[2.5 Video Guide] Beginner's Build: Dual Flame Totem, Blood Magic Chieftain [Atziri & HC/SC Viable]

My personal view: this build is for new leagues, HC in particular, where you start your character and just run through the content without farming until maps.

This build is now my absolute GO-TO for hard core leagues to start. It is very tanky, I had not one single close RIP.

Play style if confident: Run pack to pack, drop a totem in the middle. They die. Don't stop. See a rare? put both totems on top of its head. GG collect loot. I played this way from level 40 onwards. Just did Piety Merc at 62 and it was a total joke.

Play Style if Squishy: Drop a totem at the edge of the screen, let it engage. Then put the other one beside it. Use them as your flame wall of death.

Shield: When you are dual totem, use a shield. I felt squishy with 2x scepters. The added DPS of two scepters meant I could not run pack to pack. So it was actually slower. Balance tankiness and dps.

GMP: buy it as soon as you can, but LMP worked fine also.

Resistances: So easy to cap! You don't need anything but life and resistances and armor. If you are struggling, there is a +15 resist all node in marauder. I took it. But look at my horrible gear and you see why.

Leveling:
1-24 SUCKED. The build is slow, because you don't have dps, and you don't have totems. I used Lightning tendrils, fire trap, then flame blast. Really sucks. I recommend getting into a group and get carried. Don't give up. Keep with it! People from SC leagues will really hate this part of the leveling the build.

25-40: Grab searing bond. You are a tank monster. Just slow. Spend money on movement speed or you will feel like a caterpillar and all those shadow/ranger/witch types are butterflies. I didn't bother wearing armor or a shield unless I was doing bosses.

41+ W I N. Rush to dual totems and then balance DPS with life as your gear fills our. The video guide from Lifting is perfect. Follow the pattern and you will win.

DPS: I am used to playing Mjolner, CoC or Crit XYZ all screen destroying builds. This build seems to clear very well despite the low tooltop. And you survive.

Fire Trap: I use a fire trap setup because I feel pretty bored watching things die. If I got a Curse on Hit I might do a Arc+CoH+Flammability setup. Might try for +1 curse ammy and go dual curse for maps if its a problem. Curses absolutely improve the clear speed.

Totem Life: They die pretty quick, but i can recast them quickly too. So I don't notice it. Its a balance between: Melting Mobs / Totems Surviving. Besides, you are always moving and re positioning. The mobs don't stand still either.

Next Nodes: Life and Tankiness. DPS when you are dead is irrelevant.

Group Play: Drop totem in the middle of the rainbow of explosions from your party mates and sit at the back grinning when they reep.

GHOSTS (Tormented spirits): Nearly impossible to kill. They outrun your totems!

I'm going to increase my tankiness. Perhaps the Combat Stamina cluster of 3 nodes (Armor &life) near the scion life wheel. Gear Upgrades, save for a 5L Belly :) Survive until I am 4/4 and a red power ranger!

9.7k armor
5.5k life

resist
100/134/90/-40

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Dakilula wrote:

Thanks for this build!

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My personal view: this build is for new leagues, HC in particular, where you start your character and just run through the content without farming until maps.

Just killed Piety Merciless in the 1M hard core Bloodlines/Torment league. I'm level 62. 90% Self found because I didn't need to buy much (Scepter 2c, cwdt 3c (at level 40), helmet 1c, GMP 4c =this currency is easy to find through alch and fuse drops and selling your non-needed gems like Hatred).

Health 3,655
Armor 2,800
Tool-tip flame totem 941 dps on level 15 gems (GMP).

I HIGHLY recommend this build. It totally shames the flavor of the league squishy trapper builds. I have as much mobility as them; drop totem run to next pack, drop totem etc.

Tree

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Gear

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My Thoughts on This Build If You Want To Try It

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This build is now my absolute GO-TO for hard core leagues to start. It is very tanky, I had not one single close RIP.

Play style if confident: Run pack to pack, drop a totem in the middle. They die. Don't stop. See a rare? put both totems on top of its head. GG collect loot. I played this way from level 40 onwards. Just did Piety Merc at 62 and it was a total joke.

Play Style if Squishy: Drop a totem at the edge of the screen, let it engage. Then put the other one beside it. Use them as your flame wall of death.

Shield: When you are dual totem, use a shield. I felt squishy with 2x scepters. The added DPS of two scepters meant I could not run pack to pack. So it was actually slower. Balance tankiness and dps.

GMP: buy it as soon as you can, but LMP worked fine also.

Resistances: So easy to cap! You don't need anything but life and resistances and armor. If you are struggling, there is a +15 resist all node in marauder. I took it. But look at my horrible gear and you see why.

Leveling:
1-24 SUCKED. The build is slow, because you don't have dps, and you don't have totems. I used Lightning tendrils, fire trap, then flame blast. Really sucks. I recommend getting into a group and get carried. Don't give up. Keep with it! People from SC leagues will really hate this part of the leveling the build.

25-40: Grab searing bond. You are a tank monster. Just slow. Spend money on movement speed or you will feel like a caterpillar and all those shadow/ranger/witch types are butterflies. I didn't bother wearing armor or a shield unless I was doing bosses.

41+ W I N. Rush to dual totems and then balance DPS with life as your gear fills our. The video guide from Lifting is perfect. Follow the pattern and you will win.

DPS: I am used to playing Mjolner, CoC or Crit XYZ all screen destroying builds. This build seems to clear very well despite the low tooltop. And you survive.

Fire Trap: I use a fire trap setup because I feel pretty bored watching things die. If I got a Curse on Hit I might do a Arc+CoH+Flammability setup. Might try for +1 curse ammy and go dual curse for maps if its a problem. Curses absolutely improve the clear speed.

Totem Life: They die pretty quick, but i can recast them quickly too. So I don't notice it. Its a balance between: Melting Mobs / Totems Surviving. Besides, you are always moving and re positioning. The mobs don't stand still either.

Next Nodes: Life and Tankiness. DPS when you are dead is irrelevant.

Group Play: Drop totem in the middle of the rainbow of explosions from your party mates and sit at the back grinning when they reep.

GHOSTS (Tormented spirits): Nearly impossible to kill. They outrun your totems!

What I'll Do Next

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I'm going to increase my tankiness. Perhaps the Combat Stamina cluster of 3 nodes (Armor &life) near the scion life wheel. Gear Upgrades, save for a 5L Belly :) Survive until I am 4/4 and a red power ranger!

TY!