Walking Sim - Spriggan Form Thorn Totem Shaman Build Guide

No mandatory unique/set items.

Great defense and sustain with constant full-hp healing from totems.

Brainless gameplay (most of the time you will use just one skill).

Can safely kill enemies off the screen.

Idols adds almost 100% uptime Haste.

Brainless/Repetitive/Monotonous gameplay can became a little boring.

If you get used to this build, you may find it difficult to play more complex multi-button builds in the future.

Require some basic crafting knowledge to get all items faster.

This build have no any skill rotation and it's gameplay is pretty simple and straightforward. Nevertheless, I'd like to split this section into two parts: Main Routine and Boss/Horde Situation.

Main mechanic of this build is to cast Summon Healing Totem periodically while you're in your Spriggan Form. Even if there are no enemies to kill. It will "unsummon" your old Totems and thanks to node Memories of Eterra you will regain some Rage. This will allow you to stay in Spriggan Form infinitely.

Main Routine

This is simple as hell. Most of the game you will use only one skill.

Here's just a an example of how I go through my echoes and other locations:

1. You enter the location. You cast Summon Spriggan.
2. You jump forward with Fury Leap. Just to cover some distance.
3. You go into Spriggan Form.
4. You run forward to your objective and cast Summon Healing Totem periodically (each 2-3 seconds).
5. You meet the final boss, you spam totems on him and run around dodging everything.

And that's it! Easy-Breezy!

Boss/Horde Situation

Sometimes you might face large groups of monsters or tough bosses, which could require extra tactics. Thankfully, we have some additional buttons to smash!

While fighting bosses you may want to spam Summon Vines 4 times to place a total of 12 Vines that will provide additional incoming damage and Poison stacks to your enemy.

Also you have a great defensive skill Thorn Shield. Use it to boost your defense and trigger Eterra's Blessing. It will Heal you, Purge all debuffs, Knockback enemies from you, grant you additional Armor, add +75% to Elemental and Poison Resistances and those resistances will boost your Block Effectiveness by additional 750 thanks to Cradle of the Erased.

Notice: After you put a point in Introspection node at Spriggan Form skill tree it will automatically target you. Until then you should target yourself manually with it.

Also we have one more button with Spirit Thorns. But it is pretty useless skill in our case: low damage and it requires you to stand still. Our tactics is to place Totems, place Vines and just run around dodging all skills/hits from enemies. So you can even unbind it. I use it only if I need to destroy some crates, barrels or other world debris.

First levels you will be using Summon Wolf and Ice Thorns.

Then forgot about Ice Thorns and switch to Summon Thorn Totem and no-mana-cost Swipe as an additional damage.

Just go through the game and try to find any items that will boost your Totem/Minion Damage.

And when you finally will hit a node Unbound Garden at Spriggan Form Skill Tree you will shine!

From this moment you can start to use main Main Routine from Gameplay / Mechanics section above.

Now just go forward and never look back! Monolith of Fate awaits!

All needed info was already described in a Gameplay / Mechanics section above.

When you get Ferebor's Chisel, Ferebor's Persistence and Cradle of the Erased there are no significant changes through the rest of a game with this build. Just go with the flow, farm better items with better affixes. Maybe you will be lucky and drop some Exalted item with T6+ yummy affix.

But even then nothing will change LOL :D

The real Endgame for this build is to try to switch to another build after you've gotten used to run through the maps and just spam totems all the time.

Remember, your bad habits are your worst enemy!

You can find my Loot Filter for this build here:

Spriggan Form Thorn Totem Shaman Loot Filter

Base Loot Filter color scheme is:

• Gray - item with 16+ tiers of any affixes. Just general affix farming. Use Rune of Shattering.
• Blue - item with 5+ tiers of useful affixes. Use Rune of Shattering.
• Pink - item with 6+ tiers of a single useful affix. Try to extract it with Rune of Removal.
• Yellow - any base, 5+ tiers of recommended affixes. Can be used for early crafting.
• Green - recommended base, at least 2 recommended affixes, 5+ tiers total. Can be used for midgame crafting.
• Red - recommended base, at least 2 recommended affixes, 8+ tiers total. Potentially your endgame item after some crafting.
• Orange - item with PrefixLevel of Summon Thorn Totem. Try to extract it with Rune of Removal.

If you have too many items showing or no items at all you can decrease/increase number of affixes to look for.

Also you can always turn off separate filter rules. Let's say you've already found Ferebor's Chisel, then you may want just turn off filter rules for Two-Handed Stuff because you don't need it anymore.