Infernalist defense scaling?
Rerolling an infernalist today. Doing the simple srs, flame wall, arsonist setup. Looks like there’s a few different ways on scaling the defense of this ascendancy and was just curious on others opinions on which way to go. Im certainly taking Beidat’s Will regardless, but are any others worth it?
Life+block/armor: Taking only Beidat’s Will and using the last 2 ascendancy nodes for 3% life. Able to strength stack for more life, would path to the bottom of the tree to get armor applies to fire dmg. Unsure of the usefulness of armor in poe2.
ES: Taking both Beidat’s Will AND Beidat’s Hand. This allows the use of grim feast which I feel is quite strong. A lot of strong ES nodes near witch tree. Would be reserving 50% life but EHP would most likely be higher than not using ES.
MoM: Taking both Beidat’s Will and Beidat’s Gaze. Similar to ES setup but mana instead. This one I’m less keen about but still considering it as an option.
Some type of hybrid: ideally mixing the first two and scaling life/block/armor/es all at the same time but I feel like I’d be spreading the tree and my gear too thin for it to be good and probably better off focusing on one.
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After the changes to SRS not dropping from fest stacks I changed my infernalist and followed kripps build. The block on shield is actually pretty good. Only done a few T6 maps but seems to be doing well if not better than my old ES grim fest
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/life-stacker-infernalist-kripp
My infernalist uses the following:
90% fire resists. That is using +2 max fire res ruby jewels and +1 res soul cores. Not currently using an annoint since the max res annoints require isolation.
Capped chaos res from gear.
Cloak of flames for 40% phys to fire.
Ascendency for 20% phys to chaos, 20% of lightning/cold as fire.
Regen/regen rate on tree
Fire dog for 20% less damage taken if he is alive
4% life on kill from buff support (not for a minion build).
Couple notes:
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I was playing a cast on x build rather than minions, taking advantage of unlimited mana with infernal flame. The core details should work for minions though.
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Really pay attention to corruption outcomes, there are some fantastic ones. You can pretty cheaply get +1 socket on cheap uniques like cloak of flame. Can also roll higher than 40% phys to fire on cloak of flame as a possible vaal outcome
The dog is 20% less damage taken and only has 3 secs of downtime if you have the thing that lets him live for 4 secs after dying and he’s the only revivable you have.
Grab will, hand, the dog and the damage taken as fire/chaos. Fire is ezpz to get to 90% on the left side of the tree you can grab +3 flat and +1/20 resistance to max fire res. Maybe grab a phoenix shield too to get that last +5.