[3.13] Fast Ignite Armageddon Brand [+Flame Wall] Trickster

Greetings Exile!

Do you like to watch the world burn?

Yes, I thought so.

This build is what my leaguestarter in Heist evolved into. And at the time I started making this guide, all required items can be considered as fairly low budget.

Some of my descisions in the passive tree result from converting an Avatar of Fire Divine Ire Trickster to the current state. So this definitely has some backstory.

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I just stared this game and I am loving this build thus far...thank you!

I'm going to be honest, I don't understand brands very well. I have a grasp on Flame Wall, but can you explain two things to me? You go trickster but don't abuse acro/phase acro, and don't take any brand passives. Just curious.

Sorry for the late reply, I am currently again sick. Therefore the video is also delayed.

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pyrojackelope wrote:

I'm going to be honest, I don't understand brands very well. I have a grasp on Flame Wall, but can you explain two things to me? You go trickster but don't abuse acro/phase acro, and don't take any brand passives. Just curious.

Okay, the main reason for trickster is the insane damage over time scaling of the ascendancy. Even without Acro/Phase Acro the defense is solid and there is access to block.

For the reasoning with the Brands:

Without anything skilled in the passive tree, you can have 3 brands (Wintertide is an exception) and 1 brand attached per enemy.
This Build utilizes Armageddon Brand, which lets come down a meteor every time it triggers. (Usually multiple per second)

Naturally one could ick brand passives and even attach a second brand to the enemy, but this is not needed, as we scale with ignite.

Ignite deals a percentage of the hit that applied it as damage over time effect with default 5 seconds. Usually only the highest ignite stack does damage, the other ones are inactive. (Exceptions are existing, but irrelevant for this build)

You can scale ignite to deal it's damage faster. So overall the ignite would do the same damage, but in a shorter timeframe.

The replica Emberwake makes ignites a lot faster, therefore lasting shorter.
This makes a faster spell viable for ignite.
Armageddon Brand fits extremely well into this, because one Brand is still enough to get 100% ignite uptime, but with the fast ignites, we overwrite it a lot less.

For bosses it gives you huge mobility, because in theory, you have only to apply the brand, but even if you could attach a second brand, it would not help a lot, as you maximize already the ignite.

Flame Wall and the exposure from Wave of Conviction are nice boni to it.


In theory, you can still include brand passives that increase damage, but you have to pull out the points somewhere. This becomes a balancing act between Flame Wall and Armageddon Brand.
I believe, it is now personal preference, should you opt to do so. I went in the beginning for the balanced approach.


I hope this has clarified some things.
If not, don't hesitate to ask.

You cleared up everything I was curious on basically. Only reason I was curious on acro/phase acro was due to how strong it is, but you basically get that from block (I see that now that I had another look at your tree.) Honestly I like this idea more than some of the other flame wall builds I've seen so I will be giving this a serious go. Thanks a lot. The only beef I have with builds like this, and it's nothing against you personally though, is there is no midway tree. I've been playing a while so I can guess but it's still great.

Just respecced a lvl 57 Sab that I had abandoned over to this build and loving it so far.

Only on a 5 link version of the staff and a 4 link version of the Carcass Jack but a lot of fun to play.

Thank you!