TbXie's Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Necropolis)

March 24th, 2024, 22:29

Passive Skill Tree

Viridi’s Veil Version – LateGame

You can find an optimized Path of Building here. Every build I release will use the community fork of Path of Building. You can find PoB’s Fork, by LocalIdentity, here.

If you are not comfortable with Path of Building, PoePlanner’s website offers you a non-PoB alternative to import the code from the above link, It is highly recommended you install Path of Building to follow builds most optimally.

Kikazaru’s Version – Early Game

When you don’t have access to the Viridi’s Veil you want to run with a Rare Helmet, one copy of Kikazaru, allocate all nodes in the Asylum cluster to cap out on 100% reduced curse effect & lastly drop your Coward's Legacy as it’ll curse you with more than 100% curse effect and thus still make you take more damage. Viridi’s is a gigantic upgrade because of that and should be targeted as fast as possible.

Gear Page

Progression Advice

This build scales pretty well off of everything, which means levels are equally as important as gear is. Therefore, you will feel significantly weaker while you’re progressing through the game, but since Freezing Pulse does relatively well at lower levels, that shouldn’t be an issue.

If you’re looking for specific trees, the Path of Building has Trees for different stages of the build, make sure to follow those for optimal progression throughout the game.

Gem Links

Freezing Pulse – Main Link (6-Link)

As you notice, this build runs a couple of Awakened Gems. While they’re definitely a nice thing to have, they’re not required whatsoever and you’ll do completely fine with regular versions.

Making Use of Bonechill

The build is running an Arcanist Brand to proc Creeping Frost and Bonechill! Since Creeping Frost will chill whatever it hits, Bonechill will apply an “Increased Damage Taken” modifier to the target equal to the Chill Effect it is under effect by. This effectively is a 12% more Damage multiplier and as such beats even cursing the boss. Bonechill Support is one of the most underused utility supports in the game but we didn’t forget about it! You link the Arcanist Brand to a Sniper’s Mark to make use of your Anoint as your second curse.

Movement Skill

I chose to use Flame Dash as the preferred movement skill, mainly because you’re investing into Cast Speed. We’re also using a Frost Bomb here to Apply Exposure to Bosses. Just drop one on a boss and you’re golden.

You could drop the Frost Bomb if you get Exposure Implicit Influence on Gloves

Cast when Damage Taken Setup

For obvious reasons, we’re also running a fairly high Cast when Damage Taken to proc a high level Steelskin. While you could opt to manually cast it, I generally don’t think it’s very feasible to predict incoming damage well enough to do so. Since you’re linking the Steelskin to an Increased Duration support, we might as well link our Vaal Righteous Fire here to maximize the efficiency of this duration support. Make sure the Vaal Righteous Fire doesn’t get triggered by CwDT.

Steelskin (level 19)
Cast when Damage Taken Support (level 18)
Increased Duration Support
Vaal Righteous Fire (dont use normal RF only use Vaal RF for burst damage)

Auras

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