[3.26] MoM Crit Power Siphon Totem Hierophant
 Intro
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I want to post about a build I started playing in Kalandra league. One of best builds I ever had. I did 40/40 in Kalandra (3.19) and always reached at least 36/40 in every other league since then.
The build allows you to plant many totems in rapid succession and they annihilate your foes with Power Siphon [of the Archmage]. Flat lightning damage comes from Arcane Cloak and Power Siphon of the Archmage. A new additon to the build since a couple of leagues is Wilma's Requital helmet. It provides nice bonuses and Ancestral Bond. That is possible since Power Siphon of the Archmage was added and gained us so much flat lightning damage. This allows us to get rid of Mind of the Council.
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My league character and progress can be seen here:
https://poe.ninja/builds/keepers/character/zorker-7481/ZorkJeepersKeepers Update Day 1 Started with Storm Burst totem, Lightning Tendrils and Orb of Storms. Was smooth sailing until 59. Breaches gave so much currency that I could buy Piscator, Wilma, Scales of Justice and Power Siphon of the Archmage before 59. I switched before doing the second lab. We need very good clear this league so opted for Fury Valve again which is no malus for us. Instead of Pierce we use Chain now. I am currently testing the wall but it has a super long cooldown and totems eat the wall very quickly. To afford it I did Demolition, Engineering and Lockpicking contracts in Heist. Some notes on supports I am using atm: Arcanist Brand - Ice Golem - Assassins Mark Frenzy - Cast on Crit - Tornado - Force Wall Shield Charge - Attack Speed - Flame Dash Arcane Cloak - Duration - Arcane Surge - Automation Purity of Elements - Eternal Blessing On top. I am probably not going to use Dance of the Offered again this league. I crafted a Sleepless Sentries cluster. PoB: https://pobb.in/7xNJG_0cCu_Q I am in early maps and it super strong. The clear is just nuts. Update Day 3 I have reached level 94 while barely scratching the entry of T16 maps. Pretty wild! Breaches give sooo much xp. Finished the atlas and bought two carries for Uber Elder and Maven to save time getting to them. Mapping is an absolute breeze. The clear with Fury Valve + chain support is pretty nuts. To not confuse you. I picked up a single abyss jewel in my belt with a cold damage to attacks roll. The notable and the chill mastery give me permanent chill of 17% on every enemy. If an enemy is chilled each second he gets 1% inc damage taken up to 10%. On top because everything is chilled I am allowed to put in Hypothermia support on single target instead of Chain support on bosses. Another tech is "The Sorrow of the Divine". It is the new tech instead of Agnostic. Means we keep our energy pool and even could improve on it by getting Sanctuary of Thought into the build. You can do that by buying the cheapest ascendancy jewel combo and then speccing into it. This is the first league where I am experimenting with Frenzy - Cast on Crit - Tornado - Force Wall. I am getting the Ice Golem and the Mark for Arcanist Brand on bosses. Nothing else lives long enough. The damage of the tornado is fucking insane!!! You put down the totems. You curse the boss and then you spam Frenzy. Btw take a look of my grafts. I made them myself. I got Jolt which seems pretty much broken to me. It procs on each Frenzy arrow. You can get grafts with very high spell damage on top. That is one of my goals for later too. What is left to do? Not all gems are 20/20 yet. But I am getting there. Getting Awakened Lightning Pen to 5/20 would be nice for lightning exposure. Cannot find the beast on the market to level awakened gems. Wierd. Of course we want that suuuper expensive graft for fork/chain later :D With Foulborn Kikazaru and Purity of Elements we are ailment and basically curse immune. PoB: https://pobb.in/B1wDJV1olbbo What has changed since the last update. - Got both annoints on gloves an amulet - Dropped an insane +1 totem shaper shield from my first shaper guardian I did. It was missing two prefixes. I blocked a bad mod via crafting bench and Foulborn Exalted orbed T3 life. Then I crafted the last mod. - Palsteron gave me the idea to try the new Kikazaru rings. They are amazing for mana stacking and they give us 120% reduced curse effect! - Bought a double corrupted Piscator with good stats for 40c - Bought a corrupted Wilma with duration gem corruption for my Arcane Cloak setup - Have my monastery tree set to print wands. Sold a good fracture for 5d. - Slotted in Clarity (1) - Arrogance (21) and bought a double Clarity Watchers Eye for 2d for more damage to mana. I have 40% mana recoup right now. The 10% mana on skill use is insane now too since I have nearly 8k mana. So i nearly get 800 mana if it procs. - Bought really nice boots for chaos resistance for 40c - Bought a nice Stygian Vise for 1d for another jewel slot. Bought a cold damage abyss jewel to enable Glacial Cage and the cold mastery - Found a 20% Healthy Mind...WOW!!! - Bought better cobalt jewels - slotted in "The Sorrow of the Divine" flask. It constantly regenerated energy shield and on press of the instant life flask fills energy shield too. - Bought an insane chest for my build for 10c. Bought the 6 socket omen for 11c and 6 socketed it. Bought the beast for max-linking any item for 144c. 6 linked the chest. Update Day 5 Man what a league! I dropped Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks yesterday while doing Destructive Play farming currency. The Einhar beasts finally work on trade and I bought 8 beasts to level Awakened Lightning Pen and Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks to 5/20. The Cowards Wail shield is very very nice. It never procs while mapping but it procs when we need it the most in bossing scenarios or if a hefty AoE wipes all totems. I like it alot. Has nice Armour too. Farming Destructive Play and T17 drops is amazing. I am basically selling shovels to all the endgame farmers. I already bought the Forbidden jewels for "Ritual of Awakening" for 60c and 1d each. That allowed me speccing into Sanctuary of Thought. Next to Runegraft of the Warp I am now using Runegraft of Refraction. I bought it for 144c. It has one very important tidbit! It sets the projectile to 1, fork to 1 and chain to 1. It makes using "Chain support" impossible since the limit is 1. It does not matter. Since I grabbed the chill cluster using Hypothermia at all times is just an amazing substitution and I get 17% perma chill. Oh right. I dropped Ice Golem for Precision 21/20. I trade a bit of life to only have to use Frenzy next to totems. Rest is automated. Endgame goals: - Need 5 more levels - Buy/Craft a 8 passive lightning damage cluster with "Scincilating Idea" - Buy/Craft a very good wand - Buy a very good rare jewel or Unnatural Instinct - Buy a very good abyss jewel Nearly there. This is my final stretch goal for this league. The build already feels amazing. The hidden star of the show is "The Sorrow of the Divine". It fixes lightning recovery and puts a layer of energy shield protection on top. Endgoal PoB for 100: https://pobb.in/kg18EcIgeO6A
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Twink Leveling Guide
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https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3317015/page/59
3.26 Merc league - twinking with soul eater PoB at 40: https://pobb.in/rBaTDLGopYDv PoB at 59: https://pobb.in/rfvguJI-JlGl
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PoB: https://pobb.in/uHO3GoPH65ZM
We level with Holy Flame totem until the first lab where we grab +1 totem and Ancestral Bond at the same time. This gives use three totems. We use Holy Flame + Flame Surge + Wave of Conviction. Arcanist Brand with Flammability on bosses. We move with Shield Charge and Flame Dash. Sustain comes from Vitality and Clarity. Use fire damage to spells wand craft at 28. Here is the trick. Once you reach act 6 you stop progressing through the acts. You spam Tidal Islands until you find a rogue harbour chest. You go to rogue harbour and farm these contracts until you can buy Power Siphon of the Archmage, Piscator wand and Wilma's Requital helmet. Demolition > Engineering > Perception > Lockpicking > Counter-Thaumaturgy Buy those contracts with your chance orbs at each level up! Open all _big_ chest that have question mark or currency icon. Otherwise open every small chest with the leftover. Some rogues can open chests after alert. Use them on big chests in alert stage.
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PoB: https://poe.ninja/pob/74e32
Equip Power Siphon of the Archmage totem, Wilma's Requital and Piscator and respec. Finish the campaign. From that time on sky is the limit. The character will improve with every step.
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3.27 - https://pobb.in/jwzG5DOy_sPj (very cool new shield and flask tech for recovery to enable sanctuary of thought)
3.26 - https://pobb.in/83ZKO5uwUiyj 3.25 - https://poe.ninja/pob/7372f (Suppression approach as hiero) 3.25p - https://poe.ninja/pob/70e6d (Whisperer) 3.25 - https://pobb.in/OLVsuzs5su9J (PS miner as hiero) 3.24 - https://pobb.in/CPuspewcjMwu 3.23 - https://pobb.in/YTbXdbWKRew8 3.22 - https://pobb.in/56XPyzvINnxk 3.21 - https://pobb.in/35IgnGAoz3c9 3.20 - https://pobb.in/JCCCKfRq4rsu 3.19 - https://pobb.in/44EvE8QpyJAH If you have any questions feel free to ask. แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย zorker#7481 เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2025 15:38:43 ขุดครั้งสุดท้าย เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2025 04:52:16
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Hey, just starting the league and found this build on POE.Ninja, so to now find you written guide with some leveling steps is great. Thanks for the info!
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Hi i would like to know what you'll be for this build when Doryani's variant will be deleted (assuming no longer negative res after 3.19) ?
It will still be good to play for clear all content / all challenges ? Do you have pob example without Doryani's already or you will need to theorycraft (if you consider still playing it) |
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I am too dumb to figure this out (but still want to try this build!), but how do we convert all damage dealt to Lightning? We have to do only Lightning Damage, due to Doryani's.
Kinetic Blast and Power Siphon are physical attacks, doing phys damage. I can't find the explanation in the PoB... " You mean, flat lightning damage is enough for these damage numbers?? Shavronne wrapped Kaom's waist, with her gilded purple boots. "You want my sockets?" แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย Jadran#7994 เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2022 15:10:11
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I might be dumb but i'm wondering why do you ahve spell damage on your wand ?
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I think it's because of Wand Mastery "Increases and Reductions to Spell Damage also apply to Attacks while wielding a Wand".
Shavronne wrapped Kaom's waist,
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" For now I would pick the Lightning Coil variant. It is one of the variants. " ~400 from helmet ~800 from arcane cloak ~20-500 from Sigil of Power 1-160 from boot enchant (with Lightning Coil variant the 10% pen enchant is better) " Yes it is the Wand Mastery "Increases and Reductions to Spell Damage also apply to Attacks while wielding a Wand" |
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I think i try out this builds as league starter in 3.20. My question for this build is: is lightning coil or cloak of defiance better? Which makes you more tanky over all, which more damage, which more utility?
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Pre-patch notes looking at league starting this as well for a couple of reasons. Haven't played totems in a long ass time & I want something that starts with good single target. The early uniques look like they will be only a couple of C each.
Have leveled quite a few times with wintertide brand so might try something different but as to what... no (good) ideas yet. Looking at cloak of defiance vs lightning coil the coil seems better in every way by a large margin except for lightning degens. <Edit> So some early testing with just the helmet (1-2c) a piscators (1c) & a Atziri's Foible (it's expensive but gives the same dps as The Ephemeral Bond which is (1c) and a malachai's loop (2c) it can clear red maps with a 5 link at lvl 80. Had no issue killing essence monsters as well. Added lightning damage appears to be the superior support gem early on. Issues encountered: Degens are brutal. Bleed, Corrupting Blood and Poison. -60 chaos resist doesn't help either. Can get one of these on the mana flask. No pierce makes stuff that constantly summons adds (like beasts) rough for power siphon because it can't hit the rares so have to use KB Starting offhands The Scales of Justice (started at 1c last league & ended at 20 so may be expensive earl) Malachai's Loop (make sure you set your power charges to max 5 in PoB so this doesn't look better than it is) Ahn's Heritage may be worth losing 1 end charge for onslaught and a ton of life but the STR requirement is high แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย Endactam#0972 เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2022 09:35:23
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How do you manage the piercing problem of power siphon in the end game version?
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