Rinnai, the double stove burner Thermite-Aegis Purifier

Yes. It’s Purifire. Because the build is practically my first successful fire build. After going through several builds, including some dual pistol ones, I decided to try using Aegis set. At first, I tried to follow Superfluff’s build here, but I didn’t have all the gears that are necessary to make the build works.

I tried to make do with what I did have: the Infernal Knight set. After spending some time polishing the build and improving the gears, the final piece (the Wyrmbone gloves) is finally in place.

Here is the build: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/RVvkRomZ.

Active Skills: Fire Strike (default attack), Thermite Mine (main damage dealer), Blackwater Cocktail and Flashbang (debuff), Word of Renewal and Inquisitor Seal (buff).

Passive Skills: Flame Touched, Vindictive Flame, Aura of Censure.

Procs: [from gears] Ring of Flame, Elemental Seal, Wave of Fire, Volcanic Wyrm’s Breath, Concussive Round; [from devotion] Eldritch Fire, Stone Form.

WPS: Bursting Round, Stun Blast.

Gears: The heart of this build is the combo of the Aegis of the Legion set (full set) and the Infernal Knight set (minus the belt). The combo gives us the protection of the shield and hefty bonus to Thermite Mine and BWC. We do lose some of that bonus due to opting to use Aegis’ Belt instead of the IK’s one. This is where the Wyrmbone Handguard gloves come in. This glove should have been in the IK set, due to the fact that its stats play nicely with the IK set. Other gears are there to round out stats and resistances.

Devotion setup: I went north east towards Obelisk of Menhir and Shield Maiden, then west to Solael’s Witchblade. I opted to get as high shield block chance as possible, as a result I couldn’t get to Elemental Storm. But it’s okay, we still have BWC RR debuff to shore things up. There were several left-over points that I used to round out Poison Res and some more defense.

Pros:

  • Nice mob clear time;
  • Can kill all the bosses and nemeses of the main campaign, only untested against Mog’s Avatar and the Ravager. We have more than 100 Fire RR, even Lokarr’s fire resistance will be negative if he stood on top of our Thermite Mines;
  • Easy to play, you can play under intoxication and still clear most of the end-game content.

Cons:

  • Be wary of Freeze and Stun monsters. Being frozen or stunned means we cannot use our shield, which is our main means of protection;
  • Be careful of ground DOTs, our health regen is decent but not great. Shields don’t block ground DOTs, so if you see a blood pool, acid pool or magma fissure, move out.

How to play: Facetank. Put down an Inquisitor Seal, stand on it, start shooting. Spam BWC, Flashbang and Thermite Mines. This build can facetank Lokarr; heck, the only way this build can kill Lokarr is by facetanking him. Grava is still PITA, but the same approach applies: facetank him, until he gives the tell of that Nullification Balls of his, then move out of the way.

That’s it! All comments and critiques are welcome.

Looks like the build link is wrong, whenever I click it I get a Ritualist build with completely different gear.

That’s definitely weird. I don’t have any Ritualist build, or plan to make any. Anyhow, I have edited the OP. Thanks for spotting the error.

No problem, looked like a fun build so I wanted to check it out.

I would give up the 3rd node in BWC for elemental storm.

Nice Build!

You could take High Potency for more Tankier Toon

Btw,

Mantab Merk Compor Gas nya… :stuck_out_tongue:

Hey,

Congrats on on the build. i’ll prob have to change mine as well when 0.6 hits.

I strongly advise you to use chilling rounds at 5 pt and storm spread at 7.

The machine gun/shotgun effect is amazing, don’t let the fact that it’s lightning or cold deter you. You can easily leave thermites at 11 or 12 for this

I’d also forget maiden and targo and put the 6 pt in empyrion. You get both offense and defense this way

As I mentioned in the OP, I went for the highest shield block chance possible; thus unable to reach Elemental Storm.

Thanks! Masih pake gas melon :stuck_out_tongue:
I like to spam BWC like there’s no tomorrow, but I certainly will try out your suggestion!

Thanks! Your build is amazing, I took the whole understanding about using the Aegis set from your post.

Are you sure this won’t be a DPS loss for me? I tweaked the build mostly to kill Lokarr and Gargabol, two SOBs with high fire resist but farming them has the highest ROI for me (who don’t play Crucible except for build testing). That is why I went over the top with 24/16 for Thermite Mine. The -48% fire RR is the Lokarr killer, IMHO.

According to a post here, a shield build would only start to shine at 60% block chance. That’s the number I aimed for, thus the Shieldmaiden. I don’t have the number crunch but I do feel that at that number I survive better. I have a DK that I have posted, with less than 60% block chance but it is mostly a Blitz build; it also has high HP and high ADCTH. Can you confirm that having less than 60% block chance wouldn’t be detrimental to my survivability? I rely on the shield to survive while Thermite Mines erode the mountains of HP that Lokarr and Gargabol have.

Are you sure this won’t be a DPS loss for me? Just try them :slight_smile: I use them on the 2h purifier as well. It would not be the same without them. 5 chilling and 7 storm spread to get 4 projectiles. I also recommend maxing brimstone. Facetank and shotgun, you will feel the difference

[i]Let’s see the numbers(which i gerally suck at- We are exlucing flat dmg from wps or brimstone from this):

FS: 126% WP dmg
Chilling rounds a tlvl 5: 66% - shoots 4x times in one proc with gun
Storm Spread lvl 7: 33% - Shoots 4 projectiles 2x times with gun.

(1.26*0.66)*4= 330% weapon dmg in 1 shot

(1.26*0.33) 2 = 83% wp dmg. 0.834= 330% WP dmg …Could there be a pattern here? :smiley:

So this is huge, use them:cool:[/i]

60% block chance wouldn’t be detrimental to my survivability? I rely on the shield to survive while Thermite Mines erode the mountains of HP that Lokarr and Gargabol have.And mine has 56% you will be fine:) And steal more life with higher dmg and chilling rounds/spread shotgun. I don’t think it’s that 4% keeping you alive.

Thanks for the reassurance! I will certainly try it out.

You ninjaed my advanced math:rolleyes:

What? :eek: I didn’t do any math there except to calculate how much I can stack RR.

No i mean my late WPS calculation edit :stuck_out_tongue:

Ah. Now I see it! Even without the math, I trust your experience in making kick-ass builds.