[2.5] The FireFly (Burning HoT - insane damage)

Welcome!




I was inspired by Hitma47's burning warp build, so I combined some of the mechanics of it with my own HoT build and created this little gem. (Well there are two versions of it: Life, and CI - they utilize different items and mechanics slightly.)

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For the Life version, click following the link:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1787793
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Sample Vids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBZrEbQBTJk t13 gorge vaal pact run 1:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmNxx7a-NVo&feature=youtu.be Shaper kill


Important items:

10 x Grand Spectrum Viridian Jewels for Pure Raw damage. See budget section for alternative jewels

- grants damage, 2% life leech, and deals fire damage to yourself to proc Ylbane's shocked ground and cwdt gems.

- converts 50% lightning damage to cold. When combined with Avatar of Fire and Cold to Fire gem, HoT does pure fire damage.

- Causes Eye of Innocence to ignite you

- used to proc herald of thunder

Secondary Useful Items:
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- creates shocked ground when hit (can be easily procced with the amulet)

- shocks nearby enemies - can be used to maintain HoT without relying on conflux


Explanation:

There are several mechanics going on here which may seem complicated to a new player. For this build, Avatar of fire makes it so we can only deal fire damage. With gems and gear, Herald of Thunder is fully converted to fire.

To activate Herald of thunder's secondary effect, there are 3 ways:
1) Kill a worm or enemy while Elemental conflux (shock/ele) is active
2) Kill an enemy/ worm on shocked ground created by Ylfeban's Trickery
3) Vessel of vinktar

Realistically, you can easily manage the build using only Elemental Conflux - the other's are pure luxury.

Once HoT's Secondary effect is active, it will hit enemies for massive damage causing ignite. The elementalist's Beacon of Ruin causes the ignite to proliferate, easily melting monster packs and bosses.

Casting a lightning spell such as arc or lightning warp activates mastermind of discord, causing all fire damage to penetrate 25% enemy resists.

Additional Notes:
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- Without vaal pact, zealot's oath is necessary in addition to life leech per second.
- With vaal pact, it is ideal to run warlord's mark for a total of 4% life leech (4.6% with boot enchant).

- Mastermind of Discord + fire pen ignore 40% + 25% fire resist.




Gear:
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Recent upgrades:







Budget Section:
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Okay, so not everyone can afford 10 grand spectrums, or +1 voidbringer's, or a 6l chest. So this section is for you, my poor poor friends.

Instead of Grand spectrum viridian jewels you can use Izaro's Turmoil or look for jewels with:
-lightning damage %
-Fire damage %
-increased damage %




Here are some alternatives for voidbringers with corrupted +1 skills mod:
-Any gloves with +1 skills, or even the vertex helm
-4L gloves with added fire damage hysteria essence
-4L helm with 30% more elemental damage

-4-6l realm ender staff (thanks to "Fhark" for this suggestion)

You can also do the HoT setup in a chest piece. If you got a decent 5-6L es sitting around, try it out!


Some of these alternatives work better as a life version. If you are trying a life version, here are some more interesting ideas:
-Razor of the seventh sun - gain 1% max life each time you ignite an enemy
-+1skills Tabula Rasa
-Kaom's heart!




Links:
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Ghetto Version (good clear speed, low damage against bosses) - has huge aoe (entire screen)
5/6l chest: HoT - fire pen - empower - cold to fire - inc area - inc duration/life leech

4l decoy totem - rallying cry - X - Y

4l cwdt - ice spear - lmp - ball lightning/spell of choice

4l - arc - innervate - curse on hit - flammability or warlord's mark

3l lightning warp - Less duration - faster casting


Expensive Version #1 - Zealot's Oath

If you have +1 gems voidbringer, then this is the best option for damage.
4L - HoT - Fire pen - Empower - Cold to Fire

5/6L - Cwdt - molten shell - fire pen - life leech - fire ball - controlled destruction

4L: cwdt lvl 1 - ice spear - LMP - orb of storms/ball lightning

4L: arc - innervate - rallying cry - culling strike

3L: Lightning Warp - reduced duration - faster casting

3l: blasphemy - flamability or warlords mark - decoy totem


Feel free to try out different setups for utility skills and cwdt.



Expensive Version #2 - Vaal pact

4L - HoT - Fire pen - Empower - Cold to Fire

5/6L - Cwdt - molten shell - fire pen - vaal RF - conc effect - controlled destruction

4L - blasphemy - flammability - warlords mark - enlighten

4L: cwdt lvl 1 - ice spear - LMP - orb of storms/ball lightning

3L - Shield charge - faster attacks - fortify

3L - arc - innervate - decoy totem


If running with the essence enchant weapon (Fire burst)
Fire burst - arc - controlled destruction - innervate

The fire-burst triggers innervate when conflux (shock/ele) is up.

Decoy totem can be swapped in with fortify when needed.



Skill Tree
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Level 91 - Witch - Elementalist

-Beacon of ruin
-Mastermind of discord

Build requires Beacon of ruin before it can successfuly clear maps.

Bandits:
3 x skill points.

Zealot's Oath version (not as strong as Vaal pact)

FireFly

10 x Grand Spectrum - working towards 11th jewel




Vaal Pact version (requires 30% reduced HoT reserve helm enchant)

FireFly Vaal pact with curse nodes


Future of the build:

With a 30% reduced HoT enchant, and a +1 curse Eye of innocence, the build can ditch life regen and run flamability + warlords mark for sustain. Vaal pact would mean instant leech. Here's what the end-game skill tree (lvl 97) looks like

FireFly Leech version



Stats:
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Damage (without Elemental Overload)


Defense



Videos:
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BSC - life version

https://youtu.be/ZVU4hELhXIU



Latest ES build version: Vaal pact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmNxx7a-NVo&feature=youtu.be - shaper kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12FRWQ21sqM - vaal pact plateau map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBZrEbQBTJk - vaal pact gorge


Older build versions - without vaal pact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln12nWAENTU t15 map + bosses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5KktXfwiUw t14 shaped promenade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBcIfdlo5w t11 + some bosses

https://youtu.be/VeqJHacFRHE - t11 easy map




Beach SC Life Version:
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Here is my current BSC character using a life version of the build. I focused on max AoE. No grand spectrums were used.



Jewels used:
16% lightning damage
16% fire damage
10% increased damage


HP= 6k at level 84.
400 life regen


Skill Tree:

FireFly life version

Bandits:
HP - skill - skill

Ascendancy Points:

1) shaper of desolation
2) Beacon of ruin
3) Pendulum of destruction
4) personal choice - liege is better for end game bosses - you get elemental immune golem for tanking as well as 80% increased fire damage.


Lastly, for those who dont understand what is going on, AVATAR of fire only converts 50% of damage to fire, and we lose the other half. To get around this, Call of the brotherhood converts 50% of lightning damage to cold. Lastly, Cold to Fire gem converts the cold damage into fire - working out to almost 100% fire conversion. The Realm Ender staff has a built in Cold to fire gem in it.




Link to Hitma47's burning warp build:




My other builds:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
Last edited by DreamScythe on Dec 9, 2016, 5:22:13 AM
Last bumped on Apr 14, 2017, 8:34:33 PM
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This build is very new, so many of the links may change. The main thing is having a proper set up for HoT.

Just for the record, Vinktar is not required at all, it can sometimes just make it a little bit smoother. Vinktar does absolutely nothing other than shock nearby enemies/worms in addition to being a topaz flask.
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
Last edited by DreamScythe on Sep 24, 2016, 8:42:30 PM
This build its inmune to reflect?
nope. I would not reccommend doing reflect maps. It can handle a reflect monster but thats it.
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
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DreamScythe wrote:
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This build is very new, so many of the links may change. The main thing is having a proper set up for HoT.


could you level with some kind of HOT setup, tabula rasa and such?
would like to try it, but i have absolutely no clue about the mechanics.
could u do higher tier content with it, like guardians and shaper?
IGN: ITwillbeGLORIOUS
This has my vote for BoTW.
Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018.
I think a life version can be done, I would not recommend trying this on HC as it is basically a glass cannon.

It might be hard to level with until at least level 60+. The build requires decent ignite chance (I would say 30+ from gear/skill tree) as well as grand spectrum viridian jewels. Using tabula is fine for a life version, and actually it might be worth running life leech in that setup.

As for endgame content, It should be somewhat doable so long as it isnt immune to ignite. I plan to give shaper a go, as well as the t16 bosses (except for phoenix, hes immune to ignite).
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
I was recently building a similar build to this in HC.
i went life based with EB MOM ZO and was at about 3700 life and 1500 es at lvl 76 with poor mans gear. would have been very tanky by 85 plus i think but i did die anyway on a T2 to a rippy prophecy exile lol.
I was also running Blashpemy enfeeble and Vaal spark to clear faster and for bosses.
but without grand spectrums i dont know how far it would have gone.
Last edited by crispy23 on Sep 24, 2016, 11:35:14 PM
Looks cool. You have a six-link, but as I see it, this is not necessary? The only gem-setup needed for dealing damage is the 4-link HOT?
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MisterHat wrote:
Looks cool. You have a six-link, but as I see it, this is not necessary? The only gem-setup needed for dealing damage is the 4-link HOT?


I switched over from a 6l to the gloves, which left me with a 6l chest. But either way, the 6 link is not required really.
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863

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