Tactician Suppressing Fire + Combat Frenzy + Artillery Ballista

Hi, im trying to use Combat Frenzy in my Tactician and I get Frenzy Charges perfectly when my Suppressing Fire pins anybody.

The problem is my Artillery Ballista also pins thanks to Suppressing Fire and with Combat Frenzy activated, the Frenzy Charge for the pinning go to the totems instead of me, not as the gem states that "when you pin".

Obviously the totems are pinning and Combat Frenzy works correctly granting them Frenzy Charges but, is this intended? My own totems steal Frenzy Charges from me! And even they cannot use Frenzy Charges. I tried to allocate Tumult and Ferocity, but they cannot support Artillery Ballista so I assume that Frenzy Charges they gain should be transfered to me.

Bumping this thread so we can make good supporting tótems build!

BUMP. Ferocity Needs to be fixed its not working on any skills

How exactly the totem consumes or "steal" frenzy charges?

If you're using charge infusion too, for more skill speed when you gain a frenzy charge, thats what consumes charges every X seconds.

Just guessing but i dont understand how is totem stealing charges when it's actually granting them to you instead....

Edit: I'm using ferocity with frag rounds and it does work just fine.
Reason it doesnt work with totems is because they're not skills you use yourself, they're "allies" and got their own stats and weapon damage and they do their own things when placed.

I didnt explain well. The problem is when they pin and get the Frenzy Charge, I cannot repin the enemy so the frenzy charge granted by Combat Frenzy is wasted and goes to the totem

I dont get the frenzy charge totems generate, they have the green orbs orbiting them, instead of going to me. I said "well, its time to use those Frenzy Charges with some support skills like Ferocity", but I cannot attach Ferocity to my totems because Ferocity doesnt support totems skills. I didnt find either other skills that consumes Frenzy charges to attach to the totems.

There is no way to take advantage of Frenzy Charges gained by totems right now, so I understand that this is not intended, or maybe it will be in a future patch... but I dont remember totems in PoE1 gaining charges

Got it, totems are a bit messy and i dont understand what actually works or not with them.
I know ballista is superbugged and it doesnt work with Cannons Ready! either.

You can slot font of rage on a totem to gain rage and the totem will deal more damage too thanks to rage.

They cannot use life on kills, life/mana leech and other skills with on kill effect because it's not you killing but them.
They can heavy stun but not gain glory
Now you're saying that they can pin enemies and gain charges but not consume them.
Have you tried charge infusion to see if it affects the totem?


Need something done with these things...

I find Cannons Ready! working fine (for artillery ballista bumps the dps thanks to their low attack speed), nevertheless I will try using charge infusion on them and I will see how they work

Im currently using this setup if you are curious: https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn/character/Samuek-3674/Chupat%C3%A1cticas?i=5&search=name%3Dchupa

I have the idea of a Tactician using totems but trying to fix the issues with survivability with crossbows so the spear skills are good enough: we have shield, evasion, freeze, pin (second freeze) and damage scales with projectile damage for Glacial Lance and Artillery Ballista

Its a bit slow in maps though

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Samuek#3674 wrote:

I find Cannons Ready! working fine (for artillery ballista bumps the dps thanks to their low attack speed), nevertheless I will try using charge infusion on them and I will see how they work

Im currently using this setup if you are curious: https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn/character/Samuek-3674/Chupat%C3%A1cticas?i=5&search=name%3Dchupa

I have the idea of a Tactician using totems but trying to fix the issues with survivability with crossbows so the spear skills are good enough: we have shield, evasion, freeze, pin (second freeze) and damage scales with projectile damage for Glacial Lance and Artillery Ballista

Its a bit slow in maps though

I should try but man i'm sick of spears to be honest, stopped playing with spear after 1 month.

I also play a tactician but i stick to crossbow and use siege cascade+ballista and a companion. maps clearing is awesome with siege cascade.

Forgot to mention i play on console where ballista doesnt properly work, it does on pc tho.

Tactician with Siege Cascade seems to be the best option, I have seen some builds and just with pinning Siege Cascade alone does the trick. I will try it.

I think that Tactician ascendancy is really good, but not so straightforward. Another build I want to try is the double companion Pokemancer with banners, maybe is bait/trolling, but could be interesting to test.

Totally agree that spears is sickening, thats why I went for Glacial Lance in terms off-meta to escape the Lightning Spear syndrome and its ok, I consider it another defense layer. Not surely if I would repeat.

My problem with crossbows is the defense, but man I love them, its like change the game to a third person shooter