Firestorm Templar [my current build]

@seg_fault. Would love to hear how you do starting in cruel difficulty! I have really been trying to work up a build for a fire witch but then somebody in that section mentioned templars....so here I am! Very interested so far. I think I'm set to making a fire spell based templar now. It won't sway me either way but out of curiosity how do you think a templar stacks next to a witch for this sort of build? Anyhow! thanks a lot and I'll be checking in here often to see how you do :)

PS I remember somebody else mentioning in the witch section they combined Added cold damage to firestorm and with so many hits most things were frozen. They said it was crazy good...sounds interesting. I'll have to try it to see how well it really works.

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Teflondon1975 wrote:

@seg_fault. Would love to hear how you do starting in cruel difficulty! I have really been trying to work up a build for a fire witch but then somebody in that section mentioned templars....so here I am! Very interested so far. I think I'm set to making a fire spell based templar now. It won't sway me either way but out of curiosity how do you think a templar stacks next to a witch for this sort of build? Anyhow! thanks a lot and I'll be checking in here often to see how you do :)

PS I remember somebody else mentioning in the witch section they combined Added cold damage to firestorm and with so many hits most things were frozen. They said it was crazy good...sounds interesting. I'll have to try it to see how well it really works.

If I wasn't randomly disconnected every 5 mins last night I would have been able to found out. :) I got to the quest to kill piety but couldn't not progress because of the random disconnects. But hopefully tonight will be a better experience. I will keep you upto date with how things are going. To now the going is still good, I am pretty confident this will continue in cruel.

p.s. I have updated my original post to contain the skills I am currently using which now include Firesotrm, Fireball and Fire Totem... along with the Flammability curse.

Nice build seg, almost exactly same as what i'm aiming for

Love idea of burning things and the dragon fireball effect is great (which is main reason i've gone for this build). Am a few levels behind you but thoroughly enjoying so far. Found an added cold damage gem last night which cant wait to try later

Still using decoy totem as havent found any others, but its proving effective


Does anyone know if increased AOE skills effect the blast of fireball?

I was thinking of using detonate as well for blowing stuff up whilst raining fire down on them

Thanks foetal.

I am sure that Fireball does AOE because Fireball does do splash damage.

When you use one Fireball on an group normally it will hit a few of them for dmg/burn... normally a few will flinch back... The radius of this effect is by definition Area of Effect. So by that logic it surely must affect Fireball too. Though the full affect of the radius might not be hugely noticeable until the gem is leveled up.

Just thought I'd throw up my thoughts for a 70 point build. I did not change anything you had taken just added some more. I added more HP/ES/Armor(I am playing this in HC...and I like to be sure) I added some more to resists. I added Inner force as it just rocks and it was close. 30% to any pot buff or aura is really good. I added eldritch battery for a huge mana pool and along the way there is not much in the way of fire/spell damage that you did not already take but there WAS plenty of crit chance/modifier. That is pretty darn doable at 70 points and there is many places just one point away for a lot more HP or straight str/int whatever is needed. Actually a ton more crit Really close by to if more is wanted.

Just wanted to thank you, seg_fault, for sharing your thoughts with noobs like me who want to set stuff on fire. Great work man, keep on! ;)
Also will it work if you link your life steal gem with fire totem spell instead of fireball? Since it gives you life on hit, will it work extremely fast wish this stream of fire?

@Teflondon1975
The extra crit might be the way to go I feel too. I have been trying to hold off committing to ES or going for some more strength to pick up some more better armor. But in a few points time I will be at that crossroad. The eldrich battery route is a definite tempter as when the gems reach higher levels they will surely need that higher mana pool. I am feeling that EB is the way to go.

@Ventel
No worries man. I still feel like a n00b with this game, there are so many possibilities :).
I don't think the Life on Hit works like that in this game. I think it's applied in hits per second so I assume that it would only count as one hit per second, although I am not 100% sure on that.

Hey nice build! I'm trying the same thing right now with Molten Shell probably with tempest shield. Trying to get some block.

Do you think it would be worth going on Crit with this build?
Seems pretty nice as if it crits every projectile crits. What do you think?

I'll definitely be going for some str as I want the big plate armors and shields etc. For the looks(Battlemage plz) AND I've heard you really want some super high physical damage reductions later on to as well as resists. We could, But I'm not going to, get Iron reflexes etc but then ya need dex. NAH! lol. I'm already @14 having some equipment issues with no str.

As to the heal on hit gem I have not yet been able to link it with firestorm to test it but I DO know that gem on my marauder with sweep heals far more times per second than one hehe. Leap slam -> sweep -> full heal(not full...but topped off several hundred) = Thanks! It would almost seem unfair if spells could not utilize this as well. On the flip side spells just Like FS hit so many targets so quickly with little fireballs it would be a bit silly if it Did work lol. Somewhere in between plz!

@Teflondon1975 I followed your recommendation and added the spell crit multiplier nodes that I picked up with my 3 passives I got tonight.

I thought I would make a quick post to update my build+passives on the original post.

I took down Piety on normal pretty easily on the first attempt. Now into Cruel difficulty and I am still one shotting most things. I haven't upgraded any of my gear for a while now so I am very excited to do that at the first opportunity.