[3.2] Indigon Scorching Ray Totem - All Content Viable - Uber Elder down

Shaper 85 to Dead in 7 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQEL8b6d-Og
Bad Uber Elder first attempt(1 death) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsxCAuI4XE
Shaper Full Clear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf1R1u3S6LM
Shaped Atoll to give you a sense of map play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT82RR318tU
4l vs T14 Blood Temple Boss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZoXc8ek35I

I've uploaded all guardians and t16 elder guardians to my shitty youtube channel as well https://www.youtube.com/user/tjc128/videos

Cloak of Defiance - https://pastebin.com/7GvgUQLT
Soul Mantle - https://pastebin.com/XAtG83UJ

Some important notes:
- Cloak is higher EHP, Soul Mantle is higher dps. More detail in the gearing section.
- The AB tree can be viewed using the drop down in the bottom left. I talk more about this decision in the skill tree section below. TL;DR 3(/4) totems for endgame bossing, 4(/5) totems for mapping. Not a huge gap either way.
- Disable hit by lightning recently in the config tab if you aren't using a totem to proc EE with the 4 totem setup. Or, you know, just don't take EE.
- There are 2 indigons for each Tree. 1st is the value if you haven't been hit recently, and the 2nd is the theoretical limit for sustained dps. I stick to using the 1st in general because I believe it's more realistic. You can check been hit recently in the configs tab and equip the 2nd helm if you want to see those values.
- I added the heirophant regeneration nodes to my cloak of defiance because PoB doesn't support them.
- There's a 2nd sceptre that mimics having a dyadus animate guardian (or support player).
- My gear isn't reflective of what most players need to make the build delete endgame content, I just had 50ex to throw at a build. You don't need 21/20 gems, perfect kaom's roots or even a 6l.

To calculate indigon's constant dps, you simply take your net mana regen and leech, multiply by 4 (recently), divide by 200, and multiply by the spell damage value on the helm. Burst dps can go higher than this because you start with your base mana pool as well.

In my case, I have 4211.2 regen if I haven't been hit recently. 4211.2 * 4 / 200 * 60 = 5053.44% spell damage. Realistically this may be much higher or much lower in-game depending on the content I'm doing. 2% mana regen if hit recently boots are an insane amount of damage, but because you have 50% mom taking damage can also lower your dps.

Required Uniques


Other Very Powerful Items


General Gearing


My Gear (super endgame)

Scorching Ray - Spell Totem - Burning Damage - Efficacy - Elemental Focus - Controlled Destruction - Empower 4 or Rapid Decay

You can swap out the least important gem for Faster Casting while mapping if you feel your totems are sluggish. Empower 4 and Rapid Decay are ~similar dps, but I prefer not having the reduced effect duration.

Flammability - Arcane Surge - Faster Casting - Increased Area of Effect

Your primary method of spending mana to keep your Indigon buff going. Also, it makes you do more damage. Also, Arcane Surge is stupidly good for this build. You can swap inc aoe for empower if you really want to super min/max your ST dps.

Orb of Storms - Increased Critical Strikes - Increased Area of Effect - Portal/Culling Strike

I choose to use portal for mapping and swap to culling strike for bossing.

Shield Charge - Faster Attacks - Fortify
CWDT - Immortal Call
Clarity (level doesn't really matter either way because your pool is so big and you have a lot of flat regen)

Stuff you can use with extra sockets from rare boots:

* Scorching Ray - Burning Damage - Efficacy - Elemental Focus

If you're using rare boots and the 3 totem setup, you can run a 4l (or 5l via essence of horror) self-cast SR. The mana cost is minuscule, so you'll still need to use Flammability to keep your mana ramp high. It's relatively easy to maintain the stacks with this level of cast speed/increased duration.

* Vaal Lightning Trap / Ice Trap / Elemental Trap of your choosing / Elemental Mine of your Choosing

For the 4 totem setup, this is your only method of proccing EE.

* Vaal Haste / Grace
* Golems

The core nodes are Elemental Overload and Elemental Equilibrium. Everything else is just getting however much life/mana/attack/cast speed you want. You can alternately path to Ancestral Bond and use a trap or mine to trigger EE on bosses, as shown in the PoB above (or just don't proc EE).

The primary difference is that 4 totems allow you to clear maps more efficiently, and 3 totems has higher boss damage (unless you use a trap to trigger EE for 4 totems). I made my build to farm uber elder, which I think 3 totems is better for. It definitely felt better mapping with 4 totems, so it just depends on what you want to do.

You can proc EE using the 4 totem setup through mines or traps, but not through orb of storms. EE requires that the hit deals damage. This makes it difficult to proc EE on hectic fights like uber elder.

Kill all bandits. Alira only nets you a tiny amount of mana regen.

92 - http://poeurl.com/bSki
81 - http://poeurl.com/bSkj
71 - http://poeurl.com/bSkk

Alternate AB Tree
94 - http://poeurl.com/bSlS

Just think of it as any other SR totem build. You spawn your totems and watch things burn to the ground. For the most part, you don't have to think about Indigon at all while mapping. With 3 fevered dreams you'll usually sit around 5 stacks (300% increased damage) of Inidigon by just shield charging and spawning totems. On top of that, you'll almost always have 20+ Pursuit of Faith (Heirophant Ascendancy) stacks giving you 120%+ increased damage.

When you come across any enemy that doesn't instantly evaporate, you just start spamming Flammability to ramp your Indigon up. With the level of gear I'm at, that's really only bestiary yellows/reds and map bosses.

I do enough damage that I also don't bother trying to maintain Elemental Overload while mapping, I simply don't need the damage for anything but bosses.

Keep in mind, if you're doing this with a 5l or more budget gear than what I have, you might have varying results for how much you need to focus on keeping up EO or Flammability spam.

You can use this build as a template for pretty much any totem skill you want. The damage multiplier for Indigon is huge, and in most cases comparable to an entire skill tree while mapping. If you want to try out a different skill, I'd recommend starting from the 4 totem setup and just dropping EE. You can even respec the tree to get less attack speed or cast speed or mana and pickup crit nodes if you want to enjoy some nice freezing action.

I should note, 2 fevereds is enough for most skills, sometimes even only 1 is enough for mapping smoothly. Most skills have massively higher cost than SR, so the totems cost way more. I mapped for awhile as non-crit frostbolt totems and it worked perfectly fine. You kind of have to get into the groove of the mana cost of the totem and how often you want to place one down to keep the stacks going.

Pantheon is something I think most guides heavily overlook. It adds a massive amount of defense to this build.

Solaris - 6% phys mit for ST bosses, 1/5 aoe hits deal 50% less damage, and no extra crit damage if crit recently

Shakari - My personal favorite for mapping, no one likes degens, go away poison.
Gruthkul - Up to 5% phys mit, and 8% reduced attack speed for enemies.
Tukohama - Up to 8% phys mit, and 2% life regen.
Yugul - 5% cold mit, amazing for Elder and Uber Elder, alongside any hard cold bosses.

I leveled the build with a generic frostbolt totem tree. I decided to be a cheapskate and go non-crit to save regrets later. Let me tell you, I regretted that a lot more than the regrets xd. Freezing is just too darn powerful while leveling totem builds. I'd stick to a generic frostbolt / freezing pulse crit totem setup and respec later. I respec'd at level 70.

Tree usually looks something like this - http://poeurl.com/bSjT

That being said, you can definitely just level as Scorching Ray totems. I was trying to level as fast as possible, so shield charging 100 miles per hour into packs with no real defense and no freeze didn't really work out for me. If you don't mind SR totems slightly slower paced early game, it should work perfectly fine. You'll probably want to pickup some damage nodes though :P.