Zero Avatar of Fire synergy with Smith of Kitava

Running Smith Of Kitava Avatar Of Fire Shield Charge using Magma Barrier.

Two most important things are high armour on shield and +levels to melee skills and elemental damage with attacks. So this is one of the few that can be run 1h without Giants Blood.

Avatar of Fire gives no innate bonuses except conversion of only 75% of your damage and the inability to deal any other types of damage. Life leech becomes very difficult unless you have "gain n life on hit/kill" and you are left with mostly regen.

Nothing in the Ascendency gives any kind of help with fire damage except a single +20% fire damage node. This is wild. Against The Anvil and Living Weapon are ass, in their own ways.

Heat of the Forge grants fire spell on hit, which doesn't work with any fire attacks, and then you are level capped on those fire spells due to inherently lower INT. Feels like a perfect place for Avatar of Fire to ignore int based level caps for Heat of the Forge spells. So I can cast low level solar orb/flammability as well as a couple of fonts. That don't move. With no ranged abilities (which is understandable for a melee build), this is only effective if the proc of solar orb happens where I need to be positioned.

You need to spend 30 Spirit on Magma Barrier, which only works for Shields and then only when you perfectly time your Resonating Shield with the attacks that seem to only proc with some of the mobs. Magma Barrier also procs with Shield Charge, but of course that has a cooldown.

I'm not aware of any other aura that operates thusly.

I am using Herald of Fire instead of Overwhelming Presence. HOF feels better for clearing.

I am now running T12s with capped resistances and 10k armour and elites and map bosses die pretty fast, however clearing is slow and ass. If Magma Barrier doesn't proc correctly (due to me not remembering the attack timing of every different type of mob), then I'm left resonating my shield while waiting for Shield Charge to come off cooldown.

Continued repositioning is then key while cooldowns reset, or Magma Barrier did not proc, or else you can be popped with chaos blooms which are hard to see sometimes when completely surrounded.

Kind of a disjointed post, but I hope that this is at least coherent.