[3.9] Holy Totem Chieftain * Cheap & Strong League Starter with new holy spells! All content!

Seriously considering of rolling this.

@merciel

You said earlier that the cluster totemic zeal has no effect on the holy flame dps. But I found this on the wiki: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Holy_Flame_Totem

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Skill Functions and Interactions

This skill is affected by any passives that affect totems, however, nodes such as Totemic Zeal will not be displayed in tooltip DPS due to engine limitation.

Could someone confirm or deny if this is truly the case? Thanks a lot!

Hey just wondering now league is week old i wanna make a totem build is this totally viable for all content i heard warchief is the strongest totem but i could be wrong?

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Bezmageddon wrote:

Hey just wondering now league is week old i wanna make a totem build is this totally viable for all content i heard warchief is the strongest totem but i could be wrong?

I think Flame Totem is as strong as it gets for league starter skill. Check out the end of the guide... there is section where mecielle who killed Uber Elder after 5 days into the league.

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dejuvenate wrote:

Seriously considering of rolling this.

@merciel

You said earlier that the cluster totemic zeal has no effect on the holy flame dps. But I found this on the wiki: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Holy_Flame_Totem

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Skill Functions and Interactions

This skill is affected by any passives that affect totems, however, nodes such as Totemic Zeal will not be displayed in tooltip DPS due to engine limitation.

Could someone confirm or deny if this is truly the case? Thanks a lot!

Yea, that was cleared up a few posts after I said it. I must have overlooked the line on the wiki you quoted. They work. But I still did not take them because other nodes were simply better.

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Bezmageddon wrote:

Hey just wondering now league is week old i wanna make a totem build is this totally viable for all content i heard warchief is the strongest totem but i could be wrong?

OP already pointed towards where he quoted me talking about the build. In short, Holy Flame Totem is viable if you have nothing, and scales well into the 50ex investment area. It easily carries you through white and yellow maps with self found gear and after that scales very well with investments. Long after I killed Uber Elder and had around 3m Shaper DPS I could still have made a lot of changes to get even more.

And to your comment of Warchief being the strongest totem, that hasn't been true for a few leagues. Arc Totems were far and away the strongest totems, with the changes of 3.6 and the introduction of Holy Flame Totem I would argue that this is the best totem skill to start the league with.

I guess Ele Hit totems still beat them for pure damage, but they need a lot of specific gear to get going.

What do you guys think about using the Tukohama's Fortress shield? Using it without multiple totems gem? I dont know whether it's worth or not, considering with the shield you would have to use the ability 3 times instead of twice.

hey bash, how have Divine Ire totems been working? I kinda want to make the switch, but it my head it feels weird because the totems would stack up to 20 right? even to clear packs? or how does that work

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Mecielle wrote:

@merciel

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Haha, I was just looking up what wands you had, and put it in trade lookup and was like "this looks familiar"... Was actually you and your wand haha

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Tainted_Turkey wrote:

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Mecielle wrote:

@merciel

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Haha, I was just looking up what wands you had, and put it in trade lookup and was like "this looks familiar"... Was actually you and your wand haha

Yea, I'm selling my gear. I stayed with the character far longer then I ever expected. Was a lot of fun and I did everything the game has to throw at me, except Aul. And it felt simply incredibly powerful. To the level where it was actually kind of hard to decide what to do next without getting really disappointed :D

I'll still be checking in to answer any questions, but I wanted to leave my final PoB here. That should answer pretty much every question that could come up.

I don't claim that this is anywhere close to the ceiling. My gear was just the best I could accumulate in the first 6 days of the league. The tree is highly built around my specific gear. But this will give anybody that wants to start the build or is already running it a good reference point.

3.1m Shaper DPS: https://pastebin.com/VFZwc7sb

Now that read that insane number, I think I might have actually been the highest DPS character. At least I find nothing over 2.5m Shaper DPS on poe.ninja.

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Mecielle wrote:

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Tainted_Turkey wrote:

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Mecielle wrote:

@merciel

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Haha, I was just looking up what wands you had, and put it in trade lookup and was like "this looks familiar"... Was actually you and your wand haha

Yea, I'm selling my gear. I stayed with the character far longer then I ever expected. Was a lot of fun and I did everything the game has to throw at me, except Aul. And it felt simply incredibly powerful. To the level where it was actually kind of hard to decide what to do next without getting really disappointed :D

I'll still be checking in to answer any questions, but I wanted to leave my final PoB here. That should answer pretty much every question that could come up.

I don't claim that this is anywhere close to the ceiling. My gear was just the best I could accumulate in the first 6 days of the league. The tree is highly built around my specific gear. But this will give anybody that wants to start the build or is already running it a good reference point.

3.1m Shaper DPS: https://pastebin.com/VFZwc7sb

Now that read that insane number, I think I might have actually been the highest DPS character. At least I find nothing over 2.5m Shaper DPS on poe.ninja.

Holy shit... does circle of anguish rings are just fuckin insane... nearly half your dps.. :)

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bashtart wrote:

Holy shit... does circle of anguish rings are just fuckin insane... nearly half your dps.. :)

Yea, I have no idea what GGG was thinking adding them into the game at the same time we get a totem skill that uses both, the "15% phys as extra fire" and the "13% more spell fire damage" mods from Herald of Ash. I mean, 200% increased effect on that? Not to mention the up to 120% increased fire damage that you also get if you go full damage rings.

Its just insane.