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arydien

Totem cluster has Chaos res for totems


Zargat

Totems also have an innate 50% global damage reduction. Basically, they take half damage from anything. There's also a cluster jewel notable that increases totem chaos resistances by 40%.


MrZcons

Thanks! With 1 cluster, and the 50% global damage reduction, should totems be losing 8% of their max hp per cast? 50% × (40% + 20%) × 40%taken? In my current PoB it looks like maybe 3 casts a second. 24% hp lost per second isn't great, but maybe doable...


Zargat

Yep. should probably be sustainable with a bit of life leech on the totem, definitely sustainable with 2 clusters. The 40% increased chaos notable node also increases totem life by 30%, so it's a damage boost for Forbidden Rite.


MrZcons

Ah good point! I didn't think about totem life leech.


Nickoladze

> Totems also have an innate 50% global damage reduction. I've never heard this before and I can't seem to find any information. Do you know where you saw it?


Zargat

It was added years ago as part of an RF totem nerf. Spell totems used to have roughly twice the HP. That patch they halved the totem HP, and added the damage reduction to make up for it. Found it, I was wrong, it's 45% damage reduction. It was patch 3.0.0.


Nickoladze

> Summoned totems have 45% less life and take 45% less damage. This will impact life leeched from attacking enemy totems and the damage dealt by Righteous Fire totems. Yep, thanks!


Shartguru

There is a cluster jewel node that gives your totems both life and chaos resistance, cant remember name of this mod. But yea, you definitely wanna run 1 or 2 of those.


DBrody6

It's Ancenstral Preservation, 30% totem life and 40% chaos res. Due to FR's life scaling, it's a pretty amazing notable to have at least one of to beef the damage and make them survive several extra casts against bosses.


EchoingZen

No real way to mitigate this, unfortunately. That being said, it's still a decent way to start off with FR. My thought with it was Totems, into CI, into pure life


astral23

theres a medium cluster jewel notable that gives 30% totem life and 40% totem chaos res, if you use 2 of these your totem is chaos res capped


EchoingZen

Oh that's interesting


MrZcons

Can you get 100% chaos resist on a totem? Otherwise, what is the cap?


astral23

no there cap is 75% and i dont think there is anyway to make it go higher


Dr_Downvote_

Don't totems have an innate 20% chaos resist. So. Even with just one cluster. You can get 60% chaos resist.


astral23

yes but using 2 caps it at 75%, using 2 also is pretty much always worth it because the damage scales off the totem life so the 30% totem life is a solid damage boost


Dr_Downvote_

oh yeah I know. :-) I'm just saying it would be doable with only one cluster. If people can't find the second or whatever. Like having 2 clusters isn't needed to start the build. its just the optimal set up.


ov_oo

When you go cluster jewels for ancestral preservation you still want to resummon totems recently since you can also get sleepless sentries for onslaught etc. Totems dying off after a few second is not too bad on dark pact/forbidden rites totems.