[1.1.5] Whaitiri's Base Guide for Low Life RF Casters [no update for 1.2]

Got most gems to 20/20 and checked my DPS, was mildly surprised :)
Added screenshots, will work on some videos this weekend.

Added two new videos of some high lvl map bosses. Figured for mapping Life Leech works better than Fire Pen in most cases, you are much safer and still 1-2 shot everything.

Bump for legit build

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Sotto_voce wrote:

Bump for legit build

Thanks! :)

Updated with a 2-Man Atziri video, new screenshots and current gear.

i'm trying this out but i feel like too many mana issues. what are you thoughts? i switched to non crit flame surge for now

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PathOfKripparian wrote:

i'm trying this out but i feel like too many mana issues. what are you thoughts? i switched to non crit flame surge for now

How much unreserved mana and regen/s do you have?

For me, q20 Conc Effect + Deep Thoughts + all reduced reservation nodes was enough to be able to use Flame Surge, but i felt a little disruption after two casts. A ring with high mana + mana regen roll solved this issue.

Another thing you could do is linking only PoF to Empower, and taking Discipline out of that chain (incase you got it linked to Empower).

hi Enki.

your incinerate build uses IR which is really effective.

this build does not, and you take the armor/es nodes but don't really have any armor, so get the ES but the armor bonus doesn't help.

seems like the build might be kind of squishy against physical damage.

from the videos it seems that this is the case, and that it's very active, i.e. you very actively warp away
when death is getting near ;-)

i wonder, did you experiment with using the evasion nodes instead ? grace + the evasion nodes could give you a 40% evasion or so which would be helpful, but it does make the tree slightly less efficient.

thanks.

edit: nevermind. i see you took US to avoid having to use eye of chayula. so the EV/ES nodes help not at all and are less efficient. so no armor and you always get hit...

You're right. I rely completely on selfcast Immortal Call to be immune against phys dmg. When running lower areas, like dom runs/midnight farm i usually don't care about keeping IC up though and just take the damage. I'm trying to get a mid lvl AA into the build at one point, but currently my mana regen doesn't allow me to use that.

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Enki91 wrote:

You're right. I rely completely on selfcast Immortal Call to be immune against phys dmg. When running lower areas, like dom runs/midnight farm i usually don't care about keeping IC up though and just take the damage. I'm trying to get a mid lvl AA into the build at one point, but currently my mana regen doesn't allow me to use that.

yes, i'm sorry, i'm not paying attention.

i understand how this works now.

AA would be a terrific way to go of course, if only you could take EB ;-)

I have an RF build in standard i was hoping to "repurpose" for this build.

however that build uses a scion and when i look at the tree it seems to me that the witch is really a better class for the build.

do you recommend starting a new witch instead of trying to use my scion ? i won't have any choice if we don't get a respec ;-)

i was wondering why you didn't take the critical strike chance nodes in the witch starting area rather than cast speed. 12% cast speed vs 55% critical strike chance. i think i know what you are going to say: it's easier to make up the crit chance than it is the cast speed in gear.