[1.2.x] ✮The Phoenix Reborn ✮(ES/RF/BM/lowlife/fireball) - no shavs required!

This is first and foremost a Righteous Fire build (RF), it is energy-shield (ES) based, rather than the more traditional life version.
It centers around usage of Blood Magic + Moral Conviction + Solaris Lorica
for safely stacking 6-7 auras, while picking up as many aura passives as possible to maximize their benefits; the most important benefits being those that benefit RF, specifically your: max fire resist (Purity of Fire), ES (Discipline) and life Regeneration (Vitality).

Damage is supplemented with usage of Fireball for shotgunning enemies in close-range, or barraging enemies from afar when you're not confident of getting in their face.

For boss-killing and getting out of trouble, Vaal Discipline is invaluable: for both its ability to make you nigh-invulnerable for the duration (instant ES regen) and directly increasing RF damage (increases ES by 4-5K give or take).

It follows all the other expected tropes of RF builds - stacking as many % regeneration passives as possible coupled with Zealot's Oath, Purity of Fire and Rise of the Phoenix for maintaining RF.

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Build Updates


Some credit goes to DrRelentless from whom I got the general idea for a BM ES RF type build.

Added another map to demo the build, hopefully not blocked this time!

Hi,

Interesting build. Can you post a screenshot of your defenses? Also, What are your thoughts and opinion in running this build compared to other RF builds in Beyond league?

Thanks!

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buckwildg wrote:

Hi,

Interesting build. Can you post a screenshot of your defenses? Also, What are your thoughts and opinion in running this build compared to other RF builds in Beyond league?

Thanks!

I've posted a new section 'character screens' for showing character stats.

Compared to other RF builds? hm haven't given it too much thought, I guess there's some things to like, and some not to like which I kind-of covered in the strengths/weaknesses section, but if I had to compare specifically HP RF builds I'd probably say

The good:
-run 7 beefed up auras
-secondary skill for damage from range
-all the benefits of a low-life build, PA, MF slippers (if you want) etc.
-tonnes more self-cast damage
-not reliant on RF for all damage


The bad:
-harder to gear/gearing options are not very flexible
-very specific passive tree, not much wiggle room for custimization
-harder to level (or more annoying at least)
-more vulnerable to status ailments
-haven't currently figured out a way to abuse elemental equilibrium yet


I'm sure I've missed stuff, that's just off the top of my head.

Have thought about Ice Nova or Shock Nova, manually cast or in the CwDT setup?
Seems an easy way to trigger EE.

Have you tried other spells? Any spell can work with this build.


Haven't such a build before. How to you regen life (for BM) if you get Zealot's Oath?

Did a major reworking of the build, picked up ghost reaver, added IC for survivability and put curse into CWDT setup for extra damage - see other changes in the build update log in the OP.

Added academy map to videos section showcasing build version 1.1 (~1 hour remaining on upload at time of posting).

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nebunelux wrote:

Have thought about Ice Nova or Shock Nova, manually cast or in the CwDT setup?
Seems an easy way to trigger EE.

Have you tried other spells? Any spell can work with this build.


Haven't such a build before. How to you regen life (for BM) if you get Zealot's Oath?

I originally tried the build with flame surge, and while the tooltip DPS looked nice, the spell itself I found felt lacklustre - very short range which I didn't like.
I've not really considered any other spells, as it's pretty much mandatory that whatever spell I pick be fire/AoE based so as to get the most benefit from the fire passives / AoE passives I picked up... And that doesn't leave many options!
Welcome to suggestions though.

Not sure it will ever be possible to work EE into the build in the current state it's in. I enjoy self casting too much to want to give it up.

I could of course choose to use flame-blast, but I really have no love for that spell.

Originally life-steal was where my life-regen was coming from, however now that I've taken ghost reaver this is no longer possible. Now my life comes almost entirely from potion, the other part coming from the life-on-kill effect. Generally though, asides from the annoyance of having to drink potion fairly regularly, it's not too bad.

This is very similar to a build I've been working on, except I skipped blood magic and went incinerate.

This is what I'm currently using: Level 68
And this is what I'm going for: Level 100 (planning on changing it to a CoC cyclone)

Just one question about what you have here: why no Inner Force. The three nodes give you 21% increased buffs (raising your max resist), which results in only a small increase in burning damage while still gaining the benefit on all your other auras.

Here's a RF burn calculator I made that might help with tweaking regen to meet the minimum requirement.