[3.23] MoM Crit Power Siphon Totem Hierophant

Have restarted this league with this character and i am pretty happy. Had my best level experience so far, the brand leveling is just so smooth and you explained the transition into the MoM very well.

I have to say levels 60-72 were pretty tough for me and I was also very stupid to not swap the divine blessing to the eternal blessing once i picked up the sublime jewel. I was literally pressing the same key every 10 seconds to get my divine blessing up. After 10 levels or so, I realised, that there must be something better than divine blessing and I figured out there exists an eternal blessing :)

The damage and the tankiness at 90 are very solid and the build can definetly deal with T16 map. My first Maven was however pretty bad, since I didn't have enough damage yet, and she destroyed the ballista totems just too fast. In general I would say that this is the biggest issue. The totems just die too fast. If there was somekind of 5 secs of invincibility upon casting that would increase the builds potential a lot. For instance the skele mage archetype has some notable passive on a cluster that gives a 5 sec invincibility to the skele mages.

Tried a feared invitation without any modifiers but I was not able to clear it due to this fact. I have now 10mil dps and very good tankiness, but it's not enough if your totems die too fast. Can we improve their survivability?

I crafted my wand according to this,

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zorker wrote:

I was sitting on 30+ pure div yesterday and decided on crafting a better wand.
Crafting process:
1. Buy a ilvl 85 Imbued wand with fractured +19% increased attack speed
2. Harvest reforge crit until you hit T1 crit chance and another really good suffix
3. Make sure suffixes are full
4. Bench Craft suffixes cannot be changed (bench, 2DIV)
5. Veiled Chaos Orb. Wand should have 1 veiled prefix thereafter. If not and the second prefix is trash say goodbuy to 2DIV and go back to step 4. If the prefixes are full try to save the item by annulling a prefix and going back to step 4. If you hit a suffix go back to step 2.
6. !!!Before unveiling bench craft a low %phys damage roll to block it
7. Unveil and pray for any spell damage or if lucky %elemental pen roll. If the unveil failed say goodbuy to 2DIV and go back to step 4.
8. Bench craft fire damage to spells on the wand to block it.
9. Close your eyes and pray while slamming an exalt. Hope for super high mana, spell damage, %lightning damage, elemental damage with attack or flat lightning
10. Either you are happy with the outcome or you can go back to step 4.
11. If happy bench craft a prefix of your liking.
12. Hillock quality to at least 24% (he has to be in Transportation to do it.)
13. Harvest enchant "Quality does not increase physical damage, 1% increased attack speed per 8% quality". Costs 5000 yellow juice. Will give you another +3% local attack speed.

which was nice, but actually it's not a huge difference to an essence spammed lightning damage wand. I mean I spent about 20 divines to get this:



I can recommend to craft the suffixes with an essence, it makes things so much more easy. I checked craft of exile and harvest reforge costs much more than chaos spamming. But essences are even cheaper here.

I do however wonder about the instruments of virtue ascendancy node of the inquisitor (picking up really cheap forbidden jewels here). I mean the battle mage is obviously not helping very much, but the 30% more attack damage seems pretty nice. I don't know if it's really worth it, and perhaps the second big cluster with wand attack nodes that I have here are pretty stupid, but that's what I tried to make the build a bit nicer.

I sadly was not able to find the helmet enchant on the market. At this point of the league there is unfortunately not enough supply anymore. Got a 40% less berserk decay enchant from my own labs, but it's kinda useless. Would take me 50 (uber) uber labs to farm to get that helmet enchant to get berserk going. Perhaps the berserk is the last thing I need to beat the feared...

But thanks for the build, was a nice experience. Probably going to try to farm some more challenges with it, or some currency.

My pob, if you wanna look at the second cluster: https://pastebin.com/rCuj17vd

Has anyone tried using flame wall? After my switch to LC gear my dps kind of dropped.
So just to try I added frenzy - coc - sniper mark - flame wall. Seems like it does add nice dps.
I started seeing bosses / rare going down fater than before. I haven't checked anything on pob but if anyone else can also test it would be great.

I also took some shock nodes to improve dps, not sure if that is working properly.

Thanks for the build, Zorker.
It's been a great experience all along the league.
I haven't enjoied the game this much since Ritual.

I loved the clearing, I loved the bossing and everything in between.

By the looks of it, next league it will be viable as much as Sanctum, so I reccommend it to anyone who wanna try a fun attack totem build.

The new elemental mastery in 3.21 is insane.

My red map PoB with imo totally achivable gear lists me at 18m+ guardian dps with a bad wand, no flasks and no sigil of power.

https://pobb.in/pvaB0fwBr72c

Thoughts on the fixed Vengeant Cascade as an anoint? Would lose a totem but might be massive for the build.

Looks nice. Any way to leaguestart with this? How to build? :)

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SpreeHD wrote:

Thoughts on the fixed Vengeant Cascade as an anoint? Would lose a totem but might be massive for the build.

Build is using Phantasmal Balista Totem for 10% return but yes 100% return might be massive. Thanks for the hint it is totally worth a try.

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_maestro_t wrote:

Looks nice. Any way to leaguestart with this? How to build? :)

Yes all that is in the first post. A full leveling guide for league start.

Basically the dea is
Purifying Flame+Holy Flame Totem into
Storm Brand+Wave of Conviction into
Armageddon Brand+Wave of Conviction

You farm with Armageddon Brand until you can buy Mind of the Council and a rare wand/Piscerator. I will add in ideas from Jungroan from his Armageddon Brand leveling guide.

But all the steps are in the first post. I will update the PoBs in the next days.

Awesome, thanks. Didnt see that.

Will give it a try this league :)

Did you have any isues with ballista survivability?
they die in 1 hit in t10 maps

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Dalrost wrote:

Did you have any isues with ballista survivability?
they die in 1 hit in t10 maps

Later build variants make use of Impossible Escape which allows speccing into Ironwood. I never really notice it though. When mapping you place a bunch of Kinetic Blast totems every now and then while moving through the map. The build places a totem every 0.15 seconds. The level of the ballista totem support gem helps a lot too.

On bosses you setup your Power Siphon totems and refresh them if you have too. Which is done in no time.

You can spec into Primal Manifestation if you really want too.

Maybe your damage is lacking a bit and you are having some clear speed issues. Normally KB totems wipe out any trash mobs in a blink.