The Thiccest Totem - Tawhoa's Tending [0.3]

They said it wasn't possible, that it was a worthless skill gem. I am here to prove that wrong.



(This is not a top tier build, but a quality meme build)

Pros:
-It's unorthodox and off meta
-We ignore so many stats in the game
-Thicc Totem
-Can do T15 and fairly tanky
-1 skill

Con:
-Can't scale for uber bosses
-You have to stand close to enemies for mana
-No DPS meter

Quick Video on the build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2Ii_CEPNY

POB: https://pastebin.com/A8jk7QD8

This build is centered around the new lineage support gem: Tawhoa's Tending



This should explain the general build, but not 100% every detail as it's flexible.

Totems explode on death for 10% of their max life as physical damage.
However, summoning a totem past your cap counts as "dying" in this case.


What scales this is:
-Totem Life
-Global Physical damage
-Totem damage.
-Totem Placement Speed
-Gem Level (for life)
-Totem limit (for Greatwood Totems)
-Weapon as extra as % Damage

I played around a lot on various bosses watching the numbers. Didn't do hard crunching, but observed numbers went up.

Links:
Shockwave totem - Tahowa's Tending - Urgent Totems - Greatwood totems - Overabundance - Font of Mana

Also brutality helps here a lot so if you need more single target swap that out for probably either Urgent Totems.


This is for life, placement speed, and font of mana is mandatory as this build chugs mana so fast. Thankfully the explosion will leech if you are within range giving permanent sustain on the mana.

Alternatively you go blood magic and then use font of blood which causes you to regen life very very quickly, but if not close enough for clearing it can get you killed too as the totems are fairly pricey in cost.

Warbringer Ascendancy order:
Answered Call - Wooden Wall - Anvil's Weight - Imploding Impacts


Gear:

Most Important 1H Melee Weapon - Desecrated Ulaman line: Melee Attack skills have +1 to Maximum Summon Totems, +X to Melee Skill gems


Uniques:

Idol of Uldurn Crim Amulet - Gives +1 to totem limit


Optional:
Crown of the Victor if you just want more toem life and damage, but not very good defensively.
Empire's Grasp for 20% Global Physical damage
Adorned with corrupted magic Totem Life + Totem Placement Speed gems
^ This gives the highest max life and with a high level adorned you can break 50k totem life

Jewels:
Global phys/Totem Damage
Totem Life
Totem Placement Speed

That's really it. Everything else is optional how you want to build. I opted into armour with high armour also applies to elemental damage and block chance.

Level with whatever and then spec into this also.

Enjoy everyone!~

I swapped from blood magic with font to Undying Hate tecrod so now I can use it at range with 10-15k life regen.

This allows you to use Brutality and Heft or Ulnetols.

Im playing Titan with Giants Blood, 2 weapons with +1 and the +1 on the tree maxes out the support gem.

Going Titan gets 50% inc effect of the small nodes which in turn gets you more damage, life and placement speed for totems.

Im at 80,000 totem life at Gem level 38.