[3.9] Divine Ire Totems Hierophant. Elder, Shaper, Uber Elder, Sirus!

3/28/19: Added Bandit Choice
3/28/19: Added My Path of Building
3/28/19: Leveling Guide Added
3/28/19: Fixed issues regarding my PoE Planner
3/29/19: DPS Rotation Section added. Coming Soonish
4/2/19 : DPS Calculator Added
4/2/19 : Fixed Average Crit Calculation
4/2/19 : Added relevant and reasonably farmable lab enchants
6/6/19 : Updated the Leveling Trees and the Guide to 3.7

Leveling/Path of Building/Ascensions

Introduction
It should be known leveling with Holy Flame Totem is advised early on until you receive your Divine Ire skill-gem, because pretty quickly you'll have Ancestral Bond. This will make it so you have an additional totem frying everything in your path until you get your first Divine Ire/Spell Totem setup. My skill tree will be split up based on where ones skill tree should be when attempting each Labyrinth. Depending on your skill and knowledge of Path of Exile this can of course be done earlier or later!
IMPORTANT: By your Cruel Lab you'll want to make a decision on which variation of DivIre totems you'll want to be pursuing. I have each tree labeled accordingly. These leveling skill trees are merely a suggestion. I recommend checking out https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?class=Hierophant&skill=Divine-Ire for all the different variations in skill trees other successful DivIre Totems players are using!


PoE Planner & Skill Tree Progression

The Lab
www.poeurl.com/cHZQ < - - - All Variations


Cruel Lab
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Merciless Lab
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Uber Lab&Maps
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Guardians/Shaper/Uber Elder
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Pastebin/Path of Building

Early on I recommend helping Alira for the All Resist & Mana Regen, but later on switching over to the 2 Extra Points before moving into red maps. Although I currently haven't switched over to the extra 2 points because I'm too lazy to reinvest into new gear and re-balance for my Wise Oak.

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Introduction
Unless gems are specified to stay at a certain level, they should be leveled as high as possible. This gem setup is merely a suggestion and a starting point. I advise that you test other setups for what works best for you!

Weapon 1/Shield: Wave of Conviction / Trap / Charged Traps

Weapon 1/Shield: Flame Dash / Arcane Surge(7) / Faster Casting

Helm: Storm Brand / Conductivity / Curse on Hit / Onslaught

Chest: Divine Ire / Controlled Destruction / Faster Casting / Physical to Lightning / Concentrated Effect / Infused Channeling

Gloves/Boots: Cast on Damage Taken(1) / Immortal Call(3) / Increased Duration / Enfeeble(5)

Gloves/Boots: Phase Run / Vaal Haste / Increased Duration / Vaal Righteous Fire

Essence Worm: Wrath

Explanation
You have all your general Gem setups here including a Movement, Curse and Defensive link. Along with 3.6 we were blessed with ridiculous de-buff link Wave of Conviction. This will shred 25% resistance off of the target it deals damage to based on what type of damage it deals adding TONS of DAMAGE.

Necessary Uniques:

I think going Soul Mantle is definitely necessary. Also Essence Worm making Wrath free since our primary Elemental damage will be lightning I'd argue is necessary too.

Suggested Items:

The affix to take note is the Mana Roll which is paired with the "regen 6% of damage taken as mana." This allows you to forgo using Vaal Clarity altogether.

Items I killed Uber Elder with and why:

Since you are a Hierophant and you'll be taking Mind over Matter, gear with Life, Mana, and resists are highly recommended. This can be a tad pricey at the beginning of a league, but with some cunning searching in PoE Trade you can find an item with an empty Prefix for Mana that would be priced under what it should be. Also getting a dex roll on either your gloves or boots is recommended, because having Phase Run is such a great luxury to have while Mapping or Delving, but not needed.

Jewels I'm currently Wearing


Health is very important as a starting point when purchasing a Jewel. Flat Damage vs % Damage is pretty comparable with % damage barely edging it out. Crit Multiplier and more notably Cast Speed are other modifiers to watch out for. Cast speed is likely going to be your second affix to prioritize on jewels, but we'll cover that later.

For Mapping:

For Mapping w/ no Regen:

For Uber Elder/Shaper/Guardians:


You'll want to get your Staunching flask somewhere as well as Heat and Warding. Seething VS Bubbling comes down to primarily preference on your life flask. And I recommend your heat flask to be on your Diamond Flask, since Heat is always something you'll want to have. Lastly your de-curse flask in my experience should be a Stibnite Flask with +20 to charges. Meaning you get 5 uses with each giving 5 seconds of cleansing your curses off while blinding any bois near you. This makes Delving so much easier. This flask can effectively be spammed while mapping making it so the Burden that your Soul Mantle brings is neutralized EVEN when bossing.

I'm pretty torn on whether going Taste of Hate is better than Wise Oak for a new player. My knee jerk reaction is to just recommend using Taste of Hate, but the Damage Reduction and Penetration Wise Oak gives makes me heavily biased towards it for this build. Also you don't need to be a Masochist and try to balance ALL 3 resistances, but rather you could Make Lightning your highest resist and Cold your lowest, because cold damage is most common for Shaper/Uber Elder fights.

Helm: You really don't need this trust me, but if you REALLY want to pay the premium for it I'd suggest going with the "%#Increased Damage to Divine Ire" as opposed to the other ones. I would suggest going for this ONLY after all other stats are met.

Gloves: Since we won't be hitting anything and we won't do any damage ourselves, it's largely useless for Totem builds. The exception is the "Of Light" enchantment, due to the fact it gives us consecrated ground when we curse something with our Storm Brand.

Boots: Now this enchant could possibly be worth farming for. The boot enchant literally named "Enchantment Elemental Penetration 3" says if we don't kill anything, which we can't due to Ancestral Bond, our damage penetrates 10% of their elemental resist.

Mapping: Major - Solaris or Lunaris, Lesser - Shakiri
Uber Elder/Shaper: Major - Solaris, Lunaris, or Brine King, Lesser - Yugul

I recommend trying to capture the Gods with while you do your Shaper Questline, because they offer some nice bonuses especially if you are using Shakiri. Immune to poison damage is sweet.

Coming Soon. TM.

Uber Elder: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/401895071
Shaper: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/401620931
Red Elder: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/401630844
Mapping/Uber Elder Guardians: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/401895925
Minotaur: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/401635977

Introduction:
There's quite a bit of math that goes into calculating what your actual damage is with Divine Ire, because unlike most other abilities it doesn't have an intuitive DPS calculator in Path of Building. Instead the Values we'll be paying most attention to are Average Hit, Average Hit When You Crit, and Cast Rate.

Cast Rate:
Cast Rate is conducive to how fast your Beam charges up so if you have 10.00 as your Cast Rate, you'll get 10 charges every second making it so it'd do it's full Damage in 2 seconds. With the way Divine Ire operates it gains an extra stage depending on what the Beam is channeling near to with every cast rate tick. The wiki explains it better than I do, but notably if you have it next to an unique mob it gains +1 stage per channeling tick. Thus if you had a totem directly on Shaper for instance it would gain 20 charges in 1 second.
There are two important feasible breakpoints to consider knowing this. Since our buffs will last 5-6 seconds we want to consider how many beams we could get off in that short amount of time. 8.33 Cast Rate will allow you to shoot 5 beams in 6 seconds. So it's something to take to consideration while stacking your cast rate. I went ahead and went for the 10.00 break point just to make DPS calculation a little bit easier.

Average Hit:
This is on average how much damage your beam will do, note this is also taking into consideration the damage when you don't crit. This is relevant when considering the Shock debuff you'll have on Shaper/Uber Elder. In general this gives you a decent idea on the damage your Divine Ire will do.

Average Hit When You Crit:
To understand how much our shock will do we'll first need to understand how much damage we actually do when we crit. This is important because we will want to know EXACTLY how much shock will we have applied to Shaper/Uber Elder.

- Simply increase your crit chance to 100% on Path of Building then observe what your Average Hit changes to.

- Look in the 'Calc' page and within the 'Skill Hit Damage Column,' hover over your 'Skill Average Hit' and view the 1st # in the 2nd row. If you import in my Path of Building the number should be exactly 1,529,424.

https://pastebin.com/S1DuRTtB

Shock %: <--- OUT OF DATE
This is something I've recently come to understand in Path of Exile and correct me if I'm wrong. But for every % of max health you CRIT something with LIGHTNING DAMAGE you'll provide %shock to it scaling up to 10% of it's max health giving you an additional 50% of your total damage. For this example lets say the Shaper has roughly 20 Million Health, so if you did 500,000 lightning damage in one singular blast it'd result in doing 2.5% of Shaper's Max HP thus resulting in a 12.5% shock.

Introduction
First off, let me know if this is too confusing or if you think something is incorrect. I wasn't sure exactly how I should word this but I'll give it my best shot. Also this calculation is taking the stats given to me from Path of Building. Finally, this is by no means necessary in order to kill Uber Elder, but it gives you an idea what certain setups can do for you. Don't attempt this if you are not using Path of Building!

Values You'll need to do the calculation.
- Your Average Hit @20
- Your Total Channeling DPS
- Your Number of Totems
- Your Cast Rate
- The Health of your Target
- The Percent of Damage that is Lightning

Using these values you'll be able to find your 'actual' dps. My values will be colored in red.

Firstly we need to calculate our Average Crit Hit @20 Stages.
- Refer back to 'Divine Ire Terms' to find this.
- The result is 1,529,424.

Secondly we need to calculate the shock that'll be applied to our Target.

Remember shock damage is only calculated with specifically the LIGHTNING damage you do to the target!

In this case it'll be The Shaper, so if you want to know how much shock you do to the Minotaur or any other target you'll enter in it's health pool instead. At the end we'll multiply our shock percent by '5' in order to receive our total bonus damage from shock. Then take 1 + our shock percent.

- ((Average Hit When Crit) x (Percent of Damage that is Lightning)) / (Shaper's Health).
- ((1,529,424 x 0.79)) / (18,328,731)
- The result is 0.066 or 6.6%.
- Thus our damage increased from shock is (6.6%) x (5).
- The result is a 33% shock. Which results in a 1.33 Shock Damage Multiplier.

Lastly we have all the information we need to do our final formula. We'll split this up into two values then add them at the end to find our DPS.
- A: which is our Average hit @20 calculated with the number of totems, their cast speed, and shock.
- B: which is the channeled DPS, the number of totems, and shock.

The Formulas
- A = (Average Hit) x (Shock Damage Multiplier) x (Your Number of Totems) x ((Cast Rate / 10)).
- B = (Total Channel DPS) x (Your Number of Totmes) x (Your Shock Amount).

Plugging in your numbers
- A = (1,133,179) x (1.33) x (5) x ((10.00/10)).
- The result is A = 7,535,640.
- B = (177,962) x (5) x (1.33).
- The result is B = 1,181,651.
- A + B = (Your DPS).
- (7,535,640) + (1,181,651).

The Final Result is 8,717,291