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

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loloppe wrote:

If you don't feel like playing FP but would like to play totem, Shockwave Totem (Astral Projector + Atziri's Reflection), Dark Pact (Astral Projector + Atziri's Reflection), Ball Lightning are still very good too.

I think Forbidden Rite totems look like they could be pretty promising, and they'd come online before Shockwave/Dark Pact since you don't need Astral Projector. You do need a couple of medium totem clusters with the totem chaos resistance node, but that shouldn't be too bad since the chances of getting it with Harvest's Reroll w/ Chaos are high. Might be worth keeping an eye on!

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IcedInferno007 wrote:

Anyone looked at tectonic slam, ice crash, earthquake totems?

Definitely interested in Ice Crash, but haven't even begun to crunch numbers.

The more I think about it, I may not wind up updating this guide for now, or to any significant degree anyway.

I'm not all that excited about league starting it, which is a pretty strong indicator to me that I probably shouldn't invest as much time on it as I used to.

Right now I'm leaning towards starting FRite totems since it'll be something new.

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The more I think about it, I may not wind up updating this guide for now, or to any significant degree anyway.

I'm not all that excited about league starting it, which is a pretty strong indicator to me that I probably shouldn't invest as much time on it as I used to.

Right now I'm leaning towards starting FRite totems since it'll be something new.

Oof.

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Wallach wrote:

The more I think about it, I may not wind up updating this guide for now, or to any significant degree anyway.

I'm not all that excited about league starting it, which is a pretty strong indicator to me that I probably shouldn't invest as much time on it as I used to.

Right now I'm leaning towards starting FRite totems since it'll be something new.

Uh this might sound silly, but do you plan to release a build guide/POB for that? I was very excited to play your FP totem so I imagine you'd get FRite totems right as well haha!

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Wallach wrote:

The more I think about it, I may not wind up updating this guide for now, or to any significant degree anyway.

I'm not all that excited about league starting it, which is a pretty strong indicator to me that I probably shouldn't invest as much time on it as I used to.

Right now I'm leaning towards starting FRite totems since it'll be something new.

Well that is unfortunate, I guess all good things come to an end.

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Wallach wrote:

The more I think about it, I may not wind up updating this guide for now, or to any significant degree anyway.

I'm not all that excited about league starting it, which is a pretty strong indicator to me that I probably shouldn't invest as much time on it as I used to.

Right now I'm leaning towards starting FRite totems since it'll be something new.

Would you end up building it similar to dark pact but without the astral projector ring?

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Wallach wrote:

The more I think about it, I may not wind up updating this guide for now, or to any significant degree anyway.

I'm not all that excited about league starting it, which is a pretty strong indicator to me that I probably shouldn't invest as much time on it as I used to.

Right now I'm leaning towards starting FRite totems since it'll be something new.

Thank you man for keeping up this guide for years, literally

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Quintessence wrote:

Well that is unfortunate, I guess all good things come to an end.

I mean, I wouldn't take it to mean the build is dead or anything, but I have pretty particular goals for my own builds. I'm just not as confident this build is going to feel right by me in 3.15, so I don't want to update it and not league start it, only to find out a bunch of people are unhappy league starting it themselves. To me updating a build guide is a clear advertisement that you are confident in other players investing their time in it; I'll need to see for myself if that still feels true for FP totems going forward. It may not really be that big of a deal in the end.

If you're still looking to league start this build yourself, the upside is that there's not going to actually be a ton to change at first glance. Obviously Controlled Destruction has to go, so that should leave for Increased Critical Damage or Increased Critical Strikes depending on what you do to your flasks. Flask changes I can't totally read at the moment without knowing what all of the flask buff orbs are capable of on the unique flasks. Otherwise there's no real item changes or anything to mess with, so the build is still mostly a known quality. If you run into single target boss damage issues (which I expect you will now around the first Sirus kill point of progression), look to do some Ice Spear swapping for the bigger bosses which seemed to work for Grimro just fine last league.

As for FRite totems, I'll probably have a preliminary PoB up in my stream on Friday, but I think you can kind of look at most any Dark Pact totem build and get an idea of how you'd set it up.

Every build is going to feel like shit compared to last league, so it might be a good idea to play something different

I was also thinking Forbidden rite totems or just yolo Eye of winter