Incinerate best support gems
New patch update. Currently playing incinerate on a pathfinder as the ascendency was buffed. More movement speed while casting allows incinerate to feel great to use and lets us dodge easily while avoiding using that skill gem. Starting on the tree over there also allows access to several nodes to increase ailment damage and more movement speed while casting. I then path over to north of the tree to get access to fire damage, increased exposure, and energy shield nodes. The amount of jewel slots is 6 at the moment and I am slotting increased ailment damage speed, which straight up turns incinerate into a blow torch.
Incinerate was buffed since the last patch to allow longer ignite times and 8 seconds of exposure. This is huge against bosses & rares as it allows us to use other skills to add more damage such as fireball or firestorm. IMO you really want at least -75% exposure in order to shred tougher mobs hit points so overexposure on the tree is pretty good. With the above setup it would appear the best skill gems to slot are controlled destruction, burgeon, momentum, considered casting, and probably fire mastery for the 6th slot. I like some increased area of effect on the tree so reverberation and explosive impact are taken. I do not really see any other gems that would work for increasing damage but I suppose you could increase exposure, ignite time, more movement speed, or increased area of effect if damage was of no concern (or you were playing another class). This setup can take a hit due to energy shield, freely moves around quickly so it's easy to avoid most damage, and kills things quickly by taking lots of jewel slots. How pathfinder ends up playing a fire spell better than sorcerer or witch is beyond me and somewhat a failure on GGG but whatever works I suppose. Because incinerate doesn't hit or crit it makes something like the infernalist a very poor choice. And with demonform nerfs it's totally out of the question. Anyone trying this still in the new league? |
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