Advice needed for dual flame totem build

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adghar wrote:

First, a disclaimer that I consider myself a hipster builder, and so my recommendations may not be "optimal."

Personally, I still run Fire Penetration for powering up the initial hit. That may be because the last time I played a Fire Trapper, I went for crit, in which case the crit burn scales off of the initial hit. So it was nice because 2 out of 3 of the "damage sources" within Fire Trap scaled off of Fire PEnetration. Maybe not in your case since you'll want to avoid crit for flame totem, meaning it'd only increase 1 out of 2 of the "damage sources" of Fire Trap? I'm not sure.

If it bothers you to lose efficiency like that, area bonuses should apply to both the initial hit and the burning ground. (As nerdy proof, the Damage over Time page on the wiki claims that DOTs are tagged with delivery system, i.e. area, so area bonuses should work with them). This would include area damage node and Increased Area of Effect and Concentrated Effect.

tl;dr if I were in your shoes I would probably run Fire Trap - Increased Area of Effect - Concentrated Effect - Multiple Traps. Maybe sub in Increased Burning Damage or Fire Penetration instead of Multiple Traps IF I find myself wanting to do more focused/single target damage and less crowd-clearing damage.

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Kaicimo wrote:

Maybe as I level up and get more used to non-selfcasting, I will reconsider but at this point I'm looking more for direct damage skills I can use.