Space's Ultimate Incinerate Build - Shock Freeze & Burn Everything! Unstoppable PVP!

Want a build that can: tank it with the best of them while doing overkill dps?

How about a build that can make big sacrifices to go for high IIR and still be incredibly powerful?

Or a build that destroys 90% of builds out there in PVP?

This is such a build.

I always enjoy making builds that focus on cool uniques and their interactions. This build when fully geared uses a variety of uniques to great effect. It features:

High block and spellblock, which combined with Mind over Matter and a lvl 20 Arctic Armor offers great defense.

This high block synergies well with Cybil's paw (life gained per enemy hit by spells is fantastic for incinerate).

In addition, this build will shock, freeze, and burn everything, making it a perfect build to use The Taming with!

Some Highlights!

Incinerate tooltip of 3.5k dps - this is huge for Incinerate - most incinerate builds end up at 1-2k

3.5k life, 3k mana (using Mind Over Matter)

Chance to block attacks: 68%, 65 spellblock (78/74 with anvil)



Videos- (apologies for the poor quality)

1 - lvl 74 Maze map and fighting Vaal oversoul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyaAHeN2oAk&feature=youtu.be


2 - lvl 72 Jungle Valley w/ boss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CwsB9s9P88&feature=youtu.be


The Build


The Gear


Explanation of gear choices


Gem Links


So, How Well Does It Work?

Very, very well. The build has very strong defense from the combination of block, spellblock, Mind over Matter, Arctic Armor, and Blind. This build would do fine in a hardcore league played cautiously. The only thing that has killed me is surprise lightning thorns and Shock and Horror.

Offensively, the build is insane. You can carry a full party in 75's and solo it just melts everything. The shock stacks I apply are a huge, huge bonus for a whole party, not counting the chill/freeze as well. Incinerate damage ramps up as you gain stages - combined with adding shock stacks enemy health often looks like 100% - 90% - 70% -30% - dead. The damage goes up exponentially over just a few seconds of casting.

I have recently been gearing for more IIR. The beautiful thing about block/spellblock is you can sacrifice some resists and it won't be a disaster. I put on IIR gear incrementally depending on the difficulty of the situation. I can run piety with 350/42 no problem, for higher maps i usually run about 250% IIR by switching in Aurseize and 1 Andivarius.


PVP

I won;t go too in depth on this one unless there is interest. Suffice to say out of about 100 high lvl matches I've done I've only lost 2. Block+tempest shield + anvil causes fast attacking build to kill themselves just attacking me. Added chaos dmg bypasses ES and so kills Aegis Aurora builds no problem.
Pretty much any melee build will be easily destroyed. The only builds that have given me trouble are exploding arrow, poison arrow, and RF. RF is doable, but you will need to switch in temporal chains to kill them before they can reach you.

In Conclusion

This is a very powerful build, both offensively and defensively. I've played probably 10 characters to 75+ and this is my favorite by far. The ability to add in IIR gear without compromising dps makes it great for farming, and you can still gear to tackle the toughest maps with only a few change.

I'd love any comments, feedback, or discussion. This has been my 1st guide so I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for reading!

Will keep track of this amazing build!

Hi,

First of all thanks to make a thread about your build.

But, in order to take in mind what your build can do, could you do a little movie for see what it realy do ?

Coz for peoples like me who just have one hight level char, we d'ont realy know what are you speaking about :)


Thanks.


Kringhar, lvl 70 Facebreaker's Marauder.

Hi Azure thanks for commenting. I am working on getting some videos put together of both PvE and PvP. I apologize if this guide is not totally clear to someone without extensive knowledge of game mechanics. Are there any points specifically you would like explained? I am happy to go into more depth for any topic that is unclear.

Hi,

Thanks to answered.

So firstly, for people who don't play a lot ( like me, only after work ) you don't show your build, you explain the synergy between your skills, but not what realy do the build.

Like for exemple we can say that a facebreaker build is a build that use unique gloves facebreaker with somes gemmes to give a powerfull melee char, with hight speed clear, one of best clean pack, it's tank realy well but you'll need at least 1 % life leech, and 1 % mana leech if you want to increase a lot your tankiness and your damages, also, this build have a slow movement speed, so you have to manage it yourself( personnaly i use smoke mine + flasks )

in this case i know that :

It's a melee char
it's a fast attack
it's powerfull in pack
it have good tankiness
it's slow
it's need a bit of gears

indeed like that i can understund the kind of build,

In your i can only see it's a caster, who cast spells and have good damage and work well,


But what does it realy do ? that the real question, for why, a video or an explanation :)

I hope i could help you to make your thread better, also, i'm checking your build coz i was looking in a build like yours, but i don't imagine realy how it's works, what does it do.


Kringhar, lvl 71 Facebreaker Marauder.

To Azure, this build melts things.
Add shock stacks and incinerate's leveling;
This build melts things really fast.
Pretty straightforward.

Is it better than facebreaker build ?

Does it have a good tankiness ?

Is it fast to move / cast ?

low range, high range ?

any cons ?

Please :)

Hi Azure,
To answer your questions:

1. Better than Facebreaker?

- I have a lvl 83 Infernal Blow Facebreaker build, and I can definitely say this build is similar in power to a good Facebreaker build. It's hard to compare melee to a spell build though, there's a lot of differences. As far as DPS, this build is probably more powerful than an average FB build. The main difference for me though is that its just more fun. I enjoy making builds that have interesting interactions between skills and uniques, which this build has. Facebreaker has become somewhat boring to me.

A big difference from facebreaker is that this build is less gear dependent. Facebreaker is really gear dependent so you can't really switch out gear for more IIR stuff. This build you can add in different items with IIR as needed, which is nice.

2. Tankiness?

- Very Very good survivability. with 78 block/74 spellblock, lvl 20 Arctic Armor, and 40% Mind Over Matter from Cloak of Defiance (40% of dmg taken is taken from mana first) this build can handle anything in the game. Add Blind in from Cast when damage taken Firestorm and it gets even better. The only bosses that have given me trouble so far are Shock and Horror and lvl 78 Palace Dominus. Everything else is just fine - crematoium boss, courtyard boss, etc are no problem.

3. Speed?

-Clears very fast. Packs of mobs go down almost instantly, rares take 2-3 seconds maybe. I use Lightning warp + reduced duration + faster casting as a movement skill and its very good.

4. Range

- Incinerate works best up close so the 5 projectiles from Greater Multiple Projectiles Shotgun. That being said, it also works fine in medium - long range, which is very useful for dangerous melee hitters like Brutus etc so you can fight from a distance if you need to. But if you want to get the most dps out of incinerate you want to be right in the enemies face.

5. Cons

- Gear can be expensive to get the best stuff. You can do 90% of this build on a budget, but if you really want to get the high dps #'s you will need to invest in some potentially expensive gear.

-Lightning Thorns - This is the spell that shock mages cast that makes you take dmg every time you hit an enemy. Because incinerate hits so fast it can be dangerous. If you see spark mages just play cautiously and don't try to melt an entire pack where multiple mobs have Lightning Thorns on. If you draw them slowly its fine, just be aware of the risk.

I hope this clears some stuff up for you! Let me know if you have any more questions, and thanks for getting involved!

Thanks a lot for your work.

Also, i think, than only a video or a little show if you play standard, could finaly take me in or out of this build ;)

I agree a lot with you that facebreaker is boring, and also i like funny build, that's for why i make facebreaker ( the fact to hit with fists ) it's powerfull but slow and boring.

IG standard : Kringhar

Currently Online :)


EDIT :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kMDUAkiivo

It's seems similar to your build except the supporteds gemes, what you think about it ?

I would love to see a video if you have one soon, I am seriously thinking of dropping my Pewpew Incinerate build for this one permanently...