[HC] Righteous Fire Marauder (Ampiii lv. 89) Useless as of 0.11.0!

Yeah, only get it if you have a good base spell which is worth boosting dps on.

I do use determination, I supposed I'm a bit squishier, but it's not really noticeable (I tanked a maze Vaal smash for science and it only hit me for 4k).

I tried going the mana regen route, but it was too big of an investment for me, I had to use LMP instead of GMP even with a high regen ring and many points invested into regen talents. You can make it work but I didn't think it was worth it.

They already know about this build. Its been on the build of the week series before. I forgot which week it was.

BTW : Amp, could you post a newer video of you doing 70+ maps? Or maybe even testing out pvp/giving us a pvp guide?

Sure I'll make a video eventually, busy with school etc atm.

Thanks for your response! I know that you've switched over to Freezing Pulse, using RF to boost your spell damage, but is using RF as one's primary dps skill still viable?

I noticed that you used Whirling Blades for mobility in your gameplay vid. Would it be possible/viable to use Lightning Warp?

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malboro_urchin wrote:

Thanks for your response! I know that you've switched over to Freezing Pulse, using RF to boost your spell damage, but is using RF as one's primary dps skill still viable?

I noticed that you used Whirling Blades for mobility in your gameplay vid. Would it be possible/viable to use Lightning Warp?

Lightning warp wouldn't be as effective, the thing is, with whirling blades, you can whirl to a location and deal damage along the way however if you lightning warp you won't be able to face roll through mobs like WB

Amp: does life leech work with Rf?

Amp, before switching to Freezing Pulse, you used Elemental Weakness as your Curse. Why not Vulnerability? The increased degen damage would definitely apply to Righteous Fire, and since you'd only really be using it for the 40% detgen damage (which doesn't change with level), you'd be able to keep the gem at lv 1 and a low mana cost (unless you really wanted the increased aoe, which you have in your passive tree).

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malboro_urchin wrote:

Thanks for your response! I know that you've switched over to Freezing Pulse, using RF to boost your spell damage, but is using RF as one's primary dps skill still viable?

I noticed that you used Whirling Blades for mobility in your gameplay vid. Would it be possible/viable to use Lightning Warp?

I basically ended up with my dps split half using FP half using RF, my FP has a tooltip dps of 1100+ so 5500 dps close range with gmp, my RF dps is still 6.5k or so. So yeah, I think it's perfectly viable, especially considering half of your dps doesn't get reflected back.

You can use lightning warp if you'd prefer, I mostly use whirling blades to run around now and I've instead started using flicker strike to get from one mob to the other.

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Amp: does life leech work with Rf?

It doesn't

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Amp, before switching to Freezing Pulse, you used Elemental Weakness as your Curse. Why not Vulnerability? The increased degen damage would definitely apply to Righteous Fire, and since you'd only really be using it for the 40% detgen damage (which doesn't change with level), you'd be able to keep the gem at lv 1 and a low mana cost (unless you really wanted the increased aoe, which you have in your passive tree).

That could've been a good idea with the old build and I should look into it, but now that I'm using FP as a primary source of damage as well as the group utility provided by ele weakness, I think it's much stronger overall. Not to mention vulnerability still won't be that great vs high fire resist mobs which are the main issue with kill speed anyway.

If you're using another skill as your main source of DPS, why not make a low life witch with shavvrones build? Wouldnt that be more effective?

You can't make a low life shavronne's witch with anywhere near the mobility/survivability of my spec. The primary goal for my build isn't to maximize damage, it's to make a tank that still does high dps.

Not to mention the loss of vision is a HUGE downside to any lowlife build.

And I wouldn't consider FP to be my primary source of dps, I'm split 50/50 between FP (5.5k dps) and RF (6.5k dps)