TbXie's Herald of Agony Juggernaut Gear, Jewels, and Flasks (PoE Necropolis)
Summary – TL;DR
Like expected, nothing matters more than capping your Elemental Resistance before anything else. This means modifiers on gear are subordinate to Resistances as long as we’re not capped. If you’re using Divine Flesh (the Keystone from a Xibaqua 
Glorious Vanity), Chaos Resistance also becomes very important! Even though it will feel as if I keep mentioning Resistances as a mandatory suffix, you will notice that through the extra maximum Resistances and the necessity of Chaos Damage, and the lack of Resistances on Gloves and Rings make your suffixes scarce and it will end up being rather tough to cap Resistances without Endurance Charges / flasks.
We’re providing you with an extensive analysis further down the page, but chose to start off with an overview / recommendation. As you’ll notice, a lot of the emphasis is on Life & Resistances, as we’re looking to get as much of that as possible.
Our recommendation:
| Item Slot | Item Name |
| Head | Rare Helmet w/ “+2 to All Mininon Skills”, Life & Resistances |
| Amulet |  Replica Dragonfang's Flight |
| Chest |  Lioneye's Vision |
| Gloves |  Titan Gauntlets with Poison & Faster Attack Supports, Life, Resistances & Minion Damage |
| Boots |  The Stampede |
| Belt |  Stygian Vise with high Life, Resistances, and Aspect of the Spider |
| Rings | 2x  Circle of Nostalgia with Herald of Agony buff Effect & Mana Reservation |
| Weapon |  Cold Iron Point |
| Shield |  Saffell's Frame |
For crafting Rare items, you can check out all the affixes that can roll on an item base, depending on its level, influence, and many other factors, using our affix tool.
Mana Sustain
So even though the build lifetaps a lot of its skills, it does require a bit of Mana solving to channel cyclone & proc ball lightnings. There’s a few ways this gets fixed. For example, you can run +2 Mana Gained on Hit on a Viridian Jewel, which will help Solve the problem. Additionally, a Flask Suffix Craft with 25% Reduced Mana Cost of Skills can also help you maintain mana whilst the Flask is up. Lastly, if you don’t see any other options, you can replace the Feast of Flesh Small Cluster with a “Improvisor” notable on a Mana Cluster which will give you not 2 but 3 Mana Gained on Hit. Any combination of two of these will completely fix your mana problems.
Armour Pieces
Helmet
Since your rare pieces are super limited, they generally need to be fairly strong & somewhat fixes in options. As this is the first segment in the guide, let’s start by saying that your two somewhat specific rares, Helmet & Gloves, need to have as many of their extra affixes filled as possible. Between both of those, you’ll need 3 high resistances & a high Dexterity roll. For example, you could look for a Helmet which has 80+ total Elemental Resistances & 2 to Level of All Minion Skill Gems and end up crafting Life on it. Obviously, if it has 40 resistances and a 40+ Dexterity roll, that can also work, you then just have to buy a pair of Gloves without Dexterity, but with another High Resistance roll.
Gloves
Your Gloves are the most interesting part of your equipment. You’re looking for a pair of Gloves with 2 supports on them. The modifiers “Socketed Gems are Supported by Level # Poison” and “Socketed Gems are Supported by Level # Faster Attacks” are mandatory for your endgame Gloves. On top of those, you probably want to finish off the craft yourself, as perfect pairs wont exist. So, in addition to those two supports, you want a pair that comes with both an extra suffix (40+ Dexterity or 40+ Resistances) and an open prefix. You can then craft Suffixes Cannot Be Changed (On the bench, or with Wild Bristle Matrons) and use a Veiled Chaos Orb. You should then block some kind of common mod (Conversion, for example) and unveil Life. Lastly finish off by crafting Minion Damage.
Body Armour
For your Body Armour, as mentioned in the Gem section, it’s really hard to pass up the Lioneye's Vision. It giving us an extra support gem and means we get the 
Pierce Support for Clear speed while still getting all the damage support from a 6-link. Additionally, it gets us a really nice chunk of Armour and Life, both of which we really like. The only roll to care about is the “+# to maximum Life”, where we should aim for at least 97.
Since the introduction of 
Tainted Orb of Fusing‘s, getting corrupted 6-Link uniques is pretty easy. Getting a +1 Socketed Gems or +2 to Socketed Minion Gems corrupted Lioneye’s Vision and linking it afterwards with Tainted Fusing orbs is a GIGANTIC upgrade to your damage!
Boots
We have chosen to run The Stampede because it allows you to anoint Cleansed Thoughts. This makes capping Chaos Resistance a lot easier and with optimal gear, you can afford grabbing this Movement Speed increase!
Belt
The ideal Belt-base is definitely a Stygian Vise, as you don’t mind an extra 
Ghastly Eye Jewel. Preferably, among high Life and really solid Resistances, you want to find a Belt with an open Suffix to craft an Aspect of the Spider on it. Obviously, if you have another item where you already have an open Suffix to do this, you can use this modifier for something else.
- +# to maximum Life
- +#% to Elemental Resistance (at least 80)
- Open Suffix for Aspect of the Spider
Accessories
Amulet
A Replica Dragonfang's Flight is used here, anointed with Toxic Strikes, because we need to find an extra source of Chance to Poison. Replica Dragonfangs solves a lot of issues here. It helps you need less attributes, replaces some of the mana problems created by the removal of Helmet enchants, and gives you +3 to your Herald of Agony (make sure to buy the right variation!) which is a solid damage increase. Additionally, it’ll be cheap, cause noone looks for HoaG Dragonfangs!
Rings
Both of your Ring Slots will be Circle of Nostalgias. You’re looking for Circles which both have a HoaG Buff Effect roll & a HoaG increased Reservation Efficiency roll. There’s no leeway anymore as you need both of those to run all aura’s and cap your poison chance.
- Herald of Agony has #% increased Buff Effect (55+)
- Herald of Agony has #% Increased Reservation Efficiency
- +#% to Chaos Resistance (at least 22)
Tip: If you can somehow get a Circle with the 2 necessary mods & an extra -7 mana cost to non-channeling skills, you can free up so much mana problems. They’re rare, but they can be found so keep an eye out for them. If you can’t find this, you’re probably going to have to run Lifetap on your Cyclone instead of Life Gain on Hit as Mana is incredibly tight.
Weapon & Shield
Weapon
While some builds swear by a 
Gemini Claw for extra Life and Mana gain on hit and a couple of utility rolls you can only find on a Rare item, we really feel like the damage a Cold Iron Point offers is hard to pass up. Cold Iron Point doesn’t roll whatsoever, so the only thing you could be looking for is an increased Attack Speed corruption. They generally shouldn’t be more expensive than a standard copy of the Dagger.
Shield
Because of the usage of a Divine Flesh Keystone and scaling our Chaos Resistance, Saffell's Frame really is our bread and butter pick. Should you really want to get a Rare shield, you want one with really high Life and “+3 to maximum Chaos Resistance”, although we heavily recommend a Saffell’s Frame.
Flasks
This build is one of these builds where Flask choices are more preference than necessity. Given you have such high Physical mitigation already and a lot of Elemental mitigation through Divine Flesh, a lot of flask choices don’t feel like they’re as awesome as they can be in other builds. We opted for a 
Forbidden Taste as you have a lot of Chaos Resistance to counteract its downsides. Having 7000 instant life recovery in a bottle is incredibly powerful, obviously. We’d also recommend not to drop the 
Silver Flask, as this gives you Attack Speed for your 
Cyclone, which in turn gives you more Virulence uptime. The rest of your flasks is basically preference, as long as you respect the suffixes we suggested, but we recommend the following setup:
Our recommendation:
| Slot | Flask |
| 1 | Forbidden Taste as close to 100% as possible |
| 2 | Experimenter’s  Basalt Flask of the Dove |
| 3 | Chemist’s Silver Flask of the Lizard |
| 4 | Experimenter’s  Granite Flask of the Armadillo |
| 5 | Experimenter’s  Jade Flask of the Craft |
Jewels
We chose to run two 
Large Cluster Jewel, 1 to 4 (depending on your current setup) 
Medium Cluster Jewels, and four Rare 
Small Cluster Jewel.
If you are looking for the most optimal way to acquire your Cluster Jewels, or have any other questions whatsoever about them, such as how to craft or price them, we refer you to our complete guide on Cluster Jewels.
Cluster Jewels
Optimizing Cluster Jewels
Since the amount of notables you’re looking for on the cluster aren’t very sought after and you’re only on the hunt for two, as you’re not allocating the third it can basically be anyone, your choice of available clusters should be enormous. Picking up the right Cluster Jewels can help out your gearing tremendously. As you’re picking up 10 small notables on Cluster Jewels, buying some which have an extra upside can be super beneficial. Things such as Chaos Resistance, Strength and or Dexterity as extra’s on top of the notables will help out the pressure on your few flexible & versatile slots by quite a bit.
This first example gets you attributes & chaos resistances for example while the second one gets you nothing on top of the necessary notable. Be weary of the cheap step-ups you can find! In rare use cases, it can even be worth getting a Cluster with an extra notable (mostly on Smalls / Mediums) to grab an extra small point only for those benefits!
Large Cluster Jewel
The Large Cluster Jewels really only need a Renewal notable. The other notables aren’t significant increases to your build yet do help for Pathing Efficiency. It is recommended you find one with Renewal and two other notables, whichever ones are available for cheap. You do want your Large Cluster Jewel to only add 8 Passive Skills, as that is the most efficient way of spending Skill Points. Renewal gives your Agony Crawler a 5% chance to deal Double Damage which equates to 5% More Damage.
Medium Cluster Jewel
Your Medium Cluster Jewels are ideally all identical ones. The two best notables you can find on them are Cult-Leader which gives your Minions 35% Increased Damage while you are affected by a Herald, and Pure Agony which gives you an extra 5 Maximum Virulence and 20% Increased Damage while affected by a Herald.
5 Maximum Virulence is really nice as it should be possible to keep them up and Virulence is what makes our Agony Crawler so strong. The higher we get this the better. The build really likes 4 Medium Clusters to bump Virulence to 60!
If you can’t find this combination, Pure Agony in combination with either Disciples or Invigorating Portents isn’t too far behind. Additionally, as a third modifier, the “Added Small Passive Skills also grant: +#% to Chaos Resistance” really help in getting your Chaos Resistance up before making use of 
The Golden Rule.
Small Cluster Jewels
For your Small Cluster Jewels you’re going to run one that focuses on Life & Chaos Resistance or attributes through getting one with 2 Passives which adds the Feast of Flesh notable and has the extra modifier “Added Small Passive Skills also grant: +#% to Chaos Resistance” or any necessary attributes. This again goes a really long way towards maximizing the amount of Chaos Resistance you can get to before making use of the The Golden Rule. If you chose to pick up Attributes here, you probably free up a Chaos Resistance slot elsewhere.
Your second Small Cluster Jewel is going to be using an Uncompromising notable, to make sure you can use all of your Auras. Again, get whatever extra’s you can find on it.
The other two Small Clusters should be Born of Chaos so you cap out your Chaos Resistance at 90% which makes you almost immune for Elemental Damage! Great stuff!
Unique Jewels
The Golden Rule
Other than your cluster jewel setup, you’re using two unique Jewels. The Golden Rule is there because it doubles your Virulence effectiveness. Because Poisons you inflict on yourself actually count towards your Virulence, this makes it so every time you inflict one Poison you get two stacks. As you push up the maximum Virulence quite significantly, this really does help towards sustain a high number of stacks.
Should you not have a Golden Rule (or you can’t cap Chaos Resistance, you can use Rot Resistant Cluster Jewels to make up for it.
Glorious Vanity & Divine Flesh
Divine Flesh: 
Like mentioned a couple times in this build guide, we’re making use of the Divine Flesh Keystone which is provided by a Glorious Vanity. It alters a Keystone and changes it into Divine Flesh. In order for it to change into the right Keystone, it needs to say “In the name of Xibaqua” as shown in the picture. The amount of sacrificed doesn’t matter at all for our build:
Even though Glorious Vanity jewels might be expensive early on, you should pick one up whenever you can afford it, as it really gives you a lot of bang for your buck. Through the extra maximum Resistances on Saffell's Frame and the extra 10% maximum Chaos Resistance here you can mitigate 50% of all incoming Elemental Damage with 89% Chaos Resistances rather than 75% of the Element in question.
Good seeds to look out for are 7516, 3338, 7827, 830 and 4868 giving you both Ritual of Flesh (9% increased life and 1% life regen), Ritual of Shadow (28% increased Choas damage and 25% chance to inflict withered for 2 seconds on hit).
Make sure it still says Xibaqua on the jewel as its leader or you wont get the right Keystone on the jewel.
Rare Jewels
The affix priority list on jewels is as follows:
- 5% Chance to Poison (this is mandatory
- Elemental Resistnaces if necessary
- #% increased maximum Life
(Optionally, if no other requirements mentioned in the Skill Tree Page are met, +2 Mana Gained on hit with Attacks)
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