Life Based RF-EK caster (iron will + doon combo) 26-32k tooltip DPS

Hello everyone, I just like to share my build with ya’ll.
This build is kinda like a cross between your typical life based Righteous Fire build and an Iron Will caster build. It focuses on boosting your STR as much as possible while at the same time being able to sustain Righteous Fire to scale your EK damage.
Not only that this build has decent amount of DPS and survivability rate, but it is also very budget friendly. You won’t need to spend insane amount of exa’s to make this build work. You’ll just need a couple of unique items that cost about 1-2 exa.

Passive tree:


Gear:
since this build focuses on Iron will and Righteous Fire to boost your DPS, it is mandatory that you get Rise of the Phoenix Shield and Doon Cuebiyari Scepter.


more unique items

Meginord's vise and alberon's warpath are great items for this build cos it gives tons to STR


Other Equipments

for your helm, belt and body amour; you'd want to get something that has alot of Def, Life, Str and ele resistance


same goes for your accessories, you'd want your amulet and rings to have STR, Life and Resistances


Flasks

for flasks, you'd want a couple of ruby flask with "curse immunity" mod on them to counter enemies that casts curses like vulnerability, ele weakness, flamability, etc... with my current set up, using ruby flask will be more advantageous than using life flasks cos once i pop my ruby, i'm basically immune to fire damage cos i have 900 life regen per second and 88 fire resist. you'd also need a topaz flask with "dispels shocked" mod on them to counter enemies that uses lightning elements.


Gem Linking:

Head> Reduced Mana - hatred - purity of fire - vitality/herald of ash

even without any reserve mana nodes, you can run all these three auras as long as reduced mana gem is at least lvl 19. mana won't be a problem cos we will be using blood magic gem on all our active skills. Since ek is a physical type spell, hatred is a great aura for this build. if you can get your Life regenaration rate to 800 per sec without using vitality aura, you can ditch vitality and start using herald of ash for more dps. 800 life per sec is more than enough to sustain righteous fire while spamming EK.

Gloves> CWDT - Immortal call - increase Duration - Molten Shell

immortall call works great not only against physical type enemies, but also against rare monster that has phys reflect mod on them since EK is a physical spell. combined with molten shell, you can be very tanky against physical damage. CWDT, immortall call, and molten shell are lvl 20.

Boots> Righteous Fire - increase AOE - Increase Burning Dmg - Conc Effect

Righteous Fire with Inc burning damage and conc effect will give you extra dps on your RF burn. you can replace conc effect with enhance if you dont't like losing aoe from your RF, plus a lvl 4 enhance linked to RF will give you 17% increase in spell dmg.

Main hand> lightning warp - reduce duration - blood magic

lightning warp is a great utility skill for moving around the map

Shield> CWDT - enduring cry - vulnerability/enfeeble/warlord's mark

of course, CWDT and enduring cry is needed to gain endurance charges for our immortall call to work. i linked a low lvl curse with it cos i'm too lazy to cast curses and there's no more slot to put it into, lol. i leveled my cwdt to lvl 4 because i want my enduring cry at lvl 7 so it can provide 21 charges per 100 enemies (really doesnt matter, i'm just more comfortable with it at lvl 7)

Body Armour>
5L: Ethereal Knives - Spell Echo - Iron Will - Blood Magic - Life Leech/added fire damage
6L: Ethereal Knives - Spell Echo - Iron Will - Blood Magic - added fire damage - life leech/empower

if you plan on using empower + added fire damage rather than life leech, you'd want to use warlord's mark as your main curse to gain some life leech and you'll also rely more on your flasks.

why not use increase projectile speed gem?
because we'll get 30% increase proj speed from passive nodes, which in my opinion is enough to get a bit of range for our EK.

DPS:


RF DPS calculator
here is a link on a righteous fire dps calculator

http://rf.samminds.com/

after calculating the dps of my RF, i get roughly around 14k burn damage per second against surrounding monsters "if" let say they have 0 resistance on fire.

Defense


What about maps where we can't use RF?


Videos



thankyou very much for reading my post and cheers everybody!
IGN: Marshmallow_Blaze or Fluffy_SnuggleBunny

This build looks very interesting and I have begun using it. I have never used EK before and was wondering what uniques/skills you used or recommend while leveling. I've been using EK and it has been rather slow so far. =D

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Shazmo wrote:

This build looks very interesting and I have begun using it. I have never used EK before and was wondering what uniques/skills you used or recommend while leveling. I've been using EK and it has been rather slow so far. =D

hello shazmo, i'm glad you find my build interesting. :)
before i was able to use righteous fire and doon cuebiyari, i was using spectral throw on a sword/axe with good enough base damage. i linked spectral throww with (ST - additional accuracy - lmp - faster attacks - iron grip/added fire damge - blood magic/mana leech) on a tabula rasa. survivability using a a tabula rasa wont be a problem because we will get life nodes and life regenaration nodes 1st on the passive tree.

*EDIT:
i used ST while leveling before the 1.2 nerf on ST. so i think using molten strike would be better with (molten strike - multistrike - added fire damage - additional accuracy - mana leech/blood magic - faster attacks)

Looks like a fun Build to play, just wondering if it might work with HC.. what about Reflect aswell ?

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Azial wrote:

Looks like a fun Build to play, just wondering if it might work with HC.. what about Reflect aswell ?

reflect won't be a problem. the up time of immortal call is enough to leech life back to full. i have a video uploaded doing a physical reflect map on the jungle valley boss. i think it's HC viable as long as you have the certain items to sustain RF. although this character is on standard, i have died only once on this character because of carelessness and lagspike :)

Looks pretty fun, im just about to start a similar build.

Btw, why choosing EK as the spell with RF? Would other spells also work with a similar build.
FlameSurge seems having good synergy with the burning effect of RF, and Incinerate may also be viable considering the short range.

So I just wonder whether this build will still work for other spells?

Thats great, man! Enjoying your build in Beyond league.

I did never know that Iron Will is viable support at all, and it works so good with this spec, thanks for sharing this cool character. Much better than my old MoM EK.

By the way you can drop Charisma cluster and take Inner Force instead, if you have high level Reduced Mana gem. It will give +1 fire resist from PoF and better Hatred damage aswell.