Are'nt totems boring?

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kurth83 wrote:

I am a huge fan of summoner builds myself, been playing pet classes for a long time (EQ, D2, WOW, POE):

"And in PoE there are few things more satisfying than having 10 Zombies, 5 Specters, 50 Skeletons, and 50 Raging Spirits all at once"

I think you meant 10 skellies, but yeah, minus the spectres, you just described my favorite build. :-) Watching skulls roar from pack to pack destroying everything in sight is my most favorite thing to do in this game. :-)

I get 14 Skeletons from Summon Skeletons (6 base, 6 from passives, 2 from Queen's Escape). Then I drop Vaal Summon Skeletons on top of that, which is counted separately from your maximum. Mine actually drops 32 right now, so mu max is actually 46 all told, but at level 20 VSS summons 36 for an even 50.

Side note: Queen's Escape gives 80% global minion speed, so those flaming skulls are god damn quick.

Love totems. One of my two builds is a dual flame totem.

If you just place totems and run away, yeah, that can be boring even if safe. I use other skills in conjunction with them. And your positioning on the screen is important in relation to where enemies are streaming in and where your totems are to ensure you juggle aggro to the best of your ability.

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The_Gurk wrote:

Fight the power, say no to totems! Kill with power, not with wimpy immobile turdnuggets.

You say that now... until you group with someone using those "turdnuggets" and they kill everything just off the screen faster than you can ever reach it with melee.

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AkuTenshiiZero wrote:

I get 14 Skeletons from Summon Skeletons (6 base, 6 from passives, 2 from Queen's Escape). Then I drop Vaal Summon Skeletons on top of that, which is counted separately from your maximum. Mine actually drops 32 right now, so mu max is actually 46 all told, but at level 20 VSS summons 36 for an even 50.

Don't forger that max skeletons mods affect vaal summon skeletons too and it's possible to get another cast off before they expire. I get six from nodes, two from an Army of Bones jewel and two from Queen's Escape for a total of 10 extra skeletons. My VSS is currently limited to 45 and normal skeletons to 16. Both are level 19. That's 61 skeletons total. With all the duration mods from nodes and Queen's Escape they last over a minute. It's not a problem to get the required 64 kills for a second cast in under a minute.

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AkuTenshiiZero wrote:

Side note: Queen's Escape gives 80% global minion speed, so those flaming skulls are god damn quick.

Especially if you link them with minion speed.

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cipher_nemo wrote:

You say that now... until you group with someone using those "turdnuggets" and they kill everything just off the screen faster than you can ever reach it with melee.

Was that a reference to my turdnuggets? I don't think they were quite that fast.

Playing my 1st totem build right now as my 1st char in Essence. Hierophant, triple Chieftan Totems. Anything they don't kill in 3s I add dps with Sunder.

I'm enjoying it because it's different from everything else I have ever played in this game.

totems and traps are awesome!!

RF totems is one of my favorite builds

not a fan of Totems ever since the Spork in Beta... but they are undeniably safe, and a great way of keeping DPS on a boss while at the same time dodging its attacks.
great for HC, as my still-alive Assassin shows.

plus, some of them are actually fun to play.
broken as fuck, but fun nonetheless:

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The_Gurk wrote:

Yes. Yes they are.

Playing HC I definitely see why people play totems, safe, relatively fast, cheap, relatively strong. I have even done so myself once. But! You make all the right points.. Why play totems when you can go cyclone, or eq or TS or arc?!

Fight the power, say no to totems! Kill with power, not with wimpy immobile turdnuggets.

Why does melee even exist, pretty hard to go back to my cyclone after watching this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOy4bUXGAek

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Auxion wrote:

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The_Gurk wrote:

Yes. Yes they are.

Playing HC I definitely see why people play totems, safe, relatively fast, cheap, relatively strong. I have even done so myself once. But! You make all the right points.. Why play totems when you can go cyclone, or eq or TS or arc?!

Fight the power, say no to totems! Kill with power, not with wimpy immobile turdnuggets.

Why does melee even exist, pretty hard to go back to my cyclone after watching this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOy4bUXGAek

holy .... it's the "play as Abaxoth" build.