STR Stacking Molten Blast Totems

This is a written guide of Bendurry's strength stacking molten blast totems, simply because he didn't have one. Here's his video guide it's based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmsK_YqUtU

This is a build based on using Cold Molten Blast in a Totem setup. It's further a strength stacking Gemling setup that combines absurd projectile scaling, huge Energy Shield scaling and permanent freezing into an extremely comfortable one-button build.

Instead of manually casting Molten Blast, we use Ancestral Warrior Totem to remove the clunky animation lock and let the build play itself.

Damage scales primarily through:

• Strength
• Skill Quality
• Energy Shield
• Flat Mana
• Additional Projectiles

Defensively we combine:

• Freeze
• Energy Shield
• Mind Over Matter
• Damage Taken From Mana Before Life

The result is an incredibly tanky setup with excellent damage and extremely smooth gameplay.

Drop totems.

Move.

Freeze everything.

Repeat.

For mapping:
place totems ahead of yourself and keep moving.

For bosses:
pre-place totems → apply utility → reposition.

Molten Blast Totems

Self-cast Molten Blast feels clunky.

Instead we place Ancestral Warrior Totem, allowing them to perform Molten Blast while we stay mobile.

Strength Stacking

Strength scales multiple parts simultaneously:

• Damage
• Energy Shield
• Survivability

Strength becomes one of the most efficient stats in the entire build.

Cold Conversion + Freeze

Twisted Empyrean converts Molten Blast into a freeze machine.

Benefits:

• Massive freeze buildup
• Full-screen freeze
• Defensive uptime
• Better clear

Bosses can often remain permanently ccd

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Mana Defence

We stack:

Damage Taken From Mana Before Life

Combined with:

• large mana pool
• regeneration
• MoM

This massively increases effective HP.

Why Gemling?

Quality scaling becomes absurd.

Molten Blast gains:
+1 projectile per 10 quality.

Dual wield interaction effectively doubles the value.