Need Help with a build (I am potato)

Normally I just follow well put together guides such as Yogi, Lifting and Ziggy's as the passive tree has been quite hard to get a full understanding of for me.



But I have recently (the last week or so) ripped lvl76 "begginers crit ball lightning",
lvl76 "how to 2h flickerstrike" , lvl69 "Quill Rain CoC", and today a lvl60 "blade vortex"

I find myself pretty content with Rips as long as I progress further than I have before and my first lvl76 "crit ball" felt like a real achievement and I wasn't upset at all, quite the opposite, eager to find a new character and use the currency I had built up (despite ripping 3+ex on this one char).

Now.. These are all the builds that I liked the look of / had sufficient guides for my lvl of incompetence (I always need a leveling skill point guide as I am potato) and I would like to make a MagicFind to claw back some currency.

I really like Freezing Pulse as a skill and wouldn't mind making a MF FP Totem build if that is necessary or even possible. My tree making skills are just kind'of abysmal..


This is what I came up with as a tree.. no hate kappa.


Could I get some help with this or even pointed in the direction of a similar style MF build? I had a lot of trouble finding any current MF's that I liked the look of. Cheers.

This is the a very good magic find build [2.1] Caustic Arrow MF Guide 340+ IIR/45+ IIQ [HC/SC Viable]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1381964

Under Gameplay section you should get more help...

Spell Totem Gem has a penalty in damage and cast speed, it is posible to make it work, but you gonna struck at low level maps, your DPS will be low.

Remember that FP will not deal Status Aliments with that tree, you don't have any crits and your freeze chances are too low. So you can't freeze cold res mobs. Cold penetration and Frostbite curse are mandatory in that configuration.

As for me drop those shield resistence points and equip 2 Consuming Dark, forget Status Aliments, cold pentration and you can put another curse and more important chaos damage instead Cold Penetration. Will be a Boost DPS.

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This is the a very good magic find build [2.1] Caustic Arrow MF Guide 340+ IIR/45+ IIQ [HC/SC Viable]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1381964

I find Caustic Arrow extremely boring, I have checked out some builds on it as they are one of the very few MF's out there. But thanks for the reply

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Spell Totem Gem has a penalty in damage and cast speed, it is posible to make it work, but you gonna struck at low level maps, your DPS will be low.

Remember that FP will not deal Status Aliments with that tree, you don't have any crits and your freeze chances are too low. So you can't freeze cold res mobs. Cold penetration and Frostbite curse are mandatory in that configuration.

As for me drop those shield resistence points and equip 2 Consuming Dark, forget Status Aliments, cold pentration and you can put another curse and more important chaos damage instead Cold Penetration. Will be a Boost DPS.

You killed my brain, why wont it deal status ailments? That is one of my favourite parts of FP :/ and aren't consuming dark +1 to fire gems and quite expensive? Also feel like id need a shield to keep my life/res/mitigation up if not the IIR shield, I don't know the first thing about changing to chaos dmg either.

is it clear how potato i am

Shock, Ignite and Freeze are dealt by elemental damage, but there is a catch... as always
PoE Wiki says:
Mechanics
"A hit of damage that has a chance to freeze is capable of inflicting freeze. Critical strikes inherently have a 100% chance to freeze. By default, only cold damage is able to inflict freeze, but certain equipment such as The Three Dragons

Base freeze duration is 60 milliseconds for every 1% of the target's maximum life (before party scaling) dealt by Cold damage, up to a maximum of 50%. If the duration would be below 0.3 seconds, the freeze effect is not applied.[1] Freeze duration can be lengthened by effects such as the Freeze Duration nodes on the passive tree or the Temporal Chains curse.

When a target is frozen, it is also chilled for the entire freeze duration, plus an additional 300 ms."

This means if you don't deal crits you have to satck chance to freeze and deal 3% of mob life as damage in one hit (Faster Casting will increse your DPS but even with less chance to freeze).
Thats why you won't be able to freeze with that Spell Totem configuration.
I make a Permafreeze in Talisman, pure crit Freezing Pulse and stack freeze duration. (no totem)

My current tree


Yeah I understand the status ailments, I was planning on running crit items but have decided to pick up some more in the tree, decided to fuckit and go, started my build ditched the totems, FP always has good dps for me so i figured it could handle the item slots having IIR/IIQ just gonna try it out, please point out any obvious flaws im missing in the tree :p

For me I will take off "frost walker" node and the ones up (5), and take "arcane potency", will be better with "Inevitable Judgment" from Inquisitor, more crits more freeze!

Awesome, thanks for the help :D

 Hello, I am an above average solo player (but never will be elite) that doesn't ever care to learn mix/maxing or PoE offense/defense/passive tree build mathematics at all. I've been here from closed beta, have weathered/suffered through PoE:The Desync Years, and now Merc act 4 and lousy map tier drop rates. I just usually go with my personal desires on trying a new build regardless of endgame viability or not.

 I hadn't made a Templar build (been making archer ranged builds last year) in a long while so for Ascendancy I wanted some kind of fairly tanky wander/caster build so the Templar was the logical start. I got a Magma Orb pretty early so I decided to go with that build offense and make a fire caster. Fire Totem is a great leveling tool and that was my go to choice so that meant fire and elemental passives and intelligence with enough strength and dexterity to keep leveling up my skill gems. This has worked very well for me (so far) and I'm into mapping at level 74. Perandus League is very good and Cadiro Perandus occasionally has some wonderful items for sale such as these:


Also I got this wand to drop:


Doesn't look too impressive but for casting FP as my single target skill the +1 to level of gems and Spell Echo makes it very powerful (over 11K DPS without investing in cold passives at the top of the tree) plus increased spell damage and added intelligence is nice. Anyway, I bought a GMP for magma orb to lay down a wall of magma (my scorched earth method to kill mobs fast) and with FP as a fire + ice offense this combination is working very well and it's extremely fun to fill half the screen with bouncing magma orbs and watch the mobs getting obliterated and for the tougher rares or harder creatures FP with the wand spell echo (equates to getting double freezing pulses in the same cast time) I can burn + freeze them to death very fast. I grabbed the Fire and Cold passives in the left side with Celestial Judgment and Punishment and other fire nodes + Shamanistic Fury for my Fire Totem on the way to the top for Heart of Flame. I'm now heading down to get the wheel of life passives (or whatever we call it now) and there's another totem passive (Totemic Mastery) that I can pick up after I get more life. Here's my passive tree:
Wander Caster Templar Hierophant passive tree

 Now here's the best jaw dropping (completely unintentional and unknown) moment. I had just beaten Normal Labyrinth and got my first 2 Ascendancy sub-skill points. Now "what class to use for my Templar"... decisions, decisions... looking at Hierophant... HOLY SHIT!!! I can cast 3 totems at once in that path... that's a winner for sure. I had to overlevel enough to get through Cruel Labyrinth but with the second 2 points I now can cast 3 Flame Totems and lay down the wall of magma and follow that with FP to lay waist to all but the toughest of creatures. It has allowed me to run Merc act 4 with no deaths (skipping the 3rd Belly of The Beast as usual) and in maps it's a blast to destroy all mobs super fast (with normal mobs it's now you see them, now you don't) and even the end bosses are going down fast. The only thing I need is more life and mana (can never have too much of these). At level 74 I should be good for the Merc Labyrinth run now (wish me luck) or maybe wait until level 75 (do I still need to be 10 levels above Lab map level for safety?).

 Hope you can work a build that you find as fun to play as I'm having with my Wander/Caster Fire+Ice Templar Hierophant.


Note: I found out years ago that if you URL your links and then edit it such that for the beginning url the close bracket is replaced with an = sign and then right after the HTTPS address you put a close bracket and then type in whatever word(s) you want be displayed as the actual link (just before the [/url]) then you don't get the long ugly URL address but only the nice text that is the link. See how I did it for the link to my passive tree as an example of how that works. I also put in a color code to make it look pretty (optional). How to color code in a post can be found here: Color - Give the Forums a little Colour.

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Hope you can work a build that you find as fun to play as I'm having with my Wander/Caster Fire+Ice Templar Hierophant.

Daym, thanks for the very informative reply :) FP is probably my favourite skill right now although flicker was a blast and I had 50K+ dps when I died at lvl 76, amazing clear speed also running the Daresso's which is only 1c now!? so underrated!

I too dabbled in POE back in the day of the desync, only just returned for Perandus League and have racked up a (debate'bly unsafe) ~175hours ingame in the past 2 weeks.

After my recent attempts>failures in HC I'm going to try and make this build a Magic Finder, as best I can.


Thanks for the tips on URL links too that's good stuff to know :D