Path of Exile offers a vast array of character builds, each with unique playstyles and abilities. One popular and potent build in version 3.21 is the Shockwave Totem build. Known for its devastating shockwave attacks, this build unleashes destruction upon enemies with remarkable efficiency. In this articlem we're going to be showcasing the 14 chaos Shockwave Totem build for Path of Exile 3.21 League starter (tested by Dr3adful), we will delve into the mechanics, functions, gears, and skill tree considerations.
POE 3.21 Best Shockwave Totem Build Overview
+ Has extraordinarily high boss DPS
+ Good defenses with lots of Life Regeneration
+ Can benefit from a lot of damage sources such as Physical Damage, Elemental Damage, or Critical Damage
+ Can run all the maps, no matter the modifiers
- Totem playstyle might not be suited for the fast-paced playstyle
- Visuals are pretty shallow
Shockwave Totem is a spell totem skill that releases powerful shockwaves, causing damage to enemies in a large area around it. This unique skill not only deals substantial damage but also interrupts enemy actions and knocks them back, providing exceptional crowd control. The versatility of Shockwave Totem lies in its ability to scale with both spell damage and totem damage modifiers, making it suitable for various playstyles. The build is very simple and offers a lot of elbow room when putting together.
Best Weapons
You can have 10 phantasms
44-66 flat phys per at 21
Almost doubles our base phys
Insanely versatile
The first thing that we need to talk about is the weapon that's causing all of this and that is The Black Cane. This used to be a drop from the Elder Guardians, recently GGG decided to make it so that those boss drops will drop everywhere instead of just those specific bosses. So this is just a rare drop.
How does the Black Cane work?
Mostly, each Summon Phantasm grants you Fantastical Might, now Fantastical Might is a stack of 44 to 66 flat phys for spells up to level 21. So once you get to level 21, it's based on the level of Summon Phantasm, the amount of flat you get and you can have 10 phantasms. So if you have 10 phantasms out, you can have 44 to 66 added flat physical to your spells. If you are familiar with Path of Exile and how things scale, you will know that is a very hefty amount of flat. So if we take a level 20 shockwave gem, we’re almost doubling it with the scepter. This scepter is also insanely versatile because it only requires you to do two things, hit often enough with your main attack for summon phantasm, and it requires you to have a support gem open to put in some phantasms, turns out there are a lot of bad support gems in Path of Exile. There are a lot of builds that are forced to have to run bad support gems and some of them only give you 30% more damage. The support gem here, summon phantasm support almost doubles the damage, that is almost 100% more damage just for 1 support gem. This gets a little worse as you get more levels on the skill. But the reason why this is so strong is it's black physical and that can be abused in a lot of ways. So we're going to be abusing it with shockwave totem this time around, but technically you could use this on any physical spell as long as you can get comfortable enough with spamming enough summon phantasms.
Skill Tree
Ancestral Bond
Avatar of Fire
Elemental Overload
Dual Wielding Mastery
Fire Mastery
Mana Mastery
Physical Mastery
Gears for 1 Mil DPS with Shockwave Totem Build
Doom Crown Samnite Helmet
Empyrean Band Two-Stone Ring
Victory Band Sapphire Ring
Clyph Twine Heavy Belt
Storm Stinger Platinum Kris
Agony Rosary Turquoise Amulet
Skull Cares Goliath Gauntlets
Lightning Colt Desert Bricandine
If you're wondering how to craft all of this, what to do is bought items from the vendor, alt regaled them. If you alt regaled these, it would actually cost significantly more than 14 chaos, but if you were to just pick off these items up off the floor, it would cost nothing. If you are in the campaign and you just pick up items, you will have better items. The only thing that may or may not be good enough is maybe the dagger in the offhand. But there's a recipe to make this, it works with daggers too. The most expensive thing out of this entire build was the Opalescent Oil and the anoint isn't really even that required, it just gives you 30% increased damage and 5% increased damage taken from the enemies.
POE 3.21 14c Shockwave Totem Build Gameplay - How to Play Shockwave Totem Build in Path of Exile
Now that you understand the gravity of the situation of the gearing, you can learn about how the build functions. So Shockwave totem is not a new build, it's been pretty popular ever since we realized that you could use it with astral projector. This build doesn't use actual projector yet, because it is very expensive, you will use aspect projector later when you have some currency in your pocket. Another thing that these builds usually utilize right now is called a Heatshiver. So Heatshiver essentially use scale chill effect, it makes your cold damage add to your fire damage and that is the most efficient way of scaling your damage on a build. That would lead to a lot more DPS.
One thing that is a little annoying is we're not entirely sure if Heatshiver is going to be nerfed next patch. But for early on in the league like when you play this build day 1, you would be playing fire conversion, it's way easier to deal with than having to do cold conversion because one of the biggest strengths that Shockwave Totem has is there's alt quality that allows you to convert 60% of it to cold damage. Also there is an alt quality summon phantasmal that gives you 60% increase non-minion damage which make so that not only does our support give us 600 flat physical like dispels, it also gives us 60% increased damage. So we're double dipping at this point with this support once you invest into it.
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