you’re not using aegis medal, which gives you lifesteal
likewise you could use blazeheart(100% reward) for freebie fire, or the much harder pistol (firewise) Jason mentioned
I would not recommend leaning into retal as fire aegis, it’s “hard” in terms of payoff vs other retal/rata approaches, and most fire aegis item don’t really support it “well”.
Although fun i wouldn’t personally recommend Torch these days, a lot of meta fire paths has shown it can be much more rewarding to simply skip it in favour of stacking tier2s or burn booster on ex Sage(not the actual proc)
if you’re using melee+shield you’d benefit from also taking Smash wps (currently you have RF 100% converted so there is no phys loss with that Sword), and potentially even void seal wps for more aoe/RF application - which also applies to maxing out Retribution more if leaning into retal, but as RS mentioned your retal is somewhat lower atm.
Either way, Consecration should be pointed more/softcapped-maxed for freebie defence when using RF anyway, and you might aswell breakpoint RF if you’re actually using it as filler dmg with your wps investment.
Currently i’d say your devo assignment to proccers aren’t that optimal, which aside from healing shortcomings might also potentially affect that more (that’s assuming devo map even stays as is ofc)
Eldritch fire on mid-high CD aegis becomes a horrible proccer in solo fights like bosses, and even in smaller group fights can sometimes not trigger, having it on a spamable or higher frequency trigger can potentially either guarantee more procs or atleast improve it
Likewise elemental storm can straight up become a 100% guarantee if you assign it to Judgment, although you wouldn’t even have to use judgment and can just assign it to your pets and not worry about it or using an extra skill.
Decent triggers for eldritch fire could then be RF if you’re spamming that anyway, or thermite mines, or even VM+volcanic stride (tho that just essentially adds another/different mandatory button to rotate in ala Judgment, which might not be as desired). - potential downside of having Eldritch fire on mines, although decent in terms of trigger, is you’ll have to toss those out every single fight regardless then, where otherwise you might easily coast through hero packs without mines and just EF+Empys+Storm
Alternative healing option would be to include Dryad which can be neat on CD builds (can replace Turtle since you’re not needing the blues)
ex of tiny devo tweak with different gains could be instead of using Scholar (since nothing needs 10 greens), is to complete Rhowan and 1pt green crossroad giving more dmg/oa and total res (although you’re currently massively overcapped on chaos ofc, still provides room to shuffle)
if you would like some inspiration of “pure” aegis fire builds (no retal) Lee posted this sometime back (unsure if has seen tweaks/attention later) [1.2.0.2] The Virtue of Oblivion: 4:20 Crucible Gladiator 150-170, SR 90, 1:15 Ravager, Celestials - easy and tanky Fire caster Shieldbreaker (+bonus build: Empyrion's Army Shieldbreaker)
and Roman gave me this a while ago, which i enjoyed very much Shieldbreaker, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator (had a Soulblade/melee version too but forgot where i put it)
and while you don’t have to copy either, if nothing else perhaps they can give some ideas, also even if you haven’t transmuted (or desire) Virtue set yet
**side note, lifesteal can be weapon specific, so when you have 4% lifesteal direct on soulblade it means that portion of your sheet lifesteal only applies to attacks made with that hand and not left/shield hand, which gives you 9% lifesteal on RF attacks, and 4 on aegis/shield slam