Two leagues ago I made a Holy Flame Totem Hierophant that was able to do most of the content in the game. I was proud of it, and it was fun, but it needed more. I knew that in order to make it a truly awesome skill, we needed more screen coverage and more damage. This version of Holy Flame Totem delivers!

Effectively there are two issues to solve with HFT. The damage of the skill is just ok, and the screen coverage is abysmal. Its a totem, so you can't use explode or heralds to assist with clear. The build combines Nimi's with extreme projectile speed scaling (~200% inc) to give us both double hits per cast (2x damage) and full screen coverage with TEN projectiles per totem.

Something I never got around to adding to the build that i did add to the PoB is Sleepless Sentries. Once I solved projectile speed, I had enough to drop a medium cluster jewel to add the powerful onslaught node. This isnt in the game footage (and neither is the upgraded shield), so just something to note. Also, with a little more investment into fire resistance, you could also run righteous fire for huge DPS.

We have 4 totems that hit twice, resulting in over 50m dps on PoB, but on moving or distant targets you get substantially less DPS. Preloading your totems on bosses with phases results in huge DPS, and kills bosses almost before your arcanist brand can cast its 3 curses.

This was a super fun build to play, I farmed hundreds of bosses (non-ubers, i hate ubers) and tons of maps. If you're looking for something a little different, this was a blast! As always, enjoy!

PoB: https://pobb.in/AB3BzaGCC1Lv