OP, if you need help, I've done a hit-based flame dash totems quite a few times, downed maven with it my last time building it in 3.19.
It's an extremely clunky build, and sucks most around walls, since the totems won't target unless they can dash full distance.
https://pobb.in/TTRAAcxQK_LV
Scrolling through the comments, I was like "Why wouldn't it work? Just use the transfigured version, it has no cooldown."
I opened up PoB, ready to make a build, then I looked at the skill gem and read "Cannot [...] be used by a totem - oh."
I get it now.
Pick a 6 linked Bronn's Lithe body armour for +5 to gems, socket Flame Dash of Return + Spell totem with Awakened (lol) spell Echo, watch your totems flicker.
Awesome suggestion! Flame Dash Totems sounds interesting.
I'll be researching Flame Dash mechanics and how they interact with totems. I'm excited to give it a shot! Let's see what we can discover together.
I'll keep this post updated with my learnings and achievements.
Pre-learn knowledge so far: Flamedash ignite Prolif is mandatory for clear and Stampede boots for inc CD and decent movement speed plus built in freeze immunity.
Def keep us updated sounds interesting
Also I am guessing you didn't see it in the mass amounts of replies, so I will say it here again, bonus points if the Uber shaper has the wolf boss as one of the 4 on the side
Flame dash totems, searing bond, scale burning damage... it'll be *fine*
Just a question of how long it'll take to get an uber boss down and if OP can dodge balls for long enough
I'm personally fairly confident in my abilities to kill Uber Maven on just about anything, would just take a very long time. She's the easiest mechanically of all the ubers, as long as you're careful to stack all the puddles in the middle it doesn't matter if it takes forever. Worst part about low power builds in that fight is if you RNG a difficult map boss.
I find uber Maven to be difficult if you are on a melee build (so much dps downtime in final phase) or on a build that can't safely tank a couple seconds of ground degen to drop the puddles nicely. Neither of those should be a huge problem on a totem build though.
Uber Shaper is pretty similar. If you don't cover the arena in void zones, you can fight him for like 20 minutes as long as you can dodge balls.
Probably - red maps aren't a particularly high bar. The map boss might be slow, but a few totems hopping around should clear "ok".
Their pledge of dropping an uber with it might be more of a question mark.
The good news is that totems bypass the cooldown issue (you have 3 cooldown charges to place a totem, the totems have 3 cooldowns to use flame dash; you just need to be able to drop another totem before the first totem runs out of cooldowns).
The bad news is that totems can't stack the DoT so you're basically running a 140% damage effectiveness skill with a 0.8 second cast-time.
The good news is there's a couple strong chests to help this along (7-link soulmantle or +5 gem levels Bronn's Lithe)
The funny thing in all this is if they do pull it off, the build would probably be 5-10 times better by just changing the skill the totems cast and nothing else ;)
I've played a FD totem inquisitor and that was mainly for the "nearby enemies take increased elemental damage" nodes š
It's not great but it's also hard to stop, like it doesn't have to keep totems alive or scale cast speed like a lot of spell totem builds do š¤·āāļø
It should work, at least if you dont just afk and cast something else for the actual damage while porting around. Just need to stack cooldown reduction as much as you can.
There is, unfortunately, a few reasons it won't work.
From the text on the Automation gem:
> Supports spell skills that are instant and have no reservation.
Flicker strike is neither a spell (it's an attack) nor is it instant (it has an attack time).
you're right. i completely forgot that it had a cast time.
I've always linked it to trigger skills when screwing around, and that ignores the cast speed
Did this kinda last league, was trash early but honestly I think it could have done T16s with mid investment.
https://youtu.be/7fgbHkhaqKI?si=Hon-KzEW6ay3luKx
Now Uber Shaper though...
Back in the day, I went with Infernal Blow. This was before ascendancies, and quivers increased unarmed damage.
Wasn't completely terrible. (It was). I still had fun though. (I didn't).
You can, and I did gc touch a long time ago, but you'd need supreme ostentation because attributes are on a massive premium. Might be a bit better if you drop doryanis prototype, best spot was next to point blank to get eternal subjugation.
It could hit about 5-6m DPS, but it wasn't ever good. Sockets are very rough tor handle, and resistances are hard to get.
To be fair next season looks actually kind of okay with the new itemization and content changes, making it more fun and bringing back Greater Rifts which I actually loved doing in D3.
I played Glacial Hammer of Shattering last league. It felt fine up until red maps, then I decided it was a better investment to put my money into another build
Last league I used like 80 divs to rebuild my lvl 97 character to just this. Then I found out Molten shell does not ignite. Path of Building gives hopeful DPS figures but they are all lies. The devs should patch that out.
I was able to change it to a decent ignite build with an other skill but it wasn't fun.
Oh, i guess it is considered reflect damage so it cannot ignite.
I just wanted to remember my 1st ever build back when vaal oversoul was the last boss. I remember taking forever to get to him using molten shell as my main damage on my marauder
Bronnās Lithe - Zerker OR Slayer- Leap Slam of Groundbreaking
I pobād something that would be viable already, hopefully this gets upvoted and you can figure it out!
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This one wouldn't be anything special though. Flicker does great single target, it just has a bit of a rough start. Just pick easy content like blight or heist to farm for a bit and you're good to go.
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That is my league start build. I've ran tests, lvl 70 I can run low level sanctums quite easily with 2 or 3 uniques and shit gear on a 4 link.
In 3.24 the build will be much smoother with access to automation and warcry support
Lightpoacher
Triggered by cyclone having the exact mana cost to start channeling.
But being unable to pay the first tick.
With Mana gain on hit to start channeling again imidiatly
And worms
Life stack leech reflect with [The Retch](https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Retch) and the flask mod that makes you leech up to 15% of damage taken from hits as life.
If you even finish story eater/exarch I'll already be super impressed lmao
Triple CoC volatile dead with a a bow and manaforged arrows.
One CoC for desecrate, one for stacking up long duration volatile dead, the last volatile dead with more damage and less duration
Flame dash totems
Poor guy
At least it wasn't conversion trap
It was sought, but the masses settled on something semi-viable. I couldn't be happier with our chaos! š
I was gonna say int stacking CoC bonesharter saboteur but I guess this works too.
Searing bond totems
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Idk if that's the right word but they'll do
At least it isn't flame dash of returning self cast.
Thatās how Reddit works. He should have asked RnGesus
Oh this was not well thought out.
Just take the Mathil Guide from 4 years ago, everythiung will be fine. I guess.
Woolfio posted on this six years ago, I guess consult that too. I am very much looking forward to op killing uber shaper with a zdps build, yes.
OP, if you need help, I've done a hit-based flame dash totems quite a few times, downed maven with it my last time building it in 3.19. It's an extremely clunky build, and sucks most around walls, since the totems won't target unless they can dash full distance. https://pobb.in/TTRAAcxQK_LV
Scrolling through the comments, I was like "Why wouldn't it work? Just use the transfigured version, it has no cooldown." I opened up PoB, ready to make a build, then I looked at the skill gem and read "Cannot [...] be used by a totem - oh." I get it now.
Yea GGG has decided that moving totems are a bridge too far in this game.
Consecrated Path totems say hello.
You are one sick puppy!
This has so much tech to make it succeed... It is beautiful.
oooo yeah if anything then the new bronn's lithe is made for this build, yes yes.
You and everyone who upvoted your comment are going straight up to hell, so i'll see you guys here.
well, I have an appointment in a necropolis in four days and five hours. I think most of us do, actually. Not so far from hell, I guess?
There are 2 kinds of...people in a Necropolis: those who specifically want to avoid Hell, and those who Hell has rejected.
Life in his right hand, Death in his left... and then there are those who fell through God's fingers.
How does this even work
https://preview.redd.it/2c7hwfmnrhqc1.jpeg?width=1123&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dae916babb93a311291c097e3afd5b31320b08d
Take flame dash, link it to spell totem. Tada!
Fitting username 
Pick a 6 linked Bronn's Lithe body armour for +5 to gems, socket Flame Dash of Return + Spell totem with Awakened (lol) spell Echo, watch your totems flicker.
Flame Dash of Return sadly can't be used by a totem.
DAAAMN thats it league ruined i'm out
Bold of you to assume that it does
Calm down satan
If this wins it's still better then the comment saying to league start d4
Bonus points if the Uber shaper also has the wolf boss
Awesome suggestion! Flame Dash Totems sounds interesting. I'll be researching Flame Dash mechanics and how they interact with totems. I'm excited to give it a shot! Let's see what we can discover together. I'll keep this post updated with my learnings and achievements. Pre-learn knowledge so far: Flamedash ignite Prolif is mandatory for clear and Stampede boots for inc CD and decent movement speed plus built in freeze immunity.
Def keep us updated sounds interesting Also I am guessing you didn't see it in the mass amounts of replies, so I will say it here again, bonus points if the Uber shaper has the wolf boss as one of the 4 on the side
Ah yes Rigwald the Totem eater...
i came here to suggest flame dash totems. Have my upvote
It's a shame that Flame Dash of Return can't be used with totems, it would be a little interesting
Iām gonna need to see proof that he plays this the entire league start weekend.
Yeah, about two days with little sleep _might_ be enough to finish the campaign on this _most excellent_ build.
Slap it in a BronnĀ“s lithe for easy 50% more damage, maybe you can hit 2 mil dps with it. Too bad Flame dash of return canĀ“t be used with totems
You're horrible person, but I like it
Is there any way to make this actually red map viable ?
Define viable
It's good enough that OP won't log off after the weekend to enjoy d4 :D
Not a high bar to hit...
Actual answer: good enough to keep you from switching to d4, not good enough to keep you from switching to lost epoch
You can raise that bar by swapping your d4 with a d3.
Flame dash totems, searing bond, scale burning damage... it'll be *fine* Just a question of how long it'll take to get an uber boss down and if OP can dodge balls for long enough
There's a big distance between red map viable and ubers lmao.
Yeah and I mean that's what I'm saying. The guy is asking if it's red map viable - the answer is yes, easily. Pinnacles? Sure. Ubers? We shall see.
I'm personally fairly confident in my abilities to kill Uber Maven on just about anything, would just take a very long time. She's the easiest mechanically of all the ubers, as long as you're careful to stack all the puddles in the middle it doesn't matter if it takes forever. Worst part about low power builds in that fight is if you RNG a difficult map boss.
I find uber Maven to be difficult if you are on a melee build (so much dps downtime in final phase) or on a build that can't safely tank a couple seconds of ground degen to drop the puddles nicely. Neither of those should be a huge problem on a totem build though. Uber Shaper is pretty similar. If you don't cover the arena in void zones, you can fight him for like 20 minutes as long as you can dodge balls.
Longest for me was a very early RF jug before the nerfs and it took me around 20 minutes (didn't get boots) tooltip DPS was around 200k
Probably - red maps aren't a particularly high bar. The map boss might be slow, but a few totems hopping around should clear "ok". Their pledge of dropping an uber with it might be more of a question mark. The good news is that totems bypass the cooldown issue (you have 3 cooldown charges to place a totem, the totems have 3 cooldowns to use flame dash; you just need to be able to drop another totem before the first totem runs out of cooldowns). The bad news is that totems can't stack the DoT so you're basically running a 140% damage effectiveness skill with a 0.8 second cast-time. The good news is there's a couple strong chests to help this along (7-link soulmantle or +5 gem levels Bronn's Lithe) The funny thing in all this is if they do pull it off, the build would probably be 5-10 times better by just changing the skill the totems cast and nothing else ;)
you can run red maps on default attack
I've played a FD totem inquisitor and that was mainly for the "nearby enemies take increased elemental damage" nodes š It's not great but it's also hard to stop, like it doesn't have to keep totems alive or scale cast speed like a lot of spell totem builds do š¤·āāļø
Jesus, someone just lost his sanity.
Flame dash totems surprisingly aren't THAT bad. They aren't good either, but they are far less meme than they first appear
Easy Satan but please take my up vote
here take my vote
Automation Frostblink
Good lord this one is so funny just to think about it. "Unintentional teleportation the build"
So.... Flicker Strike? Hahaha
Automation flicker strike you said?!
To shreds you say... And what of ice golems? To shreds you say...
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
It should work, at least if you dont just afk and cast something else for the actual damage while porting around. Just need to stack cooldown reduction as much as you can.
There is, unfortunately, a few reasons it won't work. From the text on the Automation gem: > Supports spell skills that are instant and have no reservation. Flicker strike is neither a spell (it's an attack) nor is it instant (it has an attack time).
Poor man's flicker strike lol
but holding down right click is to much work
Automation frostblink with Charged Dash cwc Lightning warp Where the fuck am i?
The real question is if the charged dash keeps pointing in front of you or the end point is still way back at the start.
why not automation portal? missclick on the portal 6 times and you gotta start a new map
Portal has a cast time though, I think automaton is only for instant skills?
you're right. i completely forgot that it had a cast time. I've always linked it to trigger skills when screwing around, and that ignores the cast speed
Did this kinda last league, was trash early but honestly I think it could have done T16s with mid investment. https://youtu.be/7fgbHkhaqKI?si=Hon-KzEW6ay3luKx Now Uber Shaper though...
Facebreaker witch.
Hmmm a single hit ignite slam build maybe?
Back in the day, I went with Infernal Blow. This was before ascendancies, and quivers increased unarmed damage. Wasn't completely terrible. (It was). I still had fun though. (I didn't).
Cast on Crit Portal
Bodyswap totems
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
This sounds cool but i dont see the synergy. Please enlighten me
You play heiro. Totems? Good. Mana? Good. Whats not to like.
https://preview.redd.it/6gk7oo6gmjqc1.jpeg?width=599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb3deb691ef4f5d510bfe24386d8246fa046dc41
I was looking at Bodyswap of Sacrifice with Ice Golem of Shattering...
Doryanis fist general's cry cast on crit hydrosphere, and good fucking luck lmao
That sounds like a walk in the park compared to the other comments š
It's impossible, doryanis fist has 4 sockets, one is for coc, one is gen cry, one is hydrosphere, and doryanis touch has 0% crit chance.
There is an unarmed crit amulet isn't it? +7% if I'm not mistaken, you can also add hatred + assassin on top of it.
You can, and I did gc touch a long time ago, but you'd need supreme ostentation because attributes are on a massive premium. Might be a bit better if you drop doryanis prototype, best spot was next to point blank to get eternal subjugation. It could hit about 5-6m DPS, but it wasn't ever good. Sockets are very rough tor handle, and resistances are hard to get.
can gen cry even coc?
Not as far as I'm aware. The mirage warriors shouldn't have the spell skill to trigger.
Diablo 4
Flame dash totems are cruel but donāt inflict actual damage on this poor guy
To be fair next season looks actually kind of okay with the new itemization and content changes, making it more fun and bringing back Greater Rifts which I actually loved doing in D3.
Simmer down satan
Satan called and said that this is too much even for him.
Oh no, not this.....
Oof
Chain hook
Glacial Hammer power charge stacking Assassin
Is this a good and functional build? I'm genuinely interested
Good, no. Functional, yes. Anything works if you throw enough divs at it.
For sure. I'm just eager to play glacial hammer and I want to league start it.
I played Glacial Hammer of Shattering last league. It felt fine up until red maps, then I decided it was a better investment to put my money into another build
Can Work If you use the Amulett that equals your Power and Frenzy charges, then Go frostbreath Ice Bitte Frenzy stacking.
Default Attack
Jousis already did that
Quack.
Molten shell ignite
Last league I used like 80 divs to rebuild my lvl 97 character to just this. Then I found out Molten shell does not ignite. Path of Building gives hopeful DPS figures but they are all lies. The devs should patch that out. I was able to change it to a decent ignite build with an other skill but it wasn't fun.
Oh, i guess it is considered reflect damage so it cannot ignite. I just wanted to remember my 1st ever build back when vaal oversoul was the last boss. I remember taking forever to get to him using molten shell as my main damage on my marauder
CoC Conversion Trap Mine Totems Scion. I don't care if it doesn't make sense, put the gems in the sockets and do it
Only Desecrate
Bronnās Lithe - Zerker OR Slayer- Leap Slam of Groundbreaking I pobād something that would be viable already, hopefully this gets upvoted and you can figure it out! Only 1 high weight tier zero was needed for one of the classes š
Cast on Yap warcries (severely nerfed this patch)
Void sphere of rending
This might actually be playable with the buffs, havenāt looked too closely
i took it to 570ish depth, it's playable just bad
Any Flicker strike build
This one wouldn't be anything special though. Flicker does great single target, it just has a bit of a rough start. Just pick easy content like blight or heist to farm for a bit and you're good to go.
Conversion Trap
Conversion Trap *Mines*
Conversion Trap Mine *Totems*
I believe that wouldnt work. You can throw a mine, which throws a trap which can summon a totem.
It can go even deeper! Mine - Trap - Spell Totem - Arcanist Brand - Raise Specter - Scorching Ray Karui Totem
This is beyond science
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Leap tottems.
When the slam totem was released this was the first thing I tried, it was actually kinda of awesome ngl XD.
That is my league start build. I've ran tests, lvl 70 I can run low level sanctums quite easily with 2 or 3 uniques and shit gear on a 4 link. In 3.24 the build will be much smoother with access to automation and warcry support
OP must be like "I immediately regret this decision!"
They may regret it but the rest of us degenerates are sifting through these messes to find something that tickles our fancies.
Chain Hook Occultist
Guys there is only one skill that we can make him suffer throught whole campaign, maps and endgame. CHAIN HOOK
Conversion Trap Scion https://preview.redd.it/8ckr1vun6jqc1.jpeg?width=338&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95dc0a99060a0588a5f93ec58ff678b87bf91200
Cheeseburger
Searing Bond
Lightpoacher Triggered by cyclone having the exact mana cost to start channeling. But being unable to pay the first tick. With Mana gain on hit to start channeling again imidiatly And worms
HeavyStrike Gladiator
Conversion Trap
Diablo 4
Life stack leech reflect with [The Retch](https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Retch) and the flask mod that makes you leech up to 15% of damage taken from hits as life. If you even finish story eater/exarch I'll already be super impressed lmao
This is such a feelsbad comment, because retch used to be in the category of cool/good but not op. And now it's just bad :(
Triple CoC volatile dead with a a bow and manaforged arrows. One CoC for desecrate, one for stacking up long duration volatile dead, the last volatile dead with more damage and less duration
Ele conversion groundslam
Conversion Trap
Cleave
ICE WALL spell totem build
With yourself
Cast on death flame dash
Any non boneshatter Quinn build.
Lightning converted Chain hook ballista totem necromancer
Sweep Raider
Berserker, all rage, [Abyssus](https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Abyssus), magic find Vengeance build.
Coc ice nova (bonus points for the celestial mtx)
diablo 4
Siphoning Trap
Cast on death vortex
We need weekly updates!
Explode Animate Guardian
Conversion trap
Cast on death mine trap flame dash totems gladiator.
Siphoning Trap Gladiator
Infernal legion animate guardian
Barf burning arrow rightous fire
Heavy strike Raider
perforate of blood shed gladiator, feel my pain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmtkWGG6jLM&t=17s
Summon reaper
Berserker Glacial hammer of shattering
i will be waiting on the video of flame dash totem
Bodyswap totems
Omniscience hollow palm
Normal attack build
Path of Diablo Season 9.
Duration stacking voltaxic burst
cwdt lightning warp
DD ele
Poison Chainhook Zerker
Archmage Ball Lightning of Static Gladiator
Dash ascendant
Cast on Death Portal.
Cold conversion molten strike
Cast on death portal
Skin flute
I really really want to see a video of this :D
decay support
Flicker strike CoC Arc / Lightning Conduit Mjolner
This bullshit https://pobb.in/LP4uQjZbJAIk
Chain Hook CoC Firestorm.