Should the strongest build EVER in Path of Exile be deleted?

Steelmage discusses the issues felt by the community over the exploding totems build and GGG's (lack of) response in Path of Exile Crucible
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Stream: April 17th 2023
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[@silentkills381]

Isn't it going to be gone next league anyway if crucible doesn't go core

[@petrovalex6291]

He is talking about right now middleleague nerf, not about 3.22

[@truedps8]

@@petrovalex6291 They don't do mid-league nerfs. End of conversation lol. I believe they have only done one mid-league nerf ever that was not due to server issues/game breaking bugs, if I remember correctly that was with aura stacking? I could be misremembering that though. Point is the chance of them nerfing it mid-league is very small.

[@GzE1337]

@@truedps8 it was scourge league where you could stack -%max mana until u reach 100% and have 0 mana allowing to reserve any % mana aura

[@NessNT]

​@@truedps8they've done tons of midleague nerfs, wtf you smoking

[@figa5567]

@@truedps8 in the same sentence this person managed to say "they dont do mid league nerfs, end of conversation" and "point is the chance ... is very small" Mate, you alright in the head?

[@trashcaster]

They don't have to do it in any way that was proposed in the video. If they wanted to bring it in line, the safest option would be to make the skill work like Minion Instability (the minion "gains a skill") and then the modifiers to the skill you use to summon the totem affect it. The only reason this is so strong is because you can use traps to bypass totem summon speeds with a faster deployment method on top of having 5 deployments every use. The other reason is that the drawbacks of the supports you use do not hurt the damage. If you were required to use your totem skill + 5 damage supports, it would be fine damage, and reinforce the "correct" playstyle by removing the cheese aspect of it and not gimping the build idea entirely

[@mitchellshaw-lewis4956]

I dont feel bad not playing this build mainly because i think the feel of a build is the most important thing. I would rather play a 1mil dps wander than a 1bil dps trap/totem build. Seismic trap was op af for ages and i didnt get fomo for that build either, so personally i have no problem with this totem explode build.

[@ginoh007]

Agree with this statement, i mostly been enjoying making bow builds again with some of the nice reworks done. Crucible has been lackluster so let people enjoy the few good or op parts that it has in it for atleast a bit.

[@devilbhrothesavage2807]

This exactly. There are many other op builds that will never be popular because of their weird playstyle. Just look at Dark Pact.

[@xiluo9460]

The dmg is definitely OP but the clearing is meh IMO. I think there still are some ppl enjoying certain skills or preferring certain aspect (like clearing, Bow, COC etc.) of a build over other ones. I don't think it invalidate all the other builds, or it's superior to all other builds in every aspect.

[@bleiv1924]

exactly.

[@thischannelisnotmine]

If they nerfed or removed the build mid league i would probably leave the league instantly, too much time and currency into one build to have it get ruined lol

[@cyber3525]

better you then others who get influenced by this op crap

[@tNuOcCaFrUmS]

@@cyber3525 yep, it shouldnt be removed, because people invested in it, but it should be nerfed to balanced damage. it ruins the whole trade league imo.

[@OttJaia]

@@tNuOcCaFrUmS what are you even talking about "ruins the whole trade league" bruh you're just frustrated that you didn't catch the opportunity to ride the train earlier and now you feel left behind stop finding excuses there's a dozen other builds that clear all the content with extreme ease

[@giantr5220]

@@tNuOcCaFrUmS Why? How does a strong build ruin a league?

[@Mezer_PoE]

​@tNuOcCaFrUmS nothing ruins trade league lol what a pathetic excuse for being bad and having fomo for a build lmao 🤣

[@duberdurm]

"This isn't good for the game" Neither are crucible bosses that leap from off screen and one shot juggs, but here we are.

[@Arrythmic798]

I'm normally trade league player. I've never had this good time in ssf. I'm obsessed about cooking all my good item bases for sick unlocks later down the league, and this build has made all that possible. Normally I'm a minion player, now I have learned how to play traps and I'm loving this. I would say this build is bad news only for the top 1%, and they are the ones complaining. Everyone else is having a blast. Of course this is not going to survive after this league, but it is enabling me to learn so much more in ssf. Normally I would never achieve voidstone unlocks in ssf, minions are just so damn inferior without trade compared to any other build archetype. Now I have 2 voidstones unlocked today, I started my ssf progress bit under a week ago. Could we for once have a league where we could actually have fun and feel powerful, would that be so horrible?

[@bleiv1924]

yeah. having a great time. would be really sad if GGG busted it.

[@TheTayquann]

What makes this op is that for ANYONE who wants to do this, u simply can. Like this build doesnt even require a unique. Most builds require atleast SOMETHING boss specific, clusters, just any amount of investment besides "go in map, hold button, kill monster, look at mod, didnt hit, try again" is the CHEAPEST way to gain power we've ever had. Atleast other builds that needed cruible passives required a good weapon. My bow has the mods +1 gem and trap throwing speed and im running 50% quant while destroying ubers, while feeling like i cant die if im looking at the screen.

[@NessNT]

Good, finally a reason to play this shit league

[@doom8274]

i thought the build required slavedriver hands

[@TheTayquann]

@@doom8274 no, I’m using it rn I kill all Ubers and I’m using a sadima touch…

[@TheTayquann]

@@doom8274 just uploaded a video of me doing it

[@quack3891]

@@doom8274 it gets much better with slavedriver hands since it's easier to invest into generic cast speed, but you can pretty much use anything. It functions extremely well anyways because the base damage by itself is already nuts.

[@Vexferen]

as long as they dont nerf it midleague im good. if they do i quit till next league. They can do whatever they want for next league patch, but nerfing mid league is such a shit move.

[@LurkMelon]

They've done it before, Aura stacking jewel clusters... F...

[@quack3891]

@@LurkMelon aye, but those were completely justified. You basically get free 100%+ aura effect just from opting to drop two or three other aura's for heralds. It got so bad, that people would just stack them, and have up to 450% increased aura effect which was absolutely insane. Wasn't going to live anyways.

[@mizu_BR]

I had no idea Steelmage was a Corridor Digital fan as well! I love the tee, sad I didn't get it before it was unavailable.

[@coulombeQC]

If anything that's just a sign that cleave needs to be nerfed

[@tobiwankenibi838]

-3 to weapon range

[@love2rogue]

if people are having fun with a op build for once, let em have it! i feel like a nerf has been left too late

[@Laurie_st]

As a casual player, this is the most fun I've had with poe ever. If they nerf it, I'm done with poe, probably for good. That would be so fucking shitty.

[@rajbharathece]

If they nerf the build, I'll stop playing this league and come back next League.

[@tehf00n]

Just remember what they did to Chaos Vaal Molten Shell build. It was dead immediately.

[@TheTerspet]

i do think the whole ruthless ssf hc race thing is relient of that totem build and solong that race goes on, nothing gets nerfed or changed

[@washemoamadah4706]

Yeh, the 10-20 guys running will not be able to complete it without the totem-gimmick. Already seen a couple guys spec into it in ssfhcruthless, 7 points in damage, the 110+ rest in defence. It is just clowning at this time, could they please stop try to push this pve game into some pseudo-pvp marathon that we all should jump on? "Here is this race, we designed the mode to be ruthless, everything is balanced around it, from ascendancies to skill gems, extra-league content, drops, uniques, atlas passive tree and much more! Also take this one-win-it-all free ultimate power-gimmick to reduce everything to a joke!" Trust my words, it is going to get nerfed, people will be upset, and diablo IV will be released, the league will collapse, and... and that is that.

[@TheTerspet]

@@washemoamadah4706 i am not a fan of that race myself, its unhealty and they lied to us in many ways considering how much they focus on ruthless now that it is out, regardless, there is a race going on and some people are quite invested, doing a nerf midrace could mean that someone who is winning all of a sudden is nolonger even remotly close duo to changes , i realy hope they do nerf it, but as i sad, solong the race is going on it wont happen

[@highjared8199]

Steel keeps saying it Invalidaes all other builds but there 1000 builds I would rather play than that slow ass trapper playstyle lmao

[@SCP42723]

Not only that If he thinks this Invalidates all other builds than I honestly won't be able to take him serious anymore, there's so many other builds that shits on totems overall In the game and still competes In boss damage too ontop of being able to map wipe. This Is sad truth of the meta slaves that can only think about 1 build at a time.

[@HEXZ0R-]

well crucible wont go core i assume , also vengeant cascade im sure they will remove it or put it on talismans only , so people ill have motivation to farm talismans again xd

[@jans1982]

They can make the skill proc only when the totem dies by external damage and not by another cast

[@Yakri]

Same as deleting the node, but with leftover kludge in the game. Better to just remove it at that point.

[@germalganis]

This might be an unpopular opinion but the fact that the best build that came out of the totem explode node is a trapper, completely killed any desired I had to try it. At least to me seems completely uninspired and a bummer because is so much damage you’re basically a fool if you don’t play it.

[@notboringandsmall]

? I don’t know what you’re doing, but I play the game to have fun - so I play w/e build that’s fun. Not playing a build doesn’t make me a fool, nor does it make you.

[@OHTASISAN]

@@notboringandsmall yea never feel like you have to compare yourself with anyone else. not just in this game but in general

[@figa5567]

it doesn't have to be a trapper. This thing is so bonkers you can literally play it as whatever you want. In fact, an arguably stronger version of this build is ignite totem (clearpseed will be better). because you cap DoT damage anyway, you can just go ignite prolif and itll have substantially better clearspeed than poison even with pathfinder prolif. The reason steel's build in particular is so bonkers is that he also manages to couple in the pathfinder utility package that makes him literally immune to all hit damage that doesn't 1 shot him while being SUPER hard to 1 shot due to very very high mitigation. These pathfinder builds usually have very very low damage output and required very specific gear to "feel good" and scale (example impending doom, even if not crazy expensive has a lot of small problems to fix). The totem variant has the exact same defensive package but scales to capped damage at basically 0 damage investment in terms of gear. My point: if you're ok with taking a different defensive/utility approach than pathfinder, you can make a build that's much more fun to play by going ignite as it'll not be trap based and it'll have much faster clear. It will be an objectively weaker build since pathfinder utility is unmatchable, but it'll be more fun :)

[@belro17]

​@@figa5567 I'm thinking about building a boss killer like this is there a guide whats the best way to get tanky?

[@quack3891]

@@belro17 depends on budget, this goes from a scale of juggernaut to phys to ele pathfinder

[@craigbudden2976]

I am just slightly curious why no one has stepped it up and moved the totem explode onto an Iron Commander bow. I mean the extra 20% totem life just seems extra, and mostly makes up for the 25% loss on the crucible tree. BTW the Iron Commander is a death bow*

[@johnc25031]

Thats because you get +3 to empower and totem, giving totem an extra 6 levels, which is like 3x more hp, just by having it on a normal bow you craft

[@Popmycherryyo]

I transferred one or two days ago after being so frustrated with my build, and not finding upgrades for it :P Nor having the knowledge nor the funds (I think) to make them myself :P In a way I regret starting the onemanaleft mjolnir build, in another way, I did learn a lot, so there is that. But I did reroll to the totem build on sc trade though. I've been wondering, why do you use petrified blood in your build?

[@asthmaticninja4430]

Petrified blood + enough recoup (the two stun jewels) makes you immortal to hit damage. It spreads the hit damage over time, but you can recoup more in health than you take in damage. This is now a very expensive version of the build though so bewaee

[@Popmycherryyo]

@@asthmaticninja4430 Oooooh, its the whole stun recoup tech, aite, got ya, got ya. Yeah that is way out of my league. Figuratively and literally :P Thanks for commenting though/answering, much appreciated.

[@quack3891]

petrified blood is a great way to not eat shit from a lot of different damage sources instantly. He uses petrified blood for perma overleech on this build because what ends up happening, is that when petrified blood is used, any health above 50% health is not recovered from leech because petrified blood stops it. Leech instances only stop if they run out of time, if there's a niche factor (like it gets removed from an item, or works differently because of item/keystone), or most importantly, if your health recovers to the lower of the two: your reserved life, or your maximum life. Since petrified blood makes it so you don't recover the life, you never actually get to maximum life or your reserved life, but stay at 50% instead. So you're free to reserve

[@JoaoPereira-jo5kp]

i think they should remove the tottems die when oversummoned. just make another interaction, or change the mod to say "when totems die by monsters hits or ailments". this sounds like the aura strength stacking from early delirium league that affected templars to make them unkillable

[@NestiusHD]

Lmao "strongest build in PoE ever"? Have people already forgotten about Herald Stackers that were WAY faster and WAY tankier while also having 1-2b Dps on Spark/Ek?

[@PavoDvojak]

I have 2 other builds I use for mapping, depends how i feel today. But i have explo totems for bossing. I was usually doing every invitation as i got it, now i stack them and do 10-15 at a time with totems.

[@OfficialPepe]

But invitations only are able to progress again after being completed, how do you stack them?

[@k3nnut]

@@OfficialPepe exarch/eow

[@PackShooter]

You could run The Siege unique small cluster to disable Piercing so ensnaring arrow stays on during bossing even with snipers mark on it ?

[@EspyMelly]

Can anyone explain why I find Steel's smile in his profile picture so infectious?

[@martinhebr1917]

I would like to have pastebin of this build :/

[@ohchristusername]

I feel like this is a bit clickbait to stoke the fire. I would argue this is not herald stacker, but it is for sure getting up there

[@sanbakoryorshka6795]

I’ve been running the totem build to farm up my Omni build

[@liva8103]

I think they made this for the hc ruthless league boss event in mind, imo.

[@EspyMelly]

The damage numbers definitely slipped through the balance cracks, 600% of life dealt as damage would be nutty even for minions with low base HP if you found a way to weaponize it.

[@OptimusGrime85]

I was happy playing my comfy RF jugg and had no intention of playing the build. I ended up switching to it not because it's OP, but because so many people are upset about it.

[@Osiwan960]

what happens when you repeat " OP-ness " many times?

[@lootmaster1337]

i think the build isn't even an issue, its good for bossing yeah but for mapclear its kinda mid and for bossing there are so many broken miner builds, one more doesn't change much

[@Swoots275]

Why is his health globe different?

[@Shy2723]

What makes his life orb look like that, with the claw things on the bottom??

[@knicklichtjedi]

I agree. It is mostly a numbers' problem, not a mechanical one. I mean compare it to Minion Instability. That is a small 33% of Life as Fire Damage. It feels like the Totem Mod has a 0 too much or so, because then it would be similar-ish. And yeah I'm in the group that doesn't want to play this build, because I think it might ruin the fun of future builds for me, as they will likely never compete with it using such a low budget. But I like all the variations people come up with! Vaal Warchief Ignite looked stupidly potent with the Curse Ignite Refresh tech.

[@princecuddle]

The only fix needed is preventing totem from being placed by traps and mines that's it. And then this build would be sorta balanced.

[@Serioule]

This build will ruin the game for new players this league. They will feel like every other build is awful in comparison once they get rid of/nerf it.

[@doragonL]

I would not call that thing the strongest. Aura stackers(before mid-league nerf) were much better.

[@DRUBIN1986]

So happy I got to play aura stacker in its prime. That was so wild. I think I was playing it with arc.

[@doragonL]

@@DRUBIN1986 Arc, divine ire etc. So much fun(and it was still op as fuck even after the first few nerfs).

[@Issengrim]

The only reason this build exists is for ruthless hcssf race to finish before poe2 comes out

[@anba9499]

there's burnout and there's pro burnout. take care, exile

[@SheinelI]

I hate this build because no matter what kind of other build I play, it feel like a waste of time cmpared to it

[@Stickychron]

Steelmage likes openis, you heard it here first.

[@wtfwasthat16]

Let say the first node is a 50/50 and every node after is 60% when allocated to be generous. A 5 node tree is a 6.4% chance. This is assuming you chains aren't broken either

[@contrakt666]

well actually there is a way to basicly guarentee it. (not 100% but like 80%) first you start from the back. so 5th node first. allocate the one you want. but they have to be on the same path. then you to the 4 node and that also has to be on the same path and so on. its not that bad just hard to find all the needed parts

[@wtfwasthat16]

@@contrakt666 agreed. Hardest part is finding a corresponding pathway that fits the one you have allocated

[@Feanturo]

They wont nerf it mid league because it doesnt mess with servers or the trade market, but for the future it will be for sure in some way.

[@dirtymightmusic5239]

Setting the psychological effect aside this build affects bossing in a big way. If you dont play this you are better off to not boss at all. It just shits on uber bosses insta killing them and pretty much everyone can do it. Which ups the price of the bosses while decreasing the cost of the drops. So if you are an average joe that takes 2-3min to kill those uber bosses because you have a build that actually needs to do the fight you are fucked and dont get anything out of it. it deals so much damage that you break the maven fight. You skip every memory game and a whole normal phase ontop of it. you farm uber mavens in 40-50sec per run. Ofc there are always people with hyper dps to burst down bosses to farm them. But they are usually more difficult to pull off or more expensive. Having the totem stuff this accessable and cheap just makes so many more people farm those bosses that you cannot really farm those bosses efficiently without it now

[@MrShadowRaiden]

so no different to siesmic or any other of the major boss builds. there is no reason to boss if you arent playing those builds.. ice trap with heat shiver and just some power charges would 1 shot uber's so this is no different at all

[@jumper7188]

"average player".. I have 2k hours and was once close to uber farming, and couldnt do it

[@dirtymightmusic5239]

@@jumper7188 if you set your focus on doing ubers and actually have a build for it its not unreasonable to do for people if they are not super casual. if you bring your average mapping build or league starter into uber bosses you will get destroyed for sure. my brother started this league with poe and already cleared the feared and every other boss besides uber bosses. If you have a build that is good for bossing and you know the mechanics its quite doable

[@quack3891]

if only, then ashes of the stars wouldn't be so cheap. there's technically an argument about Nimis but then the counter is literally just vengeant cascade.

[@dumcumpster]

Dear Mr. Editor, I appreciate all the Bastion tracks

[@SoundslikeLogic]

Taking the anti-fun stance? Lame. It'll be gone next league. Isn't the point of a league like this for people to find the fun, weird, broken builds they can do with the new mechanic? SSF players can absolutely ignore the existence of this build if they don't like it. Nobody's forcing you to optimize the fun out of the game except you.

[@nuclearsaltlord8497]

makes a league mechanic designed to make broken builds the league mechanic makes a broken build community cries that the thing does what it was supposed to do

[@skydream2884]

A streamer who got to enjoy the build for more hours than any casual gamer will even if they dont nerf the build and who finished farming enough currency to switch to another build now calling for a nerf is a bit hypocritical ... For once since few leagues there is a build that new players can make to progress from a league starter build to a more robust build without having to drop their job and nolife the game at launch. I think we need this kind of "broken" build once every other league to help new players into more late game content.

[@panzu5781]

Aura stacker in delirium was way stronger than this, i played both.

[@loopygordo]

Unless it's a completely broken interaction or hurts server stability I don't see them mid league nerfing this build. After crucible? The build isn't surviving. I doubt vengeant cascade survives the league either cause that anoint is way to strong for very little investment.

[@quack3891]

depends, aura/herald stackers threatened server stability for existing and were nerfed mid-league, while the turbo chad perma poison build was allowed to live till end of league. So it straight up just depends on if GGG deems to build too broken or not.

[@olmanriver2355]

Streamers say they need to stop needing things. Then say, nerf things. Good job streamer.

[@austinfox7604]

Idk why people are complaining that this build is "op", it honestly kinda sucks ass, like sure it does big numbers but its clear speed is so bad that its honestly ONLY good for uber bossing.

[@dimitrisfikas7115]

to invalidate something it means theres some kind of competition... if u dont compete with anyone and u can do mostly all content in the game theres nothing to invalidate ..now.. i have no clue if theres a league tournament of sorts heard smth about gauntlet once didnt really pay attention ! only there is where this becomes an issue

[@redwood1542]

This build is actually seismic trap lmao

[@drakainen4555]

They probably won't nerf it at least till next league and that's only if crucible sticks around which I highly doubt it will.

[@lokai765]

i rly dont get why builds being broken makes so many people salty when they play it, its A PVE game, and its about becoming POWERFUL.. Why does it make people butthurt when someone plays an extremely strong build it just doesnt make sense (edit: i kinda forgot most people play trade league so i guess that can affect the economy and therefor others, but to be fair SSF is a much better way to play the game anyway so crazy broken builds are fine to me.)

[@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy]

ggg did it for ruthless event and marketing before diablo4 hits that take away the poe2 beta

[@seniorita4801]

People complainin too much, really, always problems with everything. If no „meta is the same like 6 leagues” then „this build is too op, what ggg did?” kekw. GGG said that this league will change meta, its only one league and this build is gone.

[@figa5567]

Why do your essence mobs have unique text (orange) instead of the usual yellow?

[@ihavegotnoidea]

it‘s a memory that spawns rogue exiles with essences

[@Rawlingm]

"is every one playing totems now? the meta" this question coming from the guy that only plays meta all the time every single league lol

[@Razahoo7]

Why are people acting like any of this crucible crap is going core. Its pretty unlikely.

[@glennvandessel302]

They should nerf it. I am sure everyone that jumped on the OP build train has made their investment back by now given how cheap it is. Reality is that playing builds that are slower puts a player at a disadvantage. The economy in this game is built around what kind of currency a player can make in an hour and having such power so readily available really does invalidate playing other builds like steel said. If everyone is making 10 div an hour then market prices will reflect that. If you are stuck making 5 then you are at a disadvantage. I don't think they should kill the build but the power/investment ratio needs to be brought back in line. That kind of dps usually requires massive investment as well it should. Econ 101.

[@Hoursunend]

Never go full kalandra steelmage

[@TheGuccibane]

Crucible wont go core... therefore the build will die with it

[@drunkndrivr]

every clip i've seen of steel this league has been him talking about how op this build is. lol

[@divinityai]

My ssf lightning arrow can farm t16 and simu 30, so no, i'm not feeling i'm missing something cause this build has totally less clear speed. But if I did bossing whole day maybe i'll do it

[@nevarbgames2012]

how much do you have invested into your build to be able to do that, because while my build is probably just better then totems i also have a few hundred divines invested and still have less damage then what you can get for a handfull of divines on this build

[@divinityai]

@@nevarbgames2012 I'm ssf. How can I apply "invested" in ssf? I can't buy gear. Ofc totems is good on budget but clear is meh

[@opaco123]

@@divinityai pob pls

[@divinityai]

@@opaco123 literally the same as every other lightning arrow. 90% of the tree is the same. Get good bow, get vengeant cascade, that's it.

[@nevarbgames2012]

@@divinityai you may not have "invested" in the normal trade sense, but you invested time and resources into getting the gear you have. all im saying is this build has hundred of million of dps for practically free when compared to any other build. I honestly have a hard time believing you can clear wave 30 simu when you say you are ssf yet don't understand the massive discrepancy between this build and any other build to ever exist in this game or that t16 maps are in no way whatsoever comparable to wave 30 simulacrum.

[@snicklas6736]

Im trying this build but it feels like no damage compared to all videos I see about it. Is the double totem spawn crucible mod necessary or do you need to have a bow with +2 levels to active skill gems for it to do any damage? I must be missing something or be completely braindead lmao

[@DanielyanAG]

level your gems, get devour totem with 20% quality, use torchoaks and anoint primal manifestation - and you'll see difference

[@amazingsil]

you don't need the double totem spawn, +gem levels help but you can clear all content with a white bow. really depends which version you are playing and hc or sc tho. i wouldn't play this build in sc, it shines in hc because you don't need to click many dmg nodes.

[@justinhowe3878]

in delirium league i didn't play herald stacker, which i would argue is to this day the most powerful build i've ever seen, and i didn't feel any fomo. i just didn't have any interest in playing the build.

[@tomziom3642]

They should buff exploding totems in next league to deal 1200% DMG i think it would be fun like the best build ever ! Should be buffed !

[@zkitzor]

Title: yes

[@GreysPrimusD]

Crucible will most likely not stay so this build is only playable this league, so why patch it out

[@romancervek1218]

I love how he spends half of the video explaining, how generalization works, because so many ppl feel personally attacked and need to share their negative stance about what he said, because it doesnt apply to them personally. Social media in a nutshell...

[@TheTalamier]

I must be one of a few people that don't give a fk if this build exists. I'm having a blast playing my volcanic totem build and starting a new impending doom pathfinder.

[@archiei40x]

Honestly, if it's fun for you, whether it's meta or not, play it. It's your time invested, it's you who will be having fun, it's you who is enjoying yourself. I don't see why they would go back on their words to nerf something mid league to ruin the experience for their players. It's not a pvp game and I sure don't care if some random bloke wants to play explode totem in the corner of the world making currencies. I am happy with my own build and strat to farm constant currency to play any build I want, I just care bout having fun. I don't see why some people complain about a build being too strong it's going to ruin the game, blah blah blah. Go play ssf if you don't like people.

[@jorgeleite9811]

Yeah, they are gonna nerf totem archtype only cause of this. We all know how it work.

[@tylerx2ez699]

yea but i hate mid league changes, they fucked up they should just accept it and let everyone enjoy it, not much of a difference in this build and herald stacking.

[@aBluePudding]

what if they add another node that turns you into the totem that then explodes for 600% of your life life stacking cast on death build when???

[@izaruburs9389]

Relic of the pact or Cast on death detonate dead kekw.

[@cctakedown333]

Abyss jewel Life stacker cast on death body swap? No idea if that even works

[@rojibeans5816]

I see no reason to nerf it. Is it immensely strong? Yes. Is it OG aura stacking level of busted? No. The mechanic of crucible will most likely be gone next patch too, so it's just temporary fodder that will become standard fodder. It's fun, but it's neither invincible, nor game breaking. It still perfectly plays within the boundaries of the game, and the absurd damage requires a high budget. It just reaches really high damage at a low budget too

[@hugensmugen]

Strongest in SSF maybe, but in trade this clear is absolutely dogshit. Its strong sure but there have always been cheap builds that can delete bosses, even if its not to this level. Its just for one league just let it rock.

[@palleppalsson]

Yup it clear like dog dick. Its a good SSF bosskiller.

[@pozytywniezakrecony151]

Nah its fine, if you roll flicker or boneshatter its faster mapping and wouldnt matter till u hut t16 deli i guess

[@christopherjordan4495]

It may be the strongest build in terms of dps/money invested, but its not ThE StRoNkestT BuIlD. Also I don't think invalidate means what you think it means. Love the content though :)

[@LakeSerpent]

trap support shouldn't work with totems, simple solution

[@amafi_poe]

I don't think them changing the way stuff being overwritten triggers on death effects would hurt ward loop at all. At least for the variant I played last league you just abuse from dust etc to get skeleton duration to be equal to the cooldown for the loop summoning skeletons, in my case I think it was 0.231 seconds or something. So it's not the skellies getting overwritten that causes them to die and damage you, it's just the timer on them running out.

[@h2_]

This is probably the least interesting build I have ever seen exist in this game

[@IAMZERG]

That's a ridiculous build... But I'm here with my scuffed build trying to self-poison flicker strike w/ the new amulet... The sustain is crazy but the damage is slower than I'd like.. and the suicides are annoying... Not getting a full 5 second leech on some hits... Having a lot of fun buying random pieces of gear I may never end up using 🤪. Hitting max leech duration consistently is a fun problem to solve and I'm enjoying the journey.

[@KioskaraTTV]

Many, many things aren't good for the game. This is a build that will only be around for one league, let people have fun. GGG should be focusing on all the other things that are bad for the game, like constantly releasing overtuned league mechanics. Randomly getting onetapped by a rare with the perfect set of mods, etc.

[@MDLEUA]

Compared to old aurastacker from delirium, this aint nothing

[@princecuddle]

Explody totem bt far not the most op. You're forgetting herald stacking on delirium league. Oh boy. That was pretty much God mode with all the dps.

[@Roboturnerlol]

Nice Corridor Digital shirt

[@Dragon90210]

Im also in the group thats not getting the totem mod been putting bows in the crucible for days and cant get the mod at all this leagues ass. Ive rolled none of the mods id want on my bow. Not even tried combining yet as i cant get the mods to roll on anything

[@jakkrit6910]

all they do is just not add crucible to main. like they do with ultimatum people love it but it's too good so they just not at to main. to be honest ill do explody totem build cause it op before it get deleted next league.

[@ukdnbmarsh]

inflated prices for meta build gear, hell no.

[@enlightendbel]

The sensible thing going forward is bring down the 600% to something more like 0-50% range and provide more points in the passive tree to grow your totem health pool, leaving the "explodes on despawn/death" characteristic intact, but not the free totem health boost, in the league itself, I'd split up the explode and 200-600% traits to two separate Crucible nodes to hunt for, making them harder to achieve together. Still making it possible to reach the same ridiculous DPS, but at a skill point and farming for both nodes cost. Now there's only a handful of passives which allow you into adding around 120% totem life combined. I'd at least change that to get a total of 300% from the player passive tree. This way you can go full skill tree boosted totems + explode node on a weapon and have a working explode totem build, not get any of that, but get both explode and 200-600% nodes from the crucible trees, or go full ham and get 300% and 600% on both skill and crucible tree, but since this'll cost skill points or major time investment to get both nodes on the crucible tree, make it less desireable or simply to hard to do so (makes it dominating Ruthless less of a problem too, as it'll simply be to hard or costly to obtain).

[@NessNT]

No.

[@quack3891]

0-50% is already still nuts when the easiest comparison is volatile dead, detonate dead, or even popcorn SRS. They'd have to nerf it to 25% or 50%. If a build is roughly 1 billion damage, then the 600% being reduced to 75% less damage will bring it down to 44 million. You can keep the crucible nodes for additional totems, it doesn't matter. It's the base damage that is the huge issue. No to totem life though. This should be a crucible exclusive nerf.

[@asthmaticninja4430]

It really sucks that people are negative in the stream chat. I really enjoyed watching you put together the build, yea sure it's very strong and trivialises some of the content but they should be excited to see you make changes, and solving issues the build has to make it the best you can. At the end of the day, this wasn't a build you stick with for the rest of the league. It's mapping is average at best, it just outputs damage for minimal investment. And for once, you had a build where you could really dig into the defensive possibilities in this league without worrying if your 1m dps will be enough.

[@ggbatman1981]

ill be done with league if they nerf it

[@Tibasu]

Small thing about the end of the video: I hate how some people think all negativity = bad. Their reasoning is like "If I'm negative, then I'm ruining someone's fun." If I say something like "Crucible unique mobs feel like all risk and no reward" and this somehow makes you stop having fun, then you either aren't having that much fun to begin with and you're just on copium, or you are way too easily swayed by others and both of those are You problems. Much rather people be honest about their thoughts on the league in hopes there are improvements made instead of spreading this idea that we need to keep people ignorant to any issues.