This build first purpose was to get into oathkeeper territory without using new legendary sets and items. It starts with Myth Infernal Knight set, and instead of using melee and half-melee range skills like judgement as the set suggests, gets aegis of Menhir because it is fun and strong. It features more elusive gameplay at range though can facetank most threats too.
Math says that that 18/12 reprisal does 981 burning damage (+300 from MI shield), while 22/12 heart of wrath only does 500. So I put these points into guardian of Empyrion who at 19/16 also does 500 burning damage instead, while doing it on his own and not requiring another hotkey. Last I checked the build did 300K burning DOT ticks. Perhaps this isn’t anything new, except it does so while being a shield tank.
Current setup features 37% physical resistance, some 2,1K armor and something above 300 flat damage absorption from ascention and phoenix. Block is at 40% 2,5K damage blocked. While it occasionally does block something, improving it proved not as valuable as getting life steal, which is why I’m using haunted steel. 8% adcth it grants together wit bloodthurster skill is way better than toad at 3% or investing in block. It does not convert anything to vitality as all physical gets converted to fire first.
Initially I planned two setups, one with more defense and less damage and the other with more damge. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/mN4MYp02 this is the more defense setup, at some point it was scrapped. Perhaps it is not completely terrible, but for DOT builds it seems doing more damage is always better. Meteor shower is also hard to ignore on any dedicated fire build.
Build utilizes new Colossal Defender MI that is easy to get by rerolling vendor at the Steelclap district. It also uses Blazeheart sword you get from Diala for its skill modifiers. Medal is another new MI basilisk fang, here it can carry any useful affix. Green common ring is something I found in stash with OA and DA. Perhaps it has some room for optimization.
My shattered realm is crashing so here is a 160-170 crucible run
https://youtu.be/FTdTB_38uQg lots of lag and damn is it time consuming. My first run after 1,5 years pause.