PoE2 0.5 | Tawhoa's Tending Build is BACK! | 1 button | Semi Tanky | off meta | Melee Slow Tier

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The new Ancestral bond makes totems cost no charges and reserves 75 spirit. By limiting our spirit to just 75 (or below 150...), we can only summon 1 totem at the time and replacing the old one - causing the first one to explode for 20% of its life as base damage. The new Gemling has good quality scaling on the totem itself, extra levels, about 30% increased maximum life, less cost of skills and crit immunity. Allowing for fairly solid defenses and quality of life.

By scaling generic increased damage and totem damage, all types of damage will be scaled. Since we are using the dark defiler, we can easily get 13+ skeletons - with brutus' brain lineage support they are immortal. Granting us perma 78% damage as chaos, allowing for wither scaling to increase the damage even further.

Since the base damage is physical, we can get sustain from font of life support on the totems, allowing it to leech for us. You can add a uul-netol or esh support to the build to add even more damage as extra chaos + armour break or allow chaos to shock. But thats pretty expensive at the moment (20-100d+)

Would I recommend this build? Not really. You are definitely better off doing PoEguys grenade totem build. Is this Fun? Not really, you are spamming one button with close to no visual or audio effect and a fairly small aoe. This is purlely off meta and a showcase that the build is functional, but not great.