SlightRedeye - Elemental Incinerate. HC, New league and Self-Found build.

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pedrofell wrote:

Just hit lvl 60 right now on bloodlines, i didnt do much to upgrade my gear until now and its pretty good so far...the only thing i bought was a cloak of flame for 1 chaos that had mid roll fire resist(41%) and the gmp that my friend gave me. The main problem i am having is mana, but thats because i dont have mana regen on anything.

I just have one question, why do you use purity of lightning and purity of fire regardless of the chest u have? I was thinking of using just the one that i have which if cloak of flame, so i would use purity of fire and then get another solid aura, like haste or grace, i dont know.

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Darion88 wrote:

Im 55 with 2600 life in bloodlines.

Im worried about when to take acrobatics, cloak of flames and AA? Can you explain a bit about that?

Because right now im running 1100 armor and is very low for merciless. i have 2 passive point i took al life possible and i have access to acrobatics.
im thinking in getting 2 more and all acrobatics nodes, but i know my armor is going to lower a lot and a hard hit could kill me.
I know i have to get cloak of flames and AA, to avoid that but my mana regen cant handle AA.

So how do you do the transition?

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AgentTrack wrote:

Kudos to you!


P.S a small question, will internal mantle work well with this build?

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SlightRedeye wrote:

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AgentTrack wrote:

Kudos to you!


P.S a small question, will internal mantle work well with this build?

Thanks man

Unfortunately this build doesn't take full advantage of the Infernal Mantle's bonuses, so it is not worth using. +1 fire gems only benefits Incinerate as this is the only fire gem in the chest piece, other fire support gems do not work well at all. 25% chaos damage conversion does nothing for us against reflect since AA fully absorbs fire damage. If reflect gets out of hand late game, which it can even at 46 dodge/81 resists/AA, then you trade Added Lightning and Cold out for Added Chaos Damage and Faster Projectiles.

If the mantle gave +1 to all gems then I would be interested, right now 30% fire damage is fairly useless since 2/3 of the dps is not fire. Getting 36%+ unreserved mana uses up about 4 extra points which is unnecessary and ca be put into more damage without the chest piece.

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simpleMystery wrote:

I picked up an unset ring to run another curse and was wondering if Warlord's Mark or Enfeeble would be better. I'm really leaning towards Warlord's Mark since this build doesn't have any leech component until Doryani's and Catarina crafting starts coming around. Just wondered what your opinions were, I'm going to be testing Warlord's mark out in the mean time. I'm hoping to eventually either pick up a pair of Windscreams or corrupt an amulet for +1 Additional Curses so I can dual curse.

Gear at level 71 with 3.6K HP with clarity reserved on life, 1.6K tooltip DPS

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SlightRedeye wrote:

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pedrofell wrote:

Just hit lvl 60 right now on bloodlines, i didnt do much to upgrade my gear until now and its pretty good so far...the only thing i bought was a cloak of flame for 1 chaos that had mid roll fire resist(41%) and the gmp that my friend gave me. The main problem i am having is mana, but thats because i dont have mana regen on anything.

I just have one question, why do you use purity of lightning and purity of fire regardless of the chest u have? I was thinking of using just the one that i have which if cloak of flame, so i would use purity of fire and then get another solid aura, like haste or grace, i dont know.

Another aura is perfectly fine and obtainable, I much prefer the extra 6% lightning resistance which translates into 24% less lightning damage taken. The extra base resistances that it gives makes getting the mana regen on gear that you are struggling to find far easier since mana regen is a suffix, resists are suffixes also.

Grace works better if you rearrange the tree and pick up the Revenge of the Hunted eva/life cluster. 70% evasion w/ grace is strong since you gain 3k evasion from the aura after bonuses. That's about 6k evasion when you factor in Dex without anything on gear, so it works.

AA/Dodge/Cloak is insane attack mitigation as it is btw, I reached top 30 EU 1v1 open PvP with this build. I counter all melee builds essentially, and swap out to Arc/Flameblast when they run Tempest Shield. 140k+ Incinerate w/ chaos damage melts anything.

Good luck getting mana regen anyway, it is important that you get it and run AA if you can.

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Darion88 wrote:

Im 55 with 2600 life in bloodlines.

Im worried about when to take acrobatics, cloak of flames and AA? Can you explain a bit about that?

Because right now im running 1100 armor and is very low for merciless. i have 2 passive point i took al life possible and i have access to acrobatics.
im thinking in getting 2 more and all acrobatics nodes, but i know my armor is going to lower a lot and a hard hit could kill me.
I know i have to get cloak of flames and AA, to avoid that but my mana regen cant handle AA.

So how do you do the transition?

If you have all the life nodes up until the shadow area you should be doing fine, honestly. I don't know what gear you have, so I can't make a decent judgement on your life values. The gear section of the guide is what you need to look for on every piece individually, give that a look and slowly swap out each piece when possible.

When I passed level 55 in Bloodlines I had 2700 life unreserved w/ clarity on bloodmagic iirc. 2600 life is pretty high for act 1 merc, grabbing Acro would make it so that you can walk all the way through until maps as long as you have capped resistances. If your resists are even slightly below 75% I would farm cruel docks. Merc Twilight strand is a good place to look for gear, rush all magic/rare packs and kill Hillock until loot drops.

Armour is not what you need, if you are worried about physical damage then get mana regeneration. Arctic Armour + Cloak is how physical is tanked, Acro makes tanking these hits more efficient.

If everything you have said so far is true, you should have no problems heading directly to Acro in the next few levels. Don't touch the Shadow's damage nodes until level 75+ unless you are a manly man.

good luck

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SlightRedeye wrote:

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simpleMystery wrote:

I picked up an unset ring to run another curse and was wondering if Warlord's Mark or Enfeeble would be better. I'm really leaning towards Warlord's Mark since this build doesn't have any leech component until Doryani's and Catarina crafting starts coming around. Just wondered what your opinions were, I'm going to be testing Warlord's mark out in the mean time. I'm hoping to eventually either pick up a pair of Windscreams or corrupt an amulet for +1 Additional Curses so I can dual curse.

Gear at level 71 with 3.6K HP with clarity reserved on life, 1.6K tooltip DPS

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level 1 cwdt + warlords mark

This will act as almost permanent leech, you only ever need to leech after you take damage.

Even without leech, 4% life regeneration + 186% increased life is more than enough to sustain yourself.

If you feel like you are struggling without leech, go ahead and change to something that suits you better. A lot of people forget the value of high life regen with mana based builds.