Popular pyrvuate skills: Shockwave Totem, Unearth, Siege Ballista, Purifying Flame, Explosive Concoction, Artillery Ballista.

Extra Ele Shield Crush Slayer + bonus Shield Crush of the Chieftan Slayer - T17s, Ubers
1154.48M
DPS
40.19K
EHP
4.49K
Life
~9.6![]()
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Shockwave Totems Inquisitor Life Stack - T17s, deathless Ubers, 30+ million DPS and tankier totem gameplay.
482.96M
DPS
37.72K
EHP
4.23K
Life
~7.1![]()
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3.26 Impale Facebreaker Champion - league starter to T17s
971.07M
DPS
57.3K
EHP
3.88K
Life
~134![]()
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Hold right click to win Simulacrums - Pestilent Strike Trickster
823M
DPS
280.13K
EHP
3.71K
Life
~7.1![]()
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Ele Hit of the Spectrum Ballista Totems Slayer - Tankier Totems for T17s
1035.52M
DPS
42.58K
EHP
3.83K
Life
~30![]()
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Randomly playing around with Chief tonight. No ascendancies are selected. I actually am only using two Ascendancy points (or my interpretation of them) through the config box. I guess I would use Hinekora, but then honestly dont even have another option. When someone figures out ngamahu better I might sub it in. It seems like new Chieftan might go well with Annihilating Light. You get a bunch of res from Tasalio. The extra res to get 90% all res isn't that bad since you are probably taking Purify of Fire as it is. This is just so
3.22 Purifying Flame Chieftan - just a theorycraft
118.73M
DPS
33.74K
EHP
4.26K
Life
~11![]()
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Helmet - Wilma's provides Ancestral Bond which is a massive bonus. Nothing going to compete for DPS here. Good enchants would be anything with reservation or anything with damage i.e. siege ballista, curses etc..Dont need enchanted to start. 100c with enchant, 10c without. Weapon - Darkscorn is a part of the build. In future leagues you won't have to worry about a crucible tree, but generally attack speed and chaos/phys damage are good. 30c Quiver - quiver slot is a huge DPS boost. I paid 1 div for the listed one, but that was probably a goodbuy. I would budget 2-3 div. you want dot multi a
If EC was a well designed skill then the interesting aspect (flask usage) would be extremely beneficial to the skill. As it is, this is not the case. &x200B; This isn't going to be a math heavy post, but long story short, you can only regenerate so many flask charges, and that number is way lower than what you need to constantly use sapphire/topaz flasks outside pure mapping. The new sapphire/topaz flasks are quite good, but really only modestly better than just slapping on a diamond flask and require massive investment to sustain. The recent 3.21 change to EC which makes you use massive am
Explosive Concoction is both the worst designed skill in PoE and my probable league starter
10656.05K
DPS
31.34K
EHP
4.1K
Life
~1.1![]()
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Helmet - Wilma's provides Ancestral Bond which is a massive bonus. Nothing going to compete for DPS here. Good enchants would be anything with reservation or AP gives more attack speed (expensive). Cost is around 1-5 chaos currently without enchants. Weapon - I bought this, but getting a fractured hybrid phys, using physical damage essence (contempt) and shooting for T1 attack speed and an open prefix for the phys/poison craft would get you this weapon. I am not sure on craft cost but I paid 3D for this sword. Seems reasonable. Shield - Ideally you want +1 max totems, suppress, life, and a
New Pathfinder is good - Preliminary 3.21 Poison Siege Ballista Theorycraft PoB
2136.21M
DPS
48.8K
EHP
4.56K
Life
~5.6![]()
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Poison Ancestral Protector Totems Scion - a non strength-stacking melee totems build
1335.99M
DPS
42.65K
EHP
4.78K
Life
~7![]()
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Helmet - diadem is probably BiS because it allows for easy blessing and provides solid ES and eldritch battery. We path close to enough to take EB so something else is possible but would take a great item. Good enchants are any aura, shockwave totem cast speed, or despair curse effect. 1-1.5 divines Armor - sotl with ancestral bond. Nothing going to come close. 30-80Chaos Weapon. Get a fractured chaos dot and spam cast speed for dot multi or phys/all spells. suffixes can't be changed, veiled chaos, hope for phys to chaos or chaos. 2-10D depending on how much you want to go for. I skipped
Poison Shockwave Totems by pyrvuate - Deathless Feared, Ubers and beyond
3510.86M
DPS
91K
EHP
4.35K
Life
~19![]()
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Heavy Strike Zerker with lots of additional targets and testing new tribal fury - proof of concept
25.34M
DPS
52.76K
EHP
5.31K
Life
~7.5![]()
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Good nebulis is around 1ex Shield is around 1-2ex. These aren't too common on market. Focus on Spell suppression and +1 totems. CAn use harvest to change max res!! get Galesight with corruption - 80C-1ex Amulet was 2ex. I hit with redeemer orb which got me almost nothing. Enchant is another 0.5ex or so. You can probbaly get something close for cheaper. Skin of the Lords with: Lethe Shade, Iron Will, Iron Reflexes, Ancestral Bond, Divine Shield - all of those are good. I like Lethe Shade the best. 80C Gloves - make sure you have open prefix. should be ~1ex Belt - should be around 100c or less.

Artillery Ballista Scion – Uber viable, attainable, fast and fun. Clickbait title best overall totem build in the game under 30D.
521.01M
DPS
69.02K
EHP
5.89K
Life
~8.2![]()
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Tri-Elemental Hit Ballista Totems Slayer – a fun, fast, off-meta, inexpensive, most content build
552.33M
DPS
78.88K
EHP
4.15K
Life
~19![]()
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When Frostferno was in the game, EC had a 5.5 link with +8 gems that was highly possible to use. You would take Avatar of Fire, get a double corrupted Frostferno and now you had a cool non traditional setup. It was reasonable to use sapphire at least due to cold to fire on Frostferno. Frostferno is gone now though. After a lot of PoB work, I am of the strong opinion that EC is better off without Sapphire/Topaz flasks. This, imho, basically makes it a broken gem. 1) It takes solid investment to get the flasks to be useable over a longer period. If you go pathfinder, you have very little sy
Explosive Concoction is a goofy skill that minimally rewards topaz/sapphire flask usage
1232.39M
DPS
78.88K
EHP
4.28K
Life
~53![]()
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GEMS Act 1 Purifying flame, onslaught, lifetap Holy Flame, lifetap, added fire/combustion flame dash, arcane surge Act 2 Herald of Ash Herald of purity blood rage (need some dex usually) Act 3 Flammability Determination Purity of Elements (drop herald of purity) add links purifying flame choose one of Life leech, added fire damage, faster casting holy flame totem - add combustion/added fire damage Act 4 Chaos golem for leveling or stone golem Act 6 Arcanist brand, wave of conviction cast when damage taken, molten shell, defiance banner when you can fit it in start leveling assassin's
Purifying Flame/Holy Flame Totem Inquis/Chief - a transitional starter for shockwave totems and more
131.27M
DPS
49.3K
EHP
4.35K
Life
~2.2![]()
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Shockwave Totem Inquisitor: (One of) the cheapest and easiest ways to kill bosses. 7/7 Ubers on a reasonable budget. 3.18 update.
19012.9M
DPS
99.5K
EHP
4.03K
Life
~15![]()
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Untested Update for 3.18 - I have not tested the above PoB. It should be a dramatic improvement in survival as its converts a lot of ele to 90% chaos resistance (and also has 90% chaos resistance). It loses about 40% of the DPS from the original, but honestly, that hardly matters as it is still >40M DPS. This is also a slight overestimate as punishment would not be active all the time. If anyone plays this and it sucks, please let me know, I'd love to iterate on it with you. &x200B; This is NOT a star
Phantasmal Lightning Tendrils Elementalist - (almost)all content - also a brief treatise on what I think is wrong with channeling in PoE
10113.4M
DPS
123.26K
EHP
3.62K
Life
~24![]()
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Hit Based Fire Trap Inquisitor – Low-mid Budget Tank – all content viable including Sim30
5114.01M
DPS
167.79K
EHP
3.92K
Life
~26![]()
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Divergent Shockwave Totem Inquisitor Build Showcase - lowish budget bossing build for people who are bad at PoE
866.41M
DPS
110.93K
EHP
3.69K
Life
~27![]()
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This is my, as titled, ridiculous self-cast Unearth meme build. It uses Unearth, which people underappreciate because it looks shitty until you see the cast time is extremely low. From a pure single target perspective, after 3.17, Unearth is actually not all that bad. Its mana cost is extremely low, which also makes it very spammable as you can use flat mana cost reductions very effectively. A couple of notes - 1. it actually only requires level 94 and the extra timeless jewel is because Voll's Protector Inner Conviction isn't in PoB. You want to use glorious vanity. You could also go Incand
Ridiculous and Silly Self-cast Unearth Meme Build That Might* Be Good in 3.17
4713.68M
DPS
-
EHP
4.36K
Life
~7.2![]()
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So, I was watching Jaamon's channel on Youtube (good Youtuber, good builds in general, recommend this guy) and he put up a pretty solid rolling magma ignite build. I worked at it a bit based off his stuff and came with this idea of using stormbind + blackflame + Eber's unification + incandescent heart. It turned out pretty well, but only in theory. Just a note, I haven't played this at all. This is not a post to say "go play this build" or "this is going to be great in 3.17". None of the build is insanely pricey. Blackflame is like 2ex. IH 6 link is probably 2 ex. Matyr is like 40c. Most of
Blackflame Stormbind Ignite Elementalist Theorycraft
10.95M
DPS
-
EHP
4.72K
Life
~8.9![]()
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