3.11 - Stress-Free PoE! RF HAPPY: No Required Items! 1-Button Play! SSF League Start-End!

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CelticHound wrote:

Spoiler

(I asked about including Anointed Flesh)

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

Awesome to see you CelticHound! Anointed Flesh was really hard to cut. It was really hard to decide between that and Soul of Steel. I chose Soul of Steel because it comes first in the "suggested tree path" I give.

I didn't include both because the four combined travel nodes, though great, aren't vital to the build. I HATE being under 200% max life from the tree, and we're only at 190%. So removing life nodes to get it was not going to happen. The only other option was to remove three damage nodes. The build, though damage isn't anything people are really complaining about, is still something that'd be hard to take from. And there aren't any free "travel" nodes that lead to notables that can be taken from.

Anointed Flesh was a tough cut. I could remove 2 the Life and Chaos nodes and have our life drop to 182% and then have the tree go to level 92...but I chose this tree for guide purposes.

Maybe the 3.12 tree will make life a little easier ;).

If you have any suggestions on how to include it, let me know for sure.

Great question!

Yeah, it's difficult. I'm going to make it harder on myself, because I want to help Oak for the 1% life regeneration and 2% physical damage reduction - and I feel Oak gets neglected a lot. I also want to not have to depend on gear for dexterity. (I hear there's this cool guide-maker who believes in being able to wear whatever gear you want...)

Anyway for starting out this build, what I did was make a Templar, and take him only as far as the medicine chest. That got me Purifying Flame and Arcane Surge Gems. (All the flasks were a bonus.) The Marauder gets Onslaught from the medicine chest quest, which can also support Purifying Flame.

I'm a compulsive shopper in SSF, and Nessa happened to be selling these wands:

Purifying Flame is both fire and physical, so that's +2 skill levels.

Unfortunately since they are wands, I can't use Ancestral Protector any more. But... I can buy Holy Flame Totem, which is also both fire and physical.

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SquallRamza wrote:

Excellent build with excellent guide.
The just info to anyone can comprehend all the mechanics put into play.

Thanks for your effort.

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HDVision wrote:

Quick question - how does a mod "#% of fire damage converted to chaos damage" affect the build? I am asking as I was thinking about buying 6-link Infernal Mantle Windowsilk Robe since it's very cheap as 6link and has increased fire damage and +1 to socketed fire gems while offering some nice ES too.

Just noticed that The Restless Ward gives some life and ES, while also adding 200 flat life regen. Which one of those 2 uniques would you consider to be better for this build?

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Doktaduck wrote:

Hi WoD

another great build. I tried your CI vortex build last season, and previously your Minion build. CI was a bit harder :)..

So the RF has been great so far (Map T2 currently), but while I think I get it I wanted to be clear...

Weapon Mods:
RF benefits from:
**Damage Over Time Multiplier (the most powerful mod for DOTs. Don't be without it!)**
- Increased Elemental Damage
- Increased Fire Damage
- Increases to Damage
- Increases to Area Damage
- Burning Damage
- Damage Over Time
- "More" of any of the above. In PoE, the term "More" is much stronger than "Increased". So choose "More" over "Increased" when you can.

% Increased and More is ok for EE, but Adds is bad, yes?

Thanks again.

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Jaroczaro2 wrote:

Hi there,

How do you feel about changing Tireless branch and going straight for Constitution? It also costs 5 SP overall.

Maybe I'm wrong but reduce mana cost of skills seems useless. In total we lose 1% max hp but we get nice amount of flat HP through two more strength nodes and Constitution and a possible jewel slot.

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jcapi70 wrote:

Hi all.

First tx for the build, very user and beginner friendly.

What about using storm Brand instead of ball lightining? I think storm brand give us more continuous lightning damage than ball lightining, in order to take advantege of Elemental Equilibrium.

With Storm Brand you are attaching up to 3 enemies and causing lightning damage.

What do you think?

Tx!

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eversorgod wrote:

Decided to jump back in after whats probably years away, was either going to be cyclone or RF as I have played them before back in the day, so why not go for both :-P

Being in a SSF league has had its challenges but its all starting to work out now I'm about to hit lvl 90. I've made some changes, added some things, dropped some things(currently trying to get enough orbs to regret everything lol) but the main plan right now is to get a 2nd curse and probably stick it on curse on hit with cyclone as I'm running flammability through blasphemy.

I do have a question if anyone knows, Vaal Impurity of Fire says "Nearby Enemies' Fire Resistance is Ignored by Hits" is the initial hit of RF classed as a 'hit'? is the DOT of burning classed as individual hits?