RF and bosses that resist elemental damage

Hey there,

why do you use Wise Oak?
Only hits can penetrate and neither RF nor SR do hit. In case you were using it as a damage source, consider dropping it for a sulphur flask just for 40% inc dmg implicit and roll whatever you like on it - the 4% bonus life regen might come in handy as well for a RF build.
If you need the res, disregard what I said :)

Also Im curious if and how you trigger Arcane Surge with RF.
Id expect it doesnt trigger at all, because RF has no mana costs attached to it. If that was true, you basically waste the socket. You can easily test it. Either there is a buff icon for Arcane Surge or there is not. Im really curious :)
If its doesnt get triggered consider using an Inc AoE gem and drop the templar AoE nodes.
Same goes for Ash, Frost and Storm wheel.
RF and SR cant reflect, so all you get is 32% inc dmg for 3 points.

If you were to unspec templar aoe (in case Arcane Surge doesnt work) and Ash, Frost.. you´d sacrifice a total of 42% inc damage, but you could get all 3 jewel sockets available for 2 points.
So as long as you get 14% dmg on each jewel, you´ll end up with the same dmg. 14% is 1 dmg roll :)

Just pick up any cobalt jewel and spam alteration on them. You could roll up to 20% burning dmg and all you need is another dmg mod and you are already better off.
If you regal it and hit %life or res or more dmg or whatever your build needs, you get way more out of it.


Good luck

1. i didn't know this about wise oak! i thought the 12% pen applies to RF and SR. i'll replace it.
thank you!

2. the arcane surge with the swift affliction do work on RF.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/7o6bwl/question_righteous_fire_and_arcane_surge_synergy/

it adds a huge ammount of damage according to PoB:

https://imgur.com/a/gn1pH

i didnt see any icon, though...
so you say PoB lies and it doesn't work?

3. no currency for a decent jewel, and i thought that the ele damage passives will do the trick until i'll get jewels :-)

thanks!

I see you're using Blasphemy + Flammability and CoH + Elemental Weakness. By default enemies can only have one curse on them at a time. So you either take Whispers of Doom in your skill tree or add an item that grants enemies to have an additional curse (Doedre's Damning, Windscream or a corrupted amulet with this explicit mod).

Elemental Equilibrium is quite essential for RF builds, if you don't see anything obvious to trigger EE in a build guide on first glance have a closer look at their gear. Many builds are using "Adds Cold/Lighting Damage to Attacks" on an item, EE is then triggered with an attack such as Shield Charge or Leap Slam.

A Totem can be helpful as well but you do not want it to deal fire damage as it will boost the target's Fire Resistance by 50%, also keep in mind that RF grants a massive "more spell damage" boost which also applies to totems using a spell but not to attack totems such as Warchief.

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Ofirdr78 a écrit :

2. the arcane surge with the swift affliction do work on RF.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/7o6bwl/question_righteous_fire_and_arcane_surge_synergy/

Thats interesting.
So Arcane Surge does pretty much nothing, but it attaches a hidden "duration" tag to RF and thats why Swift Affliction works with RF.

Didnt know that :)


So no, there will be no Arcane Surge buff icon.
I just wasnt aware of that hidden "duration" tag thing - good to know


Edit:
Craft your jewels yourself :)
All it takes are some cobalt jewels and some hundred alt orbs, which you´ll get anyways for vendoring all the things.
And you can make good currency out if it, if you a jewel thats not useful for your build but for others.

Up to you