I've been leveling a dual totem Templar, ServantOfABurningFire, and I have to say, it's disgustingly effective.
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Normally I putter around and fiddle with equipment while leveling, but as soon as I got the Ancestral keystone, I haven't looked back with this character. Searing Bond just burns everything in its path. I got through normal in about seven and a half hours. I know that's nothing for hard core racers, but that's probably half the time I normally spend. I made the switch to two totems when I hit the waypoint under the Vaal pyramid.
The Oversoul went down quickly, although I did eat a Vaal Smash when I was standing a bit too close. The only death I've had was to Marceus the Defaced in normal. I guess my totems didn't really have the life to stand up to his lightning strike at the time. I didn't have any trouble with him in cruel. Finishing up normal, I had to bypass the lightning trapper in the Scepter of God, but Dominius was no problem. I got off to a bit of a slow start dealing with the cyclone guy and the GMP fireball guy. After that, once I figured out I needed to set my totems to destroy the spark totems of the Blackguard Archmage the fight was a breeze. I didn't even return to town to refill potions.
Cruel didn't really slow me down much. I flew through everything and finished off Dominius last night at level 50! I did have to go back to town once to refill potions when I couldn't clear a bleed stack, but I've really struggled with Dominius on characters between level 55 and 60. In fact, I paid someone to get me past Dominus in Cruel with ServantOfAFrozenFire. It makes me wonder if the Searing Bond is overly powerful, or if the offence in my other build has been weak.
I'm either going to keep leveling ServantOfABurningFire, or use a summoner witch.
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I haven't played with the new summoner skills, like desecrate, and I may spec back into Minion instability. I'll either decide my build was misguided or that Searing Bond is OP if I work on the Witch next.
UPDATE:
I was able to take down Gravisius and Kole without any danger using minions, so I think I'll try running some maps with this character. I did respec out of two points on my passive tree to regain Minion Instability and to get a little closer to Ghost Reaver. I also set up a spell totem for my secondary attack. I tried swapping totems doing a docks run, and it worked will to swap over to a firestorm totem while I'm at the maximum number of skeletons. The only drawback is that my map pool is only 4 in standard. No cartographer's lockboxes to boost my pool in that league, yet.
UPDATED UPDATE:
I killed Piety with the summoner, but it was a humbling, grinding sort of kill. It also taught me that my resistances sucked. I'll have to correct that before I try running maps with her.
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