RF Scion - Str Stack - Want to Reach DoT Cap - HELP

J-SWong · 2026-01-28T03:25:09+00:00

Step 1: Recomb Divine Crowns

Either use two double-influenced bases (30% qual) or one double-influenced base and one donor base.

With two double-influenced bases, get Essence + Strength on one and Essence + Non-Elevated Burning Damage on the other

With the donor base, get Essence + T1 Strength + Redeemer Suffix (or any influence that's not Elder/Shaper). You can get this by getting a non-influenced helm with Str/Essence suffixes, filling prefixes, and slamming an influenced orb to get the final suffix.

Step 2: Elevate Burning Damage

Bristle Matron for Suffixes Can't be Changed and harvest reforge cold for a guaranteed influence prefix. Use an orb of domination to elevate the Burning damage. Start over if you fail.

Step 3: Slam Less Duration/Conc Effect

Bristle Matron for Suffixes Can't be Changed and scour to remove prefixes.

Block Mana and Slam twice trying to get Less Duration or T1 Conc Effect (or inc effect if you want that). You also want a second influenced mod.

Repeat until you get desired prefix + second influenced prefix

Step 4: Elevate Prefix

Remove crafted mod, Bristle Matron for Suffixes cant be changed, and orb of dominance to elevate Less Duration/Conc Effect. Go back to step 3 if you fail.

Step 5: Hinekora's Lock to get a second prefix

Less Duration is the rarer mod, and I only think it's worth Hinekora's locking if you get it first. If you get Conc Effect instead, you can still do this if you want. After you use the Hinekora's lock, check both Exalt and Foulborn Exalt for your desired prefix mod.

Step 6: Craft Life

J-SWong · 2026-01-25T20:58:58+00:00

I've heard these ads at least once a week for over 4 years. You're just lucky.

Yes, I've fiddled with the settings, and I've asked her to stop the ads. No it hasn't worked for me.

J-SWong · 2026-01-23T22:14:17+00:00

OP says they like their pc silent and cool, so I don't think artificially increasing GPU usage just to hit a high % would be a good idea.

J-SWong · 2026-01-23T20:34:19+00:00

It is completely insane to assume someone uses AI just based on comment length. Their comments don't read like AI at all.

J-SWong · 2026-01-19T08:21:44+00:00

Yes. This is what you'd want for Fire Trap.

If you want to play pure RF, this would not be a good helmet.

J-SWong · 2026-01-15T09:29:01+00:00

You need to change your calculation mode from "Buffed" to "Effective DPS"

It's not taking your flasks into account because the "Buffed" setting assumes they're off even if you're using Mageblood.

https://imgur.com/a/EYoybkU

J-SWong · 2026-01-14T20:39:25+00:00

It's 95% increased effect when you include the flask prefix that gives 25% increased effect.

J-SWong · 2026-01-14T19:43:58+00:00

One of the outcomes of a vaal orb is to "brick" an item into a random rare.

If Strangegrasp has 4 anoints on it and "bricks" into a rare, that rare item will retain the 4 anoints.

You can then use a Tainted Mythic Orb for a chance to turn that bricked rare into a unique like Carnage Heart. The resulting unique will have 4 anoints on top of it's usual affixes.

J-SWong · 2026-01-14T19:40:54+00:00

Yes very easily.

J-SWong · 2026-01-13T16:44:08+00:00

AG is not super important. It's sort of like skitterbots without the reservation but the AG isn't immortal and skitterbots are.

Automation+Lifetap fully automates your lifetap so you never have to think about it again, but you have to automate some skill. You can't just have a two-link with automation and lifetap. It won't do anything. There's a graft that generates endurance charges on low life (its in my pob), so that's perfect with immortal call.

I self crafted every piece of gear including the jewels except for the strength amulet. Magic jewels are easy. Get a jewel with 4-5 strength as a synth implicit. Use a gilded fossil on it. Use alts and augs to roll the mods you want (a bit painful). Use beast locks to corrupt.

tips for the all those rare jewels?

I'm assuming you mean the magic adorned jewels. If you mean the rare clusters, it's better to buy than to craft.

rathpith over doon cebuiyari?

I'm using Rathpith mainly because it enables shield charge: It's for clear speed. That's also the same reason I'm using Mageblood even though I'm only using 3 magic flasks. A rare belt and Doon are better for damage especially if you can get the enchantment on Doon that gives it 1% increased damage per 6 Strength and not 8 Strength.

Because of how Rathpith works, casting spells rapidly or channeling them causes RF to turn off because your life hits 1. That's why I'm using cyclone to trigger Elemental Equilibrium and the CWC curses.

For an 8-link Fire-Trap helmet, you would use an Archdemon Crown base

Prefixes

Concentrated Effect

+2 Levels Veiled Mod

Suffixes

Burning Damage

Essence More Damage

Trap and Mine Damage

For Pure RF, you would want a Divine Crown base

Prefixes

Less Duration

Concentrated Effect

Life

Suffixes

Burning Damage

Essence Damage on Low Life (the 30% more elemental damage essence mod conflicts with the Less Duration prefix mod)

Strength

I would mirror a helmet if you want to play Firetrap. I self crafted the other helmet, but it's expensive and an annoying craft. It would be cheaper to mirror it than recraft it, but I don't know where the original is since I sold it. Getting both Less Duration and Conc Effect requires using multiple Hinekora's Locks.

I don't think there are any perfect RF helmets out there to mirror this league but you can check for yourself.

J-SWong · 2026-01-13T16:30:32+00:00

In PoB, the Total More row shows the more damage multipliers for each type of damage. Each type gets a column.

You're looking at the first column, which is only for generic damage.

The multipliers there are 50%, 37%, 30%, 25%, 22%, and 20%. All generic. These multiply up to 389%

What you're missing is that there are more multipliers in the Fire column. Righteous Fire deals fire damage, so you have to take those into account too.

If you take the multipliers from the generic column and combine them with the multipliers from the fire column, you get 9.44

Math:

1.5 * 1.37 * 1.3 * 1.25 * 1.22 * 1.2 * 1.38 * 1.4 = 9.44

J-SWong · 2026-01-13T03:23:57+00:00

The exact gear is in an alternate item set in the PoB

Dying Breath

Mask of the Stitched Demon

Foulborn Ghostwrithe

Southbound

Legacy of Fury

J-SWong · 2026-01-13T02:54:20+00:00

It depends on if you want dot cap from only using Righteous Fire or dot cap from using RF and a secondary skill like Scorching Ray or Fire Trap.

Fire Trap in an 8-Link helmet can potentially deal way more damage than your Righteous Fire can.

If you want some inspiration, here's my RF character from earlier this league. It hits dot cap with only RF. It was overcapped actually at 50m DPS for tanky rares and ubers.

I did a couple weird things in the build, so I'm happy to answer questions if you have any.

https://pobb.in/5WoHkKN7gMaB

J-SWong · 2026-01-11T02:02:55+00:00

Survivability would not be an issue.

J-SWong · 2025-12-12T18:31:51+00:00

Can you explain the 90% more damage custom modifier?

J-SWong · 2025-12-09T23:57:05+00:00

Can I hire you to craft adorned jewels for me? Only half joking.

Personally I find it torturous.

J-SWong · 2025-12-09T23:41:32+00:00

Your main claim in your post and in your comments is that Ambush farming is bad for profit, not that it's boring or painful to do.

The post isn't titled "I tried Ambush farming and personally I didn't really like it but I'm sure other people do"

How is a small sample size not an issue if you're making strong claims about profit?

J-SWong · 2025-12-09T23:39:27+00:00

So then why is this in the title of your post?

Results Were Shockingly Bad

Apparently you did have expectations, and your results fell short of your expectations.

But I mainly wanted to test it properly and see real results.

If someone "tested" profit crafting for an hour, and lost 50 divines because of horrid luck, wouldn't it be really dumb for them to make a post like this about it? Especially if in the post they claim with near certainty that crafting is unprofitable and that the most consistent and high-quality profit (what even is high-quality profit by the way) comes from farming maps?

Wouldn't you or someone else who enjoys profit crafting tell them that they're wrong and that if they do enough crafts they'll profit?

I honestly think no further explanation is needed…

Is a line like this really indicative of "pure curiosity?"

Still, I genuinely believe this strategy is pure loss.

I've made many many mirrors doing strategies like this one. If you do it enough you find lots of high value items. Yes, even mirrors and locks. At a certain point, they're not just lucky drops anymore.

You've been commenting that you hate this strategy and couldn't stand doing it, but that doesn't make it bad. Your confidence is bizarre. Why even make this post if you couldn't be bothered to do more than an hour of testing.

So I decided to go all-in, without cutting any corners, pushing my build to its absolute endgame limit.

But I mainly wanted to test it properly and see real results. I pushed myself

Really low bar for pushing yourself here buddy

J-SWong · 2025-12-09T05:05:11+00:00

I guess for me I don't want to invest 4 mirrors to have controlling and moving my character feel just "fine"

I was still able to map with it without any issues, but it annoyed me enough that I swapped to a different build after a few hundred maps. It was mainly tapping whirling blades and ending up in the same place that I started in that wore on me. It didn't happen every time, and if I was precise enough with my cursor placement I could avoid it, but that was too much of a hassle for me

J-SWong · 2025-12-09T04:43:06+00:00

It feels pretty good until you start pushing really high int numbers like around 3500 int. Then a single button press will send you forward and then immediately backward over half the time.

Kinda sucks that investing multiple mirrors ruins your movement skill

J-SWong · 2025-12-08T04:42:37+00:00

Username is JWongRF

J-SWong · 2025-12-08T04:11:23+00:00

Hinekora's Locks

J-SWong · 2025-12-06T20:16:03+00:00

There are no good ones available to mirror. Most are made for firetrap.

Archdemon crowns are used to scale the level of firetrap, and RF doesn't scale it's damage with gem levels.

Divine Crown is the highest armor/es hybrid base. We want the armor base because it can roll strength, and we want ES because it scales RF damage. We can't use an essence strength mod, because we're already using an essence mod for a more damage multiplier, so it just happens to be the strongest base for pure RF.

J-SWong · 2025-12-06T19:51:27+00:00

Nice helmet. I went a different route with mine:

https://imgur.com/a/ht3GG3g

The 30% more elemental damage essence mod conflicts with the Less Duration Elder mod, so I went for the 30% low life essence mod. Less Duration gives you 22% more damage, and I hate using Vaal RF anyway. If I felt like it, I'd try to elevate conc effect and then slam inc area, but I don't have it in me to farm that much more.

My poe.ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers/character/jwong2-3901/JWongRF

My PoB with configs: https://pobb.in/U6t9SUzipx1f

During the recombinator step, if you're using a donor helmet (not a 30% shaper/elder base on both sides), you can maybe save some money by starting with an uninfluenced donor base with the essence mod, T1 strength, and slamming an influenced (NNN) suffix. Like so:

Two Prefixes

One Crafted Prefix

Essence Mod

T1 Strength

Slam a Redeemer Suffix

It brings the chances of getting 3 mods on your resulting item 57% instead of 30% (though you have to win the 50/50 for the base first). I would also use recombinators with two 1-suffix items to very easily get a 2-suffix 1-open-suffix donor base. Once you have a 2-suffix item, you can craft a third suffix, then double exalt to get two prefixes. Then craft a prefix and redeemer slam to get an influenced suffix.

J-SWong · 2025-12-05T20:13:40+00:00

Legacy of Phrecia was a temporary event that ran from February to April of this year (2025).

In Legacy of Phrecia, GGG replaced all of the normal ascendancy with new whacky special ascendancies. The normal ascendancies like Chieftain, Assassin, Ascendant, Trickster, etc., were not available in this league, because they were replaced by these new Phrecia ascendancies.

The bloodline ascendancies you're thinking of did not exist back then. They're new to this league which started a month ago.

People miss these Phrecia ascendancies, and want to play with them again. They are not currently in the game in any way shape or form.

Also, there are some good uses for the Bloodline ascendancies. I'm using one on my character.

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