[1.3] Mout's flameblast non crit build RF/Dual Curse (up to 4,1k damage clear speed) HC/SC viable

Hi, it's Mout, and i hope you will enjoy this build as much as i do. By the way, this is my first build showcase!

Quick note : the "cheap" RF build totally doable in 1 month league (SC or HC) is in the second post.

A little about me :




I post "another Flameblast build" because i think that there is a combination of items that are totally overlooked and that can totally compete the existing meta items for flameblasters from a cheap price to expensive price and can carry you until the very end game.
Furthermore, my tree is kinda unique because i don't need to focus on ignite chance nor duration nor burning.

Even with physical damage dealers (and there are a lot in this game), i can be ignited :

Thanks to for epic free cast speed.


Crit or non crit build


Specifics of the build :


Key points of the build :


Quest reward :


Standard Softcore specific version :


Synergy :


Vaal Molten Shell abuse:


Offense :
Clear speed setup no flask:



Other setups :


Defense :
No potion :


With Rumi's concoction :


Misc :
No potion :


My current tree :


The final tree :


The final tree if i get an amulet with additional curse (just removing 4 points from curse to get Static blow wheel :


my items :


Items spots, what stats i have to look for :


gems setup :


Which high content can do that build :


PvP viabiliy :


Videos :
Quick atziri run (2 mins presentation first & 6mins the run) : http://youtu.be/WYfvTziGhUk

Cheap RF Flameblast build for 1 month league (SC/HC)

Here a quick look with the damage output only 6S5L Cloak of flame with similar ok gear totally gettable in a short league for cheap investment (except belt probably & corruption on gloves but corruption apart gloves are ok-ish for this build):

Stuff (do not take into account gems in helmet & weapon) :

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Offense (with RF and Elemental proliferation ==> Concentrated effect is not used here) :

Flameblast Mana cost : 20 per cast (cast twice)

Defense :


Arctic Armour level 12 is 100% sustainable with the mana regen (182.3/s)
Mana free : 74 /1461 (rest is reserved) .
Flameblast never deplete the mana unreserved nor any other spell

Tree with 90 points + reward quest 40 max life




Tree change for level 98 :


Gems setup :

3L (weapon/shield) :
- BBR : Herald of thunder /Reduced mana / Righteous fire
- BBR : Lightning warp / Faster casting / reduced duration

4L (helmet/gloves/boots):
- BBBB : Ball lightning (any level) / curse on hit / flammability / Elemental weakness
- RRRB : Vitality / Purity of fire / Clarity / Reduced mana
- RRRR : CwDT 7 / Enduring Cry 9 / Increased duration maxxed / Immortal call 8 (in this order!)

5L6S (chest) BBBRR-G
- Flameblast (here 19/20 for accessible damage output) / Spell echo (17/0 here for accessible cast speed) / Elemental proliferation (swappable with Concentrated effect for boss) / Fire penetration / Iron will // Arctic armour (l12)

Cursing setup :
Curse on hit setup apply Elemental Equilibrium & curses at once (through lightning). The proc of herald of thunder will help in the process to put back Elemental Equilibrium after Flameblast use but you can just cast another ball lightning to get the same effect.

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new data about the build. new gif to show effect of the combination of uniques.

Nice write-up with all the bells and giffles! Cool to see a familiar build taken to those standart limits. :]

I don't think inner force buffs potion effects tho. You may want to look into that.

I played a similar build to lvl 92 in Beyond. Ridiculously good, had no troubles with any of the map bosses. I didn't go for double curse, and instead doubled down on iron will with doon cuebiyari (800+ total str iirc). 6.5k life, played with 7 endurance charges on, no immortal call.

Thanks for your reply, you're totally right about flasks i'm fixing this (they are not known as buff).

Your build was probably very endurant and probably quite strong for a HC league with this setup!

Amazing build!

One of the fastest-clearing ever. And not that much expensive.

Interesting ideas here, but after beta this build will be a lot, lot worse.

- Ele Prolif radius reduced by 3 times
- no more free ignite from quality Flameblast (changed to % inc damage), actually need to invest in it now
- you can't spend 1 point into EB and get a shitton of free mana any more, actually need to invest now
- shocking reworked, now most likely the puny damage from HoT alone won't be enough to shock
- AA is % reserved now
- no cheesy CWDT-EC-IC setup (although just IC is still functional if you can get end charges by other means such as Warlord)
- Inner Force removed entirely
- RM removed

I probably missed some points but this is the general idea

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Interesting ideas here, but after beta this build will be a lot, lot worse.

- Ele Prolif radius reduced by 3 times
- no more free ignite from quality Flameblast (changed to % inc damage), actually need to invest in it now
- you can't spend 1 point into EB and get a shitton of free mana any more, actually need to invest now
- shocking reworked, now most likely the puny damage from HoT alone won't be enough to shock
- AA is % reserved now
- no cheesy CWDT-EC-IC setup (although just IC is still functional if you can get end charges by other means such as Warlord)
- Inner Force removed entirely
- RM removed

I probably missed some points but this is the general idea

you're totally right, that's why i posted that in the first spoiler :

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First of all, i have played this build since 1.1 and played a lot of characters since the open beta.
I consider myself as an experienced theorycrafter & normally i never post a build because i dislike the market impact it has, potential nerf which can occur and to see many copies of the same build during parties.
But the incoming change in 2.0 forced me to post this build as a reminder & will provide you, i hope, nice data.

- When EB is not really free mana for my current build (my ES on item is just super low and doesn't worth to spend 6 points to get EB), it was mostly used to get 0 ES in the calculation of RF (and like 300+ max mana as a side effect).

- Ele prolif need to be adressed correctly by GGG, in the current beta state it's not rewarding. If you want to get my opinion, the only nerf they need to do in it was to get the gem as it is in live version + 50% reduced duration to force us to get duration nodes + not applied on crit effect in order to be used by non crit build mostly (the one that invest in elemental status effect).

- They reworked the cast speed of flameblast (0.3 to 0.2) and removed the ability to use spell echo in the process (so in short it's a tiny nerf about cast speed but a little buff on each stage). But sadly reworked the quality also when it's obvious that flameblast is a non spammable spell (i think it's a bad move) they force us to take chance to ignite gem as a replacement (of spell echo). The new quality is just a little buff for crit build.

- Inner force has been a problem mostly with low life build abusing of auras and its removal is due to that. Inner force was quite a trade off for Arctic Armour & Righteous fire (opportunity cost). Once again they could have tweaked the data to lock it for low life build.


In each of these changes, in my opinion, they took the shortcut of easiness. Let me be clear, when fire proliferation builds are very strong solo, ignite is by far the weakest status aliment in a 6 men party.

The hardest way was to rework the ignition process with some scaling with the amount of people in the party (less strong in solo, stronger in party) and probably to reward the use of some channeling on Flameblast (weaker spell if you don't channel stronger spell if you do, even more with the augmentation of risk with current mob damage in beta).
Flameblast was really strong as a starter spell in league, flameblast was abused as a dabbing spell but flameblast was on par with Arc (and Vaal storm call) & Ice nova (+ arctic breath) build with the same amount of currencies.

For the concern about HoT, it was a wise move, too many build were running one or two Herald because the impact of them was great.
For reduced mana gem, i understand their concern about aura stacking but the idea to put back enlighten on its feet is quite unreasonable by taking (partially or totally depending of the gem level) the old spot of RM (the flipping in the market is real).


Clarification : i'm not angry, i'm just deep thinking (i'm working as an analyst... maybe it's some work sickness :D).