Essence of Hysteria | Fire Burst mechanics?

Hey guys, thinking of creating some chieftain build out of this thing, since it got buffed.

For example :
1) if i'm using a 2H weapon with 6S = i don't need links, these 6 gems will be linked to Fire Burst, right?

2) so basically i'll use 4L cyclone with fort + w\e gems, and my Fire Burst will..burst? being benefited from other 6 gems on the weapon?

3) To scale the damage, i just go for "increased fire damage", right?

If everything works as i see in my head, that's an amazing starter, but the issue will be to find Essence of Hysteria.

Does it have different tags than fire? Is there other ways to scale it? AOE? Spell? Attack? Melee? Elemental? etc?

I too am very curious about it.

1. Correct.
2. Correct, it will trigger Fire Burst every hit (1 s cooldown without cdr)
3. Don't know the scaling and the tags yet but poe.db probably has all the answers. Base dmg looks very fine.

That isn't so hard once you reach Haewark. Getting a very good weapon with Fireburst won't be that easy. It is kinda similar to Ngamahu's Axe builds which get used for cyclone a lot.

Pretty much everything you said is correct. Just remember it's a spell rather then an attack. Generic elemental damage or fire damage probably best since you can scale both an attack and fire burst at the same time.

Or you could do stuff with Elemental Equilibrium and use an attack with no fire damage on it to proc it and then let fire burst deal massive damage.

Essence will be a zana mod this league for only 2 chaos, it's one of the early ones you unlock. Grab the Essence nodes in Haewark Haemlet and your good to go. I was actually thinking of doing this if I can find the right build that interests me.

Basically i just need to get lucky and get some currency for pray-spamming essences of a staff


Thanks guys!

And yeah, there's plenty of other tags but i think fire dmg mod is easiest to target

Basically, just starting with some typical chieftain fire dmg melee skill -> getting to maps and hoping for currency\essences -> find a staff -> slot machine the fuck out of spamming essences for that jackpot

Like, if i get +1 gems + fire dmg % + burst = that should be fine until lvl 90, need to consider that it's a 7L basically, so a lot of currency is saved + the dmg is huge

Time to tinker..

How much cooldown reduction is reasonable these days?

+1 gems will hit your supports but wont increase the level of Fire Burst... since it's not from a gem.

oh ur right it is a spell. thats actually better, because you won't need to scale your weapon damage

i would highly suggest taking a staff (not a warstaff) and slamming it with the essence. get some spell damage and such. staff nodes are bonkers for base crit and crit dmg too

fire burst has 6% base crit now too. but you REALLY wanna take advantage of the damage effectiveness at 340%.

the 1s cooldown is really going to be your issue especially when bossing. so investing into cooldown recovery rate is going to be crucial. but your maximum is really only 20% via a belt, so 0.8s cooldown....still kinda yikes.

read up on Cool Down recovery... your .8sec calculation is incorrect. It effects the rate of recovery, not the duration.

going 20% faster doesn't cut your time by 20%.

But what links...not a lot of options right?
Fire pen + Inc AoE + Added Fire + Ele Focus (but still not sure, maybe ignite dps will help?) + Combustion + ...conc eff?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

read up on Cool Down recovery... your .8sec calculation is incorrect. It effects the rate of recovery, not the duration.

going 20% faster doesn't cut your time by 20%.

oh sorry you're right, but it also doesn't change much. 0.83 cooldown.

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shadowthedead wrote:

But what links...not a lot of options right?
Fire pen + Inc AoE + Added Fire + Ele Focus (but still not sure, maybe ignite dps will help?) + Combustion + ...conc eff?

i think best links would be
fire penetration
inspiration (need inspiration on another skill to generate the stacks)
elemental focus
controlled destruction
immolate
awakened increased area of effect/conc effect

get something where you ignite with combustion to reduce their resistances and so immolate can proc linked with inspiration to generate its charges.
like cyclone, combustion, inspiration, life gain on hit or something like that.

added fire wouldn't help because its based on phys dmg, fire burst has no phys dmg. and keep in mind its a spell so controlled destruction and other spell damage increases work

given its damage effectiveness its probably better to roll like added cold instead of inspiration. who knows