[2.3]InfernalBlow FaceBreaker - 100% Fire - 2 Curses - 11 Grand Spectrum - Abyssus Free - 118K DPS

From the creator of the warden's brand ring



2.4 ?

The build is still viable in 2.4

+ Slight nerf in AOE
+ Slight nerf agains boss due to curse effectiveness
+ More option due to the warden's brand ring.
+ Better ring due to the new physical ring

Didn't test it but we could replace BOR with Heretic Veil, Warden Brand and any good body armor

Our curse would be stronger, higher level faster attack and more melee physical.

Viable ?

+ Can do at least T14 (didn't test higher map yet)
+ Can do Poorjoy's Asylum
+ Can do Council
+ Can do Uber Lab

Didn't test Artizi

How it is different than most FaceBreaker build

100% Fire, Scale both the initial hit and the explosion
Doesn't use Abyssus, but still reach 80,000 DPS without buff and 118,000 DPS with buff
Doesn't scale defense with Armour or Evasion
2 defensive curses (Temp and Enfeeble) and +curse effect
Good AOE
> 180 INT and >130 DEX
Expensive
- 1 to 2 EX per grand spectrum depending of the market price
- 30C for the Bringer of Rain with the enfeeble enchant
- 30C for a good FaceBreaker
- At least 1 EX per rings or amulet
- 20C for a good Great Old One's Ward

How does it work ?

+ Infernal Blow and Avatar of Fire convert 100% of physical damage into Fire
+ 11 Grand Spectrum Jewel give 605% increase elemental damage
+ Elemental Damage and Fire Damage both scale the hit and the explosion

It is hardcore viable ?

Not with my skill !

I would recommend to take 9 to 10 jewel in HC and invest more into Life. We have a lot of life available on the tree.

The build is very tanky when you start investing into the curse.

Tree

http://www.poeplanner.com/AAIAAUxBQUlFQVFNQWVRRHVCTE1GTFEwZkVROFZJQlp2R0ZZWWFobTBHamdjM0IwVUh4Z2k0aWN2S2swczZTMkRMbE15MFRXU09sZzdEVHdGUENnOExUOG5RWWRETVVWSFJaMUhma2ZpU3NoTV8xSDdVMUpWeGxnSFdmTmZPV1ZOWmxSbW5taFlhR1ZvZEdxVGJxcHZPM0lQY3FsMDdYYXNlQTE0TDNydmU4TjgyWHpsZzEtRHpJYXppZGlLcjRyd2p4cVBScEFSa0ZXVWI1cmdteTJib1p5LW45LWlBS1E1cHdpc21LeXFyNDJ3cTdYeXR6NjlOcjZud0JyQVpzU0N4UGJHcnMwV3ozN1RiOVpZMTViWXZkcGkyc0hqYXVvWTYtN3ZmT19yODkzM012ZlgtT3Y1NlByU19nb01jQ2VmVWRxRnA0YTBsU1NsTmJLQQAIQUFBQUFRQUEAAA==

+ Collect Jewel and Life
+ Get Mana leech early
+ Get AOE node after level 70
+ Get Curse node after level 80



Bandits

Normal - Life
Cruel - Point
Merciless - Point

I will respect at level 92 to get a frenzy charge in Merciless. Jewel, Life and Curse are more important than an extra Frenzy.

Ascendancy

1. Slayer
2. Slayer
3. Slayer

Slayer give you

+ Free Melee Splash (Mandatory for Infernal Blow)
+ Free AOE
+ Free Onslaught
+ Free 20% Curling Strike
+ Immune to Stun
+ Immune to Bleed (and Corrupting Blood)
+ Massive leech due to our massive overkill damage

In order

1. Impact
2. Endless Hunger
3. Bane of Legends
4. Brutal Fervour (Defense) or Headsman (Offense)

I went with Brutal Fervour.

We don't need Overwhelm since we stun monster a lot



Gears



Ring - Life/Phys DMG/Res
Amulet - Life/Phys DMG/Res
Boots - Life/Res/Mov

Gems

+ Infernal Blow, Added Fire, Fire Pen & Elemental Focus (in Bringer of Rain)

Added Fire is a 44% More damage
Fire Penetration is required for mobs with high fire resistance
Elemental Focus is a 49% More damage, it scales both the initial hits and the explosion

+ Blasphemy + Enfeeble + Temporal Chain (Replace Temporal Chain with Arctic Armour if only one curse)

Massive defense boost

+ Shield Charge, Fortify, Faster Attack, Endurance Charge on Melee Stun

Mobility and extra defensive layer with Fortify and some endurance charge

+ Cast on Damage Taken + Chaos Golem

Extra defensive layers with the Chaos Golem. We don't have enough mana to cast it manually.

+ Herald of Ash (with Prolif if only one curse)

15% More damage, our increase elemental damage % scale the burning damage

+ Blood Rage

Boost our DPS

Defense

+ Enfeeble with 30% increase curse effect from Tree
+ Temporal Chain with 30% increase curse effect
+ Fortify on movement skill
+ Can use Arctic Armour in Hex Proof Map
+ Massive leech from slayer (we do a lot of overkill damage)
+ 5.3K Life



Offense

+ 35% Increase Area of Effect
+ 697% increase damage for the initial hit on the tree (613% Elemental + 20 % Area + 64% Melee)
+ 633% increase damage for the explosion on the tree
+ Massive single hit damage (up to 48K unbuffed)
+ Easy to maintain Onslaught
+ Herald of Fire (633% increased effect)



For a more defensive build, it is possible to trade one or two grand spectrum for more life node. We are close to many life node on the tree. This would make the build HC viable

Reflect

+ Immune to physical reflect
+ Never died to Rare with elemental reflect
+ Don't do map with elemental reflect

Helm Enchants

1 Enfeeble effect
2 Temporal Chain effect
3 Infernal Blow area of effect
4 Infernal Blow damage
5 Arctic Armour effect (if only one curse)

Map

Can do most of the map mods except Elemental Reflect

These mods make the build less efficient

+ No Life/Mana Regen (bring a Mana flask or drop HoA or a curse)
+ Hexproof (put Arctic Armour)
+ Blood Magic

Gameplay

Work in progress

Plateau - http://plays.tv/video/5782e51e1e8ac52a19/infernal-faceslayer-plateau-pathofexile-dualist-slayer-facebreaker
Crematarium Boss - http://plays.tv/video/579223dfa918cd837c/crematarium-boss

Why you don't use Abyssus

Getting 11 jewel slot demands a good investment in passives point. After getting life and jewel, there is not a lot of point left to invest into armor. Without a lot of armor, it would be kind of a suicide to wear Abyssus.

Since we have a massive increase elemental damage from the Grand Spectrum jewel, we use instead



Explosion Damage - Path of Math

10% life * (1 + 6.33) * 1.49 = 109%

Each mob deal 109% of their life total as fire damage to nearby mobs.

We can one-shot boss in high level maps if they have a blue pack near them.

Special Thanks to

KorgothBG - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/445390
ZenocideGenius - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/934859

Started to play FaceBreaker because of ZenocideGenius.
KorgothBG has the best forum thread for Infernal Blow + FaceBreaker.

reserved

Very very nice build!

I was wondering what an Infernal Blow build would look like while using the Grand Spectrum viridian jewels would do with that skill.

My worry with these types of builds is survivability, though. Is the build pretty tanky even without the enfeeble helm enchant on The Bringer of Rain? There doesn't seem to be a lot of them available at this time...

Thank you for the comment !

I was using enfeeble and arctic armour until level 90 without any good helm enchant. I brought a enchant for arctic armour and then saw the enfeeble helm available like 1 hour after.

With fortify, arctic armour and enfeeble the character is not squishy.
With fortify, temp chain and enfeeble the character is tanky.
With fortify, temp chain and enfeeble (boosted by helm) the character is REALLY tanky.

Please note that the slayer leech is crazy. It is always on because the build does crazy overkill damage.

So when you went for Merc Labs, what did you spec into? The AoE or the Bane of Legends?


I'm going to try and get to the level required for The Bringer of Rain today.. (I hope).

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Pracis wrote:

So when you went for Merc Labs, what did you spec into? The AoE or the Bane of Legends?


I'm going to try and get to the level required for The Bringer of Rain today.. (I hope).

Good luck for the leveling ! As I said, I selected the ascendancy in this order

1. Impact
2. Endless Hunger
3. Bane of Legends

normal: Impact is by far the best, so I took it in normal
cruel: Endless Hunger is very nice for survivability
merci: Bane of Legends is very nice increase in DPS and movement speed

added a video

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omirandette wrote:

(we do a lot of overkill damage)

Well that's the understatement of the year.

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link1313 wrote:

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omirandette wrote:

(we do a lot of overkill damage)

Well that's the understatement of the year.

I did some test and the leech was running for multiple minutes after I cleared half of the map ! I got bored ...

This looks amazing and I'm going to do this asap! haha

Rock on mate!