1.3 ☼ Oro's Burning Flicker Build ☼ (updated 2015-03-11)

Oro's Burning Flicker a semi-tanky, cheap and fast paced build.


How do we kill stuff?
tl;dr
Flicker strike in mach 10 and burn trash and bosses down, without even knowing what is happening.

How do we survive?
tl;dr
Cloak of Flame combined with Arctic Armour to mitigate physical damage. Use Granite/Amethyst and instant pots when needed.
















Thanks for making it this far and hope you liked this build guide. If you think it's missing something or got any suggestions for improvements please let me know either here on in a PM.

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Can you get ignited by physical damage while using Cloak of Flame under the effects of Immortal Call ? If so then you can add two endurance charge nodes, both skill duration clusters and use self casted Immortal Call for about ~12 seconds of physical damage immunity which could considerably increase survivability

Leveling Flicker Strike past level 6 isn't a great idea. (until it reaches 20 that is...but you can keep that in your weapon swap)

With the amount of ignite you have, you could easily drop Multistrike and Blood Magic in favor of the much more mana-friendly Increased Burning Damage and Weapon Elemental Damage.

Just pick up that 5% ignite node you skipped, swap your amulet to Rashkaldor's Patience, and get a high quality Increased Burning Damage. That will get you up to 90% ignite (91% with corrupt) which will be more than enough considering you also have Vengeance to trigger extra frenzy charges.

...you could also just start each fight by leap slamming first for initial charges.
Alternatively, depending on how well your chaos resistance is, you can use a Blood Rage for the extra charge generation (which shouldn't be necessary).

I believe there's an issue with Weapon Elemental Damage and Oro's- back in the last year WED did not multiply the base Fire damage on the sword, making it a wasted gem slot. Has that been fixed?

Edit: just checked, WED works now. Yay!

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bullgaria wrote:

Leveling Flicker Strike past level 6 isn't a great idea. (until it reaches 20 that is...but you can keep that in your weapon swap)

The extra mana cost doesn't matter if I use blood magic with it. The attack speed is the thing that scales the best with this build, combined with Mokou's and extra frenzy charges does so I get 7.3 attacks per second with flicker if I use Multistrike.

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bullgaria wrote:

With the amount of ignite you have, you could easily drop Multistrike and Blood Magic in favor of the much more mana-friendly Increased Burning Damage and Weapon Elemental Damage.

Multistrike is actually a really awesome gem for us because of the scaling with attack speed I mentioned and it makes our build much more fast paced. Multistrike doesn't really increase the mana cost that much because every three hits is counted as only one so you actually spend less mana per damage. The burning damage from this build is pretty low compared from the initial damage done from Flicker Strike.

I have done some math and if I we swap Multistrike with chance to ignite I would hit for 5032 damage (4393 fire) and have 3.6 attacks per second. This would be a dps of 18115. If I keep Multistrike I would hit for 3220.5 damage (2811 fire) with 7.3 attacks per second, giving me a dps of 23509. A loss of 5394 dps from the initial hits. Counting the extra dps from the ignite (1581 more fire dmg without multistrike per hit) it would be 1581 x 0.2 x 4.14 = adding 1309 more dps. So with factoring in the extra dmg from the ignite, Multistrike would have 4084 more dps than chance to ignite.

Heavy strike for science.
Heavy strike would have a dps of 15218 and hit for 2461 more fire damage per hit, that would be 2461 x 0.2 x 4.14 = 2037 more dps from ignite. Resulting in 17255 dps[/u]. Flicker Strike would have 6254 more dps than Heavy strike.

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bullgaria wrote:

Just pick up that 5% ignite node you skipped, swap your amulet to Rashkaldor's Patience, and get a high quality Increased Burning Damage. That will get you up to 90% ignite (91% with corrupt) which will be more than enough considering you also have Vengeance to trigger extra frenzy charges.

That amulet looks interesting, though we would lose a frenzy charge if we want to keep the implict dex on it. We are 2 points away from quickness, close to Unwavering Stance that I think is the most efficient nodes closest to us.
Maybe a rare amulet with +dex, +%elemental damage with weapons, life and mana reg would be the best choice? But I think it would take a while to get a good one with +1 frenzy charge.

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bullgaria wrote:

...you could also just start each fight by leap slamming first for initial charges.
Alternatively, depending on how well your chaos resistance is, you can use a Blood Rage for the extra charge generation (which shouldn't be necessary).

We wouldn't be able to have up AA before we engage a pack of monsters then because of the increased mana cost while Leap slamming. The extra frenzy charge generation is not needed with my setup at the moment and from the math I did above we wouldn't gain anything from removing Multistrike from our 4-link.

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DonVadim wrote:

Can you get ignited by physical damage while using Cloak of Flame under the effects of Immortal Call ?

I just tested this and it works, the conversion to fire damage happens before you take the initial physical damage. This is very interesting, and might be looking more into.

Thanks for the feedback :)

When I was talking about the mana-saving benefit of removing Multistrike I was not thinking about the fact that it actually ends up saving you mana since you only spend it once every third attack. Dropping it and adding Weapon Elemental Damage WILL add more to your dps, it's just that I was thinking that you might be able to sustain that without Blood Magic (which you won't because, once again, brain fart).

Ideally, you should drop Blood Magic and use Weapon Elemental Damage instead, which brings me to the rest of this post...

First, about leveling Flicker Strike above 6: the current 3% attack speed gain (up to 6% at lvl19) is insignificant.
I mean, sure, it'll add like 50 to your dps, but the mana economy aspect of it is much more important. Even in your current setup, your life-cost/second is just under 133, switching to a lvl6 version of it will bring it down to 109...that's 24 life/second, think of it like picking up a free 0.5% regen node.

If you were to remove Blood Magic and replace it with Weapon Elemental Damage, the mana/second will be 83 with a lvl6 Flicker Strike (101 with the current level). This can then be greatly reduced my swapping the nodes leading up to Bloodless for those before Unrelenting (19% mana cost reduction), bringing the cost down to 67 per second.

Arctic Armour's mana drain is 34, meaning that your mana regen needs to be a minimum of 101 mana/second. The problem is that the best way of doing that is by increasing the level of Clarity...for which you have no mana to upgrade. Luckily, one of the best nodes for both doing that and further reducing mana costs is right there, so picking up Righteous Decree through the mana cost reduction node will net an extra 22% mana and bring the total mana cost reduction to 31%, resulting in a 57 mana/second Flicker Strike and therefore a total cost of 91.

After a bit of tweaking, this tree trades 90% increased melee/weapon damage for the ability to add in Weapon Elemental Damage and support a lvl12 clarity, resulting in 96 mana/second regeneration (91+ is required).

The original damage increase from the tree is 377% (402% with Celestial Punishment), while the new one is only 287% (312%), but since you can now add in Weapon Elemental Damage, even a level 1 gem's 40% *more* multiplier will result in an effective 402% (437%). The level 18 gem will result in 451% (490%). Keep in mind that all the damage changes only relate to the initial hit, and that none of the regular elemental/fire damage increases have been altered, meaning that any double-dipping for burning damage has not been affected.

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bullgaria wrote:

First, about leveling Flicker Strike above 6: the current 3% attack speed gain (up to 6% at lvl19) is insignificant.

Yeah the added dps is insignificant, but since the using of blood magic the extra cost have also been negligible.

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bullgaria wrote:

Arctic Armour's mana drain is 34

You are forgetting to factor in the extra cost from Inner force and Devotion (26%), so the cost for a lvl 17 AA is actually 43 mana/second. Though this aint a significant increase for us, at the moment. Though we will want to level up AA as much as possible even past 20 with the help of empower/corrupting to maximize our defenses, the cost will the he higher than 50 mana/second.

I can agree with your suggestion to try and replace blood magic if were only going to use a 4-link. But if we want to add a 5th the mana cost will be too hard to sustain.

Good news, although I did forget to account for the 26% buff increase, putting it at 99.71 total required regen per second, I also forgot to account for the 10% increased mana you have from Atrizi's Foible and the 20 increase in Int from the new tree (more base mana).

With that, the new mana regen you get with a level 12 Clarity is 98.87...but you have enough mana left over to raise Clarity to 14, raising your final mana regen to 107.5 per second, which is enough.

The solution to having a higher level AA and more links is actually quite simple: higher level Clarity and the Dynamo cluster (Dynamo by itself is enough for a 5th link). You could also replace a Mokou's Embrace (or both) in favor of ring(s) with mana regen on them, but that goes against the point of this build I think.

Btw, if you want to look at a completely disorganized table to tweak any values...good luck.

Thank you for all the suggestions. I have tried the changes to the tree and it works nicely, without the blood magic gem.

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bullgaria wrote:

You could also replace a Mokou's Embrace (or both) in favor of ring(s) with mana regen on them, but that goes against the point of this build I think.

Yeah at the moment I want to keep them because of the synergy with Cloak of Flame. I have been thinking about an alternative tree with the shadow that will get 9 frenzy charges and use Darkray Vectors. Maybe crit, but not sure it would be worth it with its 5% base crit.