Question regarding Ancestral Protector and Scaling

Hi,

I was wondering about the new skill for ascendancy "Ancestral Protector".



In ascendancy I'm going to play with a friend and we both were going to roll chieftain with Ancestral Bond / Soul Mantle to reach 3 totems each and have some fun (We realize it'll be far from good but we look into the fun aspect before anything).

But as I have never really played with Totem and with the lack of ressources concerning this skill I don't really understand the scaling of the skill.

Exemple :
I use a 2H weapon does my damage node for 2h affect the totem ? Or only totem damage node / my str (and auras) ?

If someone could explain to me what will really scale the damage (as of nodes / other mechanics) of those "cute" totems !

Yes, they are very cute but also manly.

Anyway, they will use your equipped weapon for their attacks which will be scaled by all your bonuses that affect melee attacks as well as totem damage.

Thanks for the reply, and ok that's neat !

Also was wondering if I use facebreaker without a weapon, would it works ? I heard it require a weapon but from the screenshot I don't see anything mentionned about it !

I don't think it will work unarmed, haven't really paid much attention to it, but it didn't look ready to attack with no weapon. I think it was some video where someone switched his regular weapon for hegemony, no idea which one it was.

Yeah we should have had it checked out during the time Streamers did alpha Let's Plays...

But I'm gonna assume it just uses melee weapons since it doesn't have unarmed in the key words and it should take your Melee Weapon's Stats just as Siege Ballista does with your Bow and Quiver. You'll be picking out Two-Handed probably anyway for even bigger range.

https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwEBAdwEswUtBqAHdQmWC2EQzBQgGF0aPhrkITQhVScgKS4rtiz7MZ4x-zLRNZI5DjrhOzs8LTzvPfxAoEE_RUdHfk3jUEdR5lhjWOVZ81orXhNeXV8_ZIRlTWaeZ5to8mqlbqpyD3KpdO12rHdTd-N5aHrvfIN8uH_jg1-DzITZhO-FUodqiI-KIoxGjM-QbJd5nsWiAKPyplenlKknqW6plKyqrY2uPq9stC-18rc-vTa-p8BmwKbBBMMTxPbGrsbYz37R_di92WHawdw95FHqGOsJ6-7vDvAf8kX2SPiT-b39MP4K_o8=

For me this is my planned Build for the Ancestral Protector Build. Probably can do it with Duelist & Templar as well.

Haha I suppose you are both right, facebreaker totem will stay in my dreams I guess !
Oh and thanks for the tree, will look into it as I didn't know where to go with it myself !

Edit: Just asked in alpha stream (Liftingnerdbro), and it appear to work the totem boxes ennemy to death ! Gonna try to make a tree around facebreaker !