Totem explode on Death, dealing 300% of their life as physical damage.

It's hard to tell if certain interactions actually works with totem explosion.

I was wondering if the essence craft mod that states 'Socketed Gems Gain 50% of Physical damage as extra lightning damage' work if let say Decoy Totem is socketed into it.

Would the explosion gain that extra damage?

Or if the totem was socketed into an item such as a Demon Crown, which states that socketed skills apply exposure on hit. Would the explosion from the totem be able to apply this exposure?

Skills are not involved in totems exploding and therefore supporting them offensively is pointless. Your stats are not considered either becasue of this (your skills are a conduit to your stats).

You can scale totem life and use something like Pride to improve the damage.

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MonaHuna wrote:

Your stats are not considered either becasue of this (your skills are a conduit to your stats).

I initailly decided that totems are the source of such explosions which is not true in this case. It's still your damage so you can scale it like a general explosion (conversion, global damage, crits, ailments).

Here's an example I accidently found.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/12jmuic/exploding_totems_part_2_phys_conversion_chieftain/