VictorDoom RF General Spellcaster 8k ES and 24k+ DPS (Insipired by Invalesco's RF) Now with Videos
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This build was inspired by an idea a close friend had,Invalesco, he had the idea of using RF and ES to sustain it with no downside and making profit of the spelldamage mod from it, you can see his guide here: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/86708
The build is good with ANY spell in the game, you dont need to use EK, just use your favorite spell and you will do fine! About the guide, general info,use with other spels, spell tests etc:
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This guide is based around that concept only it takes several different routes depending on what type of spell you want to use, i use EK since i like this spell very much.
The point of the build is to use the RF+shavs concept but with also maximizing critical strike chance and damage, the result is an extremely high dps and high ES build. I tried it with almost every spell in the game though, and the gems were un-leveled but it still did very good with any spell.The main difference is that Invalescos guide is based on tankyness and survival in mind,high ES and regen, i prefer doing a lot of damage and leeching it back and i also love having high crit chance, so i made this build. So yeah, theres a few ways to go about doing this, first you have to make up your mind on what spell you want to use and you pretty much have to get some gear before hand, you need high ES in general on gear. I strongly recomend you get a shavronnes wrappings unqiue, if you cant do that though, you should just max out chaos resistance and get around 1.5k-2k life so you dont get murdered by chaos mobs, this is how invalesco did it first without shavronnes wrappings and it did work in HC. With this build you just have to pick a spell you like and use it, nothing needs to be changed every single spell in the game works with it very well Level 100 goal:Passive skill tree build This is my tree, i use Ethereal Knives, Currently level 87:Passive skill tree build VIDEOS:
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Lunaris run:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIPD9PXfh8
Will add more videos as i get maps etc. If you're doing this build with a different spell and you also have videos of it you can just tell me to link them here with your name stapled on them of course. My gear and links:
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You pretty much need a chayula if you're going to use Shavronnes. I take out the BM gem after i cast purity and hatred on life and then replace it with vitality which goes on mana Stats and stuff:
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As you can see, i use EK, coldnsap, fire trap and molten shell, i really enjoy these spells even though cold snap is considered a pretty bad spell, i find it extremely useful and i saved my teams asses with it because you can keep almost any enemy or boss freezed for a loong time.
EK does 20k dps with power charges,low life and RF on, it is combined of damage of around half physical around quarter of it fire and a quarter cold, it basically destroys any mob and its very fun.When physical damge crits its the best form of damage since it doesnt get mitigated. Molten shell does 22k fire damage on the top end, so if you crit you can take out coves map kraytin in 1 hit. Cold snaps can freeze almost any enemy and boss. I have 7.9+k ES with discpline on, 8004 ES with a level 20 discipline around me. 83% all resists, purity needs to level so i can sit at 85% all. Walkthrough:
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Around Level 20:Passive skill tree build
I suggest you start with Ice Nova it is a very versatile spell early on, later you can change to whatever spell you like. Around Level 40:Passive skill tree build Here you can keep using ice nova or whatever spell you like and you just inch yourself to the other ES nodes and crit nodes, you dont have to take them yet, just get near them. Around level 60:Passive skill tree build here you pretty muchstart taking all the ES and Crit nodes Around level 80:Passive skill tree build From here just continue taking the crit nodes and the rest of the nodes until you get to the level 100 build. Level 100:Passive skill tree build Reflect:
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Only a problem if you use EK like me. You basically need to level a spell on the side that you like for these maps, for example if you have spark with the same colors you can link Spark-life leech-iron will-fork-faster casting and youc an kill stuff pretty easy, for a spell like ice nova-life leech-iron will-conc effect-added cold/cold penetration and again youll do good on this one too, a lot of possibilities out there to replace EK on these maps, for the reflect mobs fire trap and coldsnap will do the job easily, you can use conversion trap to conver the reflect rare while you kill the mob, then you can kill the reflect rare with EK since you wont refelct as much damage. What i found it to be easiest with these links/colors for the EK setup is to use FP-LMP-Faster cast-Iron will-Life leech Bandit Rewards:
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Take the power charge from alira in merciless, the rest is just skill point.
Auras:
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Use vitality, Purity, Discipline and Clarity for the mana regen, use Hatred if you also want to use EK, i suggest you use a bloodmagic gem level 18 with recuced mana cost linked to purity and hatred to stack them on your life and put the rest of the auras on mana. If you dont want hatred just slap in discipline and purity on your life and the rest on mana, or you can also slap Clarity on your life.
Curse:
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You can use critical weakness which is my favorite because it benefits every spell and almost everyone in the party.
Gearing:
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Chest: ideally the chest should be shavronnes, but if you already have a high ES chest you can also just use aorund 2k life like invalesco did before shavs came out and use RF if you have around 8k+ ES you can keep it up without any problems, just make sure you get chaos resistance, even with shavs. Helmet: if you dont have a high ES helm, a very good substitute is Rime Gaze, it has good ES, no resistances but it does act as a 5link since all gems in it are supported by concentrated effect, i used to use it, i popped my coldsnaps in it linked to ele prolif and crit multi for example, be inventive with your spells. Boots: high ES boots are preferable here, i use rainbowstrides since i didnt find any better shoes and they do offer good resistances, move speed and a whole bunch of mana, but i would much rather use a pair of 350 ES boots, i do not have such gear so rainbows will do for me. Gloves: Here, again just high ES with resistances, you can also use the unique gloves "Hellbringer" ONLY if your main spell is a low cost one! Shield: High ES is the most important stat here, the best shield would be high ES with spell damage and spell crit. Amulet: Chayula, mandatory if you are going to use shavs on low life, if you will go normal ES/2k life + RF you can use a good crit multiplier amulet with cast speed here and maybe spell damage. Rings: Mana regen is the most important stat here, you need plenty, good unqiue rings would be Le heup and Lori's Lantern, i would rather go for mana regeneration than 2 unqiue rings though, be sure you have enough mana regen since you dont want to sacrifice a link for mana leech! Weapon: Preferably a high crit base dagger (80% implicit) with good spell damage and crit chance for spells, you can get some mana regen on your weapon as well, wands are also very good here if you mana to find a high crit spell damage one, a good unqiue here is Divinarius or Void Battery (this one sucks until you get the power charges up). Links
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If you use EK like my just look at my chest piece to get an idea of it, the 6th link should be Faster Projectiles. But of course, with this skill tree you can use whatever spell you fancy so just ask for the links you want to know for whatever spell you need and ill post it around here
Flasks:
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Use whatever flasks you want here but you will need these mods on them, they all should be Surgeon's flasks because you crit very often, you need one that removes burning so you can deactivate RF, one that removes bleeding, one that removes shock and one that removes frozen.. and you should use at least 1 Surgeons Granite flask of Iron Skin.
General points:
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-Build works in HC, if you want to play in HC spec out of the crit nodes only if you use EK (you can kill yourself on reflect so go without any crit on EK).Also in HC i recomend you swap added fire damage(on a 5link) for faster projectiles so you stay at a safer range if you use EK, with any other spells i would stick to the crit
-It is hard to gear up, getting high ES gear or shavs unique is expensive, but its totally worth it -Any spell with it, will do good, so use your favorite and just follow the guide, tried almost all of the spells in game with it and it worked very well If you have any questions or if you need to figure out where to put your points in the element you chose just leave them here, ill happily respond to any and all questions. If you need to know something i didn't cover in the guide just tell me here and ill get onto it. PS: Thanks so much to Petrov for giving me the shavronnes,shield and a bunch of other stuff, and also thanks to the guys who gave me regrets to make this possible! Petrov's and VictorDoom's Joint Shop of Sweet Love:http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/378165 I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/ https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral Last edited by VictorDoom#6290 on May 23, 2013, 3:37:33 PM
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Probably worth addressing physical reflect in the guide, eh? Most EK builds worry a lot about it, but a low life righteous fire EK build with that kind of DPS? I imagine if you're not paying attention even a single cast of EK could pop you against a reflect pack.
I'm not sure two cold snaps and one fire trap is really enough to take care of reflect packs, but maybe it is? I obviously haven't tried it yet. For physical reflect maps I assume you swap skills? To what? Your colors are a little awkward. Freezing pulse instead of PCoC, GMP instead of EK, reduced mana instead of added fire? |
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" posted on that, thanks for reminding, its a doosie dealing with reflect on crit EK, for maps just use EK with a spell totem or replace the spell with an ele one, for packs cold snap and fire trap can easily deal with it, you can keep the mobs frozen for a long time with cold snap, and fire trap does a lot of damage. I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/
https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral |
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Hi Victordoom, first of all thanks a lot for the guide. Seems like a very powerfull build.
For a Freezing pulse spec would you recommend to link it to added lightning dmg (instead of fire) and go for static blows? I really like the build idea, keep it up! IGN: Std -> Hossina (lv100 Scion)
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" No need to get static blows, when you crit with lightning damage you shock and your crit chance is high enough to sustain shock stacks by just linking the added lightning damage to your FP. With just the build and the 7 power charges up you have 49.8% chance to crit with FP(6% base with this skill) and this is with NO crit gear on at all, with some mediocre/decent gear you can reach 60% with no problems :) Links id say: Freezing Pulse- Lesser multiple proj-Powercharge on crit-Faster casting-Added lightning damage(5l)-Faster Projectiles(6l) This is if you want to shock your enemies for helping the general party effort, but i would rather use a Critical Damage support instead added lightning damage, it is better especially when you solo or if your party already does good DPS. I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/ https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral Last edited by VictorDoom#6290 on May 5, 2013, 3:03:07 PM
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Edit: Wrote what I said really late when I forgot EK does not function as physical AD but physical magic. >.<
Ign: TheMidgetCow (Level 88.8 CI Leapslam Templar --- Default) TheMidgetCowAmbush (Level 91.7 Buzzsaw Ranger --- Ambush) TheMidgetCowBurns (Level X LowLife RF Scion --- Ambush) http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/348309/page/1 --- Legacy Guide to CI Leapslam Templar Last edited by Midnightgem#4275 on May 6, 2013, 7:08:13 AM
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Life leech from gear does not work with EK. (Man, that would be so OP / awesome)
Last edited by magicrectangle#3352 on May 5, 2013, 11:24:31 PM
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EK is a powerfull spell combined with RF, the problem is reflect. I have done 3 toons lvl 80 testing the best way to do it.
You are missing the essence of the build, this build shouldnt be called RF, should be Inner Force. My current templar can run 8 auras, no problem with reflect and 12k dps (cant go futher or reflect will be impossible). You are missing grace + inner force + iron reflex + determination, that alone gives you 12k armor. Add molten shell, 16k, add gratine 60k. Also this build, i strongly recomend using fire, light and cold flask for 98% resist, with the status removal. Btw im using high iir iiq gear and gems, so my EK is no linked to any dmg support besides culling strike. The auras im using, hatred, haste, determination, vitality, purity, clarity, discipline, grace. Plus blood rage, molten shell, and RF. So 11 buff/auras running, also all flask benefit from inner force. Also try to focus on cast speed instead of spell dmg, better for boosting the dps than raw dmg. |
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" Reflect mobs are very easy to do deal with, use coldnsap, fire trap etc. skills like these will get rid of reflect packs with ease, you can use conversion trap on the acutal reflect rare while you kill the pack with EK, lots of ways to deal with it, be inventive theres a lot of cool skills and combinations you can use in the game. Its, RF, thats the main point of it, i dont see how you think IF is the point of it when everything in the tree and gear is based and thought around the use of RF. 12k armor against crit refelct is not very useful as armor doesnt mitigate anything for big hits, so theres not much point in doing that unless you constantly have granites up, the only way to make EK useful against physical reflect is Vaal Pact, works with CI too, but using RF with vaal pact will be a pain because you wont regen ES, i do have a friend who does this RF+VP thing and he doesnt really die much reflect mobs are not a problem for him and he only enables RF when fighting. I already pointed out, use whatever flasks you feel like using but have the remove status mods (bleeding,shock, burning to stop RF, and cold/chill because low life will get frozen a lot), resists flasks are only useful for some really insane Shrine or Temple maps. Cast speed is your problem then, thats the reason you die to reflect, with around 0.5-0.6 cast rate you can just slip a ek on a reflect mob, before the other one goes out you have time to realize that you are about to kill yourself and you can stop casting it. Plus i 1shot white mobs in 75+ maps so sacrificing on hit damage for cast speed wont improve any clear rate and i will likely kill myself on reflect if i max out cast speed. What i do intend on getting though is faster projectiles on my sahvronnes after i hopefully manage to 6link it, it increases the range by a very nice amount I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/ https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral Last edited by VictorDoom#6290 on May 6, 2013, 6:25:47 PM
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The convert trap seems worth of testing. In any case i dont see the point of using shavronnes if you cant push it to the next level. Using the best 8 auras and the best 3 buffs in game, i really think inner force is what makes the build shine above others. Using other spells to do damage is a waste of sockets that you could be using for more auras. In any case molten shell does a huge dmg in case you need it. Using blood rage is for both attack and cast speed, the huge attack speed you have make a linked leap or blades with faster attack makes one of the best movility options.
Also while switching a gem for hard maps its ok, but totaly switching all your main attack for a map gets boring. With 20k dps if you arent carefull enough you will die instantly to any reflect pack. |
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