MasterT's Mega Tank Divine Shield Low Life Ignite Elementalist

By far one of the Tankiest League Start builds I have played that you can take all the way from League Start to farming endgame t17s and pinnacles on a very comfortable budget and smooth progression.

This is the 10 Divine Budget version of this build, without any awakened gems, or any expensive items at all outside of if you want to make a very good staff.

There is a full video guide of me explaining everything in detail, as well as a showcase of me taking on all the pinnacle content here:
https://youtu.be/EuY5QA5oP3M
I Highly recommend watching the showcase before you decide if you want to try the build out or not.

REGEX: "!sters r|o bl|o al|gen|efe|pet|s rec|lm|ever|d fl"

The build's offences focus around elementalist's Shaper of Flames ascendancy to make all damage contribute to ignite. This lets us very easily scale a bunch of flat damage of all elemental types on our weapon and abyss jewel to cheaply get good damage ignites.
Combining this with the Taming and Arkhon Tools (refer to gear section) we get massive damage.

We also use Elemental Overload to get a 40% More damage multiplier on our ignites. This keystone makes it so any time a skill Crits, it does not apply any ailment or do any bonus damage, but it makes every ailment and hit after that deal 40% more damage for 8 seconds. This lets us skip the need to do any sort of Crit scaling, and just focus on scaling the generic damage. As long as we crit Once every 8 seconds, the 40% more damage stays up.

GRAFTS (3.27 Only)
Grafts give this build a Big QOL Boost and make it far easier to gear.
Call the Pyre Graft gives the ability to apply Ash on your enemies, making them take 20% more fire damage.
His Tender Embrace Graft gives the ability to constantly get endurance charges because the build is always on low life, giving free endurance charge generation.

Before you swap to the low life setup, you will use a Heart of the Flame graft instead for a chunky molten shield on you instead.

Desirable mods on the Call the Pyre:
%inc fire dmg, or flat fire damage
+2 ashen pillars

Desirable mods on the Tender Embrace:

Cooldown Reduction


You just leap slam around and sunder, and sunder will clear 1.5 screens away with how much aoe scaling elementalist gets in her ascendancy and through the golems. The build especially excels in long corridor-like maps so sunder can travel really far away, like Fortress, Toxic Sewer, or even somewhat wide but still straight maps like Mesa or city square.

Defences are all Fully block orientated + massive ES regen + massive es recoup through Divine shield. This is explained more in detail in the video guide if you want to learn more about it.

It works on such a low budget thanks to elementalist being so good at scaling damage through just the ascendancy and golems, and staffs being so good at scaling defenses just from the passive tree.

9th November 2025:
Uploaded the Full Guide