"This build is meant to be able to do all content while also leveling and not abusing broken mechanics. "
You mean like, legacy gear? In standard? Cuz ya. Opened up your PoB, laughed and closed it.
This build guide was made 6 months ago when all this gear was not legacy, as was the written description. Also, as the thread says this is made in standard where even legacy ES gear is cheap now, since the downfall of CI and everyone playing life.
Also, here's some in-league reviews using no legacy gear:
As someone who has been playing since closed beta, this build is by far the most fun build I've had in PoE since 2012. I've been playing LL Guardian RF/SR for the past 2 leagues, and I keep getting amazed at how well tinkered and balanced it is. This build takes some best things from several different sides and combines them to make one smooth running machine.
So what's it all about?
You're a tank plowing through everything. You feel powerful. You can take nearly everything in the game face on without worrying too much. You have an active play style, Righteous Fire is good to kill small stuff by just running past them and giving them a disappointing look at how weak they are. When something appears worth your attention, you unleash your fire-laser at it and it will literally melt. Something inferior tries to hit you...at least you think. Your energy shield doesn't budge an inch. You're almost a god, exile.
Ahfack's LLRF Guardian takes a far underestimated ascendancy who has amazing defensive capabilities. One could argue that it's pretty much the best choice for low life. Then we take Righteous fire, and scorching ray who both work extremely well with low life, and coupled with a high life or ES pool which the guardian can provide. Chuck in gear that somehow seems to be perfect for this setup such as shav's (obviously), presence of chayula & death's door. With some standard ES gear to top it off and some flasks such as the sorrow and divine, witchfire and rumi's we're running around with an easy 10k ES. With the 3 purities our resists are 82, 81, 82. Rumi's active over 12k armor. With witchfire there's even 20%+ evasion. What more do you want from your defences?
Offensive we got RF taking take of the small white mobs. Even a magic pack will generally disintegrate. Rare mobs easily fall with a couple of seconds of scorching ray. But then the bosses and tankier mobs. Drop a orb of storm to proc EE, get the stacks of scorching ray. All of the sudden they have -74% fire resistence. You will start to see the hp of your foes go down faster and faster while outregen nearly everything they throw at you. and I'm going to say, it feels damn good.
Tho I have to admit, this gear is about min-maxing. which makes it even more fun then most other builds. The first treshhold you need to reach is tot sustain RF. Generally with purity of fire, vitality and a rise of the phoenix. Once you've done that you're ready to roll. From that point you start acquiring upgrades which make you stronger every time. Get a shav's, go lowlife. Spike in damage / defences. Get a Death's door, stop caring about bleeds. Get a presence of chayula, laugh at your ridiculous ES and ability to tank everything. You are now a tank. Keep rolling onward.
My gear in the Harbinger league after about 2 weeks:
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For anyone who ever ran a RF or scorching ray build and enjoyed it: I would wholeheartedly recommand you check out this build and try it.
Harbinger League: Starting to Farm Hall of Grandmasters
So i managed to full clear hall of grandmasters with this build at 11k ES. Was easy for the most part excluding a few high phys dmg characters that could 1 shot me if i positioned badly. With more ES and dmg it should be a fairly efficient farm.
Harbinger League: Halls of Grandmasters first try! First time ever! And on a 5L!
Finally mustered up my courage to attempt the Shaper, for the first time ever...
And with succes :)
First kill with 2 deaths, gloves dropped
Second kill with 1 death, boots dropped.
Not bad at all considering I've never done him before! I feel a little bit proud now <3
Thanks Afhack for all the support!
Onward to more shaper kills & uber atzi is next!
Harbinger League: First shaper in three leagues! Nice Uber Farm
Killed my first Shaper! Not deathless; all due to either error or not being quick enough on the mechanics. Did it with mediocre gear, level 88 and with level 19 gems with barely any quality. A couple of levels, level 20 gems and I reckon I could do it deathless.
Cheers AhFack :D
Awesome!! Great work and congrats! :)
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€"...Grants a buff providing fire damage based on your physical damage."
from the wiki
"More burning damage" is a local bonus and only applies to Herald of Ash's own burning damage, so it's absolutely useless for this build, but 0,75% icreased fire damage per 1% quality of the gem is global bonus and affects all our damage :P
Last edited by Windgaming on Sep 26, 2017, 8:08:28 AM
Hi,
which skill is useable for leveling? Did not play templar so far ;)
I wear tabula rasa, playing SC and currently using magma orb linked to faster casting, elemental focus, controlled destruction and iron will.
Dmg is so far okay in act 3 ( makes more dmg then scorching ray at this point ), but i wonder if there are better options ( especially since mana drain from magma orb is quite high also i already specced into the "lower mana" nodes in passive skill tree.
Anyone able to help me out? I got a bunch of low level uniques to start leveling & made the mistake of not keeping an eye out for rare upgrades. Now, in act 6 at level 47, I have 1% fire res, -7% cold res, 48% light res, 71 armor & only 1261 HP. I am literally getting destroyed by everything & it's incredibly frustrating. Do I basically have to go spend a bunch of C on rare gear now to get myself where I need to, so that I can continue? If so, can you guys recommend some stats on stuff? I was having so much fun & now I've hit a brick wall. I can't even sustain RF either, it instantly drains me to 0 with PoF oin
Last edited by Tanaomit on Sep 26, 2017, 12:09:17 PM
I used scorching ray on a 4l, using blasphemy vulnerability
i tried that - while vuln active my scorching ray ( mines, act 4 ) does way too low damage,
i get ripped while channeling scorching by groups / rare enemies, i am level 31 now, sc is level 5.
using scorching ray - elemental focus - controlled destruction - iron will
( i do not use rf now because at this point i´d have no idea how to sustain )
i wonder how this worked for you on hardcore? i think i have to go on with magma orb o.O
I used scorching ray on a 4l, using blasphemy vulnerability
i tried that - while vuln active my scorching ray ( mines, act 4 ) does way too low damage,
i get ripped while channeling scorching by groups / rare enemies, i am level 31 now, sc is level 5.
using scorching ray - elemental focus - controlled destruction - iron will
( i do not use rf now because at this point i´d have no idea how to sustain )
i wonder how this worked for you on hardcore? i think i have to go on with magma orb o.O
You may try using SR + CWC + Firestorm + CD (or EF, CE). That worked well for me while i was lvling (until i was able to sustain RF, 70+ lvl).
