[3.4] Blood Magic Detonate Dead Totem Chieftain (Boss Killer/Mapper. All Map Mods!)

Glad you like it - Pantheon powers I chose were:

Arakali (all upgrades) - really increases your sustain and regen by a ton and reduces nasty effects such as shock and damage over time

Shakari (with upgrade) - makes you immune to poison. Really strong!

Hey there! I was searching for a different build, looking forward to try this one!


One question though.. I'm still a noob at this game, so I was wondering while leveling, what paths/nodes should I look to get firsts?


Thanks!

My leveling was a mess as I figured out the build as I went but if I'd do it again it would be:

* Born to Fight
* Armour Mastery
* Go all the way up trhough Retribution, Amplify, Light of Divinity, Purity of Flesh until you are 1 point away from Ancestral Bond
* Back in the Marauder area, go through Juggernaught towards Blood Magic
* Save up 5 points - then pick Blood Magic, the nodes behind, and Ancestral Bond (this is where you switch to DD Totems)
* Then go towards the Witch area, pick Ele Overload, Heart and Soul
* Pick all the Totem stuff in Witch & Marauder area
* Get jewels as you go
* Cruel Preparation towards Heart of Flame next
* Final nodes can be Fire Walker (Witch area) and Bloodless (Marauder)

Hi, I have a problem. When I cast Unearth, my totem with DD won't detonate the corpse from Unearth. The corpse is close and all. I am missing something? This may look like noob question but I never played around corpses builds.
Sorry for my English.

Hey - this is indeed a bit weird sometimes with the way totems get spawned and how they target enemies.

First of all, the DD totem will only explode corpses if they can target an enemy (totems have line of sight just like a player). When you spawn a totem, it will always spawn looking to the top left. So if the enemy is standing right from your character and you set a totem, the totem will actually look you in the eyes and not the enemy.

The totem will eventually notice the enemy in its radius, and turn. Once it turned around, it will try casting DD if it can find a corpse. This corpse however also needs to be in the totem's line of sight.

Hence it's very important that you cast your Unearth only after the totems have spawned (and have a chance to turn towards enemies) and to cast Unearth directly on top of the enemies.

Hope this helps!

Hello!

So I'm not sure if I'm doing the build all right, but I decided myself to start using Unearth and DD spell totem on 30 lvl already. I can already see the potential of the damage it can outup and I can see why you decided to go for Blood Magic overall; so the next step I'm trying to accomplish is to get BM and most of the life nodes on bottom of the tree.

I had a hard time leveling this up as I used Sunder (which was first time I ever used this gem, it's also awesome ability) and Protector totem. Then I specced more into Sunder, so it was my main ability dealer and the totem was practically useless, then got Leap Slam for movement. On the beginning of Act 3 I started changing things up so I can finally use the DD totem and Unearth and I think it's managing pretty well even so early! The only issue I have so far is mana, so once again BM.

I really enjoy your build so far, even though it might feel clunky at times, it's really fun to clear monsters.

I hope I didn't messed anything up so far or I won't in the future :D Thanks for the build guide!

thank you ! is very fun build ..!!

have a question

If I have 5-link, which gem should I drop?

Ele focus was my 6th link.

Glad you like it!

Hey it's me again.

So I'm really enjoying this build. I have bought the items that you suggested like Carcass Jack which is 6L with good stat rolls :D Costed me a bit, but I think it's worth at the end. Also bought the Clear Mind Jewel, but still missing a helmet with enchancement. I'm lvl 60 currently, 12k DPS on DD spell totem.

Really cool build, I going to get Ancestral Bond soon so I will be able to spam 2 totems.

I have one question though, since you didn't mentioned any flask. Do you think that Forbidden Taste is good flask to use on this build? I found that this flask can be used as an panic button for bosses and it's managing pretty well to be honest.

Cheers.

Hey mate - glad you're still enjoying the build! Looking forward to your feedback on endgame bosses (where I felt it shines the most).

Regarding flasks, I went for a pretty standard route of:

* Atziri's promise (moar dmg and some extra chaos res)
* Silver flask of heat (moar cast speed + freeze removal)
* Stibnite of warding (avoidance, blind + curse removal)
* Sulphur of staunching (regen, damage + bleed removal)
* Bubbling divine life flask of grounding (panic btn + shock removal)

Forbidden taste sounds interesting as it provides phasing on top of the full recovery, but then again you only have 2 uses (as opposed to the three from the life flask) and you will have to deal with the nasty chaos degen after full recovery.

The build doesn't have positive chaos resistance so you might end up taking more than the 8% damage listed on the flask. But then again the flask is dirt cheap, so maybe give it a try and report back on your experience!