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Hey there! Just have to leave my love for this build. I'm level 73 with it in Ambush, and while I died a few times at the start of maps (no deaths until level 62 :/) I am now more or less demolishing 66--70 maps. Most things die before Incinerate even charges.

My gear:


As you can see, most of my gear is pretty mediocre. Even so, with level 17 gems I'm getting 1155.2 tooltip dps on GMP incinerate (23,104 stage 4 shotgun) and 2025.6 tooltip (40,512 stage 4 shotgun) with righteous fire on. As soon as I bought my rise of the phoenix and was able to run RF, everything just started melting. I'm sure if I wanted to, I could take useful things out of my swap and snapshot RF for even more close-up damage, but I'm not a big fan of snapshotting in principle and I like to be able to douse and restart quickly when I need to regen fast.

When I started maps I had only about 2k life and 1k armor, and physical was killing me really quickly. Now, with 2.6k armor (4.5k Molten Shell) and 3k life I'm much more survivable. When not able to RF (no regen maps etc) I can run Determination for 4.6k armor full time with 8.6k molten shell. I'm also digging the White Socket in my Geofri's (though kicking myself for forgetting to 20% first) so I can swap in purity of whatever as needed for spell bosses.

My gearing advice:
Armor/life on boots/gloves is super important. With Geofri's running Auras and Infernal Mantle on your chest (and either Saffel's or RoF giving crappy armor) these are your main source of phys mitigation. You'll notice that my boots and gloves have pretty crappy affixes -- the boots cost 10 alts, the gloves 2 chaos -- but I got them mainly for armor and I try to make up for them with the rest of my gear. In fact, I didn't die at all until I put on Infernal Mantle instead of my armor chest, so I would recommend you sort your armor before you start incinerating.

Mana regen should be your main stat on rings/amulets/wand if possible. Mana regen keeps you safe from Infernal Mantle's low mana penalty and allows you to run Arctic Armour. With level 18 Clarity (17+Geofri) I can have level 10 AA running while GMP incinerating and not lose any mana.

Despite insane regen, this build is really vulnerable to physical (though mainly with RF on, obviously). Self-cast molten shell helps me a lot, and I consider a Granite Flask of Iron Skin to be mandatory -- you can kill most things before the flask expires, but you NEED to be able to tank the damage for those couple seconds.

Currently my build is here:


Instead of dipping into the Templar area, I am going to start picking up Block nodes. RF is pretty sustainable with Rise of the Phoenix without leveled auras (not sustainable with Saffel's but degen is slow) so I'm going to focus on phys mitigation through block -- where I really feel I'm lacking -- and work out any other regen/fire resist issues after my gems are leveled.

Fortunately the build is right next to a bunch of great block nodes, so if I don't start feeling lacking in life/mana, I'm going to be here before level 90:


Which should get me to 59% block with RoF and 75 (80) spell block with Saffel + SoL.

Sorry for the text wall. I've only been playing long enough to get a handful of characters to 70 but this is by far my favorite both in effectiveness (especially vs. price!) and interesting ideas/synergies.

Hi, three questions:

1stQ Can i apply this build to standard league?

2ndQ Until level 62 what kind of chest i need to carry on?

3rdQ SAFELL´S FRAME or RISE of the phoenix?

Ty:-)

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redix27 wrote:

Hi, three questions:

1stQ Can i apply this build to standard league?

2ndQ Until level 62 what kind of chest i need to carry on?

3rdQ SAFELL´S FRAME or RISE of the phoenix?

Ty:-)

1. All invasion build can do in st leagues.
2. Ar/Es.
3. Both of them equality good,get both of them then try which to fit u. I use Safell when i vs hard nuke boss.

Ty mate:-)

So when you are below 35% mana you take 100% more spelldamage with your chest. But with the aura's on mana and some spellcasting your almost always below 35% mana right? How can you handle the double spelldamage taken?

Let see..what kind of gems need to put on my Wand? (i´m level 47 atm), something about:


option 1
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Discharge
IAoe
Elemental proliferation? Artic Armour?


option2
*******
Discharge
IAoe
Life leech

Thanks in advance

The level between parentheses is the required level to start using the gem or the max level to reach with that gem?

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Funghy wrote:

The level between parentheses is the required level to start using the gem or the max level to reach with that gem?

You can always buy a leveled purity of fire gem

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royvisser1990 wrote:

So when you are below 35% mana you take 100% more spelldamage with your chest. But with the aura's on mana and some spellcasting your almost always below 35% mana right? How can you handle the double spelldamage taken?

No you're always above 40% due to high mana regen.

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klerace wrote:

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Funghy wrote:

The level between parentheses is the required level to start using the gem or the max level to reach with that gem?

You can always buy a leveled purity of fire gem

I mean, what do you mean when you write the level between parentheses near gems?