Totembringer: Campaign to endgame - Huge AOE & 430K+ Boss DPS - (2H + Shield | 2H + 2h)

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To be honest I don’t really think so for just grinding out your maps all the way through to T15/T16. Chaos damage is pretty easy to avoid I think and our build has a ton of life, with 3500 life, high armour and block chance you really just don’t die. I think I died maybe twice from start of maps to 80 and haven’t died since then, I’m level 92 now.

My approach is simple really, I don’t worry about gear till I start having close calls. Then I evaluate what caused it and bump it up a little as long as it won’t trigger a larger rebalance of items. My goal was to wait as long as possible to rebalance my gear.

The way I do this is by having weighted sum searches for every single item slot bookmarked. These searches typically contain a primary stat such as melee skills for gloves and amulets, movement speed for boots, block chance, additional physical reduction, etc, then 2 weighted sun mod groups, one for all elemental resists with 1 weight for each and all ele resistances with a weight of 3 (optionally chaos res on some pieces with 2 weight, I often balance manually / more precisely on specific pieces based on market prices and the holistic view of my options), finally the last mod group is maximum life with a weight of 1 and strength with a weight of 2 and %increased life with a weight of 4-6 depending on the slot. Then I set max buyout to be exalted orbs instead of relative, otherwise you get a bunch of 1 Div items spammed at you for some reason.

Using this approach I was able to get 3600 life, 81-82 max all res, 70% armour, 65% block chance with blocking ALL hits when shield isn’t raised from war bringer passives (this is super nice).

All and all the build is done and I never die, or even have close calls. If you watch my videos I’m not very careful, just kinda zoom through and drop my totems. I’m just hoping I find the dang iron gauntlet etc places soon so I can try those fights. T16 / 8 mod maps feel pretty easy, the +2 boosted T16 boosted bosses probably could one shot me, but I do so much damage to them they never get a chance to do anything lol

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Sanchezxdd14#6360 wrote:

One question, the % increased physical damage in the mace makes some diff?

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Herzkollaps#4246 wrote:

Currently running your build and having a blast so far, thank you for that!
Just curious though, which venom did you choose from Servi?
Increased stun threshold or elemental ailment?
Leaning towards elemental ailment myself.

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YoichiHiruma#5494 wrote:

Hi, I have a noob question. I tried to this build with Gemling but dps so small.
So i need focus to something?

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Pls#2816 wrote:

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YoichiHiruma#5494 wrote:

Hi, I have a noob question. I tried to this build with Gemling but dps so small.
So i need focus to something?

How much +to level of melee skills do you have? That is the main modifier you want to go after. If you can dual wield 2h right now then get 2h maces x 2:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/M4XaaLLhJ

Otherwise you can get 2x 1h:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/3ZDoVQks5

Filter the trade by your level and budget, no weapon stats matter, dps, etc, just get cheapest + skills you can use at your level. Later on reduced attribute requirements and converting requirements to other stats can sometimes help with 2H.

The level requirements for 1h/2h melee skill mods:
https://poe2db.tw/us/One_Hand_Maces#ModifiersCalc


For 1h:
of Combat 2 attack0 +1 to Level of all Melee Skills
of Dueling 18 attack0 +2 to Level of all Melee Skills
of Conflict 36 attack0 +3 to Level of all Melee Skills
of Battle 55 attack0 +4 to Level of all Melee Skills
of War 81 attack0 +5 to Level of all Melee Skills

for 2h:
of Combat 2 attack0 +(1–2) to Level of all Melee Skills
of Dueling 18 attack0 +3 to Level of all Melee Skills
of Conflict 36 attack0 +4 to Level of all Melee Skills
of Battle 55 attack0 +(5–6) to Level of all Melee Skills
of War 81 attack0 +7 to Level of all Melee Skills