[3.15] Fire Burst Elementalist - Use (almost) any skill (or none) in the game.

Use at your own risk. PoB went from 4.7M to 1.3M DPS. Cooldown is 50% slower as well. Will still function fine, just be slower/weaker. Relative to the rest of the game we will have to wait and see how it performs.

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Build Guide
End Game Wrap-up

- No 6L required until min-maxing endgame with dual curse.
- 4M+ ignite DPS easily reachable, 10M DPS gg gear (If we get real harvest back.)
- Can run all map mods if Bastion of Elements is selected.
- No chase items needed.
- 75/35 no glancing blows block.
- MASSIVE regen from CWDT setup, plus ~650 normal regen.
- 200% life from tree.
- Cheap to start, lots of currency sinks endgame to min/max
- Great for Ultimatums. Passive DPS as you walk, high block, tons of sustain

- Main damage skill has a cooldown. 1s standard, .79 if spec'd for CDR
- Can't run 90% aliment immunity map mods. (can, but sucks)
- Not a one shot boss build - its a DoT, big bosses take awhile but are safe fights. Just run laps, same as Ultimatums.
- Need Dex from gear/tree/jewels or run lower level gems. 126 with swift affliction, 79 otherwise. Level blood rage along with dex.

Weapon -


Helm -

Chest -

Gloves


Boots


Amulet


Rings

Belt


Flask

Cluster jewels -
1 Large w/ Burning Bright and any 1/2 others. (no cremator)
2 Medium with Blowback, and any other. (no cremator)
2 Small with Fettle or whichever life notable you can afford, Towering Threat is nice for the AoE on fireburst.
If you feel your life pool is good enough, 1 Rote Reinforcement small cluster is nice for block cap when flask are up and endurance charge generation.

Normal/Abyss Jewels
Dex, life, fire % or flat damage (try to get phase on kill on one.)
Best corruptions are cannot be hindered and immune to corrupted blood)

Watcher's Eye
Get a life gained on hit w/ vitality if you can afford it. Doubles our already ridiculous sustain.

Fireburst - Staff
(Awakened) Unbound Ailments - (Awakened) Swift Affliction, (Awakened) Burning damage, Ignite proliferation, (Awakened) Deadly Ailments, (Awakened) Added Chaos Damage.
*note - Elementalist turns all damage into ignite. Added chaos has the highest average and fireburst really scales flat damage well.

If struggling with Dex, drop swift affliction for Combustion.

** Alternate setup - Drop ignite proliferation once you get Abberath's hooves for Combustion. Both setups have pros and cons, see which one feels better for you. I found that as my DPS gets higher the non prolif version feels better. Small narrow maps non prolif really takes off, while large open maps prolif helps as mobs come in from all directions.

Auras - Helm
Malevolence - Anger - Enlighten , Vitality (level along with Mana, should be able to get 18-20)

Herald of Thunder - Socketed in Malachi's Artifice

For big bosses swap in Storm Brand for big bosses i.e guardians/shaper/sirus. And turn off Anger. Coupled with The Taming ring, our dps will be similar to having anger on.


This helps clear by hitting mobs away from us and adds a lot of flat damage.

Movement - Gloves
Flame Dash - Second Wind - Blood Rage - Phase Run

Sustain - Boots
Ball Lightning - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Slower Projectiles - Cast When Damage Taken
Level 1 on everything except slower proj, level it up with dex.

WoC/Curse - Chest
Wave of Conviction - Combustion - Hextouch - Flamability - Smite - Culling Strike

Smite generates an aura that adds flat lightning damage, which gets boosted by fireburst damage effectiveness then turned into burning damage by Shaper of Flames. Use when nothing else to do on bosses, once every 4 sec.

If you get a +1 curse chest or Awakened Hextouch, drop smite, add despair.

Elementalist - 1. Shaper of Flames 2. Shaper of Storms 3. Mastermind of Discord 4. Heart of Destruction

Major Pantheon - Soul of Arakaali - With at least the Queen unlocked, huge regen buff when it procs. If struggling with stuns, use bring king.

Protip* when in ultimatums you can force degen dmg with the green cloud, step in and out and proc Arakaali to boost our passive regen.

Minor Pantheon - whichever you like, I roll with Ralakesh a lot of the time.

Bandits - Kill all

I leveled as a flame slinger, Following Dejuvenate's guide. But using this tree. (very similar) https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3009295

Fireburst -
3.14 buffed fireburst to remove the chance to occur, and buff both the base damage and added damage effectiveness.

Any skill that "hits" in the game will apply the effect. We use Herald of Thunder, and our Abberath's Fury for mapping. Wave of Conviction for bossing.

With a 340% added damage, any added flat damage to spells is boosted and applied to Fireburst. By taking Shaper of Flames we turn any source of damage into ignite.

CWDT -
Our CWDT setup is our main sustain generator. By wearing Ngamahu's Sign we gain 30 life per enemy we ignite. The way ignite works in PoE as you can infinitely ignite the same mob, however only the strongest ignite will apply damage.

While 30 life doesn't sound like much, we are applying it rapidly and from many different sources, those include:

Ball lightning- every tendril from the lighting ignites every mob it touches, couple that with GMP and Slower proj, and drop it us in the middle of a dense ultimatum we are hitting 100's of times a second.

Abberath's Fury - This skill is passive from our boots. It creates a small AoE around us that hits and ignites every enemy near us.

Abberath's Hooves - The line "When you Kill an Ignited Enemy, inflict an equivalent Ignite on each nearby Enemy" is the key. With this, every mob that dies inflicts a new ignite to every mob around it. This not only allows our ignite to chain across the screen, but in a dense ultimatum it stacks ignites back and forth across the packs every time a mob dies.

Add all of that together then throw it on top of our 600/s standard regen and you have some massive sustain. In a dense area, if you aren't one shot, you can barely die.