[3.7] Herald of Agony JUGG -- 8.5k life -- ALL CONTENT DONE ON HC LEGION

- Very high life (~8.5k)
- Very high phys mitigation (90%/max)
- Very high ele mitigation (80/79/79 max res + 8% ascendancy + 8% pantheon)
- Decent chaos mitigation (+/- 20% res + 5% pantheon)
- Chill most enemies (~30% of damage is cold damage)
- ~35% life regen/sec
- Fortify (with Vigilant Strike)
- You can focus on dodging attacks while your minion does damage

- Expensive
- Clearspeed is only ok; could be better
- Can't do "No regen" maps

Defences:
- 9 Endurance charges, 45% phys mitigation
- ~10k armor, helps mitigate phys damage
- Saffel's Frame unique shield, +4% all max res
- Juggernaut ascendancy,
- No freeze
- No stun
- 5% less damage taken
- Phys damage taken regenerated as life
- A lot of armor
- Endurance generation
- Better endurance charges/+9% phys mitigation
- 36% chaos res
- 8% reduced elemental taken
- Maim
- Chill
- Knockback
- Minions taunt
- Never stand still -playstyle
- Vigilant strike gives 30sec Fortify
- ~35% life regen
- ~8.5k life


Offences:
- Herald of Agony is imbalanced; it can easily deal 500k dps without much scaling at all. Basically all you need to do is keep the Virulence stacks up and all is good.
- Poison stacks are kept up with Storm Brand linked with Poison and Lesser poison supports
- We also use The Golden Rule to self-poison, which increases our chaos res and also gives us more Virulence stacks
- EE helps
- Fossil crafted helmet works as a pseudo 6-link
- The weapon has "Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill", which automatically casts Projectile weakness, Desecrate and Flesh Offering

This weapon is very bad; it only gives me a small amount of resistance.

It's actually super easy to craft these kinds of helmets. Just spam minion fossils and I'd say you're 99% guaranteed to get a good helmet in 10 tries.

Not necessary, but it's definitely the best option if you have the money.

Almost a core item. You could of course replace it with a shield that gives more life or more armor or whatever you like really. The +4% max res is really hard to beat, because there's really no other way to mitigate elemental damage other than boosting max resistances.

It's actually very nice to have a mana regen enchant on your boots. Without it, your clear speed suffers a fair amount.

Not necessary at all. A rare pair of gloves will do just fine. The extra cold damage does let you chill more enemies though.

Can be expensive. But the increased life recovery is important because this build can't leech, meaning it has to rely on regen, which is hard to scale to high numbers.

Because this build can't leech, these rings are almost a necessity, because they are basically the only way to make this build regen enough health to feel comfortable.

Just some stats, life and resistances.

Recovers all your health when pressed. No other life flask can really compete.

Blind is nice. Bleed immunity is nice.

Additional phys reduction against big hits is nice. Shock immunity is nice. Can swap out for ignite immunity if need be.

Extra damage and regen is nice. Curse immunity is nice.

Can be replaced with anything really. Moving faster just feels good.

I'll add the jewels here at some point. Basically, they are "The Vigil", "The Golden Rule" and rare jewels with life and resistances. You can of course try to find a good legion jewel to replace any of the rare jewels.

I've already done everything the game has to offer, but there are still a lot of upgrades available to me.

List of upgrades I could make, in order from cheapest to most expensive:
- Quality gems
- Get a level 21 Herald of Agony
- Get a weapon with more relevant stats (+80% minion damage, +20% cast speed
- Get a better amulet (+50 more life, more resists, better implicit [marble/talisman])
- Get better boots (+30 more life, more resists)
- Get a better belt (+70 more life, more resists)
- Get better jewels (more damage, more resists)
- Get a better helmet (+50 more life, more resists)
- Replace Maim support with Empower lvl 4 (10% more damage)
- Divine all items
- Corrupt all items that don't have good implicit modifiers
- Level up to level 100

Doing all this would take my life total from 8.5k to 10.5k and my dps from about 500k to about 850k. Doing all this would be absurdly expensive.

How I leveled



Ways to level



Point allocation

Q: Can I use a 6L chest for more damage?
A: Not worth it. Right now my HoA reserves almost 50% of my mana. That's with 4 support gems. If you put HoA in a 7-link (6L+supported by Maim) you will use 6 support gems, which will reserve way more than 50% of your mana, which will force you to drop Hatred. In this process you will lose the +3 level from your helmet and Hatred. You will gain 1 link in return (level 1 Maim).
- Lose Hatred
- Gain Supported by level 1 Maim
- Lose max life (Kaom's heart is the best option for survivability)