Bringer of Flame Minion Infernalist
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Early T16 Map (0.1.0D)
https://youtu.be/RtV4F8h8Erw Easily possible to play the build better than I do here but this is what SRS version looks like with good starter gear and level 19, 20% quality gems. SRS is 6 link and the other skills 5 link if relevant. Passive Tree Ascension Order 1. Loyal Hellhound 2. Altered Flesh and re-spec Loyal Hellhound into Beidat's Will 3. Loyal Hellhound 4. Pyromantic Pact and re-spec Loyal Hellhound into Bringer of Flame Gems for Final Build Variations 1. Raging Spirits (Feels good. Not the strongest minion build but fun)
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Raging Spirits - Purpose: Primary Damage Heft Heavy Swing Feeding Frenzy Fire Infusion Fire Penetraion / Martial Tempo / Persistence Ember Fusillade - Purpose: Summon RS / Manage Infernal Flame Unleash Scattershot Fast Forward Mobility Note: a lot of people choose to use Flame Wall instead of Ember Fusillade to summon Raging Spirits. That's fine, mathematically better even, but it's mostly personal preference as far as what fire skill feels best to use for you. I like Ember Fusillade because you can accurately send them off screen. Flame wall is faster activation and will slightly buff frost mage damage. Skeletal Frost Mage (2+) - Purpose: Freeze and AoE/Burst Damage Cold Penetration Cold Exposure Bidding Spell Echo Concentrated Effect / Cold Mastery Skeletal Warrior (Sceptre) - Purpose: Support Infernal Legion Fire Exposure Strip Away Fiery Death Culling Strike Pain Offering - Purpose: Support Expanse Ablation Danse Macabre Inspiration Font of Rage Skeletal Storm Mage (1) - Purpose: Shock Lightning Penetration Stormfire Overcharge Conduction Coursing Current Skeletal Cleric (2) - Purpose: Support Arcane Tempo Ingenuity Last Gasp Minion Mastery Elemental Army Blasphemy - Purpose: Support Vulnerability Flammability/Enfeeble (Enfeeble is a big damage reduction if you feel squishy) Magnified Effect Heightened Curse *don't add more to this link because it's not worth the spirit cost* 2. Spectres SoonTM 3. Skeletal Reavers (Not good currently mostly because of poor minion control/AI. Will revisit in a later patch)
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Skeletal Reaver (3+) - Purpose: Primary Damage
Heft Heavy Swing Feeding Frenzy Fire Infusion Fire Penetration / Martial Tempo Vulnerability - Purpose: Support / Manage Infernal Flame Focused Curse Mobility Physical mastery Skeletal Frost Mage (2) - Purpose: Freeze and AoE/Burst Damage Cold Penetration Cold Exposure Bidding Spell Echo Concentrated Effect / Cold Mastery Skeletal Warrior (Sceptre) - Purpose: Support Infernal Legion Fire Exposure Strip Away Fiery Death Culling Strike Pain Offering - Purpose: Support Expanse Ablation Danse Macabre Inspiration Font of Rage Skeletal Storm Mage (1) - Purpose: Shock Lightning Penetration Stormfire Overcharge Conduction Coursing Current Skeletal Cleric (1 or 2) - Purpose: Support Arcane Tempo Ingenuity Last Gasp Minion Mastery Elemental Army Blasphemy - Purpose: Support Flammability/Enfeeble Magnified Effect Heightened Curse *don't add more to this link because it's not worth the spirit cost* Gear Rare Note: These are just mods to look out for roughly in order of priority; you don't need everything and a couple worthless mods is expected on starter items. Same goes for the bases; these are just best in slot if all else is equal. Better mods on a worse base is still generally better.
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Sceptre: Rattling Sceptre + Level of all Minions % Increased Spirit Allies in Presence have increased Crit Chance Allies in Presence have increased Attack Speed Allies in Presence deal increased Damage Allies in Presence deal additional Physical Allies in Presence deal additional Fire Allies in Presence have increasedd Crit Damage Focus: Expert Plumed Focus Cast Speed Energy Shield Resistances Intelligence (for this build only get as much total INT/DEX as needed to meet gear and gem requirements. STR gives life so it's never bad) + Level of all Spells Amulet: Solar Amulet / Bloodstone Amulet + Level of all Minions Spirit % Life % Energy Shield Life Energy Shield Resistances Attributes Damage Taken Recouped as Life Rarity of Items Found Rings: Breach Ring Resistances Attributes Life Cast Speed Rarity of Items Found Belt: Rawhide Belt Charm Slots Life Resistances Increased Flask Charges Gained Charm Effect Duration Reduced Flask Charges Used Reduced Charm Charges Used Helmet: Expert Feathered Tiara + Level of all Minions Energy Shield Life Attributes Resistances Rarity of Items Found Body: Expert Altar Robe Spirit Energy Shield Life Resistances Attributes Gloves: Expert Intricate Gloves Energy Shield Life Resistances Attributes Rarity of Items Found Boots: Expert Feathered Sandals Movement Speed Energy Shield Life Resistances Attributes Rarity of Items Found Reduced Shock Duration Jewels: Sapphire Minion Crit Chance Area of Effect Minion Crit Damage Minion Damage Increased Maximum ES Faster Start of ES Recharge Minion Accuracy Life Flask: Ultimate Life Flask Instant Recovery, 50% Reduced Amount Recovered Reduced Charges Per Use / Increased Charges Mana Flask: Ultimate Mana Flask % of Recovery Applied Instantly Reduced Charges Per Use / Increased Charges Note: Mana Flask does not currently do anything for Infernal Flame, but is sometimes helpful between ascendancies 3 and 4. Optional Uniques Carrion Call Focus - Cheap, frees up 10 passive tree points but requires good gear in other slots to cap resistances first: Ventor's Gamble Ring - Potentially good source of resistances, life and spirit. Great rolls will be some of the most expensive items in the game though. Doedre's Damning Ring - 3rd curse would allow for Vulnerability + Flammability + Enfeeble, but otherwise a pretty trash item and it'd be hard to meet other requirements while using it. Ingenuity Belt - 40-80% increased bonuses from rings is huge if you have good rings. Very expensive. What I am currently working on (level 88+) Tried Reavers 5 linked and they felt awful. Not even because they don't do enough damage necessarily but because they get stuck on everything in the map, including each other, then you have to wait for them to despawn and revive (horrible design decision for minions in general). So I'm putting those aside for now and will revisit when some sort of changes inevitably happen. In the meantime I'll be using SRS Current Gems
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Skeletal Warrior (Sceptre)
Infernal Legion Fire Exposure Strip Away Fiery Death Raging Spirits 20% Heavy Swing Heft Feeding Frenzy Fire Infusion Persistence Ember Fusillade Unleash Scattershot Fast Forward Mobility Skeletal Frost Mage (4) 20% Cold Penetration Cold Exposure Bidding Spell Echo Concentrated Effect Skeletal Storm Mage (1) Lightning Penetration Stormfire Overcharge Conduction Skeletal Cleric (2) Arcane Tempo Ingenuity Last Gasp Pain Offering 20% Expanse Ablation Danse Macabre Inspiration Blasphemy 20% Vulnerability 20% Flammability / Enfeeble 20% Magnified Effect Heightened Curse Changelog
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December 14
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- Updated current progress and gems.
- Checked PoE2DB and updated gear section. - Changed passive tree slightly December 15
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- Added Jewel mods
- Added second mod to Life Flask - Added mods to Mana flask (at least to use until Infernal Flame) - More passive tree optimization. I think it's pretty close now. Dropped Gravedigger because minions are not really dying in combat. The most common reason they respawn now is after getting stuck in a doorway. December 16
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- Updated current progress
- Added note to mana flask - Changed passive tree and gear to remove Necromantic Talisman. I tried it with a pretty good amulet (https://imgur.com/a/OgIDKmQ) and it felt about the same as a +1 amulet without NT. +2 is probably better and +3 definitely is. - Added T16 map video. December 17
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- Adjusted supports for SRS build.
- Changed thread title to more specifically describe the build. - Updated current progress and gems. - Changed planned second Reaver curse to Vulnerability. - Replaced Considered Casting with Bidding on Frost Mages. December 18
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- Added optional uniques.
- Added Enfeeble curse as a defensive option. - Replaced Supercritical support with Heavy Swing and adjusted support priority. - Removed the campaign section. Eventually I will make a smooth leveling path but this one was a little sloppy due to experimentation. December 19
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- Carrion Call passive tree optimization.
- Base passive tree optimization. - Updated current progress and gems. December 20
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-Replaced Glaciation and Deep Freeze with Cold Exposure and Cold Mastery on Frost Mages
December 22
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- Added Concentrated Effect as an option for Frost Mages
- Added Danse Macabre to Pain Offering and moved Persistence as an option for SRS - Updated current gems Last edited by Anomaly33#2899 on Dec 22, 2024, 11:52:58 AM Last bumped on Dec 22, 2024, 1:02:23 AM
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I see you go into the defense and offense tree which seems to be recommneded (First time ever play POE so questions are just curious...I know nothing )
- You touch crit but do avoid the "fire" up in the tree despite this being an ignite build...Is ignite not fire? - we have a node that pays mana before life and some node which raise life/life reg ...is this just to traverse to aura nodes? You are far far ahead of me...i just know i want a with with minions and this leaned into fire damage for me...so why do you want to focus on crit? |
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"The idea is for the player to mostly afk, just using skills to keep Infernal Flame high while minions carry most of the damage. To my understanding things like "fire damage" or "spell damage" will not help minions. Could be wrong for sure. "The node that pays mana before life should translate to Infernal Flame. It could be that this will brick the build and I'll need to change it but in my head it sounds like it will be a really nice defensive layer with minimal downside. The 20% life regen/ 5% recoup node towards the bottom may be better spent elsewhere; I'm sure the tree will have a couple minor changes like that by/in endgame. But yes the aura nodes are mandatory IMO. Very strong for only having to travel that far. "Crits = bigger hit = bigger ignite should be the case. Last edited by Anomaly33#2899 on Dec 6, 2024, 1:36:30 PM
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looks decent, also curious about the fire cluster at the top but we will need to get there before we can know, I guess.
what I am most curious about is strength stacking, how if at all it effects our ascendency's life drain. If the life drain is a flat amount then it could be extremely beneficial to str stack. |
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This looks great, can you just tell me, for the nodes with +5 all attributes, what do you have selected? In general, I chose intelligence all the time, but I saw that some support skills require strength, so if you don't mind explaining to me if you have it somewhere, where and how much?
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Tree seems nice . Which gems will you use and support gems?
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The tree looks great, can you also let me know what skills you using please, and also the support gems.
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Added temporary skills to the OP
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Thank you .
Last edited by ReconeMarine#4418 on Dec 7, 2024, 4:11:29 PM
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Whats ascendancy points did you go in first?
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