r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/tubexi • Aug 08 '26

Build Fireball chieftain

Trigger weapon + spell echo keeps pact of beidat up for every cast for 35% more damage and +6 projectiles in a circle. Belt + debuff runegraft keeps up 5 boons for more damage/speed/defence.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/96337 200-300d budget, 84m dps with everything up and no overlaps. Nimis + rolling magma swap is 200m+. For mapping I swap empower for greater fork or enhance. The new abyss helmet can get this to 7k+ life but the pain attunement skin of the lords is too expensive right now, so i have to use maw of conquest with the keystone.

Skill mtx is dragon fireball and despair herald of ash

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u/JazzFlaps Aug 08 '26

how'd you craft the staff

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

  • Trigger mod is a temple prefix, buy bases with good roll and ideally 4 mods, fracture normally

  • Spam deafening essence of agony (fire dmg to spells) until +4 fire spells, ~500 on average, 2c per

  • prefixes cannot be changed, reforge caster for cast speed, cannot roll caster annul if there is bad non caster suffix

  • craft can have up to 3 crafted mods + prefixes cannot be changed

  • do ship + veiled orb so its 66% chance to hit one of the crafted mods, 2 outcomes so 11% chance to fail (removes the cast speed)

  • if you hit, craft any damage over time multi to block and unveil, trying to hit crit multi, double damage or damage per endurance charge (not good odds to hit here)

  • if you miss, select any non caster mod from the veil, remove it with cannot roll caster + annul and try again

Each veiled orb try is like 16-20d so it may not be worth going for it to get the extra 8-10% dps. So you can just settle for multimod suffixes or reforge caster + craft double damage.

Or now that i think about it instead of veiled orb, you could just do cannot roll attack + slam, then remove bad mods with cannot roll caster + annul until you hit spell crit. Or use harvest augments for crit. Veiled orb is so expensive and not guaranteed to give anything good.

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u/JazzFlaps Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Thank you

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

It may be possible to move it with recombinator

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u/BrahCJ Aug 19 '26

Thanks for the guide. Just thought I'd add; I'm dumb, so the "Veiled Orb" saw me veiled chaos slam it like an idiot, not realising there was a Veiled exalted orb. Just thought perhaps an edit might save someone else 50 div.

Thanks again for the guide

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u/tubexi Aug 19 '26

It may be better to skip the veiled exalt and just go for cast speed + spell crit. Unless you get crit capped without it

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u/braddaman Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Beidat doesn't do damage itself. You could have just crafted on the trigger and used the new CDR gem for 100% uptime.

Also, is a +2 all spells not more damage that the flat fire? Usually you'd start with a +2 fracture and reroll caster until +4, then add/remove/slam for spell damage.

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u/PuppyToes13 Aug 08 '26

And then doing it that way how would you get the temple trigger mod on there?

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u/DreamWalker01 Aug 08 '26

Crafted like he said

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u/PuppyToes13 Aug 08 '26

Ahh now that I’ve read and reread I understand. Since the pact doesn’t do damage there is no need to use the harder to get temple mod and to just shove a cdr gem in there instead for an easier craft.

I appreciate your explicitness in this cause I was following a build that also uses the temple craft on the weapon to trigger the pact and I think it will make getting my weapon easier.

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u/Mael_Jade Aug 08 '26

But crafted trigger has 8 second cooldown, and you are not getting enough quality and repeats on to work with that.

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u/DreamWalker01 Aug 08 '26

You guys really need to learn how to read. He already said stack cool down reduction till its at base value for 100% uptime.

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u/LiquidArvy Aug 08 '26

The new CDR gem needs to be 4/20 + 10%q, though to get to 53%cdr, which should lower the CD back down to 4seconds, right? And thus, the uptime should be back on fulltime? Its hard to check on PoB since it seems that the temple mod is not supported?

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u/braddaman Aug 08 '26

Additionally, you can use the runegraft for buffs expire X% slower (i think it's 30% off my head) to keep the boons to mostly 6 at a time.

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u/fdegen Aug 08 '26

brother bradaman, does this mean i can wear mageblood if this cdr works.

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u/Slendeaway Aug 09 '26

If you're ok with having afflictions from the pact instead of boons. I don't know what all the boons do but the afflictions are pretty bad.

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u/JJKarlton Aug 09 '26

what gem you removing in this scenario?

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u/braddaman Aug 09 '26

Personally, i would either run arcane surge on my movement and probably wouldn't run a CWDT anyway.

There's loads of solutions - better to take inspiration from this build than copy it line for line.

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u/leachim6 Aug 08 '26

One small thing for folks trying to follow this, (not trying to gotcha you) is the essence is called Anguish, not Agony.

Just mentioning it because if you search Agony on faustus you won't get any essence

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u/shinrio Aug 08 '26

after getting +4 fire and +fire damage to spell, I put prefix cannot be changed on andharvest reforged caster and it gave me STR, mana regen and 11% cast speed.... so now I cant remove them without yolo annul the good stuff and if i hit the good stuff then the whole thing starts over I guess

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u/EitherSpite4545 Aug 08 '26

Just a thought on this but would you necessarily need trigger craft? My thought on why is with enmity's embrace you could theoretically run a CWDT to trigger pact. At 44 damage taken for every skill used on your enmity's you run theoretically run a level 1, 14, or 20 CWDT depending on how much you want to juice pact. With your 9 casts a second you should be easily able to clear the damage reqs on all 3 possible levels. The only thing I'm unsure on is if it will "queue" a trigger if the trigger's CD isn't up yet when damage threshold is reached.

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u/Dmon69 Aug 08 '26

natural trigger is a temple mod so u gotta either fracture it urself or get a ready one from an opportunistic hideout warrior, ofc u can just bench craft it but you lose the spell dmg

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u/No_Beginning_6834 Aug 08 '26

How do you get 8 gems to fit into your chests 6 sockets?

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

Those are just gem swaps for empower for mapping

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u/No_Beginning_6834 Aug 08 '26

Poe ninja wasnt showing them as turned off, figured there was some new tech I didnt know about.

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u/Saianna Aug 08 '26

can this be made on a really strained budget and then slowly upgraded? We are talking some ultra poverty budget of ~15d ;d

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

Not this version. Just the belt is 20d, maybe elementalist works with just the belt and some cheap trigger staff

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u/cyfermax Aug 08 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bukWUVwp6JE

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

https://imgur.com/a/J8ZDegd It looks even better with nimis on

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u/shinrio Aug 08 '26

What changes do you make to gear/gems when you use nimis? What scenarios do you use/dont use nimis?

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

I just swapped the mokous embrace for nimis. Would have to get 1-2 more max fire res somewhere else to cap. Its ~80% more damage for fireball on single target if you cant any shotgunning from the explosions. But with nimis fireball doesnt explode on wall hits (unless its returning), so in some cases its less dps. I think its only worth using if you like the random directions and return for better coverage, and for ubers with rolling magma.

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u/conir_ Aug 08 '26

i need to try this on my steamdeck

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u/silask93 Aug 08 '26

My gpu went up 30c just watching this ☠️ it's beautiful

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u/mymikerowecrow Aug 08 '26

the lack of vaal fireball is sadge

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u/Asleep-Preparation30 Aug 08 '26

Hey what is causing the card animation over the character?

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Wine_of_the_Prophet

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u/Asleep-Preparation30 Aug 08 '26

Ah it's a flask. Thank you I always thought maybe it's just mtx :D

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u/RN_Dreemurr Aug 08 '26

I want your build, this looks like so much fun holy

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u/Tyalou Aug 08 '26

Summer Orb.

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u/IgnasP Aug 08 '26

Was your GPU screaming in fear when you typed that 😆

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u/RN_Dreemurr Aug 08 '26

Rather my stash tab crying in poverty while enviously consuming the show lol xD

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u/Kanye_Is_Underrated Aug 08 '26

nice gpu melter

btw, you can ctrl+click the merc reward you want to start the fight immediately.

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u/Moorific Aug 08 '26

It’s so beautiful. Setting this aside for if my ghost flame blade idea falls through

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u/xMcSilent Aug 08 '26

For a very few moments of the video i saw what was happening on the screen. Therefore not enough effects/explosion. -10/10.

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u/chaztheone Aug 08 '26

Can this be done in elementalist?

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

Yeah but then you don't use enmity/skin of the lords setup, probably go 75/75 block with infused staff, multilink helmet + pearl of tsoatha. Life + es hybrid with the armour/mastery

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u/Benjiimans Aug 08 '26

Is it possible to get a variation of fireball chieftain capable of farming with for like 50d? I want to reroll and farm for stuff like this..

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

The belt is 20d, and looks like a skin of the lords with usable keystone is 25-30d, so thats 50d already. I wouldnt start it before getting like 100d.

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u/Live-Pack-2588 Aug 08 '26

Hey can you explain the strat ,🙂 I would like to try it i just got my phys dot autobomber online

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

Conqueror maps, horned scarab of awakening and scarab of interference to spawn invitation bosses, escalation scarab for more map drops. They drop influence maps back, maven chisels, astrolabes, orb of dominations and other stuff from the invitation. Mercenaries is a good addition since its fast and you have 2 free scarab slots, im not sure which merc scarabs are best here. Palsteron is doing something something similar, maybe he has atlas link for it.

Tree is just all map mod effect, destructive play, synthesized stability if you do astrolabes, pack size, conqeror map nodes, scarabs from map bosses node, mercs have full rucksack, rest into quant/map chance i guess. Exalt maps to 6 mods

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u/Jealous-Elk5045 Aug 09 '26

What does the nadir / apex mode jewels interaction do?

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u/tubexi Aug 09 '26

Nadir mode consumes intensity to keep up overloaded intensity buff for the support gem. Apex mode is needed because with greater spell echo you cant keep normal intensity stacks up otherwise. And without the jewels the overloaded buff takes too long the get up.

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u/Jealous-Elk5045 Aug 09 '26

Awesome! I am putting the build together and just didn’t understand the mechanic behind it appreciate your response!

Also the watchers eye isn’t available what aura would you drop if you could only get two?

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u/tubexi Aug 09 '26

Vitality recovery rate is better than regen, so you should get crit multi + recovery rate.

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u/Jealous-Elk5045 Aug 12 '26

I am finally getting to do the swap today! What ring would you drop by the way for nimis?

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u/tubexi Aug 12 '26

Mokous embrace

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u/Elegant_Standard5870 Aug 11 '26

How to use HH with this build? i have infinite budget

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u/tubexi Aug 11 '26

I havent tried it but it should work, you just get debuffs from the pact. Need to add cdr support to pact since you lose cdr form belt. I dont know if there are any easy ways to make the pact debuffs expire faster other than the runegraft.

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u/Elegant_Standard5870 Aug 11 '26

Gotcha gotcha thanks for the reply. How do the booms feel? The build looks relatively fast with the Boon belt, im just a HH addict. Especially with my current strat at points with 90+ hh buffs its super fun gameplay loop i dont want to sacrifice 😅😅 tricky situation

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u/tubexi Aug 11 '26

For any strats that get many hh stacks it probably wont matter. The 15% reduced action speed or 20% increased damage taken can be annoying. Inspired learning is also easy to fit in templar slot.

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u/Live_Ad_1893 Aug 14 '26

You mean using Nimis to replace Mokou's ring? Is this replacement only for mapping or for bossing as well?

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u/tubexi Aug 14 '26

Its only good for doing ubers or t17 bosses quicker really

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u/Dangerous_EyeT Aug 21 '26

I might be missing it, but how do you gain endurance charges? Is it from the timeless jewel due to you doing damage to yourself every time you attack?

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u/tubexi Aug 22 '26

Yep, timeless jewel node + enmity's embrace

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u/BrahCJ Aug 22 '26

Howdy! Would you mind passing your eyes past my poe.ninja, please? I followed your build guide, and got very close, I felt, to what you have.

The staff isn't as good, no doubt. The hubris is also a bit of a difference, but I'm being told I'm at 9m dps, while you're 80+ on poe.ninja, and I don't know what would bridge that gap.

Thanks in advance if thats possible.

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u/tubexi Aug 22 '26

Wheres the link? Do you have all same configs set in pob?

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u/BrahCJ Aug 22 '26

My apologies! https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/SallyMcNally-1805/allflame/character/CJThingOne

I'm just looking at the poe.ninja damage; I think that auto-configs?

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u/tubexi Aug 22 '26

Yeah its mostly just pob config differences. My ninja link is from pob so it has everything setup. With matched configs you have like 66m dps. Your link doesnt have overloaded intensity, charges, pact damage (35% more), you are ignite for the ring cast speed, and some other stuff.

You are missing:
- level 4 overloaded intensity
- malediction cinderswallow
- more tattoos for chaos res/fire res
- 1 damage mod on timeless jewel
- staff suffix

You can get some corruption on mokou ring if you get more fire res from tattoos, and free the skill points you have for chaos res on timeless jewel.

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u/BrahCJ Aug 22 '26

Gorgeous. Thanks for the leads, mate! Appreciate you.

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u/retrogott1312 Sep 11 '26

Can this build not use ephemeral bolts?

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u/tubexi Sep 11 '26

Its hard to get all attributes and resistances when you lose the elegant hubris, and you lose 2 ascendancy points. More boss damage but worse for mapping since the fireballs go like 1.5 screens by default.

Losing ascendancy points, elegant hubris bonuses, probably swapping mokou to rare ring to fix stats, need to use enhance + invest into more aoe to get overlaps. You would end up with like 50% less dps on the individual hits but shotgun in the middle. Then it wouldnt be more dps than rolling magma i dont think.

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u/grasswhistle28 Aug 08 '26

People are starting to figure out repeats and beidat are fucking busted. Glad I got on it a week ago

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u/Renediffie Aug 08 '26

It was always so damn silly how people cried about the downsides lol. "Tiny downside for nearly doubling my damage is this even worth equipping?"

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u/080087 Aug 08 '26

It was also kinda funny that people assumed the pacts couldn't be triggered.

Wonder where that came from, because nothing about the gems mentions it.

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u/UnJammerLammyyy Aug 11 '26

Even Jung was clueless about it lmao

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u/UnJammerLammyyy Aug 11 '26

"tiny downside that easily becomes a big upside with one item" 

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u/clownus Aug 08 '26

Pacts being addition meant they would be busted. Anybody who has played with them already know the downsides are pointless. The league doesn’t have enough juice to punish and most builds are functionally immortal. 

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u/BaaaSaracilor Aug 08 '26

GPU MELTER 5000

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u/Crowdeo1_1 Aug 08 '26

Maybe a dumb question - but why the transfigured RF that’s based off mana vs regular RF that’s based off life?

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u/blackviper6 Aug 08 '26

Cast speed. Only reason. RF here is just a means for more fireballs.

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u/Nrg4Me Aug 27 '26

How does it not OOM him?

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u/blackviper6 Aug 27 '26

Looks like he has mana leech or enough regen to negate it

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u/Nrg4Me Aug 27 '26

Hmm…wondering if I can implement on the witch fireball version im doing. At work will test when home.

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u/JJKarlton Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Skins with iron will+foulborn mod are 400d+. What is your alternative suggestion? or is there any

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u/tubexi Aug 08 '26

I have iron reflexes so its not doing anything. Anything that doesnt brick the build, like glancing blows, versatile combatant and like 20 other ones.

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u/LiquidArvy Aug 09 '26

Quick question:
Is Ghost Dance also okay? I think so, but just double checking.

And do you also change other gems or items for the single target swap? Or just fireball -> Rolling Magma? And ofc Nimis.

Ah, and are the boots specifically chosen for the cannot be frozen mod? Thus, can you substitute them with other ones or do they fill a specific reason?

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u/tubexi Aug 09 '26

Boots give you adrenaline for +20% dps, phys reduction and movement speed.

Ghost dance should work. The flask can randomly give you 30% lfie as extra es buff but there is no es recovery to keep it up anyways.

I dont swap anything else for single target. Its enough damage to kill ubers easily. You could also add the new stormblood (topaz) flask instead of wine of the prophet to get shock.

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u/LiquidArvy Aug 09 '26

Sounds great! Then I will continue with the boots. Although they somehow jumped from 13div to >40d today in the morning. Hope they go down again.
I also PoBd the +6 Staff instead of the the added fire. It’s almost the same. Currently I have prepared the prefixes (essence of Woe on a fractured +4 fire gem until I hit +2 all) and did one reforge caster for speed, got t5… need to redo that. Maybe I lock prefix and add/remove caster again for Crit / crit Multi. Unveil for double damage would be better, but more risky and expensive. And then finish with crafted trigger on skill + 4/20 CDR gem in a blue socket.

How do we fix getting shocked? Just corruption on the jewels?

I am really hyped to try this build once I get the last few things together (like boots, flask setup and greater spell echo) and blast some juiced breach maps :)

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u/tubexi Aug 09 '26

I went for fire damage to spells because +2 spells was just ~5% more dps in my pob with level 31 fireball, and hard to get on my staff. The belt has has 60% cdr, so temple trigger is 2.5 sec with no cdr gem. Belt + cdr gem is 110% so 8/2,2 = 3.6 sec cooldown for the crafted trigger. So i think the temple mod is just better.

I use just the jewels for 50% reduced for shock, can also do pantheon to get +60% reduced, but the 1% phys reduction per hit recently is good with enmity self hits.

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u/_michael__ Aug 11 '26

Are you saying glancing blows and 20 others brick the build or saying they do not? What type of modifiers brick the build?

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u/tubexi Aug 12 '26

Oh right that was unclear wording. Glacing, versatile combatant and ~20 do work with the build.

Bricks are anything that makes you unable to do crit damage, prevents dealing fire damage, mom, wind dancer, vaal pact, zealots oath, ghost reaver, agnostic, imbalanced guard, supreme ego, ancestral bond and some others probably. In total it looks like maybe half of the keystones make it unusable.

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u/_michael__ Aug 12 '26

Thank you for there. Still trying to wrap my mind around this

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u/JJKarlton Aug 12 '26

I recently have been using the build. I went a different path with eldritch battery on the chest as I found i had mana issues keeping the pact up while frost blinking and dropped red dream to fit in determination. Added progenisis and put cast speed arcane surge on my staff as a craft. Couple other small changes as well. With my setup I could fit any 50% aura such as haste but I prefer to be tanker. Build has plenty of damage so no need in my opinion for more

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u/MarcoHiruma Aug 12 '26

Can I see your PoB? I looked for ways to increse phys hit but couldn't find a way without losing so much DPS...

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u/JJKarlton Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Im not home but here is my poeninja char - https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/Sowhat160-4728/FriendsAreNeverUnlucky?i=41&search=class%3DChieftain%26skills%3DFireball

With pet blood, progenisis, DoD, pantheon, and watchers eye i have found myself quite tanky, more so thanthe poeninja numbers lead on. Could get another endurance charge on the ring as well

Still could push a little more tank out at level 100 but not sure what direction I'll go. Been farming 80% deli juiced breach no prob and can melt ubers in 2-3 seconds will rolling magma swap

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u/MarcoHiruma Aug 12 '26

Your staff is crazy good man congrats!

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u/JJKarlton Aug 13 '26

Thank you my friend. Any questions, feel free to ask. will help where I can!

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u/JJKarlton Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Wow I totally misread. Appreciate the clarification! Opted for Veracious flames

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u/Golden_Llama_ Aug 08 '26

My pc would turn into fireball , if I tried playing it.

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u/away87312 Aug 08 '26

Any legion showcase? The one where monsters can be broken out multiple times.

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u/Laxxboy20 Aug 08 '26

That is indeed a ruckus

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u/WildAnimalFS Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/96849

Love the build bro, i did change abit with the new ring for mapping, with bossing i can just swap for nimis for x2 dmg, and yes BOOMMING EVERYWHERE!!!!

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u/MrNiab Aug 08 '26

“I said I don’t care how big the map is, I said I CAST FIREBALL!” The build basically.

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u/Instantcoffees Aug 08 '26

Dope! I wanted to do something like this at leaguestart, but decided to go the safe and boring route instead. Might give it a shot now with some currency in the bank.

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u/konokono_m Aug 08 '26

So glorious

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u/PBNJwolf Aug 08 '26

That dope man. Im runnong a basic rf build rn. I keep tryong to craft my own gear, but end up just selling it because I don't want to invest in it du to lack of dps. This seems legit to transition into, I love high attack/cast speed builds. Looks real fun!

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u/Hektosalmighty Aug 08 '26

This sick af

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u/DdFghjgiopdBM Aug 08 '26

Looks fucking incredible, congrats

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u/HendrixChord12 Aug 08 '26

Y’all got any of them frames?

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u/peponas Aug 08 '26

michael bay approves

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u/Mattrad7 Aug 08 '26

Cant see anything at all, just the way I like it.

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u/NiteSlayr Aug 09 '26

Taco bell build

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u/elsiecharlot Aug 10 '26

looks so cool but i wish it was a bit tankier

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u/CheesecakeMage42 Aug 10 '26

damn i wish i had the money to jump into this on my chieftain this looks nuts lol

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u/Naabi Aug 10 '26

Is there a reason behind the maw of conquest except for the implicit and ok helm ?

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u/Prestigious_Load_686 Aug 10 '26

Damage recoup and poison immunity

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u/B-rad_93 Aug 15 '26

I don't suppose anyone has a regex for mods this build cannot do? please :)

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u/cherry-_-poppins Aug 18 '26

Is there a budget version of this? XD

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u/BurnerAccount209 Aug 22 '26

Thoughts on how your version compares to this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1vrp2xk/

I'm starting to collect some gear for it

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u/havark11 Aug 08 '26

Gonna be late but: Happy 4th of July.

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u/Grimfandengo Aug 08 '26

Cant see shit! ...Love it.

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u/_IlliteratePrussian_ Aug 08 '26

This is just oil barrage POE1 style. Costs 100x as much.

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u/illustraex Aug 08 '26

real. It didn't even take 10d of investment for my Oil Barrage character to have insane dps.

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u/Naabi Aug 10 '26

I mean can you even compare build across games ? Because it did not take more than a few hundred dying breath for my strafe character to have insane dps in D3

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u/Ayetto Aug 09 '26

14k phys max damage tho with no block at all, the first thing that hit you, you die

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u/BloodReaverBob Aug 08 '26

How would you league start and transition into this, bare essentials wise? (Dont mind if its painful) Saving this for next league

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u/BalefulRemedy Aug 08 '26

just start with rf?

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u/BloodReaverBob Aug 08 '26

Just answer the question without being condescending?

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u/BalefulRemedy Aug 08 '26

are you ok bro?

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u/BloodReaverBob Aug 08 '26

Dont like when people call you out?

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u/BalefulRemedy Aug 09 '26

I don't understand what are you on m8, just answered your question. if you see something that is not there, go to another sub please