What an amazingly informative video! I just came back to PoE after a 5+ years hiatus and wanted to try my hand at a good old RF and you just saved me so much head scratching!
The reason i dont RF start this next league: 1. Already did it for 3 lg straight 2. The second build usually felt so bad that I keep coming back to my first build just to feel good.
Imagine seeing a build by CaptainLance9 and Pohx... Both have an awesome knowledge of PoE mechanics, both have made weird awesome builds and most importantly, both love Righteous Fire
I really liked your Blunderbore idea in your old chieftain vid. Speaking of RF you'll have to log on to your perfect RF character, do a sanctum and see how much extra resolve all the energy shield gives you.
Supreme ostentation + blunderbore seems like a compelling combo this league, since the tattoo system gives you something back for every attribute node.
As a brand new player this build spoke to me :) I want to say as my 2nd damage skill has been corpse explosion, been fun so far. At level 48 currently.
Corpse explosion may start to struggle during bosses where there’s no corpses available. I wouldn’t recommend corpse explosion with RF, but if you insist on using it: Use a skill to generate corpses where there are none (such as descecrate or unearth)
even though those are pretty default league start videos (and not specific for the next league), they hype me up so much for next season start. I will definitly use your tips for my next start. thanks for that! :)
@@adeirfanwahyudin2215 uh what..? i think you're the only one who think its a buff. you know that ascendancy node actually took away our overall dps when we apply curses and exposures right? negative is better than zero, unless you're talking about early level 60-70 then you're probably right. besides, remaining stationary in RF sounds clunky and suicidal.
@@revscrib1230Read "early game RF". Overall a nerf, but the free res and max res nodes are pretty good for people with no gear. Also, when u throw fire traps, you are stationary. Its fairly synergistic.
Please make a chieftain RF Leauge Starter... Chieftain might have a low sealing, but for a Leaugestart, he gets like Free Resistance, Tons of Regen from Fire Mastery and Free Max resistance...
Hey Lance great vid but I think you may be underestimating new chieftain. I think people are sleeping on the Tasalio remake (the one that scales cold and lightning res with your fire res investment). I feel like this opens up a lot of options for building real builds with Annihilating light and the "Tempered by War" keystone as I think you can now reasonably outscale the penalties associated with them. Waiting for PoB to get updated to run the numbers but I think there's power there. Great vid keep it up!
@@xyzqsrbo Nothing? Scaling ALL your defenses off of one resistant stat is incredibly powerful literally everywhere else in the game and it will be no less powerful here.
@@cashandraven2369 I was more so refering to the annihilating light combo which actually does do nothing lol. As for what you said, you need a bit less cold and lightning res, that's nowhere near scalling all defenses with that, you'd run out of room for fire res before capping either of the others especially if you are running hte combos they suggested in the comment. It saves you a few suffixes that's about it. The max res node is the broken one but the rest of chieftain nodes are just so ass including taliso.
@@xyzqsrbo I'm not defending Chieftain RF, I'm defending Chieftain. Having Annihilating light and 90% max res seems really strong. You can also also cap block (using glancing blows or normally) and armour cap relatively easily because of where you start in the tree.
@@xyzqsrbo only getting fire resist on gear opens up for offensive/defensive/utility stats though, and you get a big flat hp regen with the fire mastery. you could go eva/armour bases to cap spell suppression quite easily aswell. there isint really anything in the game that opens that many suffixes (closest i could think of is tempered by war+sublime vision+dawnbreaker but that limits you aswell with aura's etc)
Just got recommended your vid - do you think you could do a more in-depth guide for maps -> onwards? I followed Pohx's play along with his rf jugg after not playing for several years and it was an absolute blast
Pohx has a RF inquisitor version too so you can follow that. It's basically the same as what he's suggesting in this video. I think the issue in the video is path to resistance. He says straight to fire res at level 16 for RF, but I think Pohx, you follow a more optimized route and turn on RF at like 18-20 and don't have to respec because you took a weird route. I'd prefer NOT having to respect as much as possible earlier on in a season since respect points could be a bit limited.
Hi I am level 40 and have the mana reservation mastery but i cannot put on vitality + determination + purity of elements, i see you suggest 4 at this point but i cant even reserve enough mana for 3?
What if i'm looking at RF just for the dmg boost? (maybe even couple with Pain Attunement) Which is more dmg, RF main 6L + 4L support or RF 4L support + 6L some other main skill? RF looks like it won't want problems clearing maps, even on a 4L, but might struggle on bosses.
I liked and subscribed, because you never told me to in the first 15 seconds of the video. Straight to point and not saying a bunch of useless bullshit. Thank you for making a video a dumbass like me can follow! 😂👍 ✌&❤️
How do you properly use shield charge because I have time where its like working like i see everyone else use it on youtube zoom zoom. But there time where i shield charge and move like 1mm and it stops or when its really slow for some odd reason. It always bug me its so inconstant.
Bit late but seeing as nobody else responded, there's a few things to consider. Shield Charge scales on both Movement Speed and Attack Speed, it also charges to where your mouse cursor is when you press the button so try to aim as close to the edge of your screen as possible, if there is something between your character and where you target, your character will charge to that thing and not further, this is the main drawback to Shield Charge over Leap Slam, it doesn't go over things, that includes tiny things that you may not even think about but because they have collision Shield Charge gets "stuck" on them, it will also never just shift slightly to the side to go around a single pixel of wall, so you can get stuck on walls very easily. The main benefit of Shield Charge is the absurd levels of mobility it gives you in more open maps, it is by far the fastest movement skill I know of as there is no delay or cooldown between uses, and scales with move/attack speed, which you'll be grabbing late game anyway.
How hard is switch into explode RF build now? I love it way back in the day from one of your build (although was way too squishy how I got it). Is it still super expensive?
Looks very good league start but I prefer picking up a signle slower league starter that can scale to very late game. I just hate doing the campaign more than once. Takes me more than 10 hours and as a casual player I only do the campaign more than once if I really enjoy the league and find some OP build that I might enjoy
Great vod but after last league i 100% not start RF. Since pohx made that website everything for RF builds are SO overpriced. Good if you want to craft RF gear but terrible to start if you dont know how to make currency. gl all
Just got to red maps league start testing RF elementalist - super smooth all the way so far; planning to transition into explode and make easy money blowing up blights
@@Frey_64 pohx covers it in his ssf ele video - asenaths gloves, ignite prolif and being ele for ignites. He shows how it lingers the curse on the ground and chains blight lanes for ages. Looks amazing
I am playing this since I've never even made a templar before I am doing a few runs while I patiently wait for new league and it just feels so easy lvl 16 RF turned on and felt so much better for that first 1-2 hours compared to act 1 2 3 as maurader.
@@jasonmoss-qk8oh What would you recommend? This league I played Boneshatter Juggs, Toxic Rain Scion and Ele EA in SSF. While I actually like Boneshatter, I hate the fact that he sucks at bossing so much and is a melee
@@Diffex89 RF needs legacy of fury imo. Don't like the build without them. And it lacks solo DPS without fire trap/scorch ray. Not my thing but thanks for the recommendation
Does anybody think the new jewel ascendency node on Chieften will triple dip on the increased elemental damage. 50 increased fire, cold, and lightening going to 150 increased fire? Making the templar jewel note and one at the scion be super strong? If this is the case you could have around 500 increased fire damage. Which is stronger than the Witch jewel slot.
which node gives damage? the all resistance nodes might triple dip but not damage. I think overall you'll want to play a strike type build on chieftain for the lvl 30 ancestral call node (+10% more damage + 2 copies of your strike) or a slam build if they get buffed in this patch
this may be the only skill that i can see myself league starting, steel skills, helix ext sucks quite bad, i did the alternative skills leveling on marauder and it sucks so bad
considering starting impending doom occ or elementalist rf to swap on phantasmal unearth cremation really fast to get fast simulacrum and then go coc forbidden rite occultist (ofc can change it according to patch note)
Keep in mind that Juggernaut does obtain the highest DPS out of any of these builds at investment below mirrors tier, namely due to Aspect of Carnage, Impossible Escape: Conduit, and Aura setups. You still need to spend a ton of currency to get that far, but not nearly as much as a Scion does. At leaguestart investment and the average plaayer's investment, Jugg is definitely not the greatest offensively.
So at the beginning of the video Lance tells everyone that the fire res mastery is the parenthesis number of your fire res that you gain in life regen, but it's actually the sum of your 75 res and the parenthetical value since it is your "Uncapped" fire resistance. Which means that this is often 100+ regen per second for builds.
this is a bait exile dont do it. you will be stuck at red maps and cant even do voidstone cause low damage. it requires lots of currency for rf to deal more than 5mill dps. at that point you might as well buy carry for voidstone. which is fine. just know what you are getting into. rf as a skill damage werent ment as main skill. people keep forcing it for years and years. anyway just know that after red maps you will need lots of currency to continue.
@@MrDarkBM yeah tell that to new player. there are better skill and build for new player to do bosses. fire trap scaling from subtractem or bow with ballista. telling new player to do rf is telling them not to do bosses later. why set them up for failure on their new char? at the very least add not recommended for uber bosses. just buy the voidstone or something.
@@genocidegrand2057 I don’t think most new players goals are Uber bosses. Most just want a smooth campaign and smooth mapping which RF excels at. It’s even insane at spamming heist or blight for currency too. If your looking for a easy bosser RF is obviously not the choice. It is certainly capable though.
idk i league started jugg and it was smooth sail all along except maybe maven and feared obviously, i farmed a lot of expeditions with it very comfortably, fire trap or scorching ray is mandatory though, rf alone is indeed too low dmg..
What an amazingly informative video! I just came back to PoE after a 5+ years hiatus and wanted to try my hand at a good old RF and you just saved me so much head scratching!
nothing quite like going back to basics
Thank you for the quick refresher without explaining every finer details
The reason i dont RF start this next league:
1. Already did it for 3 lg straight
2. The second build usually felt so bad that I keep coming back to my first build just to feel good.
Imagine seeing a build by CaptainLance9 and Pohx... Both have an awesome knowledge of PoE mechanics, both have made weird awesome builds and most importantly, both love Righteous Fire
Perfect timing. I wanted to league start rf elementalist and then you released this video. Amazing and thanks for that.
I really liked your Blunderbore idea in your old chieftain vid. Speaking of RF you'll have to log on to your perfect RF character, do a sanctum and see how much extra resolve all the energy shield gives you.
Blunderbore was suggested because the ascendancy had % increased strength but the rework took it away
@@jsalka1 No yeah, I know. I still like the idea somehow.
@@jsalka1 Still just go Supreme Ostentation and get fire res and aura reservation tattoos.
Supreme ostentation + blunderbore seems like a compelling combo this league, since the tattoo system gives you something back for every attribute node.
@@ReallyNotAGoose This is precisely what I was considering
As a brand new player this build spoke to me :) I want to say as my 2nd damage skill has been corpse explosion, been fun so far. At level 48 currently.
Corpse explosion may start to struggle during bosses where there’s no corpses available.
I wouldn’t recommend corpse explosion with RF, but if you insist on using it: Use a skill to generate corpses where there are none (such as descecrate or unearth)
even though those are pretty default league start videos (and not specific for the next league), they hype me up so much for next season start. I will definitly use your tips for my next start. thanks for that! :)
hopefully chieftain buff is up there, i love seeing chieftain's profile picture, looks like a menacing fire god
its literaly buff early game of rf , you dont need anything and enemy resistance already 0
Agreed!
@@adeirfanwahyudin2215 uh what..? i think you're the only one who think its a buff. you know that ascendancy node actually took away our overall dps when we apply curses and exposures right? negative is better than zero, unless you're talking about early level 60-70 then you're probably right. besides, remaining stationary in RF sounds clunky and suicidal.
@@revscrib1230Read "early game RF". Overall a nerf, but the free res and max res nodes are pretty good for people with no gear.
Also, when u throw fire traps, you are stationary. Its fairly synergistic.
bad news for you if you like chieftan lol
How To Leaguestart Righteous Fire :
Step 1: watch Pohx Videos
Step 2: copy his build
Yea, all bosses done in crucible except ubers
@@Th0Rx666 So 0 bosses done in an ending league, ok. 🤣😂 Sorry
@@doomzx8284braindead
so much value in under 10 minutes!
Thanks. Ive been playing this game since it launched. This is the best guide video ive ever seen. keep putting them out and i will keep watching them
Very cool Guide I will start CF Glad again for the 4th time in a row ! :D
have you tried champ
Please make a chieftain RF Leauge Starter... Chieftain might have a low sealing, but for a Leaugestart, he gets like Free Resistance, Tons of Regen from Fire Mastery and Free Max resistance...
To paraphrase an episode of Bait or No Bait: 'Look at that face. This is the face of a man that's hitting it every day'
Pohx, you look so different with a new haircut! 😂
Fire trap is >>> SR. It just scales way more and can ignite as well.
what's the ignite do
@@jasonmoss-qk8oh more damage
Surely RF as a skill will stay in PoE 2, right? Right?
GGG will start the aPOHXalypse if the do 😂
I see what you did there 😌
Tbh. I don´t see them removing it, it is not an OP skill an a middle ground option for people to start.
If I can’t play RF in poe cyclone better be GG. Those are the only two builds I ever bother with lol
Who cares
Thank you very much!
Hey Lance great vid but I think you may be underestimating new chieftain. I think people are sleeping on the Tasalio remake (the one that scales cold and lightning res with your fire res investment). I feel like this opens up a lot of options for building real builds with Annihilating light and the "Tempered by War" keystone as I think you can now reasonably outscale the penalties associated with them. Waiting for PoB to get updated to run the numbers but I think there's power there. Great vid keep it up!
In terms of RF that means nothing, chieftain might be able to do hit based stuff maybe but previous taliso gave more than that node by a mile
@@xyzqsrbo Nothing? Scaling ALL your defenses off of one resistant stat is incredibly powerful literally everywhere else in the game and it will be no less powerful here.
@@cashandraven2369 I was more so refering to the annihilating light combo which actually does do nothing lol.
As for what you said, you need a bit less cold and lightning res, that's nowhere near scalling all defenses with that, you'd run out of room for fire res before capping either of the others especially if you are running hte combos they suggested in the comment. It saves you a few suffixes that's about it. The max res node is the broken one but the rest of chieftain nodes are just so ass including taliso.
@@xyzqsrbo I'm not defending Chieftain RF, I'm defending Chieftain. Having Annihilating light and 90% max res seems really strong. You can also also cap block (using glancing blows or normally) and armour cap relatively easily because of where you start in the tree.
@@xyzqsrbo only getting fire resist on gear opens up for offensive/defensive/utility stats though, and you get a big flat hp regen with the fire mastery. you could go eva/armour bases to cap spell suppression quite easily aswell. there isint really anything in the game that opens that many suffixes (closest i could think of is tempered by war+sublime vision+dawnbreaker but that limits you aswell with aura's etc)
Love you Cap
Just got recommended your vid - do you think you could do a more in-depth guide for maps -> onwards?
I followed Pohx's play along with his rf jugg after not playing for several years and it was an absolute blast
Pohx has a RF inquisitor version too so you can follow that. It's basically the same as what he's suggesting in this video. I think the issue in the video is path to resistance. He says straight to fire res at level 16 for RF, but I think Pohx, you follow a more optimized route and turn on RF at like 18-20 and don't have to respec because you took a weird route. I'd prefer NOT having to respect as much as possible earlier on in a season since respect points could be a bit limited.
I knew he's gonna talk about RF
I tried and abandoned RF elementalist last league. Is there a way to make it tankier apart from golem ascendancy nodes at league start?
jugg
Thanks for talking to me like I don't know what I'm doing in POE (I don't)
iam lvl 32 and 150 life regen but stil if i put RF on its degen my life?? what do i wrong
how's firestorm RF Inquisitor? doable? ubers?
Hi I am level 40 and have the mana reservation mastery but i cannot put on vitality + determination + purity of elements, i see you suggest 4 at this point but i cant even reserve enough mana for 3?
What if i'm looking at RF just for the dmg boost? (maybe even couple with Pain Attunement)
Which is more dmg, RF main 6L + 4L support or RF 4L support + 6L some other main skill?
RF looks like it won't want problems clearing maps, even on a 4L, but might struggle on bosses.
We are waiting for pyroclast saboteur
Chieftain looks so ridiculous on this new league
I liked and subscribed, because you never told me to in the first 15 seconds of the video.
Straight to point and not saying a bunch of useless bullshit.
Thank you for making a video a dumbass like me can follow! 😂👍
✌&❤️
How do you properly use shield charge because I have time where its like working like i see everyone else use it on youtube zoom zoom. But there time where i shield charge and move like 1mm and it stops or when its really slow for some odd reason. It always bug me its so inconstant.
Bit late but seeing as nobody else responded, there's a few things to consider. Shield Charge scales on both Movement Speed and Attack Speed, it also charges to where your mouse cursor is when you press the button so try to aim as close to the edge of your screen as possible, if there is something between your character and where you target, your character will charge to that thing and not further, this is the main drawback to Shield Charge over Leap Slam, it doesn't go over things, that includes tiny things that you may not even think about but because they have collision Shield Charge gets "stuck" on them, it will also never just shift slightly to the side to go around a single pixel of wall, so you can get stuck on walls very easily. The main benefit of Shield Charge is the absurd levels of mobility it gives you in more open maps, it is by far the fastest movement skill I know of as there is no delay or cooldown between uses, and scales with move/attack speed, which you'll be grabbing late game anyway.
can u do a impendingdoom/hexblast playthrough, always wanted to try either a hexblast miner or a ID occy just didnt feel good on the way through
ID is so good. Its so good it can simi, its not great but it can.
I did 40/40 with hexblast miner assassin. Insane DPS and boss melting crap
On an elementalist do we initially take golems in the labyrinth, or master mind and heart of destruction?
I'm sold. RF Elementalist it is then
How hard is switch into explode RF build now? I love it way back in the day from one of your build (although was way too squishy how I got it). Is it still super expensive?
Looks very good league start but I prefer picking up a signle slower league starter that can scale to very late game. I just hate doing the campaign more than once. Takes me more than 10 hours and as a casual player I only do the campaign more than once if I really enjoy the league and find some OP build that I might enjoy
Great vod but after last league i 100% not start RF. Since pohx made that website everything for RF builds are SO overpriced. Good if you want to craft RF gear but terrible to start if you dont know how to make currency. gl all
can you do a vid on how to league start soulrend?
thanks man
My friend gonna start RF i prob gonna go for big bonks to oneshot bosses and leuge mechanics to complement that
Great stuff, almost made me want to start RF
Pohx?
Just got to red maps league start testing RF elementalist - super smooth all the way so far; planning to transition into explode and make easy money blowing up blights
what's the most basic setup for explode? I'm very interested in this but I only see people doing explode with the super expensive flask.
How you transition to explode? need oriath's flask ?
@@Frey_64 asenath and shield charging in works too
@@Frey_64 pohx covers it in his ssf ele video - asenaths gloves, ignite prolif and being ele for ignites. He shows how it lingers the curse on the ground and chains blight lanes for ages. Looks amazing
@@neogramps can you share your pob, how tanky are you etc survivability
I am playing this since I've never even made a templar before I am doing a few runs while I patiently wait for new league and it just feels so easy lvl 16 RF turned on and felt so much better for that first 1-2 hours compared to act 1 2 3 as maurader.
Thoughts on Deaths Oath? I heard it's a better RF.
You have me interested in league starting as low life guardian lol
is it a bait or no bait
I'll do frostblade trickster next league. One of the few builds I didn't play yet and it seems like a good choice for SSF
lackluster without heatshiver and yoke, typically want a nice intimidate + double damage lethal pride also
@@jasonmoss-qk8oh What would you recommend? This league I played Boneshatter Juggs, Toxic Rain Scion and Ele EA in SSF. While I actually like Boneshatter, I hate the fact that he sucks at bossing so much and is a melee
@@m.h.4907 RF is Nice for Ssf and the cold Dot from jungroan is pretty nice aswell.
Its squishy my dude. I died many times softcore
@@Diffex89 RF needs legacy of fury imo. Don't like the build without them. And it lacks solo DPS without fire trap/scorch ray. Not my thing but thanks for the recommendation
I do wonder how much of a meme lord you would have to be to try RF Raider for the phasing, go fast, and aoe exposure
Does anybody think the new jewel ascendency node on Chieften will triple dip on the increased elemental damage. 50 increased fire, cold, and lightening going to 150 increased fire? Making the templar jewel note and one at the scion be super strong? If this is the case you could have around 500 increased fire damage. Which is stronger than the Witch jewel slot.
which node gives damage? the all resistance nodes might triple dip but not damage. I think overall you'll want to play a strike type build on chieftain for the lvl 30 ancestral call node (+10% more damage + 2 copies of your strike) or a slam build if they get buffed in this patch
this may be the only skill that i can see myself league starting, steel skills, helix ext sucks quite bad, i did the alternative skills leveling on marauder and it sucks so bad
how to do RF in ssfhc league
The real question is; can you make a good RF build with Scion?
he has a video on that.
got huge buff this league
Nice
Did chieftains get a buff or a nerf? I can't tell!
it got deleted
Nice vid
considering starting impending doom occ or elementalist rf to swap on phantasmal unearth cremation really fast to get fast simulacrum and then go coc forbidden rite occultist (ofc can change it according to patch note)
As long as nothing gets nerfed pf has better clear and tankiness
First lol Love your content,
can you do one on poison concoction?
source?
jk ily new league hype
Tbh im thinking scorching ray rf chieftan could be good cause of the dot while at stationary
You forgot to mention snack prio Cap.
Keep in mind that Juggernaut does obtain the highest DPS out of any of these builds at investment below mirrors tier, namely due to Aspect of Carnage, Impossible Escape: Conduit, and Aura setups. You still need to spend a ton of currency to get that far, but not nearly as much as a Scion does. At leaguestart investment and the average plaayer's investment, Jugg is definitely not the greatest offensively.
So at the beginning of the video Lance tells everyone that the fire res mastery is the parenthesis number of your fire res that you gain in life regen, but it's actually the sum of your 75 res and the parenthetical value since it is your "Uncapped" fire resistance. Which means that this is often 100+ regen per second for builds.
No, the number in parenthesis is already the uncapped value, ie. the sum of capped res and the excess res.
What do you need to sustain RF on a 1 link for its spell damage buff? I want to run RF in an occultist build ;)
What kind of Pohx is this?
everything you need very little fluff
awesome
This league'll be rough for me, I did cold flicker in crucible and that level of speed and clear is going to be so hard to reach again
just do it again, that's what flicker chads do every league
captain pohx?
You should just full send Guardian. Would be an interesting challenge and help you understand how to build it better.
it's better ( way faster ) to do arma and cremation till second lab for inquis, for those who know how to run
this is a bait exile dont do it. you will be stuck at red maps and cant even do voidstone cause low damage. it requires lots of currency for rf to deal more than 5mill dps. at that point you might as well buy carry for voidstone. which is fine. just know what you are getting into. rf as a skill damage werent ment as main skill. people keep forcing it for years and years. anyway just know that after red maps you will need lots of currency to continue.
I just did all my voidstones with an off meta RF chieftain with about 5 div budget lol
@@MrDarkBM yeah tell that to new player. there are better skill and build for new player to do bosses. fire trap scaling from subtractem or bow with ballista. telling new player to do rf is telling them not to do bosses later. why set them up for failure on their new char? at the very least add not recommended for uber bosses. just buy the voidstone or something.
@@genocidegrand2057 I don’t think most new players goals are Uber bosses. Most just want a smooth campaign and smooth mapping which RF excels at. It’s even insane at spamming heist or blight for currency too. If your looking for a easy bosser RF is obviously not the choice. It is certainly capable though.
idk i league started jugg and it was smooth sail all along except maybe maven and feared obviously, i farmed a lot of expeditions with it very comfortably, fire trap or scorching ray is mandatory though, rf alone is indeed too low dmg..
@@genocidegrand2057 new players wont be doing ubers
Wack! Chieftain is key…
😬
league start RF = follow Pohx guide
Pyroclast guide next by chance 👀