use 4x facet monarch, not phoenix

im on single player HCSSF so haven't been able to get a decent protector's fire jewel yet or enough 5/5 fire facets to justify replacing hoto

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I found redemption from phoenix very useful for surviving/mana

x4 facet monarch
20% fire damage

Phoenix
-8% enemy fire resist
50 life
Fire absorb (helpful generally with your sunder and more helpful if your merc uses cure, I use ff for merc but have thought a lot about moving to cure)
Redemption aura


if 20% fire damage gets you more damage than -8% fire res I'd still take phoenix for qol

sure but on escl right now they're 50 a pop for a 5/5 which is where they often settle, even early ladder it was about 250-500 and I could get two of them for a shako
For BiS gear the facet tron is usually better across these builds than stuff like crescent moon on sorc where its -5 vs +30 (on a build with about ~600% mastery), but on fire druid its not even a contest because phoenix is 4 high runes and a 20/20 monarch is cheaper in trading and then its -8 vs +20 on 0% mastery char

to run numbers to put it into perspective, say both setups bring non-immunes to -100% (70% or less resist in most cases so yeah), and you use the same 6 facet sword, enigma, d-fire raven, +2/fcr craft ammy, soj, opalvein, magefist, arach, 7x skiller, +15% sunder, torch anni cta, infinity merc

20/20 shield setup is 7099.2 / -80 and deals {14198} to non-immunes and {7241} to immunes
phoenix setup is 6310.4 / -88 and deals {12621} to non-immunes and {6941} immunes
Overall that's 12.5% more damage vs non-immunes and +4.3% vs immunes for the 20/20 shield vs phoenix

Its a significant but not crippling damage loss for QoL there, might on average be ~10% more overall damage on average since monsters are a mix but mostly not immune

Fissure druid is really gear dependant. If you want it to be strong it needs a lot of - resistance.