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

For levelphase it seems to work in 3.15, so far it do well.

I see a lot of comparisson between FR and FP here and while FP totems seem to do great in lower maps survivability could definitely become an issue in reds.
Did anyone try to build this as eye of winter totems tho? Should be ok damage with hydrosphere and chain. Thoughts?

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Wallach wrote:

Switched back to Freezing Pulse tonight. I'll do some more testing and probably have this guide updated for 3.15 later this week. Damage loss is pretty noticeable in progression as expected, but I enjoy the play style too much to stick with Forbidden Rite honestly. Map clear just isn't satisfying.

I'am playing my old char in Standard and i can't even complete regular Maven's invitations, but i enjoy the FP build so much, that i keep playing it the same, even if it is broken.

Dont let this build die bro.

Keep up the good work.

Since this build appears to be officially Dead now, especially since there's only a couple of pages written since league launch, I wonder what build people are going to???? I do want to thank Wallach for all his hard work over the last few leagues on this guide, but I guess all good things come to an end.........So time to move on...It was fun while it lasted though! All the best in your future endeavors....

I'm going to cruise the Witch Build list and see what I can find just for funzies...If I dabble at all this league it will only be in standard where I have unlimited currency

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Wallach wrote:

Switched back to Freezing Pulse tonight. I'll do some more testing and probably have this guide updated for 3.15 later this week. Damage loss is pretty noticeable in progression as expected, but I enjoy the play style too much to stick with Forbidden Rite honestly. Map clear just isn't satisfying.

why is damage of Freezing Pulse that fucked, just because of Controlled Destruction? what else did they do?

I am also quite disappointed that the guide isnt updated anymore. Dont get me wrong, I cannot thank you enough for all the work you have put into this guide. FP totem brought me the most fun on PoE among every build I tried.
Your guide was so well explained. Every detailed step was pure gem. Forbidden Rite doesnt bring me the fun I used to have with FP.
Ill keep throwing an eye here in case a miracle happens and FP comes back to life ;)
Thanks again Wallach !

I've been playing FP totems since Heist league and I'm really disappointed to see what they did to my boy.

For example, I could delete A9 Sirus last phase in seconds and have no doubts when I ran >100% IIQ The Feared challenge in Ultimatum league. But now, testing same character on Standard I can say that the build got absolutely obliterated. After I dumped so much currency and time to get that unfair nerfs? There's was literally no reason for that because the build wasn't even close to be called a meta build.

Thanks a lot for your work Wallach, and I look forward to guide updates in the next leagues.

Anyone got a leveling build for this for people with leveling gear? I want to get to maps ASAP and have most ready for it (soul mantle etc for mapping and standard leveling gear like tabula, double kikarazus).

When I started playing POE it was with a RF totem Chieftain. Then moved to an arc totem build and ended playing Wallach's FP totem hiero for like 5-6 leagues.

I was so happy that only a small amount of the players in poe.ninja were playing FP totems cause I thought we were out of sight of the nerfing bat .... guess I couldn't be more wrong hehe.

I trust Wallach will come with a solution for either FP or move to another totem build, but sure, ill follow him in his next build.

Thanks! and see you next league.

Game is just garbage at the moment. It is an unbelievable shame.
The campaign experience was torture should not take 8 minutes to kill Brutus, that isnt even because of the risk of dying, that is literally sitting there thumping him to death.

Early mapping was ok felt the same to be honest.
Red maps though just feels more like the campaign now. Each map, if playing safely, takes around 10 minutes to complete with just 1-2 league mechanics (including Expedition). Previously it usually took anywhere from 2-6 minutes depending on how many league mechanics were active.

Despite being immune to freeze with arctic armour - still get frozen, though it is the combination of chill and stun lock. Granted there are ways to resolve that, just dont have the drive to do so.

The buff to poison is just insane and it is soo easy now to get one shot off screen.

Previously 2 leagues combined! I died only 134 times with 102 being from Ultimatum (that was a challenging league mechanic especially in juiced maps) and in both leagues I completed all content.
This league I have died 378 times and I have only reached A3 conquerors ~T12-14 maps.
This league I have around 8k eHP, previous leagues I had 5.5k eHP. Damage is fine though in this league, not fantastic but its enough to kill comfortably, including bosses (though have not reached Sirus, Shaper, Elder, Maven or any Maven Challenge.

Just not fun anymore, the game is an actual chore and thats not the grinding currency or anything like that, just doing a single map is a chore. Multiply this by the 1000's of maps you would need to do it actually de-motivates.

Irony being though I actually agree with some of the changes but they shouldnt have done it all at the same time.

Either way, after playing since Beta it is finally time to give POE a rest. May play the odd map here/there and will see what the next update holds but for the first time ever will stop playing a league after 3 weeks - always played up until the next announcement.

So sad.