Incinerate Pathfinder Guide | The most QoL build out there?

Why pathfinder? Why Incinerate?
Pathfinder and incinerate were buffed in 0.2 with a higher roll on the less movement speed penalty when casting/attacking and higher base damage on the ignite. And they also added support on the tree for even less movement speed penalty, making us able to almost channel skills at full speed at all times. Making this a very comfortable & trivial experience from the very start

Pathfinder also has lots of quality of life, immune to slows (such as temporal chains and chill), immunity to one of three ailments (ignite, freeze or shock).
With the new changed unwavering stance, we can also become stun immune with the cost of us not being able to dodge roll - which doesn't matter if we move at almost max speed at all times and slowing down the enemies with our curse auras.

And to top all of this, you can either get 6 more skill points or elemental damage reduction based on your evasion - which is big.

Stun immune

Chill immune

Shock or ignite immune

Immune to freeze with charm

Temporal chains immune

1 button build (sorry to break your combo vision Jonathan)

>70% evasion

Instant life flask for quick recovery

No need to use mana flasks (if mana regen is high enough)

Very good clear as the fire ground ignites enemies as soon as they step on it

Solid single target between 100-400k dps depending on your budget/withered stacks

Enemies are slowed by both temporal chains + hinder for a comfy safe playstyle

Move at ~30% increased movement speed at all times

Easy leveling experience from level 16 and onwards

Can with ease be changed to ES/evasion version

Easy access to crit/non crit by just changing helmets - no longer stun immune as a trade though.

Cannot dodge roll, remove the helmet when bossing or walk away from them when you expect them to do a hard hitting attack

Life based build, but can be changed to evasion/ES if you want to. But that would require you to change the tree around and focus more on defenses

Poor physical damage mitigaion

Poor visual clarity as there will be fire all over the place.

Less FPS with all the fire on the screen

Blackflame ring (preferebly with % damage corruption)
It makes enemies take chaos damage from ignites instead of fire damage. This is NOT a damage conversion on your end, its enemies having damage taken as chaos. Which also makes withered debuff make enemies take increased damage from the ignite. This ring isn't a must if you want to be a fire based version of the build - but it's less damage.

So you are still dealing fire damage and want to scale it, whilst lowering enemy chaos resistance and wither for more chaos damage taken.

Ezomyte peak Helmet (preferebly with spirit corruption)
This helmet grants you the unwavering stance keystone, which makes you immune to stuns but you can no longer dodge roll. Some area of effect and life.

Sandstorm visage IF you decide to run a crit version for more dps
Sandstorm visage adds blind + critical weakness to all nearby enemies. Critical weakness allows incinerate to crit although it never hits, which will result in more than double to triple the dps.


WEAPON SWAP IF CRIT Wicked quill wand + Effigy of cruelty focus)
This allows an eye of winter (if crit) to instantly stack up 10 stacks of critical weakness and also a few stacks of wither for a quick burst in damage

Armour & gloves
- pure evasion base
- life
- resistances
- as much evasion rating as possible

Boots
- Movement speed 30% +
- Life
- Resistances

Ring(s)
- life
- mana
- Fire damage
- resistances
- Mana regeneration rate

Amulet
- +2-3 All spell skills
- Spirit
- Life
- Evasion
- Resistance(s)
- Mana regeneration rate

Focus
- +2 all spell skills
- Fire damage
- Spell damage
- Mana
- Resistance(s)
- Mana regeneration rate

Wand
- +4-5 fire spell skills or +4 all spell skills
- % increased Spell damage
- % increased Fire damage
- % Damage as extra fire
- Mana regeneration rate
- (mana/int)
- (crit chance/crit damage if doing the crit version)
NO % INC CAST SPEED!
- Greater desert rune for more %damage as extra fire

You can use a staff instead of focus+wand if you want - with the same stats but higher rolls

Can be done from level 16-18ish, by just using the unique staff the searing touch. Try to buy a level 3 support gem for the mobility support gem to run faster until you get your second ascendancy done, then replace it with a damage support after that

Incinerate + considered casting + Burgeon + Momentum + Searing flame + (inspiration or controlled destruction depending on your mana cost. If you are doing a crit version then you could add Concentrated Effect instead of controlled destruction)

Withering presence + persistence + clarity + chaos mastery

Blasphemy + Temporal chains + despair + ritualistic curse + magnified effect

(your auras can be replaced with flammability or enfeeble based on your preference/playstyle

Eye of winter (if crit, Set to weapon set 2 for some quick stacks of wither + critical weakness) + Inevitable Critical + Pinpoint + Excise

https://youtu.be/YNeAtnVGXXE

Stun immune version
https://poe2db.tw/pob/90A2fWjMjG

Crit version
https://poe2db.tw/pob/S9A32OMJ9J

ES crit version
https://poe2db.tw/pob/cRn3f023jh