PoE Hierophant builds similar to Spell Totem Exsanguinate Build Showcase

One of my all-time favorite builds is back baby! At face value SR totems seem like an absolute meme, but I've been playing the build every other league or so since 3.15, and have a mildly successful build series about it on my YT channel from 3.16. It caught a solid nerf in subsequent leagues due to various changes, but with the latest change to Hierophant's Arcane Blessing ascendancy notable, and the curse changes from last league, it's absolutely back. The general idea is to get 4 Scorching Ray totems and 9 Searing Bond totems through the use of Phantasmal Searing Bond, which grants an ad

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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

Copied this build from somewhere, can't find the original sadly, and made some improvements. If anyone is looking for a sick build that can clear all content here it is: &x200B;

  So this is the first build I've come up with that isn't a total disaster. TBH, I was following Tataniel's stormburst totems starter but then started adding stuff of my own, like annihilating light, till it got to where it is today.   This is noob stuff so it obviously has problems (-52 chaos resist) but the defense largely comes from putting down the decoy totems so nothing attacks me while the totems kill everything in an area.   It's a glass canon build, I'm fine with that, I will die sometimes. On this one I really want to k

The Build The endgame setup should look like this: You max out on your Scorching Ray totems and then add as much Searing bond bois as you can alongside them without replacing the Scorching ray totems. The reason for this is because every additional totem active adds 5% mroe damage to everything and since searing bond comes with +3 to additional totems and we can add multiple totems on top of it they are the perfect choice in a build that relies on DoT damage which simultaneously buffs them. You need to hit an enemy with Flame dash or cast it twice to apply Arcane Surge. Additionall

POB: The video is a T16 Dunes just alch n go. I couldn't decide on whether to start with shockwave totems or the hydrosphere Occultist so I decided to make a bad build that combines them both. Surprisingly, it has gotten me to endgame pretty smoothly and can take down pinnacle bosses. Uploading a video because a few people requested one. Edit: Note on a cool interaction, on-kill effects work with hydrosphere even though it's a totem build (bug?). At the cost of +1 totems from ancestral bond you can make it into a explosion build.