[3.22] Forbidden Rite Totems Chieftain | Still Alive | 20 Mil+ Pinnacle DPS

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LuckPwnSKill wrote:

i feel like i have no dps ?

https://pobb.in/4V0irI02XE6r

You are using the wrong Balance of Terror jewel which means you aren't applying any wither. Get a Balance of Terror with "Inflict Withered for 2 seconds on Hit if you've cast Despair in the past 10 seconds".

Also you haven't allocated Whispers of Doom on your amulet which means against rare/unique enemies you only have one curse on them (either despair or assassin's mark). And on your Breathstealer gloves make sure to allocate Shaman's Dominion, it's the main reason we use these gloves.

You also aren't using Enduring Cry which means you aren't generating any brutal charges, making the belt useless. So just put Enduring Cry on left click. And on the warcry wheel take the "Warcries have a minimum of 10 power" mastery. It makes sure we always have brutal charges up.

Your flasks are also wrong, you should take a Diamond Flask with cast speed or inc crit chance, an Eternal Mana Flask with reduced mana cost and effect is not removed and a Taste of Hate for the phys taken as cold. I also use a quartz flask for the phasing QoL. You don't need a life flask, the totem recoup should be enough just make sure to summon totems first, let them attack and then jump in packs (don't go in packs without recoup).
The mana flask is necessary because it allows us to use the Divine Blessing Haste. Make sure to check the updated pob, I recently changed the build to only have flat mana auras on arrogance (which means you can use max level precision + clarity + vitality).

As for getting 90% fire res, you should use the Unnatural Instinct jewel to convert the following strength nodes to max fire res using "Tattoo of the Ngamahu Makanga". Here are the passives you should tattoo https://i.imgur.com/QZv2tC6.png
The "Maximum 1 adjacent Passive Skill Allocated" requirement of the tattoo doesn't matter because we aren't allocating the passives but instead getting the effect through Unnatural Instinct. It ends up being +3% max fire res so you can drop the "Juggernaut" passive and instead take the "Purity of Flesh" passive.

You should also take these strength nodes instead https://i.imgur.com/CbKSeis.png and put totem life tattoos on them, for life per point there are better options available such as the 6% passives next to Bloodless, Golem's Blood and Devotion. Even more important make sure to allocate life masteries on the Golem's Blood and on the Purity of Flesh wheels, that way we get 10% more life.

Some of your tattoos are "Enemies you kill have a 2% chance to explode", these do nothing as totem kills won't trigger the explosions. Use totem life tattoos instead. The small strength node next to Iron Will is also not tattooed. On one of the medium clusters you are taking all 5 nodes, you can drop a small node.

And change the recoup mana ring craft to reduced mana cost (max clarity should be good enough). Also your faster attacks support isn't linked to shield charge. And try to get the "Life recoup effects instead occur over 3 seconds" mastery on recovery wheel, it's a decent increase to life recoup per second.

nvm found out , made some adjustment , could u have a look now ? :)

still only got 400 k dps on sheet ?

missing 8 mana to activate haste aura with flask up

anything else i can improve ?

https://pobb.in/1jZfBeE-160H

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LuckPwnSKill wrote:

still only got 400 k dps on sheet ?

missing 8 mana to activate haste aura with flask up

anything else i can improve ?

https://pobb.in/1jZfBeE-160H

Your dps currently is actually 9.5 mil. You have to set PoB count to 4 because we have 4 totems and change it from 1 Projectile to all primary projectiles since Forbidden Rite projectiles overlap (up to 5-6 projectiles).
https://pobb.in/xqsW7BIQqTrv

I swapped some passives in your tree and crafted % reduced mana cost on your ring to activate haste aura. https://pobb.in/LCgBNhyCtjI3
It ends up being 10.5 mil with a lot more life.

I think you can get the damage up to 15-16 mil with some more levels (spend the rest on 6% life passives, remember life converts to damage through rathpith) and better gear (get "Added Small Passive Skills also grant: 2-3% increased Attack and Cast Speed with Chaos Skills" on large cluster, inc damage corrupt on lightning coil, spell crit or cast speed corrupt on Breathstealer, helmet enchant, ring with some damage mod which might mean a wand with lower int requirement 212 is pretty high).

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L7mon wrote:

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kikeuy wrote:

How do you feel about Barrage + Withering touch + Ballista totem being a poor´s man option for The balance of terror?
You can have the main 4 totems + 1 ballista or 4 totems + 3 ballistas if you also link Multiple totems.
After you get The balance of terror you can swap Withering touch for Faster attacks if you want.
The Barrage ballistas last long , are surprisingly tanky and cost very little mana to cast.
Loving the build so far , thanks!

Yeah Ballista totem with Withering touch should work. I think the balance of terror is worth it since we already self cast despair (and its only 1 div) but this should be fine for a poormans version, just be careful not to oversummon thus replacing the FR totems with ballista ones.
Glad you are enjoying the build!

Yeah , my ballista use is mostly a boss/essence/ritual/harvest pre-cast to ramp wither fast since they really last long and then summon mostly only the real damaging totems. They also apply %3 inc dmg
taken to enemies from Surveillance , it´s not much but still. For normal map enemies its not needed since forbidden rite totems destroy them.
Another poor´s man thing , there is a small cluster jewel that gives base 15% fire resistance and can have Molten´s One Mark(+2 to max fire res/1% life regen). It´s a LOT cheaper than tatoo(I used harvest life craft to get that , I guess alt spam is good/better?) , you pay that difference on skills points tho... but its a really nice poor´s man choice.

Thinking about Molten´s One cluster notable, stacking 2 are very doable with very little sacrifice on the tree , 3 may require some extra sacrifice but with 3 we are at 86% max fire res , so the unnatural instinct/tatoo trick would put us at 89% , one more tatoo out there and bam , 90% without Using purity of fire.
Assuming it´s viable and not just a stupid idea , what would you use instead of PoF? Maybe Purity of elements with the chaos resistance Watcher´s eye? or something else to increase the damage output?

Any updates will come?

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Gartaladz wrote:

Any updates will come?

Probably not, build lost a lot of totem life since tattoos aren't going core. Specifically on my PoB damage goes from 22 mil to 13.3 mil and recoup from 4275 life/sec to 2822 life/sec.

If you still want to play it in 3.23 the current PoB will mostly work just remove tattoos and instead of the Ngamahu chieftain node take Hinekora (it now works with totem kills).