🔺 Infernalist Iron Ward+Pyromantic Pact+The Rat Cage [Help Needed]

I posted on poe2builds reddit and figured to post it here and maybe reach GGG to help this work better.



I came up with this concept while trying to figure out builds for 0.4, but the problem here is how to get more damage while being tanky with it.
I need to test more and see if the damage can be scaled, but it is very harded because it is bottlenecked by the fact that the it isn't an attack nor a spell, and it isn't a skill either its just a buff. Because it has no of the previous tags it can't use any of the good supports for damage.

If anyone has any clue on how to scale the damage, make it map, etc, please help me.

@ggg please fix

Is this even a hit?

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Skellymancer#5263 wrote:

Is this even a hit?

I need to test yet as I'm leveling a witch but poe2wiki says the fire damage taken from pyromantic pact counts as a hit.

Well this skill has brutal increase from leveling, if you can feed it.

Obviously Uhtred's Augury is straight up 50% more damage stored.

And for the skills you should check:

1. The physical tag to scale with stuff like brutality.
2. AOE tag to scale with higher area of effect.
3. Potential use of Bleed 3.

Now as for the tree:

1. Most important to test: "Made to Last" for infinite recoup.
2. Test with global physical damage nodes (up to 220%)
3. Test 7 jewel sockets.
4. Test 90% armor to elemental damage (skipping the fire nodes, we do not care).
5. Brute strength, because we travel a lot on the tree, this node alone is 20%.
6. Some armor nodes, block, etc... this will be melee build after all.

With all this, we are talking about something that is definitely not a league starter.

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Disclaimer: This what I am saying is mostly brain farts. You should doubt every single word read and double check absolutely everything.

How are you gonna spam mana fast enough to fill the iron ward though, at this point might just go regular caster without it.

Scold's Bridle (with stacking mana / Archmage to increase mana costs) might be better than Pyromantic Pact + Rat Cage because
- You take 25-100% of upfront mana costs as physical hit damage
- They're smaller but more frequent hits than the one from Pyromantic Pact, so Armour is more effective at preventing the damage

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Tekkar#0132 wrote:

Scold's Bridle (with stacking mana / Archmage to increase mana costs) might be better than Pyromantic Pact + Rat Cage because
- You take 25-100% of upfront mana costs as physical hit damage
- They're smaller but more frequent hits than the one from Pyromantic Pact, so Armour is more effective at preventing the damage

I've already made a new post with Gemling Legionaire and Heartbound Loop rings which is better than this solution and scold's in my opinion.