Guide: Fireball CI Curser - Proliferated Burning Critical Fire Damage | In-depth | SC |

So I finally managed to have some time to play this build. Going pretty well so far. Loving the heck out of it! I even went as far as to get the alternate skill art for fireball spell. Flaming, flying, exploding dragons everywhere. My life is pretty fun at the moment! :D

But then I came up to the bandits and was pondering what choice I should make. Your guide clearly states to kill them all, since they oppose your natural rule, which is obviously very true.

But then you continue to go on claiming that you'd need as much mana as you can get. Also, faster casting is a key element within this build, if I read this thread correctly. So that got me thinking and puzzeling and here is my alternative plan for the bandit quest:

Normal: help Alira for the +40 mana.
Cruel: help Alira for the 6% cast speed, then respecc those cast speed nodes at the beginning of your tree and get the spell critical chance ones, losing only 3% cast speed and gaining 55% crit chance.
Merciless: BURN THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ANYONE STANDING IN THE WAY OF TOTAL SUPREMACY MUAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!

At the cost of two skillpoints. Good idea, yea or nay?

<3

Hey guys, I'm glad you like it :D

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Normal: help Alira for the +40 mana.
Cruel: help Alira for the 6% cast speed, then respecc those cast speed nodes at the beginning of your tree and get the spell critical chance ones, losing only 3% cast speed and gaining 55% crit chance.

You could experiment with the 40+ mana, but at endgame, with the right gear, you won't need it. I mostly meant that its important to get +mana on gear :D

The cast speed is actually pretty good, even though it's just 4%. I think its best to spend the skillpoint building crit damage and chance later on so i didn't pick it, but you can if you want.

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Crack, you mentioned shavronne a few times. Do you have a build in mind? oO I'm curious about the type of madness utilizing a shavronne..

Nothing too specific at the moment :) at least grabbing some regen @ templar starting area and using it with zealoth oath for energy shield regen, to counter rigtheous fire degeneration.. something like that.

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I'm seriously thinking about putting one of those snazzy "increase burning duration" into the staff but I don't think that I could ever get rid of any of the gems I have in currently (fireball, elem prolif, fire pene,increased critical damage, and faster casting.

The burning gem is sadly bested by all other gems for fireball :/ The weakest gem is actually critical damage, but critical damage even gives more burning damage through the size of the crit, than burning damage will, and it also increases non-burning damage so burning damage kinda sucks :(

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That is a fair point, I'm up to level 34 atm and threw the ice spear/GMP combo on a totem to hopefully automate the fire/ice EE proccing synergy. Don't have EE yet since I'm fleshing out the core build but once I get there I'll check it out and report back.

I'm playing around with various combos of fireball/firetrap/DD in my searing touch to see what works best for me, so far most packs die so fast that getting off a double curse seems like a feat, let alone 4 :p.

ahh yes, now i envision what you are doing :P think it would be pretty sweet to have an gmp ice spear totem to proc equilibrium, freeze and chill them :D

can somebody please create a hardcore version of the skill tree?

if somebody is bored sometime, they could test if it was possible to launch a fireball with your high spelldamage wand + shield, then swap to searing touch before it lands, to benefit from burning damage. :D

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hongmannnn wrote:

That is a fair point, I'm up to level 34 atm and threw the ice spear/GMP combo on a totem to hopefully automate the fire/ice EE proccing synergy. Don't have EE yet since I'm fleshing out the core build but once I get there I'll check it out and report back.

Checking back in to report that speccing EE with the ice spear totem has resulted in a quite noticeable increase in one shot hits and clearing speed. I'm using fire trap in the searing touch (FT-chance to ignite-conc effect-elemental prolif) with an LMP - fireball combo to hit anyone left standing after the FT. With the GMP ice spears, the mobs are constantly getting the -50% debuff from EE before the initial big FT hit and for the burn damage thereafter.

Here's a link to a reddit thread from a guy who uses a similar concept to one hit double Brutus map bosses by using shock nova to proc EE + generate shock stacks + uses curses to set up a huge fire debuff for the FT explosion/burn. Wish I a had a Q20 shock nova :p. Link:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1czp94/1shotting_a_map_boss_but_faster_and_more_bosses/


Thanks again for posting this build, so much fun!

Thanks op for revealing the power of Proliferate and the unecessaryness of LMP. Currently rerolling my Dual Dagger crit fire ball shadow into a shadow variation of your spec =).

Helps that I have Damning and 20% temporal chains and crit weakness for use too.

Hi all. Does Bloodthirst and Serpent Stance not work for Fireball? I was thinking of doing something like this (at least while still using Searing Touch) if it did work.


http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAP0FQgVbDH0QfxJpFLAVUBXXFxwXUBpsHwIsnCy_NsU22DlSOjA74TwFPV9BlkbXSRtMLU5tUlNVrlZjVytYB1iuW1ldxl8qYG1mT20ZcXl0VXzOgUmCEIIehq6HZYgbiEKLjI5kj0aXlZf0m6GcLZ2un7Sf36cIpyusmK6zr7eyOLUEtvq4k7w3wcXB88Ntxp7Q0NeG2CTa3d3z37Dhc-L35CLr5OwY7FXtIO9874XxbPId96b31w==

And also why do so many of the builds ignore the two 10% burning damage nodes?

Bloodthirst and serpent stance should work fine with fireball if you go that route.

About those two 10% burning damage nodes, well, right now i don't have them, but when i get a couple of more items i will unlearn my 12% maximum mana point and 30 str node and place them there instead. They are pretty good, i didn't have them in my original build, but i changed it a few days ago and freed up points to take them.

Hello !
First of all, thanks for the build, I was struggling with a poorly built (and rather boring) ice/crit witch, i'm now enjoying a brand new one which packs a significantly stronger punch :)
I also thougt about building the ice spear combo (still useful in parties) but didn't want to rush it, as I feel higher crit chance is needed to proc high burning damage.

My skill tree, level 40 :


Next ten points will be used to "close" the shadow tree :

(I may reconsider the two fire points depending on my needs for more ES/recovery at that time)

Then I'll probably invest few points in a more "defensive" keystones, rather than purely building crit : 11 points granting 20% all resist, 43% increased ES, 20% elemental damage (aswell as some armor int/str).


Considering i'll keep my searing touch for a while (managed to 5S - 4L it w/o much effort) i'll then try to grab the Serpent stance (which sounds pretty awesome), taking another bloodthirst on the way.


Only after that will I get the dual curses, hopefully i'll buy one (if not both) of the rings in the meantime. Chaos Innoculation whenever it feels like a good idea.

Any thoughts/criticism/advice on my progression path are welcome :)

I'm kinda new but I wonder why you didn't go for power charge and mana on kill nodes...

I'm happy to see such a great fire build rather than the typical ice crit ones. Keep it up!