Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
No idea really, I don't play minion builds much and what I learned from playing Soulwrest was that minion stuff in general is horribly documented and what little info PoB has is based on ancient data mining. New stuff like phantasms, forget it. Nobody seems to know a single thing about their actual stats. I assumed DD was the same but I guess PoB is able to come up with a decent dps number for them.yes, DD uses its own stats. why would you think it doesnt? like animated weapon, of war glove enchant, etc.
Yeah, that's what it looks like to me as well. Compared to the dps numbers for the best DD build, the one I linked has its DD doing maybe a tenth of the damage. Unfortunately Herald of Agony is like phantasms and people can barely even agree on what the damage split is between phys and chaos (some ZiggyD video from before the league started said 60/40 and the GGG people in it didn't argue with that so it's assumed to be correct... no way to see that anywhere in game though). It's impossible to gauge how much damage the agony crawler does beyond the simple fact that the dude got to delve 650ish.This build seems super solid. My issue is... its an herald of agony build, with DD for giggles. Now, the idea of combining the two is of course terrific. agony is spawn on hit, so, one of the main problems with DD is solved, very easily. (it spawns on kill, after rampage.)
But this build doesnt actually gain anything I can see, from using DD.
The other DD build is probably stronger. Bella, who made the guide for it, got to 700 fairly easily too. Instead of the crawler, it has animated guardian and two spectres, and it is much closer to being an aurabot thanks to using Shav's for LL so everything gets buffed a lot more. Downside is it's ES and I bought a bunch of ridiculously expensive phys dmg minion jewels with life on them. At this point, that's a build for next league.
I looked for ideas from other herald of agony builds people have done too, and even though the linked one uses DD as something of a novelty, he's still gotten further in the mine than anyone else running it as a pure pet build. There's two that got deeper but they are hybrids that use viper strike or rain of arrows and don't even use minion jewels to buff the crawler at all. For budget and convenience with the gear I already have, I think the first one is my only option.
Or I could just stick with my Soulwrest build and try to figure out what I can do to make it uber elder and depth 300 viable.