The truth about totem builds.

Totems being wiped, totems being frozen, all those puny issues become annoying with higher difficulty. But they cheap and safe, it cannot be denied.

If you can get pass lvl 91, then it's really not the build, it's you. Go to youtube and find guide for how to shape your atlas, stop running all maps, certain boss is impossible for certain build.

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Tarille a écrit :

No reflect as a concern, only downside is no leech either.

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Chieftain totems DO leech to you and you also get leech with the Trolltimber Spire unique shield ( maybe other stuff I can't think of right now).

I LOVE totems, aspecially flame totem.

Altho, after few years of playing it, I tried other ones, like flameblast etc. Not for me.

I just hope in 3.0 people like me will find more totem skills, buff a bit totem spell gem, so it owuldnt be so useless and a buff to life.

You can certainly get past 91. One of my main chars this league is flame totems and he's level 94. All guardians down and all maps besides a few annoying ones like grandmasters (totems are crap for the maxblock guys).

Are they a bit slower than kinetic blast screen clearing in one click? Sure, but they're not bad. They can be built quite tanky too unless you're using abyssus, which is one of the biggest noob traps I've ever seen.

I only like siege ballista, since it's engaging totem game-play for me with iron commander.

I fall asleep on all other totem builds.

Siege balista is like playing tower defense in PoE, quite enjoyable to do.

Peace,

-Boem-

Got to 90 this league on flameblast totem char, with +400% cast speed, beyond cap. (with aurabot)

Made it through all t1-15 maps with it, never again.

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LowBudget780 a écrit :

If you think Totems are easy mode you should try stacking a shitload of ES and running Vaal Pact/Ghost Reaver.

I've done that too. Also, not a big fan. Prefer my life builds.

On the other hand, ES/VP/GR at least has a weakness in that it absolutely sucks pre-mapping when everything has garbage bases for ES and your damage hasn't ramped up to a point where you can self sustain via 2% leech (Even if it is instant)

While Totems weakness is late game CC fests on Totems.

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dovahkiin07 a écrit :

... but the downside of a totem build shows at end-game. I really got frustrated as I can't go further than 91 with this build ...

If you can't get past 91 with a totem build there is a good chance that you will never be able to hit 92 with any build. I'm serious totem builds are the most beginner friendly builds that this game has to offer. ^^