PSA: You *CAN* level with Righteous Fire

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Vipermagi wrote:

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k1rage wrote:

but they also lowered the spell damage bonus

Which has precisely zero effect on pure RF builds. RF doesn't deal Spell Damage.

im well aware of that....

Hi, OP here, thank you for all this positive feedback :o I forgot completely about this thread tbh, but I'm glad, I could help you guys :)

The Spell damage boost was relevant for Flame Surge, what I was using for stronger bosses, but it's not really needed. So it should work for 3.0 as well, even though I didn't tried it myself yet, but it seems you had no problems with it?


Added Ashrend and Shaper's Seed to the starting post btw. Thanks to emiliorf.

I play Harbinger HC and thanks to this thread I was able to sustain RF at level 30ish with berserker's shout ascendancy, it can be feel rippy at first, but once you get used to it, it really does work like a charm, I'm a casual-ish poe player, never played RF, I was able to make it to the maps with RF, if someone like me can do it, so can you!

You probably saved my sanity , thanks to this i can level up without bashing a white mob's head for 5 minutes to kill it, yet still, how long the 2 rings can keep you sustained? since it's a flat value instead of a % life regen effect i fear that i could lose my "even-point" and start losing HP since the more you level the more % life nodes you will get, ofc if it keeps up till lvl 65 that would be perfect

Started at level 22, before purity and vitality needed a LL or instaheal flask to sustain, just killed Dom and holy... this is by far one of my best leveling experiances so far, all you do is run with quicksilver on and you kill every white mob in your path.
Ultra fast, ultra cheap and ultra fun way to level.
You were right, dominus was a joke btw...

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k1rage wrote:

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Vipermagi wrote:

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k1rage wrote:

but they also lowered the spell damage bonus

Which has precisely zero effect on pure RF builds. RF doesn't deal Spell Damage.

im well aware of that....

which i dont get . wasn't the initial pitch of rightious fire that it was a costly buff that offered a huge bonus?

now its 180 and its a damage skill that has a buff .. but you mostly ignore it unless you are scorching ray.

rf requires an absurd amount of investment into regen and specific defenses to be even functional in maps

that being said . rf is fine if you eliminate map mods from the table . so it makes some sense that it would work very well for leveling if you solve the sustain issue.


it is after all a 4l which makes it easy to slot in for. and there are a bunch of things out there that help with regen.

Just wanted to share my experience. I'm playing a berserker marauder. At level 32 i completed my first lab for the 2 points and I went to level with RF. I used 2 rings, the shield, goldrim for resists, brightbeak for resist and movement on Shield Charge and it was amazing. No problems what so ever. The warcry assendancy from zerker helped but it was just so fast and smooth i couldn't belive it. + RF is only a 4 link.

Stone golem, purity of fire are required with the items. Maybe vitality depending on your life. i just used blasphemy vulnerability.

One of my favorite builds is RF, but because it's one of those builds that kick in only in maps, I stopped playing it.

But thanks to this thread, I am currently level 61, and it was a BLAST to level with RF ! I waited for stone golem, and from that point forward, it's quicksilver all the way.

Thanks OP !