Spell Totem

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Musashi951 wrote:

Recently made a Double Totem character, and found it to be just awful. I specced out of it almost immediately after picking it up. I really loved the Trap sin of Diablo 2. This was clearly not that.

The damage is pitiful. The damage hits are just too big in that you can't realistically apply Shock(I was a spork user - still am just not with totems), killing things took a very long time, and the totem died too easily. I took 1 point out of ancestral bonds and nothing else and was killing at least twice as fast.

The primary reason you would use a Totem to fight is for safety. You can drop a totem in a place a player couldn't realistically survive, or that it would be too unsafe for you to be. The problem with this is a huge majority of the time it either won't fire(at all), get stunlocked by ranged mobs, get frozen, or just instantly die. Even sprinkling Skeletons around did nothing to alleviate this.

It does less damage than a player, even with 2 totems. It generally can't stunlock white mobs, making it worse than a player casting it. It generally can't even handle fighting things that a player would mop up with ease. I died more with Ancestral bonds than without, due to being able to stunlock the enemies I hit. All around spell totem, or ancestral bonds, feel like they need a buff.

So here's my request: When using Ancestral bonds, simply have 20% added damage, (or) casting speed,(or) make totems unstunnable/unfreezable, (or) three totems, or make totems untargetable. Totem by itself is amazing as is. It's especially great for Elemental Equilibrium builds, but as a primary source of damage it fails terribly. Giving less damage, Less survivability, Less status effects, and worst of all: slower clearing speed.

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Harnzy wrote:

im playing a duel totem build and im currently farming act 3 docks on merc, why is it that my totems die so damm fast when its my only form of dmg?

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PyrosEien wrote:

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Harnzy wrote:

im playing a duel totem build and im currently farming act 3 docks on merc, why is it that my totems die so damm fast when its my only form of dmg?

Because you can drop them half a screen away from you and proxy all your damage without any risk to yourself?

Quality should probably be totem life though.

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Harnzy wrote:

im playing a duel totem build and im currently farming act 3 docks on merc, why is it that my totems die so damm fast when its my only form of dmg?