3.11 -- Righteous Fire Juggernaut / Chieftain (Outdated and Abandoned)

It's a tanky build. With decent gear, people generally end up with around 8k life, couple k regen, 79+ max res, and 8-10 end charges.

Mobility is about average. Guardian maps, for example, take about 2.5-3 min.

Single target damage is about average as well. With a regular build the range is 1-4m shaper dps. Depending on ascendancy, setup, level, and budget.

It performs quite well even on a small budget (a few ex). You'll still be able to do most, if not all, endgame encounters, but skill will play a bigger role. A decked out character will make endgame stuff relatively trivial. The only negative thing is that, even with great gear, stuff won't instantly melt like it does with meta builds.

Leveling can be a hassle. Unless you have specific uniques to deal with degeneration, you'd have to level with other skills. Can't run no regen maps. Reduced regen and max res mods are dangerous.

I think the following quote describes rf builds perfectly:

"

jaeds wrote:

I got into RF as a "content-tourist" build. I don't see this as a perfect boss killer build or fast mapping build (maybe a stress free mapping build). It's a "you, yes even you who usually die playing other things & are starting out not knowing boss or monster mechanics, can still get through all this content while being able to alt tab and not worry about a stray monster pack." -- it's been an interesting journey seeing how much depth there can be in this build once you understand all the basics

Righteous Fire is your main damage dealer. Turn it on when you enter a map, and then Shield Charge into packs, burning them to ash. If you choose to dual-wield or use a two-hander for more damage, you will be running around instead, and maybe using leap slam to get over obstacles. Some people also use a cast while channelling or curse on hit Cyclone setup.

Summon Storm Brand when fighting bosses, it will trigger EE and EO automatically for you, giving you a massive damage boost. Then channel Scorching Ray, while the enemy is standing in your Righteous Fire. It will reduce its fire resistance, and deal some extra damage.

Vaal Righteous Fire can be used to boost your damage even further. Once activated, it will work alongside your regular RF, burning everything around you for a few seconds. It deals about three times as much damage as the regular RF. I would generally recommend saving it for bosses, or tough map encounters, since that's when it's most useful.

1. You don't need to overcap your resists to deal with Elemental Weakness. Nine endurance charges will give you an extra 36% resistance. A flask with “Immunity to Curses” mod can be used to protect yourself until you get your charges up.

2. Make sure that none of your attack skills (Shield Charge, Cyclone, Storm Brand) deal fire damage.

3. Penetration and Leech don't work with RF and SR since they don't hit.

4. % increased damage sources that affect Righteous Fire are: Damage, Fire Damage, Burning Damage, Damage over Time, Area Damage, and Elemental Damage. Even though RF is a spell, % Spell Damage has no effect on it. Everything mentioned, except for % Area Damage, affects Scorching Ray.

Budget:
Arsonist -- 6% fire dot multi, 24% fire damage, 1% regen
Disciple of the Unyielding -- 8% inc damage per end charge, 8% chance to get end charge on kill


Endgame:

Growth and Decay -- 20% dot, 10% dot multi, 1% regen
Soul of Steel -- +1 to max res, armour
Whispers of Doom -- can apply an additional curse
Crystal Skin -- +1 max res, res
No Witnesses -- elusive buff on kill

use "Fertile" catalysts on amulet, rings, and belt

Large Jewels:

You want jewels with 8 passive skills. With more than 8 you'd have to spend extra points on minor nodes.

There are a few options here:

1. Burning Bright + Prismatic Heart (30% inc ele, 10% allres) + Widespread Destruction

in this combo, BB and PH spawn at the bottom (take), and WD at the top (skip)



2. Burning Bright + Widespread Destruction (20% inc ele, 10% aoe) + Cremator/Master of Fire/Smoking Remains

in this combo, BB and WD spawn at the bottom (take), and C/MoF/SR at the top (skip)



3. budget options

If you are on a smaller budget, get one with Burning Bright plus one of the following mods (doesn't matter which, it will spawn at the top and generally won't be worth taking): Master of Fire, Widespread Destruction, Prismatic Heart, Doryani's Lesson, Disorienting Display, Sadist, Corrosive Elements, Cremator, Prismatic Heart, Smoking Remains, Vengeful Commander.



4. overlord

You can also use one large jewel with "Overlord" mod. It gives you fortify effect. It's an option if you can't get it as a gem, or mod on boots.

you want 2 jewel sockets, and overlord to be on one of the bottom nodes. some mod combinations will spawn it at the top so you need to be careful what you buy

2 modded (GOOD) - overlord+deepcuts/viscious skewing -- overlord is at the bottom
all other 2 modded combinations (BAD) -- overlord is at the top

3 modded (BAD) - overlord+deepcuts/viscious skewing + any 3rd mod -- overlord is at the top
all other 3 modded combinations (GOOD) -- overlord is at the bottom




Medium Jewels:

You want jewels with 4-5 passive skills. With 6 you'd have to spend an extra point on a minor node.

Best Mods:

Burning Bright (damage, aoe)
Flow of Life (life, regen, inc damage)

Other:

Exposure Therapy (10% dot multi, 30% dot chaos res)
Brush with Death (10% dot multi)
Cooked Alive (ignited enemies have -10res, 15% chance to ignite) -- great if using wave of conviction with combustion



Megalomaniac:

Good ones are hard to find because they generally need to have three good mods to be worth using.

Good mods are:
Prismatic Carapace/Dance (+1 max res)
Overlord (fortify buff)
No Witnesses (elusive buff)
Enduring Composure (end charge gen for chieftains)
Wish for Death (cull vs cursed mobs)
Molten One's Mark (+2 max fire res, 1% regen)
Burning Bright(8 dot multi, inc damage, aoe)
Flow of Life(life, regen, inc damage)
Fettle(life, %life)
Brush with Death (10 dot multi)
Exposure Therapy (10 dot multi, 30 chaos dot res)
Pure Might (30% reduced purity of fire mana reservation)
Prismatic Heart(inc damage, allres)
Wrapped in Flame (inc damage, chill immunity, chance to proc ash on hit)
Insulated (+1 max light res, light res)
Antifreeze (+1 max cold res, cold res)
Antivenom (+1 max chaos res, chaos res)
Winter Prowler (+2 max cold res, 6% ms)
Wizardry (+2 max light res)
Born of Chaos (+3 max chaos res)
Rot-Resistant (%regen, chaos res)
Student of Decay (chaos res, inc dot)
Towering Threat (%life, aoe)
Wall of Muscle (%life, %str)
Surging Vitality (%life, regen)
blessed (%life, chaos res)
Holistic Health (%life)
Militarism (%life, armour)
Natural Vigour (%life)
Sublime Sensation (%life)


Small Jewels:

I recommend going with regular 3-4 modded rare jewels, but small cluster jewels are also an option.

Prismatic Carapace/Dance (+1 max res)
Molten One's Mark (+2 max fire res, 1 regen)



If playing Chieftain, you can get one with Enduring Composure to help you generate endurance charges.

Look for a rare sceptre/wand with the following mods:

Implicits:
Elemental Damage (10-40)% sceptre only


Prefixes:

Fire Damage over Time Multiplier +(14-38)% rolled || +(14-20)% crafted

Can only have one of the following mods:
Fire Damage (10-109)% rolled || (25-54)% crafted || ((36-60)% + (7-11)% ignite chance) crafted
or
Burning Damage (60-94)% rolls on Warlord bases
or
Elemental Damage (45-60)% rolls on Shaped bases, comes with level 16-20 ele focus

Damage over Time (11-30)% (can only be crafted)
+ 1 to level of all Fire Spell Skill Gems (rolled)
+ 1 to level of all Spell Skill Gems (rolled)


Suffixes:

Damage over Time Multiplier +(16–18)% rolled

Damage per Endurance Charge (8-10)% rolls on Warlord bases, sceptre only
or
Damage per Endurance Charge (3-4)% (crafted)

Malevolence has (28–40)% increased Aura Effect rolls on Hunter bases

Burning Damage (16-30)% (can only be rolled)
Fire Damage (3-30)% rolled || (9-16)% crafted

gems as affixes: faster attacks, inc crit


Fire Damage over Time Multiplier is the biggest hitter. You generally want a high natural roll, but it can also be crafted on if the other mods are really good.



Sceptres with good mods are hard to find sometime, so it might be worthwhile to look for wands instead.



With enough regen and recovery on gear, you can drop the shield and dual-wield one handers or use a two-handed staff for more damage.


The Searing Touch is the unique option for a staff.




Example of a rare one:

Shield:

regular, legacy

This is the recommended shield. The way it differs from Rise of the Phoenix is that it gives you max all res instead of only max fire res. This gives you a much better overall survivability.


Ideally, you want at least one of the following corruptions on your shield:

+2 to Level of Socketed Aura Gems (gives +1 max fire res when combined with lv 21 Purity of Fire)
(4–6)% increased maximum Life
(6–8)% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage


Legacy:


Synthesis league brought in some shields with max res implicits. You should still be able to buy them in Standard. Int shields can roll up to 79% fire damage, and a global +1 to fire gems.

regular, legacy

Kaom's Heart is the best choice. Nothing really comes close. It will give you a huge survivability boost, and some damage. It's the first big piece you should be going for.

Ideally, you want at least one of the following corruptions on it:

(40–50)% increased Damage
+1% to all maximum Resistances
(4–6)% increased maximum Life
You take 50% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes


Tabula Rasa or a high life rare chest are decent starter armors. I’d recommend six linking RF in Tabula or a 6-linked rare chest, if you don’t yet have an elder helmet with BD, or BD+Conc.

Budget:

Regular Leather belt with high life and decent resists is a good starter.


Midrange/Highend:

I highly recommend upgrading to an elder belt with % recovery mod on it as soon as you can. It acts as a regeneration multiplier. All that's really needed is recovery and decent life, other stuff is worth sacrificing.

The best way to craft one is to use Pristine fossils. It will greatly increase the odds of rolling life, %life, and %recovery mods. Single influenced base needs to be elder.



You can make double influenced Stygian belts using an Awakener's Orb. The best influences to combine are Elder/Hunter + Warlord. Those combinations will give you access to %recovery, %life, %fire damage, %damage. Ilv 85+ recommended. Best mods to combine are %life and %recovery.



If looking for a double influenced base to spam fossils on, then Elder+Warlord is better because it makes it easier to hit %recovery.


Other:

The following belt can be used to quickly recharge your endurance charges if needed. Like if you drop em before a boss fight, for example. You put it on and use a movement skill, which will make you take physical damage (belt mod), and that will trigger Juggernaut's endurance charge generation mechanic.



If you are playing Chieftain, you'd need the following mod to exploit this trick. You can get it on a unique Precursor's Emblem ring.

"Gain an Endurance Charge every second if you've been Hit Recently"



Notable craftable mod:

(1-2)% of Life Regenerated per second during any Flask Effect

Boots are a good place to stock up on resists. Look for high life, resists, and movement speed. And possibly dex, if needed.




Ideally you want a pair with an endurance charge mod.

WARLORD (prefix) +1 to Maximum Endurance Charges
WARLORD (suffix) 1% of Life Regenerated per second




If you don't have space for Fortify gem, you can get it as an affix.




Recommended Enchantment:

Uber Lab Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you were Hit Recently

Starter:

Pyre is the recommended starter ring. They are cheap and give a ton of burning damage, which is very helpful early game. Just make sure that you don't have any additional cold damage on your gear, since it turns it into fire damage, which will mess up your EE.



Regular rare rings are also an option. Look for high life, resists, fire/elemental damage, and attributes if needed.


Core (Highly Recommended):

Kaom's Way rings are really OP with Jugg ascendancy. They give a ton of regen with nine endurance charges. It will take your survivability to a whole new level. They are very important for farming endgame comfortably. Just make sure to grab all extra endurance charge nodes on the tree.




Other:

This ring base is from Synthesis league. It's legacy now and can only be found in Standard.




Precursor's Emblem ring can potentially roll better than kaom's way, but good rolls are extremely rare.

They can roll the following useful mods:
0.3% regen per end charge
+1 end charge
5% inc damage per end charge
10% chance to get end charge on kill
10% chance to get frenzy charge on kill
15% chance that if you would gain Endurance Charges, you instead gain up to your maximum number of Endurance Charges

Gain an Endurance Charge every second if you've been Hit Recently - this mod is extremely useful if you decide to go with Chieftain ascendancy

What's also interesting about this ring is that it can roll the same mod more than once, doubling its effect.

Starter:

Bloodgrip and Shaper's Seed are decent starter amulets.




Budget:

Marble amulet with life and %fire damage and/or resists is a solid choice. If there is an open suffix you can also craft on 1% regen.

You can craft something usable with scorching fossils or essence of anger.


Endgame:

Hunter and Warlord influenced amulets can roll powerful damage and utility modifiers.

Warlord:

+1 to Level of all Fire Skill Gems
(5–6)% increased Damage per Endurance Charge
Purity of Fire has (25–30)% reduced Mana Reservation

Hunter:

+1 to Level of all Intelligence Skill Gems
+(13–16)% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier (also on Shaped amulets)
Regenerate (1.6–2)% of Life per second
Malevolence has (25–30)% reduced Mana Reservation




How to craft double influenced amulets:



Other:

If you feel like you have enough regen, you can go with Xoph's Heart amulet. It covers enemies that hit you in Ash, increasing the damage they take by 20%. It's basically a straight up 20% more damage multiplier, unless you have more of it elsewhere. Just make sure to use Xoph's Heart and not Xoph's Blood. Blood version comes with Avatar of Fire, which will mess up your EE.




Aul's Uprising is another good option. It reduces the cost of an aura of your choice to 0, allowing you to run more auras.

Another good place to stock up on resists. Look for high life, resists, and dex if needed.




Midrange/Highend:

Elder bases can roll some unique affixes. If using Shield Charge, i recommend getting something with Faster Attacks. It'll open up a socket and reduce your dexterity requirements. "Frenzy charges on kill" is also quite nice.




Shaped & Hunter bases are a good option if you are looking for more damage instead of utility, they can can roll Fire Damage over Time Multiplier.




If you want to maximize your mobility, and have a lot of currency to burn, i recommend essence crafted elder gloves. Insanity mod acts as an attack speed multiplier.



You can craft one yourself by using an essence of Insanity on an elder base. A high armour, ilv 84+ base is recommended. Elder Titan Gauntlets are the best option.




Enchantment:

Trigger Word/Edict/Decree/Commandment of Light when you take a Critical Strike - creates Consecrated Ground (6% life regen)

Budget:

I highly recommend upgrading to an Elder helmet as soon as you can. They can roll skill gems as affixes, essentially adding extra links to your Righteous Fire setup. Get one with Burning Damage, or Burning Damage and Concentrated Effect.



Look for one that has a natural life roll and an open prefix for:

+1 to AoE gems +(8-10)% aoe


Midrange/Highend:

Ultimately, you want to upgrade to an essence crafted helmet. Horror mod will give you 30% more damage.

Horror + Conc (cheapest)
Horror + Burn
Horror + Burn + Conc/Inc AoE (expensive)
Horror + Burn + Conc + Inc AoE (mirror tier)





You can craft one yourself by using an essence of Horror on an elder armour base. If you also want a chance at inc aoe, then get a double influenced base (elder + shaper). Bone Helmet base is also an option if you are using Spiritual Aid (increases and reductions to minion damage also affect you) passive. Ilv 82+ recommended.





Enchantment:

40% increased Righteous Fire Damage
24% increased Righteous Fire Area of Effect
Malevolence has 10/15% reduced Mana Reservation
Purity of Fire/ice/Lightning has 14/20% reduced Mana Reservation
Summon Skitterbots has 14/20% reduced Mana Reservation

Recommended Setup:
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can be dropped if you'd rather cast curses with gems

one of those


fill up the rest with some of these



Clearspeed:




Survivability:




Legacy Flasks:



For Divination Distillate to work you need to grab Mind over Matter passive node. RF's degen will keep your mana at 0, keeping all flask mods active for the full duration of the flask. Since you won't have any usable mana, your active skills that use mana would need to be linked with Blood Magic.


Shaper and Elder:




Flask mods to look for:

3% of Life Regenerated per second during Flask Effect - has to be unveiled and then bench crafted onto a flask

Chemist's - (20-25)% reduced charges used
of Staunching - immunity to Bleeding
of Warding - immune to Curses (Vulnerability, Flammability and Elemental Weakness makes you take more RF damage)
of Adrenaline - (20-30)% increased Movement Speed during Flask effect
of Grounding - immunity to Shock (Shock makes you take more RF damage)


Chemist's mod data:

20 charge flask (sulphur/quicksilver):

(21-25)% = 15 charges

30 charge flask (ruby):

(20)% = 24 charges
(21-23)% = 23 charges
(24-25)% = 22 charges

40 charge flask (basalt/silver):

(20)% = 32 charges
(21-22)% = 31 charges
(23-25)% = 30 charges

I highly recommend getting a Watcher's Eye jewel with %recovery.



Recovery acts as a regeneration multiplier. So, for example, with 20% recovery, 1,000 regeneration will grow to 1,200.

The best mods are:

(20-30)% increased Life Recovery Rate while affected by Vitality

(15-20)% increased Recovery rate of Life and Energy Shield while affected by Malevolence

+(18-22)% to Damage over Time Multiplier while affected by Malevolence

I would recommending getting malevolence recovery one as a starter. They are usually quite cheap and allow you to skip vitality aura. An endgame watchers would be any combination of the above three. I tend to go with double malevolence ones.

There are a couple other decent mods that you can get in combination with the above:

Unaffected by Bleeding while affected by Malevolence - makes you immune to regular and corrupting blood bleed

(100-140) Life Regenerated per Second while affected by Vitality

(6-10)% of Physical Damage taken as Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage while affected by Purity of Fire/Ice/Lightning

Immune to Shock while affected by Purity of Lightning -- great if running 3x purity setup

Look for the following affixes. You can't have more than two from each category on a jewel:


Prefixes:

(5-7)% Life
(14-16)% Fire Damage


Suffixes:

+(3-4)% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier
(8-10)% Damage
(10-12)% Area Damage
(10-12)% Damage over Time
(16-20)% Burning Damage
(12-15)% Single Res
(10-12)% Hybrid Res
(8-10)% All Res
(12-16) Dex/Int
(8-10) Dex + Int
(3-5)% chance to Ignite


Corrupted Implicit:

Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you


Budget:





Midrange:





Highend:




Might of the Meek can be used in the jewel socket south of Constitution.



It gives:

10% life
0.4% regen
8 life
25 strength
5 dex
5 int
20% armour

Look for the following affixes. You can't have more than two from each category on a jewel:


Prefexes:

+(21-40) to maximum life
(10-14)% increased damage over time while holding a shield/dual wielding/wielding a two handed weapon
adds # to # cold/lightning damage to mace attacks


Suffixes:

(8-10)% to all elemental resistances
(0.5-1)% of life regenerated per second while moving
(3-6)% chance to blind enemies on hit with attacks
(3-8)% chance to gain onslaught for 4 seconds on kill
adds # to # cold/lightning damage to attacks
(12-15)% to single elemental resistance
(7-13)% to chaos resistance
(10-12)% to double elemental resistances
+(12-16) to dexterity/intelligence
+(8-10) to dexterity + intelligence
(15-20)% increased damage if you've killed recently[/b]


Corrupted Implicit:

Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you


Examples:

use the community version of PoB: https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/releases

- some of the stuff won't load properly otherwise
- it's a more up to date version of PoB

- i added a bunch of stuff to "notes" section to explain a few things, so it might be worth a read


Juggernaut (weapon and shield): https://pastebin.com/4HLkXBK5

- more damage reduction (around 15% ele and phys reduction)
- great end charge generation mechanic
- more aoe or mobility(movement speed, and slow, stun, freeze immunity)
- 20% less damage
- half the regen


Chieftain (weapon and shield): https://pastebin.com/4w6WVyup


Either version can also be played with dual sceptres or a two-handed staff. You get more damage, but can't use Shield Charge, and will have less survivability.

Kill All.

Leveling:

Soul of Arakaali (Major God)
Soul of Abberath (Minor God)


Endgame:

Soul of Solaris (Major God) or Soul of Arakaali (Major God)

if you are stationary during boss fights - manually casting scorching ray
Soul of Tukohama (Minor God)

if you are mobile during boss fights - cycloning around bosses
Soul of Gruthkul (Minor God) or Soul of Abberath (Minor God)

if you need poison immunity
Soul of Shakari (Minor God)

or





or




Other:

Your fire resistance must always be capped. This is very important. More fire res means less degeneration.

Should be pretty easy if you know the mechanics. Can use a Sapphire flask for better survivability.

First two encounters are relatively easy. Bleed removal flask or immunity to corrupting blood corruption on a jewel is very important for the trio fight. The only other thing you need to worry about the the chicks rain skill. Change position immediately when you see her casting it.

The Atziri herself is very rippy. Success depends entirely on your skill. Knowing the mechanics is extremely important here, so maybe watch a guide or something first. Honestly, it doesn't matter how defensive you build, you'll still often rip if you make a mistake. She reflects curses back at you, so either disable them or use a flask with curse immunity mod.

Can't clear this with RF alone, need to use Scorching Ray as well. Linking SR with multiple support gems is recommended. Most of the waves are easy, for the rest you can keep your distance and blast em with SR for better survivability. It's a bit rippy. Unless you are careful and your gear is good, you can expect to die once or twice.

I haven't tried it after all of the 3.10 changes, so this info might be wrong.

On low budget, you might not deal enough damage to destroy portals quick enough to keep Shaper alive. There is a trick that can be used to deal with this issue: Frost Wall + Increased Duration. If you don't have open links, you can replace two Scorching Ray support gems, the colors will match (blue+red). Keep a couple walls up in front of Shaper and he'll be safe from all damage.

You can use Purity of Ice aura and a Sapphire flask for better survivability. Unstoppable ascendancy node is very useful. It'll keep you from getting slowed down and frozen. On decent budget and with some experience the fight is trivial.

Haven't tried it with the regular setup, but with pure commander one the fight was easy. With a little experience it's relatively easy to do deathless runs.

I would recommend a couple forbidden taste flasks, and a quicksilver flask, or two, (for running out of mazes and away from deathrays). If you are dual-wielding, a movement skill like leap slam is useful. There are slows in there, so jugg's Unstoppable node is also useful here. Try to also get immunity to corrupting blood corruption on a jewel. And if you have low chaos res, i would recommend avoiding ground effects.

It sucks past 60%. With a PC setup, 80 and 100% can be completed, but they take forever. 100% minotaur map took me 13 minutes... Offensive setups are quicker but are very rippy.