The first "Righteous Fire" build for POE 2
The idea is to use the new unique charm Beira's Anguish to spam ignites rapidly, making a walking simulator. The easiest solution is using the Infernalist as you can easily ignite yourself by using some skill that crit and you can use the Pragmatism body armor to spam the charm. Since the charm make you immune to ignite, you can basically get the crit bonus with no downside.
However, there is still the issue of applying the charm rapidly. The charm makes you immune to ignite for 3 seconds. I'm pretty sure that there will be a way to negate this or to shorten the charm duration by a lot. Otherwise, this charm is trash...
While this might be the easiest build to make, I really want to play the Smith. So the other direction will involve:
- Self ignite somehow (maybe a specific Specter? or the fire amulet/other unique)
- The Smith unaffected by ignite.
- A unique that will allow spamming charms with some downside (not sure what),
- Str + life stacking (we got so many open suffixes, 20% inc str and 15% inc life)
Walking simulator...
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I looked into that as well but it's just... There is very little you can do with charms... I guess I'll make a list of stuff I found out:
- It cannot be reused until the duration expires and we don't have any way of changing that atm and most charms have 3-4 second duration. Might get a new unique or changes to passive skill tree.
- If two charms of the same type are equipped, meeting the activation requirements will only activate one charm at a time.
- we only get 1 charm slot by default and at most 3 with investment. It's really sad we cannot stack more or use multiple of the same charms effectively. We can get extra charms from:
+2 more from belt mod.
+1 from ritualist ascendancy node.
+1 from passive skill tree.
+1 from Elevore helmet. - like flasks they are very expensive and the only two options to spam them is getting low Mana with ritualist for free triggers or using the unique body armour Pragmatism that makes charms use no charges.
- they have shit mods... You only get 1 prefix and 1 suffix and none of them are good...
I honestly think it's easier to make a build from the Melting Maelstrom mana flask even though the radius is only 3 meters (half of the unique fire charm).
saw a post on the forums that said the fire damage you take with "fire flower" was igniting them, so could be an easy way to self ignite if that's the case
I just tested a concept that I thought would've been maybe a usable way to get more Beira's Anguish procs but I'm not sure if it's bugged.
You can use the Elevore helmet (and any other unique that may be put in the future with +1 charm slot) to get an extra charm slot, then you use a weapon swap with a shield that has dexterity while just on the cliff on being able to hit Elevore's dexterity requirement. This allows you to turn on/off your extra charm slot on will. You can use this type of effect in PoE 1 to reset the debuffs and cooldown on Beacon of Madness boots.
My assumption was that if you turned off the extra charm slot, the effect would go away, like with flasks (testable by using a flask and then unequipping the flask, the healing shadow instantly goes away.) This is not the case and it might actually just be bugged. If you become unable to equip Elevore you just... keep the extra charm slot for some reason. If at any point it becomes disabled and you re-equip Elevore, it doesn't become usable again and stays disabled.
Even with 9k life and 45% charm effect it's still only ~652 base ignite DPS. Without access to support gems you're not going to be able to kill much of anything.