[3.14] Dejuvenate's Flameslinger Elementalist. Best League starter and unethical clear speed

18 Feb 2021 - added many inputs from other folks who have taken this build to a whole new level, namely CAKE and BergMichel

22 Jan 2021 - added my current profile, with awakened gems added for POB warriors out there. My current profile is public so you can look it up.
Updated FAQ with pantheon and bandits (shame on you for asking about this!)

18 Jan 2021 - added 2 POB for layered defense, my current POB as of day 2 of the league, FAQs - please check the FAQs before asking

15 Jan 2021 - added leveling progression by @Xuinzo

14 Jan 2021 - added Elementalist POB concept

13 Jan 2021 - Created this guide

Prior to this I made a thread on the Marauder (chieftain) and Shadow (trickster) Sections.

Video by a Korean guy, showing high investment end game viable build. 4.7m Sirus DPS with crazy high investment - double corrupted skin of the loyal, atziri mirror, coward's legacy, quad corrupted hands of high templar.

video

This was made by a guildmate just to show how the build plays. Wrong ascendancy, wrong tree, and low lvl gems.

video showcase by @extracat, visit his twitch twitch.tv/onevaz

Flamewall is one of the highest damage over time skills in the game. It requires almost nothing to work. 2-3 link is enough to carry us thru entire story. 4 link is superfluous.

Flamewall has 2 component to it.
When an enemy pass thru a FW, a primary dot is applied to them. They also receive a secondary dot that DEALS OMFGWTFBBQMOAR dmg that is the basis of this build.

At lvl 20 the primary deals 456.3 dot, while the secondary deals 1825 dot.

As a comparison, ED deals 1503 dot.

But wait Dejuv, ED is easily spread with Contagion, that's what makes chaos slinger so good isnt it? The brainlessness of it. You just shoot and it automatically casts ED and Contagion, and the contagion spreads ED like cancer.

This is basically what we are aiming when we introduce a payload carrier. See, Flamewall secondary dot doesn't require an enemy to touch the flamewall to be applied. A projectile that passes thru FW will also apply the secondary burn to any and all enemies it touches.

This is the proof of concept from a video on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKoOUEos-Yw

I have tried what the video says, and figured out Ball lightning to be the best deliverer, but still too slow for my taste. And casting flamewall is kinda clunky after a while.

Enter spellslinger and Kinetic Blast.

+
+ Retarded, unethical clear speed. 1-2 screen wipe with 1 right click
+ no worry about ele reflect, no leech, minus resist, no regen (kinda annoying)
+ Do all map mods without looking, best for clearing atlas fast
+ Cheap, requires nothing to start

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- Limited scaling, the dps caps at around 1m dps, so don't expect to faceroll sirus with it unless you really know the mechanics
- Expensive to min max, as I said flamewall is good from the get go, but it has limited scalability, unlike ignite, poison, crit, etc.
- You filthy unethical dog you.

Kinetic Blast
This is the premier of mass clears. This is what I finally decide to use as my payload deliverer.



Power Siphon


Frenzy



Ball lightning



Frost Bolt



Fire Ball

Many people have taken this build far and beyond what I planned to do, so I will let them share their build and thought process.

Here's 3.14 version, courtesy of MultiplePunchMan
https://pastebin.com/Z9esEYPX










OUTDATED 3.12 VERSION

Flameslinger Guide by Dejuvenate

You are welcome to use this POB freely but please give me credit if you plan on making videos and/or further guides about this flameslinger build
Thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3009295




LEVELING
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Look up individual skill gems for required quests to get them.


lvl 1 - choose stormblast mine as reward and use it till lvl 4

lvl 4 - flamewall, holy flame totem
drop flamewall and hft, run around to the next packs

lvl 8 - get combustion linked to HFT, and efficacy linked to FW

lvl 12 - grab power siphon linked with pierce, learn to place FW between you and mobs, and shoot thru the FW.

lvl 16 - grab Wave of conviction, link to combustion. Use on tougher mobs to debuff their resist

lvl 18 - grab cont dest and ele focus. Link FW - ele focus - efficacy/cont dest (look which one gives more dps)

lvl 24 - get 4L - FW - spellslinger - ele focus - efficacy/cont dest

lvl 28 - grab kinetic blast but continue using power siphon - put KB in your offhand sets to lvl it up (better AOE as you lvl it)
KB costs too much mana and needs too many links to be practical early game

lvl 31 - grab burning damage from siosa quest and link FW - spellslinger - ele focus - burning damage - This is the highest DPS 4L

lvl 34 - grab stone golem & flame golem & ice golem (do your first lab so you can use 3 golems at once)

lvl 38 - grab chain, GMP, hextouch.

Your PS link should now be PS - chain - hextouch - flammability
Your Flamewall link should now be FW - spellslinger - ele focus - burning damage - (efficacy - swift affliction) for 5th and 6th link, respectively

from this point onward just keep upgrading your life and cap your resists as much as you can.
play this like EDC, such that you just drop the dot, shoot thru the FW, and run. Watch the videos to see how it plays.

As usual, grab other utility skill gems as you see fit.

Get precision and dont level it too high, check your chance to hit for your PS/KB. Try to get 95-100% chance to hit. If you have 100% chance to hit, stop leveling precision.

Righteous fire, try to get a vaal RF and lvl in your offhand sets. You can sustain RF easily as elementalist as our stone golem gives good regen
flame dash - arcane surge for moar deeps. You can use shield charge if you prefer.
steel skin / your favorite guard skills, or enduring cry
portal skill gems if you are lazy like me and cba to click portal scroll



END GAME
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all empty slots maximize life and get decent resists
adjust lvl of precision aura so you have 95-100% hit chance for KB (important). Dont level all the way to 20 unless you have tons of mana unreserved


THICC BOSSES/GUARDIANS/SIRUS/SHAPER/ELDER/MAVEN?
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Use Frenzy instead of KB for the trigger. You can swap pierce/chain for Frenzy if you have no white socket. Enable frenzy on POB.
Frenzy charges give 4% more dmg per charge, so 3 frenzy charges give 12% more dmg. This can somehow offset the higher resist and higher curse resist those bosses have.

So Frenzy - GMP - combustion should do
last link can be pierce or chain or unbound ailments (waiting for interaction between unbound ailments and shaper of shock)

Just take whatever. It should be common sense.
For Bandits, Alira gives crit multi, mana regen and all res. It is supposed to help you earlier. But I skipped and just killed all bandits. +2 passive points are very huge and noticeable at 90+.

Pantheon. Since I am going block based and got stun immunity, I dont have to take Stun immunity pantheon. I took Solaris as I feel physical damage is the boon of this build. For minor, I take chaos damage resist cos poison hurts and Al Hezmin is a big bully.

More to come/added

Golems give tons of buffs and QOL. Liege of Primordial and Elemancer give 50% increased golem effect per golem, plus the Golem Commander Cluster, giving a total of (50n + 70), where n is the number of golems you have.

The buffs don't stack with duplicate golem. Assuming level 20 golem gems with a total of 4 golems, you gain 270% increased golem buff (3.7 multiplier).

Stone Golem gives 105 * 3.7 = 388.5 life/second
Flame Golem gives 20% * 3.7 = 74% increased damage
Chaos Golem gives 4% * 3.7 = 14.8% additional phys damage reduction
Lightning Golem gives 9% * 3.7 = 33.3% increased attack/cast speed (FYI lvl 20 faster casting gives 39% increased cast speed)
Ice Golem gives 30% * 3.7 = 111% increased accuracy & critical chance

As homework, do the math and see if you can calculate the buff effects for:
- 6 (just using anima stone) = 4.7 multiplier,
- 7 (just using primordial chain) = 5.2 multiplier,
- and 9 (using both primordial chain and anima stone) = 6.2 multiplier

See the buff effects and decide yourself.

In terms of importance, IMHO, stone - flame - chaos - lightning / ice
If only using 4 golem, you can choose to use ice golem and drop lightning. It will easily cap your hit chance, but would feel sluggish as you'd be missing the cast and attack speed of lightning golem. I personally use lightning golem and bump up my precision aura lvl.

EE is separate from WOC.
EE adds 25% to resist of last hit element, and subtract 50% from resist of elements not hit

WOC subtract 25% resist of the highest hit element

So ideally you wanna hit with WOC hitting with fire element dealing the most dmg (WOC is phys converted to 25% fire and 25% lightning)

then you apply a hit using another element so the mob is weaker against the element of your choice.

It goes like this:

Sirus has 50% fire resist
You hit with WOC-combustion (fire dmg dominant) - Sirus has 50% + 25% (EE) - 19% (combustion) - 25% (WOC) = 31% fire resist
Then you hit with anything but fire (make sure no flat dmg to fire on gear)
Sirus has 31% - 50% = -19% fire resist

EE: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Elemental_Equilibrium
WOC: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Wave_of_Conviction

Wearing Malachai's Artifice Ring allows us to have EE specifically on the socketed skill gem, letting the remaining skills unaffected by EE.

The EE applied by Malachai's Artifice used to be reduced by 25%, but now it is applied in full.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Malachai%27s_Artifice

Make sure your gear has no added damage to the element you wanna bring down (in this case, fire element). I noticed a few of you have that and unwittingly nerf your own dps.