Fireball - support skills?

Hi,

which support and passive skills affect fireball and how?

thanks in advance

There is quite a lot of support gems that can be used with fireball. Faster casting and Greater multiple projectiles/Lesser multiple projectiles is almost always included, but gems like Fire penetration, Chance to ignite, Increased burning damage, Elemental proliferation is always useful. If youre going crit Increased critical strikes and damage gems and Power charge on critical, Life and Mana leech support gems can be very useful, Fork, Pierce and Chain is also pretty good. It really depends on what type of build youre going for, there is a lot of options.

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BisuProbe wrote:

dont forget added lightning/added chaos for those fire resist/reflect mobs

that's what I like to do: take one-element attacks/spells, and stuff them with other elements/chaos.
that, or use Elemental Equilibrium and a weaker other-element attack, before following-up with the big kaboom :)

and Power Charge On Critical helps tremendously. I love that gem.

thanks a lot

I plan HC build, based on fireball without tons of minions, and try to figure out what supports gems could be the best combination.


My plan is something like fireball as main attack skill (single/group target) and 2 cast on damage taken combos which will curse enemies and ensure more survivability

concentrated effect is very good with fireball.

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Mr_Mustasch wrote:

concentrated effect is very good with fireball.

Does that support effect the displayed damage because I could have swore that I checked and it didn't so I figured that it didn't work....

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iamstryker wrote:

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Mr_Mustasch wrote:

concentrated effect is very good with fireball.

Does that support effect the displayed damage because I could have swore that I checked and it didn't so I figured that it didn't work....

The tooltip doesn't display area damage, but as long as the fireball explodes, it multiplies its damage.

Fireballs tooltip dps is pretty much useless. I generally would recommend lesser multiple projectiles (since then you can shotgun anything that gets in your face) faster projectiles (fireball is mad slow) and fire penetration (it works wonders). Those three are all good generic supports, add others as needed.

Also, if you are going fireball, pick up one of these.



4l ones can be gotten for quite cheap (Under an exalt)

ok, that staff is very good point

and what about pasive skills?

do u think that a lot of increase spell damage is needed? or can go with templar down by tree to marauder area to underline survivability?

now i have this one...
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUAAnEEswVbFE08BUbXTdhdxmBtgW-DOIuMjHadgJ48n9-iAMWK3fPvfPAf

and i am seriously thinking about way of this...

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUBAnEEswUtBVsSaRRNFxwZLhpVGmwn7TJ-NZI26DpSOuE8BTwtQKBBh0bXSshM_03YTeNUSVivXcZeE18_YEtgbWEhZKNuqnF5dO13YngNeu-Bb4M4hO-I8YuMjHadgJ2unjyeuZ_fogCmV6lurFmsr69stQS18rc-ud3DhsT2xYrGrtBH1I_d8-Qi51LnY-eR7w7vfPAf8i_yRfPd-ej-Cv6P

can be a little bit crazy to 'sorcer' but i hope it can be very interesting to try fireball projectile with iron grip

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUBAnEEswUtBVsSaRRNFxwZLhpVGmwn7TJ-NZI26DpSOuE8BTwtQKBBh0bXSi5KyEz_TdhN41RJWK9dxl8_YEtgbWEhZKNuqnF5dO13YngNeu-Bb4M4hO-I8YuMjHadgJ2unjyeuZ_fogCmV6elqW6sWa9stQS18rc-uUO53cQVxPbFisau0EfUj93z5CLnUudj7w7vfPAf8i_yRfPd-ej-Cv6P

damage will be from searing touch, very few nodes on fire and supports skills.

whad do u say anout this idea with fireball?