[3.25] MoM Crit Power Siphon Totem Hierophant

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gfeldman#4052 wrote:

With your new ranger variant, how do you plan on overcoming the massive loss to mana regen from the old heirophant ascendancy "ritual of awakening"?"

* mana mastery 10% mana on guard skill
* +300% increased mana regeneration rate (scales the guard mana mastery and mana recoup when getting hit too). With the each guard skill usage will recover 10% x 4 = 40% of mana over 1 second.

The chain ascendancy node is really good, but picking up the mana flask node is probably the way to go. Getting to 80-100% increased flask mana recovery rate is totally possible. That is 7-8k mana over 5-6seconds.

The node fixes the loss of Agnostic too. Since all mana recovery from flasks is applied to life aswell.

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zorker#7481 wrote:

Here is a PoB for the totem version on whisperer in phrecia league
https://pobb.in/dd7iIwHFtvnE

For PS miner you probably want to go scavenger.

Why scavenger? Cloak of Flame, Void battery and Fury Valve I assume. Just start a normal PS miner and go mana later?

Sorry for the dumb question, I never understood the miner version so I have no idea how to pivot.

So I league started it...again :D

Thanks to a bunch of videos from LazyExile. They nudged me over.

Check them out they are really good! https://www.youtube.com/@LazyExile

I am now level 90 having an absolute blast. Currently in T10 maps.

## Progression

### 1-12 : Galvanic Arrow setup and Shrapnel ballista totem setup.
POB: https://poe.ninja/pob/701e5

Easy build and good ranger nodes made it a breeze.
Went straight to the totem nodes.

### 12-39: Lightning Arrow setup and Lightning Arrow ballista totem setup.
POB: https://poe.ninja/pob/701e5

Lightning Arrow is a monster. Especially if you add it as a totem setup. You can just run while tapping totems.
I got so insanely lucky. I leveled on Saturday since I had no time before. I found a Heatshiver at 35 which I sold for 110c. It funded all my items for my early mapping setup and the level 40 ps totem switch.
Did the first lab and grabed the 4 min frenzy and power charges.

### 40-60: PS totem switch
POB: https://poe.ninja/pob/6fe8e

With all that twink gear leveling/campaign was a breeze. :D

### 60-90: Piscator, Arcane Cloak and MoM
POB: https://poe.ninja/pob/6fedc

At 60 I switched to MoM, Arcane Cloak and Piscator. Dance the Offered costed 10c at that time. They provide Agnostic which is huge. I picked mana flask ascendancy for more sustain early on.

Did merc and uber lab before Kitava. Was super easy.

### 90-xxx: Wilma and Ancestral Vision
POB: https://poe.ninja/pob/7015b

I switched to Wilma, a +1 totem shield and replaced Purity of Elements with Haste. I added Breathstealer and annointed Disintegration. Chest, rings and belt are still complete leveling gear. Plan is to replace those slots and then work on some nice jewels and gem upgrades. I am having a bunch of open sockets too. I am probably adding Shield Charge now.

Before I forget it. With mana flask on the tree and Agnostic on boots I was able to switch the mana flask ascendancy node to the fork one. That one is just bonkers for mapping.

Build plays aaaaaamazing. Perma Onslaught, Haste, so much attack, cast and totem speed.

How's it feeling tank wise? Looking for a faster mapper and your PS totems has a place in my heart now, just interested to see how it's holding up without the 7k mana and heiro stuff?

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NoAimNecessary#3727 wrote:

How's it feeling tank wise?

Here is where I am currently sitting at 92: https://poe.ninja/pob/7063a

Build is very zoomy and has amazing clear. Good boss damage too.

Could not yet fit chaos resistance in ... well I could with a different light of the meaning :p.

So tank against chaos is not good. Tank against phys is kinda mid too.

For sustain we have to use a mana flask. No way around it.

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zorker#7481 wrote:

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NoAimNecessary#3727 wrote:

How's it feeling tank wise?

Here is where I am currently sitting at 92: https://poe.ninja/pob/7063a

Build is very zoomy and has amazing clear. Good boss damage too.

Could not yet fit chaos resistance in ... well I could with a different light of the meaning :p.

So tank against chaos is not good. Tank against phys is kinda mid too.

For sustain we have to use a mana flask. No way around it.

Looking for the update on the build I have around 20d rn and I really love totem playstyle.

Did a char to test it and is powerful in acts. I can see it getting stronger faster than hiero. I have one act to go but have to go to bed.The only thing worrying me is the mana sustain. Hitting the flask doesn't feel great, especially if you automatize arcane cloak. I may die more for forgetting to use the pot on maps and for having less uptime on cloak by not autoing it. This is just hypothetical and we'll see what really happens.

I have a question. Do Wilma's needs Unnatural to give it's best or are we dipping on cast speed on other places?

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Vanchelot#1368 wrote:

Did a char to test it and is powerful in acts. I can see it getting stronger faster than hiero. I have one act to go but have to go to bed.The only thing worrying me is the mana sustain. Hitting the flask doesn't feel great, especially if you automatize arcane cloak. I may die more for forgetting to use the pot on maps and for having less uptime on cloak by not autoing it. This is just hypothetical and we'll see what really happens.

I have a question. Do Wilma's needs Unnatural to give it's best or are we dipping on cast speed on other places?

He uses haste aura so if you use Wilma's you can have both atk/cast speed so it's really good and you can have +1 totem aswell.

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Dassort#2407 wrote:

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Vanchelot#1368 wrote:

Did a char to test it and is powerful in acts. I can see it getting stronger faster than hiero. I have one act to go but have to go to bed.The only thing worrying me is the mana sustain. Hitting the flask doesn't feel great, especially if you automatize arcane cloak. I may die more for forgetting to use the pot on maps and for having less uptime on cloak by not autoing it. This is just hypothetical and we'll see what really happens.

I have a question. Do Wilma's needs Unnatural to give it's best or are we dipping on cast speed on other places?

He uses haste aura so if you use Wilma's you can have both atk/cast speed so it's really good and you can have +1 totem aswell.

Oh my, that's right. I didn't see it at first glance. Thanks!

Sorry for the double post. I'm just gonna tell my experience so far.

The build is a different beast, a change from the "normal" build, at least for me, like it happened with the "all your damage can freeze" version in affliction. It levels and ramps faster than the hiero version and with the fork node the "normal" clear is nutty and not needing to get frenzies makes you able to use another power siphon for the cast on crit link, removing the need to aim to put the mark on the enemy. It also makes the uptime of the golem, chaos one this time, something semiautomatic and almost permanent. It's also faster by a lot.

The affliction freeze everything was a straight up upgrade but this feels more like a sidegrade. It may be skill issue, but I feel I'm doing less damage, maybe due to contents I'm doing and I see I die a lot more compared with the normal one, due to lack of phys mitigation and maybe a skill issue due to less mana regen and less uptime of arcane cloak.

I'm lvl 86, res capped including chaos, ailment immune and have almost all the parts I've seen except for the Unnatural that will try to buy tomorrow. I'm having fun but I don't like how often I'm dying and the low mana regen, even using mana flask, it kinda make me miss the mana flask node.

I would like to solve the phys mit (hard thing to fix because I don't like the armors and HH is a dream still) and maybe fix the clear outside ascendancy to either take the mana pot node back or take the rage node. I was testing it Before going to sleep and is a lot of damage but the clear is as meh as you would expect from the build without pierce/fork.

I feel I need some more damage and maybe re-learn to play the game/build because I've been playing very tanky builds and maybe I'm moving wrong or facetanking more than I should.