I know that the normal gear is to use HoJ and dual Dragon and that oyu need to max fire res aura and salv. With that being said, since you're getting the Holyfire aura from the items does Fire Res Aura and Salv still contribute to the damage of the holy fire aura although it's from items? If the damage syneriges do sitll count to the aura from the items would it be viable to use Defensive Aura GCs to boost that damage more? Also do fire facets help the damage?

My Auradin has the 3 items and a -70 fire sunder with a lvl 25 convic aura but he still seems weak in Hell on P1. Not sure what I'm doing wrong and if i should give up on the character and sell off the gear or not.

Yes, boosting your defensive skill levels will buff holy fire via synergies.

So def gcs and gear like seraph ammy are useful.

Also I felt similar, as your synergy levels and character level get higher you’ll notice a difference. I’ll be home around 930 eastern tonight if you wanna compare gear or chat. Good luck.

isnt it only hard points on synergies which boost?

There is a noticeable difference in tick damage when using gcs and supporting skill gear. Check it out

okay so here is what I have:


Shako
Seraphs Hymn
Hoj
Dragon MP
Dragon ST
Arach
2x Soj
Anni
Torch
some chanices (for GF/MF)
travs (for MF)
-70 fire sunder


other than Def aura GC's am I missing or should change anything?

My Skills are:

20 Base Fire Res (33 total)
20 Base Salv (33 total)
20 Base Convic (31 total; I need to respec to take it down to the 25 after the + Skills etc...)
20 Base Charge (31 total)
4 Base HS
+1 in all the pre-req's.

I'm lvl 83


Thoughts?

what i thought

I think you can save some skill points in conv… you want like 24 with gear/charms.

Head I’m using flickering flame. The skills not apply, but the -fire res does. Also fire res aura to compensate for eh… sunder.

I’m still tinkering myself, been trying charge like you mentioned here and enjoy it. Base zeal helps clean up heavy fire res monsters like sanctuary pit lords.

I’m using raven / bk.
Boots are totally up in there air, lots of choices depending on style.

Lay of hands are solid gloves, but not mandatory.

defensive GCS do nothing for your damage unless your using the holyfire skill actually and not by items like HoJ and Dragon. wasting space, use pcombs instead and get more Maxblock from holyshield and more damage to your charge/zeal or whatever else you are using. other than that, your build seems fine dude. Also, if you want more fire dmg grab MageFist gloves, they add to your holyfire damage.


This post was edited by XxRuCkUsxX on Nov 7 2022 12:56am