CaptainLance9's LL Righteous Fire Guardian ~ The Impure

Min-Max Energy Shield a long with fire damage over time for an ultimate tank and heavy damage dealer.

Defensive - Build hits 19k with shaveronnes, 20.5k with arcane surge chest. Gear has not been completely min-maxed, someone with a higher budget could get better gear and I am also 7 levels off 100.

Offensive - Lower enemies resistances using EE, Exposure, and Delve helmet combine that with high es for high righteous fire base damage and we hit about 2 mil shaper dps with standard RF, with VRF we hit 14mil for short burst damage to kill Endgame bosses like guardians quickly.

Unique Concept - This Build utilizes a chest swap to hit high damage numbers while having a shaveronnes wrappings on to avoid dying to chaos damage while mapping or against bosses with chaos damage. Build will still do all content with just the shaveronnes wrappings handily

Pros
+Hardcore Viable
+Tanks all boss One-Shots in the game
+High Damage - Clears all endgame content Quickly
+Will work on budget -> 5k less ES but still very viable
+Great for learning Boss mechanics, because you can practice dodging them while not dying to them if you don't succeed at dodging
+Very Strong Party player -> will provide atleast 1200 base ES for party as well as stun immunity
-Clear Speed -> Not as Fast as Meta Farmers, but still pretty fast, shield charging through map
Cons
-Not very budget at start of league due uniques(Shavs)
-Can't enjoy the core of the build while leveling
due to high level uniques needed

Flasks - I put these first because it is very important to acquire a life flask with remove burning this mixed with soul of ryslatha->pantheon for generating life flask charges allows the player to always be able to stop righteous fire burning if you have taken too much damage recently, it is also very important for proccing Soul of Arakaali-Queen of great tangle for 50% increased recovery rate of energy shield. BiS would be a colossal with 25%reduced charges used.
Other flasks I recommend are enduring curse/freeze mana flasks and bleed immune sulphur flask as well as an adrenaline quicksilver.
Weapon - Rare wand/Sceptre with Fire damage over time multiplier and fire damage are priority, strength/intelligence/mana/damage over time multiplier suffix are all icing on the cake

Jewels - Look for mods like burning damage, fire damage, increased maximum energy shield, increased maximum mana, strength and intelligence, and resistance. Watchers Eye -> Clarity Gain as Maximum Energy shield is BiS worth 3k ES to the build, by no means do you need this, it should be the last upgrade you get, literally triples the cost of the build. Just grab a recovery rate discipline jewel or damage over time multiplier malevolence for better damage or super nice regen for much cheaper. And last but not least Healthy mind is BiS in witch cluster to reach extremely high mana pool.

Shapers Touch - Cheap item not too shortly after league starts and shapers been killed a few hundred times, BiS allowing us to get strength on our gear just like int to get us Increased ES and additional Mana. +2 aura corruption is not necessary but will get you 1max fire res and higher level discipline. This can also be achieved with cheap +2duration corruption if you buy lvl21 vaal discipline/vaal purity of fire

Belt - Crystal Belt Hunter/Elder base, spammed with deafening essence of spite to get Attribute% and Intelligence Well Rolled One is expensive to craft but if you roll one, and want to upgrade, roll a different base, and once you hit better roll/descent roll but not better, sell the worse base for profit. made spent 7-9 crafting these belts sold my extra less good results for 15ex. Cheap alternative is just a cyclopean coil.

Shield - Rare with ES and resistances, crafted my by spamming dense fossils on titanium ilvl86 base and then slammed with crusader for shock. Aegis Aurora would be a cheap and strong alternative

Helmet - Hubris Circle with Delve -9 Fire res mod and good es, craft this using Scorched and Dense fossils. Do not worry about crafting this if you cannot afford to annoint crusader on your amulet, if that's the chase just buy a inward eye awakener helmet. Gives roughly same EHP and more damage if you can't afford to annoint crusader. If for some reason inward eye is expensive mindspiral gives same ehp with less damage

Amulet - Astramentis does as just as much ES for the character as this rare does but is missing 28% damage->would make up for this because i could get rid of dex nodes. I was trying to jorgin corrupt it into talisman with %increased attributes which would be far and away BiS for this build but alas I missed it twice.

Boots - Enchant with 2% regen is very strong and I would highly recommend buying a base to craft with this enchant, if you have minimal currency rainbowstride is a good cheap early alternative.

Chest - Shaveronne's Wrappings or Solaris Lorica are mandatory for mapping to not get one shot by chaos damage bypassing your huge ES defense. With a 5L shavs you will use Efficacy instead of Arcane surge and Swift Affliction not too big of a damage loss and will still be able to clear all content. But for highest endgame damage you will chest swap to an arcane surge chest with high ES, this can be done to fight the majority of endgame content except for awakener/chimera/chayula/ect chaos bosses. This chest was crafted spamming dense+aetheric fossils.

Rings - rare rings with high strength and int + energy shield/mana and crafted strength&int or all attributes will give highest ES and damage, but QoL and survival would be to buy a shaveronnes revelation for es regeneration and slightly less ehp/damage

Level as scorching ray -> damage passives in tree all support it and you won't be able to sustain righteous fire until you have high max fire res along with good regen on tree with a much higher ES than Life pool.

~~Damage Setup~~

Righteous Fire has limited number of supports, swift affliction for example will not support it without arcane surge supporting righteous fire as well, so in order to get 6L damage one needs create a Arcane surge support chest This is necessary to reach highest RF damage possible. a 5L shavs will still be adequate to defeat endgame with a 6L only being a 20-30% damage boost roughly
6L arcane chest ->
6L Shavs ->
5L Shavs ->
Shoutout to reddit user OrcOfDoom -> he mentioned inspiration support will work for righteous fire if you generate the charges using another skill like your shield charge or flamedash. This would make The 6L shavs stronger by trading arcane surge and swift affliction for Inspiration and Efficacy.

~~Auras~~

-> if you have +2 corruption on gloves or elsewhere 4L with lvl3 enlighten 3 35% auras, highly recommend discipline/purity of fire, third aura can be another purity if you need diferrent resistances or vitality/skitterbots

malevolence with level19 blood magic to reserve majority of life and get maximum armour from guardian ascendancy

use precision and clarity to get 2 extra auras for more regen and phys reduction from guardian ascendancy along with flux reservation... basically you can't reserve these at max levels, but you can get very close to reserving all your mana without reserving all of it so you can still cast flame dash/stormbrand/scorching ray and shield charge arround.
~~Utility~~

portal for saving money on portal scrolls...
scorching ray to apply -25 fire resistance on bosses
flame dash for mobility and dodging(if you even need too...)

3L shield charge for mobility and fortify(proc whenever fortify is gonna timeout)

3L curse on hit, can become 4L with cull if you want to drop portal for higher damage by culling bosses

Shaper and Elder Kill Showcase->Damage Not MinMaxed Yet
Shaper and Elder Kill Showcase->Damage Not MinMaxed Yet

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Tree Link:passive tree
Ascendancy: Radiant Faith->Time of Need->Bastion of Hope-> Unwavering Faith
These are the ascendancy nodes in order of importance to acquire