3.8| Stress Free PoE - HOLY RF |Clear the Atlas with YOUR Items at YOUR Pace (SSF & Co-op)

The skill tree is easy to understand:
You'll start as a Marauder. We start as a Marauder because there is only one subclass in the game that greatly increases our natural life regen. That's the Chieftain subclass (ascendancy). And to get there, you must start as a Marauder. The Chieftain also had some very compatible nodes for easy caps to fire resist (for RF) and Endurance Charges for defense (and more regen).

This build really benefits from every node we'll select on the tree. I strongly suggest taking every node as it comes up, not really skipping anything. Go south first and then get every node/section as you cross it.

Tree Focuses:
- Life Regen - The more the merrier. We want lots to sustain RF, but even if you feel like only running with Holy Flame Totem, it's awesome to see your life move up so fast without flask help.
- Maximum Life - Besides the obvious factor of "the more you have, the better...", the more life you have also improves the damage of RF.
- Endurance Charges - The tree gives us nodes that let us increase our maximum endurance charges from 3 to 7 :). It also gives us life regen per charge and increased AoE.
- Damage - Yup, damage :). This build doesn't do high damage as I focused on many aspects of defense (armour, Enfeeble, Life). You'll find that your ability to easily stay alive outways the "glass canon" approach with RF.
- Jewels - Jewel slots are amazing. Jewels are items you can find that you can actually allocate on your tree. They can give almost anything from health, damage, resists...anything. We will only have 1 jewel slot selected :(. What's really neat is you can swap jewels in and out of your passive tree anytime. As great as jewels are, I find managing them and remembering what I have exhausting. So I typically only have one jewel slot per character.

Don't forget about attributes. The tree almost provides all the attributes we need for our skills. You'll pass some nodes on the tree that give +30 Attributes. If you don't have items to cover what you're short in, feel free to select some of these as you pass them. You'll get respec points that will let you remove them later once you have better gear.

*The Passive Tree I have for you takes you to level 90. That'll be easy to get to. I'll let you choose what to pick after that. There were many great nodes (life regen, max life, damage) that I had a really hard time excluding. Pick whatever you like! Have fun!

Now, feel free to modify this is anyway. This is just my preference for easy Solo Self Found.

Take your time to look at each skill as they come along. Some of the nodes are pretty dramatic.

Some quests earn you respec points in case you regret any decisions you made on the tree. You can also use Orbs of Regret for the same thing.

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. My preference is to accommodate RF first and then Holy Flame Totem. So, 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 good chance to get and Endurance Charge whenever we use a Fire Skill, which is every skill we have. It also gives us bonus damage per Endurance Charge.
- 3rd Two Points - Valako, Storm's Embrace. Give bonus life regen per Endurance Charge and increases our Maximum Endurance Charge limit by 1.
- 4th Two Points - Arohongui, Moon's Presence. Makes our totems immune to fire damage, enemies near our totems deal less damage (which is the whole reason I suggest this node) and take more fire damage too. So get your RF close to your totems :).

- Major God: Soul of Arakaali - It's only for the first perk. The 5% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time means we take less damage from RF.
- Minor God: Soul of Abberath - Only beneficial while we're moving. But it's safe to keep moving than to stand still so I chose it over the life regen of the Soul of Tukohama.

- Turn on RF, Purity of Fire, and Malevolence.
- Cast Holy Flame Totem at an enemy. The totem will burn enemies and give you Consecrated Ground (Life Regen).
- Move to your totem. When you aren't helping kill stuff, cast again.
- Being near your Totems will put you on Consecrated Ground giving you Life Regen and also have enemies take more damage from RF (thanks to your Ascendancy nodes). (Multiple Consecrated Grounds do not stack.) The Consecrated Ground of Holy Flame Totem also removes curses :).

- Just keep casting and moving...Move, cast once...move, cast once...move, cast once...

- Everything else happens automatically.
- The curse that you choose will all be cast automatically when you hit with your chosen melee skill.
- Purifying Flame and Wave of Conviction will be cast automatically for you. They will try and get a Critical Strike for you at least once every 8 seconds so you can get the bonus damage from Elemental Overload on the tree. Wave of Conviction will also lower enemy fire resists by 25% (increasing the fire damage they take) even though the skill itself does little damage at the level we have it. Purifying Flame will be putting Consecrated Ground everywhere. The more Life Regen available, the happier we are.
- So we'll have Consecrated Ground from Purifying Flame and Holy Flame totem. :)
- Hitting an enemy with an Attack will give you life regen from Holy Relic.
- Endurance Charges are gained as we use fire skills. That's almost every skill we have. So you'll be at max charges all the time. Your Endurance Charges will give you lots of physical damage mitigation, bonus elemental resistance, great life regen, extra AoE, and bonus damage.
- Your Stone Golem and Guard skill will be automatically cast for you and will give you life regen and nice defensive perks respectively.

- Purity of Fire reserves mana. This gives you fire resistance along with an increase to your maximum fire resistance. The latter is very important for sustaining RF.
- Malevolence also reserves mana and gives a damage boots to our Damage over time.

- So it's really easy! Move, cast once...move, cast once...move, cast once...Everything else is automatic.

- The build has crazy life regen without RF turned on but the build has way more damage with RF turned on. But you could play Holy Flame Totem only if you wanted and the build would be fine. Slow, but REALLY hard to kill.


So lots happens but all you're doing is using casting Holy Flame Totem then moving. Move, cast once...move, cast once...move, cast once...:)

Righteous Fire(RF) can be over thought quite easily. I will simplify it.
-It's a skill that, once it's turned on, is always on and can only be turned off in three ways: Dying, going through a loading screen, or using a flask that removes Burning (a flask of dousing).
-It does fire damage to all it touches.
-It is Damage Over Time, therefore it does not Hit. Many mechanics in this game require a Hit to be activated (such as Leech and Penetration).
-RF burns you with fire damage. To sustain it, you need the highest Fire resistance you can get. Normal Fire Resistance is capped at 75%. Increasing the Fire Res. cap decreases the amount damage you take from RF. Life Regeneration takes care of the rest.
-RF is a skill that typically can only be used late in the story. It can be sustained early-ish but you'll need to be attentive with it until later in the game. But once you get it, just socket it and start leveling it.
-While RF is on, it gives a damage boost to the spell damage of all your OTHER spells (not itself).

There are three types of Charges in the game. Each character has a default limit of 3 for each type. We'll be focusing on Endurance Charges. Endurance Charges give 4% physical reduction and elemental resists per charge. Ours will also give us life regen. We'll be picking up a few nodes on the tree that'll increase our max Endurance charge limit up to 7.

Charges have a duration.While you have Endurance Charges, earning any amount of Endurance Charges will refresh the duration for ALL Endurance Charges (they all share the same duration).

Cast when Damage Taken (CwDT) is a gem that automatically casts linked spells (not attacks) when your character takes a certain amount of damage. The lower the level of CwDT, the less damage it needs to cast its linked spells. The higher the level of CwDT, the more damage it needs to cast linked gems.

CwDT cannot support ACTIVE skills with a higher player level requirement than that of the CwDT gem itself. For spells to be cast by CwDT, the spell has wot be within the requirement level listed on the gem. As you level gems, you'll see that they all have certain player levels you have to be at in order to use them. CwDT does too. You'll notice in the CwDT gem description that it'll only cast spells under a certain requirement level. That requirement level goes up as CwDT levels. Linked SUPPORT gems have no boundaries and can be fully leveled.

The benefit to a high level CwDT at a high level is that we can have high level gems attached to it (Stone Golem). The benefit to a low level CwDT is that you can have spells being cast frequently. Good for utility spells (applying curses and such).

You can't manually cast spells that are linked to CwDT and within CwDT's gem requirement level.

For our build, the order of gems linked to CwDT does not matter.

Curses are debuffs that you can put on an enemy. There are quite a few curses in the game, not all of them are beneficial to every build. In this build you can pick anyone you want.

By default in POE, every character can only apply one curse per enemy. There are ways to increase this limit, but we won't with this build.

Unless an enemy is "Hexproof" (curse proof), our curse will work. Curses are 33% less effective against Area/Map bosses and 66% less effective against the Shaper and his Guardians unless otherwise stated on the gem.

Vaal skills are super versions of normal skills that have a duration and cooldown given to them. We're hoping to use Vaal Righteous Fire. Early on in the game Vaal skills typically only drop in Corrupted areas (though as the game progresses you'll find them a little more often.) Corrupted areas can be randomly found attached to maps as a side area. Kill the boss inside these areas, loot their "stash", and hope you get the vaal skill you want.

Vaal RF gives you both the RF skill and Vaal RF in one gem. Both skills require their own key bind/button. You can use RF like usual but the Vaal skill requires you to kill enemies, or damage Rare or Unique enemies. Once the skill is ready to use, you can use the skill anytime. But remember, any loading screen in the game automatically resets the vaal skill and it needs to be refilled. So don't save it too long (boss arena doors don't have load screens (except for the The Lord's Labyrinth). Once the skill has been used it'll have a short duration where the skill can't refill.

Vaal RF takes a chunk of your health to cast but doesn't constantly hurt you like the normal RF does. It then does insanely good damage for a duration, then expires and needs to be refilled.

Act 1 - Breaking Some Eggs - Reward - Level 4 - Molten Shell
Act 1 - Breaking Some Eggs - Purchase - Level 4 - Holy Flame Totem
Act 1 - The Caged Brute - Purchase - Level 8 - Combustion Support
Act 2 - The Root of the Problem - Purchase - Level 16 - Righteous Fire
Act 3 - Lost in Love - Purchase - Level 24 - Purity of Fire
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Reward - Level 31 - Fortify Support
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 1 - Purifying Flame
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 4 - Summon Holy Relic
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 16 - Wave of Conviction
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 18 - Concentrated Effect Support
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 18 - Elemental Focus Support
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 24 - Enfeeble
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 24 - Malevolence
Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate - Purchase - Level 31 - Burning Damage Support
Act 4 - Breaking the Seal - Reward - Level 34 - Summon Stone Golem
Act 4 - The Eternal Nightmare - Reward - Level 38 - Multiple Totem Support
Act 4 - The Eternal Nightmare - Purchase - Level 38 - Cast when Damage Taken Support x2
Act 4 - The Eternal Nightmare - Purchase - Level 38 - Curse on Hit Support
Act 4 - The Eternal Nightmare - Purchase - Level 38 - Immolate Support
Act 4 - The Eternal Nightmare - Purchase - Level 38 - Increased Area of Effect Support
Act 6 - Fallen From Grace - Purchase - Level 31 - Efficacy Support

Level 1 - Purifying Flame
Level 4 - Holy Flame Totem
Level 4 - Molten Shell
Level 4 - Summon Holy Relic
Level 8 - Combustion Support
Level 16 - Righteous Fire
Level 16 - Wave of Conviction
Level 18 - Concentrated Effect Support
Level 18 - Elemental Focus Support
Level 24 - Enfeeble
Level 24 - Malevolence
Level 24 - Purity of Fire
Level 31 - Burning Damage Support
Level 31 - Efficacy Support
Level 31 - Fortify Support
Level 34 - Summon Stone Golem
Level 38 - Cast when Damage Taken Support x2
Level 38 - Curse on Hit Support
Level 38 - Immolate Support
Level 38 - Increased Area of Effect Support
Level 38 - Multiple Totem Support