[2.5] ES / Quad-Flame Totem Build - need Help

Hello everyone,

I'm relatively new to this game (250 hours in and I still consider myself a noob... great game! ;) ) and now I need help for the first time.

So, after building an Arc/Life Scion with whom I can run any non-reflect Maps up until Tier 13 or something like that, I decided to start a new Char in Breach and to participate in my first challenge League. It's pretty fun so far, and I just began to run the first few maps, mostly Tier 1 up until Tier 4. Yesterday I tried to run the Merciless Labyrinth for the first time, and I failed miserably on pretty much anything besides the traps. Breaches kill me almost instantly as they begin swarming me from every side, trash that has huge burst kills me as well. I'm looking for any tipps on how to improve my Equipment and or Playstyle.

My Character: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Fangschrecke/characters


My intended build:


As for improving:

I intend to run Warlords Mark to trigger my Immortal Call when I take too much Phys. Damage or to activate my Vaal Immortall Call. How could I use a second curse, aside from Blood Magic? (I'm currently going with Flammability as an Aura.)

I'd like to get Rumi's and Lavianga's for Sustain / Survival


Of course, my endgoal is to obtain Shavronne's Wrappings, but I still don't know what else I could improve. Any help is much appreciated.

I've played about the same amount as you have, so I'm not sure if this will be much help, but I'm currently running a similar totem based templar using essence drain. I've only gotten to about T8 maps but those are pretty smooth so far.

Regarding your passive Tree, I noticed there was only 1 jewel socket, and you were missing the one with added ele dmg. Jewels with mods like totem,spell,fire,projectile damage are huge damage boosts, and can even offer max life if you're more life based.

Totem builds at this non-expert level may have a hard time with breaches that aren't under level, and after coming from a life leeching slayer, not having leech and only relying on flasks can be a real chore. Needless to say instant life/mana flasks are awesome.

Here's a bit of a hypothetical passive tree semi-based on what I'm uitilizing:
http://poeplanner.com/AAQAAN0FAABsaPLwH6IABLPhc5o7gpvtIO081aZXlClPnjyMdrcxZp5Y5SoTWiuj8uw4hXtmVHIPcYV65mP9Rtc62K9sC2HGrhDM_od7IPiTjEYrtjwtg1-DzLc-_grYvTWStfJuqmSEBqD5vUrIWlKomnvDwGb53YuMwJoJqtn8RUcy0evufIOnlF5d0f2FMprgRZ1TUhEtLJwQWIdlr7cyNB8CNsWD80ShrhLYJFZIpwiPRlH7zRYfGJuh99esmDpYVcZ0VV8qwxMc3I8a8WwhsDT3l4UulDbYSRsqjexVAAAAAAA=

Mind over matter helps synergize with the ascendancy passives anyway, but does mean your mana will get eaten up, I focused on mana regen with malachai's Vision helm (and a few valls) to rely less on the instant mana flasks.

I think going elemental overload with the totem crit nodes may help up your damage, but this would require a spell crit dagger that may or may not be easily available. If not, just drop those nodes anyway.

Also another reason I've been feeling the utility of jewel slots is I just discovered rain of splinters, a really awesome jewel that allowed my totem guy to clear way smoother.

Also if you want an idea about how totem builds done by an expert would look like:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1809143
although I would never afford an 8 ex tukohamas wouldn't actually try that build