POE : Elementalist Arc or Flame Totem

build thread 1:

Now how conversion works:
Assuming you deal 100 base lightning damage with a lightning spell, got 20 % increased lightning and 20 % increased cold,, 20 % incr. fire, 20 % increased elem and 20 % increased spell damage:

50 % is transferred to cold by CotB and then transfered to fire by AoF and CtF:
50 Base damage*(1 + 0.2 (increased lightning damage) + 0.2 (increased cold damage) +0.2(increased fire damage) + 0.2 (increased elem damage)+ 0.2 (increased spell damage)) = 100 fire damage on the total conversion way

the other 50 % is directly converted to fire by AoF:
50 Base damage*(1 + 0.2 (increased lightning damage) +0.2(increased fire damage) + 0.2 (increased elem damage)+ 0.2 (increased spell damage)) = 90 fire damage directly converted

So totally you get 190 fire damage from your original 100 lightning damage. Conversion is the best way to increase your damage because you can use multiple modifiers.

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This build utilizes
- Call of the Brotherhood unique Two Stone Ring,
- Cold to Fire gem,
- Avatar of Fire keystone,
to convert every type of elemental damage into fire damage.



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POE : Triple Flame Totem Arc/Ball

TREE
class - hierophant ritual of awakening.
3 flame totem - fast cast - fire pen - ele focus - ctrl destr - [empower] - faster projectiles/iron will
Arc - Inc Crit (to proc Overload) - CoH - Flamm
Arc for - Overload - Shock - Curse
or Ball for Overload - Curse, share Projectile speed with FT
Flame Golem - GMP - Blind
CWDT - IC - ID

another TREE. 115 Points.
Life 204%
Regen 5.8%

DAMAGE :
95% Fire Damage
26% Ele Damage
55% Spell Damage
13% Cast Speed
130% Totem Damage
19% Totem Cast Speed

LINKING -
Flame Totem - Fast Cast - Fire Penetration
- Elemental Focus [ele dmg] - Controlled Destruction [spell dmg] - X

JEWEL/GEAR
Spell Damage
Totem Damage
Fire Damage
Elemental Damage
Cast Speed

GEAR

POE : Dual Clay Necro add.

add : Spell Totem + Desecrate --- need testing!
remove : srs
add : Inc Duration - Convo - Flesh Offerings - New Offerings
add : Commander of Darkness + Gen. Hatred + Clarity + hmm maybe Gen. Haste
add : aura nodes
remove - cast speed

POE : Chieftain Taunt Dual Totem

SWT x2 - Fast Cast - Poison - Added Fire/AOE/ - PtL - Hypho!! - Conc Effect!
Orb of Storms - PCoC - CoH - Curse
Hatred - HoA

***TIPS and TRICKS***
What I think is important to know is:
Minimum level to go dual totem is 35ish - you need to the dual totem node and at least the witch or templar AoE nodes in order to be efficient / compareable to Freezing Pulse + Faster casting + Spell Echo in clearing speed.
4 Link(minimum to be worth it to go totems):
Shockwave totem + Added fire(+20 to 40% of the dmg as fire) + Increased AoE(increased AoE really makes a difference) + Faster Casting(boosts the DPS a lot for no drawback).
5th Link: Concentrated effect.
Therefore best chest - Carcass Jack - the 20% increased AoE.
Increased AoE would make your totems outrange the ranged monsters and push back rare monsters to walls easily. Also constant casts while pushing the monster, and not at wall yet. So all the 4% increased AoE nodes are worth it, they are better than a 10% spell dmg node even though no increase in tooltip DPS.
Hatred aura works - +20 to 40% extra dmg as cold.
Herald of Ash works - + 15% of the dmg as fire.
To deal with Rare monsters(whites die in 1 sec, blues in 3 sec, rares take 4-10 sec) - put the totems in a way to push them towards the nearest wall/obstacle.
Ones he is there you totems do full their DPS because they constantly cast/hit him. While otherwise they push him out of their reach and you loose dps/efficiency. Your totems will cast again only when the mob walks back in their range
The totem deals perfectly with reflect because it's half Phys half Elemental damage. If your totem does 100 phys dmg he also does 55 fire from added fire and herald of ash and 40 cold dmg from Hatred. So thats 100 phys dmg and 95 Elemental. So reflect reflects only half of it's damage, unless you encounter double reflect.
So that's awesome, 'cus spark totem was oneshoting himself on reflect.
Quality to the gem is important - 60% increased HP at 20% quality.
Bandits and Passive points: Everything on the thee that says "Area of Effect Damage"(they are like 2 nodes lol), "Spell Damage" and "Physical damage"(NOT "Physical damage with One/Two Handed Weapons", neither "Melee Physical Damage") works.
However, increased damage stats have diminishing returns effectiveness - the more you get, the less effective they become. This is why I am going crit based.
What are your protips/observations guys?
Also let me break a mith - Crit (Spell crit including) does work, I am going crit build and I shutter everything into ice cubes thx to the hatred cold dmg.
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