Inferno / Rapier PvP Build

Season 7


 

My favorite build with tons of ranged and melee damage and excellent mobility. This build does excellent in any PvP situation and excels at solo and outnumbered fights thanks to the huge amounts of AOE damage alongside high i-frame uptime. Truly a monstrous build in season 7.

Check out a video guide with gameplay for this build!

 

Equipment / Attributes

 

Fire staff has terrible diminishing returns after 350 INT so putting 100 DEX is not only amazing for rapier damage, it actually makes the Fire Staff hit almost as hard as a 450 INT setup thanks to those % damage increases.

I love Empowering Fireball on the Inferno, but an Attunement perk is also great here.

The rapier should have either Leaching Flurry or Omnidirectional Evade, with Vicious / Penetrating Backstab / Attunement for the final two perks.

The armor is nearly perfect, I would love to have Freedom instead of Health on the hat, otherwise no changes. Since this build uses the Winged Leather Shoes slotting Ignited Runeglass for that additional 10% Fire Damage is a must! The Tumbler Feetwraps are a great option instead if you don’t want to invest in Runglass!

You 100% NEED Leaching Flurry if your using Flurry on this build, so if your Rapier has Omni, then get Leaching Flurry on your armor and vice versa.

This build sits at 45% Empower + the 10% Base Damage from the Winged Shoes. Honestly if you don’t fully invest in this setup then you are better off running the Tumblers Feetwraps since they will bring you close to 50% empower. If you REALLY want to maximize the builds damage, you could add 2 Fire Harnessing perks in your gear somewhere!

The jewelry is perfect. You don’t need an artifact item here, but feel free to use one of your choice.

Use the best food you can find, honing stones, and mana pots for that healthy toast perk! I prefer Infused Regeneration potions since they give the most healing out of all your choices in PvP.

 

Active Skills

 
 

Fire Staff Skills

I like to run as much utility as possible on the Fire Staff. Burnout is a fantastic gap closer for attacking or escaping, and it does both when you use it to go through your opponents to safety on the other side.

Incinerate is amazing for interrupting melee opponent combos and setting up a counter attack.

I also like Backdraft quite a lot since we can get big 7k+ heavy attack smacks on burning foes!

Otherwise the passives are very offensively minded.

 
 

Rapier Skills

My favorite Rapier tree right now, perfectly balanced for offense and defense.

You need Leaching Flurry for this setup and it’s very easy to set a strong Flurry combo following an Incinerate.

The passives are mostly focused on stamina sustain / cooldown reduction.