Elemental Proliferation + Righteous Fire?

Anybody have any idea if this combo works? The damage it deals is considered a "burn" effect, not "fire damage dealt" for most purposes, so will Elemental Proliferation spread the effect of this ability to other nearby enemies, like it would a more typical burn?

It will not. Elemental Proliferation is for elemental status effects only. RF does not apply a status effect. It just burns while you're within the aoe, however, it is buffed by "increased burning damage" passives.

Hrm, wondering how best to support this skill then. Increased AoE seems obvious. I strongly doubt life leech will work, since it reportedly doesn't work with DoTs.

If curious, I'm going for a max fire resist + high% regen build here. If my math is right I can get to 90% fire resist and 10%+ heath regen, thus negating the self-damage entirely, allowing me to use Righteous Fire as a primary source of damage (rather than simply as a way to boost the damage of other spells)

Hell, would the Item Rarity/Quantity supports even work on this spell? If so, I could live with those 3 supporting it. Otherwise, I have no idea what to do here.

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Damon_Tor wrote:

Hrm, wondering how best to support this skill then. Increased AoE seems obvious. I strongly doubt life leech will work, since it reportedly doesn't work with DoTs.

If curious, I'm going for a max fire resist + high% regen build here. If my math is right I can get to 90% fire resist and 10%+ heath regen, thus negating the self-damage entirely, allowing me to use Righteous Fire as a primary source of damage (rather than simply as a way to boost the damage of other spells)

Hell, would the Item Rarity/Quantity supports even work on this spell? If so, I could live with those 3 supporting it. Otherwise, I have no idea what to do here.

I am running a righteous fire build for the "more spell dmg", not sure how you plan to use it for dealing actual aoe dmg around you since I can't imagine it being worth it.

First, the base radius is so small even with increased area support you basically have to facetank everything if you want to reach the mobs with RF. But this by itself is less of a problem. Currently at lvl 77 I have about 450 hp. RF deals 50% of your maximum life as fire dmg around you. 215 degeneration/sec to mobs around me is meaningsless.

Now if you had like 7k hp with a kaoms you would at least do 3.5k/second damage in a small circle around you, which is still bad -> But then you would take 7k fire dmg per second. With 90% fire resistance you would still lose 700 hp/sec and would need every single life regen node and vitality to have any hope of running it. And all for a little dps around you.

Just remember that Inner Force causes Righteous Fire to deal more damage to you.

Well I will also be casting spells, taking advantage of the "more spell damage" buff, so it's not like I intend for RF to be my only source of damage. The AoE is pretty much straight-up melee range, so the sort of tactics that work for any melee guy should work here. With the high HP and maxed resists this build will require, tanking shouldn't be an issue.

My questions remain though: any idea if the damage component of this spell can benefit from:
Life Leech gem
Item Quantity gem
Item Rarity gem

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Just remember that Inner Force causes Righteous Fire to deal more damage to you.

Yes, I am (now) aware of that. It was an error that cost me several Regret orbs.

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Myrthfral wrote:

Just remember that Inner Force causes Righteous Fire to deal more damage to you.

Silly path, self damage isn't a buff.

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shirusen wrote:

Now if you had like 7k hp with a kaoms you would at least do 3.5k/second damage in a small circle around you, which is still bad -> But then you would take 7k fire dmg per second. With 90% fire resistance you would still lose 700 hp/sec and would need every single life regen node and vitality to have any hope of running it. And all for a little dps around you.

7k HP is actually a lowball for someone with Kaom's Heart.
You can get 89% permanent fire resist without inner force.
That means you need 11% health regen per second to completely negate the damage without using pots, whether you have 100hp or 10,000.
By my calculations, you can get 7.9% per second permanently from passives, along with .2% per endurance charge.
This means you need an additional 3% from gear.
This would mean 300 hp per second is required from gear, if you have 10k hp (which I dont think is unreasonable for a build that only focuses on HP and fire resist.)

I am not really sure how achievable this is, now that I run the numbers in my head.
Even with that amount of regen you will only be surviving it, not healing any extra.
A ruby flask and a health pot would go a long way.

Dont forget the Vitality Aura which can get up to around 1.5% as well.