Updated for Patch 3.19
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December 14, 2021 -Build created March 09, 2022 -Updated for Patch 3.17 September 13, 2022 -Updated for Patch 3.19 |
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Tags: [CASTER] [ELEMENTAL] [IGNITE] [HYBRID] | |||
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Maw of Mischief is a Unique Helmet granting you a Skill called Death Wish which makes your Minions Explode dealing Fire Damage based on the Minion's Maximum Life. With this build, you want to scale up your Minion's Health and your Fire Damage over Time, especially with Ignite. You will use Minions with high base Life such as Stone Golem or Sentinels of Purity. This build focuses more on Stone Golems - they have more Life, and as an Elementalist, you can have an additional one that automatically resummons on death. You're not restricted to Stone Golems, the build is flexible enough to include Sentinels of Purity from Herald of Purity, which offers similar results. With Shaper of Flames, Mastermind of Discord, and Heard of Destruction your Ignite DPS and Aoe to unmatchable sizes (slightly nerfed as of 3.17 and again in 3.19).
It's a Life build that doesn't require 6-links, so you might use Kaom's Heart for a major Life boost. Try to increase the Gem Level of your Stone Golem by equipping Vix Lunaris, Invictus Solaris, or Magna Eclipsis, then with Minion Life and Empower Support Gems your Golems should have over 150k Life. Your own Life will be settled at 5k with a lot of Armour and aggressive Minions to shield you from enemies. The Ignite you're dealing with these sporadic explosions should be supported by Berek's Respite Unique Ring that will make your Ignite spread to other targets for better clear speed.
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Death Wish is a Channeling skill but you won't need to channel it for long, just the initial cast will be enough to kill one Minion, but the longer you cast it, the more of your Minions you can sacrifice, and the damage of each will grow too - it's useful during boss fights with invulnerability phases. Use a mobility Spell such as Flame Dash, and Guard Spell - Molten Shell. Find a way to inflict Exposure with Master of Fire Notable Passive or with Wave on Conviction. Use Auras such as Determintarion, Vitality, and Defiance Banner to increase your own survivability. Convocation and Flame Surge can be used from time to time for more to recall your minions and create Burning Ground. For a curse use Flammability.
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Start as a regular Minion build and use Summon Raging Spirits as it is the most recommended choice. Note that Minion Instability keystone makes your Minions Explode at low health, your increases and decreases in Fire Damage won't affect the damage output. For more damage invest only in Minion Damage and especially their Maximum Life, and try to lower the Fire Resistance of your opponents. With Death Wish you deal the damage that is affected by your Fire Damage and Fire DoT, but with Minions Instability - it's minions that deal all the damage. At level 73 equip Maw of Mischief. At no point in the game invest in Spell Damage, it will grant you nothing.
Suggested leveling Gem setups:
Raging Spirit setup | |
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Summon Raging Spirit - Ragins Spirits are a good candidate for a Leveling Minion Spell |
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Melee Splash Support - Minion's Attacks cover more area for faster clearing |
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Minion Damage Support - Minions deal more Damage |
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Minion Life Support - Minions have more Maximum Life |
Auras setup | |
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Anger - increases Fire Damage for your nearby Minions |
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Clarity - Clarity can be used for Mana Regeneration |
Curse and Flame Dash setup | |
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Flame Dash - a regular mobility Skill to improve your leveling process |
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Flammability - Cursed enemies take more Fire Damage |
Bandits:
Kill all three bandits and be rewarded with two additional Skill Points
Leveling Skill Trees:
32 Points Passive Tree
Allocate passives granting Maximum Life for you and your Minions, Maximum Mana, and Minion Instability Keystone
67 Points Passive Tree
Get more Life for you and your Minions
Recommended leveling items:
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Adds 1 to 4 Physical Damage to Attacks +(10-30) to all Attributes (10-30)% increased Damage (10-30)% increased Rarity of Items found +(10-30)% to all Elemental Resistances |
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+(30-50) to Evasion Rating 10% increased Rarity of Items found +(30-40)% to all Elemental Resistances Reflects 4 Physical Damage to Melee Attackers Level Requirement reduced by 100 (Hidden) |
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Item has no level requirement and Energy Shield (Hidden) Item has 6 White Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden) |
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(18-22)% increased Spell Damage 25% chance to Trigger Level 10 Summon Raging Spirit on Kill Adds (20-24) to (38-46) to Fire Damage Adds (20-24) to (36-46) Fire Damage to Spells 10% chance to Cover Enemies in Ash on Hit |
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Regenerate (2-4) Life per second +(30-40) to Intelligence Minions have +(-17-17)% to Chaos Resistance Summon Raging Spirit has (20-30)% increased Duration Summoned Raging Spirits to deal (25-40)% increased Damage Summoned Raging Spirits to have (25-40)% increased maximum Life Summoned Raging Spirits take 20% of their Maximum Life per second as Chaos Damage |
Final Skill Tree:
109 Points Final Passive Tree (doesn't include Cluster Jewels)
120 Points Path of Building (PoB) link
Ascendancy points:
Preferably in that order:
Pantheon:
Major God: Soul of The Brine King: 1% You cannot be Stunned if you've been Stunned or Blocked a Stunning Hit in the past 2 seconds
Minor God: Soul of Abberath: 60% less Duration of Ignite on You
[DPS] Death Wish setup socketed in Maw of Mischief Unique Helmet |
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Deadly Ailments Support - it makes you deal more Damage with Ailments such as Ignite but less damage with Hits |
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Burning Damage Support - increases Burning Damage |
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Swift Affliction Support - enemies burn for a shorter time but take more DoT, you can swap it for ![]() |
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Unbound Ailments Support - Ignite Damage is increased and it last longer |
[UTILITY] Stone Golem setup socketed in Shield or another gear piece that increases Gem Level |
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Summon Stone Golem - increase the Level of your Stone Golem, it's the most efficient way to boost their Maximum Life |
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Minion Life Support - grants even more Life for your Stone Golem |
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Empower Support - your Stone Golem have more Life as their Skill Gem level grows |
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Enhance Support - Quality makes your Stone Golems have an increased Maximum Life |
[UTILITY] Brand setup | |
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Arcanist Brand - Arcanist Brand while attached will cast the liked Spells for you |
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Wave of Conviction - applies Exposure which reduces the Fire Resistance of your opponents |
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Combustion Support - enemies Ignited by linked Spells have their Fire Resistance decreased |
[UTILITY] Convocation, Guard Spell, and Mobility setup | |
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Molten Shell - it's the best option for a Guard Spell if you have a significant Armour, which you should |
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Flame Dash - Mobility Spell to help you move faster and dodge attacks |
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Convocation - recalls all your Minions back to you |
[UTILITY] Auras setup | |
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Malevolence - you and your Minions deal more Damage over Time, and the DoT effect last longer |
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Tempest Shield - you're provided with more Block Chance, Immunity to Shock, and with Shaper of Flames, you will Ignite a lot of enemies on Block. Don't use it if you don't have enough Mana. |
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Determination - a slot for a defensive Aura, Determination is the best one you can use as it grants you more Armour |
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Enlighten Support - linked Skill Reserve less Mana |
[UTILITY] Herald of Purity | |
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Herald of Purity - Golems alone are often not enough to provide a smooth mapping experience, use Herald of Purity for the perpetually-summoning four extra Minions with a lot of Life, enough to kill smaller enemies. |
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There are two necessary Unique Items - Maw of Mischief and Berek's Respite, with all the other items you should focus mainly on Fire Damage over Time and Maximum Life for you and your Minions. Try to increase the Gem Level of your Stone Golem - it is a Red (Strength) Minion Gem. You won't need any Spell Damage modifiers or any Six-linked items making it a rather cheap build with the option for Kaom's Heart. Flasks aren't important, you won't need any Unique ones, but Rumi's Concoction grants you more Block Chance. You will need over 190 Strength if you want to wear Kaom's Heart, Determination and Molten Shell require you to have 155 Strength. Dexterity is needed to level Swift Affliction Support Gem to its maximum level.
Our recommended items will:
Stat priorities on items:
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Minions deal (15-20)% increased Damage Grants Level 20 Death Wish Skill +(45-65) to maximum Life (30-20)% reduced Mana Cost of Minion Skills Minions are Aggressive |
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Helmet enchantments: increased Effect of the Buff granted by your Stone Golems Convocation has increased Cooldown Recovery Rate Wave of Conviction's Exposure applies -6% Elemental Resistance |
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Min. requirements: +40% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier 100% increased Fire or Elemental Damage Optional affixes: Damage Penetrates Fire Resistance |
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+2 to Level of Socketed Gems Triggers Level 20 Cold Aegis when Equipped (200-250)% increased Armour and Evasion +(60-80) to maximum Life Cannot be Frozen |
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(300-400)% increased Armour and Energy Shield +10% to all Elemental Resistances +5% to maximum Cold Resistance +6% Chance to Block Replenishes Energy Shield by 2% of Armour when you Block (10-20)% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills |
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Has no Sockets (20-40)% increased Fire Damage +500 to maximum Life |
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Item has no level requirement and Energy Shield (Hidden) Sockets cannot be modified +2 to Level of Socketed Gems 100% increased Global Defences You can only Socket Corrupted Gems in this item Item has 6 Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden) <Random Keystone> |
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Min. requirements: +60 to maximum Life +60% to Elemental Resistances 30% increased Movement Speed Optional affixes: Ignites you inflict deal Damage faster Minions have increased maximum Life |
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Min. requirements: +40 to Dexterity +50% to Elemental Resistances +60 to Maximum Life Optional affixes: Fire Damage over Time Multiplier increased Damage over Time |
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Min. requirements: +80 to maximum Life +80% to Elemental Resistances Minions have 25% increased maximum Life Optional affixes: increased Fire Damage increased Damage Strength |
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Min. requirements: +20% to Damage over Time Multiplier +1 to Level of all Strength or Physical Skill Gems +60 to maximum Life Optional affixes: Elemental Resistances +1 to Level of all Strength or Physical Skill Gems increased Fire Damage Dexterity and Strength |
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+(10-16) to all Attributes (5-10)% increased Experience Gain of Gems (10-20)% increased Reservation Efficiency of Skills +1 to Level of all Skill Gems +(20-30)% to Quality of all Skill Gems |
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Recommended Anointments: Dirty Techniques |
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+(12-16)% to Fire and Lightning Resistances Adds (20-25) to (30-50) Fire Damage to Spells and Attacks (25-30)% increased Lightning Damage +(30-40) to maximum Mana When you Kill a Shocked Enemy, inflict an equivalent Shock on each nearby Enemy When you Kill an Ignited Enemy, inflict an equivalent Ignite on each nearby Enemy |
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Min. requirements: Curse Enemies with Flammability on Hit +60% to Elemental Resistances +60 to maximum Life Optional affixes: increased Fire Damage Dexterity Strength |
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(25-30)% increased Damage if you Summoned a Golem in the past 8 seconds Golems Summoned in the past 8 seconds deal (35-45)% increased Damage Golems have (18-22)% increased Maximum Life Summoned Golems are Aggressive Primordial |
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Bathed in the blood of (100-8000) sacrificed in the name of Doryani Passives in radius are Conquered by the Vaal Historic |
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(4-6)% increased maximum Energy Shield (4-6)% increased maximum Life (4-6)% increased maximum Mana <Two or Three random aura modifiers> |
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Recommended affixes: 1 Added Passive Skill is Burning Bright 1 Added Passive Skill is Widespread Destruction 1 Added Passive Skill is Prismatic Heart 1 Added Passive Skill is Master of Fire |
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Recommended affixes: 1 Added Passive Skill is Hulking Corpses 1 Added Passive Skill is Life from Death 1 Added Passive Skill is Burning Bright 1 Added Passive Skill is Blowback |
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+1500 to Armour +(8-12)% Chance to Block Attack Damage during Flask effect +(4-6)% Chance to Block Spell Damage during Flask effect |
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Suggested Flasks:
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