Finisher / Fire Staff PvP Build

Fire staff is a MONSTER right now dealing insane amounts of burn damage. Pairing it with Rapier makes it one of the best solo PvP setups you can run in season 6! Also I think Incinerate might actually be a good skill now..

This build gives some of the most enjoyable PvP gameplay you can experience in this game, and it’s a personal favorite so I recommend you try it!

100 CON is on the low side so you can go 150 or even 200, but if you like damage like me 100 works great once you get used to it! Otherwise 100 DEX is a must for Rapier damage, and with the massive diminishing returns after 400 INT you actually get more damage from DEX’s 50 and 100 jump points. Any extra points I would dump in INT or CON as I work up to 725 GS.

This patch I think adding some slash resist via the necklace would be perfect to go with the rest of this damage resist spread!

Dexterity

• 25: +5% critical hit chance. +10% skinning speed.

• 50: +5% damage while at full health. +20% haste for 3s after skinning.

• 100: +5% base damage while stamina is not full. +50 encumbrance.

Intelligence

• 25: +5% damage increase to backstabs and random critical hits. +10% harvest speed.

• 50: +5% damage increase to targets inflicted with a damage over time effect. +5% chance for 1 azoth when harvesting.

• 100: +10% damage to light and heavy elemental attacks. +50 encumbrance.

• 150: +15% to elemental damage. -10% weight of harvested items.

• 200: +10 mana on critical hit. +20% harvest speed.

• 250: +30% duration to applied damage over time effects. +10% yield increase when harvesting.

• 300: +7% damage to targets below 50% health. 25% reduction in Azoth travel cost.

• 350: +10% ability damage. +10% chance at finding rare items while harvesting.

Constitution

• 25: All health consumables are 10% stronger. +10% Logging speed.

• 50: +10% physical armor when at or above 50% health. 10% reduction on durability loss for tools.

• 100: Increase max health by 10%. +50 encumbrance.

The finisher is BIS for both weapons damage, but you can use the Inferno artifact instead if you prefer to favor the fire staffs AOE!

Otherwise the Finisher would have Keenly Jagged as the final perk here, I have not been able to upgrade mine yet!

For the Fire staff I wanted to really try out Incinerate, so the empower perk actually made it do a decent amount of damage! Keenly Jagged is the must have perk here and I would love to score Alacritous Punishment as the final perk instead of vicious!

For the armor at this stage of Fresh Start I think it’s best to aim for 4/4 Refreshing and 3/4 or 4/4 Freedom. Ideally any shirking heals would be BIS here! Otherwise Elemental Aversion is my 3rd perk of choice. If your going to use Flurry you NEED the Leaching Flurry perk on your armor for that invulnerability!

For the Tumblers Feetwraps I would love to have shirking heals as the final perk.

The amulet is just missing Slash Protection alongside Healthy and Stamina Recovery.

The ring is perfect! Both tumblers and healthy toast can proc healing breeze on ourselves.

The earing is perfect, with endless thirst being the endgame goal once I can farm it from the mutation!

Stoneform is a must have heart rune since this build has no other CC break, I would also love to upgrade it so it heals me too..

As always use the best food you can find, honing stones, and health / mana / regeneration / potions! Of course remember to use the desert sunrise drink to give you more DOT resistance!

Rapier

Fire Staff