[No longer updated] Pizza Sticks: Flameblast Totem Hierophant

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Joksee wrote:

So I've been playing this build for 3 days now. Currently sitting at 7.2k ES, with ~2.5% recharged per second. Any tips on what gear I should try to upgrade next? Can I hope to ever get a better amulet or is this basically as gg as I'll get without lucking out much?
Is my gem setup okay? Still haven't decided on what vaal skill to use, but probably will go with vaal discipline.
I'm still using clarity + discipline, as I seem to run out of mana too fast when using anger+discipline.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Gear and skill tree below:

P.S. I seem to have swapped my flameblast gem with a conc. effect one. I mostly us conc. effect for hard bosses.

Passive tree: https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAUBAAFvApYDdQVCBx4Jqg5IES0RLxFQEZYV1xZAGyUdFCBuIvQk2CmLKgsrCiycLL8y0TW5NsU8BT1fQZZEoUVHSVFLrkyzTq5QMFJTVmNY5VorXGtd8l5dZJ1mnmwLbRlwUnyDfll_xoKbg_OESIVthX2GronTi3qLjIw2jHaOZI9Gj_qSbpMnlS6XlZf0mjubbp1jna6f36PypwinK6eUrhKus7E2tvq3MbmTvFbAZsCawwnDE8Nt0PXR_dJ81YHVptgk2VvZ_OL36QLr7uv17BjtPO988NXyHfem98H53frS

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Your setup is something we can call a glasscanon with regen ES.
You will not be able to regen enough to survive T11+ well rolled maps for a simple reason:
As ES, you have no mitigation, which means you will get hit that hard that you will not be able to regen.

You do not have anything against stun right there, it means that every monster hitting you, is going to stun, 2 stuns in a row and you are dead with 7k ES.

So basically, cut down your damage from your GEAR (voidbringer, full damage jewellery etc..) and try to get high ES gear.
Your damage should be provided by your weapon, your tree and your Qgems.

I hope it is going to help you, feel free to check my profile, you will have something based on clearspeed, kill any boss, and still survive! (you are not hallowed to die at lvl 90+ lol)

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Joksee wrote:

Your characters are set to private.
Hmm, I have been running T10-T11 maps, and never got stunned (at least not to the point of dying). If I go for Valyrium (not keen on using Eye of Chayula), should I drop Pious Path and go for instruments of virtue? Or is Pious Path still better for survivability?

Just how important is spell damage for this build? If I get the choise to go cast speed + crit or cast speed + spell dmg., which one should I go for?

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Fucked up my message... characters not private anymore, sorry.

I tried Pious Path in several setups, sadly it is not consistent, and the consecrated zone is clearly too small. So I think Virtue is way better.
Plus, if you go for virtue you can get the 2 points for the elem % damage increased and reduc.

The ladder of importance for me :

Crit chance > Cast speed > Crit multi > Inc AoE > Proliferation (if high crit) > spell damage


That's why dagger with crit chance/cast speed/crit multi are hell expensive.

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Joksee wrote:

Thank you for the help. I checked your gear and I think I can easily get something similar/better (except the 6L regalia).
Do you think I could keep my amulet? It has some nice rolls on crit chance,multi,es. Can even find anything similar on poe.trade.

I see you have clarity/discipline AND anger. Can you run them all together?

And lastly, should I really drop voidbringers? I got a pretty nicely rolled one, and it does have pretty high ES for the gloves slot. The crit chance is also very nice

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Joksee wrote:

Thanks for all the help dude, really appreciate it.
Now that I think about it, I can swap the conc. zone flask for a mana flask. With shield charge and the clear speed of this build I have my flasks up 24/7 anyways.

And by the way, any reason to not use energy within for the melding cluster?

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SquallionX wrote:

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AquilaOZ wrote:

I have a couple of questions, if someone has time.
Why doesn't this build take the Heart of Flame wheel? It seems like a heap of fire damage.
How does the build get faster ES recharge? It has neither Vaal Pact nor Arcane Focus/Essence Surge?
Does increased elemental damage on attacks help me if my Flameblast is on a totem in my body armour?

thanks in advance

I am lvl 93, in LSC, farming +100% IIQ T13+ maps, doing breaches/beyond/nemesis setup.

- Heart of flame is not taken because you take the Full Elemental Penetration from the Inquisitor ascendancy.The increased damage is less cost efficient than chance to crit/crit multi/cast speed.
Chance to ignite is useless since you are reaching aroud 75% crit chance = ignite everytime.

- The ES recharge is the tricky part, I am using 2 Vaal Discipline to recharge almost constantly, they are linked with increased duration. When one is active the other one is recharging. It is specially good for breaches.

Elemental damage to attacks doesn't affect spells. So no.

Btw if you check my gear in my profile, I bought the 6L yesterday, I did the grind to 93 with a 5L only: FB/Spell Totem/ Faster Casting/Critical strike/Inc aoe or Conc for boss.
The 6L is clearly to add Elem proliferation to increase the clear speed.
I think my skill tree is a little bit different than the OP one. Jewels are too gud.

MAIN TIP: DO not underestimate CAST SPEED because it is not increasing your tooltip damage,it is the most important stat after the chance to crit. At high map level the totem need to detonate really fast or it get killed before it reach a good size of effect.

SECOND TIP: after putting your FB 20% quality, do the Spell totem gem, the 20% speed placement is a MUST HAVE.

THIRD: You NEED a Valyrium or a Chayula in your setup, or you will constantly die.

For the balance offense/defense :
Aim for 12k ES / around 5k tootip dps charges ON / 13 cast/per sec full buff.
With that balance Core boss I certifie you can trivialize T15+ maps.
Of course you need some stuff! Just improve piece by piece.