[2.1/hc/sc/uber]Righteous Surge, Hypertank/150k dps/95% Fire Res?!/ 7k+ life w/o kaoms/ dual curse.

+Fast clear speed
+Melts bosses and tanky targets
+very cheap, can be 95% selffound

-atleast 1 mandatory unique, but very cheap
-colouring items can be expencive, but not too bad
-Facetank everything, you have to be in close combat

There's two different aspects to the build, the trash clearing and the rares/boss bursting.

We use a curse on hit shock nova setup to aid our Righteous Fire and packs just melt no problem. Then bosses are burst down using a high mana cost flame surge. more later.

The build is stacked on layers of defence and offence. Our tree naturally provides us with very high life regen and maximum life. this allows us to sustain righteous fire, and heal over it, the large life pool increases our survivability and boosts how much damage righteous fire deals. Applied with an amount of armour/physical reduction, makes the build pretty much unkillable.

The offence applies a lot of 'more' multipliers in the way of skill mechanics and gems.

Our burst ability Flamesurge;

Though already an effective attack, '50% more damage to burning enemies'. Righteous Fire burns them, thats our first 50% multiplier.

Conc effect provides our second multiplier, of around 60%.
Controlled Destruction - our 3rd, ~45%
And finally shocked ground provides shock (who would have thought?) adding another 50% multiplier.

Pack clearing consists of running around using our curse on hit shock nova to apply warlords mark and flammability, righteous fire does the rest. This keeps our Endurance charges maxed out for a very long immortal call and powerful molten shell. Flammability of course reduces the fire resist.

The high mana cost of flame surge when bursting bosses can be an issue. I solve this by switich to stage two!
One shock nova to apply flammability.
Vaal Clarity+Inc duration gives me over 16 seconds of zero mana cost, allowing me to lay into bosses mercilessly.
Since I'm not shocknova spamming. To apply shocked ground I use a Vaal lightning trap, which by the time I reach the boss has 3 stacks, each lasting around 6 seconds.

Boss bursting


Curse on hit


Righteous Fire


Cast when damage taken


Auras and Utility

The only mandatory unique is of course The Rise of the Phoenix unique shield. This boosts our maximum fire resist, one of the layers that helps sustain righteous fire.



For a weapon, the best in slot is a


This is a huge DPS boost, and a very cheap item, there is no reason not to use it, but it is not required, just hugely suggested. If you go for this (you should.) getting high strength rolls on your gear is important. It will boost your dps significantly as well as provide you with even more Life to scale.

I am currently messing about theory crafting with a Consuming Dark to convert to chaos, and give us an extra +1% fire resist in the way of an empower+PoF with the +1 to fire gems Consuming Dark offers.

We are able to dual curse with the use of a

To be able to use this, obviously you have to sustain your overcapped resists with just one ring. Allowing you to use this. Another option is a +1 curse amulet. But that is usually a very expensive piece of gear, this ring is very cheap.

In talisman, youre of course able to get your hands on some pretty amazing implicit. I dropped my first talisman '50% lightning damage taken as fire' for my current one that gave me more life and more DPS. But lightning damage as fire is pretty big for our build, with 95% fire res most of the time, thats reducing the lightning damage you take *significantly*. Cold to fire is also an option but lightning damage tends to be what wrecks me the most. If you can find that unique t4 and get 100% lightning damage taken as fire. GG for you, why are you even reading this guide, youre rich.

The rest is very open to the best Rare gear you can find.
Cap your resistances, so 75% plus the 60% merciless penalty = 135% each.
Fire Resistance needs to be a lot higher. You want to be able to run Elemental weakness, so overcapping Fire resist to atleast 185%. (85% active + 60% penalty + 40% potential EleWeak)

As much life as you are able.
Armour.
Strength rolls- 50strength on most pieces is the best.
Movement Speed on your boots.

My current gear:


Obviously my gear is pretty trash. I use the cheapest 6link on the market at the time that had some life. The rest was bought for 1-10c a piece or selffound.

Flasks are pretty important to the build, covering a lot of the gaps Righteous fire gives us.
Instant flask of bleed removal + Instant flask of freeze removal, are the two main healing flasks I spam.

With a Ruby flask of Warding *constantly* active, we are curse-immune. As well as bumping our fire resist to 95%!! this has the added effect of healing us a significant amount over our righteous fire burn, as well as the fact this heal lasts the full duration of the flask, and does not end when you reach full health.

A granite flask of ironskin with a 90%+ roll bumps our physical damage reduction hugely.

And finally I use a Quicksilver, nothing special. This would be subb'd out for a taste of hate if i had the currency.

Playable with both Marauder and Templar. The Marauder is 1 point more efficient. Templar has an OP voice actor and faster leveling at the very start. It really doesn't matter which, I personally choice Templar.

Just a case of stacking Life regen, so when we hit level 65 and are able to use RotP shield, we can sustain Righteous fire straight away.

Pick up Jewel slots as and when you find good jewels to slot in. 7% life rolls, as well as spell damage, fire damage, and damage over time. All good stuffs.

I personally spec'd into endurance charges when i picked up my Merciless bandit reward.

Final tree
Level 90 / 113 points


The final 10 points from 90-100 would be the 2point jewel slots (the first near Celestial Judgement, the other next to Golem's blood). You can branch over to quick recovery and pick up the +30 strength along the way.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwUATwRDyFugp1V8Dmjy8B-vbKIAC2EEs8auwGY8LQxfxPY8BYNfg8wcpyftr6ef3-98tz5TpQYOGS4czpo7QYf-CtR82WErUO08gpv56PJF2L0J9lcNrY0NzdWm7DhodDrhNZLxrJZs85vPfv5U5CI62Npiplf-jykukc5oZRpsJy8BkRhWTeN8uLvtna426ZBVLdIaPgN1JKoaOF8_kSsWb8EEFCD2SFh342p5aO8OxFhfBKluUEc9_HfjwBpYYwHcbztko4TZYSFHfoTvvTbawaLqZU107S5TEuG-pwUt02967w==

Normal - Oak
Cruel - Skill point
Merciless - Endurance Charge

Colouring gear.
So this can be an annoyance, you dont want energy shield on your gear, as this messes the calculations for righteous fire, so getting int+str gear to help with your colouring isnt really an option.

Using an off-site Vorici chrom calculator will help you decide how best to colour your gear.

The only tip i can give generally speaking the the RRRR cwdt setup is easiest to apply on your 4link with the highest strength requirement. in my case, the helmet. I think youll find with your boots and gloves the best way to chrom them is with a 'always one blue socket' and will cost around 200chroms per piece.

I got wrecked by bad RNG and spent close to 1800 chromes trying to 4Blue my chestpiece.. but statistically, you won't be that bad!