[3.4] DarkSageX's Molten Strike Glad - 7k life, Tanky, Delve and Shaper viable, Balls to the Wall

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Explanation: Grelwood Shank and the two Wildfire jewels are pretty obvious. They are what makes the build go. Can be expensive the first week of league, so a budget option would be a high DPS Sword or Axe.

Explanation: build can scale very well with a budget and makes for a good league starter. If not taking Xoph's, we have to sacrifice 8 passive points to go up to Avatar of Fire. I used a Tabula Rasa in the budget video I posted just to showcase the build. Other budget options would be a Belly of the Beast or a rare with life and resistances. Belly gives me 650 more hp versus my current endgame setup. If Kaom's Roots are too expensive early on, a rare with high life and resistances will do until you can afford them.

Loreweave is a great in every regard. 80 max res, stats, life, dps.


Helmet with +3 projectiles and -9% res is also BiS, as more balls mean more damage and the minus res allows enemies to take more damage.


Tombfist with two sockets and a curse are icing on the cake. Free intimidate gives us more damage, maim slows enemies, and the curse on hit frees up slots, not to mention having two abyss jewel slots for life and damage. Best corrupts are Enfeeble (defense) or Elemental Weakness (offense).


Ring with Life Gain on Hit gives us a very nice leech aspect to help top off our HP. I crafted this ring with 20c, but I realize if you're buying the prices might be higher. Best would be two of these, if you can manage to get stats elsewhere. Other than that life, int, res, added fire.


When breach came out, Surrender was nuts. For the past two leagues, I have been trying to get a better shield and with the new shaped options, this is possible. I bought my shield early on for 7c. The potential 5% recover on block as well as the 96 gained on block translates to roughly 450 life gained on block with 7k life, which is a very nice passive way of gaining life back on top of the leech factor on the ring. It's great for standing in delves while in the darkness and gaining hp back. I do realize this shield has low block and am currently sitting at 74/74 passive block. with a few hits, however, we reach our 79/79 cap. A shield with better block will put us always at 79/79


Xoph's Blood is BiS here. The Avatar of Fire allows us to save 8 passive points on top of giving us Ash and a ton of life.


Red Nightmare gives us 13% attack and spell block. Absolutely great for a glad. The Watcher's Eye was a few ex, obviously the more Anger mods the better. I would first go for Phys as extra fire damage, for a second mod penetration would be best.


High life, Unwavering, I like the attack speed enchant for more fireballs


Life, resists, elemental damage and a free jewel slot. Try to get a bit of chaos if possible.