[1.0.5] Cloak of Defiance RF/EK Witch

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Hrishi wrote:

You would have to calc it for yourself, but once you get to 75ish, you'll be able to run it if you run Vitality as well. One of the main important factors of running RF is having a high leveled Purity of Fire, so it's less dependent on your own level and more on the gem level!

this were are my auras.
Actually lvl 18 Purity of Fire (+2 from Alpha's howl)
Vitality lvl 16

Running Purity of Fire+Vitality+Clarity+Hatred:
-Fire Res: 89%
-Life per sec: 137.4 HP
-Total Life: 2139 HP

Actually i can run RF with a Ruby Flask(of course).

Any updates on this build? After ripping my first self made build at level 71 I was searching for a build outside of anything I have even thought of, and this fit the bill perfectly. Not to mention it didn't rely on a 6 link and/or another unique I will never afford. Wondering if I could get a video of this build in action to see what I am working towards. Or any suggestions from people who have run this build in nemesis.

Reaching 68 and doing some maps i do my pro and cons:
-Pro
High survability
Good projectile damage from EK
Clear pretty fast mobs packs
Many Auras for party

-Cons
Can't run many kind of maps
RF damage isn't enough and AOE also
*Low synergy RF-EK
*(Explain: EK is project. High-Range,RF is AOE low range. If you are able to kill mobs with EK only, RF is useless,they will not get damaged from RF. If mobs comes near to you they get killed with RF but EK is now useless 'cause they are in front of you and don't take all damage from projectiles)
Single target is a pain

ps: sorry for bad english

I made a version of this build with incinerate because it has synergy with RF where the sweet spot for max shotgun dps is point blank, and both scale with fire damage.



It's a great fun build, and the clear speed is the fastest i've played with. Ele resist is not a problem with fire pen and dual curse (curse immune blues still take longer to kill than most rares argh!) Needless to say, you do give up a lot of survivability since the points spent grabbing the regen nodes could be spent on block instead (cybil's paw incinerate block build) or life (pure RF build). For HC it's much riskier, but the dps tradeoff is significant enough to be worth it. Cloak of Defiance is perfect for leveling the witch since you are squishy until level 70+ otherwise because the life nodes are far away, and until I get to a high enough level that I can spare the 4 points for the keystone or get a chest with armor/evasion and 500+ es, i'll be keeping it for a long time.

I still lose 1.5% of life per second, but ruby flasks solves it ad hoc. Once I grab Sovreignty I can push another +1% max fire resist. I don't run Vitality since it reserves too much of my mana shield with no aura reserve passives.

Gear:



Still using moonsorrow at level 78, but it saves a socket for trusty blind totem :(
Incinerate tooltip is ~1400dps with RF on, which would be 28k if all 5 gmp hit if the calculation of base * 300% more at max stage * 59% more with RF is correct
Although it's more like 7k when fire resist of target is capped

Any chance for an updated build? I have a Marauder skill tree reset and would love to try the Righteous Fire + Cloak of Defiance combo.

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Hrishi wrote:

I'm actually working on an updated build, but I'm playing on Invasion so I'm progressing slowly! I'll update this thread within the week or so, depending on whether I survive that long.

Great, and best of luck!