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

When I started playing POE it was with a RF totem Chieftain. Then moved to an arc totem build and ended playing Wallach's FP totem hiero for like 5-6 leagues.

I was so happy that only a small amount of the players in poe.ninja were playing FP totems cause I thought we were out of sight of the nerfing bat .... guess I couldn't be more wrong hehe.

I trust Wallach will come with a solution for either FP or move to another totem build, but sure, ill follow him in his next build.

Thanks! and see you next league.

Game is just garbage at the moment. It is an unbelievable shame.
The campaign experience was torture should not take 8 minutes to kill Brutus, that isnt even because of the risk of dying, that is literally sitting there thumping him to death.

Early mapping was ok felt the same to be honest.
Red maps though just feels more like the campaign now. Each map, if playing safely, takes around 10 minutes to complete with just 1-2 league mechanics (including Expedition). Previously it usually took anywhere from 2-6 minutes depending on how many league mechanics were active.

Despite being immune to freeze with arctic armour - still get frozen, though it is the combination of chill and stun lock. Granted there are ways to resolve that, just dont have the drive to do so.

The buff to poison is just insane and it is soo easy now to get one shot off screen.

Previously 2 leagues combined! I died only 134 times with 102 being from Ultimatum (that was a challenging league mechanic especially in juiced maps) and in both leagues I completed all content.
This league I have died 378 times and I have only reached A3 conquerors ~T12-14 maps.
This league I have around 8k eHP, previous leagues I had 5.5k eHP. Damage is fine though in this league, not fantastic but its enough to kill comfortably, including bosses (though have not reached Sirus, Shaper, Elder, Maven or any Maven Challenge.

Just not fun anymore, the game is an actual chore and thats not the grinding currency or anything like that, just doing a single map is a chore. Multiply this by the 1000's of maps you would need to do it actually de-motivates.

Irony being though I actually agree with some of the changes but they shouldnt have done it all at the same time.

Either way, after playing since Beta it is finally time to give POE a rest. May play the odd map here/there and will see what the next update holds but for the first time ever will stop playing a league after 3 weeks - always played up until the next announcement.

So sad.

This league is the one i died the least inn...

How i can generate power and endurance charge?

For me they obviously trying to slow down the game before PoE2 release so people can get used to it because PoE 2 will be slower.

I dont think its a bad thing tho, I was never zoom zoom type of player.

@Mentalmike
Sorry but if you needed 8 minutes to kill Brutus its obviously something wrong with your gameplay. My first attempt on him on my starter took like 40 seconds. I know some skills are better or worse but cmon, 8 minutes?

3k hrs down the drain on this game HC player, 1 year break, come back now with a friend who suggested we try, first thing I wanted to do was play FP totems.

I gave it a go this patch and while I had some fun it #1 doesn't do enough damage(anymore) and #2 have enough defenses to stand up to HC at all this patch, worst of both ends, hence why everyone playing glad/maxblock meta herding or FR version of this build, which is purely out of survival instinct and addiction, the desire to be good, not because they particularly enjoy the skill or playstyle of course. But It's understandable I mean what can they enjoy burning arrow? LOL

Let me just say it's a well made guide, not the fault of the build or its creator(s) it's just the fault of the [Removed by Support] devs of this game constantly fucking with their players Imagine how much fun people could have if they made all skills somewhat decent and usable with right gear, be able to come back to play their doomflecher, reaver, or miners, winter orber. No you cannot have that, you are literally commanded as a player of this game to chase a pre selected meta, if you wish to do well because other skills/builds they artificially went and destroyed at the beginning of every new league rinse and repeat and so much more. Who thinks that's fun?

POE to me is just a massive graveyard of dead builds, dead players and soon dead game, I'm finished wasting my time on being micromanaged or told [Removed by Support] what I can and can't play while he constantly destroys the normal/fun builds and skills I enjoy playing into utter inferiority, worse thing yet these [Removed by Support] as seen this patch to like their new game release by just artificially increasing difficulty on content they've done millions of times over, they think you/us will enjoy that, then act arrogantly "surprised" that people don't like it. They're just that out of touch, [Removed by Support] Hence they are not getting a single crown out of me, end of.

The 8 minutes was in a party of 5. The increased life was insane. The problem was that we all kept running out of mana potions so it resulted in bashing him to death. However regardless in Act 1 it should not have to resort to that. We were not even dying.

Thankfully my standard char is still pretty strong even if it took an almost 50% DPS nerf, now i barely scratch 14m with all 5 totems
this league i didn't even bother making a new character, and if it continues i'll give away my items in global 1 and say goodbye

I don't know how to link items from the passive tree.

Have a watchers eye with added cold damage hatred mod.
Have a large cold cluster with blanketed snow and vengeful commander.
Totem damage medium - Sleepless + Echo
Projectile medium - Repeater + streamlined

What I have so far.
Wands were 1 Ex each.
6 linked the chest myself with <200 fusings.

Current hideout DPS sits at 100k
Last league I had it somewhere around 160k

Starting out with this build by the time I got to red maps the loss in damage was noticeable, I couldn't progress further in red maps, so I had to switch to FR totems until I got enough currency to invest.
Now I'm able to do T16 with ease, but bossing is a little slow for my liking.


Upgrades I hope to make.
Cowards legacy, expensive this league 12+ Ex.
Better wands 5+ Ex.
Large cold cluster with prismatic heart, will try roll myself.

The build is still pretty strong with enough investment, I've spent about 300ex on this build, now at level 96 I've cleared all endgame bosses at AWl9, 410k hideout DPS for Freezing Pulse and 82k hideout DPS for ice spear with Awakened GMP, Sirus, Maven and conquerors can be melted in seconds. I'm still trying to craft two good wands and level up a little bit for the second large cluster jewel.

Well everything for Totem build is way more expensive this league than last league but running logbooks is a very good way to make money, like 1+ex profit per logbook in average, just don't forget to reroll (using blessed orbs) the implicit modifier numbers if they are not good.