[3.4] ARC totem hierophant. End game bosses ready

If you want to play with 1 Shimmeron (the degen from 2 is too much) you can but you will have 0 life regen and halved mana regen. Not worth in my opinion.

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Dyvz wrote:

Im still enjoying arc totem at SSF.
It would be great to add section about fossil crafting for this build,
As for SSF, its like most of the gear can be crafted
Here my list what im trying to get with fossils:
(all is 84+ so if RNG gods on your side you can get top affixes tiers)

1) Shaper gloves for cast speed + metalic fossil for added lightning
2) bone helmet for -9% lightning resists aura
3) shaper/elder boots for totem damage
4) shaper ring (flat ligtnign /spell damage + may be some damage from prismatic)
5) Stygian belt for elem/lightning damage
6) shaped wand/scepter for extra chaos damage as elem

You can try go for chest but we have such good unique options here.
Amulet have too much good things to roll, it can be fossil sink place.

Ofc everyone will have own RNG with drops/craft in SSF, but in order of easy obtaining: go for belt>helm>boots>gloves>weapon>ring

If you have your own experience with crafting, may be some tricks, post it here!

- Red Elder (T15) DONE;
- Shaper Guardians DONE;
- Uber Atziri DONE;
- Shaper DONE;
- Uber Elder DONE.

Pro:
- Good starter build and end game;
- Fast;
- Fun (if you don't dislike totems).

Con:
- 6L soul mantle is expensive and curse management isn't for all;
- Primary defense is movement.

- We have MoM (4200hp + 2700 mana).
- We use ARC (350k+ DPS per Totem). Fast clear and comfortable play.
- We have 5 totems.
- We kite around for safety.

PoB: https://pastebin.com/riv20vxA

What's PoB? The best PoE planner. MUST HAVE:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1716360

TREE: www.poeurl.com/b4lI

Use the PoB skill tree navigator (next to "reset") to see the 30/60/90 passives.

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koros wrote:

[...] For gearing, I thing this build is pretty flexible:
all rares until Blood Aqueduct -> farm tabula rasa (card drop + buy cards with currency - should take 2 hours if lucky) -> finish main quests -> start mapping -> all rares + tabula rasa should be enough -> play safe to reach lvl 90 -> tree finished here -> get better gears -> try to spawn Uber Elders and kill them. [...]
Just my idea, hope it helps

check my profile.

+ rare (life, cast speed, multi/damage)

Helm: Arc chain. It's not mandatory but usefull.

Gloves: Whatever.

Boots (Uber Lab):
1) 10% Damage penetration. The best vs bosses.
2) 1-160 lightning damage. Very close to "penetration" DPS and better for general mapping.
3) 120% crit chance.

w/ Soul Mantle:
6L: Arc + elemental focus + light penetration + controlled destruction + added lightning + faster casting

w/o Soul Mantle:
6L: Spell totem + Arc + light penetration + controlled destruction + added lightning + faster casting

1L: Wrath (inside Essence Worm)

3L: stone golem + minion life + minion ele resistance

flame dash + faster casting + culling strike

4L: CWDT (6) + immortal call (8) + increased duration + enfeeble (9)

CWDT (1) + phase run (3) + increased duration + phase run

conductivity + increased duration + arcane surge + spell cascade

Help Alira

This is totally personal. My choices:
Major: Brine King
Minor: Gruthkul

Pursuit of Faith
Ritual of Awakening
Conviction of Power
Divine Guidance

Why controlled destruction if we want crit chance?

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Carrmatt93 wrote:

Since the crit chance loss from controlled destruction doesn't apply to the base chance the net loss is actually really small, with diamond flask up it can mean dropping from like 90% effective crit down to like 83%, with 5 totems all rolling their own chance to crit, it's really not noticeable.

- What are the differences between GC and ARC totem?
GC is best for bosses and has a good clear speed.
ARC is best for clear and good for bosses.

- What about 2x Kikazaru + Self-Flagellation jewel?
This combination add DPS but lose a lot of EHP. The curse will still apply at 20% of effectiveness. Worth it? Not for me.

- What about curse from Soul Mantle?
Diamond flask of Warding (remove curse + immune to curse) is enough to negate curses from Soul Mantle. It will be up 99% of the time if used with "Ample" or "Chemist's" prefix.

- Why Elemental Focus
Normally shock would be better but high life pool bosses will not be shocked. In the latter case Elemental Focus is the best. During mapping your damage will be more than enough anyway.

- Why Elemental Focus is the 6th gem?
Because it help just vs hard bosses and you will eventually have a 6L by then. If you got 5L or a non-Soul Mantle 6L drop it to have possibility to shock.

- Levelling questions:
Don't bother for the best setup during levelling. Use whatever items the game drop. Use whatever gems with spell totem. The DPS will stil be enough anyway.

- Why Faster Casting in the 5L setup or 6L non Soul Mantle setup instead of EF?

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Koros wrote:

Smoother gameplay, faster pack-clear, totems cast faster - your totems 1-hit each target in pack anyway, so you want all the actions above happen as fast as possible to move to next pack.

Not my video. Thank you Valmar:

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Valmar wrote:

Red Tier Elder:

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfvZwOBP0s4

Shaper:

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wioKkohuxJk

Uber Elder:

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMl7Se_dT0

24 September:
- Added expensive gear example (under "Possible_Gear" section)
- Added MF gear (under "Possible_Gear" section)

02 September:
- Updated for 3.4

16 July:
- "MY_GEAR" section is now my final items for 3.3

06 July:
- Added HC version to "Possible_Gear" section

29 June:
- Added video section. Thank you Valmar

25 June:
- Polished here and there (nothing special)
- Added various versions of the build (from cheap to really expensive)

23 June:
- Updated 3.3 gear. First Shimmeron acquired (dropped by my 3rd Elder run)

21 June:
- Updated 3.3 gear. Soul Mantle linked!

18 June:
- Updated 3.3 gear (not final). Tabula Rasa + balanced resists + fixed gem links and quality

13 June:
- Added 3.3 gear (not final)

06 June:
- Updated levelling items. Started mapping

05 June:
- Added more F.A.Q.
- Added my 3.2 rare jewels

04 June:
- Added F.A.Q.
- Added my levelling items

31 May:
- Tree adjusted for 3.3
- Removed LT alternative. ARC is good enough for all bosses

13 April:
- added additional choices to gems section (travel skill, stronger arcane surge, vaal lightning trap)
- added enchantment section
- corrected the enchantment on boots in PoB