Herald of Thunder Poison Pathfinder Build Overview

The Herald of Thunder poison Pathfinder build excels in tankiness and automation, offering a lazy yet effective playstyle for all content.

### Ultimate Lazy Tank: Herald of Thunder Poison Pathfinder AO Bomber
* ⚡️  This build is an automated walking simulator, utilizing **Herald of Thunder** with **Storm Secret Rings** to trigger damage automatically.
* 🛡️  It is designed to be very tanky, with **high maximum resistance**, **spell suppression**, and **stun tech**.
* 💰  The gear and gems used are relatively accessible, with most items being **cheap** due to the build's **uniqueness**.
* 🗺️  The goal is to complete all content, including **T17 and Uber bosses**, with **12 million DPS** currently achieved.
* ⚗️  The build converts Herald of Thunder's lightning damage to chaos for poison proliferation, achieving **100% poison chance**.
* 🧪  To sustain the damage from Storm Secret Rings, the build uses **double recoup clusters** and other **defensive layers**.
* 🚶‍♂️  The playstyle is described as a "**walking simulator**," where the character simply **walks around and everything dies**.
* 🎮  The creator plans to continue playing the build, aiming to **complete all challenges** and **reach level 100** with it.

hey guys, and welcome to a new video. Today, I want to showcase the current build that I'm working on, and it is a Herald of Thunder poison Pathfinder AO bomber, or not really bombing, but let's say a walking simulator. Everything here is automated, from my flasks by triggering my Vaal of Vinter and triggering the Herald of Thunder thanks to Stork Secret Rings. All I do is walk around, pick up loot, and everything dies. Poison proliferation goes off, and on top of that, this build is very, very tanky. And this is basically what sets it apart from the other auto bombers that I usually play, whether it's like an on-hit lightning-based Herald of Thunder assassin, like a fire burst ignite Elementalist, or death oath and stuff like that. This build can definitely take a hit. We do have quite a reasonable amount of maximum resistance, spell suppress CPP. We have the stun tech basically in with the Blood Notch. We do have tons of recoup, basically running a double recoup cluster.

plus the recoup from the helm taking lightning damage and so on and so forth. So, this is basically a very tanky approach to an auto bomber. For the map showcase, we're going to run an eight-mod T16 map, but the goal for the build is to do all content, including T17, including Uber bosses, and so on. We currently run like, I think, like 12 million DPS, and it is fairly min-maxed, but not like insanely min-maxed, right? This build is like now two days old. We have a 21-hour playtime. Yesterday, we hit level 95, so it's not really dying a lot. And um, there's still things like Mage blood missing, original sin missing, and some other fancy things, but very expensive things that I would like to incorporate into this build because this build is just like made for pretty much everybody that wants to have like a lazy playstyle, right? So, as soon as my charges or my flasks go off, um, let's take that one real quick, um, we start the um

the loop of Herald of Thunder, and then basically, uh, yeah, you just walk around, and you basically just loot, uh, you don't have to worry about anything, you can open pretty much every strongbox, uh, detonate de ice nober things that are usually very hard for certain builds, and we just got the boss, which is actually quite nice, so we can showcase the build in Lightning Arrow set up to trigger up to 90% shocks. I'm kind of curious if we are able to, uh, yeah, get 90% shocks on that guy, um, with the Lightning Arrow in our Voltaxic Rift. Let's see how that, uh, one works out. We 39% shock, sorry, 90% shock in your face, and this is basically phase one, waiting until the guy makes his Outer Circle, and we continue. We still going to have a 90% shock on that guy, and it is now faced as well, so as you see, there is definitely bossing DPS, uh, in here while still maintaining to be a complete out.

of walker build. Maybe I'm finally able to do the stupid challenge where you're not allowed to get hit by the stupid laser, which is this laser over here. But maybe it's not hitting me. Okay, maybe this is it. I've killed this boss so often already, but I always fail on this stupid challenge. So let's get some additional plague Barrel on. This is the next phase. I think he's making the circle smaller again. What is he doing? Okay, we need another 90% shock. We just don't get a 90% shock, but he's dead anyways. So one more dancing around, one more dancing. And if he doesn't do the laser, I might finally make the challenge. Unless he's an [ __ ] and does it literally right now. Wait, this could work. What? What? What is this guy doing? You too? What is this [ __ ] man? Every time I do this stupid boss, I'm like so close to finishing the challenge, and then he starts doing some random ass [ __ ] but

hey anyways, as you saw, like bossing damage is definitely there. Let's continue with the map. Our flask goes off and uh, yeah, we continue with the Audi walking and I kind of hope that we're going to get some corpse explod stuff going. So you see that I'm actually able to face dto as well, but for my current Farm, which is basically ALK and go and just, you know, pick up loot, um, this is like the perfect build for it. And once I scale it to like the higher levels, and I'm really curious if this like, we've done a t17 yesterday on stream, was actually deathless, and the bossing damage against t17 was also very, very nice. The only difference though is um, you know, t17, they can be rolled to be playable, but they can also like completely break like everybody's build with like insane amounts of uh, you know, um, what is it called, stupid modifiers, right? So it's always like a bit of a question like what is actually a runnable t17 and what t17 is actually so hard that you're

not really supposed to basically do it right, but as I said, like based on the um Al modifiers, I just couldn't care less what modifiers I get because my build can pretty much do everything. Same on the map modifiers, um, there are only two map modifiers that I've seen so far that I just cannot run, and one would be poison immune. Like, as a poison build, kind of [ __ ] to do right. Oh, the poison probably goes off. Another one that is very bad is uh avoid Elemental ailments because, as you can imagine, if I cannot inflict shocks, then I cannot let my Herald of Thunder go off. And this is B, basically pretty pretty bad, right? So we can open that one again. Poison Prive goes off. Oh, it's so beautiful, man. Open it for the third time. There it is. And uh, yeah, I think that is pretty much the map here. We have a reflecting mist, and we get decks in life region. I think that's it. And I still have not ever found this like weird reflecting Mist item. So uh, 36 monsters remaining, 34.

monsters. I guess there are some hidden, uh, there are a couple more 23 monsters remaining, 80 monsters remaining, but the clearing is just absolutely, uh, beautiful, and it is also, like, very, very tanky. So, let's talk about, uh, let's talk about the build and how this actually works together. If I H stupid these, okay, so, um, Herald of Thunder. So, basically, once you shock or kill a shocked enemy, the Herald of Thunder goes off, which makes it only a mapping tool unless you have the Storm Secret Rings, which basically say once you shock an enemy, the Herald of Thunder goes off, and it also has, um, an increased frequency, but you take lightning damage every time Herald of Thunder hits. So, you need a lot of, uh, sustain, and this helps basically with, like, uh, regen, leech, recoup, maximum resistance, like, everything that can reduce the incoming lightning damage will basically help you. But with this, like, Herald of Thunder, you can also trigger a cast damage-taking setup, so you can make some loops over

there as well, but what we're talking here is, first of all, we need to be able to sustain that. And even in the start, when I started to build, I only played with one of these Rings because I just couldn't sustain it, right? And the way I sustain the damage is basically by running a double recoup cluster. So this is like 62, 24, and I think it's 30 over here, makes it 54. And then we have like another 14% lightning damage taken recoup this life over here. And then we have like here a flask suffix craft with 15% of damage taken from hits is leeched as life deing effect. So we are way over leaching, um, or over regening, recouping the progenesis effect. So we are basically, when we get hit, we basically heal ourselves, then actually taking damage. And this is why this build is actually um, fairly tanky. We also run the triple ell flask, getting to a nice 84% maximum resistance. The vesla vter is

currently just to have like an AOE shock because, and in the end of the day, when you don't run the V of Vinter, you still need to shock an enemy, right? And once the herald of Thunder itself cannot shock, so you need something else. So you can either use like a cast damage taken setup where you proc like a shock NOA or a crackling Lance, or you sometimes shoot your lightning Arrow to shock enemies. But I wanted to have it completely automated, and that's why I said, you know, basla vter is the thing. And we also have like a shock spread over here, but back to the topic. So we are sustaining the storm Secret Rings, right? But now we need to make heral of Thunder to be able to poison. But it is a lightning skill, so only physical and Chaos damage can actually inflict poison. And this is when the voltaxic rift bow comes into play because it has 100% of lightning damage converted to chaos. So now all of our lightning damage

convert to chaos. Chaos damage can poison, so now we need um 100% in the best case, 100% chance to poison. If you only have 80%, that's basically 20% less damage because poison stacks endlessly, and the more poisons you have, the more damage you deal. It's not like ignite, right? So, if you have not 100% poison chance, you basically just lowering your DPS because only every fourth hit or something will actually uh poison an enemy or let's say four out of five hits, right? Instead of all five. And with dender bait, we have a level 10 chance to poison, giving a good amount of poison chance. And then basically on our cluster here, or at least like on our um skill tree, we have here chance to poison um um notables over here as well with the chance to poison. And there would be even I think septic spells over here where you also have a chance to poison with a spell damage, so that would work as well. But we don't need that with the chance to

poison over here and um the quiver suffix um with chance to poison. We have enough chance to poison CH. Good, so much chance to poison for our Herald of Thunder to actually be able to poison 100% of the time. Good um. So we talked about how is our Herald of Thunder even able to do that. How do we automate all of that with the V of vter and now it's basically a pure walking simulator um to scale the damage. There are multiple ways we can scale the lightning damage. We can scale chaos damage, chaos do multi um, and also Elemental overload. The problem with Herald of Thunder is um it doesn't have any base crit. So proing like having Al overload is nice but if you never proc it like what's the point right. So we need to opt in here some medium cluster Jewels with the self-fulfilling prophecy which gives um Critical Strike base Critical Strike CH to Herald skills only if you have those. You're actually able to crit with the Herald of Thunder and

then basically bling and the L overload. Other than that um, when we talk about the damage scaling plus levels, very very good. The replica Dragon FL Dragon fangs flight, very nice to have with the additional levels to Herald of Thunder because it's still like a spell in that case, right? And it scales very well with base level. So we tried to get Herald of Thunder to a very nice level. I'm also having here A plus four dender bait with duration AOE gems, which I got for eight divines, which was fairly cheap in my opinion. But nobody plays that build, so all the items are us very very accessible. On top of that, if we were able to get 300 dexterity, we get 90 or up to 100% increased damage. And on 150 intelligence, we get also the poison duration. So I kind of have to minmax it a little bit um, because I had to take here those two decks notes. Uh, I definitely not want to do this in the end version when I see like hey, I completely minmax the build, so I I don't

want to play with those kinds of things, but currently, it was still worth the investment of two points to trigger the 100% increased poison damage or 89 in that case, right? Good. What else is there to say here? I have a transforming Jewel just because it's so hard to get lots of dexterity, lots of intelligence, and also strength for our, for example, Immortal Call or for the more duration support, for face run or anything like that, you know? Like, getting strength is not that easy, so I had to take like an efficient training here to convert intelligence notes because I had a good amount of intelligence traveling here on the top side. So, let's take a look at the other Jewels we run this with the lone messenger, which basically doubles the damage, or not even double, but we get more effect of Herald Buffs, 100% more damage with hits, and 50% more damage over time, which my Herald of Thunder is a poison variant, so I get the extra damage over here. Then I

have an uncest vision for the um spell suppression cap because we do have 100% um spell suppress. So, I'm getting the chance to avoid elemental ailments. I'm sorry, and um, then we have here a thread of hope that is very nice for the growth in DK. We get the blood siphon, we get entropy, uh, we do get the hunter gambit, and for the just for the chaos. Multi over here for 1.10% is very, very good. And here um, additional flask notes. Then um, we're getting 100% spell suppression. I have three um, pieces with fractured spell suppression um, as well as getting the um, entrench two points over here and the entire uh, innate cluster over here, and then one single tattoo here um, for spell suppression. And this gives me 100%. And with, as I said, the ancestor aition um, 50% of our chance to suppress spell damage is now a chance to avoid elemental ailment. So, we have 50% over here. Then I have 20% on the thick skin.

cluster, so we have 70%, and the other 30% is coming from my implicit on my boots, with 32% chance to avoid El ailments. But you can also use an Essence, or even I think this is even in a base drop Pole now for suffixes. But you want to have either implicit or the selfix to cap out your Elemental ailment resistance avoidance, because otherwise, you're definitely going to like self-shock with the vessel of vure, and being Elman immune is just a lot of quality of life. And another thing here is there is a lot of love in the detail of this character, right? So, for example, we're ailman immune. That means we are immune to freeze, shock, ignite, chill, brittle, sap, Scorch, and whatever counts as an elemental ailment. But we're also bleeding immune on my first storm Secret Ring, and we are also poison immune on the second one. Then we have corrupted blood immune. Where do I have my corrupted blood immunity?

a good question here. Um, I think on my low messenger, so we are bleed poison and corrupted blood immune. And then I also try to get as many um corruptions that give me like a better time while mapping, like immunity is a silence, immunity to MIM. Then here I have uh, you cannot be hindered. So everything that there is, you know, I'm probably immune to that. The only thing I need to figure out is the um impale immunity because I think impale hits very, very hard. But there is a Mastery somewhere, so I need to figure out once the level is carried up further um, how I'm going to get the impel immunity as well. Then we're running here um, a blood Notch um immutable Force setup. So this basically makes me stun immune, which is not really stun immune, but the a stun last like a millisecond. And if I get stunned, I recover 60% of the damage taken from a stunning hit um, as life. So that's why I'm basically can stand in every [ __ ] and basically just

recover up, and if I get the damage, I'm also having like this [ __ ] tons of recoup and Chaos damage leech on my gloves, and so on and so forth. So, it is just a very, very nice build in terms of defensive layer and sustainability. Um, I don't think there's anything else to say about here for the large cluster Jews. I opted in for prismatic hard and overshock, and this is basically to trigger insane amounts of shock, which is a more damage multiplier even for my poison damage, because a shock just means for the enemy, the debuff means um, they take increased damage from all sources, right? It's not only from hits or something, from all sources. Good. Uh, then I also have Arctic armor and the herald of Thunder as my only two AAS. We are running this, as I said, with low messenger. That means our your AA skills are disabled, so no Grace, no determination, no Pur of elements, no anything with is an AA like malib Valance doesn't work, right? So, we have

like a six-link or actually seven-link Herald of Thunder, which already reserves a lot of life, but you can get another AA going. Um, and I decided to go with Arctic Armor, which is not an AA. Okay, don't forget you cannot use auras. Arctic Armor is a spell, so is, um, for example, um, what is it, um, Petrified Blood would also be a spell, so I could maybe use that one as well, but I don't really have any benefits from being low life, so what is kind of the point, right? Good, let's talk about the gear from top to bottom and how I made my items basically, right? Fractured spell precision base on, uh, boots, gloves, and the helmet, and then I basically just spam essences, right? Here we have a mono reservation essence, hit a T1 res, and then stocks canop be changed, reforge life, and so on and so forth, and this is basically the same for all three of these items. Same here, um, essence with chaos resistance, hit T1 lightning R.

suffix cannot be changed. Reforge life, aeling, and so on and so forth, right? So, these are my three, basically, rare items having here: phase run, more duration, efficacy, and automation support. So, this was a little bit tricky to solve because what I wanted to achieve is to have a permanent phase run, and that means I need to make the duration of phase run longer than the cooldown. And if you mouse over this over here, we have a cooldown of 3.96 seconds, but we have a buff last time of 4.33. And how I solve this is basically with a more duration support, as well as anything support gem-wise that gives me skill effect duration. For example, here on the efficacy, gives me 25% in skill effect duration, then the automation support, so I don't have to press it myself, it's just going to permanently be up. And then I have here, for example, on the damage over time mastery, we have also skill effect duration. And if you sum everything here

up we're going to get to um more duration then cool down so it's basically permanently up then uh we have here plague Bearer withering step enhance support and ink AOE withering step helps with clearing and um the uh plague Barr helps with clearing and the withering step is basically to instantly apply 11 wither Stacks to the enemy once I press uh this button for bossing and stuff like that right then we have a cast damage taken Immortal call um temp chains and despair this is basically my current curses that only will be active if um there is like boss or anything like normally would do like a curse on hit ring or maybe corruption on your gloves and stuff like that but I cannot use that because I'm having the storm Secret Rings and like um my rare gloves over here right then on the uh weapon we have lightning Arrow awakened AV void manipulation accuracy support Unbound ailment added lightning damage and overcharge this is basically purely the purpose of that is to inflict High

shocks right, and the voltax grift rates hits, and with this weapon, shock enemies as though dealing 300% more damage. So, even though I'm not dealing the damage, it counts as if I would do more damage, and that triggers insane amounts of shocks, up to 90% or even like 105% if I would take the lightning Master with an additional 15% shock. But I need to PO if this is worth four points for the total damage, right? And on my quiver, I basically got an ornate quiver. This is basically you corrupt money, and if five of them break, you vendor them, and you get back a rare ornate quiver. And that's basically how I crafted with the hunter influence, and then I harvest crafted with reforge chaos until I hit the T1 poison. I also got T1 dexterity, and I would love to see the frenzy charge generation here, but I didn't hit it. But just means I need to recraft it at

another point good uh Herald of Thunder. Lings added lightning La Focus. Unbound ailments, void manipulation, and Swift Affliction. So a lot of people always ask me why do you run ell focus on Herald of Thunder. Like what's the point, what is the point of Ellie focus with Unbound ailments. Like but the thing is Herald of Thunder cannot shock. So we can run it with Focus, absolutely no problem. But it also gives me plus one level and 40% more Alli damage. And the Unbound element is uh not there for inflicting um effect of non-damaging ailments. It's for the increased duration of ailments with supported skill. So that's poison duration. Okay, don't get this wrong with like saying hey you're completely stupid to link that together. It makes sense, okay, if you understand how it works. Good uh we covered the gear basically um flask wise Pro Genesis VES of vter. I already explained that then Ruby flask, Sapphire, and the Quicksilver with increased evasion armor. I think this is

actually completely useless because if you have 5K armor or you have 2K armor, I think there is like not going to be too much difference. So, I may be just going to opt in for other flask suffixes or something like that, for example, curse immunity or yeah, we're going to see about that in the end stage. Good, we talked about the passive tree, the jewels that we have, the cluster jewel setup, the stun tag, the lone messenger, the gear pieces, what we're going to have on them, the gems. I think everything should be there. If you need any other help, then check out the PUV for the microt transactors. We have the Apolon hood, the tormented body armor, gloves, and boots, the Ki quiver, the Viper bow with the ghost flame treasure hunter weapon effect, ghost flame crystalline charges, every flask disabled. We have the Imperator, Imperator, Imp, Imperator apparition effect. Then we have the sun prison, Herald of Thunder, the Stigan Plague Bearer.

effect. We have a dark Tempest lightning arrow and the dark Immortal call. Everything else is basically disabled, and the ghost flame ghoul character effect coming from this season's Mystery Box. Good lots of talking, and hope you guys enjoy this build as much as I do. And for me, hands down, the best auto bomber. I'm going to continue playing this build. I'm actually thinking about doing all the challenges with this one and also doing a level 100 because it is just such a fun mapper and so lazy to play that I can just, you know, have a good time listening to music, read chat, talk about God and the world while still just killing everything and just try to get some currencies going. All right, guys, thanks for tuning in, thanks for watching, and see you on the next video.

[PATH OF EXILE | 3.25] – HERALD OF THUNDER – MY FAVOURITE WALKING SIMULATOR!

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Herald of Thunder Poison Pathfinder Build

The build is an automated, tanky Herald of Thunder poison Pathfinder, focusing on walking around to pick up loot while everything dies.

It features maximum resistance, spell suppression, and stun tech for durability, with a goal to tackle all content, including T17 and Uber bosses.

The build has a 21-hour playtime, is designed for a lazy playstyle, and aims to incorporate expensive items for further min-maxing.

The narrator is trying to complete a challenge of not getting hit by a laser during a boss fight, but struggles with the boss's random attacks.

They mention the effectiveness of their build for farming and scaling to higher levels.

The narrator is curious about the difficulty of T17 encounters and discusses the challenging map modifiers they face.

Tanky Build with Herald of Thunder and Voltaxic Rift Bow

The build focuses on sustaining lightning damage from the Herald of Thunder by using Storm Secret Rings and double recoup clusters.

It also incorporates a flask suffix craft for additional life leech and maximum resistance.

The Voltaxic Rift Bow is used to convert lightning damage to chaos, allowing the build to inflict poison and automate enemy shocking.

Maximizing Poison Damage with Herald of Thunder

Chaos damage can poison, requiring a 100% chance to maximize damage output.

The build incorporates various sources of poison chance, including dender bait, skill tree notables, and quiver suffixes.

Scaling lightning and chaos damage, along with critical strike chances from medium cluster jewels, helps the Herald of Thunder achieve consistent damage and poison application.

The character build focuses on maximizing poison damage and achieving 100% spell suppression.

A transforming jewel is used to efficiently gain strength, dexterity, and intelligence for key skills.

The build also emphasizes elemental ailment immunity and bleeding/poison immunity for overall survivability.

The build focuses on immunity to various ailments, including poison, corrupted blood, silence, and hinder, with a goal of achieving impale immunity.

It utilizes a Blood Notch and Immutable Force setup for stun resistance and damage recovery.

The strategy includes triggering shock for increased damage multipliers and using Arctic Armor and Herald of Thunder for additional defensive layers, while the gear is optimized through fractured bases and essence spamming.

The build focuses on achieving a permanent phase run by using a combination of longer duration and automation support.

Key skills include plague bearer for clearing and withering step for applying wither stacks to enemies.

The weapon and quiver are crafted for high shock generation and poison, with a focus on maximizing damage and frenzy charge generation.

The build for Herald of Thunder includes Lightning La Focus, Unbound Ailments, Void Manipulation, and Swift Affliction.

Ellie Focus is used to provide plus one level and 40% more Ailment damage, while Unbound Ailments increases the duration of non-damaging ailments like poison.

The gear setup features various flasks and unique items, with the build aiming for a lazy and enjoyable gameplay experience.