PoE Spell, Totem builds

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Unless you are using stealing Inquisitor's Inevitable Judgement via Forbidden Flesh/Flame, this is probably the single biggest damage upgrade you can make against Lycia, who has 50% elemental res. Most builds I see either have 0 investment in reducing or penetrating this, or use Frostbite, which tends to be less effective than Elemental Weakness WITHOUT Balance of Terror with a Heatshiver at only 15% chill effect and no freeze. Whispers of Doom, to slot the extra curse, is 4 points away from pretty much all of these builds, as they take Influence. The vast majority of these builds also have a

need some help deciding on how to continue build. ive been running arn's for the past day but ive got a stygian that sims higher, im too dumb to understand the benefit of arn's vs a stygian. is it just the chance to proc the triple damage? the stygian also helps me keep righteous fire on longer. any advice on what to craft/go for next is welcome. also i know im missing two gems, i actually dont know what/how to fit anything else in i added two gear sets one with the arn's and one with the stygian vise set up

Act 1. Nothing can beat the Rolling Magma + Flamewall combo in Templar skill choice, so stick with it. Do not try to kill Merveil with Storm Brand + Arc. Just don?t. Forget about Stormblast mines, Orb of Storms, and Lightning Tendrils. Do not take the Runebinder keystone before you kill Merveil. You won?t be able to use the Holy Flame Totem if you get it. What to do: 1. Kill Hillock - get Rolling Magma. 2. Search both Tarkleigh and Nessa for BB(B) linked. Link Rolling Magma with Elemental Proliferation. If you get 3b linked - you are lucky. Buy Arcane Surge from Nessa and add

tl;dr it seems bad but I'm not that experienced with scaling fire DoT. Damage is simulated using DD corpse life that will provide same exact damage that the totem will. The idea is to use Searing Bond totems which can be scaled through +1 fire gems to increase totem life while also doing fire DoT. Since we're chieftain with 90% res, we use RF for more fire DoT and more spell damage for searing bond. And then we use arcanist brand for flame surge/curse while using scorching ray for infusion/stronger exposure since there's nothing else to do while your totem ign

My searing bond/ righteous fire chieftain, ascendancy needs work, and ill swap around some stuff if i get some good clusters, but here's my first planned route for the next patch

I'm a casual player. I've started to work my way through Kirac maps and am looking to fine tune my current setup: Right off the bat you'll notice I'm templar, so not the optimal class for the build; a change toward a poison SRS build is something that happened around mid-game. My current play style is to distract enemies with a couple of totems and skeletons, then spam SRS. For tougher enemies unphased by my current minion DPS, I help the little guys out with arc from a distance. Arc is supported by a lightning golem and Herald of