The Community's Flame Surge Build, By The Community For The Community

I chose Fire Trap because RF and SB for a few reasons. First both are amazing killers on their own. Searing Bond is going to be more difficult to keep the burning constantly on the targets and will take longer to spread the burn as well. RF we have to really be up in the bosses face. You will probably spend more time manuvering around the boss and doging then you will be attacking so it just takes it back to more of the standard RF build in my opinion.

Fire trap we can just throw once or twice and cover a very large portion of the screen. They walk in, and boom burning. Trap explodes and crits, burning while spreading with ele prolif. Trap didnt crit but we got chance to ignite, boom burning and spreading with ele prolif. Flammability if being used dmg + chance to ignite, same idea. Fire and forget. This makes it a true Flame Surge build by letting us focus on the skill we are building for, Flame Surge.

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Firstly explore everything, break everything... As a new character this can lead to some easy extra chaos, even an exalted orb. For example: I got my first ex of the league from a barrel in act1 cruel graveyard. $$ is everywhere, it only goes to those who look.

Orbs of Alterations (18 to 20:1 chaos)
Orbs of Fusing (2:1 chaos)
Jewlers Orbs (8:1 chaos)
Gemcutters Prisms (1:2 chaos or sometimes 2:3 chaos)
Orbs of Regret (Sell these in bundles: 3:4c).

These are what I generally will try and sell these for on the market. We are looking to try and get as much bang for our buck without spending too much time trying to sell things. By this you should at least have your Multistrike by the early to mid 20's.

Selling quality gems you will not use is another easy chaos gain, use poe.xyz.is to price them as well as uniques you may find.

This method also plays into the an easy way to gear... see the next section

First, we use poe.xyz.is. Make sure you select the appropriate league.

Enter your parameters and hit search.

example:
I want a chest so I select "body"

I want armor or armor evasion so I simply put a "1" in min under armor and this will at least give me all the armor, armor evasion, and armor energy shield options (we can neglect this last one).

I need fire resists:
I select +#% to Fire Resists

I also need some cold resists:
I press "add mod" and then select +#% to cold resists

I lastly would like to try and get some HP on the item as well
I select +# to maximum life

Select buyout and online now (if in a rush) to see the most convenient options available. The same idea can be applied to purchasing end game items but do not just simply shop online now. Check out all your options and add the player to your friends list if they are not online and wait a bit for them to appear. When you add them right click and "edit note". here put the item name and price you were looking for. Helps a lot.

Now most upgrades should be listed around 1 chaos or so, for leveling gear at least... 99% of the time you can contact the player and since leveling rares don't move fast you can probably pick it up by offering 1 fusing, or 10 alts, or even an alchemy for it.

That is gearing on a budget and is a great way to keep your defenses capt.