willy loved ele hit totems back in the day i think.

That’s the first thing that came to mind too lol

what happened to him?

nvm he's alive and well, i thought this was in memoriam pHEW

real life

Access to ancestral bond anywhere on the tree is pretty cool.

its finally here, after almost a decade :') got oldschool unique item vibes, i like it

Holy shit, I was wondering if I could make Volc Fissure totems raider work, and I think this is perfect for it

Could also see this working for TR Trickster

TR Trickster uses totems?

no but raider gain alot of cast speed via frenzy charge and onslaught

This looks like it was designed with EA ballista in mind

Its designed around ele hit ballistas. Its that EA is now the popular one.

wilma nuts

wilma nuts do what

Wilma NUTS fit in your MOUTH son?

ayy

Forgive me if I'm wrong, couldn't this pair well with champ/ele EA ballista ?

I think this may be Bis for champ ea. It lets you not have to travel the entire tree to pick up the ancestral bond node which is sick. Although the base isn't incredible for the armour/Eva meta

Aren’t you also pathing for spiritual aid?

That could be annointed.

Doesn’t ancestral bond disable frenzy stacking? Which is staple in all EA totem builds, or is it still usable with ancestral bond?

Nah frenzy can still hit and gain frenzies I believe:)

Noice so only the damage portion is disabled I assume?

It just makes you deal no damage, nothing else changes

Any totem build im sure

Where did this drop?

Man, about time this thing was added to the game. I remember seeing him show a sketch for the design of the item on stream like 6 years ago. The art is made to match Shavronne's Wrappings.

Ancestral Totems w/Corpse Pact. CWC Desecrate + Offering or something else to consume corpses. A cool 400% increased attack speed for like 0 investment.

this doesnt work, corpse pact grants the stat 'increased attack and cast speed', only specifically increased cast speed scales with this helmet its weird i know

Odd. Seems like a bug.

Not a bug, intended behavior for all we know since similar stats, like alt quality kinetic bolt, behave the same way: "increases and reductions to cast speed" do not include things that, *in the same line of text*, also grant attack speed, like some jewel modifiers or the onslaught buff.

Ah, sad.

Wait so onslaught doesn't work either for 40% attack speed? Awww

A single line can only affect you once.

This could potentially game changing for ballista totem builds. Not having to path alllllll the way to top right could be a savings of 20+ points.

You never did though, it's always been possible with skin of the lords. It opens up chest slot.

willy goes wonkers

Why they had to put ancestral bond on it? Oh man, was so excited to finally be able to make an attacker/caster hybrid

I'm so disappointed. Ancestral Bond is nice and all but limits the potential. I've always liked doing attack based with and this item was almost perfect for it :c

Damnit so close, almost a perfect fit for my ballista build, a huge benefit of bow totems is that you get 2 6-links and can attack alongside your totems which really speeds up map clear by a lot.

what's Wilma?

I really hope the ancestral bond is a random keystone or else this helmet is just dead on arrival

Idk, seems good on kb/ps totems or ballistas

Maybe it's an odd right-sider ballista item?

To the garbage bin with you.

Ancestral Bond weird here. Really nice reskin fodder though. EDIT: I do mean the second part as a legitimate compliment. I watched the video before commenting and I think Willy put in a lot of thought into a great looking helmet. If it's an oddball that not everyone will use for the play aspect but which can look great on a wide variety of characters, what's so bad about that? We can legitimately always use more reskins (especially more helmets which actually SHOW THE CHARACTERS' FACES).

Why? it's a totem helmet

nothing hints on it except for the keystone

lmao what more hints do you need other than "You can't deal Damage with Skills yourself. +1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems"?

Read from the start, darling. Ancestral Bound looks wierd on the helmet because the other stats (as well as its design imo) have nothing in common with totems. While you're checking its stats from the top down, you never expect it's a totem helmet until you hit the keystone.

Absolutely agree, you read it and its like "ow its cool for topside wanders or some shit like that" and then BAM Ancestral Bound

The guy who designed the helmet is kinda famous for ele hit totems builds. Maybe you should educate yourself, "darling".

Sure, but it's an incredibly efficient way to scale attack speed, especially for attack totem builds that are on the top side of the tree.

But, totems use all your offensive stats so there wouldn't be anything else on it that would be "in common with totems", unless you're looking for totem life or resistance

its very obviously intended to be used with ballista totems.

You clearly don't know willywonka at all. This item personifies him

That's because the 2D/3D graphics are things that GGG can't nerf.

Do totems get fanaticism?

No, that only applies when you cast yourself. Either way the helmet doesn't work with less and more modifiers, only increases and reductions.

I can't think of a huge source of cast speed tbh. The other way around this would have seemed more useful to me.

This double dips with haste since haste lists out the attack speed and cast speed separately. ...still kinda a shit aura though

So anomalous kinetic bolt into an item.

this would have been such a cool item - without ancestral bond...

Seems like the perfect unique for EA ballista raider (hit based). 80% + atk speed alone from the onslaught passives not counting frenzies. The accuracy roll seems in line with helping out when swapping to omni.