Stress-Free PoE w/ RIGHTEOUS INCINERATOR! Relax, SSF League Start-End w/ “Any” Items & 1-Button|3.16

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PraceAce wrote:

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What's the purpose of using the "15% reduced Life Cost of Skills" mastery and the "Tireless" (6% reduced Cost of skills) arm on the passive tree? Which skills does this affect?

Hey PraceAce! It for Incinerate. I've saved our mana for our CwDT spells. So I've made Incinerate cost life instead. The nice thing is that Incinerate leeches life. So it's really carefree in terms of cost.

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PoitelMarto wrote:

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Hey there !

@Wrecker_of_Days I'm glad to see you keep your RF chieftain up-to-date, and that he still gets love from so many of us ! It has been a delight to see everyone here ask questions, offer help, suggest variations with the same kindness as ever on each of your topics.

As I did last league, I'll present my adaptation of the build, more endgame-oriented (but much harder to get SSF), so maybe some people strugling with Sirus and other bosses can find some inspiration.

This time I dropped Kaom's Heart for Loreweave + Transcendence (loreweave completely bypasses Transcendence nerf). Thanks to the rework of mana efficiency, I can run Determination, Malevolence, Skitterbots and Tempest shield with reasonable investment; his coupled with the overal RF buff compensate for the loss of Elemental Overload and Elemental Equilibrium.

I focused on defense layers just as I ever do. My version of the build has:
- 7,5k HP (8k at level 100), over 3,5k net regen (ie counting RF degen), up to 4k with a well-rolled sulphur flask.
- 75%/74% block chance with glancing blows and Rumi's Concoction, 5% recovery on block
- 88% flat physical damage reduction from Endu charges and Watcher's eye
- 78% all res + Transcendence with ~20k armor thanks to easier flask uptime
- Immune to shock (Tempest shield) and ignite (Chieftain)
- Immune to stuns and any form of slow, including chill/frozen (Kaom's Roots)
- >50% uptime Immortal Call, enough Endurance charges generation to ensure 10 charges when it expires.

Here is my Stardard PoB: https://pastebin.com/KhrwmrUM

WARNING: I was bored of acting again, so I'm playing standard this league. However, I use my 3.15 stuff, so no crazy gear or legacy, except Kaom's Ring; so in league you should have a bit less regen and more AoE, which is a decent trade off imho. My flasks are a mess, with the changes all should have the Flagellant's prefix.

Due to the nerf of Tasalio ascendancy, I tend to think Inquisitor offer a better high-end option than Chieftain, but the latter remains a solid choice and possibly easier to build on a budget.

Thanks, PoitelMarto, that means a lot. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Thanks for taking the time to be provide such a detailed post of your changes. I like seeing how people play my builds and the changes they make. The posts have been great. Thanks for making time for yours :). And again, I really appreciate the kind words. They go a long way.

I've been having alot of fun with this build, but I'm starting to slow down dramatically in low tier red maps. Can anyone suggest some areas I should improve? I feel like my gear isn't that bad, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks!

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Esphialda wrote:

I've been having alot of fun with this build, but I'm starting to slow down dramatically in low tier red maps. Can anyone suggest some areas I should improve? I feel like my gear isn't that bad, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks!

You DO have pretty good gear :) I see you officially entered the endgame min-maxing stage. From here onwards you can only have small improvements, but do not neglect these, as they accumulate over time and you can have a lot more damage!

A quick improvement could be annointing "Growth and Decay" on your amulet. You can do that on corrupted amulets as well, you "simply" need a tanited oil together with the normal ones.

You could also work on your weapon, I suggest a void or opal sceptre for the implicit mod. I used this one, but ideally you also have +1 all spell skill gems as well.



You could also aim for +20 burning +20 conc supports in your helmet, but what you have is also OK. You can try running the uber lab for the +40% increased RF damage enchantment.

Use awakened support gems if you can afford them, they give a lot more damage. For example, awakened increased AoE gives +10% more area damage on lvl 1, that is a lot better than a regular gem.

Your shield is fine, but you can also have fire damage mods on it, I bought this one:



Try to level up and grab nearby jewel sockets as well, there are 3-4 sockets that are really close on the tree.

I noticed that you are running determination. Do you have any mana reserved at all? I mean.. does immortal call gets triggered regularly? It provides lots of extra damage when you lose endurance charges, plus it gives you tons of resistance. I was not using determniation and had enough mana reserve to get a very decent uptime of immortal call which also felt tanky.

In summary, there are always something to tweak, there are lots of small improvement possibilties arise while you grind in this game. I kept an Excel table which I used to test what my damage would be when I swap a piece of gear. It is not always trivial, e.g.: void sceptre with +1 spell skill gems mod which could potentially be better with what you use, but you would not know unless you calculate it. PoB helps too, but I could never really trust it, the calculations seemed way off.

Good luck out there, never stop the grinding :)

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In summary, there are always something to tweak, there are lots of small improvement possibilties arise while you grind in this game. I kept an Excel table which I used to test what my damage would be when I swap a piece of gear. It is not always trivial, e.g.: void sceptre with +1 spell skill gems mod which could potentially be better with what you use, but you would not know unless you calculate it. PoB helps too, but I could never really trust it, the calculations seemed way off.

Good luck out there, never stop the grinding :)

Wow thank you for all of this info, that's very helpful. I've been looking for a +1 all sceptre but they are all pretty pricey haha, hopefully I can get one before too long.

I should prob find a non-corrupted amulet so I don't ahve to buy a tainted oil, I totally forgot about anointing lol.

I was running determination for a while, but I switched to skitterbots because I can't run them both. I didn't even know vermillion rings were a thing, but looking at your character those seem super nice.

I'll have to start picking up some better gems, etc!

Thanks again!

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Esphialda wrote:

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I've been having alot of fun with this build, but I'm starting to slow down dramatically in low tier red maps. Can anyone suggest some areas I should improve? I feel like my gear isn't that bad, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks!

I'm glad you're having fun, Esphialda!

Sorry you've hit a wall. You've already had a great response so I'll leave you to consider the suggestions/advice. I think your setup is great!

This build is designed to be defence first, but I don't find it struggles in any map unless of course a Metamorph is poorly rolled or Maven is being a jerk to a boss that has increased life. I actually started playing around with Determination instead of Skitterbots and I'm quite liking it. I am using a staff instead of a shield. So if you're finding survivability decent, maybe switch to two wands or sceptres or a staff? I could also just be some crappy rolled maps. Some map combos don't seem bad, but when they're coupled with other mods (including mods on the individual monster) they can be pretty surprising.

Anyway, I know this post was pointless as it was Pusztitoo that actually answered your questions.

But let us know how it goes!

This build let me finally finish my first ever Sirus. It's definitely SSF viable. I deal basically no damage, but can almost facetank the beams.

I realized I can't run determination once I got my unset ring unless I have some way of reducing mana reservation requirements. I was trying to figure out what would be the best gem to put into the unset ring and I opted for flame dash. It really makes this build fun teleporting around. I've not had this much fun with a build since hammerdin back in the d2 days. I can't wait to min max the heck out of this. I've always played hardcore up until recently so I'm definitely looking forward at finally beating some end game bosses.

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Esphialda wrote:

I've been having alot of fun with this build, but I'm starting to slow down dramatically in low tier red maps. Can anyone suggest some areas I should improve? I feel like my gear isn't that bad, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks!

You seem to have started to upgrade to awakened gems already, nice call !
Pusztitoo already said much and more, but I can add a couple of things.

First, if you feel you need more damage, you should try essence-crafting your rings. Deafening essence of anger grants 31% increased fire damage, and is cheap enough to do several attempts until having one good roll.

Even better now are Essences of Delirium, giving 12-15% damage over time multiplier ! A bit pricey though.


You could also change your amulet to a Hunter's one, either with +1 to intelligence skills or some fire DOT multiplier. RF chieftain doesn't benefit much from attributes, even with these sweet boots of yours.

Last, we can't sustain our ES so any ES on gear feels a little wasted (it does increase damage a bit, but not much). So I think you should run an armor chest, if possible Astral Plate, with as much life as possible. Elder prefix "%increased life" is great for that, so are armours with the temple prefix "Guatelitzi's". If you really want some ES to buff your damage, use benchcrafting to add "10% life as extra energy shield", which will be much more significant than any flat value you could have on your gear, granted we scale life a ton more than ES.