Hateful Hierophant - Glacial Cascade Totems (Aura Scaling) [Dead Build in 3.16]
" it is after patch and still expensive. Your best bet is to grab a base for 40c and craft your self. | |
" Yep, that is probably the way to go. Vengeful Commander can roll on jewels of any level (and I believe now any large jewel of ilvl > 50 comes with 2 sockets). It's a very common crafting roll so it should be pretty easy to get on both large and medium. |
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Last edited by ThanatoZGaming on Jul 4, 2020, 12:22:14 PM
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Was really hoping this was a build I could grow into, but the cost of these cluster jewels is making me hit a wall.
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" Yeah, the medium clusters have gotten expensive. I'm seeing some 4-passive mediums that are craftable for about 60-75c right now. |
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" Its pretty playable with just 1 or 2 so-so clusters. I am only running two and doing red maps pretty well, both i rolled myself for less than 100C total | |
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Hi mate, thanks for this build - this was my first time rolling Templar and I'm really enjoying the totem playstyle after an initially wobbly leveling experience. However once I switched over to GC and had two Long Winter jewels socketed, I started absolutely tearing up. I'm only 82 and already able to easily clear red maps.
Can I ask a few questions? 1- Why no second Long Winter jewel? Seems an obvious choice to further GC dmg but I haven't PoB'd it. 2- Why the general preference for jewel sockets (bar the cluster jewels) in the build over other notables ie Shamanistic Fury? Also one observation - I played around with Shield Slam-Fortify and it didn't feel great, nor did Leap Slam as both require melee to activate the fort and thus didn't sit well with the caster playstyle. However, I would recommend using the last socket in the glove links for the new Enduring Cry - it's a great 'oh crap' button, gives excellent stats and plays nicely with Second Wind to make it be a bit spammable. I recommend giving it a shot and I will certainly have a look for places where we can get a few extra +1 max endurance charges at later levels. Last edited by Neverevernever on Jul 5, 2020, 7:04:06 AM
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" Glad the build is working for you! Some good questions. " The main purpose of Long Winter is phys->cold conversion, and that can also be gotten quite cheaply on gloves. This build can benefit a lot from jewels and Long Winter is not that much damage (aside from the conversion). " Most totem passives just aren't that efficient for damage. They do add other stats like totem placement speed/totem life but the hierophant ascendancy takes care of that pretty well. To get an idea of what you can find on jewels-- https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Harvest/Y9ka8B6TY --- life, resists, damage and cast speed https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Harvest/54vL06mTa -- abyss jewels with life, damage, and cast speed or hinder https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Harvest/DVOj4PdS5 --- pure DPS, with at least 30% increased damage plus cast speed... Some for around 10-30c (at least at the time I'm writing this) A good jewel can add 6-8% more DPS all by itself, much more efficient than most nodes on the passive tree. It also gives flexibility to cover for lacking resists, dex stats, etc. I have the Better Trading widget installed on Chrome, I save these searches and look for jewels at a good price for my build whenever I take a break from mapping. " I like the idea of Enduring Cry making endurance charges, but I dislike that it taunts enemies to target you - which seems to negate some of its defensive benefits. Personally I'd rather have +1 Minimum Endurance charges crafted on jewelry instead. But I agree it's a very strong defensive skill, putting it into the flex gem slot seems reasonable to try. |
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Hi, I'm leveling one now. No problems - yet :)
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but if we have already storm brand going why not use Elemental Equilibrium? Is dps gain (if any) so insignificant? | |
" Totems inherit your offensive stats, so they would also have EE - sadly, it doesn't work. |
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