Stress Free PoE| HOLY RIGHTEOUS FIRE |ANY Items Work|Easy/Relaxing Play|Easily Clears the Atlas[3.6]

I deal with post concussion syndrome. Without getting all "doctor" on you, if I want to play a game for a good while and be able to function when I'm finished playing, I have to avoid many things in video games. Some examples of things that I try to avoid in games are:

- Fast or unpredictable movement on screen
- Quick and specific button presses at specific times (like flasks)
- Specific aiming/clicking with the mouse (the inventory exhausts my mind)
- Bright flashes and busy screens
- Quick thinking and reacting
- And a billion other things ;)

The reason that I write this part isn't so that you feel sorry for me but to explain why there are certain elements of my builds that are not maximized in a way that the general community would typically maximize their builds.

As limiting as that seems, this game provides endless character building options.

So my build and guides are great for:
- New players.
- Players that don't like button mashing.
- Players that like playing with only one or two buttons.
- Players that like a relaxing PoE experience.
- Players with medical conditions (like epilepsy or those with with physical limitations that are restricted in how they use keyboards or mice…)
- Players that like the best builds ever made in the history of Path of Exile.

My guides will incorporate as many of the mechanics of the game that I love (that are also quite conducive to my issues), such as:
-”Slowing” enemies
- Debuffing enemies
- Doing nothing to kill things (Damage over Time or Minions...)
- Sweet life regen or Chaos Inoculation
- Move, cast once...move, cast once...move, cast once...;)

***Despite the limitations my builds revolve around, the guides I post will clear the Atlas :)***

This build is really easy to play. Sooooo easy.

Quick Version: Cast Holy Flame Totem at enemies and then move to it and stand near it. Everything burns to death...well, except you. :-)

Everything else happens automatically!

- Software: Path of Building - The character planner I use.

- Pastebin - https://pastebin.com/aL7igmDW - (Copy the link, open Path of Building, click on “New”, then click “Import/Export Build”, click “Import from Pastebin…”, paste the link.)

- Passive Tree on pathofexile.com

- Video - Racecourse - My Favourite Map :). (Racecourse is a T14 at the time of the video. You'll notice my gear is Mediocre at best and my gems aren't even level 20, let alone 20%. (I guess the less maximized I am, the better the build seems ;).))

Also, feel free to checkout my broadcast channel. Mixer keeps the last 14 days worth of broadcasts. I post all my broadcasts on my YouTube channel along with a few other things.

I like to be able to just load the game and play. So I design my builds to not require any specific items or mods to function. Obviously you need the basics like resists and health but you’ll only need your Gems and your Passive Tree for this build to function well. So you can use ANY items you want to take the character in any direction.

As the Guide Creator I’ll only be using rare items, just as a demonstration that you don’t need epic items to clear the Atlas. Please use any items you find/want.

In case you didn't notice, RF can't be sustained right away. To sustain it as soon as possible without needing any gear (except links) do the following:

- With the provided tree, select all the nodes as they come. Get all the south nodes, then work your way up. - Equip and start leveling your Stone Golem as soon as it's available.
- Equip and start leveling your Purity of Fire as soon as it's available.
- By the time you kill Arakaali (the Spider Boss in Act 7) you can select the Pantheon option that unlocks (Soul of Arakaali). Have that and the minor God, Soul of Abberath selected.
- With all of your Endurance charges up, you're dancin'. ;)

- Doing the first two Ascendancies wouldn't hurt either, but it's not required to simply sustain RF.

You can sustain RF with gear in other ways of course, I just thought you'd like to know the soonest you can run RF no matter your gear. And it's WAY EASIER if you stand in Holy Flame Totem's Consecrated Ground.

Passive tree link, a picture of the passive tree, Pastebin - https://pastebin.com/aL7igmDW

PoE restricts which gems are available to each class until Act 3. Until then you can get some gems for free from quest rewards, purchase some from specific NPCs in each town, or find them as loot.

There are two NPC's that sell all purchasable gems: the first one is Siosa in the Library in Act 3 (you have to do his quest first (the Library is connected to The Imperial Gardens)), the second NPC is Lilly Roth is Act 6.

Level all these gems to their max (level 20) unless I have written a level number beside the gem name. For example: "-Cast when Damage Taken (Level 1)". If I have written a level beside the name, that's the level you need to stop leveling the gem at.

5/6 Link - Bonus Damage and Life Regen (Socket in your chest)
-Holy Flame Totem Just as a heads up, this skill is weak at first, but gets MUCH stronger as it levels (gem level 18+) - This totem Hit will eventually do 100% fire damage once you have the proper ascendancy nodes. It'll hit enemies with fire and cast Consecrated Ground around itself (which gives 6% life regen, removes all curses, and gives increased crit chance (Wave of Conviction)). Consecrated Ground impacts you and your allies (including your totems). HFT channels 3 projectile flames at once but each totem can only hit an enemy with one projectile.
-Multiple Totem Support - Lowers the totem's damage by 21%, but let's you have 3 totems out at once. So we lose 20% damage for one totem, but then get three totems doing 80% damage.
-Combustion Support - Bonus fire damage and increases the chance to Ignite enemies.
-Immolate Support - Grants extra fire damage if the enemy being hit is burning. As a 5 link, Holy Flame Totem has a 94% chance to ignite and RF always burns...so this is a safe bet.
-Controlled Destruction Support - Lowers the spell's Crit chance, but greatly increases its damage. We don't care or focus on Crit for this totem so the bonus damage is welcome.
-(If you get a six link: Either -Infused Channelling Support or Fire Penetration Support. They do almost equal damage and have their own pros and cons.)

4 Link - Righteous Fire (Socket in Helmet)
-Righteous Fire - Creates a AOE around you that burns enemies. Burns 90% of your life a second. (Increasing the Quality of this gem improves the spell damage of OTHER spells in your build, NOT RF.) (Increasing the damage of RF does not change how much damage it burns you for. It'll always burn the same % of life no matter the links you link to it.)
-Concentrated Effect Support - Greatly increases damage at the expense of decreasing our AOE.
-Burning Damage Support - Extra damage.
-Elemental Focus Support - Greatly increases damage at the cost of not being able to put an ailment on an enemy. This seems like it would negate RF...but RF doesn't inflict an Ailment. It skips the ailment and jumps straight the the effect, burning. Typically, if you were to throw, let's say a Fireball, at an enemy, it would have a chance to ignite. If the enemy ignites, they start to burn. So if you had this support with Fireball, you'd never burn an enemy. You'd only hit them with fire damage. RF simply burns enemies. It doesn't have a chance to ignite. It skips the "chance to ignite" mechanic and just burns (damage over time). So this is a damage boost with no consequence.

4 Link - Curse (Socket in Gloves or Boots)
-Cast when Damage Taken Support (Level 2) - Automatically casts linked spells.
-Purifying Flame (Level 12) - The linked curse needs a spell that Hits to apply itself. This is that spell. Purifying Flame also puts Consecrated Ground on the ground every time it casts. The more Consecrated Ground, the better! (Normally I'd have this gem linked to a level 1 CwDT. But this skill's Consecrated Ground had an AoE increase at level 12, so we can live with a CwDT level 2.)
-Curse on Hit Support - This is needed to be able to apply Enfeeble on enemies with Charged Dash.
-Any Curse You Want - I personally prefer Enfeeble for the defense it gives. It that makes enemies less accurate with Hits by Attacks (not spells), deal less critical damage, and deal less overall damage too. Here's a list of curses if you want to pick your own.

4 Link - Buffs (Socket in Gloves or Boots) (These gems don't have to be linked)
-Enduring Cry - Gives an instant boost to Life Regen for a small time but also adds/refreshes our Endurance Charges. Good to use in a boss battle to keep your Charges up.
-Purity of Fire - Our most important aura. This gives us Fire resistance, when coupled with Ramako, Sun's Light on the Ascendancy tree, will give us all the Fire Resistance we need. It makes gearing that much easier. It also increases your Maximum Fire Resist. This is the most important part for using RF. Normally your maximum Fire Resist would cap at 75%. This skill at level 20 will increase that max to 79%. That doesn't seem like much, but it's actually very substantial damage mitigation for both RF and receiving fire damage. (We'll end up with 80% max fire resist without items. There's a node on the tree that gives us the extra %.)
-Malevolence - Gives more damage to Damage over Time (RF)
-Flame Dash - Just your escape skill if you need it. (Use any movement skill you want until it unlocks in Act 3.)

3 Link - Defense (Socket in Weapon or Shield)
-Cast when Damage Taken Support - Automatically casts linked spells.
-Summon Stone Golem - An minion that provides life regen to you. The more life regen the better!
-Molten Shell - When activated, gives us bonus armour (physical damage mitigation). After it's mitigated a certain amount of damage it'll explode.

3 Link - Bonus Damage (Socket in Weapon or Shield)
-Cast when Damage Taken Support (Level 1) - Automatically casts linked spells.
-Wave of Conviction (Level 7) - This skill has two functions: 1) To activate Elemental Overload on the Passive Tree. If we make a critical strike, we get lots of bonus damage for 8 seconds. This skill's job is to just get a crit at least once every 8 seconds. 2) Every enemy this skill hits gets Exposure to Fire. Exposure lowers an enemy's resistance to the specific element by 25%. (Multiple Exposures do not stack. (The Flammability curse is not an Exposure.))
-Increased Critical Strikes Support - Just helps increase Wave of Conviction's Crit Chance.

Short Version - ANYTHING YOU WANT! I like having a shield and one-handed weapon instead of a two handed weapon. It's just a preference; no right or wrong there. If you’re new to PoE, check out the Tips for New Players section above. It gives lots of help on gear, currency, leveling, and endgame mapping.

The beginning of your first playthrough, or with SSF, can be hard gear wise. Hang in there, the good gear with the links you want will come. Don't waste your currency (orbs and fusings) on your items until you reach endgame. It might seem like you have a lot, but soon you'll see that it takes a lot of currency to get what you want on an item.

Your goal on every single piece of gear is to get:

- Maximum life
- Cold and Lightning resists
- Movement Speed
- Life Regen
- Spell Damage
- Maximum mana and mana regen (totems are pretty mana heavy)

Here is a link of all the crafting options with the bench and where they unlock. (Ctrl+F some keywords to help you search the massive lists.)

Some people say to ignore chaos resists. This is not bad advice but you'll have 10 rare items to get 135% resistance on all three elements and chaos. It's doable...and so relaxing when accomplished. I say 135% resists because by the time you finish the story and get to endgame, POE hits you with a -60% to your fire, cold, lightning, and chaos resists. It is very important to have those capped at the +75% or more. It's not a waste to go over the 135% as some endgame map mods will lower your resists by another 60%.

I have included an item filter (in the URL section) that will ease the looting pain for those that do SSF.

At the end of the game, the levels (maps) you try and clear will have random modifiers (mods) allocated to them. There are A LOT of mods that can go on a map.

There is only one mod that we can't run: The No Mana and Life Regen mod. We need mana for our totem and our movement skill. We need Life Regen for RF. But that's it! Just the one mod!

Some mods will be inconvenient, but they won't be impossible to run:
- Negatives to maximum resists hurts RF but not our totem.
- Slower mana and life regen hurts RF and but only impacts our totem a little.

You'll learn your personal preferences over time, but only No Mana and Life Regen should be avoided.

- I suggest doing every quest in the game. It doesn't take long. If you're too eager to get to mapping in the endgame, here is a link to all the quests that give Skill Points as a reward.

Bandits - With the Bandits in Act 2, I kill them all for the extra 2 skill points. You, of course, do what you like.

**Remember to prioritize. You may not be lucky enough to get the gear that'll let you play with all your gems as soon as they are available. So do what works best for you until the gear comes (don't be quick to sell your old gear in case something doesn't work out).


- There are two NPCs that sell all purchasable gems: the first one is Siosa in the Library in Act 3 (you have to do his quest first (the Library is connected to The Imperial Gardens)), the second NPC is Lilly Roth in Act 6 (Do her quest in Act 6).

All of my Guides follow the same guidelines:
- Not needing any specific items or mods
- Easy/relaxing to play (one or two buttons)
- Atlas clearing
- Move, cast once...move, cast once...move, cast once...;)

I can’t tell you which I like the most. I am always in the mood for each of them. If you try them, let me know what you think! (I also hope you like them.)

Stress Free PoE| SLOW MO ZOMBIES |ANY Items Work|Easy/Relaxing Play|Easily Clears the Atlas [3.6]

Stress Free PoE| CURSIN’ VORTEX |ANY Items Work|Easy/Relaxing Play|Easily Clears the Atlas [3.6]

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