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Flameblast / 
Oil Grenade build for 0.5.5, trying to focus on speed and clear, as this build already has a ton of damage built in. Opting for a 
Cast on Dodge setup with gemling for a speedy setup.
You'll level as the very powerful grenade merc setup and once you reach lvl 52 you'll swap to Flameblast, you cannot swap any earlier because Flameblast is a lvl 52 gem.
This is the fully min-max version of the build, reaching dot cap or near it (35m dps). It's also extremely tanky with 85k armour, 50% chance to evade and 3.5k life. The effective hit pool is around 200k
This variant is very expensive and requires a jade/granite 
Mageblood
Mageblood is required for this variant to properly work. You want Jade/Granite/bismuth (can have 1x dupe or 4th flask can be amethyst, quicksilver or gold flask are all good options). Granite/basalt also works, you wont just have 50% evade.
As for your gear you Want high armour helmet for 
Emergent Vigour, higher armour gloves for 
Leather Bound Gauntlets and boots can either be pure armour or hybrid arm/evasion.
You want "Armour applies to elemental damage" on every single piece, so ideally 40% on gloves/boots/helmet/body armour. Combined with the passive tree you should reach over 200% of armour applies to elemental damage.
You should be around 80k armour with a proper setup and around 45-50% chance to evade.
You do need some spirit on your amulet, so you can run both 
Mana Remnants and 
Arctic Armour. Remember you can use 
Soul Core of Azcapa on your crossbow to help with spirit. 
Charge Regulation is another option if you find a good way to solve endurance generation.
Dousing charm: This is pretty important and a must have. If you get ignited, that ignite can spread to your oil grenade and brick your snapshot (you'll do 0 damage). So make sure to always use this charm.
Rite of Passage the spirit is Bear, but ox is also a good option.
Jewels:
At this point you should be making 3x prefix Ruby jewels, Ideal jewels:
Prefix 1: Ignite magnitude
Prefix 2: %increased armour
Prefix 3: Increased elemental damage or increased fire damage
Suffix 1: 40-60% increased effect of prefix modifiers.
The 2nd suffix doesn't matter as there is no good 2nd suffix on a ruby jewel for this build.
---For a speed variant try this
1) Use 
Absent Amulet with cast on dodge, while you cant quality the skill yourself, global quality modifiers will still apply. Giving you an extra 1m dodge roll
2) Use 
Decree of Flight boots or 
Ghostmarch
3) Use a Quicksilver Mageblood (can also take more MS nodes on tree).
This setup is extremely fast and really nice for boss rush strats or travel maps.
Support Gem Requirements:
Str 70
Dex 55
Int 75
Flameblast
Level 20
Oil Grenade
Level 19
Arctic Armour
Level 18
Cast on Dodge
Level 16
Mana Remnants
Level 18
Incendiary Shot
Level 14
Ice Shards
Level 17
Infernal Cry
Level 14
Shockwave Totem
Level 3
Elemental Weakness
Level 19
Tornado
Level 16
Seismic Cry
Level 11
Frost Bomb
Level 19
Dousing Charm
Headhunter is not good for this build and the buffs it provides can brick your ignite.-How do I get more skill slots?
With 
Unset Rings and 
Augmented Flesh. You can snapshot skill slots. Put on your rings/amulet, equip your skills and than take them off. While you wont be able to use the skills, they will still count for stuff like 
Gem Studded and 
Essence of Virtue.
To balance Gem Studded, just make sure all the gems at the top are equal, but exclude gems in your staff skill as those do not count towards the total amount.
-Where do you get all of your gem quality from?
5% from 
Fox Idol
5% from 
Paragon Anoint
5% From Amulet suffix (desecrated modifier)
6% from gemling small ascendancy nodes
20-23% from Gem quality
This will give you in total 41-44% quality.
40% quality is pretty important as it's a breakpoint for some skills, Arctic Armour armour will gain 1 stage (and another +1 stage if you get gem lvl 27, for a total of 8). Quality is also a massive damage multiplier for Flameblast.
This was my first time building a character based on a build, and it all worked out—thanks for the build.
But my FPS drops really badly. (RTX 5070TI)
During leveling, this build kinda feels like playing Junkrat in Overwatch.
And you’re still trying just as hard to hit the enemy :D
Very detailed guide, thanks!
idk what i’m doing wrong i’ve followed all the steps and gotten all the gear skill gems and support gems but it still hits like a wet paper towel how do i use this build
is later going for blackflame covenant to scale it more with chaos worth it?
beacouse my flame dont start please
is there a solution for maps where enemies are fire resistent?
Elemental Weakness skill
Please tell me that this leveling experience gets better. I've made it to lvl 20 and it has been the worst leveling experience I've had.
yeah it gets better
update, hopefully someone can help, i've got the endgame items, it was low invest didn't spend more than a few divs, but for sure either something is wrong either we're missing some deffences, i've got 76% each element deff and 50 chaos res, 2.5k hp 1k ES, 200 ward lvl 81, the only item left is the helmet the lvl 80 crown which doesn't send me any confidence it will make diff since i have quite a good helmet already. Waystones lvl 11 rare, always something oneshots me trhough all hp,es all of a sudden wihtout omen of resurgence i die like a bug. sure it's nice to melt everything but at this point i may try another build before i invest in a mageblood here
how do you have so many passives selected on the passive tree?
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