PoE Totem builds

POB: Just a meme build theory, dont take too seriously. (Also, I'm not going to push this into practice cause already 36 challenge this league.) In theory, playstyle could be very simple. Shield charging, placing a searing bond totem and repeating this cycle until boss fight, then spamming totems. With ashes of stars and phantasmal Q gems, 12 totems in total grant giga life and mana regen thus compensate cost of indigon in some way. Gears in POB are not realistic at all, just provide some ideas to min-max searing bond dot dmg.

Wasssa wassa This is my Searing Bond build for the 3.17 league POB: Main idea: Searing bond (6L) for melt dps Bodyswap totems (5L ) for getting searing bond on enemies + combust How we get dmg: Usual tree for increasing totem/fire/burn/dmg over time dmg 3x curses + arcane surge with vixen gloves Malevolance, Zealotry, Skitterbots, HoA Wave of Conviction + trap + multi trap + charged traps (frenzy generation) Pros: No targeting Searing Bond The build can be a league starter with great rewards as you sink cu

Act 1 Gems: Damage Skills: Holy Flame Totem (Lvl 4) - Added Fire Damage - Ruthless (Lvl 2) Ancestral Protector - Added Fire Damage - Ruthless Auras and Utility Steelskin, Precision, Vitality, Leap Slam (Dash Prior) Act 2 Gems: Supports to grab: Faster Attacks Support, Culling Strike Support, Elemental Damage with Attacks, Melee Physical Damage Auras: Herald of Ash, Herald of Purity (probably better) Act 3 Gems: THE BIG BOI, ANCESTRAL WARCHI

First things first, this is NOT MY BUILD. I saved the POB last league and cannot remember who made it. This build has the advantages of being very good DPS with totems leaching damage for you (which is huge). You just lay down your totems and dodge boss mechanics. I wanted to add a new build idea since I am seeing mostly the same builds being posted. Link to POB

After finishing my first build and wracking my brain trying to figure out what to play next I re-read the patch notes looking for anything that popped out. The ignite changes are what prompted my first build, but the changes to Scorching Ray and Searing bond really caught my eye. Yes EE is effectively dead for these skills, and EO is literally dead (they can't hit therefore can't crit whatsoever), but their base damages were raised so enormously (exactly 58% more for both) that it doesn't even matter. In addition, no longer needing a 4l to proc both EE and EO and just straight getting almo