PoE builds similar to [PoE 3.26] Flamewood totem T17 w/ GLOVES ONLY testing

Disclaimer The post is a guideline not a guide, feel free to experiment with your own ideas to fit into the build. I have been trying to form in a HC environment, I personally play HC trade outside of events like gauntlet. The guideline will not make you inherently love playing absolution style gameplay, some people hate it just like traps, totems and other minions. These guidelines will be for mostly experienced players, and will contain quite a bit of information. TLDR Absolution bossing Absolution requires you to apply many absolution casts on the boss for all the 3 absolution m

PoB: Exsanguinate + Arcanist Brand From what I saw, Exsanguinate doesn't seem like an amazing spell to self-cast. Spell Totems seem like the obvious solution, but I think Arcanist Brands will provide the smoothest playstyle. Exsanguinate doesn't seem to suffer from its downsides (a lot). Question: Is the DoT debuff affected by the damage reduction from Arcanist Brand? I can see it going both ways depending on how one interprets the wording. If not, this could turn out godly. If it does, still not the biggest deal when

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.

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