[Nemesis] Avatar of Fire, Shield Charge, and Smoke Mine Oh My!

And now for something completely different... and it works!

So I got tired of the usual specs (reave, spectral throw, CoC, etc) and wanted to try something a little different - Avatar of Fire. Now this passive has been repeatedly tweaked over the years and today it's a bit harder to make useful... but I wanted to make it work so I came up with the following.

+Shield Charge
+Smoke Mine

Place a mine, charge in at full distance (giving you 200% "more" damage on hit), teleport back (fixing any desync issues and making the charge very safe).

Rinse, lather, repeat.

Currently I'm doing a mixture of Piety runs and low level maps (as you'll see, my gear still needs work). Packs die in 1-hit usually (even rares), Spinecrack dies in one hit, Kronk in two. The build works a lot better in groups or with a party (since the mobs will focus on someone else while you run in/out) but is completely manageable solo.

Some great points about the build:

-Most bosses are an absolute joke with a "bro" skeleton+blind totem and you charging in and teleporting back.
-Corrputing Blood does nothing to you, since most die in 2-3 hits total.
-Elemental Reflect does nothing to you. The majority of the damage is from the burning effect.. and not entirely sure why, this could be bug, but I can even spam infernal blow on uniques and take almost zero damage..
-It's a lot of fun and very cheap to build!



Here's the build:


Some key items for the build:

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Taming is just a real nice to have, just got mine! The rest are all extremely easy and cheap to obtain.

Skill gems and links:


Rest of my gear:

Key points:

Defenses:

DPS:

Videos:

Looking for feedback, thoughts, or just let me know things you want to see added to this. The build is a ton of fun and real easy to put together.

Enjoy!

Awesome! wanted to do that since avatar of fire came out. didnt thought of dydadus though with a 6 linked it may can be replaced with a high dmg mace.

it nice to see something different than the usual stuff. good on you for finding something creative that works for you.

reserv

Would love to see a video of this...

I'll make a video of a piety run later tonight assuming I can grab the time.

Replacing Dyadus is gonna be pretty hard - the ignite chance is extremely important because charging and not igniting sucks. It's also pure fire, whereas I lose a lot of physical damage from avatar of fire (25%).

Hi !

Thank you for this I was looking for that kind of stuff. Always wanted to play a fire templar as if I was an Hox of Age of conan =).

Nevertheless, I was wondering how did you spend your passive points from level 1 to 30 for instance ? What are the key nodes to have ?

Thank you very much for your help and advices

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i hope we will get videos and stuff

Ive been leveling with this, im lvl 39 atm and i do like no burning dmg, and it takes so many hit to even ignite. my gem has 31$ chance to ignite atm + the 11% from my curse. The build also has 0 life regen or mana regen, so im having srs problems with that aswell, how do you run 2 auras without life regen and mana?

Hi.

First Shield Charge build that I see. Need a video soon guy, it could be funny.

PS : Why not Increased Burning Damage instead of Melee Physical Damage/chance to ignite?

PS2 : MultiStrike (or melee splash for packs) with your Skeleton could be good -> more hit = more chance to blind.