

I take blast shield to 10/12 breakpoint, if you want more damage you can move it to 5/10 and put points back into arcane empowerment. Max fire strike line other than explosive strike at soft cap. Skill callouts: We 1 point WPS but with Luminari set get good bonuses to them anyway. High conversion roll is nice for brimstone shards but not a bigger priority than useful affixes. Once again looking for damage, hp, OA in this slot. Shoulders: Haunted Shoulderpads, our second MI and also highly farmable. This slot will get more testing with both Dawnshard Grip and Chilling Grip of Hagarrad having potential. Gloves: Runesinged Handguards provide stats and some not totally wasted skill bonuses. Wyrmscale can work here if you make up the HP with MI rolls We want the aether conversion for attak seru, and gives us a source of HP/OA/resists/+ fire strike with a lucky roll.īoots: Elemental boots are a mixed bag, and we need both slow and stun resist, so I went crafted magelord. One of our MIs, thankfully an easy one to farm in high quantities. Combustion worth trying as well not that the build is stable, although we have a solid amount of RR.īelt: Ugdenbog Waistguard. Relic: Running Bane for stats and survival. To test option is Alek’s Chausses, but the physique requirement makes me sad. We leverage the + skills, can use the OA, and the proc has a reasonably long uptime for how quickly we murder most things, pushing phys res up and super overcapping the rest. Tested against dummy and they were a bit slower on this layout.
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Other potential option is 1-2 jaxxon rings for more brimstone shotgun, but since we don’t get full conversion on brimstone shards and it provides no attack speed or elemental damage %, they stay on the bench. We’re light on stun resist so you do want to craft a couple items for that. Prettiest proc in the game, solid stats other than no lightning damage, and craftable. It’s not bad though and gives another aura with some life steal.

Last option is Tainted Ruby of Gar’dal, but as mentioned I really wanted to hold +1 demo for skill points and fire strike line. I hate building with kaisan necklaces though so it was tested without. Best option is going to be a kaisan burning eye, as you still get +1 all and then HP built in, which is the biggest build need. Cold is our lowest damage pool, and in practice seemed a wash against Runefather %s. Nightstalker pendant is another option, also +1 all, adds some firestrike bonuses and OA. It’s honestly not great but helps our primary damage amounts and extra resist tank isn’t the worst. +1 all, fire and lightning %, and raised elemental resist cap. Really wanted to get +1 demo, and 3 primary options jump out. We don’t have passthrough but going elemental we’ll have AoE tricks in the devotion tree beyond brimstone spam

Sigillis gets us elemental firestrike (although lacking brimstone shard conversion still, hoping this is updated in 1.1.9.1) bonuses and another +1 inquisitor. On a point hungry class it can be tough to walk away with only a single class +1 from the helm and a weapon, but tradeoff is worth it here. Set gives us a bunch of points to WPS, +1 inquis, an RR aura, physical res, and a big chunk of pierce conversion that helps with those higher than normal WPS ranks. 4-5 crafts, go stun resist until comfortable and then physique for the rest.Ĭore: Luminari set + Arcanum Sigillis. Different affixes on the 2 green items, and especially a good kaisan necklace, can make this manageable and allow for 85 clears as well. Don’t try to hero Alek’s meteors, and even those jerk shamblers rock toss can result in death on a lucky hit and procs down. You can tank large groups and nemesis fine in seal, but the classic one shots are a real concern. This thing slaps way harder than I expected. A reminder, especially on firestrike with so much damage wrapped up in the skill line (and WPS), to not get suckered by low GT sheet damage. Also still on a pureish elemental damage kick so I decided to pull out the blue Luminari set that hasn’t seen a thread since maybe AoM and give it a spin with very surprising results. I’ve been mostly doing the unloved ranged AAs for awhile but wanted to come back to relative easytown of fire strike. I tried elemental firestrike purifier with sigillis and phasebreaker back in 1.1.7 or so, was okay but very glassy.
