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

Hi, apologies if this has been addressed already but my boyfriend and I have been playing again after stopping late last year with this build and have recently started mapping with our characters. Today we picked up a Hrimnor's Resolve in one of our maps and we were both wondering why it wasn't mentioned in the recommended gear section, if there were any major downsides that we missed.

Thanks for any replies; happy hunting!

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Regina wrote:

Hi, apologies if this has been addressed already but my boyfriend and I have been playing again after stopping late last year with this build and have recently started mapping with our characters. Today we picked up a Hrimnor's Resolve in one of our maps and we were both wondering why it wasn't mentioned in the recommended gear section, if there were any major downsides that we missed.

Thanks for any replies; happy hunting!

Im using that helm and I think it's awesome for this build.
Armor, Spell Dmg and all the other avoidance is very good.

The reason why I think ppl didn't mention it is because of the lack of resists and hp.
Although for me it's not a downside. I have capped resists elsewhere and have over 5500hp and 1k ES

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gibtuck wrote:

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leggojake23 wrote:

Beat atziri!!

Never played against atziri before, never had the guts...lv87 witch here

I used this build and beat her just barely mostly due to my inexperience and not having a ruby flask on hand . Still beat her tho using dual totem build , awesome! 19K tooltip dmg fyi.

Great build & guide!

Nice! It looks like you are going crit on your build, did you swap over to crit at some point? Or did you build that way from the start? I swapped for a bit and it felt underwhelming, going to try again in a few levels with better gear.

Yeah i ended up going crit. I swapped to crit after i hit lvl 85 and i couldn't get enough damage with the non crit passives. My tree has some work d/t bad gear stats, but overall its got good amount of crit passives that different from the original build. I had to switch later to get that damage, and i found a pretty good crit dagger to go with consuming dark.

Hi,

I've been testing the build and Its awesome. Im almost top level and complete the skill tree you provided.

I have some question. Which rings, necklace, boots and gloves would you recommend?

Thanks!

No Spire of Stone? =(

For GCP/quality on gems, which would you prioritize first for this?
I did Fire Pen cause it seemed to be the best gain I would get, unfortunately rolling my colors I haven't been able to get Iron Will on there, and trading for a different mantle didn't seem to be an option. May have to buy a second 6L just so I don't lose these already hard enough to get colors trying to get the best ones.

I'm wondering what I shoudl focus on changing next build wise, here's my gear:


Here's my build:


Got really lucky with the 6L, I figure my gloves should be the first thing to upgrade, but I'm not sure.

Here's my DPS

Here's my Defense


I use Anger instead of HoT/HoI, my main reasoning for this was being pointed out by someone else that with all the +% fire damage we take from the tree (and potentially from the jewels) we will get more out of Anger than we will out of both Heralds. After doing some calculations on the tree, with my tree/jewels and some +%fire on wand, Anger beat out HoT+HoI together. Sometimes if I'm feeling frisky I'll use Anger+HoT, but that's rarely, as 20k dps is more than enough and my main problem at the moment is just not being tanky enough (3.1k after Anger, 763 ES from random stuff,)

Anyhow, hoping someone with some more experience there can guide me on what to do, at the moment I'm rolling a PA MF to try and fund any big changes I might make.

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Penetros wrote:

For GCP/quality on gems, which would you prioritize first for this?
I did Fire Pen cause it seemed to be the best gain I would get, unfortunately rolling my colors I haven't been able to get Iron Will on there, and trading for a different mantle didn't seem to be an option. May have to buy a second 6L just so I don't lose these already hard enough to get colors trying to get the best ones.

The 2 biggest DPS upgrades for Quality gems are Faster Projectiles and Faster Casting.

They each gain 10% cast speed at 20Q and these should be the first gems you get 20Q

What is better for flame totem? Culling strike or Faster Casting?

Btw, after 2.0 Enduring Cry is not Spell so Cast when damaged taken doesn't work. How do you solve this problem? With other gems?

How are you guys getting the Intelligence requirement? I'm barely at 130 Int :(