[3.26] Fireburst League Starter - Abberath's Hooves Autobomber
 Introduction This is my take on a fast, ignite proliferating autobomber! The build revolves around using Abberath's Hooves to trigger Fireburst and proliferate our ignite! League Start POB: https://pobb.in/NuUinUYRaa9O Delirious Forge of the Phoenix League Start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuIiw0-m3Cg (using Determination instead of Anger to account for Shaper of Flames change) Endgame POB (pre-Mageblood): https://pobb.in/vxYa9imfgy3C Endgame 9-Mod t17 Wisps (pre-Mageblood): https://youtu.be/jYZaCTNDnGY ________________________________________________________________________ Pros & Cons + Fast mapper + Autobomber + League starter + Ignite proliferation + No 6-link required + Excellent defenses + No temporary league power is used in any of the showcases (see tab for league specific suggestions) - Not SSF viable (requires Abberath's Hooves) - Low single target pre-Replica Shroud of the Lightless - Have to level as something else (guide included) ________________________________________________________________________ Mercenaries of Trarthus League Specific
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Shaper of Flames no longer has 25% more Damage and now has Enemies Ignited by you to convert 40% of their Physical Damage to Fire, this is a decently large defensive buff and offensive nerf (accounted for in league start video by running Determination instead of Anger). For runegrafts, I recommend runegraft of the jeweller. For mercenaries I recommend one with a warcry (enduring or infernal) and a useful aura (anger, determination, grace), making sure they don't use a curse that overwrites yours. Then for itemization I recommend capping their resistances with rares and either a rare helmet with good damage modifiers (nearby enemies take increased fire damage/have reduced fire resistance) or blood price.
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Triggering Fireburst
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Our main damage skill is Fireburst, a skill granted by an essence modifier on our weapon and supported by all support gems in the weapon (doesn't have to be linked). Fireburst triggers whenever we hit an enemy with a 1.5 second cooldown. To avoid having to stop and perform an action every time we want to trigger Fireburst, we use Abberath's Hooves. Abberath's Hooves causes our footsteps to create explosions, automatically hitting nearby enemies as we walk and triggering Fireburst!
Ignite Proliferation
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Since we're already using Abberath's Hooves to trigger Fireburst, we can take advantage of its other unique modifier. Unlike Ignite Proliferation Support, Abberath's Hooves proliferation can chain for extremely smooth clear!
Fireburst Cooldown
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A 1.5 second cooldown on Fireburst is a bit too long to feel super comfortable while mapping, so we reduce it using sources of increased cooldown recovery rate. Initially we get increased cooldown recovery rate from our belt (the crafted version of the modifier on league start). Once we replace our belt with Mageblood we replace that source of cooldown recovery with abyss jewels socketed in Replica Shroud of the Lightless.
Abberath's Hooves Utility
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Abberath's Hooves constantly hits nearby enemies, which means we can socket some supports in it increase our damage! The first support we socket is Combustion, we decreases enemies fire resistance when our footsteps ignite them. The second is Culling Strike, which executes enemies below 15% life. Finally we can either socket Flammability linked to Hextouch to automatically curse enemies (before we get a trigger helmet) or Unbound Ailments to make sure Combustion's debuff is always up!
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Mandatory Items:
Abberath's Hooves Essence of Hysteria crafted staff (doesn't need to be linked) Recommended Items: Belt with crafted increased cooldown recovery rate General Rares: Make sure you are resistance capped. Then look for life, strength, dexterity and chaos resistance in that order. Flasks: No required flasks, recommend Life Flask with Corrupted Blood/Bleed immunity, Quicksilver Flask ________________________________________________________________________ Skills
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Fireburst Supports (socket in weapon, doesn't have to be linked) Immolate, Burning Damage, Deadly Ailments, Swift Affliction, Cruelty, Unbound Ailments Debuffs Flammability, Wave of Conviction, Elemental Weakness, Flame Surge Auras Purity of Elements (Malevolence if you can cap resistances without it), Anger Summon Skitterbots (add Blood and Sand once you get a level 4 Enlighten) Movement Flamedash Automation Skills Automation - Steelskin - Phase Run (keep low level if you lack dexterity) - More Duration Abberath's Hooves Supports Combustion, Culling Strike, Unbound Ailments ________________________________________________________________________ League Start, Leveling and Transition
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Leveling as Armageddon Brand, which is excellent on league start. We use Rolling Magma into Armageddon Brand and Cremation. Most of the gems are the same, but don't forget to buy the gems that aren't from the Skills section from Lily in act 5 and leveling them in your off hand (note that most gems don't need/want to be high level)!
Havoc Leveling Written Guide: https://maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/witch-leveling-build-guide#ascendancy-overview-header Havoc Fire Witch Leveling Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuwGn408p_k Transition when you have enough currency to afford Essence of Hysteria and Abberath's Hooves and have hit at least level 75. Don't worry about swapping immediately on reaching maps, Armageddon Brandis a strong build through early red maps with minimal investment. I swapped in early yellow maps and it felt smooth before and after. Recommended items should generally be your first upgrade. ________________________________________________________________________ Upgrades
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Upgrades
1. Add Eldritch Implicits 2. Enchant flasks with "Used When Charges Reach Full" 3. Cinderswallow Urn (life recovery version) 4. Polaric Devastation 5. Anoint Whisper's of Doom and drop all passives to the right of Mystic Bulwark 6. Get two 8-passive large fire/elemental damage cluster jewels with 3 notables 7. Upgrade staff to have Fireburst modifier, one other good modifier (mid-tier fractured often the easiest/cheapest) and a crafted modifier on a spell block implicit staff 8. Get three 2-passive small chaos resistance cluster jewels with Born of Chaos 9. Upgrade helmet (ideally with at least high tier life and chaos resistance) and craft the modifier "trigger socketed spells when you focus", then put all the utility spells in the helmet replacing Arcanist Brand with Storm Brand 10. Cap chaos resistance (Purity of Elements Watcher's Eye often useful here) 11. Get physical damage taken as chaos as an eldritch implicity on helmet 12. Get a Glorious Vanity sacrificed to Xibaqua, socket it near Mind over Matter and allocate Divine Flesh 13. Get an Incandescent Heart (doesn't need to be linked) 14. Corruption hunt uniques 15. Socket a Red Nightmare in the jewel socket near The Agnostic and tattoo fire resistance onto the nearby strength small passives 16. Craft a belt with 20% increased cooldown recovery rate and other good modifiers (life, resistance, strength, dexterity etc.) 17. Get a ring with the synthesized implicit ignites deal damage faster and other good modifiers (see above) 18. Get an amulet with damage over time multiplier and other good modifiers (again see above) 19. Get gloves with ignites deal damage faster (getting it fractured is often the best way to craft it) and other good modifiers (again see above) and Eldritch Implicits (fire damage over time multiplier and fire exposure on hit). 20. Craft a better staff (Fireburst + high tier fire/generic damage over time multiplier + increased fire damage + flat spell damage) 21. Awakened Support Gems, Enlighten, 21/20 relevant gems 22. Mageblood 23. Get good Mageblood Topaz, Ruby, Sapphire and Quicksilver Flasks 24. Get a Replica Shroud of the Lightless and fill it with abyss jewels (prioritize life, cooldown recovery rate and flat damage to spells) 25. Drop Divine Flesh and the small chaos cluster jewels replacing with 4-passive medium burning damage cluster jewels with two good notables and more abyss jewels 26. Get an influenced Blizzard Crown with ignites deal damage faster and nearby enemies have -#% fire resistance 27. Double corruption hunt on uniques ________________________________________________________________________ Other Autobomber Guides
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How does this build fare in terms of single target? Can it get all the watchstones, do Ubers? Or is it just pure mapping?
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awaiting league start pob.
Looks like the dmg is still reasonable, we lost 25% more dmg with ignites because of shaper of flames, but doesnt seem like it did much. I was thinking about running this and then transitioning to a different build later! What are your thoughts? Jkurs on twitch, come and join the action . :) แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย Jkurs#0928 เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2025 04:25:44
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" You'll be able to get all voidstones comfortably on league start, but the fights won't be particularly quick (and you will have to play the maven's memory game). You can probably do ubers on the replica shroud/mageblood version, but if you want to do ubers I'd really recommend different build (and archetype tbh). |
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" Posted the league start POB! Yep, lost a bit damage and gained some defenses from Shaper of Flames but not too many other changes! |
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" Awesome, will be fun to league start this. Thanks for the update! Jkurs on twitch, come and join the action . :)
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I was also curious, what you thought about removing heart of destruction and mastermind of discord in favor of elemancer and shaper of storms. This way you get 3 golems, chaos golems specifically that give 16% damage over time multiplier each then 100% increased effectiveness -- which I believe is 96% damage over time multiplier total. You also would be able to shock and feeds into the idea of determination defensively as well since we remove some portion of the lightning damage received.
The downside is you lose convergence (30% more elemental damage), some AOE, exposure bonus(-25% fire res), and mana regen(1%). Or you could just not take shaper of storms, and keep mastermind of discord. Jkurs on twitch, come and join the action . :) แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย Jkurs#0928 เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2025 20:08:17
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" I suppose you mean https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Essence_of_Hysteria ? |
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Hey, did you already think about an Archmage approach? got this idea in my head for a while, what's your thoughts on it?
(Or even Sacrifice support, if that work? and scale life?) <= EDIT: tested, it doesn't work แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย Plomaia#2735 เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2025 08:04:28
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" Can't stack multiple golems of the same type for more buffs unfortunately. Shaper of storms isn't a bad node, but I prefer Skitterbots for the chill + slightly worse shock value. As far as golems go, I don't think the buffs they grant outweigh the costs (ascendancy point, golem cluster, gem sockets), especially considering how unreliable the buffs will be, but if you give it a try let me know how it goes! แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย Juminoh#0785 เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2025 12:33:34
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