[3.17] Wallach's Hierophant Freezing Pulse Totems (No Further Updates)

EDIT: nevermind

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Acored wrote:

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I'm going to look into this once the servers are up, and I guess delay my own league start until I know for sure.

I want to make it clear - I will not maintain this guide in the case where the build would require some kind of flask juggling.

I'll investigate briefly when I log in before I league start Heist.

got an update? i tried to test it but its a complete mess up.. sometimes curses doesnt even apply or vanish instantly and both rings with sanctum of thought

I jumped into a map on my lvl 96 and queued up a bunch of curses with the character panel open. Yes, the 80% overrides Sanctum of Thought and two Kikazarus. Totem builds relying on the Self Flagellation mechanic and Soul Mantle are either curse potting until they get an Atziri's reflection or they are dead.

For me? Pfft, curse potting? I am not coming back to totems until this is reverted. I made level 96 last league, but never saw a reasonably priced fated Atziri's Mirror/Reflection to buy. SSFers? LOL.

What a crappy, stupid thing to just overlook or not mention. They wiped out a whole class of accessible builds.

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TheDisasterman wrote:

What a shitty, stupid thing to just overlook or not mention. They wiped out a whole class of accessible builds.

Literally killed this build and without a warning. And it wasn't even so much played, to begin with.

yeah killed my mood for this league actually.. moves like that when you build something and they not even announce it and just kill it.

probably this will be a skip

Damn, start of the league and we're robbed already...

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vvashabi wrote:

Damn, start of the league and we're robbed already...

The whole Heist was against us.

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Wallach wrote:

Kikazarus and Sanctum of Thought indeed are nowhere near enough to block the effect of curses. Nice patch notes.

Holy Flame Totems are a fine league start, but the transition to Freezing Pulse as listed in the guide is not recommended.

Hey Wallach, this was a great build and coming back after leaving during Delve? It made for a smooth return. Thanks a million, and I'll hop over and check out your Twitch later.

I'll try out the Holy Flame totems and see what I can do for scaling that up w/o changing to FP. Do you have any suggestions on a smoother switch over from Holy Flame Totems to another skill? I am almost certain that Atziri's Reflection will not be going down to a reasonable price this league, especially after this.

The one possible hope? Maybe there's a new or alternate unique that overcomes or can leverage this change. Alternate Atziri's Mirror? Eh, whatever. Don't delete it. Maybe we'll find something later on.

I actually quite enjoy totems (and cold builds), so this is a bummer overall. Nice work, and a lot of it, too.

Dis

Can you fix skill tree link pls?

Looks like the Soul Mantle nerf may have been unintended, from Bex on reddit:

"We're changing it to be "with 80% More Effect" instead of "with 80% Increased Effect" so that you can still use self-curse reduction to mitigate curses. I can't confirm when this change will be through, however. (As soon as we can)."

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/ivdd5m/soul_mantle_nerf_not_listed_in_patch_notes/

Guess I'll try another build while they sort this out

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litmusdragon wrote:

Looks like the Soul Mantle nerf may have been unintended, from Bex on reddit:

"We're changing it to be "with 80% More Effect" instead of "with 80% Increased Effect" so that you can still use self-curse reduction to mitigate curses. I can't confirm when this change will be through, however. (As soon as we can)."

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/ivdd5m/soul_mantle_nerf_not_listed_in_patch_notes/

Yeah, this build will go back to normal once they deploy this change (as 80% more effect will not stop 100% reduced effect from nullifying Soul Mantle curses). Glad to hear it, frankly the original change makes no sense.