[No longer updated] Pizza Sticks: Flameblast Totem Hierophant

On the topic of HC, I also wonder if Enfeeble is a better option than Temp Chains.

As an Inquisitor I would use Assassin's for the crit chance for more damage.

As far as survivability the Fortify gem for whirling blades is nice and you can never go wrong with the CWDT-IC setup. Just keep both gems low in that setup. Movement speed is your friend and taking the totem placement speed nodes with def help you stay out of danger. In sticky situations you can even just curse totem and get out of dodge and basically just stay on the very fringes. That's what I did for most bosses and worked perfectly fine.

Temp chains doesnt really add much that GC doesn't cover, I guess if you are using elemental focus the freeze is gone but frankly the fact that the crit chance is a debuff attached to the mob is worth a lot.
Also in a GC setup drop the cast speed gem for crit chance or crit multi (unsure which yet).

I'm trying to use this for the new Harbinger league. Is anyone actually, in charge of this post or has it turned into a free for all?

Has the original maker of this even posted anything new?

What are we using now the fire setup with a Templar or the GC setup? I'm already at level 28 with a Templar, so I guess I'll stick with him.

I'm really not sure what to do here.....
Am I supposed to start at the beginning of this post and follow the Flameblast or has this now become a Glacial Cascade build here in the end?

Is it still correct to follow the skill tree and the leveling section and all of the info on the first page or is that obsolete info now?


This seems to be kind of a mess right now....

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As far as survivability the Fortify gem for whirling blades is nice and you can never go wrong with the CWDT-IC setup. Just keep both gems low in that setup.

When you say keep both gems at a low level, do you mean whirling blades and fortify or CWDT+IC?

Also what do you think about shield charge instead (for HC specifically)?

Sorry for the noob question, but why is the build using controlled destruction, when it also invest heavily into crit chance? And CD removes crit - if I understand it correctly.

Just swapped from Flameblast to GC, the gameplay improves a lot. GC is much more versatile, the damage is good as well. For flameblast, I had to run around circle so mobs gather to get hit by flameblast. On the otehr hand, using GC I just drop totems there and whirlwiling blades away like a b!tch and let totems do their jobs. Currently at level 75 with sub-par gears and can still do maps 5-7 with ease.

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Geneq wrote:

Sorry for the noob question, but why is the build using controlled destruction, when it also invest heavily into crit chance? And CD removes crit - if I understand it correctly.

Crit mechanics have 2 parts - the base critical strike chance, and the multiplier.

Base Critical Strike Chance can never go below 5%, and is what is defined on the weapon or spell (some weapons say "Deal No Critical Strikes" which are an exemption to the 5% rule)

Multiplier is what's on Controlled Destruction, Increased Crit Strike gem, Dagger mods, etc. These are multipliers against the base chance.

Say we have a 5% Crit Chance and a 200% multiplier from gear and tree. That gives us effectively 15% chance to crit. Now add Controlled Destruction, and we are at 5% Crit and a 200%-100%=100% multiplier, so an effective chance to crit of 10%.

With gear, trees, Crit gem and Power Charges, you can easily get your Crit Multiplier up in the 500%-600%+ range. Controlled Destruction's -100% is pretty easily mitigated in this case.

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NaarJitsu wrote:

I am REALLY surprised people aren't seeing the synergy of these gloves in this build...

I was using these until around level 71 or 72. Then I picked up hrimnors resolve helm, doryanis belt, and mutewind whisperstep boots then realized that I desperately needed resists on my gloves.

These also synergize decently well with the build.

This is my take on the GC version and my tree is in my profile if anyone wants to see. I'm no authority on this game but I did 2 100's last league and have put some good time in. This is some stupid life regen hyrbidish MoM build and will probably try the Consecrated Ground ascend when I have more DPS gear. I'm gonna respec out of Deep Thoughts, the 2 4% chaos res 4% life nodes, and the 2 templar/marauder area regen nodes to go down to Warrior's Blood when I get one more lvl. Also if I could get a better ring with good dex or use a different amulet with some dmg/life/res mods then I could drop the 3 points for Agility and Precicion temp dex trash nodes. Could probably work in Mutewind Boots then also and I'll have enough res to use my cute lil belt I bought for 1c and corrupted today.

I thought about Voidbringers a bit with fully lvld Arcane Surge but didn't seem worth it. I'd like to incorporate Mutewind Whispersteps into my GC build but don't have the resistances yet as I'm just tooling about with shit gear. I've tried a few different things and setups. Haven't tried Elemental Focus yet though. Herald of Ice felt nice for the clear but used too much mana (especially when I had it linked with Inc Crit and PCoC) with Essence Worm ring so I dropped that. I found no need to use Inc AOE gem. Controlled Dist normally, Conc Efect if need more DPS but I hate gem switching so usually rather just wait a few more seconds.






When I have enough strength probably use this belt or at least try it out:

When catarina is high enough for spell dmg try this out instead


Could probably get a better scepter or dagger but I hate trading.

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Glencairn wrote:

Thanks for this ring idea, this will work well with my Anger, while freeing up a ton of mana for MoM. Now to figure out where to make up the resistances I'm going to lose, might have to drop my hrimnors :( Don't really want to lose the chill\freeze invulnerability though.