Is this for me?
I gear up on the fly. A living process. This should be “my build and journey” without looking for guides by other people 
But thank you. Maybe we will need something like this to do a showcase what is possible with faction gear.
Right now I farm cronley hideout for reputation and the twin falls for exp and the totems. Like I said before, I think i will not need a faction gear setup. Nowadays you can easy grind good stuff with the totems.
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Faction gear set up is always nice because it becomes 1) like minimal version, everybody should be able to get to such point even with bad luck 2) more powerful than just playing with random crap that drops because of + skills 3) can minimize what resistances and stats you need on the “free” slots and make it easier for some one who has not phd to figure out what to get and look for.
Level 96 grinding reputation and totems: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/4ZDm9ozN some pieces are still from elite, some pieces from ultimate. Build is 100% strong enough and fast enoug to snowroll into endgame gear -> https://www.twitch.tv/videos/788642711?t=0h4m26s
Holy shit, how many hours spent? You have one point too many in wind devil.
ah you are playing grim internal with speed up game. Cheesy 
That is true. When I got the reputation up, I will do some dungeon runs with a faction gear setup to do a showcase what you can do without getting lucky drops.
BTW: I came up with something like this now: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/wV1elpBV
full faction gear and MI without affix and prefix - easy farmable
you get: 17183 hp / 2357 OA / 2666 DA / 2032 Armor + 19% phys resis / 1700% lighning damage / max wind devil / +50% crit multiplier
or savagery support and no bwc -> you end with: 2522 OA
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yeah i looked, but i was asking in question of items that i should look for, components that are good to use and etc, like this build that i’m following [Caster] Beginner's Nephrite Spellbinder
Looks decent, hopefully one gets good OA so one can use those nice crits 
Short Update. After farming some totems in ultimate and still not finished the whole campaign.
I quit the Idea with the wind devil build. I tried a lot of different devotions and skill setups.
It sucks without good gear. I’ve had this before with a storm totem vindicator xxx patches back. Without good gear you can not tank and the damage is to low to burst. The Vindicator at least back in the days got realy good with enough +skills and inquisitor seal.
I had already suspected something like that. So no problem. I farmed the Temple of Ateph and the Guardians until I got a great MI Weapon. And respeced into Primal Strike build -> https://www.grimtools.com/calc/O2G1YalZ not optimized. BUT easy to gear. And yes - the weapon is selffound XD -
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Nice, I have a few of those weapons too with those affix but not highest level tiers 
Yes vidicator can just stand on seal and tank, and with MI shaman belt just let storm box proc bat like crazy to heal.
btw you can use revenant devo proc for flat RR and then get rid of all purple stuff in devotion tree.
I know about the revenant proc, but the elemantal storm proc by it self is super strong, isn it?
It has sligthly higher flat rr thats it rest is crap. Thing is you can then leave purple and get spear of heavens which is insane
you weren’t able to farm the items needed to keep the totem build or you just gave up? 
He wrote that ge gave up when he could not tank more
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With the Winddevil/Stormtotem Build I could not tank the Totem Groups in the Forgotten Gods.
Farming the Totems over and over again is IMO the best/fastest way to gear up without sets. You can farm them so fast and easy.
If you need to chicken run in circles for 2minutes its not good anymore 
So its more efficient to respec.
Sure, If you love the wind devils and the Totems you could still farm in the campaign or on easier Totems in the World. (I farmed the forgotten god and ugdenbog forest Totems, so some hard ones)
Dummy dps with storm totem build was arround 250 000 to 280 000 dps. When everything is up. Not much burst. Not much healing etc…
with the primal strike build and with the Faction gear + Mi I can go up to 400 000 - 500 000 dps on the dummy. That`s a huge different.
I have faction gear. IMO The Gear upgrade for winddevil/storm totem would be full Cyclone / Light defender build. So its a Long way to the big upgrades. The Gear upgrade for the Primal striker are craftable/farmable MIs and some random Legendary can give me good upgrades.
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Thing is with totem and such you deal damage when kiting. Otherwise you are doing some wrong
Elite SR is faster i think for farming
Stun jacks and storm box are more interesting in terms of upgrades. There you can totem farm storm rend and some insane MIs for electrocute on box and jacks.
Totems are devils are more limited. Yes you can get more summon on totem with off hand and janaxia dagger but need good cdr to make use.
I have an interesting jacks build that uses no set whatsoever btw.
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Short update:
I farmed Totems and ugdenblooms. -> Got the Ultos helm recipe. -> Got already enough ancients hearts -> crafted 5 helms -> and transmuted 4 of them into other ultos pieces. -> the result: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/gZwlD1jN
Next step:
- MI belt from port valbury
- get all skill points from quest
- min/max devotion and skills
- farm all farm able set items (shattered realm, vanquisher, krieg, dark one, the new one from the tomb :D)
- make a new char
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Can someone help?
I want to facetank lokkar but I cant I try to farm his set. I did 5 runs today and only could kill him once. The other times i ragequit after dying some times. Can he shotgun? Do you NEED to kite him? The mix of forcewave+the fire winddevil kills me to quick I think.
kite when Blast Shield is on cooldown
You was right. Kite when blast shield down is op - Now every run to lokkar is a kill.
btw. I changed some devotion again. Feel more tanky now: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/Q2zQE9jN
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consider getting some more OA, given you have insane crit damage due to storm caller pact, getting high chance to crit will make your damage go up like a rocket. The more damage you deal, the more you heal
Perhaps ditch points in maelstrom for Flashbang for DA removal on monster (= you get more OA)
Seal of annihilation in amulet
Concentrated wrapping in gloves for attack speed
Devotions: remove eel and last point in ghoul and get 4 first node in dying god
I also changed augment in shoulder to vigil
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