[HC viable] Oro's Sacrifice - Elemental "Flickerfucking"

Total DPS with flicker: 67 229
70% Fire Penetration with Blasphemy Flammability.

The only crucial uniques for the build is Oro's Sacrifice. Gang's Momentum and Devoto's Devotion is also very good items for this build since you are not dealing any physical damage at all so there are only benefits. Besides, it also gives you the last bit of dex you need to use Oro's, which frees up passive points to not allocate into +30 dex or removes need for x-dex jewels.
Mokou's is also an option.

In general terms you're going to be looking mostly for life, resistances and armour. Try to make sure that you still cap fire resistance even if cursed with Elemental Weakness or Flammability, or else those fire hits will sting.

Elemental reflect is a problem, so make sure to carry a Ruby Flask with you at all times and you can also use Sibyl's Lament to reduce Elemental reflect problems by a ton.

Belly of the beast is a good option for more life.

Your primary skill will be Flicker Strike, which is linked with Multistrike, Weapon Elemental Damage and Melee Splash. 5L will give us Fire Penetration.

The final link has some options, like Chance to Ignite if you feel you cannot sustain charges, or Fortify for increased survivability. Life Leech is an option as well. You can also grab Faster Attacks for even more speed. After testing with Life Leech I can say that this is very useful to deal with heavy-hitters and also does help a bit with reflect.

The 4L is enough for decent clear-speed with good AoE. Just be careful of how much you flicker since you can (and will) get displaced after some time.

If you are not confident with continuously flickering (especially in HC), you should have a secondary skill to use when you need to keep some distance. I use Spectral Throw with Greater Multiple Projectiles, Weapon Elemental Damage and Fire Penetration in order to be able to keep my distance, but you can also use other ranged skills like Flame Totem, Searing Bond. Searing Bond can also double as an AoE helper while you flicker, provided that it survives long enough for you to clear the pack.


For auras you gain a huge benefit from Anger, and Arctic Armour is a good option to get some extra damage reduction and chilling effect to help with survivability. If you have more than enough damage, Anger can also be swapped for something like Determination.

I have a Leap slam link for movement which includes Fortify, and is linked with Faster Attacks. You can also slot Flame Golem here if you want to fora bit of extra damage.

Curses: Flammability for more damage or Warlord's mark for extra leech against reflect. Since you are likely to take more damage, Enfeeble is also a viable option. I use Flammability with blasphemy to constantly curse. It also adds more damage.

Lastly you can have have a CWDT setup with Immortal Call, Enduring Cry and Increased Duration. This helps with survivability.

I haven't tested it yet, but Abyssal cry is an option to skip Melee Splash with, provided it has enough damage to make you clear packs with it.


To level you can use Blood Rage along with Blasphemy-Poacher´s Mark in order to flicker even at low levels, but it may not be as effective. Otherwise I can recommend standard leveling skills like Spectral Throw, Cyclone, Sunder and so on!

With Ascendancy, I have created six variants on this character now. All characters are made to be finished at lv. 90.

Duelist - Slayer
This variant requires 2 Fireborn jewels to make use of Wrecking Ball, Destroyer and Martial Experience notables but can be skipped for damage elsewhere too, although I highly recommend it.

In the Ascendancy tree (Slayer) I would go the right side (Brutal Fervor, Endless Hunger, Impact) so that I can skip the Melee Splash gem in the link. There's also alot of two-handed damage and attack speed here so we're not wasting anything.


Marauder - Berserker/Chieftain
Here I'm utilizing one Fireborn for extra damage (Destroyer and Wrecking Ball again) and it has more than double the amount of Armour, but generally lower damage than the duelist.

In the tree (Berserker) I would take the bottom two nodes (Crave the Slaughter and Aspect of Carnage) to further increase damage, and then take War Bringer to let us use all three warcries depending on situation (for example use rallying once in a while, then use abyssal to clear packs without Melee Splash) We are taking slightly more damage so be vary of that, but the increased armour should migitate the physical part.

You can also go Chieftain and pick up Nghamu, Hinekora and Tawhoa or Ramako for increased ignite chance and damage, some penetration and fire leech and either extra life-regen per endurance charge + chance to gain one or extra bit of armor, resistance and strength with some reduced skill cost. That's up to you, but I would probably take Ramako as a third one.

Ranger - Raider
Basically the same idea, use one Fireborn for damage, has not as much increased armour by itself but utilizes Iron Reflexes for survivability, might be a bit lower damage but we will make up for it in the ascendancy.

In Raider, we take Avatar of the Slaughter for empowered frenzy charges and Rapid Assault for the Onslaught chance. This should more than likely deal with any problems in damage we have.

Shadow - Trickster
Here we take a different approach. Instead of relying on Resolute Technique and Fire/Elemental Damage with Armour, we now go for Acrobatics and two Fireborns to get damage.

In ascendancy we take Trickster for Ghost Dance, Shade Form and a choice. Either Swift Killer for an extra frenzy charge, putting us at 8 charges, or Weave the Arcane to get better mana-sustain since we're not reserving 100% anymore.


Witch - Elementalist
This one is a bit different, and far more expensive. We're using Crown of Eyes to get insanely high damage from the Witch start, which means no Devoto's so Dex will need to be obtained by other means. We still use one Fireborn, but it is not needed with the insane amount of damage this variant has.

To top it off, Elementalist is the obvious choice, taking Liege of the Primordial (with Flame golem for a huge damage boost), Shaper of Desolation for the new conflux effect and the final two points are a choice. Either Paragon of Calamity to gain elemental damage reduction and a damage boost, or Pendulum of Destruction for an increased damage spike every 10 seconds.


There are options as a Scion too, since options like Raider, Elementalist and Berserker are all solid options as a Scion, or to even swap starts. One idea I had was to take duelist parts and then ascend into marauder to skip the pathing required to reach it, or to ascend onto templar for elemental damage or something along the lines. The options are endless!

Scion - Trickster+alt start
This one is a bit tricky(pun intended) since it uses an alt start. We take all defense and leech and most of our damage in the templar & duelist areas and then ascend onto shadow to take the last bit of damage and some final life.

I chose Trickster for this ascension since we then get 20% increased damage while not on full ES, of which we barely have any to begin with. Increased mana regen is nice since Flicker is a movement skill and will help sustain. lastly the increased recovery for all pools will be affecting us all the time since we're igniting very often. The more evasion chance is not very useful since we're not evasion based nor on full energy shield often unless out of combat.

Scion - Elementalist/Berserker

This is a different approach that doesnt ascend onto another class, we go instead for double ascendancy. With some reduced damage taken and elemental conflux from elementalist, with increased damage from Berserker, this is also a strong option for Flicker.




Bandit Choices
Normal: Oak OR Passive Point (Depends entirely on you for +40 base life)
Cruel: Kraityn OR Passive Point (It depends on what the actual point gives you, but I personally always go Kraityn here)
Merciless: Kraityn, you want that extra charge

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