www.twitch.tv/xyton_98 PoB: pobb.in/uHKNKuQHWoM- Endgame PoB: pobb.in/Sg2SEc6vDGv_ My run through the campaign: th-cam.com/video/-HpcBx5z_HU/w-d-xo.html Wookie's channel that also covers this build if you're interested: www.youtube.com/@wookieontheinternet4363 Thank you again for correcting me on that Heatshiver change if you happen to see this vid! PS: I put 1x all res tattoo and 1x rarity tattoo at the very start of templar because you can use those 2 int nodes for any int-based or neutral tattoo you want, those 2 are just nice qol to have if you need a biiiit more to be res-capped or just want more loot. Your choice if you wanna run 2x the all res one or 2x the rarity one. Or some other one, you can even replace some +10 Str small nodes for fire resistance and dex nodes for cold res, if you have the extra attributes to spare while still being able to use all your gems! PSS: I will be updating these PoB links periodically so do keep checking back and see if the links have changed. I just added a new section in the notes of the first PoB that's a step-by-step guide of how to craft your +2 amulet!
Was wanting to try a totem build to get a feel before deciding on my next starter. Thank you for the guide it seems just the right amount of detailed. I'll let you know how tomorrow goes.
No problem, have fun testing it out since it's basically the same build if you play it now in Affliction/Standard or if you leaguestart it in Necropolis.
I'll be league starting this. Freezing Pulse totems was the first build to get me to late game and I've been wanting to play it again but it hasn't looked too strong but this looks really good. I really appreciate the detailed notes. Good luck in your league start!
Thanks, good luck to you too. The build has been completely unchanged from these patch notes so you can definitely get to endgame and even do some uber bosses with Ice Spear, I was able to do 5 out of the 7 myself but I'm sure other people are better at dodging stuff than me lol
Thanks for the build changes review. The only thing you missed is Snipers mark nerf. So basically: + Tatoos (maybe you dont need Sublime vision) - last league Ascendancy with charms - Automation Arcane cloak - Snipers Mark nerf
Yeah the sniper's mark nerf is only 6% less damage so I didn't even feel like it was worth mentioning. And yeah with tattoos you definitely don't need Sublime Vision this league at all.
starting this build following this guide, with intentions of going straight into sanctum after getting out of the story and buying the gear. Ill update on how it goes for anyone interested in doing the same :)
I guess you could do some lower-level sanctums at first until you get to lvl80+ since stuff like the cluster jewels and pain attunement are kinda important, gl with it and hope you have fun!
Damn, wanted to watch you start this build from scratch on twitch but you only streamed 1 day mid-run. It feels very good for learning the game with rewinds. Learned a lot until maps playing along with pohx last time I played 2-3 leagues back with RF. Text guide on pobb looks good though still 👍 Just hard to learn with text.
I wanted a new build for this league but I really don't know what to do, I will go again for Ice Spear/Freezing pulse totems, for bosses it's ok but on T16 strong maps 8 mods it is very squishy and the league mechanic will make these maps even harder, I don't know if it is worth the try.
Well yes its squishy in 8-mod maps but I don't usually run those anyway, I stop corrupting maps after I complete my atlas, unless I need to corrupt them for a challenge. The whole point of this build is "kill the enemies before they can hit you", whether you're using Ice Spear of Splitting with 26 mil dps and great clear or regular Ice Spear with 200 mil for mapping is up to you.
just wondering, why do you go so overkill in endgame tree with curse reduction, is going beond 100% so to speak reverses curses so you get benefits from them ?
It's because I wear a belt called Coward's Legacy that makes all curses have 50% increased effect on me, so I need 150% curse reduction to be fully unaffected by curses. The belt also makes me count as low-life all the time so I can use Pain Attunement on the skill tree for the massive 30% more spell damage it gives. So yeah before you get that unique belt you only need 100%, but after you buy one for 4-5 divines usually then you need 150%.
Forgot to answer your question at the end, nah going over 100% doesn't reverse curse effects it's purely to be able to wear that unique belt without its downside lol
Just to corrupt them when they hit 20 and we put quality on them to try to get it to lvl21/20 quality, its nice on leaguestart but now a 21/20 ice spear is only like 40 chaos so I guess there isnt much point in leveling them.
@@pieking4 No problem, and yeah this build's dps really picks up once you get the essential gear like the annihilating light staff. Its just a shame they made it an uber-only drop so now its much more expensive to buy that staff.
When do you suggest switching from freezing pulse to ice spear? I currently have ~500k dps with freezing pulse but 3M+ with ice spear, but the clear still feels horrible with ice spear. Do I swap after i get rain of splinters jewel? How does ice spear of splitting compare to freezing pulse / ice spear? Should i just swap to that instead?
Ice Spear of splitting does pretty much 99% of the dps that freezing pulse does, and has way better clear. The problem is that there are barely any lvl21/20 ice spears of splitting on the market atm so you have to level your own and corrupt them lol. I only swap to normal ice spear for endgame bosses,maven invitations or maybe a tanky rare/guardian boss with destructive play active.
@@Xyton_Derg ya i don't mind leveling it, i might just buy a ice spear of splitting then. I hate swapping in the middle of maps, I only use ice spear right now for bosses. ty ty
I mean, a lot of it is farmable with this build. When you eventually get a lvl20/20 or 21/20 Ice Spear of Splitting gem that gives you insane map clear so stuff like Ritual,Abyss,Beyond,Breach,Blight,Harbinger,Ultimatum(though some of the objectives are hard like stand in stone circles) are super smooth to farm with this. Harvest is fine to do too, Expedition is easy aswell I just use the big explosion keystone for that one to get all the mobs and just make sure you don't get a "Immune to cold damage" yellow mod. Really any of the content in the game that's just "lots of monsters" is easy to farm with Ice Spear of Splitting, maybe swapping your gem to normal Ice Spear for tanky rares sometimes. I even did Heist with this a few leagues, its fast enough with quicksilver flask up to just run through them and let your totems clear stuff while you loot chests, although maybe sometimes you'll get oneshot in a Heist if you're unlucky since this build is squishy af and a glass-cannon. So just pick whatever is most fun to you, or whatever you feel like generates the most currency. Obviously there's also just boss-rushing, which got some huuuuge QOL this patch so you can also do guardian bosses and shaper/elder all day then sell the uber fragments for lots of divines, while also selling all your Maven's Writs.
Funny you ask that question, I'm about to record a video showing my 2 atlas skill trees I plan to use since I was brainstorming them last night, so do check back in a bit and it'll probably be uploaded!
Nope, its only a 6% less on the "marked enemies take X% increased projectile damage" which you barely feel, I simulated the nerf in PoB by just reducing my Sniper's Mark gem's level and I go from 210 mil dps to 201, we will barely feel this nerf and it actually might be a buff for this build lol. Because now Sniper's Mark will also only cause projectiles to split to 2 additional targets instead of 4, so less screen cancer from ice spear on the screen=better visibility to dodge deadly boss abilities/degens/archnem mods etc. We only ever use Sniper's Mark for single targets, so it splitting to less targets really doesn't matter for this build either.
I honestly missed that nerf in the patch notes, I just scrolled past it while reading them then I heard about it but didn't think it was even worth putting in my edited pinned comment, its such a small nerf for this build just because of the stupid amount of dps it has anyways.
Not sure, it might work or it might not but it really doesn't matter. Taryn's Shiver is just a starter staff that has great stats for our dps since we use a staff wheel and mastery, we just use it till we get Annihilating Light at 60%, then that's our best in slot staff.
Is the reason not to run Sublime Vision just that it's expensive? It seems great to get all of your curse mitigation at once while also getting a boost on Zealotry. PS: Thanks for the guide!
The reason is because tattoos give us curse immunity for free(they can drop from the new league mechanic), instead of having to pay 80 divines for that jewel. 20x Tattoo of the Hinekora Deathwarden on 20 of our 22 small int nodes gives us 120%, we get 30% more from the Asylum wheel on the skill tree so thats 150% which is exactly enough to be curse immune with Coward's Legacy, and that wheel also gives us 30% chaos res. Also Hatred gives us more dps than Zealotry so I'm swapping to that aura now since there is no reason at all to run Zealotry this league, curse immunity is so free and easy with that tattoo.
And I guess you could still buy Sublime Vision for Zealotry and have more dps with that aura, then use those 20 int nodes for other tattoos but I don't think there's many great tattoos to use for our build except all res,chaos res or just 3% rarity lol(the best you can get out of your small int nodes is 66% rarity which is something I guess)
@@Xyton_Derg That all makes sense. Thanks for the reply! I was looking at Sublime Vision in Affliction and it's under 10 divine, but if it's a lot more than that then that's a big deal. I figured getting 60% resist all would be really nice, but maybe it's not necessary. Your POB's still have Zealotry, and I did wonder why that one over Hatred (I thought it might be the crit chance). Hatred makes sense, even if we're not doing physical damage.
@@johnsmith-gq5jwI just updated the pob links last night to have Hatred, just re-copy them. But yeah Affliction is almost over so prices are weird, you'd be lucky to even see a single Sublime Vision with the Zealotry mod on it even surface at leaguestart, and any time I saw one it was 60+ divines so just not worth that small dps boost, I'd rather just get resists on my rare jewels,exalt slam them all to 4 affixes and call it a day. Also because of the change made to uber bosses, farming them all day will take more time and be more expensive, since the invitations only drop in the new T17 maps and who knows what the droprate is. People can't just run the 4 guardians and do Uber Shaper all day anymore, I suspect this will massively inflate the prices of most uber boss uniques that are popular like Sublime Vision,Progenesis etc.
@@snowyy41005 Nah I don't have my own discord server, but feel free to ask any questions in the comments of any of my videos here on youtube, I read all of them.
Probably still heatshiver, that new unique helmet just looks like bait. I don't think its a good idea to just slap it on when we have no other investment into the rage mechanic.
So I just checked in pob how much dps I would have with that helmet on assuming I'm always at 50 rage, I go from 206 mil to 191 mil dps, so I lose 15 mil dps and the only thing I get out of that helmet is a bit of strength for hp and 10% movespeed. So no, that helmet is definitely not worth it and is just worse than a random Heatshiver, and it also drops from uber eater of worlds so it would be super expensive anyways.
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www.twitch.tv/xyton_98
PoB: pobb.in/uHKNKuQHWoM-
Endgame PoB: pobb.in/Sg2SEc6vDGv_
My run through the campaign: th-cam.com/video/-HpcBx5z_HU/w-d-xo.html
Wookie's channel that also covers this build if you're interested: www.youtube.com/@wookieontheinternet4363
Thank you again for correcting me on that Heatshiver change if you happen to see this vid!
PS: I put 1x all res tattoo and 1x rarity tattoo at the very start of templar because you can use those 2 int nodes for any int-based or neutral tattoo you want, those 2 are just nice qol to have if you need a biiiit more to be res-capped or just want more loot. Your choice if you wanna run 2x the all res one or 2x the rarity one. Or some other one, you can even replace some +10 Str small nodes for fire resistance and dex nodes for cold res, if you have the extra attributes to spare while still being able to use all your gems!
PSS: I will be updating these PoB links periodically so do keep checking back and see if the links have changed. I just added a new section in the notes of the first PoB that's a step-by-step guide of how to craft your +2 amulet!
Was wanting to try a totem build to get a feel before deciding on my next starter. Thank you for the guide it seems just the right amount of detailed. I'll let you know how tomorrow goes.
No problem, have fun testing it out since it's basically the same build if you play it now in Affliction/Standard or if you leaguestart it in Necropolis.
I'll be league starting this. Freezing Pulse totems was the first build to get me to late game and I've been wanting to play it again but it hasn't looked too strong but this looks really good. I really appreciate the detailed notes. Good luck in your league start!
Thanks, good luck to you too. The build has been completely unchanged from these patch notes so you can definitely get to endgame and even do some uber bosses with Ice Spear, I was able to do 5 out of the 7 myself but I'm sure other people are better at dodging stuff than me lol
Thanks for the build changes review. The only thing you missed is Snipers mark nerf. So basically:
+ Tatoos (maybe you dont need Sublime vision)
- last league Ascendancy with charms
- Automation Arcane cloak
- Snipers Mark nerf
Yeah the sniper's mark nerf is only 6% less damage so I didn't even feel like it was worth mentioning. And yeah with tattoos you definitely don't need Sublime Vision this league at all.
starting this build following this guide, with intentions of going straight into sanctum after getting out of the story and buying the gear. Ill update on how it goes for anyone interested in doing the same :)
I guess you could do some lower-level sanctums at first until you get to lvl80+ since stuff like the cluster jewels and pain attunement are kinda important, gl with it and hope you have fun!
Damn, wanted to watch you start this build from scratch on twitch but you only streamed 1 day mid-run.
It feels very good for learning the game with rewinds. Learned a lot until maps playing along with pohx last time I played 2-3 leagues back with RF.
Text guide on pobb looks good though still 👍 Just hard to learn with text.
Yeah I just didnt feel like streaming the campaign I was bored to death of doing it. I'll probably stream again when I'm deeper in the endgame.
can you please do in a month: how do finish all challenges guide again ?
it helped me a lot
Yeah I'm gonna make a video about that for sure, as soon as I finish all 40 challenges myself.
I wanted a new build for this league but I really don't know what to do, I will go again for Ice Spear/Freezing pulse totems, for bosses it's ok but on T16 strong maps 8 mods it is very squishy and the league mechanic will make these maps even harder, I don't know if it is worth the try.
Well yes its squishy in 8-mod maps but I don't usually run those anyway, I stop corrupting maps after I complete my atlas, unless I need to corrupt them for a challenge. The whole point of this build is "kill the enemies before they can hit you", whether you're using Ice Spear of Splitting with 26 mil dps and great clear or regular Ice Spear with 200 mil for mapping is up to you.
I couldn't find on pob when we start using zealotry.I think it states hatred but on min-max version u say zealotry.When is the time to start using it?
We don't use zealotry anymore this league because we have easy curse immunity with tattoos. We only use Hatred now.
just wondering, why do you go so overkill in endgame tree with curse reduction, is going beond 100% so to speak reverses curses so you get benefits from them ?
It's because I wear a belt called Coward's Legacy that makes all curses have 50% increased effect on me, so I need 150% curse reduction to be fully unaffected by curses. The belt also makes me count as low-life all the time so I can use Pain Attunement on the skill tree for the massive 30% more spell damage it gives. So yeah before you get that unique belt you only need 100%, but after you buy one for 4-5 divines usually then you need 150%.
Forgot to answer your question at the end, nah going over 100% doesn't reverse curse effects it's purely to be able to wear that unique belt without its downside lol
I'm not sure if this question has been asked, I can't seem to find the answer, why are we leveling five addition ice spear gems?
Just to corrupt them when they hit 20 and we put quality on them to try to get it to lvl21/20 quality, its nice on leaguestart but now a 21/20 ice spear is only like 40 chaos so I guess there isnt much point in leveling them.
@@Xyton_Derg okay I assumed that was the reason. thank you for the reply! absolutely loving this build so far
@@pieking4 No problem, and yeah this build's dps really picks up once you get the essential gear like the annihilating light staff. Its just a shame they made it an uber-only drop so now its much more expensive to buy that staff.
When do you suggest switching from freezing pulse to ice spear?
I currently have ~500k dps with freezing pulse but 3M+ with ice spear, but the clear still feels horrible with ice spear.
Do I swap after i get rain of splinters jewel?
How does ice spear of splitting compare to freezing pulse / ice spear? Should i just swap to that instead?
Ice Spear of splitting does pretty much 99% of the dps that freezing pulse does, and has way better clear. The problem is that there are barely any lvl21/20 ice spears of splitting on the market atm so you have to level your own and corrupt them lol. I only swap to normal ice spear for endgame bosses,maven invitations or maybe a tanky rare/guardian boss with destructive play active.
@@Xyton_Derg ya i don't mind leveling it, i might just buy a ice spear of splitting then.
I hate swapping in the middle of maps, I only use ice spear right now for bosses.
ty ty
Build notes in POB are awesome thank you! What side content is best to farm with this?
I mean, a lot of it is farmable with this build. When you eventually get a lvl20/20 or 21/20 Ice Spear of Splitting gem that gives you insane map clear so stuff like Ritual,Abyss,Beyond,Breach,Blight,Harbinger,Ultimatum(though some of the objectives are hard like stand in stone circles) are super smooth to farm with this. Harvest is fine to do too, Expedition is easy aswell I just use the big explosion keystone for that one to get all the mobs and just make sure you don't get a "Immune to cold damage" yellow mod. Really any of the content in the game that's just "lots of monsters" is easy to farm with Ice Spear of Splitting, maybe swapping your gem to normal Ice Spear for tanky rares sometimes. I even did Heist with this a few leagues, its fast enough with quicksilver flask up to just run through them and let your totems clear stuff while you loot chests, although maybe sometimes you'll get oneshot in a Heist if you're unlucky since this build is squishy af and a glass-cannon. So just pick whatever is most fun to you, or whatever you feel like generates the most currency.
Obviously there's also just boss-rushing, which got some huuuuge QOL this patch so you can also do guardian bosses and shaper/elder all day then sell the uber fragments for lots of divines, while also selling all your Maven's Writs.
What do you specialize in for the endgame with this build?
Funny you ask that question, I'm about to record a video showing my 2 atlas skill trees I plan to use since I was brainstorming them last night, so do check back in a bit and it'll probably be uploaded!
watcha think about the snipers mark nerfs? gunna be bad?
Nope, its only a 6% less on the "marked enemies take X% increased projectile damage" which you barely feel, I simulated the nerf in PoB by just reducing my Sniper's Mark gem's level and I go from 210 mil dps to 201, we will barely feel this nerf and it actually might be a buff for this build lol.
Because now Sniper's Mark will also only cause projectiles to split to 2 additional targets instead of 4, so less screen cancer from ice spear on the screen=better visibility to dodge deadly boss abilities/degens/archnem mods etc. We only ever use Sniper's Mark for single targets, so it splitting to less targets really doesn't matter for this build either.
I honestly missed that nerf in the patch notes, I just scrolled past it while reading them then I heard about it but didn't think it was even worth putting in my edited pinned comment, its such a small nerf for this build just because of the stupid amount of dps it has anyways.
awesome thanks for checkin it out :D siked to play it@@Xyton_Derg
Hey. ''Enemies Frozen by you take 20% increased Damage'' doesn't work with totems, right?
Not sure, it might work or it might not but it really doesn't matter. Taryn's Shiver is just a starter staff that has great stats for our dps since we use a staff wheel and mastery, we just use it till we get Annihilating Light at 60%, then that's our best in slot staff.
Is the reason not to run Sublime Vision just that it's expensive? It seems great to get all of your curse mitigation at once while also getting a boost on Zealotry.
PS: Thanks for the guide!
The reason is because tattoos give us curse immunity for free(they can drop from the new league mechanic), instead of having to pay 80 divines for that jewel. 20x Tattoo of the Hinekora Deathwarden on 20 of our 22 small int nodes gives us 120%, we get 30% more from the Asylum wheel on the skill tree so thats 150% which is exactly enough to be curse immune with Coward's Legacy, and that wheel also gives us 30% chaos res. Also Hatred gives us more dps than Zealotry so I'm swapping to that aura now since there is no reason at all to run Zealotry this league, curse immunity is so free and easy with that tattoo.
And I guess you could still buy Sublime Vision for Zealotry and have more dps with that aura, then use those 20 int nodes for other tattoos but I don't think there's many great tattoos to use for our build except all res,chaos res or just 3% rarity lol(the best you can get out of your small int nodes is 66% rarity which is something I guess)
@@Xyton_Derg That all makes sense. Thanks for the reply!
I was looking at Sublime Vision in Affliction and it's under 10 divine, but if it's a lot more than that then that's a big deal. I figured getting 60% resist all would be really nice, but maybe it's not necessary. Your POB's still have Zealotry, and I did wonder why that one over Hatred (I thought it might be the crit chance). Hatred makes sense, even if we're not doing physical damage.
@@johnsmith-gq5jwI just updated the pob links last night to have Hatred, just re-copy them. But yeah Affliction is almost over so prices are weird, you'd be lucky to even see a single Sublime Vision with the Zealotry mod on it even surface at leaguestart, and any time I saw one it was 60+ divines so just not worth that small dps boost, I'd rather just get resists on my rare jewels,exalt slam them all to 4 affixes and call it a day.
Also because of the change made to uber bosses, farming them all day will take more time and be more expensive, since the invitations only drop in the new T17 maps and who knows what the droprate is. People can't just run the 4 guardians and do Uber Shaper all day anymore, I suspect this will massively inflate the prices of most uber boss uniques that are popular like Sublime Vision,Progenesis etc.
in endgame pob, there is no spell totem gem, how ?
Soul Mantle has a built-in lvl20 spell totem support, so you can have a 7-link by wearing that body armor.
@@Xyton_Derg haha didnt notice that, btw, im following ur guide and pob.
@@snowyy41005 Nice, hope you're having fun with the build!
@@Xyton_Derg is there any discord where we can ask questions, ?
@@snowyy41005 Nah I don't have my own discord server, but feel free to ask any questions in the comments of any of my videos here on youtube, I read all of them.
Thanks
No problem!
heatshiver or ravenous passion better for the build??????
Probably still heatshiver, that new unique helmet just looks like bait. I don't think its a good idea to just slap it on when we have no other investment into the rage mechanic.
So I just checked in pob how much dps I would have with that helmet on assuming I'm always at 50 rage, I go from 206 mil to 191 mil dps, so I lose 15 mil dps and the only thing I get out of that helmet is a bit of strength for hp and 10% movespeed. So no, that helmet is definitely not worth it and is just worse than a random Heatshiver, and it also drops from uber eater of worlds so it would be super expensive anyways.
@@Xyton_Derg thanks good to know
is this viable for sanctum rush?
Yeah you can run sanctums easily with this, I've done it in a few leagues already. All the bosses melt in seconds when you have most of your gear.