Fun Totem builds that still clear content?

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kompaniet wrote:

it works very well.

witch or templar be better? dunno if totem would work well with shadow.

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JohnNamikaze wrote:

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1453R wrote:

You mention the Meme Ballista BotW build, but not russellhentz's absolutely hysterical Tactical Nuke build? Shame on you! :P

The Last Totem Build You'll ever Need

The build is nice, but you can pretty much use Sire of Shards + Flame Totem as a 5L setup to emulate that with knockback and the reverse knockback gloves. I know OP does not want any FT ideas, but it accomplishes the same thing. As for the barrage setup, I like the non-totem version of it with three volley fire jewels (though, that build of the week video had like 5 volley fire socketed in the tree). Just to note, I am not trying to downplay the creativity with russellhentz's build, but there are other variations to that archtype.

I'd argue that Tac Nuke gets better coverage than Sire of Shards Flame Totem, given that the latter has much shorter range and fires in five distinct spokes that critters can get between and be missed in, as opposed to vast fields of hundreds of chaining arrows. Nevertheless, the basic concept can be done with a few different builds, yeah, but the basic concept is still worth mentioning as a Fun Totem Build.

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Thomasmgp wrote:

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kompaniet wrote:

it works very well.

witch or templar be better? dunno if totem would work well with shadow.

i'm pretty sure both templar and witch are good options. don't know about shadow. but why not.

For Frostbolt totems specifically? Depends on what you're doing. I wouldn't consider Frostbolt a particularly good or bad skill for toteming with, it mostly just is a skill, and that skill can be put on totems.

Given Frostbolt's low crit chance (bad for Critquisitor), the mechanics of totems in general (bad for Ignites and thus Elementalist prolif, plus no need for reflect mitigation), and the Shadow's position away from a lot of totem junk in the tree plus almost total lack of support for totems in its Ascendancies...you may honestly want to consider Chieftain. Drop FB totems near enemies with Arohongui and get dat sikk damage debuff on enemies, totem leech with Hinekora, so on and so forth. You'd need fire conversion, but Avatar of Flame can help with that. AoF and Cold to Fire does the job. Might be a little janky to get going, but it'd be a thing that could be done.

I would generally recommend Frostbolt self-cast, though. Mathil put out a guide on Frostbolting For Great Aesthetics yesterday that might be of use. That Voidbolt MTX is really nice, have thought about trying it myself at some point.