I couldn’t capture the craziness here, but how does 3 sets of Meteors falling sound?
Build Objective: To maximize the Guardian of Empiryon skill, using the Blazseer set to set the arena on fire!
Sources of RR:
Elemental Storm - 32 flat Elemental RR
Celestial Presence - 25 Fire RR
Earth Ring of Flame - 25 Fire RR
Eldritch Fire - 23 Fire RR
Total RR = 105 Fire RR
Equipment
Weapon : “Hellfire” Bartholem’s Gavel “of Conflaguration”
Components: Enchanted Flint
Head : “Stonehide” Magi Visage “of Readiness”
Component: Titan Plating
Shoulders : Vanquisher’s Mantle
Component: Living Armor
Hands : Cindertouch
Component: Restful Remains
Feet : Sabatons of Akkhan
Component: Ugdenbog Leather
Belt : Blazeseer’s Girdle
Component: Ugdenbog Leather
Pants : Titanslayer Leggings with Fire Damage (Satyr Craft)
Component: Ancient Armor Plate
Chest Armor : Vanquisher’s Armor
Component: Royal Amethyst
Amulet : Mythical Herald of the Apocolypse
Component: Tainted Heart
Rings : Blazeseer Signet +Divine Seal of Hephaestus
Components: Bloodied Crystal X2
Medal : Blazeseer Crest
Component: Tainted Heart
Relic: Glorybringer with 3% DA
Devotions: Level 100 (GD 1.1.6.2) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
With Barbarian out of the way, we now go towards the Oathkeeper, the other new addition to FG. The Oathkeeper introduced the concept of skill transmuters where the Guardians of Empiryon can either provide Physical and Fire RR or Poison and Vitality RR. Since most of the equipment that favors Guardians of Empiryon tend to go towards the Vitality spec, I decided to buck the trend and go with Fire instead. There are two MIs that give an extra summon to Guardian of Empiryon: the Magi Visage is found from any of the Magis found in the Tomb of the Heretic; and the Axe is found by killing Archon Bartholem in the Tomb near Fort Ikon (requires a character allied with Death’s Vigil). To get the Empiryon skill to 26/16, we take the Blazseer set that procs a series of meteors.
To add to the meteor madness, we take Mythical Herald of the Apocalypse, which gives you a granted skill that drops huge meteors to provide AoE. Combine that with the Torch devotion bound to Judgment and you have three sets of meteors ready to drop at a moments notice.
We pair this class with the Earth class, which is capable of bringing even more meteors down to the surface. The important passives are the Earthen Carapace + Immovable, which provides some great secondary resistances, while bringing an additional meteor that inflicts 25% reduced damage from opponents the meteor lands on.
This has been one of my favorite builds to play due to the shear number of meteors you can drop on an enemy, but it’s just a little too squishy to be able to run SR75-76. Iron Maiden flattens you and her high Fire resistance makes it so that you can’t kite her and drop her at a moments notice. What makes it more difficult is that you need to side against Kymon’s Chosen in order to loot the Barthollem’s Waraxe. There’s not much I can recommend outside of finding more Physical resistance somewhere.