[2.3] Vanilla's Juggernaut Burning Prolif Discharge Build (10 End Charges)

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noremac13 wrote:

You want to gear towards as much of the more broad stats as possible and focus little on the niche stats.

In order of importance you want:
1. Gem levels: Absolute most important thing as base damage of spells tends to exponentially improve beyond gem level 20. In a Searing Touch a 21 gem becomes 23 which is 356 average base damage per charge. In Realm Ender it is 421 average which is a 18% multiplicative base damage increase. Not factoring in the buffs from the higher level support gems as well.

2. "Damage" Modifiers: This is the most broad form of damage you can get but also the hardest to come by. You mainly get it from rare jewels but you can also find it on uniques such as Doon Cuebiyari. This will double dip with ignite but also benefits any non-elemental damage you deal if you happen to convert some to chaos or if you decide to do physical damage spells for single target like Bladefall or EK.

3. Elemental Damage and Area Damage: Slightly more niche stats but these can be interchangeable depending on your preference. For example if you want to use something like BladeFall for single target getting Area damage is more priority since elemental damage won't modify the Bladefall. If you want to use something like Flame Totem getting Elemental damage is more important since Flame Totem isn't an AoE.

4. Fire Damage: The most niche stat that still double dips with ignite but since ignite builds do mostly fire damage you won't likely be losing much by stacking it. However with Realm Ender using Cold to Fire mechanics you do want to take advantage of adding cold damage your spells which Fire Damage will not scale unless you fully convert all the cold to fire damage.

5. Burning Damage and Damage over Time Modifiers: These stats can be good but since they only modify the DoT and not the initial hit it is really weak in situations where you don't ignite or monsters are resistant to status ailments. Burning damage gives you less overall DPS compared to Spell Damage but with the added utility of not being reflected so you can do less initial damage to be safer against reflect mobs while scaling your damage over time instead.

999. Spell Damage: Absolute taint with ignite builds. Increasing your up-front damage while not increasing your burn just means you are more likely to kill yourself on reflect while not even benefiting your ignite that much for the increased risk. Makes Iron Will a really weak link and you are almost better off linking Culling Strike.