hi,

recombinators let us craft a lot of cool gear. for self-cast spell builds, we can now make +5 staffs or +2 wands/sceptres without needing fractured mods, so you can do cool things with influenced mods or synthesized implicits like 25% explode chance. together with elevated explode, i put together a fire conversion BF/BB chieftain that only needs blade blast for single target, relying on chain explosions for clear and making the build much smoother to play.

i'm currently using it for juiced expedition farming, since you can clear an entire sentinel-empowered expedition encounter with a single cast. the build uses mageblood and ashes, but is totally viable without them - im not cheesing ele res or using weird alt qualities

despite 13m blade blast damage (6 blade overlap) it's not a great uber bosser because of my defensive choices, but if you swap things around you can get a very tanky 90 max res melding setup that would be able to do ubers comfortably. for general mapping, it's very tanky with 6 endurance charges, 15% max life regen/s, 5.5k life, juiced immortal call + enduring cry, 90% suppress, positive chaos res, and 40k armor

current pob: https://pastebin.com/Thp9aixC

80% pack size t16 dunes where i never use blade blast: https://youtu.be/ewQpjDHRxhQ

explanation video with some ideas about the build and other possible variations: https://youtu.be/tYhpvfXZ5gI

the build is probably just worse than a comparable BV setup as far as explode-on-a-stick goes, but i didn't want to play BV, i wanted to play BF/BB, so that's that.