3.9|Stress-Free PoE- ENDURING FIRE (RF) |SSF the Atlas w/ 1Button & Any Gear|Dungeon Crawl PoE!

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As you go through the game you'll come across Trials of Ascendancy. Starting in Act 3 you'll see their value. Once you have completed all 6 of the first set of trails, you'll get to attempt your first Labyrinth (lab). Good luck! Upon completion Choose Chieftain. You get two ascendancy points per lab. There are four labs for a total of 8 points. (Redoing the same lab will not reward you with more ascendancy points if you've already completed it.)

You can spend your points in any order you like. This is my personal order:
- 1st Two Points - Tasalio, Cleansing Water. A busy node. You get life regen. You get lots more life regen if you've been hit by physical or fire damage from an enemy (not your RF). You can get ignited, but the ignite damage won't harm you (it does not affect how RF burns you). You gain 100% to your fire resist. (This is additive. You'll need 135% minimum for end game and Purity of Fire will take care of the rest :).) (This node is essential for running RF as early as possible without needing any items.)
- 2nd Two Points - Tawhoa, Forest's Strength. It gives a good chance to get an Endurance Charge whenever we use a Fire Skill, which cast automatically. It also gives us bonus damage per Endurance Charge.
- 3rd Two Points - Valako, Storm's Embrace. Gives bonus life regen per Endurance Charge and increases our Maximum Endurance Charge limit by 1.
- 4th Two Points - Ramako, Sun's Light. Damage. The only part of this node that matters is the multiplier to Fire Damage Over Time. But it's A LOT of damage.

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Pacemaker007 wrote:

I understand the 35% chance of the ascendency. However, OP doesn't use any fire skill. RF doesn't activate it. So do we only get charges for being hit?

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deviantek wrote:

I'm level 66 at the moment and following this build, with all gems and levels per listed levels.

I'm really not enjoying this build and hoping to hell it gets better... I've never played a build that's such a pain in the ass of maintaining adequate life regen, and yet doing so little damage.

Anyone else having similar problems? My gear is quite good for level 66, but I'm sure I'll see some improvement with 70+ level gear.


I just feel that there are similarly cheap builds that sustain much better damage and survive-ability, with much less effort (and are more fun to play).


Thoughts?

Its your gear tbh, specifically your resistance max levels, you want a max fire resist of 85 to 86%, with that you can literally just afk during a delve encounter and come back to collect your loot.

You just need to grab a max level Purity of Fire, keep in mind the lv21/23% quality ones are also affordable, like 1ex or below and secondly you need 1 of 2 shields;
Saffels Frame or Rise of the Phoenix, RoTP has 1% more max fire resist BUT Saffels gives 4% to all 3 max resists which is massive.

Now I could be wrong but after looking at your gear a second time I dont think your EE is working b/c your shield is converting a % of physical damage to fire damage which in essence is like having an "fire X damage added to attacks" line, but that will go away when you switch to 1 of the 2 shields I laid out for you.

Now damage wise, on bosses and metamorph bosses I have very good gear, all the skill nodes, annointments etc and even my damage is "meh" but I stay safe with 8.4k life, 85% fire resist / 80% cold/lightning resist, 40% chaos resist, immune to poison etc.

The draw to the build is just a comfy dungeon crawler for people with carpal tunnel, old man fingers, disabilities or just lazy people. If you want a 2.5 million shaper dps build ya this isnt the one for you.

You honestly though arent even scratching the surface yet with what you have going on, if you get a moment glance at my character's equipment, passive tree, jewels etc. I do a few things differntly then OP just based on what works for me but I follow 98% of what he lays out.