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

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Rothulf wrote:

Any advice on how to craft the large cluster jewel?

This thing is slowly becoming a nightmare for me...

I had some reforge keep prefix that i found in harvest and used it on a cluster with Vengeful and Blanketed already on it

Don´t know if it is the most optimal way but it worked for me better than throwing Harvest Chaos at the large jewel

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etherel90 wrote:

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D2Junkie wrote:

will it be more damage if I annoint my amulet with whispers of doom instead of flash freeze and what curse should I use as second curse aside from frostbite?

Remember that Hextouch needs the supported curses to also be hexes, so that limits your pool from just any old curse. Most people that have made the switch to double curses are going with Elemental Weakness as their second.

And, yes, your sheet dps will take a little hit from not having flash freeze, but you should be doing much more damage to bosses (or whatever you use your curses on).

You can also take Doom Cast if you have double curse elsewhere, like awakened hextouch 5.

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Daemonion wrote:

Are they mediocre, what mods should I look for in upgraded ones?

You can definitely improve both. https://github.com/VolatilePulse/PoB-Item-Tester helps.

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Daemonion wrote:

I feel kinda squishy - friend told me he is running shield which makes him more tanky and has same dmg as dual wield (+ one totem) - could that be possible?

Basically, no. You can do it for a while, but having a 7th totem isn't really that useful. You rarely cast all of them in one place, and in any case your 4th cast is half as effective as the prior 3. The solution to squishiness is playstyle, and more DPS.

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Daemonion wrote:

What about making totems start casting spells faster? Does totem placement help here?

Some totem placement is fine, but I don't find it super valuable. Actual cast speed helps DPS a lot though.

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faytte wrote:

Question: do you put phase run on left click?

No - casting a spell will take you out of phase run. You want to cast totems and curses, then enter phase run. Entering mostly at random will make it much less effective.

Hey good people!What you use for second notable on Large Cluster after Blanketed Snow?In another video I heard when Mr Wallach said he was no longer use Vengeful Commander because this league is not that good or i hear something wrong!
Right now i dont have currency for 3 notables...what you think about Blizzard Call?My Critical Chance is not that great,only 30% when totems is up!
P.S Many thanks to NoImagination for all the help you give us all!

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bro82 wrote:

Hey good people!What you use for second notable on Large Cluster after Blanketed Snow?In another video I heard when Mr Wallach said he was no longer use Vengeful Commander because this league is not that good or i hear something wrong!
Right now i dont have currency for 3 notables...what you think about Blizzard Call?My Critical Chance is not that great,only 30% when totems is up!
P.S Many thanks to NoImagination for all the help you give us all!

We talk about it a bit here, but I forget to mention prefixes or suffixes. That shouldn't matter when you want to get a double-notable though.

I think you're right that Blizzard Caller is the new 2nd best notable.

Thank you so much for answer!

Not sure if people saw my post when that discussion on large clusters was happening, but do be careful about the layout of your jewel when thinking about notables.

The way they appear on the jewel seems to be in a clockwise fashion from the first forced node you take, and the order of the notables is decided by their internal IDs. If you go to this page:

https://poedb.tw/us/mod.php?cn=BaseItemTypes&an=Large+Cluster+Jewel

and expand the "12% Cold Damage" section, the order that those notables are listed in on poedb is by their internal ordering. This will let you figure out exactly how your large jewel would be organized based on the notables that appear on the jewel. This is one of the reasons that Vengeful Commander is a pretty good choice, because all of the suffix notables between it and Blanketed Snow, so the layout always works.

Truthfully, the main takeaway from the Vengeful Commander nerf really should be that any 3-notable large jewel that has Blanketed Snow and doesn't put Blanketed Snow in the 12 o'clock slot is fine. The jewels are very hard to roll to get pickier than this when most of the notables besides Blanketed Snow are not that impressive.

Hello please any can tell me if this sceptre are good?

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braniels2 wrote:

Hello please any can tell me if this sceptre are good?

Yep, both are good.

Howdy folks!

I'm trying to follow the build guide, and ran out of currency (oh no!). It's only my second league, and I've never had much currency, so I figured I'd roll this and try to farm some bosses this league. I only have time to play maybe two builds in a league, so my starter was Ziz's ED trickster (which is fine) but I was really looking forward to this.

My damage is low, struggling with red map bosses, probably for the following reasons (*I'm broke, with 50c to my name):

- I don't have any cluster jewels*
- I don't have the Pandemonius*
- I only have a 5L Soul Tether*
- I don't have the fancy boots / gloves / helmet rolls and enchants because I have to prioritize resist cap before enchants*
- My main source of income has been Ultimatums, which were really easy on ED/Trick but this build seems kind of bad at (could just be me) - I had to drop the off-hand for a shield, and I picked up a Rumi's, Glancing Blows, and a Jade flask to try to do them, but still die about half the time
- In that same vein, I feel like I have very low life, with few gear slots to get good life rolls needing Viridi's veil - dumping more skill points into life nodes further reduces damage
- Small point here, but for some reason I'm really low on dex and have to use 2 skill points on dex nodes to support the green gems

I do have all the requisite unique jewels (2x first snow, self-flag, clear mind) but Thread of Hope* and Watchers Eye* are a little out of reach atm

I feel like I'm stuck in a place where I can't farm currency for the upgrades (again, can't do ultimatums, and Valdo's rest easy-mode has been destroyed) and I'll have to go back to ED just to try to progress the build, which feels really bad.

The maps that I can do go rather quickly - any yellow map can be done in 2-4 minutes depending, so I'm planning to go get Friend of the Family and farming Perandus to sell some Shavronne's or something to try to build the coin to get further in the build.

Any and all help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Your character is set to private. The solution to ultimatums is phasing and DPS. I needed about:

~180k any mod, any tier
~105k in T16
~70k in T14
~40k in T11

DPS in hideout with auras on, nothing else. This used phasing - at least one of phase run & divergent dash - and vaal grace and/or vaal haste.

All the ways to make money pre-ultimatums still work - pick up all the rare rings, ID them, then sell them for alts for example. Jewellers/fuses are very valuable, so running a pile of low level maps is profitable per hour. Selling maps and excess currency is still profitable, etc.