[2.0] 950+ STR IW RF Incinerate (Doon, Alberon's, Elreon)

It's incinerate.

-Some map mods make it impossible to use RF which adds roughly 1/3 of our damage.
-You have to stand still and wait a moment for the skill to reach stage 4
-Not the fastest clear (still pretty fast, but not quite up there with crit archers or reave and similar)

You need a 3L for Incinerate + LMP + Faster Casting/Echo. Add some Heralds a +1 fire wand and a Karui Ward and you are 70+ in no time. Go for all the HP regen nodes early if you wanna go RF as soon as you can equip Rise of The Phoenix.

Some clips from a Crematorium run - no RF + enfeeble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJluTdbn3GY

Key nodes:

HP regen nodes - so you can sustain RF. Get them early on if you want to start using RF at 65.

Barbarism - +1 max fire res which hels to sustain RF and the notable also gives HP and all res.

Unrelenting cluster + Versatility - with this we can get the mana cost of Incinerate down to 0. I have a mana cost of 1 atm but I use some -7 Elreon accesory.

How you spend offensive/defensive points is up to you. You could easily get 20~ish block chance with clusters already connected to the tree or 1 point away.

Passive tree at lvl 91. For a lower level just save some points at the scion life wheel or some damage nodes depending on your preferences.

http://poeurl.com/zyVl38m

Bandits:

Oak
Point (or Alira - cast speed)
Oak (or point but I like the extra phys reduction and longer IC)

Incinerate with LMP: 36k+ tooltip


With Slower Projectiles: 52.5k+ Tooltip

-10k armour (50% estimated phys mitigation)
-88% fire res
-75% cold res
-79% light res
-25% block chance + 3% from Tempest Shield when it's up
-Arctic Armour
-4 Endurance Charges

The only gem I'd suggest you get quality on is Incinerate. It really helps a lot with the increased range you get. others are mainly some extra damage here and some cast speed there. Sure they help but if you are planning on keeping it budget you can.

My Incinerate is 21/20. Other gems are/will be lvl 20 apart from that lvl 1 CWDT setup and Enlighten. If budget permits get some quality on those that the build benefits from.

Incinerate + Spell Echo + Faster Casting + LMP + Iron Will + Fire Penetration
-Not much to say, good deeps.

Arctic Armour + Purity of Lightning + Purity of Fire + lvl 3 Enlighten
-Since I'm happy with my damage I went with some defensive options. With lvl 4 Enlighten you can use Anger in stead of PoL.

CWDT (lvl 1) + Tempest Shield (lvl 7) + Warlords Mark (lvl 5)
-this makes our TS up almost all the time and we get leech and automatic End charges.

CWDT + Immortal Call + Molten Shell + Increased Duration -all max level
-Standard IC setup. (Can remove Molten Shell and use the gem slot for a utility skill, 4S3L if need be)

Shield Charge + Leap Slam + Faster Attacks + Fortify
-Mobility + Fortify. (Can go Lightning Warp if you want to get some gem slots for utility)

Righteous Fire
Damage.

Summon Flame Golem
Damage. You can take Chaos Golem if you'd like.

Enduring Cry
Endurance Charges. I've heard it also regens some HP.

The items used are pretty budget apart from my chest piece.



It lacks the elemental leech but with/for my stats it's much better then a Doryani's Catalyst. Also I can use Shield Charge and Leap Slam linked with Fortify. Which is why I don't use Lightning warp or a Wand.



Mandatory for RF unless you use a Mastercrafted shield. Will most likely play with that in the future to bump my STR to 1000 :)



So. Much. STR. @_@ Gives me almost 150.



Since I can't get leech on Doon I use this belt in stead. It's other stats are also really beneficial to my build, but you could get those on a Rare one as well so the potential life lost is a minor drawback.



Just focused on STR, Life, Resistances and where possible increased Armour. The gloves are also good for getting a nice DEX roll on them so you can spare a point on the tree.



Elreon's accessories in order to get our mana cost to 0 (in my case 1 but all my pieces are only -7, I'll either get a +8 piece or a jewel with reduced mana cost roll). 2 out of 3 are really good in my opinion, only the fire attack damage is wasted but I'm keeping it for now for the Chaos res roll. I bought the bases and crafted them for about 40-50c in total.

My collection is pretty average, no real jems among them ;)

Cast speed is king. Fire, proj, spell damage work with this. Life is always nice to get in the mix. Proj speed might be good depending on your play style. Maybe some stats if you can't get them on the gear/tree. Also a silence immunity corruption on 1 can be really good.

Taste of Hate for extra phys reduction with some bleed, shock and freeze removal/immunity on the others. One Life Flask is enough unless you run a map where you don't use RF. Then I use another in stead of a Ruby.

Depending on the situation I could swap some of them for a Quicksilver, Rumi's or Atziri's Promise.
I like the laid back play style so once I got used to Shield Charge I stopped using a quicksilver.

It's a good balance of damage vs survivability. The skill tree and skills are pretty flexible which allows for nice personalization. It has decent mobility and a fast clear speed and performs good against both mobs and bosses.

I've done 78s maps solo and I barely had to use flasks. Everything ends in no time.
Some 80 maps in parties, no problems surviving. Clear was slower due to increased monster life per party member.

I prefer to invest currency in new characters/build in stead of maps hence my low map pool. 4 chisels, an alc and a few chaos is fine with me to use on a map but with that and the limited time I spent in 77/78 I didn't get higher. Something to improve in the next league :)

Atziri is a no brainer at this stage.

Since I'm done with all the build I had planned for the league, I'll most likely be able to farm up a Mortal set or two, and kill Uber. Have never even as much as attempted her but from watching videos the build should be more then enough for her, it's more a question if I won't mess it up ;p

You only have to ditch Taste of Hate and the 6L. Depending on your total STR and mana situation you either leave out Faster Casting or Iron Will in your 5L and you can easily make a 20+k LMP DPS build for about 1-3 EX. You need quality only on Incinerate as stated before.