[PC,PS4,Xbox] PoE 3.7 Duelist Herald of Agony Summon Champion Build

If you like champion and like to summon, have you ever thought about combining them? There a summoner champion build based entirely on the agony crawler for you. This build can do all content including hall of the grandmasters and uber elder. And it really is awesome being able to do any map mod.

 

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Defence

Tank

  • 7-8k Life
  • 9.8% life regen per second
  • Stun Immune
  • Life gain on hit + 6 attacks per second
  • Fortify
  • 6% less damage taken from Conqueror notable

Avoid

  • 62% Attack avoidance from Dodge + Evade
  • 84% Attack avoidance with Flask + blind
  • 45% Spell dodge
  • 66% Spell dodge with flask + taken a hit recently

 

Skill Tree 

Ascendancy

Righteous Providence -> Inevitable Judgement -> Instruments of Virtue -> Augury of Penitence

Pantheons

The Pantheon List

  • Soul of Lunaris for movement speed and extra dodge once upgraded.
  • Soul of Garukhan for dodge and movement speed once upgraded

Bandits

Help Alira. Kill them All is an alternative if you don't need resists and the 2 skill points help your build more.

Passive Tree

POB: https://pastebin.com/D2upfxjz

 

Gems Setup

Herald of Agony - Damage on Full Life Support - Minion Damage Support - Physical to Lightning Support - Elemental Damage with Attacks Support - Elemental Damage with Attacks Support show
These were chosen for maximum damage. Pierce is tempting as it improves clear but at the loss of 23% damage and we get free pierce from our curse. Minion speed is trash, good leveling gem but gives no damage and minion speed can be gained from gear/jewels more efficiently then a gem slot

Rain of Arrows - Poison Support - Life Gain on Hit Support - Curse On Hit Support - Projectile Weakness show
Poison to bring our chance up to 80% and life gain on hit to keep us alive. The curse gives really good damage and adds pierce which is essential for clear. We need to tag packs anyway to apply all our damage boosts. Level 1 rain of arrows has lower mana cost making it easier to run no regen maps

Cast when Damage Taken Support - Immortal Call - Flesh Offering - Increased Duration Support show
CWDT setup. Immortal call and flesh offering are good

Generosity Support - Hatred - Blink Arrow show
Hatred with generosity is about 50% more after EE is applied, very worth. Blink arrow crosses gaps

Phase Run - Increased Duration Support - Convocation show
Phase run keeps us speedy for clearing. Convocation is for when crawler needs to hop a ledge or gets stuck on a corner

 

Gear

For a more detailed selection of gear, please refer to the PoB Link. The gear selected in the PoB is not mandatory if it is not stated. It is recommended that the player check the affix of the gear and make a better choice.

POB: https://pastebin.com/D2upfxjz

 

Craft

Minion speed jewelry can be overpriced or nonexistant in the market so some simple tips on how to craft your own.

You'll want to be getting movement speed on 2-3 out of your jewelry slots (2 rings, 1 amulet, 1 quiver)

After getting minion speed the hope is to get good life and resistances. +50 life or +28% resistance is craftable afterwards but ideally you want it to roll better then that

Essence

  • Shrieking Essence of Fear 23-26% speed (2c)
  • Deafening Essence of Fear 27-30% speed (6c)

The prices on essences fluctuates more then fossils so these prices change. At the moment essence crafting is better then fossil crafting as the range of minion speed is much smaller, you can guarantee whichever tier you were shooting for per attempt and only need to hope for high life

Quiver

First we must find a base to craft onto. Buying a base should be cheap so there is no reason not to pick the best one, scour it and then craft on it. Two types have benefit in this build

  • Fire arrow quiver for fire damage (One less mod needed elsewhere)
  • Sharktooth Arrow Quiver is +4 life on hit (7.5% more)

Very important is the Item level of the item.

  • level 64 or higher can roll best life
  • level 84 or higher can roll best resistances

Should it have Elder or Shaper Influence?

Good possible mods on Shaped Quiver include

  • Mana gain on hit
  • Increased movement speed
  • 20% chance to maim on hit
  • 10% chance to blind on hit

Good possible mods on Elder Quiver include

  • 15% Increased Area of effect
  • 15% Chance to Poison on hit

Amulet

None of the bases are great so I chose the marble as its the only one with some impact. The others are not much worse but no reason not to pick the best

- ilevel 84 or higher is where the highest resistances are possible

None of the elder/shaper mods are appealing so normal is good

 

Leveling

Agony Crawler is first usable at level 18, you can swap into pure crawler damage right away or after you've gotten it more support. Pure crawler clear will be clunky at first but gain smoothness as you get minion movement speed and minion attack speed. Early sources of these are mainly jewels and gem levels

Clearspeed Setup

Agony Crawler - Physical to Lightning - Minion Speed - Pierce 

This reserves 42% so you can run hatred and lets you not worry about cursing or minion speed jewels/gear yet but at the cost of not using any of the good damage gems

Max damage Setup 

Agony Crawler - Physical to Lightning - Minion Damage - Damage on full life

Reserves 46% and what you transfer into once you have curse on hit and some minion speed jewels