Direct Totem Skills
Shockwave Totem repeatedly Slams around itself and can erupt existing Jagged Ground. Dark Effigy bombards enemies affected by Chaos damage over time Debuffs.
Related: Shockwave Totem, Dark EffigyMechanic
Totem
Totems are allied constructs that perform Skills for you. They are Remote Skills rather than Minions: their Skills use your offensive stats, while each Totem has its own Life and defensive stats and can be damaged or killed.0.5.4d
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What Totem does
Current rulesA Totem performs its Skill for you and uses your applicable offensive stats, but it is not a Minion and does not inherit Minion modifiers. The base Totem Limit is 1 and is shared between Totem types by default. Placement Speed controls how quickly a Totem is placed, while the Totem's Attack Speed or Cast Speed controls how quickly it uses its Skill.
- Totems use your offensive stats
- A Totem is an allied construct that performs a Skill for you. Its Skill benefits from your applicable offensive stats, but the Totem has its own Life and defensive stats and can be damaged or killed.
- Totems are not Minions
- Totems and Minions are separate entity types. Modifiers that apply only to Minions do not apply to Totems unless the effect explicitly says otherwise.
- The base limit is shared
- The base Totem Limit is 1. Different Totem types use the same shared limit by default, so placing a new Totem while at the limit removes the oldest applicable Totem unless another effect changes the limit or its scope.
- Placement Speed and action speed are separate
- Placement Speed changes how quickly the Totem is placed and becomes active. Attack Speed or Cast Speed changes how quickly the placed Totem uses its Attack or Spell. Increasing one does not automatically increase the other.
- Placement needs a valid location
- Totems are placed at the cursor when the location is accessible and within line of sight. Placement Range modifiers change how far from the character a Totem can be placed.
- Ballistas use Projectile Attacks
- Ballistas are a Totem subtype that use Projectile Attacks. Artillery Ballista, Siege Ballista, and Mortar Cannon still obey Totem rules while also using their own Skill restrictions and modifiers.
- Meta Totems obey the socketed Skill restriction
- Spell Totem uses socketed Spells but cannot use Skills with Cooldowns. Ancestral Warrior Totem uses a socketed Mace Skill once per conjured warrior and cannot use Channelling Skills or Skills with Cooldowns. Mortar Cannon uses socketed Grenade Skills.
- Ancestral Bond changes both limit and cost
- In the current passive tree, Ancestral Bond doubles your Totem Limit and removes the cost or Charge requirement for placing Totems, but each Totem reserves 75 Spirit. It does not state that the Totem Limit becomes unlimited.
Totem Skills, limits, and support options
8 casesBallista Skills
Artillery Ballista rains Pinning and Maiming bolts, Siege Ballista fires delayed explosive bolts, and Mortar Cannon uses socketed Grenade Skills with improved Cooldown Recovery Rate.
Related: Artillery Ballista, Siege Ballista, Mortar CannonSocketed Skill Totems
Spell Totem consumes a combination of 3 Power and Endurance Charges to use socketed Spells. Ancestral Warrior Totem consumes 3 Endurance Charges and has spirit warriors use a socketed Mace Skill once each.
Related: Spell Totem, Ancestral Warrior Totem, Power Charge, Endurance ChargeIncreasing the limit
Soul Mantle grants +1 to the maximum number of Summoned Totems. Overabundance supports a Skill with a Limit and increases that limit at the cost of duration. Passive tree and Ascendancy effects can add a scoped Totem or Ballista limit.
Related: Soul Mantle, Overabundance I, Overabundance II, LimitPlacement and defences
Urgent Totems increases placement speed. Hardy Totems grants more Totem Life, while Reinforced Totems adds Elemental Resistances. These improve different parts of the Totem and should not be treated as interchangeable speed or defence modifiers.
Related: Urgent Totems I, Urgent Totems III, Hardy Totems I, Reinforced Totems IFonts and death effects
Font of Blood and Font of Mana create areas that Leech the named resource to allies. Tawhoa's Tending gives Totems more Life and makes them explode for Physical damage based on Life when they die.
Related: Font of Blood, Font of Mana, Tawhoa's Tending, AlliesSingle Totem transformations
Cirel's Cultivation prevents more than one supported Totem of that type but rewards nearby allied Totems. Splinter Totem also restricts the active Totem and makes it divide into less effective smaller versions after using an Attack or Spell.
Related: Cirel's Cultivation, Splinter Totem I, Splinter Totem IILimits and exceptions
5 rules- Totems are not Minions, so Minion-only modifiers do not apply unless an effect explicitly includes Totems.
- The Totem Limit is shared by default, but a modifier can name a narrower limit such as Ballista Totems or Totems created by one Skill.
- Placement Speed does not replace Attack Speed or Cast Speed, and those action speeds do not replace Placement Speed.
- A Totem Skill can impose its own duration, Charge cost, socketed Skill restriction, or trigger condition in addition to the general Totem rules.
- Ancestral Bond currently doubles the limit and adds Spirit reservation. It should not be read as an unlimited Totem effect.
Related pages
21 connectionsmechanicAllies
skillShockwave Totem
skillDark Effigy
skillArtillery Ballista
skillSiege Ballista
skillMortar Cannon
skillSpell Totem
skillAncestral Warrior Totem
unique itemSoul Mantle
supportOverabundance I
supportUrgent Totems I
supportHardy Totems I
supportReinforced Totems I
supportFont of Blood
supportFont of Mana
supportCirel's Cultivation
supportSplinter Totem I
supportTawhoa's Tending
An Ally is another player, Minion, Totem, or other entity on your side that has its own stats. Your character is not their own Ally, so wording that affects only Allies does not affect you unless it separately says you.
mechanicMinionMinions are summoned Allies with their own offensive and defensive stats. Player modifiers do not apply to them unless the modifier explicitly affects Minions or Allies, and the player does not count as their own Ally.
mechanicLimitCertain skills can only have a limited number of effects active at once.
mechanicSpiritSpirit is a reservable resource used to activate and maintain skills with permanent effects, including persistent buffs, permanent minions, and trigger Meta skills.
skillShockwave TotemRaise a Totem that Slams the ground around it, repeatedly damaging nearby enemies. Jagged Ground erupts when hit by this Slam, damaging enemies standing on it. The Totem cannot create Jagged Ground. This Skill can be used while Shapeshifted.
skillDark EffigyRaise a Totem that bombards enemies afflicted by Chaos damage over time Debuffs.
skillArtillery BallistaDeploy a Ballista Totem that rains down a salvo of Pinning, Maiming bolts.
skillSiege BallistaDeploy a Ballista Totem that fires bolts skyward, to explode a short time after landing.
skillMortar CannonRaise a cannon Ballista Totem which uses socketed Grenade Skills, with significantly improved Cooldown Recovery Rate.
skillSpell TotemConsume any combination of 3 Power and/or Endurance Charges to raise a Totem that uses socketed Spells. Cannot use Skills with Cooldowns.
skillAncestral Warrior TotemConsume 3 Endurance Charges to Raise a Totem that conjures spirit warriors. Each warrior uses a socketed Mace Skill once, then disappears. Cannot use Channelling Skills or Skills with Cooldowns.
unique itemSoul Mantle(80-120)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
supportOverabundance ISupports Skills which have a Limit, increasing that Limit at the cost of their duration. Only applies to restrictions that use the word "Limit".
supportUrgent Totems ISupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Skills to place Totems much more quickly.
supportHardy Totems ISupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Totems to have more Life.
supportReinforced Totems ISupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by Supported Skills have additional Elemental Resistances.
supportFont of BloodSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by supported Skills generate a Font of Blood which will Leech Life to Allies within it.
supportFont of ManaSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by supported Skills generate a Font of Mana which will Leech Mana to Allies within it.
supportCirel's CultivationSupports Skills which create Totems, preventing you from having more than one of that Totem but granting significant benefits for Supported Totems based how many allied Totems are near them. Does not Support Skills used by Minions.
supportSplinter Totem ISupports Skills which create Totems, preventing having more than one active Totem but causing that Totem to splinter into smaller versions of itself after it uses an Attack or Spell, with each Totem becoming less effective. Each splintered Totem can further splinter, up to a maximum. Does not Support Skills used by Minions. Only one Totem can be splintering at a time.
supportTawhoa's TendingSupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Totems to have more Life. Totems created by Supported Skills explode on death, dealing Physical damage based on their Life.
Related mechanics
3MechanicAoE
MechanicAllies
Area of Effect, usually shortened to AoE, describes a skill component that applies to targets inside an area instead of selecting only one target. The area can be a circle, cone, line, ring, or another shape defined by the skill.
MechanicAlliesAn Ally is another player, Minion, Totem, or other entity on your side that has its own stats. Your character is not their own Ally, so wording that affects only Allies does not affect you unless it separately says you.
MechanicSkill SpeedSkill Speed changes how quickly skills are used. Generic increases and reductions to Skill Speed add together with matching specific speed stats such as Attack Speed, Cast Speed, Warcry Speed, reload speed, or totem placement speed.
Items and gems using this mechanic
22 connectionsDirect relationAncestral Warrior TotemConsume 3 Endurance Charges to Raise a Totem that conjures spirit warriors. Each warrior uses a socketed Mace Skill once, then disappears. Cannot use Channelling Skills or Skills with Cooldowns.
Direct relationArtillery BallistaDeploy a Ballista Totem that rains down a salvo of Pinning, Maiming bolts.
Direct relationCirel's CultivationSupports Skills which create Totems, preventing you from having more than one of that Totem but granting significant benefits for Supported Totems based how many allied Totems are near them. Does not Support Skills used by Minions.
Direct relationDark EffigyRaise a Totem that bombards enemies afflicted by Chaos damage over time Debuffs.
Direct relationFont of BloodSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by supported Skills generate a Font of Blood which will Leech Life to Allies within it.
Direct relationFont of ManaSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by supported Skills generate a Font of Mana which will Leech Mana to Allies within it.
Direct relationHardy Totems ISupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Totems to have more Life.
Direct relationHardy Totems IISupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Totems to have more Life.
Direct relationMortar CannonRaise a cannon Ballista Totem which uses socketed Grenade Skills, with significantly improved Cooldown Recovery Rate.
Direct relationReinforced Totems ISupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by Supported Skills have additional Elemental Resistances.
Direct relationReinforced Totems IISupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by Supported Skills have additional Elemental Resistances.
Direct relationShockwave TotemRaise a Totem that Slams the ground around it, repeatedly damaging nearby enemies. Jagged Ground erupts when hit by this Slam, damaging enemies standing on it. The Totem cannot create Jagged Ground. This Skill can be used while Shapeshifted.
Direct relationSiege BallistaDeploy a Ballista Totem that fires bolts skyward, to explode a short time after landing.
Direct relationSoul Mantle(80-120)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
Direct relationSpell TotemConsume any combination of 3 Power and/or Endurance Charges to raise a Totem that uses socketed Spells. Cannot use Skills with Cooldowns.
Direct relationSplinter Totem ISupports Skills which create Totems, preventing having more than one active Totem but causing that Totem to splinter into smaller versions of itself after it uses an Attack or Spell, with each Totem becoming less effective. Each splintered Totem can further splinter, up to a maximum. Does not Support Skills used by Minions. Only one Totem can be splintering at a time.
Direct relationSplinter Totem IISupports Skills which create Totems, preventing having more than one active Totem but causing that Totem to splinter into smaller versions of itself after it uses an Attack or Spell, with each Totem becoming less effective. Each splintered Totem can further splinter, up to a maximum. Does not Support Skills used by Minions. Only one Totem can be splintering at a time.
Direct relationTawhoa's TendingSupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Totems to have more Life. Totems created by Supported Skills explode on death, dealing Physical damage based on their Life.
Direct relationUrgent Totems ISupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Skills to place Totems much more quickly.
Direct relationUrgent Totems IISupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Skills to place Totems much more quickly.
Direct relationUrgent Totems IIISupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Skills to place Totems much more quickly. Totems created by Supported Skills have increased Attack and Cast Speed.
Uses TotemSwift AlloyRemoves a random modifier and augments a Rare item with a new guaranteed modifier