Killed Enemies Explode and totem

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Maxtrux wrote:

Depending on the explody effect you are looking for.

If it says "Enemies you kill": tentatively no (totem are proxies, so I could be wrong here)
If it says "Enemies killed by Attacks or Spells": Yes

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jeerinho wrote:

I'm not sure if you are looking for the explode effect to:
1. Help improve clearspeed, or
2. Remove corpses and on-death effects that result from them

Anything that's frozen would shatter. Don't actually need Herald of Ice when you are only looking to remove corpses. HoI will increase your totem damage but your totems cannot proc the AoE granted by it.

Pyre does not help clearspeed because the explosion deals no damage. It only helps in removing corpses only. You can use Pyre for your lightning build because you can ignite with any amount of fire damage no matter how little, unless you are using the Lightning variant of Elemental Hit because it says you don't do other elemental damage.

The labels are sometimes confusing so its best you try Pyre yourself to confirm it since it is cheap. Inpulsa won't work for totem, that's for sure.

Void Sphere is a clunky skill to use but a few hardcore streamers use this skill because that is how much they value it's utility, both for slowing and removing corpses.

Phantasmal Cleave is the funniest thing that ever came out of PoE recently.