[2.0] Flame Nova! Super easy and fast mapping!

With Faster projectiles:



After trying just about every spell with the new Sire of Shards staff, it came down to either Spark or Incinerate. I may make a spark build in the future, but I liked my old ice nova play style and I realized I could replicate it with incinerate.







Incinerate tooltip dps with LMP:


Incinerate tooltip dps with Faster Projectiles:



Defensive stats: (without purity of fire since you only really need it for Atziri)


Skill Tree:


Not much to explain here. Incinerate doesn't crit so we get tons of life and raw ele/spell/fire damage + some cast speed. Projectile speed and damage is also good.



Items:



Gems & Links:
For the gems & links, please refer to the items. Those are the ones I'm using. LMP and faster/slower projectiles are interchangeable.

They're pretty straight forward;
- Golem is on CWDT so it's always up.

- Warp in packs to curse and maximize your damage output with the nova shaped incinerate. Curse sustains your mana, life and gets you much needed endurance charges for your immortal call procs.

- Chest armor links are your panic links. Tons of chill, freeze, slow. Makes you pretty safe.

- Clarity because holy crap incinerate is mana hungry. Herald of Thunder because more damage and also I'm stupidly lazy and I hate having to manually break crates and pots and stuff. Arctic Armour because we're almost always stationary.


Atziri:
Everything all the way to the Atziri fight is relatively easy.

Don't feel compelled to warp into EVERY trash mob pack. Namely reflect ones or zealots (stun lock) are some you should kill from range.

At the trio, kill the titty bitch first and kill the other 2 from your max range.

At Atziri, swap your Warlord's Mark with Purity of Fire and turn off Herald of Thunder.

During the split phase, go BEHIND the one you want to hit. Your AoE is pretty big and you don't want to accidentally hit the reflect one.



Videos:




Conclusion:
I still have some improvements to do. Maybe figuring out a way to get another staff on my swap for 79+ map bosses. Ideas are welcomed

I added the atziri video. I'm trying to get high level maps. I ran completely out. Once I get some, I'll add more vids.

Hi, I am very interested in your build. Does carcass jack increase your dps and area?

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Wereduvah wrote:

Hi, I am very interested in your build. Does carcass jack increase your dps and area?

No, I just happen to have that armor around when I made the build.

I'm updating the thread right now with the actual chest armor that you need.

Added a quick shrine clear video

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Nice transition mate. Why no double or even triple curse? You have a 6L chest available, use it to full extent. Plus I think that will fix single target issues Sire of shards has.

LW > Reduced Duration > Curse on Hit > warlords > flammability > elemental weakness

Incinerate was buff 100% plus those curses I think will have it almost to point shotgun in 1.3

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Nice transition mate. Why no double or even triple curse? You have a 6L chest available, use it to full extent. Plus I think that will fix single target issues Sire of shards has.

LW > Reduced Duration > Curse on Hit > warlords > flammability > elemental weakness

Incinerate was buff 100% plus those curses I think will have it almost to point shotgun in 1.3

I thought about this, but the difference between fire nova and ice nova is that fire doesn't freeze. Damage wise, I'm doing fine, atziri goes down decently fast, but I need to have some extra survivability from my belly link setups. They prevent interrupts and I end up not wasting points on that keystone to not be stunned.

I like what you did with your 2.0 ice nova, but why arent you using any jewel slots?