[3.2] Cocotheone Righteous Fire - Life Build - 14k hp 4.3k hp reg 800k+ dps - Deathless Shaper

Hi.
Why don't you pick the Hinekora, Death's Fury in the ascendancy tree?
Isn't the 1% of fire damage leeched as life and Damage penetrates 10% of fire resistance worth it? Instead of takeing the 0.5% life reg per sec and 10% increased totem placement speed.

Hi, first I'd like to thank you for the detailed build. I just wanna ask what's the point of EE and at what point in the build I should take it. I've been leveling up with Ancestral Bond as suggested and I don't see a reason to get EE since I'm exclusively doing fire damage.

It may be a newbie question though, it's been some time since I quit poe. I'm currently at level 62 using searing touch alongside dual flame totem and searing bond. Happy holidays!

EE is quite important, as when it triggers it gives bonus resist to that element that you triggered it with, but it gives a negative to all others.

As an example, when you have added cold damage to your ring, or belt or whatever, and you cyclone or shield charge and hit the enemy, they get a temporary +25 resist to cold,since that is what you hit them with, but they get minus 50% resist to all others, that includes fire, ergo you do a lot more damage to them in that short amount of time, till you hit them again and EE activates again, giving them + resist to cold, but at the same time massive - resist to everything else.

It is also crucial that you don't have anything that hits(not RF since RF does not hit,it's a degen aura and can't trigger EE by itself) enemies with while having EE and only and fire damage be it from a weapon, or a ring that has added fire damage to attacks , since then you hit them with a shield charge, or cyclone, you trigger EE, and they get +25% to fire resist, and you really don't want that.

That being written, you don't necessarily need it early on in the game, you can easily go till maps without EE since your RF alone does more than enough damage to kill everything with a decent speed.

I don´t understand how to lvl this. u got a lvl 0 weapon and a lvl 60 weapon, but what should i use in between? and fire totem does like 0 dmg, pls help, really want to have a good RF char.

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Nosferat wrote:

EE is quite important, as when it triggers it gives bonus resist to that element that you triggered it with, but it gives a negative to all others.

As an example, when you have added cold damage to your ring, or belt or whatever, and you cyclone or shield charge and hit the enemy, they get a temporary +25 resist to cold,since that is what you hit them with, but they get minus 50% resist to all others, that includes fire, ergo you do a lot more damage to them in that short amount of time, till you hit them again and EE activates again, giving them + resist to cold, but at the same time massive - resist to everything else.

It is also crucial that you don't have anything that hits(not RF since RF does not hit,it's a degen aura and can't trigger EE by itself) enemies with while having EE and only and fire damage be it from a weapon, or a ring that has added fire damage to attacks , since then you hit them with a shield charge, or cyclone, you trigger EE, and they get +25% to fire resist, and you really don't want that.

That being written, you don't necessarily need it early on in the game, you can easily go till maps without EE since your RF alone does more than enough damage to kill everything with a decent speed.

Thanks for the response, I didn't knew that the added damage on rings or whatever would trigger EE, in my view I was only giving the enemies more fire resistance, but now I know that RF does not trigger I'm safe to get it after moving from fire totem to RF.

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Bot_Sweden98 wrote:

I don´t understand how to lvl this. u got a lvl 0 weapon and a lvl 60 weapon, but what should i use in between? and fire totem does like 0 dmg, pls help, really want to have a good RF char.

Any Sceptre with +1 fire gem really helps, you can get then early on or craft a magic one with recipe. Rushing for Ancestral Bond really help your totens, 2 flame totens + 1 searing bond is pretty decent for leveling. When you get to 60 Searing Touch gives you a boost in damage, look for life and life regen rolls and some resistances and you can tank your way until you can use RF.

Should you just use an 4 link no matter what? cuz it´s only a 4link in the gems section?

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KramBjornen wrote:

Hi.
Why don't you pick the Hinekora, Death's Fury in the ascendancy tree?
Isn't the 1% of fire damage leeched as life and Damage penetrates 10% of fire resistance worth it? Instead of takeing the 0.5% life reg per sec and 10% increased totem placement speed.

Leeching requires you to hit with something, RF is not a hit based skill, it's a degen aura and no skill that requires you to hit applies to it, so hinekora is pretty much useless in this regard.

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Tiozao wrote:

Thanks for the response, I didn't knew that the added damage on rings or whatever would trigger EE, in my view I was only giving the enemies more fire resistance, but now I know that RF does not trigger I'm safe to get it after moving from fire totem to RF.

Np, just remember not to have any ring or belt or anything with "adds X fire damage to att" like you have on one of your rings now, because as soon as you switch to RF only and start shield charging the enemies, you will give them +25 to fire res if you take EE. Have 1 of something with cold or lightning damage to attacks. Best of luck.

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Bot_Sweden98 wrote:

I don´t understand how to lvl this. u got a lvl 0 weapon and a lvl 60 weapon, but what should i use in between? and fire totem does like 0 dmg, pls help, really want to have a good RF char.

I see you have a tabula, you could have taken another route instead of totems and went for sunder, since you need mostly strength nodes for that skill, and then from about lvl 35-40 you can already switch to RF if you have a few chaos to spare for the right gear. The problem now is that you went too far ahead with the totem build and you would need to respec a lot to start going full RF early on, since you need a ton of regen for that.

Don't like fire totems? Ditch them, look for these gems and put them in your tabula : firestorm+faster casting+spell totem support+elemental focus support and later on add fire penetration support.

Get ancestral bond so you can have 2 of these totems and you will easily kill pretty much everything really fast and you can go a long way with this before switching to RF.

What's the point of frenzy in this build? And should I run cyclone or is shield charge enough for triggering EE?

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Tiozao wrote:

What's the point of frenzy in this build? And should I run cyclone or is shield charge enough for triggering EE?

It truly depends on how you want to play, cyclone is slower but can be better in certain situations, shield charge is faster, but can become cumbersome at certain boss fights. Some people like shield charging, I prefer using a quicksilver flask instead if I want to move fast and then just cyclone a bit at stronger creeps to trigger EE.

Both have their good and bad sides, you can find yourself getting tired of constantly shield charging and it's also annoying to hit a small rock the size of a pixel, not see it right away and constantly shield charge into nothing as if you were hitting an invisible wall. Cyclone on the other hand reacts more slowly, so if you don't know the mechanics of higher map bosses, you might end up cycloning towards your death.

Both are good to trigger EE, try them out, see what fits your playstyle best.