Totem

A righteous fire totem.

Totems are a type of creature. Totems appear in the game as monsters, and also as allies created by certain skills. Like any other creature, totems have life, and they will be destroyed if their life drops to zero. Totems do not leave exploitable corpses. Totems cast by players use their skills according to the player's stats, including modifiers from charges and buffs (like auras) affecting the player.

Totems as monsters

Main page: Totem (monster type)

Totems appear in some areas, such as the Ancient Pyramid, and are just like any other monster, except that they usually cannot attack¹ or move². They are commonly found projecting auras that affect nearby monsters.

There are a 2 unique totem monsters: Kuduku, the False God (who always appears in The Ledge) and The Idol Beyond (who appears in Underground Sea Map) - they casts and .

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²Except totems.

Totems as allies

Certain skills allow the player to summon a totem ally. Depending on the skill, totem will then attack, cast spells, or project an aura for the player. It will continue to cast until it is destroyed or its duration expires. These skills have the Totem keyword.

The act of summoning a totem can be sped up by increased Totem Placement Speed modifiers.

Totems allies are not considered to be minions, and are therefore not affected by minion-specific modifiers such as increased Minion Damage and Minion Instability.

Totems are also not considered party members.

Any auras projected by the totem will affect all of the player's allies, including minions and party members. Auras and aura-like effects can affect totems (this includes degeneration effects), summoned totems are only affected by auras that affect defensive properties, summoned totems still use their summoner's skills. In order for an offensive aura to have an effect, it must affect the summoner, not the totem.

Active totem limit

By default a player can have only {{#ask: -Has subobject::Character Has stat id::base_number_of_totems_allowed |?Has stat value= |mainlabel=- |limit=1}} active totem at any time. Casting a second totem will cause the oldest living totem to be destroyed. This is a global limit among all skills, for example if the player has a Rejuvenation Totem active, and then casts Decoy Totem, the Rejuvenation Totem will be destroyed and a Decoy Totem will be created.

The exception to this rule is the Searing Bond totem, which allows players to place one additional Searing Bond totem above the maximum cap by default (for example, with the standard limit, players can have 2 Searing Bond totems or 1 Flame Totem and 1 Searing Bond totem).

Totems can have different maximum active totem limits. If a totem is summoned at the maximum limit of totems, it will destroy the oldest totem that doesn't break the totem limit.

For example, with Ancestral Bond (+1 Totem), the Ascendant's Hierophant passive (+1 totem to a totem gem socketed to the helmet), and Iron CommanderIron Commander
Death BowBow
Physical Damage: (36-40) to (89-97)
Critical Strike Chance: (6.50-7.50)%
Attacks per Second: (1.37-1.44)Requires Level 32, 107 Dex(30-50)% increased Critical Strike ChanceAdds (8-12) to (16-24) Physical Damage
(14-20)% increased Attack Speed
(14-20)% increased Totem Life
(14-20)% increased Totem Placement speed
Siege Ballista has +1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems per 200 Dexterity
Adds 1 to 3 Physical Damage to Attacks per 25 DexterityThe Eternals commanded an army that need not eat, sleep, or breathe
without the usual depravities of necromancy. with 400 Dexterity (+2 Siege Ballista totems), players can summon up to 6 totems up at a time, but a maximum of each of the following kind of totems:

• 2 of any other totems
• 3 of totems socketed to the helmet
• 3 Searing Bond totems
• 4 totems

The totem limit can be increased by:

• Selecting the Ancestral Bond keystone to gain +1 extra totem.
• Equipping the Soul MantleSoul Mantle
  Spidersilk RobeEnergy Shield: (202-257)
  Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 49, 134 IntSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Spell Totem
  (20-25)% increased Spell Damage
  (100-120)% increased Energy Shield
  (20-30)% increased Totem Life
  Inflicts a random Hex on you when your Totems dieThe greatest mistakes cause suffering
  long after they have been made unique armor to gain +1 extra totem.
• The Ascendant's Hierophant notable passive +1 extra totem for the totem socketed to your helmet.
• The Hierophant's Ritual of Awakening notable passive to gain +2 extra totems.
• Equipping the Iron CommanderIron Commander
  Death BowBow
  Physical Damage: (36-40) to (89-97)
  Critical Strike Chance: (6.50-7.50)%
  Attacks per Second: (1.37-1.44)Requires Level 32, 107 Dex(30-50)% increased Critical Strike ChanceAdds (8-12) to (16-24) Physical Damage
  (14-20)% increased Attack Speed
  (14-20)% increased Totem Life
  (14-20)% increased Totem Placement speed
  Siege Ballista has +1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems per 200 Dexterity
  Adds 1 to 3 Physical Damage to Attacks per 25 DexterityThe Eternals commanded an army that need not eat, sleep, or breathe
  without the usual depravities of necromancy. unique bow to gain +1 extra Siege Ballista Totem per 200 Dexterity.

With these conditions met, the potential maximum number of totems per player is:

• 3 (4 for Searing Bond).
• 4 for Scion/Ascendant (5 for Searing Bond).
• 5 for Templar/Hierophant (6 for Searing Bond).
• >6 with Iron CommanderIron Commander
  Death BowBow
  Physical Damage: (36-40) to (89-97)
  Critical Strike Chance: (6.50-7.50)%
  Attacks per Second: (1.37-1.44)Requires Level 32, 107 Dex(30-50)% increased Critical Strike ChanceAdds (8-12) to (16-24) Physical Damage
  (14-20)% increased Attack Speed
  (14-20)% increased Totem Life
  (14-20)% increased Totem Placement speed
  Siege Ballista has +1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems per 200 Dexterity
  Adds 1 to 3 Physical Damage to Attacks per 25 DexterityThe Eternals commanded an army that need not eat, sleep, or breathe
  without the usual depravities of necromancy. equipped.

Totem range

Totems have a range which determines how far they can "see" for the purposes of targeting enemies with attacks and spells. Totem range is not considered an area of effect, and will not be altered by AoE modifiers. There are no longer any ways to increase Totem range.

Skills cast by totems

Totems use the player's own skills as though the player had cast them, and therefore skills cast by totems are affected by charges on the player. Totems themselves have a maximum Power Charge and Frenzy Charge limit of zero, because those charges would have no effect. Skills used by totems are affected by the player's passive skills, equipment, and linked support gems. Skills used by totems use the player's weapon when applicable. For example, Ranged Attack Totem may use Frenzy if the player has a ranged weapon equipped.

Note that the totem casts the player's skill, meaning that the skill is paid for with the totem's mana (or life if it is affected by Blood Magic), and any reflected damage will be reflected onto the totem, not the player.

Kills made by totems are credited to the creator of the totem for the purposes of experience gain, but not for other effects such as life on kill or gaining of charges.

Any Minions created by the totem are treated as if they had been cast by the player, and are subject to the same maximum minion limits, will get the benefits of Necromantic Aegis, and so on.

Totem stats

While skills cast by the totem are affected by all modifiers affecting the player, the stats of the totem itself are not. The totem will not benefit from passive skills or gear that increase life or energy shield, will not be affected by Chaos Inoculation or increased resistances, the totem is not considered to be wearing the player's armour, and so forth. Totems have a standard resistance to all elements of 25% regardless of difficulty.

Totem skills

When a Trap, Remote Mine, and Totem skill are all linked in combination, the result is a skill that lays a mine. When the mine is detonated, it lays a trap. When the trap is sprung, it casts a totem, which then can cast the linked skill.

Therefore totems can never lay traps or mines. Totems can not be made to cast other totems.

Active skill gems

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Support skill gems

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is notable for affecting totems despite not having the proper keyword.

Passive skills

There are passive skills that grant bonuses to totems.

Damage

These passive skills increase the damage dealt by totems cast by the player.

Attack and Cast Speed

These passive skills increase the attack speed or cast speed of totems cast by the player.

Critical Strike

These passive skills affect the totem's critical strikes.

Placement Speed

These passive skills affect how fast the totem is summoned by the player.

Life

These passive skills increase the totem's maximum life.

Duration

These passive skills increase the totem's duration.

Miscellany

These passive skills are related to totems, but do not fit into any other category. Template:Passive table

Ascendancy passive skills

There are Ascendancy passive skills that affect totems.

Related items

Unique items

The following unique items affect totems:

Unique jewels

The following jewels affect totems:

Achievements

If you manage to have 3 totems at one time, you will be rewarded the following achievement:

Name	Description
Ancestral Power	Have 3 totems alive at one time.

Version history

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Changes

2.2.2

Summoned Totems are now deleted when the player moves very far away from those totems. This caused issues with the Hierophant skill "Ritual of Awakening" where you would receive less damage per active totem. Those totems would be very far away and unable to attack or cast yet would still penalise the player's damage. Fixed a bug where players could have multiple Offerings active at once through the use of traps, totems or mines.