Ancestral Warchief and Protector range

Hey mates

How close to the totem my character needs to be in order to receive its buffs?

To receive the bonus attack speed or melee phys damage, the totem just needs to be alive. You don't need to be near it to get the bonus.

EDIT: This is not true. See below for correct info.

Interesting,PoE Wiki claims I have to be near the totem to get bonuses.

That was during 2.2 They tweaked Ancestral Totems in 2.3 slightly after the long list of complaints.

The patch notes don't agree with you two at all.... They tweaked the ancestor totems to remain active 40% further away from the owner than they were in 2.2. Source https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1667259/page/1. The distance is still finite, it's just now, like, a whole screen away or something.

So you still need to be "near" the totem to get the bonus, just not as near as you used to.

If you can report seeing the buff in the top-left corner of your screen from 2 or more screens away, this is a bug and should be reported.

Remaining active is with the red guy. It doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as giving the bonus. Also, there's no buff icon for it, you need to check your tooltip dps to see if the bonus is active.

However, this is all super easy to test in game, so I tested it. If the red guy is floating over your totem, then you have the bonus, otherwise you don't.

I didn't say that they just had to be alive though. I'm running a Warchief Build and I know for a fact that the Buff still only activates when they are "active". But aside from that Ancestral Totems just got a Buff to how far you have to be before they become "inactive".

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I didn't say that they just had to be alive though. I'm running a Warchief Build and I know for a fact that the Buff still only activates when they are "active". But aside from that Ancestral Totems just got a Buff to how far you have to be before they become "inactive".

You said, in direct response to "I have to be near the totem to get bonuses", that that was "during 2.2", implying directly that this was no longer the case in 2.3. Are you just terrible at reading comprehension? Because right now it sounds like you're backtracking.