some changes for a few reasons:

1) the "low cost" variant still requires 200-500 div to assemble. For me personally this is already a "high budget". Therefore I assembled a version for less than 100div (sacrificing a lot of dps and some tankiness in the process)
2) awakened support gems are gone from drop pool, which is a sizeable dps nerf for this build. The newly introduced imbued skill gem mechanic does not seem to work well with this skill, at least according to PoB all variants are inferior to a 21/20 HoA.
3) I stick with replica dragonflight instead ashes of the stars
4) I also skipped the flask ignite immunity for armor and 72% ignite avoidance - I definately feel that sometimes (bad), might be one of my biggest mistakes to be honest
5) couple other concessions forced by prices, such as rolls on armor/shield - I bought versions for 2-5div, whereas the ones suggested by you go closer to 50div.
6) I also let go of some dps skills, like totems and brands, in favor of a zero-button hold the mouse and zoom playstyle.

Generally I keep dying on pinnacles bosses, but 6 portals are usually enough. Anything lower than Nightmare maps feels like a breeze, most T16 or T16.5 maps don't need a 2nd portal (except for loot).

The build plays nice, easy to maintain, produces nice currency, feels chill, good fun, I appreciate the experience. Gonna recommend.

Thanks again!
May RNGesus bless your drops!

Viper

from PoB:
Total DPS 10 mil
EHP 28 k
evade 75%
blocks 66-68%
resistances 89%

Hey Viper,

thank you a lot!

mmmhmmm, when I import your char 55M dps, 310k ehp buffed are calculated by pob-community-fork.

Looks well done.

When you switch your rare clusters to the cheap #5-passives voices for 9x medium clusters like the build recommends, and invest 20 divs into a better amulet for 2 curses, you easy reach also 100-150M dps, even when the Reliquaryan misses Bitter Heresy in the Lycia-bloodline. But your set-up is already well done, only for Ubers more dps is appreciated. In maps your 55M are already enough and great.

Eg compare it to my actual Mirage-trickster "The Herald of the short Worm".

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Chromino-4813/Herald_of_the_shortworm?i=10&search=skills%3DHerald%2Bof%2BAgony

When he uses the better ashes and swaps some qol-skills used for mapping instead into dps-skills he reachs around 160M, without transfusion, in a budget around 100 divs (most expensive was 3-mod watcher`s eye 30 div, 2 small clusters 6+8 div, still in stash ashes 2 curses 27% 20 div, tainted oil 5 div, mageblood 2 flasks 17 div, all other stuff 10 chaos to 3 div cheap budget).

I had only problems against Sirus. Next time when I revisit him, I'll switch to CI or to Iron Reflexes on SoL against him again. Exarch`s 1000 suns were a bit rippy too, all other bosses were easy done.


1) no, sorry, there you traded something quite different and not optimal. Eg a 29% ashes or -77% melding are enough and much cheaper, or 25% increased effects instead 35% on the small clusters. You really not need the b.i.s.-stats for a good HoA-build, 1 div for helmet and boots are enough too. I myself did all pinnacles on a budget 25 div and the nightmares with 40 div, but I am probably more experienced to flexible build HoA with the cheaper alternatives in leaguestart. I.e. I bought b.i.s. small efficiency-clusters with chaos-resis and kept a long time the practical application-amulet-anoint, and Trickster is overall a bit cheaper to be optimized in tankyness.

Take eg a look into typical trading-prices:


Gear Trading-Prices piece by piece lategame




2) yes, the lost awakened-supports are missed and needs in Mirage to be compensated with transfusion-support or against bosses eg with djinn-imbued point blank or crit-damage.

In maps with greater fork we accelerated instead the clearspead, around 20% with greater fork's additional projectiles, compared to last league, but lost some singletarget-dps.

3) Reasonable to get to tipping levels of HoA like 29 or 34, but in most cases Ashes is stronger. Also the new replica dragonfangs +4 to HoA-lvl are not optimal.

4) No problem, you have stacked good 89% max-resis. At that level there are not much dangerous ignites. Perhaps in deeper delve or at nightmare-legion-generals get better immunities.

5) Take a different double-corrupt, often you snipe a fitting one for 1 div.

6) Yeeaah, yes, that`s more fun. I do too. Above 70M there are also in juiced nightmares not much differences to higher dps in my experiences. Only against ubers you have the needed seconds to cast arcanist brand or assasin`s mark, curses etc., all other mobs dies too fast when you built HoA correct. But I put a lot, golem and offering in an imbued cast when stunned set-up in maps.

I balance also myself always dps into qol and tankyness, the high dps I use only for the Ubers or with one click very though juiced rares, there it`s fun to burst them down in seconds.