[3.9] Herald of Agony (Melee!) Necro--Get in Monsters' Faces Safely (5M Shaper DPS/8.4kLife+Fortify)

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plawzable escreveu:

Ran into a wall and instadie sometimes just clearing packs. how can I juice this build for more defenses?

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Further, the Holy Relic guarantees that feeding frenzy is always up, which benefits the agony crawler. This is because every time we smack enemies, the "pulse" the relic emits activates feeding frenzy immediately. It also provides life regen to our zombies to further ensure they never die.

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Morkonan escreveu:

Can someone explain the mechanics of this?

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Further, the Holy Relic guarantees that feeding frenzy is always up, which benefits the agony crawler. This is because every time we smack enemies, the "pulse" the relic emits activates feeding frenzy immediately. It also provides life regen to our zombies to further ensure they never die.

Just from looking at it, this doesn't appear to be true for anything other than the Stone Golem. I don't see how it could be true given it's a "to supported gems" support gem. I don't see how the Holy Relic's cast when we hit would do anything for this.

Is there a Passive I'm overlooking that influences this mechanic?

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weoilikeher escreveu:

what do you mean ? holy relic deals dmg with the pulse when u hit, grants feeding frenzy buff to you. what doesnt appear to be true ?

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solaris32 escreveu:

Bit of a newb question here, can I side with Alira bandit for the mana regen and ele resist? Is missing out on 2 passives that big of a deal?

EDIT: Looking it up I learned you can gain Eramir's favor if at the end game you have your resists maxed beyond the 15% from Alira. So that's what I'm going to do to start!

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Morkonan escreveu:

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weoilikeher escreveu:

what do you mean ? holy relic deals dmg with the pulse when u hit, grants feeding frenzy buff to you. what doesnt appear to be true ?

I was simply trying to understand the mechanics, that's all.

As I understand it now, after looking over the skills following your post, Feeding Frenzy has a "chance" to be cast. That should be frequent enough to keep it up, though, I suppose.

In the wiki, the description is presented as an "either or" sort of cast. (Either the Relic casts a dmg nova or a healing nova.) The Skillgem description, though, doesn't show that being the case. A sort of conflict of interpretations there and that's what I was going off of.

I play on Console and there's no easy way for me to tell what the "Effect Icons" are that show up during combat. I can't "mouse over" them or anything like that, so they remain a mystery unless I can open up my character stats and read down the list until I find the effect... which isn't really possible to do in the middle of combat. I can't remember what the Feeding Frenzy "Character Effect Icon" looks like... :)