[3.3] Wormblaster the 4.5th - Flameblast / Herald of Ash Slayer

While the concept of using HoA overkill as ignite is nothing new... the damage numbers are. Goddamn this is so much better then my HoA Earhtquake Worm Char :D Nice Job!

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gimme a sec and you're on the list.

is not a problem RF killing the worms before VRF/flameblast does?

I've had this sort of thing theory crafted for a long time. I'm glad someone got around to making it.

For weapons: the elemental as added chaos mod would only affect hits, not degens. That would help with Overkill damage. An off-hand dyadus is worth considering for single target encounters (or animate guardian with it).

With a small enough Area of Effect, the worms land just outside of the damaging area of Righteous Fire. That's the reason why you cannot fully level RF or take all nearby AoE nodes on the tree.

Animate Guardian with Dyadus should be a great improvement if you feel like you don't have enough damage for something.
Usually it would still help with Uber Elder if the AG doesn't die (lower damage setup: No RF for faster life recovery, Faster Casting instead of Chance to Ignite, so you'd need to wait for either Elemental Overload to proc or for the worms to be hit by Orb of Storms to reliably oneshot all phases) or with bosses in larger parties.

The damage type of the overkill doesn't matter for Herald of Ash, so the same multiplier it gives to the hit applies to the burning from HoA as well.

What do you recommend levelling with?

A friend levelled this pretty quickly with Poet's Pens using Volatile Dead, Unearth and Bodyswap. The tree would be similar, so that's probably a good option to go with

why do we use elemental equilibrium with herald of ash? arent our damage fire only?

Orb of Storms is used here to proc Elemental Equilibrium. It deals lightning damage, so the fire and cold resistances of enemies are reduced. Herald of Ash doesn't hit, so it has no influence on the effect of EE.
Flameblast, Vaal Righteous Fire and Shield Charge do deal fire damage and increase enemy fire resistance for a short time, but that is almost immediately reset when Orb of Storms hits again.

Which Pantheon's do you recommend?