Blackflame Covenant?

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Vekks#5850 wrote:

you still can't get +level to fire spells with +chaos damage on equipment so the build is a non-starter no matter what you do.

But you can get +level of all spell skills with % increased chaos damage and % increased spell damage combined, but I doubt that this is required for the build to work.

You're thinking too small...

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C4Guy#0918 wrote:

I suppose the whole idea of that keystone is to give chaos builds additional spells they can use without having to invest in +x% to fire damage nodes or gear affixes.
My Lich is not that far yet, but I'm certainly going to experiment with that eventually.

i tried this briefly and found you absolutely need 'Ignite Build up'/flammability to even deal damage, any damage with this node. the flammability workng like freeze build up is way over constraining considering you get 0 utility from that ailment.

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C4Guy#0918 wrote:

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Vekks#5850 wrote:

you still can't get +level to fire spells with +chaos damage on equipment so the build is a non-starter no matter what you do.

But you can get +level of all spell skills with % increased chaos damage and % increased spell damage combined, but I doubt that this is required for the build to work.

You're thinking too small...

okay, so let's say we're okay taking the +level to all spells over a dedicated fire/chaos spells, you're accepting a -1 spell level disadvantage to cast both chaos and fire spells while only doing chaos damage, and the fire spells aren't tagged as chaos so things like contagion/dark effigy are not going to spread or target your ignited targets even though it's dealing chaos damage. i might be thinking too small, you're right, but i still can't see how this build would function or why you wouldn't just pick essence drain lich instead.