Shockwave Totem Life Stack Hierophant | PoE 3.28

vid: https://youtu.be/duexqbCT_vM poe.ninja snapshot: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/midmax_-7250/midmax_geraffe?&timemachine=week-5 lifetap setup (higher damage, feels kinda scuffed with huge life cost/herald minions) https://pobb.in/t8sUL9Jnu15D lvl 1 gems are imbues some additional notes 1. Managing inspiration stacks on bosses is actually a thing in this build because each cast costs a lot of mana, and we're not constantly casting. Thankfully, you can get enough damage that it's not too much of an issue. Just prep 4 before the boss spawns, and then summon the last one right as they become hittable. recast if totems die/refresh onslaught. Of course, this is just a small damage minmax, feel free to ignore if it doesn't bother you. 2. I have Sap Psyche on all my large spell clusters. Pure coincidence, any of the 3 suffix notables will work as they are all in between Mage Hunter and Arcane Heroism. 3. Pathing to the cluster socket on the bottom right instead of the top right of the tree works too. You'll have more block/regen in exchange for some res and crit reduction. 4. Mageblood is currently(as in while I'm editing this) a good budget option (lmao). They're less than half the price of the echoing shrine belt. Headhunter is also a very good budget option mid league (they're like 10D). Will have to rebalance attributes though, but the added strength is nice because it allows you to get more block chance. A nice hunter cord belt works too (that's what I was using before getting the shrine belt. (Check my poe.ninja day 4 snapshot for an earlier setup(i was using hrimmsorrow for a while but it doesn't show)) 5. Worm flask is used to proc arcane surge at the beginning of bossfights for the life and mana regen while you're setting up. Can use Ancestral Inspiration on medium cluster to gain surge on totem summon. Further Upgrades (most of these are pretty overkill tbh) CB jewel Temple Gloves Implicits on magic jewels Cogwork / Helical Double corrupt astral projector Better AG helm Reflecting Mists 100% adorned Very large thread of hope to the left of marauder hits Heart of the Warrior + 2 more elegant hubris notables (haven't checked if there's a good jewel for it tho) Tailoring orb + volatile kaoms 3 mod watcher's eye 2 shrine belt (res or massive) Helmet Shaper + Elder Archdemon Crown Horror Essence until Hypothermia and open suffix+prefix (use annuls) Suffix can't be changed harvest reforge crit for spell crit chance. if you hit atk crit, try to annul it and go again, otherwise, back to horrors (can settle for 2% crit if you want, should be able to cap crit anyway) With suffixes done, matron for suffixes can't be changed exalt slam x2 +matron scour until conc effect. can go for inc aoe or life too. I prefer inc aoe, but you can just settle with only conc craft +1 aoe gems Amulet 2 Methods 1. recomb (i prefer this one) Pros: Way quicker You can guarantee T1 cast speed Cons: 50/50 to delete your focused amulet. might cost more than buying straight up if you get REALLY unlucky lmao waggle video demonstrating it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnGP9VI4Nmw 2. alc scour Pros: Less risky (you'll never straight up delete your expensive amulet) Cons: alc scour (even with the alt key thing) is CBT can get low roll on cast speed start with an unsplit focused amulet alc scour until you get +1(2) all skills beast split to guarantee an isolated +all skills sell the other one (usually around half the price of unsplit ammy) cannot roll attacks, harvest aug phys prefixes cannot be changed (matron/bench remove crafted might be cheaper, depends on matron price) reforge caster guarantees cast speed if low roll, you can try to annul, or just sell and go again Wand This is the way I did it, not sure if it's the best method profane wand, cast speed fracture (fracture orbs are cheap now, might be cheaper to do yourself) Woe essence spam for +1 all (annul for open prefix+suffix if needed) cannot roll attacks + fill last suffix if needed harvest aug phys and pray rip? go again with prefixes done, prefixes can't be changed aug caster for crit chance, if low roll, you can prefixes can't be changed scour and do it again until satisfied you can go reforge crit for chance to get crit multi, which can be better depending on how much crit you can get on your setup (you can hit attack crit tho) bench craft double damage chance for better brittle on bosses Another way u can do it you can start with a +1 all fracture if you want to do a quick/easy craft. for suffixes, you can reforge(or aug) caster, aug caster, and it'll hit speed and crit chance. You have less control over rolls, you can fill on reforge, but yolo annul doesn't feel that bad here. Starting over's fine with a +1 all fracture Ring fracture 25% scorn multi reforge caster until T1 cast speed + good other stuff. you can keep reforging until res + T1 life which i think isn't too rare otherwise, just reforge until res and matron suffixes can't be changed reforge life until T1 idk which is more efficient, do the math if you want lol. Glove fracture convert mod envy essence for life/res, craft last suffix. if you get 2 good res, then you can exalt + edritch annul for T1 life if you want if you have 40% watcher's eye (honestly i should've just divined mine lol) then fracture temple mod, and just craft 25% convert GL with conflicts Boots you can probably buy these life fracture envy essence for 2x res matron suffixes can't be changed veiled chaos. craft mana to block (if you have the empty prefix) unveil MS avoid chill, otherwise, go again. eldritch annul if needed bench craft avoid freeze Adorned jewels fracture, alt+aug, vaal. GL you can probably buy these (very cheap to make early league tho) Belt lucky wisdom scoll