http://www.grimtools.com/calc/r2ByjdwN
Basically an Incinerate build from Path of Exile.
Idea is to get most of our defense from Maiven’s + Inquisitor Seal stacking a lot of damage absorption, etc.
So far its performing really well.
Would love some feedback!
Respec arcanist mastery down to 32, fabric of reality does nothing for you.
Remove all but 1 point from elemental exchange, those points don’t do anything for you either.
Put a point in nullification.
Max intensify.
IEE does help a little with energy needs, and the damage is also added to the 33% weapon damage component of FoI. You probably don’t want to push a lot of points in it, but it’s worth 1 points. The follow up skill adds elemental damage, though also not particularly great, but worth 1 point, and the last skill on the chain adds crit, burn and electrocute, which is all good for the build. That one you might pump up later on.
I agree about only putting 32 points into Arcanist.
Yeah, I can see the reasoning behind going to 32 points. I would just have to spend a few more points in Cunning for my main-hand weapon.
The build is pretty energy hungry so the massive energy regeneration from IEE is huge.
I also picked up a point in Nullification. I just don’t see a real reason to max Intensify. It’s only lightning damage with the added cost of a pretty large energy per second cost. If anything I think the remaining 8 points would be best spent on Word of Renewal, and Vigor with maybe 1 more point into Mental Alacrity to hit another 1% of casting speed.
The energy cost is large but by no means too large, you’re probably hurting there because you’re using a chest armor with only half the energy regen of most caster armor.
Going blindly for the “best” legendary can do that.
My mage is at 26/16 FoI, and 15/12 Intensify, 4 points in IEE, 10/10 Mental Alacrity, I use a shield, use a chest with 0 energy regen, and I have no issues with energy. Make sure to get the -10 energy component on the amulet, use +1-2 regen components and augments on rings, and you should be fine.
While looking at your gear, I noticed you have a shield with no -physical resists. If you want to get tanky, you should look for one with nearly 20% physical resists. It does a ton for reducing the majority of your damage. Another note, ADCTH on the shield does not apply to your weapon, so that component may not be doing as you are hoping.
“blindly for the best”?
It seems like the best option out of what I have and have seen. It has large health, defense, flat regen, reduced cunning req for the weapon I use, chaos res, and +2 to Maivens.
What would you recommend that’s equally as defensive?
Which shield would you recommend? The highest phys res I see is 16%, and that is at the cost of losing +1 arcanist, huge flat energy and 3 points in Maivens.
If you want to be more tanking, physical resists is the main way to do it. It will cost you points elsewhere, but it does make you a much better tank. I found a green with 23% physical resistance, which replaced an epic shield I used prior with 19%. Getting physical resists anywhere else is extremely costly, and likely will take 4-5 pieces of gear, and devotion points. Getting that on a single shield is the easiest way to do it.
If you are fine with your tankiness, then by all means, don’t do it, but arcanist doesn’t really play a role in your DPS, so losing that shouldn’t be a big deal.
It’s clear looking at your build that you simply selected a mythical legendary for every slot. That’s fine, I guess, but it’s not optimal. For example your gloves, the ordinary version would be better since the mythical version has modifiers to skills you don’t even use and you lost a decent proc for that.
What I would use in the chest slot, honestly I would grab one from a faction store that works for the build. My flames build is using some random level 70 rare, it’s fine.