Flame Totem Test Build - 04

Today I had a couple of hours this morning so I plowed through normal difficulty and finished the session in act 1 cruel. I now have dual flame totem linked to LMP and Faster casting. I finally have become a dual flame totem build!

So today I Worked up and through Dominus. I managed to get my first master to level 3. As you can see in the second picture, I have now gotten a hideout. Followed by killing Piety and Dominus using searing bond. This was fairly easy to be honest, not quick though. Feeling good! p.s. I also took blood magic.

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Flame Totem Test Build - 01

So I have just started a new character so I can test out weather I like the play style of a totem build or not. A while back I created a second account to make a MF character to cull but I never got round to it so I have very little currency/items. This is a good test bed for a new league. So far I haven't had a lot of time to play, probably around an hour, but I managed to kill Mervail and get into act 2. I'll be updating my progress as I go on. Here is where I am at the moment. In the next update I will be doing more screen shots because I have found you can press F8 in game to screen shot. If anyone wants to play with me I am called Opaque_Martem.

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Elemental Equilibrium & Ancestral Bond

So I was thinking about how to use these two keystones in the same build. While watching Lifting Nerd Bro's stream I asked him how I could. He suggested using Ice Nova + Trap which would work perfectly. 

After having a look at a couple of different skill trees I went back to Lifting Nerd Bro's Manly Marauder build. This skill tree path directly past the EE keystone so it will be super easy to pick it up. Of course in the new leagues there will be changes but hopefully i'll be able to piece this skill tree back together after the patch.

I also looked at a CI alternative, again this will be an old tree. It's a 120 point build so I'll never get close to it but I think it looks pretty solid.

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Flame Totem 3 Dragons - Review

So as I previously said I would do an initial review of my thoughts on the previously mentioned builds. This post is looking at using Flame Totem with Three Dragons unique to change the burn damage to shock stacking.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/884155

First let's look at the Three Dragons unique Helmet.

This unique item definitely earns the title of "unique". So as you can see different elemental status ailments change due to the kind of elemental damage you do. In our case the burn damage changes to shock stacks. This doesn't mean that fire does lightning damage however. The other nice thing about the helmet that doesn't make it just a gimmick is the addition o 26 to 30 all elemental resistance. The helmet is missing a lot of other stats such as life and armor but that's something we can make up with other items.

From playing for a little while I have seen a lot of people playing fire and ice builds but for some reason lightning seems a little less popular. This may have changed now with the addition of lightning tendrils. I think shock stacking is something that will aid the majority of parties.

I also like the way it uses the Power charge on Critical Gem with Ice Spear. I think this is a potent combination.

Definitely something I'm thinking of trying. Maybe not at first but I may transition into it when I have some currency. Go Chaos Inoculation and Three Dragons when I have the gear and respec points totaled up.

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