[3.4] Blood Magic Detonate Dead Totem Chieftain (Boss Killer/Mapper. All Map Mods!)

Oh lol, this build rocks.

sunk some more currency into the build, still havent done uberlab wich i should because i really shouldnt have a problem.

below is current gear, also, the sceptre gives more dps than doryani´s about 3k more, so ill just keep it.

Seriously, this build.

i can´t praise it enough, with each talent spent everything just blows up more.

man i love it.

Ok im guessing im pretty decked out now, going to be hard to get better gear than this.

all that is left now is lvls and endgame for me.

How does this build handle red Elder? Mostly curious about the ad and unstable phase.

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How does this build handle red Elder? Mostly curious about the ad and unstable phase.

Just fine! The damage is good and with a little practice surviving is not a problem as well. Biggest issues are his Ice Spears which can 2-shot me with 6.2k life. Maybe running a level 20 Purity of Ice in the Essence Worm over Haste could fix that...

Ad phase / unstable phase is fine - with conc effect you can destroy the portals + ads rather quickly, I had no problems there. It's important to have totems on both sides and cast corpses in alternating directions.

Alright cheers. I'll see how far I can take this. I scraped together some gear and jumped straight into alched t7+ maps after killing Kitava. Hadn't even done merc lab at that point. The build made short work of them, so I'm feeling quite optimistic.
I'm also trying out Volatile Dead instead of Detonate right now and it seems to have somewhat faster clear. Might just stick to that for leveling at least. Any idea how it'll compare in terms of dps for bosses later on though?

i just popped in a volatile dead gem to try it out, in maps up to t10 it wrecks. very fun.

I'm thinking of trying out Tukohama's Fortress for an additional totem. Kind of worried I might not be able to generate enough corpses to take full advantage of it though.

Volatile Dead will give you guys way faster clear!

I constantly switched between the two when being in red tier maps and VD just feels A LOT faster.

But:

1. Its single target is way worse in this exact setup. I had massive problems with Abyss rares (and bosses)
2. The helmet enchant is ridiculously more expensive (3ex rather than 30c), because of the still ongoing Poets Pen VD hype

Long story short: I made a DD char since I'm a poor f**k :P

Somehow the tree on the website broke. Even if I open the tree via my character profile, the website crashes XD

I reconstructed the tree based on my videos and updated the link in the guide. Thank you armofgeddon, for pointing this out!