[3.6] Tahreyn's 83/83 Block Herald of Agony Gladiator - Über Elder Viable
" We'll just have to wait and see then ;) I'll probably be pushing maps early with some friends so I won't be able to try it myself, so if you do try it out please let us know how it goes. I thought some about the banners yesterday, and a bit more today when they relased the gem infos. Impale looks like an awesome mechanic for phys based builds, giving them a huge buff in damage. For the crawler I am not as convinced. The banner gives you and your allies 20% chance to impale, or 30% when you place it with max stacks. If the crawler didn't have its phys to chaos conversion I would argue for that it would be good to run a banner, but as it is now I would only go for it if I had the gem socket and mana to spare. Lets run some numbers. The 20% chance is good to use, because on average will the crawler impale the enemy once every 5 attacks, and since the impale lasts for 5 attacks it'll on average always be 1 stack of impale on the target. Impale causes 10% of the physical damage, pre mitigation, to be reflected onto the target. If our crawler deals 60% of base damage as phys, 40% as chaos, and 36% added as cold from hatred, that's 44.1% of the total damage as phys. Impale increases this by just over 10% (as it ignores armour and other phys dmg mitigation), resulting in a total damage increase of about 4.4%. Not much, but if you have sockets and mana for it then it's free damage ;) You're mistaken about the crawlers flat phys damage. It gains 45-84 flat phys damage per virulence stack, resulting in 1800-3360 flat physical damage with 40 stacks. In addition to this there is some amount of base damage that is not shown on the skill gem, thus the added damage from Master of Metal will be close to nothing. So while I do think impale is an extremly strong mechanic, and I'm looking into running an impale champion as my 2nd or 1st character, it's not looking good for a Herald of Agony build. " Hey! You're most welcome. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed the build. What are your plans for the upcoming league? " Thanks! It should make a strong starter :) You will have no issues with running über lab with it, it'll be safe even early on. Although I wouldn't consider the build of being a true lab runner as, at least for my taste, it would be a bit slow on the running parts. Builds:
[3.6] 83/83 Block Herald of Agony Gladiator - Über Elder Viable https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2218039/ [3.1] SRS LL Auramancer in-depth guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1816896/ |
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do you think this build is suited to push for 100? Or is it just way too slow and AI of the thingy makes it bad at clearng?
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" I can imagine worse builds to push 100 with. Just play maps that work well for you, go with cyclone, and then you can watch TV while holding down rmb 🙂 it will never be a contender to a fast lvl 100, but you'll pretty much always be safe. Builds:
[3.6] 83/83 Block Herald of Agony Gladiator - Über Elder Viable https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2218039/ [3.1] SRS LL Auramancer in-depth guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1816896/ |
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I looked into Master of Metal for Herald of Agony. I particularly found it interesting because the passive states 4-8 dmg to you and allies for each impale. The idea being we swap our virulence stacking attack such as cyclone or molten strike for something like lancing steel which can still maintain high virulence but also mass impale packs.
I made an assumption of we can keep 100 impales up consistently. this would be a 400 to 800 flat dmg increase to the crawler. Running phys on full life pierce minion damage vicious projectiles maim The added flat from a 100 impales seemed to only come out to a 40k dps increase. this doesn't include the dps of crawler impaling. Also this was with no passive tree just pure gem calculation. The first problem is I think maintaining 100 impales is a bit optimistic. I asked myself at what point of dps increase does it become worth dropping max block/spell block for more damage. Master of Metal would need to be a broken amount of scaling to be worth loosing glad's tankyness. also running lancing steel would require dropping a claw. So there is alot of downsides of trying to scale impales with Agony. People will run it and it will work though so :D |
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" I'm afraid you have an incorrect assumption there. From the patch notes:
This means that the impale debuff will only last for 5 hits, or 7 if you go Champion. Hence as long as you're only able to apply 1 stack of impalement per hit you'll be able to have maximum of 5 or 7 stacks on the target, so the added phys damage for the crawler would be neglectable. Running Lancing Steel with GMP could however be an excellent option to run the build as a "range" character. Builds:
[3.6] 83/83 Block Herald of Agony Gladiator - Über Elder Viable https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2218039/ [3.1] SRS LL Auramancer in-depth guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1816896/ |
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I agree with you. 100 impales is super generous. In reality our crawler 1 taps most packs anyway. Thus, it will be extremely hard to maintain a good number of impale stacks.
even in extreme circumstances where one could push 100 stacks I still think the damage is negligible compared to what is lost in defenses. What would be your gem set up for lancing steal? I like the idea but it will need gmp + pierce or pierce at a minimum to feel as good as molten strike or cyclone for stacking. |
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" 100 impales is not only generous, but impossible, as 7 would be the maximum achievable number ;) Lancing Steel - LGoH - GMP - Poison - Faster Attacks - Pierce/VP where Poison + FA would be provided by the gloves. For a regular 4L I'd go with: Lancing Steel - LGoH - GMP - Poison You'll have around 4 APS without much investment and have 9 projectiles with GMP. As long as it isn't a small target you should be able to hit with most, if not all projectiles. That would provide you with up to: 1584 hp/s - lvl 20 LGoH 1944 hp/s - 20/20 LGoH 2664 hp/s - 20/20 LGoH + 1 elder ring 3384 hp/s - 20/20 LGoH + 2 elder ring Because the gem doesn't have the "Melee" tag you won't be able to use multistrike and get up to Molten Strikes levels, yet it is still a decent amount. As you won't be standing in the middle of packs you'll take a lot less damage as well, thus should be a good option for those who prefer that play style. Builds:
[3.6] 83/83 Block Herald of Agony Gladiator - Über Elder Viable https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2218039/ [3.1] SRS LL Auramancer in-depth guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1816896/ |
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I thought it counted as 7 impales per mob. If you hit 5 mobs with 1 lancing steel hit and all impales procced you would be up to 5 impales.
if the max you can get up to is 7 stacks total its pretty lack luster all around |
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The damage you get is dependent on the number of impales on the specific target you hit, not the total amount of impales on all targets. It's still really nice for most physical attack builds though. With 7 stacks it's the equivalent of 2x Steel rings with T1 flat added phys on them. Builds: [3.6] 83/83 Block Herald of Agony Gladiator - Über Elder Viable https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2218039/ [3.1] SRS LL Auramancer in-depth guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1816896/ Última edição por Tahreyn#3190 em 6 de dez de 2018 15:15:59
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I've been experimenting with a champ version of this build, using dread banner for extra defense and going whispers of doom for an additional curse. Using poachers mark for frenzy generation and temp chains. The question then is what to use in the off hand. Should be like a mix between this version and an occultist MS version i played in delve. This one should be even more fun!
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