PoE Spell Totem, Fire 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.

Hi. This char started from me seeing new brands (armagedon brand of volatility + peneance brand of conduction) and thinking that you can do something funny with them. Big thing is very short and lack of duration that can be abused with brand mastery for big mana regen.Big mana regen is very useful for every arcane build. Kitavas thirst with 2 new brands + wintertide + swiftbrand support gave me enough sustain for MoM + Agnostic on t16 with otherwise trashy build. Char is a proof of the concept and prolly life version is not the way, but conept is proofed and i think its funny. Prolly

I started the league off with Aer0 cobra lash build and I'm barely in to maps but it is feeling just really awful. Mapping is just really painful. Cannot even attempt Affliction stuff because especially my single-target is abysmal. I know I'm missing uber lab and only have 4 link and shit gear etc. but I've played enough of this game I know something is seriously wrong and getting a few small upgrades is not gonna cut it. I am literally killing some regular rares for a minute or something if they are any tankier. Also if they do a

Note: This is NOT really a RF build! Hi, I'm a really casual Path of Exile player who doesn't usually go hard into leagues anymore and therefore has a lot of outdated knowledge. I decided to make my own build this league - I've reached the point where I'm running Red T16 maps, but due to the build being overly complicated, most people get a headache when I ask them for gearing tips, although I've gotten some really good advice, such as someone telling me how good Formless Flame was. Here is my build, although some skills don't work due to them not being integrated into Path of Building yet

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