Hey everyone and welcome to another

build guide. So, I've been getting asked

quite a few questions. Is my build

budget friendly? So, what I've done is I

have built this character on a budget of

about four divines. So, I'm just going

to send one delirious map about 100%

deliriousness and we're also going to

fight Arbiter once just for the

showcase. And then I'm going to go over

everything. Also, in the pinned comment

below will be a list of trade links so

that you can build a character like this

yourself. But we will go over that in

just a moment. Now, for four divines,

you are not going to see like 20 million

DPS. We're really pushing the limits of

what four divines can do in this game.

Again, the DPS isn't going to be too

crazy. I just want to, you know, let you

know that this is possible. So, let's

see what we can do.

put down some totems.

And we just want to freeze this guy. A

lot of our damage comes from freezing.

Okay, so he's at 68%. I want to put down

my totems again.

He walks into them. He's frozen now. And

then now we get to do some real damage.

And that's phase one. Okay, now we just

have to freeze him again.

35%. He's moving a little bit.

Come on, freeze.

There we go. We should be able to finish

him off.

Only one totem was down.

Not too bad. Not too bad for four

divines input.

No big money draw. But now let's take a

look at a 80% Delirious map. Okay, so we

have Blooming Field over here. 78%

delirious. So, I think we can go in

here. We're going to run just a standard

breach tablet. Nothing too juicy. We

have an abyss tablet with extra rare

monsters. And then we're just running a

couple rituals as well. We'll throw in a

map. Increased monster life damage is

extra damage. You know what? Whatever.

And let's see what we can do. Now again,

the damage at four divines investment

could be a little bit better,

but you're going to see a lot of

rolling.

We can actually take down

this ritual first. Actually really enjoy

rituals with this character.

I don't normally roll this much. It's

just because I'm trying not to die. So,

we can set up the ritual. We put down

our two totems,

and then we can pretty much just hold a

left click, let the sparks detonate the

totems. Pretty weak ritual, but not too

bad. So, we're not going to do the

entire map. Let's just maybe do this

abyss. See how that goes. We're

currently at 80% of deliriousness. We

even have a rogue exile over here. Okay,

that abyss pit is closed. We have one

more ritual I think we can do. Okay,

that abyss pit has been closed as well.

Keep putting down our totems. Right

click to put down the totems or whatever

you keep buying to do. Of course, we

dodge roll because we're on a budget.

And then we just hold left click. Okay,

let's take down this exile.

Put down two totems. We hold left click.

We freeze it. And there it goes. And of

course, the DPS is going to be pretty

much the same throughout the rest of the

map. We're not even coming close to

dying. We have 90% deliriousness. Let's

do one more ritual together and then I

think we can just skip to the boss and

then we'll get to the, you know, what

makes the build work, what we're looking

for.

But again, I really do enjoy rituals

with this build. So much like AoE,

it just feels good.

All right. And this guy should have

quite a bit of damage reduction,

but we should be able to get him down

again once we we're just we just need to

freeze him.

There's 50%.

Of course, this boss has like four

phases, unfortunately.

But there's phase one.

Oh, wait. Phase two already started. I

was asleep at the wheel.

No, my totems. Stop bullying them.

All right, and that should be phase two.

Run ahead of this guy so we can set up.

Put down the totems.

And there's the boss. 100%

deliriousness.

Of course, we do have a breach over here

as well, but that is going to be pretty

much the same as the abyss. So, I think

we can just get into what makes this

build work. We'll do a little bit of

window shopping first, though. Why not?

I'd hate to leave you hanging, not

knowing what's in here. No mage blood,

unfortunately. The best features about

this build is it is a two-b button

build. We right click, we left click, we

use spell totems. They summon grim

pillars for us, and then we detonate

them with spark. You can use anything

you want. I've just been using spark. I

know some people like to use entangle.

So, whatever you use, that is completely

up to you. But we can take a quick look

at our skills. And you'll notice that

I'm not using one support in both spark

and spell totem. I also left this socket

open. Why did I do that? So, my gems are

level 21. And again, there's four

divines invested in this build. So, I

just didn't want to like make new gems,

swap over my supports, and all that. So,

because my gems are two levels higher

than, you know, a level 19 gem that you

can pretty much make for free, what I

did is I just took out two levels. So,

normally I'd be using plus one level of

lightning skills here, plus one level of

cold skills here, and then we could

socket the plus one level of all spell

skills in here. So, again, because my

gems are level 21, I've effectively

scaled them down to be level 19. And

now, with that being said, you can see

the skills we're using. Because I'm a

blood mage, I get life remnants for

free. And this is just a lot of sustain.

But I'd say you don't really need that.

Again, because I'm a blood mage, I'm

converting my spark cost to life cost,

but depending on your ascendancy, you

don't really need to do that. So, we can

see the other three skills that I'm

using. Again, I'm using spark to

detonate my grim pillars. And then in

spark, we just have pierce. We have a

little bit of projectile speed. We have

a little bit less cast speed, but a

little bit more damage. We want Spark to

deal a little bit of damage just so that

they can detonate the pillars. So, this

does make somewhat of a difference. And

then I'm just using life tap again

because I'm a blood mage, but you don't

need to use this. And then we're just

using spell totem. My spell totem is

actually only level 18 because of the

strength requirements. And then we just

have a little bit of totem cast and

attack speed and 100% increased totem

placement speed. This is a big support

gem. You absolutely need this. I'm using

50% more maximum life for my totems.

This will just help keep them alive. And

then I have grim pillars. Again, this is

level 21, but I'm not using plus one

level of cold skills and I'm not using

plus one level of all skills in here.

And then you can see I'm getting eight

levels from global modifiers. And we'll

go over the gear in just a moment. And

then I have magnified area too. Just a

little bit more area of effect. And then

I highly recommend mana remnants. This

is just so much sustain. It does cost 30

spirit. And inside we just have

increased effect. And we can collect

remnants from a little bit further away.

We're actually using these same two

supports in life remnants. But that

covers the skills. Now again, this is

the budget setup, so I also want to just

take two seconds to mention the

expensive setup. We're going to go over

my gear as well in just a moment. Now, a

semi more expensive setup. Of course, if

you have level 21 gems, if you're not

scaling yourself down on purpose like I

am, we have cold mastery. So, we can see

this is level 20, one level from

corruption, eight levels from global

modifiers, we can put this in here. And

now it has those same levels, but it

also is getting plus one level from

support. Oh, and I guess it's also worth

mentioning that the damage on my grim

pillars is only 45,000 for the sake of

this showcase on a four divine budget.

Now, your number one priority should

always be getting like plus levels where

you can because each plus level is like

13ish% more damage. So, just by adding

one level over here, this should go to

over 50,000, 52,000. And then again, I

am using lightning mastery usually in

spark. And we can see the DPS increase

there. And then I don't normally use a

life tap. We have the lineage gem that

does the same thing while also providing

a little bit of extra damage depending

on how much life is spent casting the

spell. And then what you can also do is

we can take out magnified area and we

can swap that with Verona's Siege. We

lose 10% increased area of effect, but

we get 20% more damage with hits against

isolated targets. And that is so good

for bossing. So this is the expensive

setup for my gems. And now we can take a

look at my gear. So real quick, I want

to pull up the items and how much I

spent on everything. So I took

screenshots of everything. So I only

spent 87 exults on this amulet. And this

gear I threw together in an hour. So I'm

wasting a lot of modifiers on some

pieces of gear. and you'll see that in a

moment. My belt was 20 exalts, just a

little bit of resistance. The body armor

was the most expensive piece at one big

divine, but I need spirit. We're going

to go over that in just a moment. 40

exalts for the boots. I did craft on

plus 14 spirit. I'll explain how to do

that in just a moment. The gloves

basically free. 10 exalts over there. I

did socket in a little bit of added cold

res. One divine for a fairly [snorts]

large heart of the well double damage is

extra damage and crit chance. That is

not bad at all. And then the helmet was

basically free. Three exalts. We

continue. My jewels basically free.

About three exalts each. I bought five

of them. Ring one or ring two I guess.

25 exalts. Four chaos. So maybe like

half a div on rings. But again, I was

just looking for some resistances. And

we can see those wasted modifiers that

I'm talking about. This is doing so

little for me. But again, we threw this

together on a budget. This was the old

staff that I purchased. It has seven

level two cold skills. I later

downgraded to this one for five exults.

And this is the one that I'm currently

using that has five level of all skills.

So, I originally tested this to get a

couple extra levels from grim pillars,

but then my spark was just so weak. I

was having a hard time destroying the

pillars. So, if you're really on a

budget, I'd say like plus five level of

all spell skills or maybe even plus six.

That can get a little expensive, though,

because again, you do want like a little

bit of damage for whatever you use to

detonate to the pillars. So, I paid five

exalts for this staff that I used in the

showcase listed 6 days ago. And that

pretty much covers all of the gear that

I'm using. And we can even take one

quick look. We can see my resistances

are capped. Chaos res a little lower,

but of course, chaos damage is generally

more rare than elemental damage. And on

top of that, I also did get a little bit

of rarity on my gear. So, we're at 77%.

That should be like over 100% I would

say. But again, I threw this stuff

together in about an hour. So, we just

took down a 100% Delirious map. We took

down the Arbiter of Divinity on four

divines worth of gear with max res and

even a little bit of rarity. So, not too

bad at all. And then we can just take a

look at the gear. I don't think I want

to like spend too much time talking

about the budget gear because everything

that's budget just has like a little bit

of resistances and a little bit of

rarity. We have spirit on this. We have

plus level over here. But I think what

I'd rather focus on is not so much the

budget gear. Again, links to the budget

gear and the expensive gear in the

pinned comment below. But what I'd

rather focus on is what you should be

looking for when building this character

if you have, you know, 20 plus divines

to invest in it. my body armor compared

to the budget piece. They're pretty much

the same. I have spirit on both of them.

This one has double res. Mine has double

res lightning fire. And this one just

has a little bit more energy shield. I

also have life regen, which is kind of

nice. That could be another resistance

though. We'll put that on. We can take a

look at the helmet again. We have budget

with resistance, rarity, mana, and

energy shield. my helmet that I'm

currently using, resistance, rarity,

energy shield, mana. So, one is just a

little bit less energy shield and then

mine has just a little bit more. And

then we'll take a look at the gloves.

So, on budget, we again just have a

little bit of energy shield, resistance,

rarity, life, mana as well if you can

get it. And then on my gloves, again,

life, mana, rarity, resistance. That is

it. I do corrupt my gear for two

sockets. And then in my two sockets, I

have life cost efficiency. I think this

is like a one divine ancient augment.

And then [music] I just have 75 to

maximum life over here. But you can see

they're pretty much the same. And then

for the boots, I do want to talk about

the boots just a little bit. These

actually don't have rarity.

Unfortunately, I crafted off the rarity.

I would have liked it if the spirit took

away shock duration on the suffex, but

unfortunately it took away my rarity.

And then on my boots, I do have the

rarity. I have a little bit of chaos

res. I have the spirit, mana, and then

just some energy shield. And then even

these, you know, have 35% movement

speed. So, I didn't like skip out on any

of the gear. Yes, it is on a budget, but

this is gear that I would have used

myself if I only had four divines to my

name and I was trying to build this

character. Now, talking about the

spirit, what you can do when you buy a

pair of boots is you can use mystic

alloy on them. It will remove a random

suffix modifier, but you will get plus

spirit. So, I don't remember what I

removed on here, but it wasn't a big

deal because I'm still using these. And

then on these boots that I paid, what

was it like 20 exults for, I did remove

my rarity, unfortunately. So, this could

take, you know, a couple attempts. Now,

this build needs at least 180 spirit to

function because we summon two totems

and they require 75 spirit each. And

then we just need another 30 spirit for

mana remnants. And then we can take away

the rings. So these just have a little

bit of rarity. We have cold damage, mana

resistances, a little bit of cast speed.

Over here we have again cast speed,

rarity, a little bit of cold damage, a

little bit of resistance. on my rings.

Same thing. Cold lightning damage. This

is a little bit more expensive. Double

rarity, cast speed resistance. So, we

have like the budget rings and then we

have the expensive rings onto this one.

Rarity, cold lightning damage, mana

resistances. And then we have the

amulet. This has plus two level of all

spell skills. You really want that to be

plus three. I also have a little bit of

spell damage and again rarity on my main

amulet. spell damage, rarity, plus three

level of all spell skills. And you can

craft this to plus4 yourself. That could

be a little risky though. So, what you'd

want to do is find an amulet that you

want to use that has plus three level of

all spell skills and then you would have

to use essence of the breach on it. It

will remove a random prefix modifier,

but it will give you plus 20% to maximum

quality. So, you use this on your amulet

of choice. It removes a random prefix

and then you can get caster modifiers to

40%. And that is how you're going to get

plus4 level of all spell skills. And

then you do have to unnull off the 20%

quality so that you can replace it with

an actual prefix modifier. So that could

be pretty risky. It could rip the amulet

or it could just be really expensive. If

you want to use one of the omens that

guarantees your next orb of anomen will

only target prefix modifiers and then

even then it would be you know a one in

well depending on how many modifiers you

have it could be a one in two it could

be a one in three to remove that 20%

quality. So there is a little bit of

risk there but again every plus level

you get is going to be about 13% more

damage. It matters. So really try to get

plus level where you can. And then

again, we have a budget belt that I

spent like 20 exults on. We can take

this off. My actual belt. This one is a

little fancy. I think this is one of the

breach belts. It has increased cool down

rate. And then it has increased spell

damage and cast speed during any flask

effect. So that's pretty neat. Of

course, this could be a head hunter.

This could be a mage blood. So this

could be anything you want it to be. And

then for weapon, again, I just showed

you that I paid five exults for this

staff. We'll put that over there. So,

you can get away with using a budget

piece of equipment like this. But what

you really want to use is a big wand. We

have something like this. I crafted this

one myself. It has double damage as

extra damage and a bunch of plus levels.

I mean, this rune by itself is like 250

div, but I was able to craft this

myself. And I do want to pull up the

crafting guide for you as well. I did

not think of that craft myself. I got it

from this Reddit post uh 3 weeks ago.

So, here are the steps. So, you can take

a picture of that if you'd like. That is

how I crafted this one. There is a

little bit of RNG involved, but it is an

option if you don't want to purchase

something yourself. And then again, you

know, just all credit to the original

poster. And then I also have a fairly

good focus. Now, I'm not too sure how to

craft a shield myself. I did wind up

purchasing this, but you could of course

get like a budget version of this with

like just spell cold damage with plus

two level all spell skills. I do also

have this one. I just purchased this. I

guess I'll just quickly mention it. It's

the same as my wand, but uh this one has

all tier ones. I do need to change the

critical spell damage for crit chance

though, so that might be a little

expensive. And then this is just the old

staff that I purchased. I sniped this

belt for I think one div, but again,

like I really wanted to do this showcase

on a budget, so I didn't want to use

this. And then I originally paid like

100x or something for this belt, and I'm

just like, nope, that's too much. So I

went back and what did I pay for this

one? Like 20x. And something I just

realized, I didn't take off my right of

passage during the showcase. [music] I

guess I actually cheated a little bit. I

had a little bit more damage than I

should. This was not in effect during

arbiter, though. So, this this was my

bad. I I I still managed to miss

something. And then we can just take a

look at the jewels and then we'll just

go over the passive tree. So, I already

showed the screenshot for the heart of

the well that I purchased for one

divine. This one is just barely slightly

better. It has the same cold lightning

damage. It has crit chance just like the

one that I got for one div, but this

also has critical spell damage bonus.

So, a heart of the well like this, I

believe, is like 19 divines, but if you

take away that critical spell damage

bonus, it drops to one divine. And then

all of my other jewels are just double

damage, double crit. But these are 10

divines each, whereas the ones that I'm

currently using are five. Not even.

They're three exalts a piece because

they don't have double crit. They're

just double damage with critical hit

chance. And now we can take a quick look

at the passives. Again, I am blood mage.

I get life remnants for free. I have a

little bit of spell damage leached as

life. My base crit chance is a little

bit higher. So, I do get a little bit of

damage from that. And then I'm just

getting a little bit of extra life from

my equipped body armor. And then we can

just quickly take a look at the

passives. I mean, we're just going to

path up here. We have a little bit of

crit, a little bit of damage, a little

bit of crit over here. We continue

pathing up. We have freeze buildup.

Again, so much of our damage comes from

freeze. And then we get 25% of cold

damage. Has extra fire damage against

frozen enemies. So, I actually want to

talk about freeze real quick. Up here,

we have increased freeze buildup with

freeze duration on enemies. And then

this is why freezing enemies is so

powerful. Hits ignore non- negative

elemental resistances on frozen enemies.

And then 50% increased damage with hits

against frozen enemies. Freeze is so

strong. That's why you always want to

just like prioritize getting the enemies

frozen. And like right before a boss

freezes, you put down your totems again

so you can just stand there and DPS. And

that's really not going to be an issue

on the higher end. It's just like on the

lower end where you have to like watch

that freeze meter on the boss. And then

we just path up here. I'd say you want

to path over to the left first. We're

going to get damage is taken from mana

before life. We also need this ancestral

bond. Totems reserve 75 spirit instead

of costing charges to summon. That's why

we want 155 unreserved spirit. So we can

summon two totems. And then we just come

down here. I have a little bit of crit.

And then we have the heart of the well

that I got for one divine. And then

again, all of my jewels are just double

damage with single crit over here.

Double damage, single crit. All of these

were like three exalts a piece. Double

damage, single crit. Over here, double

damage, single crit. And then double

damage, single crit. But once we get

these nodes, then we can come up here.

Again, we already went over this. Freeze

duration, freeze buildup. We have plus

one level of all cold skills. Pretty

much all of our damage is coming from

grim pillars. So, we want a lot of plus

levels. Two cold skills. You can also

see that I'm I'm currently I currently

have three points over here for just

like a little bit more spell damage.

These aren't really doing anything. I

might move these around eventually, but

we'll see. We can come down here.

Increased maximum mana. Increased spell

damage per 100 maximum mana. And then we

convert energy shields to mana. And that

is why like having mana and a life

remnants is so good because it's just so

much sustain. And then with my critical

hit chance, I mean, right now it should

be pretty pitiful, but with my jewels,

this does go up to about 75%. Which just

means that enemies are constantly

dropping remnants, which is so much

survivability. Come up here for just a

little bit of spell damage. We already

went over these nodes. We have a little

bit more crit over there. Crit over

here, crit over here, and then we just

finish it off with a little bit more

crit. And that is everything the build

has going for it. So, I just put in my

actual jewels, and we can see I'm at 74%

crit with six times crit damage. And

then we can see the spell totem. We went

from 40,000 damage to 230,000.

And we can also see that my grim pillars

is now level 38. And we're just getting

so much damage at the very high end. So

now I don't want this video to be too

too long. So we'll take down the Arbiter

of Divinity one more time just so we can

see the difference in damage. All right.

So here we go. two totems. We hold the

left click.

He's frozen instantly. And that's phase

one.

So, with just a little bit of

investment,

you can just make everything in this

game easy. Phase two should go a little

bit faster. He has a lot of damage

reduction on phase one. I don't know why

it takes so long to kill him, but phase

two is over in an instant.

And let's see what we get. Oh, another

divine. Don't mind if I do. But anyways,

that is the spark grim pillar totem

character build that I've been running

on a budget. Again, four divines is I I

I did forget to take off my right of

passage. I'm sorry. I I did miss one

thing, but again, that didn't apply to

the Arbiter of Divinity when we took him

down. Again, links to everything in the

pinned comment below, as well as my Path

of Exile Ninja page. And with that, I

think we are just about done for today.

So, as always, everyone, take care.