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Ancestral Warrior Totem

presentationWarrior
End Game
Starter
Verified
0.3 TTE
presentationWarbringer
Updated on Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025

Build Overview

Changes in 0.4.0:

  • Ancestral Warrior Totem no longer has 25% less Totem Attack Speed.


Small update, Warlord Berserker doesn't work for totems, but From Nothing still worth using for Warlord Leader.

How build works:

  • In order to spawn Ancestral Warrior Totem you need to have 3 Endurance charges, but there's no simple ways to get them consistently.
  • But i found couple ways to get Endurance Charges, but used one that is more stable.
  • How Charges generated:
    1. When using any skill, you take Physical Damage from Scold's Bridle.
    2. Molten Being convert 5% of that Physical Damage you take into Fire Damage.
    3. Taking Fire Damage trigger Ngamahu's Chosen charm (Build use 3 of them).
    4. Ngamahu's Chosen charm grant max rage, which trigger Hateforge to give us 3 random Charges.
    5. Serpent's Egg used to get twice as many Charges, so we get 6 Charges per charm trigger.
    6. Pragmatism is used to make charms use no charges, self explanatory.
    7. Bijouborne is used to reduce duration of Charms so they can be triggered more often.
  • Easy to reach 10 Ancestral Warrior Totems.

Alternative:

  • Raging Cry with Roaring Cries generate 16 rage instead of 8 as it should, which might be fixed. But it means that you get max rage every 2 warcries as long as you have less than 32 rage.
  • It's not as fast for generating charges, but it allow to use actual helmet, body armor, belt and charms.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • One of most offmeta builds in existence
  • You're in elite 0.001% club playing it
  • Looks funny
  • Can do somewhat juiced T15
  • Can do some of max diff Bosses
  • Not expensive aside of weapon which can be
  • Not Lightning Arrow
  • Not that strong, just working totem build
  • Low amount of Life

Equipment

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IMPORTANT:

Open inventory, where you see icons "I" and "II" on weapon slots, press right mouse button on Weapon and Shield to lock them, so you will use same Weapon and Shield for both sets.


How to get good Mace for low price - search it with 1 empty Prefix and highest Physical DPS, then add Desecrated Prefix and reveal third Physical Damage mod, then if successful, use Perfect Essence of Battle for +4 Levels.

  • All uniques required for generating Endurance Charges.
  • Yes, it require 3 Ngamahu's Chosen charms.
  • Chernobog's Pillar is just shield that add decent damage.
  • Rings with Life, Resists, Mana, etc.
  • Boots with Life, Movespeed, Resists, etc.
  • Megalomaniac with Fortified Location to get damage and armor per totem with any other passive.
  • From Nothing with Bulwark to allocate Warlord Leader.
  • Any decent rare Jewel, or maybe something good with Heart of the Well.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 25

Dex 25

Int 25

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Shockwave Totem

Shockwave Totem
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Ancestral Warrior Totem

Ancestral Warrior Totem
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Magma Barrier

Magma Barrier

Charge Regulation

Charge Regulation
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Ancestral Spirits

Ancestral Spirits
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Shield Charge

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Set Shockwave Totem to only weapon set 1, Ancestral Warrior Totem to only weapon set 2.

Build is very light on skills, only 5 are used.

  • Shockwave Totem supports are a bit flexible, you can try Astral Projection instead of Magnified Area I.
  • Ancestral Warrior Totem supports are best for dps, use with second weapon set but same weapon, to do that you press right mouse buttons on weapon slots to lock them for both weapon sets.
  • Charge Regulation provide decent bonuses like more skill speed and defense, since we generate lots of charges, its always up.
  • Magma Barrier is purely for its Block Increase.
  • Shield Charge for movement, optional.

Passive Tree

main:
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set 1:
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set 2:
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20

Weapon Set 1 - Shockwave Totem, it doesn't need skill duration

Weapon Set 2 - Ancestral Warrior Totem, it need skill duration and some extra damage.

From Nothing with Bulwark allow to take Warlord Berserker which should work for totems so they will always have max rage, and Warlord Leader for 40% Damage.

How it Plays

It only has 2 buttons, while you can add more.

Changelog

Jan 18, 2025: Initial version.
Jan 25, 2025: Added max difficulty Simulacrum run.
Feb 4, 2025: Tree improvements, mostly around Defender's Resolve, since it makes big difference in Simulacrum.
April 8, 2025: 0.2.0 Updated. Build is weaker, but still good!
September 15, 2025: First update for 0.3
Oct 2, 2025: Updated for 0.3.1

Path of Building Code

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