TbXie's Herald of Agony Juggernaut Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Settlers of Kalguur)

July 22nd, 2024, 19:23

Path of Building – Passive Skill Tree

You can find an optimized Path of Building here. Every build I release will use the community fork of Path of Building, which is maintained and updated in a much more regular fashion than the original one. You can find PoB’s Fork, by LocalIdentity, here.

If you are not comfortable with Path of Building, you can check the link in PobbIn. However, we heavily advise you to use Path of Building, for which we have a Path of Building Guide

Awakened Gems

A lot of gems nowadays in Path of Exile have Awakened versions. These version will generally be a lot more powerful than the widely available Regular versions. Therefore, they should be purchased whenever you can afford them. When the gems listed down here mention Awakened Gems, you are supposed to use their regular versions until you can afford the upgrade.

For most people, leveling these Gems up takes way too much time so you’re generally offered two choices.

You can just buy a leveled version.
You can buy the Wild Brambleback beasts and use the Menagerie craft to upgrade, Increase the level of non-Corrupted Awakened Gem by 1.

Gem Links

Pre Poison / Faster Attacks Gloves

Your endgame pair of Gloves will provide a 6-Link for your Cyclone Cyclone, but as you start out, you probably won’t have the luxury of obtaining such item(s). Since you still need to get Poisons on enemies fairly fast, our Cyclone needs to be linked to those two supports you’d generally be getting from affixes on Gloves. As this means you’re dropping Withering Touch Support, we suggest you free up a 2-link somewhere for a Wither setup with a Spell Totem.

Likewise as before, if you feel like you have enough Virulence uptime without linking Faster Attacks Support to your Cyclone Cyclone, then by all means go for the extra Defense of Life Gain on Hit Support. Otherwise, stick to Faster Attacks for now.

Post Poison / Faster Attacks Gloves

Once you get a pair of Gloves, even if it is a temporary placeholder, with the right support gems, you can swap to your endgame Cyclone Cyclone setup. There’s a bit of if’s and then’s in this setup. If you have a source of mana cost reduction, which should be your rings, a cluster jewel or a Flask in the late game, you *will not *need a Lifetap Support gem. If you have the Ritual of Shadows notable on your Glorious Vanity, you will not need a Withering Step. Wither is a huge source of damage, though, so we advise you to have that. If you have both the mana cost reduction & the Wither source on the jewel though Ritual of Shadows, your 4-Link looks as follows :

Before you have both the Ring & Jewel upgrades, your cyclone needs either the Lifetap, the Withering step or both! If you only need one, we recommend you to drop the Life Gain on Hit Support. If you need both still, you can entirely forego the Cast when Channeling Ball Lightning, but it is advised you look for either of the two ASAP so you can swap back into the Cast while Channeling Setup.

Herald of Agony 7-Link in Lioneye's Vision

Since we want Pierce on our Agony Crawler to not make it super slow at clearing maps, this Body Armour piece really does a lot for us. Giving up an entire support socket for a Pierce Support costs you so much in terms of damage that this is just so nice! Also, no one has ever gotten upset about having a 7-Link for their main damage skill as far as I know! The Herald of Agony setup we’re using has 2 Support gems that could become Awakened Gems. Minion Damage Support and Vicious Projectiles Support should be upgraded to their Awakened counterpart whenever currency allows it. A level 21/20 Herald of Agony also gives you a lot of damage and is one of the first things you should be on the lookout for!

It’s however incredibly important to keep an eye out for your chance to poison. You’re going to probably want a 21/20 Herald of Agony gem to scale as much as possible.

Before being able to afford an Empower Support level 4, you should replace it with a Predator Support. Predator outperforms Empower at level 3 and all other support gems when a target is Deathmarked. In case you don’t want to use Predator, because it requires you to mark, Void Manipulation Support is another option.