TbXie's Firestorm Inquisitor Build Guide (PoE Crucible 3.21)

Introduction

Welcome to what will most likely be my leaguestarter for 3.21 (or if I end up not leaguestarting it, at least my week 1 reroll).

Because of the introduction of a Vaal version of Firestorm I personally got interested in the skill gem again. Whilst looking around a bit for options & seeing what people were doing to pick up ideas I saw this very interesting build path using (or should we call it abusing) Rathpith Globe and Blood Magic to build a very interesting character. When I started to play around with the build, it ended up having impressive numbers while showcasing relatively good speed & quality of life.

Taking this build on a swing will allow you to construct a character that has just short of 10000 Life & Energyshield with almost 5000 of that being regenerated per second while packing millions upon millions of damage. All of that sounds pretty impressive, right? Welll, I haven’t told you the best part yet. The entire build is obtainable for at most a couple of Divine Orbs and gets going on virtually nothing!

Disclaimer

The skill changed quite a bit going in to 3.21. We had multiple well-versed people look into the guide for a few days straight to come up with a great build guide. However, this has not been able to be playtested. We would really appreciate it if you get back to us with feedback should something feel off or more clunky than it should.

Mechanics

This build tackles a couple of interesting mechanics together. First of all, it uses the ridicilously overpowered Divinarius unique to keep the build within every players paycheck. This weapon rivals mirrorquality weapons at the cost of a few Divine Orbs which is one of the main reasons why this ended up being a Leaguestart build. Additionally, it uses Rathpith Globe to become ungodly tanky. Because of the way Rathpith scales our damage & crit chance, it frees us up to invest into an absolute ridcilous amount of defenses. We chose to be an inquisitor because it’s Life & Energy Shield regen combination allows us for another way of freely increasing damage (through Righteous Fire). This is why the build only needs to pick up a few damage nodes in the entirety of the tree and will still deal an absolute ton of damage!

We used some gimmicky tech left & right to optimise the way it achieves Regeneration, Spell Block, Block Chance, Really high maximum resistances and over 8K Life & 1.5K Energy shield!

Build Viability in Numbers

This is where I’ll rate the build in numbers. The lower the number the worse I actually think the build is in that compartment.

• Durability : 10/10
• Damage : 8/10
• Playstyle : 10/10
• Gearing : 7/10
• Complexity : 4/10

Video Showcase & Wrap up

Path of Building & Skill Tree

You can find an optimized Path of Building here. Every build I release will use the community fork of Path of Building, which is maintained and updated in a much more regular fashion than the original one. You can find PoB’s Fork, by LocalIdentity, here.

If you are not comfortable with Path of Building, you can import the path of building link to poeplanner and it’ll showcase the basics.

Gem Links

League Start

Main Link: Vaal Firestorm – Unleash Support Increased Critical Damage Support Elemental Focus Support Intensify Support Cruelty Support

Auras : Determination Eternal Blessing Support

Utility 1: Vitality Precision (L1)

Utility 2: Storm Brand Combustion Support Assassin's Mark

Utility 3: Righteous Fire Flame Dash

Utility 3: Summon Stone Golem Enduring Cry Decoy Totem

Utility 3: Cast when Damage Taken Support (L1) Wave of Conviction (L1) Molten Shell (L10)

Endgame

Main Link: Vaal Firestorm – Unleash Support Increased Critical Damage Support Elemental Focus Support Intensify Support Empower Support

Auras : Determination Eternal Blessing Support

Utility 1: Vitality Precision (L1)

Utility 2: Storm Brand Combustion Support Assassin's Mark

Utility 3: Righteous Fire Flame Dash

Utility 3: Summon Stone Golem Enduring Cry Decoy Totem

Utility 3: Cast when Damage Taken Support (L1) Wave of Conviction (L1) Molten Shell (L10)

Gear Summary

Early Game – Leaguestart Environment:

Item Slot	Item Name
Head	Rare Armour Helmet with Life, Resistances and needed attributes
Amulet	Citrine Amulet with Life & some Damage or crit chance
Chest	Tabula Rasa or a cheap 5-link
Gloves	Rare Armour Gloves with Life, Resistances
Boots	Rare Armour Boots with Life, Movement Speed, Resistances & a Life Regeneration Craft
Belt	Rare Belt with Strength, Life, Resistances
Rings	Rare Rings with Life, Resistances & Attributes – Potentially a Gifts from Above
Shield	Energy Shield based shield with Life, Energy Shield & Spell Block
Weapon	Singularity

Lategames:

Item Slot	Item Name
Head	Rare Armour Helmet with Firestorm Damage Enchant, Life, Life Regeneration Rate, Resistances & Phyiscal Damage from hits Taken as Fire Damage
Amulet	Xoph's Heart
Chest	Infernal Mantle
Gloves	Rare Gloves with Life Regeneration Rate, Life, Chaos Resistances
Boots	Rare Boots with Life, Life Regeneration Rate, Resistances, Movement Speed
Belt	Darkness Enthroned as close to 100% as you can afford
Rings	Amethyst Ring with Intelligence, Life, Resistances and potentially a minimum Frenzy Craft
Shield	Rathpith Globe
Weapon	Divinarius

Jewels	Increased Maximum Life, Critical Stike Multiplier (with Fire or Elemental Skills), Area Damage, Fire Damage
Jewels	1x The Red Nightmare socketed at Templar

Flasks

1	Granite Flask of the Armadillo
2	Sulphur Flask of the Order (Regen)
3	Quartz Flask of the Order (Leech)
4	Amethyst Flask of the Owl
5	Diamond Flask of Incision

Potentially replace the Quartz or Sulphur with a Quicksilver for movement Speed.

Be sure to check out our Flask Crafting Guide to learn everything you need to know about how to set up your non-Unique flasks.

Ascendancy & Pantheons

The recommended Pantheons for you to use & upgrade are Brine King & Yugul.

Tips, Tricks & Explanations about the guide.

Gearing tips

Given you’re using Rathpith Globe, it is extremely important to understand that is is your main scaling factor. This means that you shouldn’t invest into small shenanigans on gear or other expensive items before having this. The 2 main things you need on your gear, outside of capping your elemental resistances, is as much life on every piece as possible & a Rathpith to then scale critical strike chance & spell damage. After you’ve obtained those pieces, you can start looking out for optional upgrades such as increased damage modifiers, physical damage conversion, minimum frenzies, …

The only exception to this is that you really want a single item that has Life Regeneration Rate on top of the high Life (and potential resistances).

Crafting Rares

For your Rare items, even though they might seem a bit harsch initially, there’s very convenient steps to follow crafting-wise. The best way to go about them is to find a piece of gear on trade with Fractured Life Regeneration Rate (or if you feel like you have excess regen already, chaos resistance fractures are really nice too). Afterwards, you hit it with Chaos Resistances Essences ( Deafening Essence of Envy – or lower if these are too expensive for your budget) until you hit a desirable combination of affixes and finish them off with Eldritch Implicits.

Obtaining the Chest Piece

For your Chest piece, you can buy a +2 corrupted non-linked Infernal Mantle and use the bench to six socket it. Afterwards, you can use Tainted Orb of Fusing on it to fully link it.

Eldritch Implicits

The Eldritch Implicits you want to obtain are, obviously as high as you can afford, as follows:

I’m not regenerating Life & dying from Righteous Fire

You need Pious Path & a bit of Life Regeneration from the Tree & Gear to be able to fully sustain. It shouldn’t be hard. If you can’t figure it out, hop on our discord so we can take a look and see if we can fix the problem for you.

Questions & Support

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Short Guide Disclaimer

Due to the sudden rise in popularity and the necessity we feel to cover the guide on our platform, we opted to write this guide out in a short version. Feel free to come around on Discord and ask our thriving community for feedback or extra help if this guide didn’t cover all the information you sought.