Rathik's Righteous Fire EK life based tanky build(s) (Marauder&Ranger)

Hi.

Since the nerf of life and max resist skill points and purity aura, people said RF with a life build is not viable what so ever.
So I took it as a challenge to create a viable build that use RF with high damage.
The burn damage from RF is just a bonus, the build is not focused on the burn damage but the more spell damage you gain from RF.

There are actually a few ways you can do this. Go for 75% block and less life or aim for high life.

First Alpha's Howl is NOT required but you will save 3 skill points

If you have Alpha's Howl and empower gem, RF will never damage you until you get 6006 life.
At 6006 life you will loose 0.01 per second. The game will most likely round this to 0 again but I can't be 100% sure since I have no way of testing it. Reaching 6k life is not easy with this build.



75% block build using Cybil's Paw Thresher Claw (90 spell damage at 75% block)
You can of course use a rare weapon.


High life build with a rare weapon. Can also be a ranger.


High life with Eldritch Battery. Can use arctic armour with 100% up time if you have enough %+ mana regen and ES from gear. Replace BM gem with a DPS gem or mana leech.


Current gear with 75% block build
Astramentis is a bad example. Use a rare with spell damage, faster casting, life.
Daresso's Courage Baroque Round Shield is used for extra DPS for maps that you can not use RF
In those maps just go in tank mode, you will still be doing 5-6k DPS with EK.

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Gems and links
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Required
Ethereal knives + iron will + blood magic + faster casting + life leech (+ added fire damage)

Vitality + Purity + Determination/Haste + reduced mana level 19
Hatred + reduced mana

With Alpha's Howl
Purity + reduced mana + empower (+Vitality/Determination/Hatred)
Its an evasion based item so be prepared to spend some chromatics to get RRB

For the second aura decide for your self.
Vitality will give 1.65 life regen (0.15 gain)
Determination will give 54% more armour (3% gain)
Hatred at level 23 will only add 3% radius, at level 22 you get +1% cold damage
Haste doesn't have any information on level 23 but on level 22 you will gain 1% attack and cast speed.

Projectile Weakness/Vulnerability for DPS
Temporal Chains/Enfeeble for defense


Optional
Bear trap + blood magic + added fire
Summon skeleton + blood magic + spell totem + faster casting
Enduring cry





Bandits
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Pretty flexible on normal. Life, skill point, mana for EB build. I would skip res, not that hard to cap. Pick your poison.
Help Oak (physical damage works with Ethereal Knives)
Help skill point or endurance charge if you planning on using them.



RF damage calculation
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With 89% fire resist and 11% life regen the damage you take will be 0 regardless on how much life you have.

Here is an excel formula, the result will show how much life you will gain or loose per second.

A1 = Max life
B1 = %Fire resistance
C1 = %Life regen
D1 = Flat life regen from items

=SUM(((A1*C1)/100)-(A1-((A1*B1)/100)))+D1

Formula goes in block E1


With 3000 life, 89% fire res and all 9.9% regen from skill points and aura, 6.0 life regen from phoenix shield it will take 111 seconds for your life to get to 1.
With 9000 life, it will take 96 seconds to get to 1 life.
Plenty of time to find a target to attack.

With level 23 purity aura (90% fire resistance) and 9.9% life regen you will be gaining +3 life per second.


Video, still level 70. Missing a lot of skill points.
Normal mobs are one shotted, blues almost one shotted.
And yes, reflect hurts with RF on.


Credits
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To IceLight for his brainstorming abilities



There you have, life based RF build viable

Thanks for reading

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Power leveling guide. http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/522556
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Last edited by Rathik2#1558 on Sep 28, 2013, 9:06:00 AM
Very nice.
IGN = Dearest (Warbands)
crazy build TY man =))
Added Eldritch Battery build.
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[2.0]Non legacy Mjölner. Uber down. -thread/1474288
[2.0]Shatter Chuck Lite COC -thread/1324981
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[2.0]NEWBIE MF/DPS Summoner -thread/479976 | Power leveling guide -thread/522556
Hmm... where have I seen this before? Oh right, it's a blatant copy of my post!:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/287751/page/28/#p4778482

At least get your credits right :p
(this being both me and Ampli)

And btw, I'd strongly recommend using Geofri's Crest over Alpha's Howl. It's str/int based, so coloring RRBB will be much easier. This game calculates decimals when it comes to life regen, so you WILL be losing life. (unless you toss vitality on the geofri's with empower)

Also, I'd reccomend you swap to using GMP Freeze Pulse, it's more effective in Elemental Equilibrium maps, and easier on your mana when reserving auras. Also, if you plan on using Cybil's Paw, it'll generate WAY more HITS since the 5 projectile waves will all pierce and trigger more life.
Last edited by lucksickle#6250 on Oct 8, 2013, 3:54:43 PM
can you please say what skill points u save by using alphas howl? Wouldnt you need to go IR then to make use of the evasion?

And what about inner force, would that boost purity another 1% is it worth it?

thanks
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DutchRudder wrote:
can you please say what skill points u save by using alphas howl? Wouldnt you need to go IR then to make use of the evasion?


Don't know what Skill Point he refers to, but yes, getting IR would net you some defense out of it. Geoffri's Crest is a better way to go about it.

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DutchRudder wrote:
And what about inner force, would that boost purity another 1% is it worth it?


Purity level 24 = 5% max resist * 1.21 = 6.05. So yes, 1% more resist
Vitality level 24 = 1.7 regen * 1.21 = 2.057, so 0.3% more liferegen

However,

You'll burn yourself for 121% life instead of 100%. 91% fire reduction means 9% of that 121% is

which means you'd burn for 10.9% fire per second
while reaching 10.4% life per second

TLDR: If you put both vitality and purity in Geoffri's/Alphas along with Empower, while getting inner force, it'll result in a degeneration of 0.5% life per second.
Last edited by lucksickle#6250 on Oct 8, 2013, 5:29:46 PM
I came up with my own tree for this but I wont be using EK

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBAecCcQSzBS0OrRQgFE0Y2xkuGYUaMho4HRQhYCSqJ9Un7Si1KMUppTKJNug26TpSOuFAoEOcRmlHfkw1TeNQR1BQUWBT31RJVgRXDVfiWGNYr1jbWfNeE18_YEtgiGFSZU1mnmh0bPZwu3TtdPF4DXrvguSE2YTvhmCI8YqvjM-QVZSgnrmezZ_LoLSiAKZXpzCnhKluqZWrxaxZrKqsr66TtfK53cAaw4bEWMbY0iHUj9hN2WHaYuNq51Lnkew47w7vTvAf8i_zvvPd9kj22vrS-6r-jw==


It has IR and unwavering stance, good block, enough regen, enough stats, lots of life, good resists and alot of potential for leveling higher

Im really hoping I can run purity/determination/grace/tempest shield + blind + life leech
Good work on breaking the game
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