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I advise getting a bow from Act 1 with hardly no Dex requirements but has attack speed. Also get Vine Arrow at gem level 3. This will make it so you don't need to worry about Dex requirements. The vine arrow is just there to add an extra chaos dot to empower our totem fire rate which we are starting to stack with cast speed. Spirit is base amount currently.

@@ImJustAnthonyTube stats won't matter, other than AS? Appreciated

I leveled with ED, contagion, and effigy totem. If this is your first character then you might struggle. GGG made the current Acts a little rough especially for your first playthrough with no help from a higher level main character. Some of it comes down to items that are dropping or not dropping for your build. Keep grinding!

It's nice starting at the bottom because there is only up from here! #MoreBuffs 😂

It's because almost all of what would make the ascendency very strong is not obtainable presently. You get some cool buffs for ED/C but overall everything AoC offers, a witch does with less effort and more power. Until things like daggers are available and skills like Viper Strike or Pestilent Strike return the use of AoC is really just a niche thing to toy with sadly.

Both Witch and Monk can use this build due to their starting positions. Infernalist has some nice stuff but I also like Chayula and we are still seeing what can be done with each. 85% max chaos rezz makes me very happy recently. As long as the purple damage is going out, we can all be friends!

Sounds like you are having a blast playing the game and that's all that really matters my monk brother! Keep on grinding! ✌

Wither is applied from our totems with quality. 🤟

I shall call him... mini MoM. 🤣

I concur

Removing our shield every time we cast curse leaves a gap for enemies to blap your character. This is a good idea but be careful to not cast curse or vine arrow at the wrong moment as you will lose the protection of your shield. We despair every pull pretty much so that leaves a lot of openings. Good comment to use weapon sets!

If what you’re after is meta then no. But if you think chaos and dot is cool then it’s for you

@sir_quirkus7206 i don't like meta. But as i said, pretty much work for this results. Again it IS fun.

im also hexblasting currently lv 29 hexblast 5link around 40k dps tooltip ci with 4.7k ES

We have many other Chayula followers using Hexblast with great success! Adjust any build to your desired play. Just make sure it's purple and nothing else matters. 😆

Noob here! Loving the build except for the vine arrow. Are u using hexblast to replace it? Any chance of sharing your setup for hexblast?

@@AlbertoJTeixeira I'm currently not using Hexblast myself. Vine arrow allows us to have more dots for our totems dps. Join our guild or jump on over to Twitch while I'm live and you can get some good Hexblast players to help you out. Very helpful community!

Updated guide coming soon now that we are doing Tier 15s. I will make sure to add this! I definitely should have included this before. 🤗

It will only increase the initial hit from the spell. This will mostly help our totems and if you choose to use chaos bolt.

Yes, there is, just click on the arrow expanding gem details and look in the bottom of the new window

We hit Tier 15 maps today and crushing it. Twitch community coming up with lots of ideas. Guild open invites for all! 😉

No, mainly we are using the arrow to help our totem fire more projectiles, especially now they nerfed the dot from vine arrow. It's just helps totems go brrrrrrr

@ImJustAnthonyTube I am a theory guy I would like to contact you. Btw all poison counts as chaos over time, so you can put 50% poison in vile arrow to increase both, 1 projectile more + stronger vile flower. I was wondering going ranger pathfinder 8x poison and going nuts with chaos totem, I am torn apart between unlimited totem with infernalist (scepter+unique shield max spirit max totem count) the acolyth or the pathfinder... Please help my brain is melting... Btw skeleton archer active skill aoe poison the turret shoots at everything and if you have chance to hit on poison and stackable poison it's increasing its fire rate by itself ! With pathfinder up to 8 times that should be insane

When we completely finish the build we will be looking into posting on a site. We change things almost every day as we progress it seems. 👍

We have had multiple requests for this so after the build is finished then we may do a complete guide on a site like maxroll. ✌

We still use it for the totem setup. It also has a HUGE impact on pre-setup for things like essence, breach, expedition. Fire many plants and place totems. The totems and plants will instantly start attacking the moment enemies spawn. This gives us valuable time to cast our dots and get them rolling without being rushed down. 😎

@@ImJustAnthonyTube Great! Thanks.

Group play scales mobs and doesn't play well around this dot build. I played this from start to now. The game can feel daunting for many classes the first playthrough. Make sure to keep your dots active and use chaos bolt from wand to sustain damage as needed until you get effigy totem.

It feeeels goood mon!

@ImJustAnthonyTube update / comparison video when? 🥰

@@SF_Savitar Started Tier 15 maps and feeling great. Updated guide coming by end of this week perhaps.

@ImJustAnthonyTube can u upload a mobalytics or build planner on ur current char? Im currently playing hexblast CI but sheeesh i need more tankkkk im dying often in high yellows currently :/

This would be very different from our build so I can only recommend testing and let us know what you find out!

Does contagion spread curses?

@@dylanhartung7749 it does when you have Decay support on them

@@dylanhartung7749 it does when the curses are supported by Decay

@@dylanhartung7749 It will spread the curse because of the chaos dot we apply with the curse support gem. Contagion will spread any dot and that will let despair take a free ride on the hug train! Good question! 👌

Maybe in the future we will be able to do melee chaos as more skills, support gems, and items are introduced. Or it just hasn't been discovered yet.

@ImJustAnthonyTube Thanks!

@@cosmic_conqu3rror415 if you can get it there’s a ring that converts all elemental damage to chaos

Currently no. A later, more expensive build, with a huge mana pool and regen could be a potential change for tanking. Keep up the suggestions!

Each ability synergizes with each other. Always had the Impending Doom. New patch also just buffed Chaos dot damage by roughly 30% more at higher level gems. Big wins. Tier 13/14 maps today and was super smooth after we got a good shield. 👍 This was pre patch buff. Tomorrow going to be awesome!

@ImJustAnthonyTube I understand the synergy...but dots getting buffed means nothing if you scale hit dps via acolyte. Damage as extra chaos only boosts the totem and the hit portion of ED ( which is irrelevant ) Your ED contagion combo is just a clear tool and totem enabler ( bcz it needs dot debuffs on enemies in order to shoot) My only explanation of why your build works for now is bcz base dps of dot skills might be way higher than in poe1. So %chaos from tree is enough and you don't need damage over time multiplier or other dot specific mods. But this is speculation. In poe1 playing a dot + hit build is unplayable unless you are poison. That's also the reason why ggg decided to buff Ed contagion in poe2, you are supposed to play those skills alone without any totems or hits involved. Your build seems like a weird combo that happens to deal damage, but there is no clear path to success. I will try it as well, but my poe1 dot main brain can't take it 😅

@@GE_Photon_Lord We must evolve! They want us to multi spec on many things now. Look at the cool combos yet to be completed by combining fire/ice/lightning with weapon swapping tech and such. The future will be very cool to see when ice and fire synergize together into something special.

@@ImJustAnthonyTube Those builds play a combination of all hit abilities ( same archetype but different element ) and all scale the same modifier, elemental damage or damage against x debuff. So it's generic damage that applies to all skills. They also scale exposure and - res, it's the same as poe1 scaling. If they planned on making dots scale similarly with hits, by taking the same tree nodes and nothing more or less, then I'm all for it. I wasn't complaining but to me it seems counterintuitive so far. I did notice that they removed chaos dot multi from the tree and similar mods, but I didn't think much of it, I thought it's maybe early access and the points get added later. I always wanted to play dots with hits but never worked, so I'm glad your build works so far. I've seen infernalists with Ed contagion, because demonform gives +levels and %inc spell damage (and + levels from poe1 are the best dot scalers). That's the scaling I was expecting and monk isn't doing that. But it's cool that this totem exists, it probably bridges the 2 archetypes.

Absolutely! We discuss that a little in the 1.1 Guide. Still haven't spec yet but next levels it's coming. Good eye my friend.😉

@@ImJustAnthonyTube was kind of thinking of it because you mentioned hinder for your wand. I've been going through different ascendencies and thinking of what's best for a dot class. The question here is on if the darkness path really helps, it might it's hard to compare. Siding with demonform witch but patch notes might change that.

The only poison skills we have is the ranger ranged attacks. I wish we had melee poison skills but that nay come with the Shadow. I did add poison to my glacial cascade and the plague explode on death via support gems and it does work

The equipment section shows the new items I purchased just to try the build. It requires a good amount of Dex but once we get high end gear, stats will be easy. You can use a lower level bow/gem to reduce dex requirement. The dot will still help your totem damage output.

They nerfing gem lvl stacking portion of skill. There is build that juice up 40 lvl vine arrow, that do millions of dps

Yea, I think it will receive a overall nerf per level as @irlinaka2754 mentioned but less at lower levels. Also, this empowers our totem to fire additional projectiles so it's still a damage boost. ALSO, vine arrow has been really nice to setup with totems before we start a mechanic like essence mob or breach.

​@@ImJustAnthonyTubetry gas arrow instead you'll thank me later