Build Summary
Before you consider this Build, We highly recommend you read the pros and cons section(listed below). The play style may not be for you. When We first started playing the Path of exile, We found myself dying a lot in late acts. And never actually made it past yellow maps and soon found myself in need of a guide. Hopefully this guide will remedy that issue. Instead of showcasing the Build itself, this guide is mostly aimed at providing a walk-through for new players aimed at getting you from Act We to Red maps and well beyond that.
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Build Videos
Build PoB Link
https://pastebin.com/2APHRtfe
Build Skill Tree
Build Description
Herald of Agony is a gem tag associated with active gems that grant the user a damage buff and a unique effect upon killing an enemy under certain conditions. Each Herald has an alternative method of using mana to pay for skills, which is usually found on skills with an ongoing effect, such as auras and heralds. Having mana reserved does not reduce the rate of mana regeneration, so it will reduce the time taken for mana to regenerate to its (temporary) maximum. Cost of 25% skill gem. When activated, it reserves mana and grants a buff that gives a chance to inflict poison on enemies. Whenever the user poisons an enemy, it allows Virulence and summons an Agony Crawler minion, which becomes more reliable with more stacks of Virulence.
Before you consider this Build, We highly recommend you read the pros and cons section(listed below). The play style may not be for you. When We first started playing the Path of exile, We found myself dying a lot in late acts. And never actually made it past yellow maps and soon found myself in need of a guide. Hopefully this guide will remedy that issue. Instead of showcasing the Build itself, this guide is mostly aimed at providing a walk-through for new players aimed at getting you from Act We to Red maps and well beyond that. It's important to understand that this Build is intended to provide a SAFE leveling experience, it's not made to be fast, it's not made to do damage in the millions, and it most certainly is not a build aimed at clearing maps very fast.
You can run Blood Magic along with side Cyclone. Still, We don't like it that much, that gem slot is better spent on Withering Touch or if you feel you can't keep up Virulence go for Lesser Poison(that would put you at a 100% chance to poison, 120% actually if we're counting the herald buff, but 100% is the limit ofc). If you do go for Lesser Poison along with Cyclone, get it up to level 6, at least. Some mobs have Chaos resistance, and lesser poison may not work at all.
Pros:
+ Dirt cheap. Can carry you to end the game with minimal gear
+ Very lenient on mistakes.
+ Scales decently with investment
+ Can do ANY map mod
+ With decent speed, chaos damage is not an issue
+ Can do Uber labs very quickly.
Cons:
- Can be a league starter but it gets rolling nicely after level 28(that's when you can use Cyclone)
- It can get expensive if you try to min/max.
- Not as high damage potential as other builds. It's meant to be tanky and lenient.
- Not a "gotta go fast" build. It's more in the area of slow and steady. But is that a con if you're starting?
- While it can delve quite nicely after a certain depth, it's no longer possible to facetank.
Ascendancy:
Unstoppable - crazy good for the increased movement speed and the immunity to stuns.
Unflinching - say hello to permanent endurance charges
Unbreakable - extra life regen is always welcome
Unrelenting - additional chaos damage reduction, additional elemental damage reduction, additional physical damage reduction, what's not to like?
Pantheon:
Big: Soul of Solaris is pretty good, or Soul of Arakaali. Soul of Arakaali is useful if you want to run Golden Rule, but you don't have enough chaos resistance yet.
Small: Soul of Shakari. NOTE: DO NOT UPGRADE THIS PANTHEON IF YOU WANT TO USE GOLDEN RULE!
The soul of Aberath is also fairly decent.
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Bandit: Kill all
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Main Skill: Herald of Agony
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PoB Link: https://pastebin.com/2APHRtfe
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