Pohx's Righteous Fire Chieftain Gear & flasks (Poe Secret of the Atlas)

Summary – TL;DR

Cap your Elemental Resistances & make sure to get lots of INT early. You’ll also need Dexterity but this comes later when you start using fire trap (Around Level 35) Most of your gear will just be life/res/life regen.

Note: Each piece ideally will want to be on the highest armour base you can get along with a high Life Roll. As we’re playing a Chieftain our goal is to stack Armour until we swap to Cloak of Flame (In the early game we do use Arm/Es to help with all of the blue skill gems we get).

Item Slot	Item Name	Rarity
Head	Here we’ll be looking for an Armour Elder Helmet with Gems that are supported by level 16/18/20 Burning Damage & Level 16/18/20 Concentrated Effect. For this, we use Harvest Reforge Life. The level doesn’t matter in particular as long as you can get these modifiers. Beyond this, getting the + level to AoE gems craft will be huge for your Fire Trap. In the very late game, we look for similar mods on an Archdemon Crown for the bonus +2 Gems	Rare
Amulet	A life amulet with a Damage Over Time Multiplier and resistances will do plenty when starting out. Getting +1 to level of all fire/spell gems is also great here if you’re using a rare. The base will be either Turquoise Amulet, Jade Amulet or Marble Amulet depending on whether you need the extra attributes or not (Note you might want to use a Lapis Amulet in the early game just for the extra int till you get to that part of the tree).	Rare
Chest	Cloak of Flame is going to be our primary way of mitigating Physical Damage. Other alternatives are going with a Pure armour body. Lightning Coil can work but is much harder to fit in the build due to the resistance penalty (Don’t forget to use the 15% Maximum Life if no life modifiers are on body armor).	Unique
Gloves	Again we want Pure Armour. This is one of THE Most important places to get a High % Life Regen roll. It can roll all the way up to 21%. Since gloves are our least likely gear to replace, I’d recommend spending some currency on them. This is also a great place to get Dex & Chaos resistance. For the Exarch Influence (Use the embers) to acquire Ignite Proliferation, as that will massively enhance your clear.	Rare
Boots	30% Movement Speed Boots with % Increased Life Regeneration Rate and high Life. This is also a great place for Chaos Resistance. Much later into the game, I prefer to use Annihilation's Approach, although this is usually gated behind 90% Maximum Resistance & Rational Doctrine	Unique
Belt	The highest source of FLAT Life regen, which pairs extremely well with our Gloves. You’re looking for Life/Life regen & potentially res/chaos resistance. For uniques Immortal Flesh is honestly going to beat most rares due to the Armour bonus & MASSIVE Life regen. For the super late game, we can go with an elder crafted Stygian Vise.	Unique
Rings	An easy source of Life & Resists, we can craft minimum frenzy charges for some free damage too. This is usually where I get most of my chaos resistance. Harvest Reforge chaos = Guaranteed chaos roll. Essence of Delirium a high end crafting option for players aiming for more damage.	Rare
Weapon	Here we want High sources of Fire Damage Over Time Multiplier & Increase Fire Damage. For a more expensive weapon, we can look for + Fire Gems with Multi or High Increase and craft the missing stat. The 2 best modifiers to bench craft are Fire Multi & Fire damage & Ignite chance.	Rare
Shield	Rise of the Phoenix & Dawnbreaker are fantastic (I prefer Dawnbreaker since max res is easy to get) but we’ll be switching to an armor based Shaper Shield with % Recover life on block. This should be an excellent form of recovery when you get surrounded.	Unique

Armour Pieces

Helmet

For players who can’t afford an elder helmet yet, we’re going to be looking for a naturally unveiled helmet with +2 to put our fire trap here for extra damage. You can also just find a helmet with good suffixes (like res/life regen) and craft +1 Gems if you have unveiled it.

As soon as we have more currency we’ll be looking for an Elder Influenced Helmet Ilvl 82+. This Influence gives us access to Socketed Gems that are Supported by level 16/18/20 Burning Damage & level 16/18/20 Concentrated effect. The level doesn’t matter in particular as long as you can get these modifiers. Beyond this, getting the + level to AoE gems craft will be huge for your Fire Trap

To acquire this, you want to use Harvest Reforge Fire. The more expensive but stronger option would be to craft on an Elder Archdemon Crown for the +2 Socketed Gems.

Body Armour

For an early 6L I’d go with either a corrupted cheap chest or try to farm The Chains that Bind Divination Card for a Hybrid Arm/Es (For easy coloring). Our goal is to get high armour, Remember our goal is to swap to Cloak of Flame

Gloves

Pure Armour with a very high %Life Regen roll 15%+ Life & Resistance. Note: Use your Exarch embers to get Ignite Proliferation. This will be a massive boost to your clear & help your explode chain

Boots

Annihilation's Approach grant Addrenaline which is a massive buff to damage & Speed. However, another option is going with 20%+ Movement speed boots with % Life Regeneration Rate & Chaos resistance. A nice premium is onslaught on kill.

Belt

Immortal Flesh or otherwise a leather belt or stygian vise with BIG flat life regen + Life roll. I also like to try to get Chaos Resistance & Armour here.

Jewels

The strongest notable for Large Cluster Jewels is Prismatic Heart. For additional AoE we go with Burning Bright.

The strongest node on Medium Clusters is Flow of Life. You can pair this with Fan the Flames if you don’t already have Ignite Proliferation. Otherwise any damage node other than Cremator works. Cremator can brick explode chains

For Jewels, I recommend Damage over time Multi or Fire Damage over time multi (stronger) & Life.

Since Jewels can get expensive consider these other variants with the following stats: Increased Damage, Area Damage, Burning Damage, Chaos Resistance, Dexterity or Fire Damage.

Accessories

Amulet

A life amulet with Damage Over Time Multiplier and resistances will do plenty when starting out. Getting +1 to level of all fire/spell gems is also great here if you’re using a rare. The base will be either Jade Amulet or Marble Amulet depending on whether you need the extra attributes or not (Note you might want to use a Lapis Amulet in the early game just for the extra int till you get to that part of the tree)

Rings

An easy source of Life & Resists, we can craft minimum frenzy charges for some free damage too. This is usually where I get most of my Chaos resistance. Harvest Reforge Chaos = Guarantee Chaos roll

Weapon

Here we want High sources of Fire Damage Over Time Multiplier & Increase Fire Damage. For a more expensive weapon, we can look for + Fire Gems with Multi or High Increase and craft the missing stat. The 2 best modifiers to bench craft are Fire Multi & Fire damage & Ignite chance.

Shield

Rise of the Phoenix & Dawnbreaker are Fantastic (I prefer Dawnbreaker since max res is easy to get) but we’ll be switching to an armor based Shaper Shield with % Recover life on block. This should be an excelent form of recovery when you get surrounded.

Flasks

Flask set-ups are almost always a matter of personal taste when it comes to what utility flasks to use. However, I will list the set-up I’ve been using for a smooth play experience. To find the available list of modifiers the flasks can have, check out these links: Utility Flasks, Life Flasks, Mana Flasks & lastly: Hybrid Flasks

All utility flasks can be automated with Instilling Orb and we want “Used when charges reach full”

Slot	Flask	Description
1	Divine Life Flask or Quartz Flask	Life flask, preferably with instant recovery, this can be switched out for a Quartz once we have roughly 1.8k positive regen
2	Granite Flask	Getting the “Gain X charges when you are hit by an enemy” prefix will allow us to easily sustain this flask permanently, the increased armour during flask effect suffix synergises well with it too
3	Amethyst Flask	The “Gain X charges when you are hit by an enemy” prefix here will be huge here too, the Catarina craft for some extra life regeneration during flask effect is great but not super necessary if you can’t get it immediately
4	Quicksilver Flask	Yet again, “Gain X charges when you are hit by an enemy” is king on the Prefix modifier, getting a movement speed suffix is great just to give yourself a bit more zoom zoom.
5	Ruby Flask	You’ve already guessed it, we want to Gain charges when hit by an enemy to make sure you keep up your maximum fire resistance. The suffix here is reduced effect of curses. Swapped out for Quartz or Sulphur flask once hitting 90% Maximum All Resisance

For help crafting your non-Unique flasks, we recommend checking out our Flask Crafting Guide.

Mercenary

We have a couple of options for our Mercenaries.

Strength Merc: Look for Vitality and Enduring Cry (Rare: Gilded Fortify)
Dex & Int Merc: Look for Malevolence (Rare: Aspect of the Spider)
All Attribute: Look for Haste

General Merc Items:

Xoph's Heart
Kaom's Binding
Leer Cast
Garb of the Ephemeral

Kineticist:

Shroud of the Lightless
Tombfist
Fenumus' Spinnerets

Abyssal Jewels with Bonus Damage over time taken if target is maimed (These stack and will provide the most dmg, but are kinda annoying to get)

Overall, I’d prefer a Kineticist setup or a merc with Malevolence or Aspect of the Spider. You want to try to stay away from Withertouch since they steal our kills, which prevent Hinekora Explosion chains.

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