3.25 - Perfect Agony is incredibly pushed

00:00 Intro\why Agony is strong
1:24 Poison power siphon locus mines
2:45 Ambush and melee slam ignite
4:39 Poison molten strike
7:28 Poison Ice Spear and new anoint "vinespoke cordial"
9:10 What "vinespoke cordial" poison builds I think people will actually play

I just realized I completely forgot to talk about bleed builds but I'll probably wait until those are in PoB to mess around with them. They are harder to ambush with since they don't have a crazy one hander like ignite's story of the vaal or poison's pneumatic dagger so I assume you use a two hander

Also meant to mention things like glad's dagger node giving 20% more crit chance or things like the second sight keystone giving 25% more melee critical chance while blinded (easy to overcome with hits can't be evaded or just more accuracy). Sources of more crit chance like that make overcoming the downside of marylene's fallacy a lot easier.

Also forgot how easy it is for perfect agony builds to get wither without being pathfinder since unholy might now gives you wither on hit. You can get this from crit medium clusters, large chaos (overwhelming malice) or even Sin's rebirth.

Let me know if you guys can think of anything cool to do with perfect agony I might have missed. I made this pretty late so I'm sure I overlooked plenty of stuff.

Current PoBs in progress. Still pretty rough sketches though

Sick thing about the tree position on the molten strike character is since we get the flask charge gained nodes I think it is worth anointing nature's concoction since it will let us generate 2.4 flask charges a second for two different flasks, might need better mana sustain to maintain tincture uptime though

#kalguur #poe #pathofexile #poison

[poopbutts]

Still would have tons of upgrades to make. Big ones being getting a fortify enchant on the dagger so I can drop the celestial braces for either the soul eater gloves, asenath's or just some juicy rares with an additional strike and attack speed while focused.
Also I want explodies on my cluster jewel. Now that I'm using balance of terror I can drop the unholy might notable for unspeakable gifts. Probalby getting a second unspeakable gifts from a megalomaniac.

Edit - These PoBs are still pretty rough sketches but hopefully they can give you some ideas
- above locus mines build had triple damage unintentionally since the 3.25 PoB update already account for 3 hits with locus mines. I fixed it, more reasonable damage now

@vladimirsemyonov4314 just made me realize that perfect agony sets your dot multi to your crit multi which I assume means you want to avoid taking actual dot multi since it won't do anything. You can just ignore fire dot wheels on ignite (critting always ignites) and if you are poison daggers you can just take adder's touch which gives you 100% to poison on dagger crit.

[blizzero]

on POB click option and opt in for weekly beta and it gives you the 3.25 tree

[dantelokesten]

Ambush + nightblade + volatility + viper strike of the mamba 1 hit kill build online

[froglauncher]

I saw this and knew that I had to bring back Viper strike of the Mamba pathfinder. I don’t even need to cap crit, because my non-crits just won’t apply poison anyway thanks to new perfect agony. Plus, ambush looks incredible with this.

[bcfeepk]

Ok hear me out: Perfect Agony Dual Wield Lacerate of Haemorrhage Gladiator

You go Varunastra, Farrul's Pounce and Farrul's Fur.

Farrul's Pounce gives us Crimson Dance only when we have Cat's Stealth (a buff granted by Aspect of the Cat, a mod we should get crafted on our boots). We increase Cat's Stealth duration to 6s with Farrul's Fur to match Cat's Agility duration, then we reduce both durations supporting Aspect of the Cat with Less Duration and Swift Affliction, getting both durations to 1.5s.

With this, we can have 1.5s of Crimson Dance active, then 1.5s of non Crimson Dance, alternating permanently, which allows us to inflict 9 bleeds. 8 from Crimson Dance, and 1 extra normal bleed which can be aggravated. For a total of 490% base damage. We don't even need to take Jagged Technique from Gladiator since there are 2 small nodes on a crit bleed wheel which grant "25% to aggravate bleedings on targets you critically strike with attacks", for a total of 50%.

Farrul's Fur gives us permanent maximum frenzy and power charges. Weapon Master ascendancy node gives us 20% More crit chance with daggers, as well as all the other bonuses thanks to Varunastra. We then steal Overwhelm from the Slayer with Forbidden jewels to easily reach 100% crit and stack a lot of crit multi with Perfect Agony.

For defense, we go the 2 block nodes from Gladiator + buffed Versatile Combatant. This will allow us to easily reach 67% block chance for both attacks and spells, which then turns into 89% with lucky block.

[DrCanarley]

The transfigured glacial hammer ignite chieftain

[Brkdown]

I want to play molten strike so bad...im also bad at this game so if you ever make a noob friendly POB for starting that I would give a virtual kiss. Deff subbing.

[jugnjugjgu]

i think warden poison MS will be better. u can get dot cap easily whatever warden or assassin, but barkskin, grace, lightning coil, dawnbreaker might be a good defense layers.

[drillspin]

I think new Perfect Agony and Ele Overload can actually stack for ignites, EO makes Crits deal no extra damage (which PA will do too) and makes ailments never count as being from crits, which actually shouldn't matter since PA doesn't care if the ailment if from a crit anymore, just the hit. Will probably try league starting with new PA to test if it really works with EO when i get the chance

[Pathogenic]

Im goin to be runnin pestilence strike with PA on assassin atm i have like 835% crit multi but i need to change stuff lol, im goin to remove marelyns fallecy and gettin rid of the negative crit and changing stuff, but PA IS INSANE now i cant wait

[lothertower]

Bladefall of impaling(base 10% crit) poison perfect agony maybe will be ok at a better budget you can get marylene going, easier if you go assassin, you probably shouldn't go obliteration because the explosion wont poison

[Diffex]

PA Ignite Lightning tendrils trickster with stormfire ring (to be able to ignite) was my thought when i saw PA, suuper tempted

[carlos]

hybrid flask has enduring prefix, should still count as under the effect of life flask.

[danhagar]

Thanks for sharing, lots of ideas now

[idrisbay]

Does dire torment even work with perfect agony? Is for multi for ailments with crits different from general dot multi? Usually theyre additive right? So as weird as it is, dire torment, the notable literally designed for the archetype, doesn’t work I’m pretty sure

[jefersongogola]

The critical strikes do not deal extra damage line on perfect agony is the same as in Ungil's Harmony, which sets crit multiplier to 100% (on PoB anyway). Does the conversion to over time multiplier still happen with higher values?

[dannybeuker]

My stupid idea was something like: Replica Atziri's Acuity, Seething Fury, Emperors Vigilance. Stick to the left side of the tree (Chieftain maybe). Use Shield Crush of the Chieftain with Controlled Blaze and maybe get some nice Ignites going. Can't start this obviously but I might try it out after I get my 4 stones + 6 atlas slots.

[fleckens]

yeah it's looking like it will be pretty strong, I am considering trying out some gladiator bleed stuff with it because as you mentioned in the description it's pretty easy to cap crit when you got 20% extra base crit chance, also helps that base crit on daggers and claws got buffed. Only thing I am not sure of is what skill to use, maybe just dual strike or dual strike of ambidexterity. Using dagger and claw does limit the options somewhat but I think nightblade is just too good and you are pathing over there anyway for the perfect agony so picking up 80% elusive effect is pretty easy.

I was also considering some frenzy charge stacking taking the masterful form from slayer with forbidden flesh/flame to make use of the buffed endurance charges and Maven belt for affliction charges. I was also thinking of how to get rupture support into all that but dual strike is too slow I think for that, maybe double strike would work. Think that may be trying to do too many things at once though.

[mechmuzic]

thinking starting off with maligaro's virtuosity for some fun stuff!

[mechmuzic]

im thinking of going pestilent strike, ive never really played a real poison build prior to this so would you recommend pathfinder or Assassin? kinda wanna do assassin for hipster points and easy crit, just need to figure out levelling and defenses but pestilent strike SHOULD be easy to level