Need Help with a build (I am potato)

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obviouscrisp wrote:

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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

Thank you. The PoE community is the best of any game I've invested time into and I always try to give back when I can (have enough knowledge to talk intelligently as possible on the specific PoE topic). I've always avoided the extra stress of HC but with Ascendancy and Perandus League I may make an HC build after I get my Templar into the mid 80s and decide I'm finished.

If you want a FP totem build here is mine from Talisman. I loosely followed DonaldF's guide. Below is my tree and gear. I haven't had the urge to go back and run the ascendancy trials in STD yet w/ her since I'm having fun with my trapper in PSC.

I hope this helps!

Tree


Gear

 Interssting build KrazyEd. Ancestral Bond used to be the way to cast 2 totems (there's a gear that allows an additional totem too but can't remember the name) but now that I've found that the Hierophant subclass has a node that allows for 3 totems and still be able to cast other skills such as FP that if you want to build around multiple totems then Hierophant is pretty much the only way to go (3 Fire Totems work spectacularly for my Templar build).

 With the ability to cast 3 totems the Hierophant opens up a world of Totem casting builds. I stumbled upon Hierophant subclass while building around Flame Totem but I can see many other totem builds by using:

you will have many more choices of triple totem builds. My next one will probably be a chaos/poison gas totem build. The possible combinations are many.

 Thank you GGG for Ascendancy subclasses. You may have wrecked some builds but you have opened up PoE to a whole new world of interesting builds.

Edit: In reading the previous posts in this thread it is true that Spell Totem has been nerfed quite a lot and is not as DPS effective as a straight up Fire Totem (or any other offense totem that doesn't require the Spell Totem support gem).

Didn't see it mentioned, but FP has a base 25% chance to freeze (decreases with distance) meaning crit and or chance to freeze are not necessarily required (but are desirable as the chance does decrease to 0 after a certain distance, you can keep the freeze chance higher over distance with faster projectiles :)

 FP is interesting from the mana standpoint that even though I get double cast speed with the Spell Echo of the wand plus and rapid cast rate with the Faster Casting support gem and it uses up all my mana it still continues casting until I stop. I remember something being said by GGG that they made a change so that some skills would continue to work once cast and continued (spamming the skill) even though your mana runs out. That's probably why when I use FP and with the higher mana cost it drains my mana but still works until I stop it.