[3.18] Velyna's Herald of Agony Champion Build Guide

Introduzione

An absolute beast for endgame bossing, this Herald of Agony build synergizes with Storm Rain to hit high levels of damage and survivability. Storm Rain’s hit rate stacks Virulence with ease and gives massive sustain through Life Gain on Hit, while still allowing mobility. Not the fastest mapper but clears near anything, I have personally completed wave 30 simulacrum with him.

• Professionisti
• Cons
• How Does it Play?
• Damage and Defensive Scaling
• The Stages
• Atto 1
• Act 2
• Act 3
• Act 4-10
• Introduzione
• Overview
• PoB Imports
• Ascend, Bandits and Pantheon
• Leveling
• Ho bisogno di aiuto?

Below is a video guide I made for Youtube. This is a good place to start and goes over gearing as well as Pros/Cons. The PoB’s and guide may be more current so make sure to check!

Overview

Professionisti

✔️ Insanely Durable – Don’t worry about taking a hit. Fortify, spell suppression, tons of ailment avoid and near-instant life recovery will keep you healthy. Just make sure Storm Rain is hitting things for Life Gain!

✔️ Highly Automated – Nearly everything we use is triggered. Storm Rain, Convocation, and Flame Dash are the only buttons besides flasks.

Cons

❌ Leaguestart Transition – The finished build cannot be played without uniques, so I have provided a PoB to leaguestart as Poisonous Concoction. It farms smoothly and the transition is not hard.

❌ The Agony of Herald – There are a few situations where HoAG can be annoying, it may not always attack what you want it to and can get blocked by terrain. It is ultimately a minion build although it barely feels like one.

How Does it Play?

Just dodge and shoot arrows while things die around you! All you have to do is keep Storm Rain centered on mobs and the build handles the rest. As you hit and stack the Virulence buff, your minion will increase in power until it mows down multiple packs with one AoE.

Damage and Defensive Scaling

The best way to scale damage is by raising your Virulence cap, or increasing the level of the Herald of Agony gem. Medium cluster jewels with Pure Agony each raise the virulence cap by 5. Minion damage and minion attack speed also add damage

Defense layers include Fortify and stun immunity from ascend, insane life gain on hit, spell suppression and elemental ailment avoidance. Automatic temp chains and corpse removal from Asenath's Gentle Touch. If you have storm rain fully stacked it is possible to tank some serious damage.

PoB Imports

The newest PoB’s for my builds are centralized here.

Make sure you are using the latest version of PoB Community Fork

The Stages

Leaguestart: Used for fresh leagues, or a start with near-zero currency. Its purpose is to get established farming early maps and buying gear for the next stage. In this case, we will be using Poisonous Concoction. Don’t attempt to push into higher content with this version. Make sure to have high level, well crafted life flasks, since this is where most of your damage will come from!

Transition: We are now swapped into the main build, with Herald of Agony socketed in at least a five linked The Coming Calamity and Storm Rain in a five linked Quill Rain. It is important to have at least one large cluster and two mediums, I will explain how to search for them in the gear section. In addition, we have Asenath's Chant to automate some of our damage and Calamitous Visions to boost it further. Rounding out the midrange setup, Fertile Mind helps with Intelligence requirements and Quickening Covenant gives our minion some cheap damage/defense.

Endgame: We have further automated our damage with Maloney's Mechanism, and boosted defense with Asenath's Gentle Touch. Finishing up the unique roster is a Circle of Nostalgia with “Agony crawler deals increased damage” and ideally an “avoid elemental ailments” implicit. We should have two large clusters with proper notables, and 3-4 mediums with Pure Agony and ideally Cult Leader.

Detailed info about Tree, Skills and Gear can be found here:

Ascend, Bandits and Pantheon

A full explanation of bandit, pantheon and ascend choices can be found here:

Leveling

All of my Leaguestart PoBs contain step by step trees as shown below.

Atto 1

Level 1-12

• Splitting Steel- Chance to Bleed Support- Onslaught Support

Level 12+

• Poisonous Concoction- Volley Support- Chance to Poison Support
• Vitality- Precision
• Withering Step- Steelskin- Decoy Totem

Act 2

Take Defiance Banner from quest reward, but don’t use it yet unless your mana allows.

• Poisonous Concoction- Volley Support- Chance to Poison Support
• Herald of Agony- Pierce Support- Vicious Projectiles Support
• Withering Step- Steelskin- Decoy Totem- Vitality

Act 3

Near the end of act 3, the library will allow access to most of the skill gems and we can change a few supports

• Poisonous Concoction- Greater Volley Support- Void Manipulation Support- Lifetap Support
• Herald of Agony- Pierce Support- Vicious Projectiles Support- Minion Damage Support
• Withering Step- Steelskin- Decoy Totem
• Vitality- Despair

Act 4-10

A questo punto le gemme rimarranno per lo più uguali, lavorano solo per impostare tutti i raggruppamenti corretti e un link 5 o 6 link per la tua abilità principale. * Intruglio velenoso- maggiore supporto per il tiro al volo- Supporto di manipolazione del vuoto- Supporto per la vita- Chance di avvelenare il supporto per la crudeltà * Herald of Agony- Pierce Support- Vicious Projectiles Support- Minion Damage Support * Vitalità- Banner di sfida: precisione * Witering Step- Totem-Disperazione * Cash quando danno assunto- Supporto a vita LifeTap- pelle di accordo- Summon Stone Golem

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