The Pyromantical Allstars|Recoup on Block|The Return of Aegis Aurora|MoM CI|Arsonist-Minions 3M

Mapping, medium juiced, Alkem Eira T15 Forge of the Titans, budget 10 exalts
https://youtu.be/zxRXIG8uhdo

Breach Run, Pinnacle Breach Lord, Stormweaver Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCHVWzHBUJw&t=13s

Chopper Citadel, Jamanra the Abomination
https://youtu.be/Nujr_j1o41c

As example: in a row of 10 hits, each 100% damage, 1000% damage is incoming.
Rounded down we block 70%, 7x100% incoming damage.
And we take 3x not blocked hits, that is 300% out of of 1000% incoming damage.
Then we recoup 7x100% of blocked and 3x90% of unblocked hits, in total we recoup 970% of only 300% damage taken.

When wanted we maximize recoupings further with "Adverse Growth" to over 1030% and accelerate them with passives of "Pliable Flesh" to 6 seconds. Here the Chronomancer shines with fastest recoupings speedful quickened to 2 seconds.

With other words: Blockings and Recoupings can be counted in this build equal to 300% more effective health points / ehp and equal to around 300%-400% of damage taken recouped.

Only in a few damagepeaks (i.e. start of a ritual, high distance on huge maps to delirium mirror) recoupings are too slow and we need some movement, active blocking with raised shield, grim feast and usage of the mana+life-flask beside. That's enough for almost instant full Health-pool/Manabuffer-Recoupings against dot and in high poe-content until t16-18.

PRO

■ Budget: Probably one of the cheapest combinations to carry into T-15 endgame. Because es, mana, block and recoupings are useable, the gear is extreme flexible in all affixes and as result cheapest in trade.

■ Starter: Blockings, Es and MoM are awesome tanky - no problems with bosses in the whole game and campaign.

■ Tank and Allrounder with 2M DPS: Most other minion-builds rely on permanent kiting and hiding - this one not. 2M damage burst bosses down into the ground in 1-3 seconds. Can instant-skip some boss-phases.

■ Perfect: Can easy stack 200-300% item rarity on rings, gear and phiole in this January 25 current PoE 2 EA magicfind-meta (When wanted. I hate to mention this mechanic, but it's equal to 10x and more loot in juiced high maps.)

■ Flexibilty: Arsonists are by far the best allrounder-minions and still the fastest mapclearers.

■ Variations: Many other minion- and spiritskills can be fast switched in, like Skeletal Boss Snipers, Skeletal Frost Mages, Storm Mages, Brutes, Archmage-skills, etc.

■ Runs all map-mods

■ All content viable


CONTRA

■ The entire screen being always in fire gets tiring at some point.

Bracketed supports, i.e. Culling strike, Mobility, Arcane tempo, Inspiration, Font of Mana, Wind Wave and more can flexible be used where ever you favourize to link them.


The Minions

5-12 Skeletal Arsonists

Skeletal Arsonist + Scattershot + Martial Tempo + Fire Infusion + Consecrated Effect + Immolate

Our main damageskill. Use also often their active firebomb-skill.
Against huge-size bosses with large hit-boxes, like most rares, Titan, Chayula, Arbiter, etc., Consecrated effect is best.
Without Consecrated Effect you can instead regret the passives of minion-aoe like "Right hand of Darkness" when wanted.
Only against small enemies with small hitboxes use instead feeding frenzy or other supports.
Huge buff to the keyskill Grim Feast beside with triggering sometimes remnants.

10-11 Raging Spirits

Raging Spirits + Infernal Legion + Fire Exposure + Feeding Frenzy + Fire Penetration + Heft + Fire Mastery

Raging Spirits are also exploded by the active Skeletal Arsonists' skill.
Fire exposure is as Infernalist linked to Hellhound, in other ascendancies linked to Raging Spirits.

1-2 Skeletal Clerics

Skeletal Cleric + Ingenuity + Last Gasp + Meat Shield + Minion Mastery

Because we invest not much into minion-survivability very important.

2 Skeleton Warriors

Skeleton Warriors + Blind + Bludgeon + Maim + Culling Strike

Our meat-shields.

As Infernalist 1 Hellhound

Hell Hound + Fire Exposure + Strip Away + Elemental Army + Culling Strike + Eternal Flame

Takes damage in our place and 20% fire exposures.
Fire exposure is as Infernalist linked to Hellhound, in other ascendancies linked to Raging Spirits.

Direct Minions

Bind in the game-menue in the game-options under controls the "Command minions" to a key you prefer like "3" to convocate them in some maps like dungeon-layouts faster to your side.

Also running a room further often revive and teleports the pyromaniac-gang to your side when they got stucked.
Alternative casting a pain offering into the constipation helps often.


The Buffings

Flame Wall

Flame Wall + Fortress + Energy Barrier + Arcane Surge ( + Spell Cascade )

Summone Raging Spirits and buff the Arsonists bomb-projectiles and our own spells with fire-damage and ignites going through flamewall.


Fireball

Fireball + Wild Shards + Fiery Death + Wind Wave ( + Unleash ) ( + Mobility ) ( + Fire Exposure ) ( + Arcane Tempo )

To procc more raging spirits on wide range and by offscreen killed mobs es by grim feast for remnants.
When you like firewoks deluxe, with Unleash full 10 Raging Spirits are born.
For visual clarity go better without Unleash.
When you have fps-drops, change out wild shards (or avoid maps with shocking, burning, chilled, caustic ground).


Pain Offering

Pain Offering + Font of Rage + Ablation + Danse Macabre + Magnified Effect + Persistence

Can be buffed 100% with passives on the tree of weaponswapping.


The Curses and Debuffings

Flammability

Flammability + Cursed Ground + Heightened Curse + Burning Inscription + Focussed Curse + Mobility ( + Spell Cascade )

Should be buffed 100% with 24 passives on the tree for weaponswapping with "Master of Hexes", "Lingering Whipsers", "Zone of Control", "Impending Doom" and "Fated End" you buff your curses almost 100%.
Visit the guidings in the spoiler "The Damagescaling step by step:
Miniondamage | Minionlife | Weaponswapping"


Second Curse Enfeeble

Enfeeble + Hexbloom + Focussed Curse

With 1 passive "Whispers of doom" you can weaponswap to Enfeeble beside.


The Tanky Skills

Grim Feast

Grim Feast ( + Herbalism ) ( + Clarity )

Our keyskill for recovery and doubled overflow of energyshield.
Take herbalism or clarity only when you have enough spirit, not in exchange of minions.


The Panicbutton - Freaky Frostwalls

Frost Wall + Spell Cascade + Glacial + Mana Fontain

You can block much with frostwalls, also for a bit damage, instead with your shield. You can dodgeroll through the walls, but in the end of the day the wallings will lower your clearspeed much.
The walls also protect your minions for better survivability and uptime.
You can switch the Rattling Sceptre to other Sceptres because the Skeletal warriors meatshield are far less effective when whole walls take their place.
To not be surrounded the b.i.s.-skill for breaches, expeditions, essences and rituals.


Raise Shield

Full tankyness for a few hits.




Order of upgrades

■ With your new uncut skillgems, jeweller orbs and gemcutters first always upgrade to the next higher level:

"Skeletal Arsonists"
>> "Raging Spirits" (Spiritgem)
>> "Grim Feast"
>> "Skeletal Clerics"
>> "Pain Offering"


Flexible supports

■ Bracketed supports, i.e. Culling strike, Mobility, Arcane tempo, Inspiration, Font of Mana, Wind Wave and more can flexible be used where ever you favourize to link them.

■ In my experiences only where we link spell cascade is making a recognisable difference.
I recommend to link it to the Frost Wall for best protecting minions and ourselfes in breaches, expeditions and rituals. But cascade is helpfull also for Flammability + Cursed Ground or for Flamewall too.


Weaponswapping | More skills

■ When you want more skillpossibilities, a good rolled unset ring can easy be geared or instead flameball outswitched.



Alternative skills



... other skills soon to be checked:

Be careful and keep range in the first seconds of a fight or map until some recoupings and overflows of grim feasts were builded up.

Then, when you want to take the abilities of the build to the limits, you rotate tanky and damage-abilities.

Tanky skills

With upraised shield you block 100% of all hits and recover your complete pool of es, mana and life.

When you move you block 75% and recharge + double your full es with the white orbs of grim feast.

When your Solarissister shout "Out of mana" use fast 2-3x your manaflask similar to a life-flask.



Damageskills

Cast fireballs to activate hidden mobs ranged and to apply fire-exposures.

Cast flamewalls to ignite the projectiles of your skeletons.

Cast flammability for the big buff.

Cast pain offering for the bigger buff.

Cast the explosion-skill of the skeletons to burst bosses and though rares fast down.

The Combo and Controls

Take the controls and keybindindings intuitive you like and prefer. Different gamers like different keybindings.

Mouse and Keyboard

As example I like to push the buffs directed from left to right.

Against bosses the damage is fastest bursted in example with the order of keys:

Q - Fireball

W - Flamewall

E - Flammability

R - Pain Offering

T - Spam Arsonists Firebombs

Other Controls

Left Mouse - Movement only

Right Mouse - Raise Shield

Middle Mouse - Frost Wall / Eye of Winter / Blink / etc.

Space Bar - Dodge Roll

3 - Direct Minions (in the game options binded)

4 - Enfeeble

5, 6 - More controls when needed


WASD

A bit faster changing of movement is possible when you handle the 4 additional keys.


Controller

Ingame very good, but not optimal for inventory-managament, trades and passive tree.

■ Recommended starter skills are spark - controlled destruction - unleash - pierce, fired through flamewall - fortress - spell cascade, skeleton snipers - feeding frenzy - heft - martial tempo, use also often their special ability gas arrow, and frostbomb - second wind - abisolation
Get a +1 Rattling Sceptre by the vendor Una.
When you want to facetank bosses, use the ability "raise shield". Block nonstop and spam your spells and buffs.
Use the dodgeroll when you were surrounded.
Cast your flamewalls and rush on, the ignites and snipers will finish the job.

■ All key-items are available at lvl 1/2/3.
As soon as you stashed your first currency, exalts, alchs, chaos, vaals, get the unique shield, second the body-armour and third the belt cheap in trade.
Get fast movementspeed on boots.
Then with your next wealth get jeweller orbs for 4 and 5 links raging spirits and arsonists.

■ With level 4 uncut skillgem get Skeletal Arsonists - Scuttershot - Martial Tempo - Consecrated Effect
Use often their special ability Explosive Doom to bomb bosses and rares fast down.

■ On the passivetree path as Infernalist first across miniondamage. Then head to Mind over Matter and to the western blockings of Wide Barrier. Then stack the freeze- and stun-immunities, finally max all es-wheels and jewelslots.

Levelling Trees: In the ascendancies Chronomancer and Stormweaver start across spelldamage-notes. As soon as you reached the first minion damagewheel, regret out the spelldamage-passives and take the shortest way around instead for some minion-damage-passives more.

■ Minionbuilds get fast and charming around level 12 with the first spirit-gem cutted into "Raging Spirits" in the first ritual nest-map Freydorn after defeating the King in the Mists. Support Raging Spirits - Feeding Frenzy - Heft - Infernal Legion. Activate Raging Spirits in the skillgem-menue with leftclick.

■ Link Fire Exposure to the Hellhound as Infernalist. In other Ascendancies link Fire Exposure to Raging Spirits.

■ High resis are often cheapest stacked on an ruby- or unset-ring. Raise and cap early your elemental resis.

■ Around lvl 31 with a lvl 9 uncut skillgem get Fireball. Use it instead spark to summon more raging Spirits.

■ Raise your elemental resistances in "prism guard" in the tree until you cap them on gear.

■ Get some chaos-resis for act VI too.

■ +1 / +2 / +3 to lvl of all minions are cheapest got on weapon > helmet > amulet

■ With your new uncut skillgems first always upgrade to the next higher level:

"Skeletal Arsonists"
>> "Raging Spirits"
>> "Grim Feast" (Spiritgem)
>> "Skeletal Clerics"
>> "Pain Offering"

■ Charms. Probably start with elemental resis on them, switch later around act II / III to freezings immunities

■ Spam the "explosion"-firebomb-skill of the Arsonists to burst bosses faster down.

■ Do all quests for additional spirit and passives in the campaign.

■ Visit the tailored tradelinks in the last spoiler of the build.

■ After a level-up visit always the vendors. You will find continuously better +1/+2/+3/+4/+5/+6 to all minion-gems sceptres in their offerings.

Choice in the valley of the titans act2

Choose 1 (Choice can be changed at Waypoint Valley of the Titans, buff is given twice)
+30% Increased Charm Charges
+15% Mana Recovery from Flasks

30% Charm charges gained is the better choice.


Choose 1 (Choice cannot be changed)
25% increased Stun Threshold
30% increased Elemental Ailment Threshold
25% increased Mana Regeneration Rate

Choose Elemental Ailments Threshould



Choose 1 (Choice cannot be changed)
+10% Chaos Resistance
+5 to All Attributes
+15% reduced Slowing Potency

Choose reduced Slowing Potency

When you enter higher poe-content, have the seven passives to travel to Eternal Youth, the capacities to get stun- and freeze-immunities, and a budget of thumbed 1 div for a high es body-armour, this build transforms into a new life in immunity to chaos.

With a new body-armour with high es above 250 (up to 600-1000) and some spirit, the CI-Transformation is easy done. Get high es-boots, es-gloves and es-helmet too.

Now collecting the Remnants of Grim Feast is the decisive layer of overflowing and recovery of the energyshield. With flamewall and flameball an optimal recovery is gained with best uptime of 10 exploding Raging Spirits proccing Grim Feast. Beside a good rolled lifeflask recovers thousand of es with the keystone Eternal Youth.

Mana-Recoupings and some stacked Mana remain as last buffer and final bastion of tankyness. Now mana-recoupings were reliable built up in the first moments of fights, because before the energyshield-pool is protecting.

As CI we are also full bleeding- and poison-immune.


Pro and Con CI - Hybrid | Variation Hybrid es + life + mana as Infernalist and Chronomancer

"Mind over Matter"

Mind over Matter lift the mana up into our health pool and enables with our key-items in total 330% of damage and more to recoup overstacked as mana.


"Eternal Youth"

Is awesome for better usage of lifeflasks.
We scale the recovery with flasks by the belt Midnight Braid and the suppport Herbalism by 60% further.
When we get the expensive unique wardflask Olroth's Resolve in lategame no longer needed.


"Chaos Inoculation"

Around lvl 80, above t12 maps, when you have the budget of 1 or 2 divs, CI is the next level in tankyness.

[This is noted january 2025, in times es and grim feast dominates completely the poe-meta.]

As CI our energshield is used first and only after the fast recouped MoM mana is used as last barrier in our health-pool. This way mana-recoupings are reliable builded up until it's needed most when energyshield is deleted. Now the shield and belt still protects as last buffer in damagepeaks until more remnants of grim feast are collected and for high manacosts of skills beside.


Alternatives

"Whispers of Doom"

is very interesting for a second curse like Enfeeble and used with the weaponswapping, an unset ring or pushing out fireball.


Not recommended:

This build is, in these early poe2-days in january 2025, designed for the ascendancy Infernalist and also useable as Warbringer, Chronomancer and as Stormweaver and other north-western-based ascendancies.

The Infernalist-Ascendancy remains strongest for minions. Warbringer grants a good mix of tankyness and totems too. Chronomancer has fastest recoupings and best scaled recovery. With damagescaling of an elemental skill and buffing exposures Stormweaver fits also.

All alternative Ascendancy passive trees you find in the PoB2 scrolling up above the levelling trees.

Ascend.:___Inferna_Chrono_Warbri_Storm

DPS singletarget___1____4____3____4

DPS high density___1____4____3____4

Tankyness________3____1____1____2

Levelling Lvl 1-70__1____3____2____2

Gearing Lvl 70-100_1____2____2____3



Take the Ascendancy Infernalist in this order:

1 - Loyal Hellhound

2 - Altered Flesh

3 - Beidat's Will

4 - Beidat`s Hand

Both CI as well as es + mana + life works.
As Infernalist switch the Bodyarmour in endgame to a high es-armour with the passives "Ancient Aegis" for 100% increased energyshield on the tree.
Alternative gear the uniques Bitterbloom
Feathered Robe (starts es-recharge on using manaflask) or Enfolding Dawn Pilgrim Vestments (+45 resis, +100 Spirit).

The Infernalist reaches 25-35% more damage as all other ascendancies.



Take the Ascendancy Warbringer in this order:

1 - Renky's Training (Blockchances)

2 - Turtle Charm (Blocking Aoe's)

3 - Warcaller's Bellow (Damage)

4 - Jade Heritage (Panicbutton)

The God of Block 2.
The Warbringer can block also aoe`s and slams and so recoups much more from blocked big boss oneshots.
Stack additional blockchances on the megalomania, the amulet anoint, and rare jewels to reach 70-75% blockchances.



Take the Ascendancy Chronomancer in this order:

1 - Circular Heartbeat (Recoupings)

2 - The Rapid River (Recoupings)

3 - Footprints in the Sand (Panicbutton)

4 - Ultimate Command (Time Freeze)

The Chronomancer shines with fastest recoupings.
She speedful quickens them from 8 down to to 3 seconds. That could be counted as 250% increased effect of recoupings.

Path passives to "Pliable Flesh" and the jewel slot next to it instead to an es-wheel.
Both CI as well as es + mana + life works.

Levelling Trees: In the ascendancies Chronomancer and Stormweaver start across spelldamage-notes. As soon as you reached the first minion damagewheel, regret out the spelldamage-passives and take the shortest way around instead for some minion-damage-passives more.



Take the Ascendancy Stormweaver in this order:

1 - Heart of the Storm (Recoupings)

2 - Scouring Winds (Exposure-Buff)

3 - Constant Gale (Arcane Surge)

4 - Force of Will (Mana-Reg)

When the anounced spell totems are arriving in poe 2, the Stormweaver will probably deal 100% fire exposure.

Levelling Trees: In the ascendancies Chronomancer and Stormweaver start across spelldamage-notes. As soon as you reached the first minion damagewheel, regret out the spelldamage-passives and take the shortest way around instead for some minion-damage-passives more.


The details of the Ascendancies | Infernalist | Warbringer | Chronomancer | Stormweaver

Three Uniques


Alkem Eira & Midnight Braid & Ghostwrite

This build focus on overcapping all sources of substain.

This combination of 3 unique pieces remember of the meta-shield in PoE 1 aegis aurora.

The more damage you block and take, the more health you will recover on block and recoup.


Shield Alkem Eira - Aegis Aurora 2.0

■ The Implicit Increased blockchances is essential to cap 60-75% block.




Belt Midnight Braid

The belt is weared to overstack mana-recoupings.
Some resis are always welcomed.
We are combinating increased life-flask-recovery of the belt (and skillsupport herbalism) with the keystone "Eternal Youth" to improve the es-recovery with flasks beside.



Body Armour Ghostwrithe

■ Best Implicit is #% Damage recouped as mana
■ In endgame around t-12 maps, lvl 80, we switch it out as CI for a rare body armour, +600-800 es, +spirit, +some resis or ignite reductions




The Rare Pieces


Weapon

■ A Rattling Sceptre with skeleton-warriors supports good.
Take it with +5/+6 to miniongems, increased miniondamage/attackspeed, and increased spirit.


Helmet

■ Get +1/+2 to all minion gems on helmet.

Amulet

The amulet is (as well as the boots) the gearpiece where your first divines are good used for effective stats.

■ Get +1/+2/+3 to all minion gems on amulet too.
■ Focus second on high 45+ spirit (suffix or suffix + implicit of sun-amulet)
■ Get #% of damage taken recouped as mana.

Anoint

■ Enchant / Anoint the amulet with the Distillings: Greed, Fear, Suffering for the passive-notable "Deflection", 30% increased blockchance, 10% damage of blocked hits taken. Before you anoint your amulet with distilled emotions for "Deflection", path instead on the tree into the blockings in "Towering Shield".

■ Also on a megalomaniac diamond jewel 2-3 needed notables for blockchances, defences and qol can be placed.


Much cheaper fitting starting-anoints as examples is:

"Back in Action", 80% increased Stun Recovery: Ire, Guilt, Greed


More variations for amulet-anoints:

Boots

■ Most wanted stat is 30%-35% increased movementspeed.
■ Reduction of freeze-durations is a gamechanger in rituals, deliriums etc.


Rings

■ Cap elemental resistances on them.
■ Get high mana.
■ Best spot for 2x +50% Increased Item Rarity.
■ You can increase all ring effects by 40%-80% with the belt-variation Ingenuity.


Gloves

Simply used to cap all resistances and to get high es and some mana.




Other Prefixes

■ Increased Spirit >> Mana >> +Energyshield >> Armour.

(Avoid evasion, we prefer to block and recoup.
Only in lower levels +life is good stacked too.)

Other Suffixes

■ +1 to all Minion gems >> Elemental Resis >> before CI Chaos Resis >> #% Damage recouped as mana >> Needed Strength / Attributes >> Increased Rarity

■ In lategame stacked 100%-200% Increased Rarity of Items found is welcomed beside to get more currency dropped. Easy and cheap add 2x +50% on the 2 rings. On gloves, helmet, boots and amulet more can be squeezed in.

Best Implicits | Best Enchants

■ Shield: Increased blockchances
■ Unique Bodyarmour Ghostwrithe: #%Damage taken recouped as mana
■ Rare Bodyarmour as CI: +1% max resis

Best Runes and Soulcores

■ Bodyarmour Rune: Increased Energyshield
■ Helmet: Increased Energyshield or Elemental Resis
■ Boots: Corruption Increased Movementspeed, Rune Elemental Resistances
■ Gloves Rune: Elemental Resis



Variations

Prism of Belief

The unique jewel 'Prism of Belief', +1/+2/+3 to Skeletal Arsonists, is the best-in-slot upgrade.


5-7 rare jewels

Further 5-7 rare jewels are slotted in for more damage, energyshield, +max cold resis and other buffs.

Most wanted Affixes on rare jewels

Minions deal #% increased damage
>> Minions have increased attack- and castspeed
>> Increased chance to block
>> Increased Energyshield
>> gain #% of maximum energyshield as extra stun treshold
>> #% increased freeze threshold
>> reduced ailment duration
>> debuffs expire 15% faster
>> minions have +10% to life / all elemental resistances
>> increased duration / life of offerings
>> increased skill effect durations
>> increased effects of curses
>> #% increased curse duration
>> Minions have increased area of effect
>> +2% max cold resis to stack 82%-90%
>> #% increased mana regeneration rate


Megalomaniac Diamond

When you want some more defences and qol, a Megalomaniac Diamond allocates 2-3 notables from the tree. Pliable Flesh for faster recoupings, es- or blocknotes, some +max resis or ailment reductions are quite attractive when you find them in the mix.

B.i.s. Megalomaniac Diamonds, with 2 b.i.s. notables:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/9mvLOYQSK
Megalomaniacs, with 1 b.i.s. notable:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/YMEEoBkcY

All useable notables:


Against the Darkness

The Time-Lost Diamond with 2 very good fitting affixes, like notable passive skills in radius also grant +15 to Spirit and reduced freeze-durations can be interesting.


From Nothing

is a great levelling jewel and also in lategame useable for some tanky notes.
The passives around Glancing Blows stack 27% blockchances (instead deflection), and around Necromantic Talisman fine to use are Eldritch Will (Es & Stun Threshold), Adverse Growth (Mana recouped), Regenerative Flesh (Minion-recoupings)


Alternatives

Flasks

Simply get faster and increased recoveries on your flasks.

Avoid #% life taken from mana and #% mana taken from life.

In lategame the flask Olroth's Resolve adds some ward when you want to free up the 7 passives Eternal Youth for different goals.

Charms

Lower Levels

In early game use what you lack most: ele-resis, stun-immunities, freezing-immunities, bleeding-immunities.
As affixes more uptime and more charges are prefered.


Higher Levels

When you reached good stun-immunities on the passive tree in "dampening shield" and "eldritch will", and freeze-durations-reductions in the tree with "Icebreaker" and on boots, in lategame-maps the silver charms against slowings are most recommended.

The Scaling

Minion-Skill-Levels

Gemlevels are probably the biggest important upgrade and scale miniondamage as well as minionlife. In average each additional level buffs the damage 15%.

■ When you get higher uncut-gems, always instant upgrade the level lvl 19 >> lvl 20 >> lvl 21 of the Skeletal Arsonists >> Raging Spirits >> Skeletal Clerics
■ After a level-up visit always the vendors. You will find continuously better +1/+2/+3/+4/+5/+6 to all minion-gems rattling sceptres in their offerings.
■ +1/+2 on rare helmet
■ +1/+2/+3 on rare amulet
■ +1 supportgem minion mastery
■ +1/+2/+3 jewel 'Prism of Belief'

Lvl 28-33 should be reached for high poe-content like t-18 maps.

4 -> 5 -> 6-Links

Of course improve with greater and perfect Jeweller Orbs full space for 4 and 5 supportskills.

Supports

Use the damage-supports:

Skeletal Arsonist + Scattershot + Martial Tempo + Fire Infusion + Consecrated Effect + Immolate

Raging Spirits + Infernal Legion + Fire Exposure + Feeding Frenzy + Fire Penetration + Heft + Fire Mastery

Fire exposure is as Infernalist linked to Hellhound, in other ascendancies linked to Raging Spirits.

Spirit

Spirit is the next massive pillar of damagescaling.

Spirit is stacked consequent as high as possible to command more Skeletal Arsonist, 1-2 Skeletal Clerics and to activate "Grim Feast" to double and recharge Energyshield:

■ in 3 sidequests in the campaign (+100)
■ on the rare weapon rattling sceptre (+100)
■ as suffix increased spirit on the rare weapon rattling sceptre (+60 up to +130)
■ as enchant on the rare helmet (+30)
■ as suffix on the rare amulet (+50)
■ as implicit on a 'solar'-amulet (+20)
■ as suffix on the rare bodyarmour (+60)
■ in the passive tree reduced spirit reservation costs in the minionpassive 'Lord of Horrors'

Miniondamage

This factor of our offences is straight maxed to 250-350%:

■ On the tree path to all fast reached minionwheels
■ On the weapon / Rattling Sceptre (70%)
■ 6-8 flexible rare jewels (each 15% miniondamage and 4% attackspeed)
■ buffed by pain offering

Minionattackspeed

■ Pain Offering, Font of Rage and the supportgem Martial Tempo buff minionattackspeed for the Skeletal Arsonists high.
■ 6-8 flexible rare jewels (each 4% attackspeed and 15% miniondamage)
■ But attackspeed does not buff the explosions of raging spirits and not much the manually controlled fire bombs of the arsonists.

Minion increased area of effect

■ The combination of the support "Scuttershot" and "Right hand of Darkness" for increased minion area of effect on the tree (or instead supportgem "Magnified Effect") tripples the damage of the Arsonists bomb-projectiles.

Minion Jewels

■ 1 unique jewel 'Prism of Belief', +1/+2/+3 to Skeletal Arsonists level (or cheaper Raging Spirits) is used for 15-45% more damage
■ 5-7 rare jewels are slotted, each Minions deal #% increased damage and Minions have increased attack- and castspeed, each for thumbed 12% more damage

Minionlife

■ Minionlife buffs the ignites of 10-11 Raging Spirits with the support Elemental Army.
■ Further the Minion Instability-Explosions of Raging Spirits are supported when used.
■ It also buffs the uptime of the Skeletal Arsonists and other minions.
■ Minon Reviving is buffed with each available wheel in the passivetree and is needed for fast mapping
■ For peaky poe2-content like i.e. some weird stacked delirious t-17 mapmods, more minion-survivability like ele-resis > life > physical dr > es > chaos-resis etc. is recommended.

Minion Crits

■ When you want to balance further more into damage, path into the 10 minion-crit-passives for thumbed 15% damage.
■ Not easy to scale high up, Minion-Base-Crit is low 5%.

Buffs and Debuffs

Follow the spoiler "The skills and supports" for the complete line-up.

Pain Offering is the biggest buff.
Flammability is awesome, buff it with weaponswapping.

Fire Exposure is linked as Infernalist to the Hellhound and in other Ascendancies to the Raging Spirits.

Minion Accuracy

■ Avoid. Not relevant, because Arsonists and Raging Spirits use mainly aoe-skills and ignites without accuracy.



Weaponswapping

I am myself still optimizing the weaponswapping with 24 flexible passives on the tree.

Until now there are 4 possible nice set-ups specializing into additional second skills and weapons.




Damage Calculation

Thumbed total dps is around 2M, when you focus on dps easy 2.5M and much more can be balanced in (in exchange for 25% decreased energyshield and 10% mana).

I.e. typical lvl 30 arsonists, 9k sheet-dps ingame, this x3 overlapping shotgunning fiery concoction projectiles.
Then x9 arsonists, that are 243k base dps.
Multiplied by 55%+30%+10% more damage, +30% ats of pain offering, danse maccabre, font of rage, culling strike, that are around 550k.
The debuffings on mobs 100% + 30% by exposure and flammability - that should be in total around 1.25M damage dealt solely by the arsonists. With fiering through flame wall for increased damage and ignites around 1.4M - without their bombs of doom, without 11 additional raging spirits, without better gear or b.i.s.-jewels for 10-11 arsonists, and without explosions of fiery death-support and 3 frost walls counted in.

Pob2 in the moment still does not calculate shotgunning increased projectiles of scattershot, In many other stats, like exposures, curses, spirit, heft-support, accuracy and ignites, gem groups, recoupings, flasks, charms, es, ehp and many skills, like culling strike, flame wall-effects, font of rage and hellhound it`s bugged too.

So with the exposures, additional projectiles, font of rage, weaponswapping, buffed flammability, culling strike etc. included the ingame dps should be much higher, thumbed somewhere around 2.5M-4M.

Hope I did the damagecalculation correct. PoB2 will calculate soon more correct the bugged stats, yuchuuu.

That is not top of the peak, but for a tank, in this shy lower budget, with minions, it`s in a good bright spot.

Attributes

Resistances

Energyshield

Mana

Ailments

Blockings

Recoupings | Recovery

Spirit

Crafting

About the build

The build structure is organized in thematical spoilers like build-mechanics, gear, jewels, charms, checklists stats, damage, defences, etc.

The spoilers and the pob are developed like toolboxes for you to fit into different levels, different budgets, different poe-content, individual playstyles, prefered skills and trigger etc...

The b.i.s. affixes and implicits of gear are noted in the relating sections and a second time in the list of poe-tradelinks too.


The alternatives you find next to every gearpiece /jewel in separated subspoilers.
The first explained variation is recommended first, the second at second, etc.

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What should I upgrade when? Tl;Dr

What are dangerous mods and content for this build?

I am dying often

My minions are dying very often

My minions are getting stucked in doors and gateways

Which PoE-Content do you personally prefer and farm? | Ranking PoE2 Content

Want more damage?

Fps-Drops?

What is pob2? | poewiki? | lootfilter / neversink? | tradefilter for pricechecking / sidekick?

Thanks to my heroes of skulls Kripparian, Steelmage, Hoffen, GhazzyTV and BalorMage!

Most supports of the minionskills I used out of their youtube-guides. Thank you very much for your awesome optimized combinations!

I added by myself only a new tree, new gear, new keystones, new skills, a new mana-set-up, some new supports, new jewels and new defensive layers ....

Thanks a lot to chrischoi#5738, Omat1c#4152, shibuyaku#4694 and to TehR-5738 for very good postings and questions!



I enjoy the community and discussions and questions very much and learn a lot! Thank you!

Informations:



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What is this kind of language?

Prefer when possible the tradelinks titled "b.i.s.-upgrade".

You can reduce / lower the item-filters.

To get cheaper, easier and more tradeoffers, open in the tradelinks the added filters of searching and delete, exchange, reduce, or also of course increase, some added stats and filters manually.

Often the traderatio exalts - divines is totally incorrect, adjust the wanted currency in the filters: Under "Trade Filters" input a Maximum buyout price in Exalted Orbs to avoid issues with items listed for Divine Orbs or other currencies.

To get best quality in results you need to change the "tradefilters" in "buyout price" to "exalted equivalent" or to "divine" in final endgame.

Example prices: online trades only, 2nd cheapest offer

Content

1. Lvl 1-100 The unique keygear: Shield, belt, bodyarmour
2. Lvl 1-70 Cheap rare startergear: Boots, helmet, rings, gloves
3. Lvl 70-100 CI - Transformation (above t-14), amulet + anoint, the rare b.i.s. gear
4. Lvl 30-100 Jewels: Prism of Belief, Megalomaniac, rare jewels
5. Skillgems: 6-Links, Jeweller Orbs
6. Flasks
7. Others / Alternatives


1. Lvl 1-100 The unique keygear: Shield, belt, bodyarmour


2. Lvl 1-70 Cheap rare startergear: Boots, helmet, rings, gloves


3. Lvl 70-100 CI - Transformation (above t-14), amulet + anoint, the rare b.i.s. gear

4. Jewels: Prism of Belief, Megalomaniac, rare jewels

5. Skillgems: 6-Links, Jeweller Orbs

6. Flasks

7. Others / Alternatives / Variations

To be edited / soon:


1.2.25

Improved starterskills and guidings in "Tipps for Levelling"
Optimized the levelling trees in PoB in a few passives


28.1.25

Added 3 new videos: "About burstdamage", "About tankyness", "Breachrun"
Improved order of spoilers
Improved Arsonists supports with Consecrated Effect
Improved Raging Spirit supports
Improved weaponswapping pob-tree
Added guiding about weaponswapping in the spoiler "The Damagescaling step by step: Miniondamage | Minionlife | Weaponswapping"
Started the guidings about "The details of the Ascendancies"


23.1.25

Improved all levelling-trees
Improved the sections "megalomaniac" / "amulet-anoint" and "damagescaling step by step"


21.1.25

Added a video "Breach Run"
Added Megalomaniacs
Improved passive tree to cross one more jewelslot
Improved the spoilers "gear" and "tradelinks"
Improved some tradelinks, i.e. rare bodyarmour


19.1.25

Published PoB2 The Pyromantical Allstars
Reacting to the poe2 patch including improvements to minion movement, I changed out the passives around Relentless Fallen, minion-movementspeed is not longer that benefitial
Reacting to needing more minion survivability in t17 delirious content, I switched into physical damage reductions and chaos-resis for minions instead straight stacking solely minion life
Many stats, skills and supports are still bugged (scattershot, culling strike, curses, font of rage, etc.)
Added levelling trees 20 - 40 - 60 - 80 - 100 - 120 passive-points
Added alternative trees Warbringer, Chronomancer and Stormweaver


18.1.25

Added a new spoiler about choices in the campaign
Added jewel 'Prism of Belief' +1/+2/+3 to Arsonists


15.1.25

10 k views


13.1.25

Improved tree with "Icebreaker" against freezings
Recommended slowing immunities as chosen charm against drowning orbs
Improved many minor details and minor guidings in almost all spoilers


8.1.25

Titled "The Pyromantical Allstars"
Added 2 new videos juiced red t-17 mapping
Cleaned up and improved the spoiler "gear"
Improved almost all spoilers in minor guidings and details
Added on passive tree "eldritch will" against stuns
Changed out exploding spirits "minion instability" for continuous more damage-uptime


2.1.25

Edited the "checklists stats": Attributes | Resistances | Ailments | Es | Mana | Block | Recouping | Spirit | Miniondamage | Weaponswapping | Craftings

Added guidings about the meanings and purposes of the stats and the shortlists for best statsstacking with gear and passive tree for each stat
Improved and edited the spoiler "faq"
Added the spoiler "CI - Transformation" for content above t12 maps, around lvl 80, budget 1-2 div needed
Added 2 new videos, bossing and mapping, Forge of the Titans / Titan Boss T15
Improved the spoilers "poe-tradelinks" and "build-mechanics"
Started the spoiler "PRO | CON"


27.12.24

Improved many poe-tradelinks


19.12.24

Improved some guidings
Improved many spoilers
Added some unique gear- and flask-variations


17.12.24

Published the build "Aegis Aurora 2.0"

🌬️⛵☁️[3.25] The dirty Scorpion-tail | Chaos-Necromancy 600M+ | Cyclone+Herald of Agony | CI Necro | The Arachnophobia Allstars

Trickster - The tank

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3477280

Necro - The DD

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3264207

Which ascendancy?