Herald of Agony Juggernaut
Change is good. But sometimes, there are tried-and-tested things that are better off left the way they are. If you’re looking for a tank build that was mostly unaffected by the changes in Path of Exile: Heist, then the Herald of Agony Juggernaut should do the job.
Pros:
- high defense
- can run Hardcore easily
- easy to play; beginner-friendly
- not flask-reliant
Cons:
- doesn’t deal much damage
- build feels slow
- relies on poison to kill enemies
Table of Contents
Passive Skill Tree
Here’s the Passive Skill Tree.
Gear and Gem Links
- Weapon: Cold Iron Point (Unique) for increased critical strike chance and +3 to level of all physical skill gems
- Enduring Cry and Dash with Second Wind support gem
- Enduring Cry and Dash with Second Wind support gem
- Off-hand: Saffell’s Flame (Unique) for increased elemental resistances, spell damage; 15-20% chance to block spells but cannot block physical attacks
- Convocation and Vaal Molten Shell with Cast When Damage Taken
- Convocation and Vaal Molten Shell with Cast When Damage Taken
- Head: Rare Bone Helmet with increased life, +2 to level of socketed minion gems, and resistances
- Summon Holy Relic with Feeding Frenzy, Culling Strike, and Meat Shield support gems
- Summon Holy Relic with Feeding Frenzy, Culling Strike, and Meat Shield support gems
- Body: Lioneye’s Vision (Unique) for level 15 Pierce support on socketed gems, increased armor and life
- Herald of Agony with Vicious Projectiles, Damage on Full Life, Minion Damage, Maim, and Empower (level 4) support gems
- Gloves: Rare Titan Gloves with poison and faster attack mods, life, resistance, and minion damage
- Cyclone with Withering Touch, Fortify, and Life Gain on Hit support gems
- Cyclone with Withering Touch, Fortify, and Life Gain on Hit support gems
- Belt: Stygian Belt with high life and resistances and Aspect of the Spider
- Boots: Rare Two-toned boots with dexterity, life, movement speed, and elemental resistances
- Spirit Offering, Desecrate, and Sniper’s Mark with Cast When Damage Taken
- Spirit Offering, Desecrate, and Sniper’s Mark with Cast When Damage Taken
- Accessories:
- Turquoise Amulet with bonuses to intelligence, dexterity, life, elemental resistances, reduced mana cost to channeling skills, anointed with Ravenous Horde
- 2 Circle of Nostalgia (Unique Rings) with bonus Herald of Agony mod or crawler damage
Jewels
- 1 Large Cluster Jewel with 8 Passive Skills, Renewal as notable, and 2 other notables
- 2 Medium Cluster Jewels with 4 Passive Skills with Cult Leader and Agony as notables
- 2 Small Cluster Jewels:
- One with bonus chaos resistance, 3 Passive Skills, and the Fettle notable
- Calamitous Visions (Unique) for Herald of Agony buff
- Unique Jewels:
- Golden Rule for increased armor while bleeding, poison you inflict reflected on you, and bonus chaos damage per poison on you
- Glorious Vanity
- Rare Jewels:
- Viridian Jewel with +2 mana gained for each enemy hit modifier
- Bonuses to life, dexterity and/or intelligence, and increased minion damage
Flasks
- Forbidden Taste (Unique) for chance to dodge attacks and spells, and 8% maximum life taken as chaos damage per second
- Experimenter’s Quicksilver Flask of Acceleration for movement speed
- Chemist’s Silver Flask of Staunching for Onslaught and bleeding recovery/immunity
- Experimenter’s Jade Flask of Heat for +3000 evasion and chill/freeze recovery/immunity
- Experimenter’s Quartz Flask of Warding for chance to dodge attacks and spells and curse recovery/removal
Tanking isn’t for everybody. But for those that love the role, it’s a perfect place to start. Try it out and be a one-man army.