Dual Raging Spirit Totem three Dragons//windscream//Dual Curse// MF PLEASE HELP

Im a passionated PoE player and this is my first build i will try on my own so please give me some tips and hints

My Idea for the next 1 Month league or maybe in the new challange leagues if the build is nice, is a dual Totem Raging Spirit Tenplar with decent life and auras to support the Spirits.
And it can easily build into MF with items

Gems and Links
Spoiler

Main skill
SRS with links: SRS - Spell Totem - Multistrike - Meele Splash - Minion Damage - maybe some addad ele dmg (fire, cold, lightning)

Auras

Hatred - Anger - Reduced mana - maybe haste or even wrath

Detected that aura problem will be hard to run 2 ele auras with low mana..

Utility

Standart utility shit like CwdT setup

Curses (importand)

My idea is Flamabillity and Conductivity to shock enemys with three dragons and deal extra fire dmg aaand lower resistances



Items
Spoiler

The Three Dragons: My Idea is that i shock enemys with SRS to deal increased DMG pls tell me is this a good thought?

Windscream: to save passive points in the north




Passive Tree so far


Please take time to read this and help me improve my first theory craft especially that Three Dragons Idea if its not viable i wont wear it but i want to play this build anyway even without it.
Last edited by Bllank92#3976 on Jul 8, 2014, 6:32:32 PM
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/871611/page/1
probably i'm wrong but as far as i know srs doesn't get bonuses from elemental/fire damage nodes, only summon damage nodes.
also three dragons might not proc shock on the raging spirit like summons can't proc EE.

aura nodes are a must, you have to try to get all of the upper tree part nodes to have at least 3 active auras (4-5 if you reserve hp for clarity or other low mana reservation auras).

Leveled to 32 it sucks cock so far
ok, this is gonna be a wall of text, but it's a lot of input for your build. for better reading i will divide it into three parts.

about the build idea
sorry to tell you, but that build will most likely not work very well. i tried dual totem + self cast raging spirits and even though it was before the buff to spirit damage, it wasn't going very well at all. i identified three main problems with this build:

1. there is just too much setup time required before you start dishing out damage. for every monster group you encouter you have to place down 2 totems, which then begin to slowly build up the raging spirit count. keep in mind that totems have that pesky 30% LESS cast speed modifier, so faster casting is absolutely mandatory.

2. if you don't have additional minions like zombies with you, every monster will attack either you or your totems, none of which is an acceptable alternative. your spririt swarm will keep away non-piercing projectiles, but that's it because they cannot be targeted. every melee monster will run up to you or your totems and start whacking away.

3. there are just two ways to scale your damage: passives for aura effectiveness and minion damage or faster casting to reach a higher spirit count. sooner or later you will have all the aura and minion damage nodes and then you can only work towards faster casting on your gear. not that many choices to improve your damage output.

i reached act 3 merciless with my build and i must say, it's quite a lot of fun seeing 30 or more skulls whack away at your enemies, but progress is just really damn slow because of point 1 above.

three dragons is useless with this
also the three dragons will not work for your minions. it explicitly states "your" fire/cold/lightning damage will do something. your minions are not you. they use their own skills, not yours. therefore, they will not shock with fire damage etc.

suggestions
did you see today's news post? it is a new build of the week featuring a raging spirit build. that kind of stuff might work. i would say scrap the idea of dual totem and go self cast with echo instead. to buffer get some other minions, that means zombies, spectres or animated weapons.

if you have access to a 6-link like tabula rasa, you could try going cast on crit with a dagger and spectral throw to summon the raging spirits. some days ago i saw a streamer (i think willywonka or raizqt, but don't remember exactly) try that for a bit and it worked quite well, even against single map bosses in lvl 75 maps.

there you go, i hope you can use some of that info.
Last edited by Kuhkoenich#4858 on Jul 15, 2014, 12:48:35 PM

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