PoE Spell Totem, Channelling builds

Crusader plate gives me 40k armour unique plate gives me 48k Whats better no crit damage or 6% reduction? hrm I had attached images. Reattached Here is the POB with both chests They seem very close. I wonder if the never take criticals is better than the 6% reduction and loss of other stats.

I've been diving deep into the world of Path of Exile with my own take on a Hierophant Totem build using Lightning Tendrils, drawing inspiration from the formidable Tatiantel2. Currently, I find myself at Red Maps, striving to complete my Atlas and fine-tuning my farming strategy. However, I believe there's room for improvement in my build, and I'm reaching out to the community for some guidance. The focus is of my build is on ramping up cast speed and crit multi for Lightning Tendrils Damage, and spell suppression and mana since my main defensive layer is "MoM" and spell suppression. I just

anyone think this build could be good? &x200B; 30% more damage for the crucible mods that increase the stages, but can be turned off &x200B;

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Why Soulrend over other skills? Mostly because I want to, but it's a clear skill that feels very nice to play and the mtx gives you bonus style points ----------------DPS------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not amazing but good enough given how good it feels to play and how tanky it is Arcane surge on movement skills Blight + wither totems for sing

This is my first time making a build, and I've been learning a lot - I wanted to make a trickster build self-casting Flameblast, and use 2x Consuming Dark and Anomolous Flameblast for full chaos conversion. Then I'm going to add the new alch mark and lean into the chaos/poison. I have 11 different useful masteries for Polymath. Defensively, I'm focused in on Evasion and ES. I have Wind Dancer, Ghost Dance, and Wicked Ward and quite a bit of ES leech, along with the nifty new ES tricks in the trickster ascendancy. I'm relying on a f

Both Bane and Cold DoT Occultists greatly benefit from the new Vaal Caress Gloves, as they run 4L Vaal gems. Bane === For Bane, Vaal Blight receives hefty buffs from running Vaal Caress: Let's say you get these at level 32 (very unlikely), you have Vaal Blight Level 10, Void Manip Level 8, Efficacy Level 8 and Swift Affliction Level 1. You're a Witch with a standard Bane tree (Atrophy, Whispers of Doom, Melding and Arcane Expanse). Compared to Apothecary's Gloves, which you can't get until much later, and are gonna be BiS for a while, you get a +194% dps inc