Acts 1 - 2
Mule a momentum from a ranger
Use Rolling Magma
Buy Boots with movement speed whenever you see them or gamba with gold
Look for wands with +1 fire/all or increased fire/flat fire to spells
If you get an Ashcaller or an Abberath's Horn, you have your wands until the end of campaign
Level with Rolling Magma and Holy Flame Totem
You can swap to Storm Burst Totems at level 12, but I stuck with rolling magma until act 3
Swapping to Storm Burst Totems will need a different guide, go look at dsLily's
During Act 2, pick up Herald of Ash and Herald of Thunder, and use them until you can fit Anger/Determ or Haste in Act 3
Act 3 - 10
At level 28, use a combo of Firestorm and Arma Brand, or you can just use Firestorm on Arca Brand with Flame Totems
Only use 1 wand still so you can keep shield charging <--- Ignore this note if you're twink leveling and you have a 7-league step
If you don't have an Ashcaller or Abberath's Horn, you can also use minion wands now for damage since we have the minion nodes
Make sure you're leveling the gems you need to transition after the campaign
KF Transition
Transition is pretty simple, I have the baseline here, but there's nothing I can add here that Palsteron didn't already mention
You can spend as long as you need following Pals version until you're ready to strength stack
Here's his link
https://pobb.in/1C-c2Ym44cZQ
The items I have on here are pretty basic for you to get started
Str Stack Transition
Replica Alberons is required, this should be your first purchase to transition into str stack
The wand is super cheap and can carry you for a bit
Astramentis is mandatory until you have a simplex
Wilma's so we can speck out of ancestral bond
Iron Fortress for block MAKE SURE YOU GET RUNEGRAFT OF STABILITY --> This is mandatory, or else you will die from spell damage
Cluster jewel is cheap to get started w/o Increased Effect, and upgrade from 8 until you can afford 12 WITH the Increased effect
Split personalities go into the cluster jewel to solve int and accuracy requirements
Make sure the rest of your gear has strength on everything if possible; Cap out block and Resists ASAP
Shield with +1 Totem and Strength
Buy a cheap lethal pride to get some strength going
Astramentis/Cord Belt Annoints can be Disintegration, Hasty Demise, or Shamans Dominion depending budget -- HASTY is required on at least one
Belt Options before mageblood:
You can use a Cord Belt annointed with whatever you need then you can synth it via Harvest after anointing (hope for %str)
MAKE SURE YOU ANOINT BEFORE SYNTHING, Otherwse you cannot anoint anymore
You can also use a stygian vise to help fix your resists and str, and add an abyssal jewel w/ str in it
Str Stack Upgrades in Order if Importance
When you have money, focus on getting a %Str, %Attributes, and Damage Per Strength Simplex OR a Mageblood ASAP.
Spicysushi has a video on how to craft the amulet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rmW-miyU
Whichever upgrade you choose, you can't go wrong with because both will only accelerate your Divines/Hr
Just remember that flasks will also be needed when you switch to a Mageblood
Next upgrade is the jewel cluster with 35% increased effect + t1 str and t1 all attributes -- Split Personalities still go in here
Helical Ring, then Dusk Ring OR Timeclasp w/ great rolls and corrupted %str implicit
Reminder that no matter what, you will need a second warlord influenced item for your Bound By Destiny
Bound by Destiny with Increased Strength if 2 warlord items are equipped
Your options for this are either one of the rings, a shaper/warlord's shield, any of the uniques w/ warlord's influence, your wand (will make crafting more difficult)
Lethal Pride w/ 2x Double damage and at least 2x %strength
Watcher's Eye or Emperor's Mastery
Watcher's Eye mods are up to your jurisdiction
Preferred Watchers Eye mods are
Purity of Elements Chaos res (if you still need to cap out chaos res)
Determ Crit damage reduction (so you can ignore crit mods/scarab of wisps)
Precision Crit Multi/Attack Damage (Crit Multi is more damage)
Shield has options; Only +1 totem, str, and block are mandatory
You can go for 5% life recover on block, Crit damage reduction (see determination mod for explanation), %PDR, Chaos res, or socketed gems reservation
If you have socketed gems reservation, put determ, PoE, and enlighten in the shield
This allows you to get an extra aura which can be Aspect of the Spider for more damage + Hinder, or Sand Stance Flesh and Stone for less damage taken, Petrified Blood
Abyssal Jewel Gloves
Unnatural Instinct is Optional, because Inertia + Crit wheel is more damage (I just liked Unnatural so I can stretch out my points)
% Spell damage per Str synth implicit wand
Kinetic Wand Base and Profane Wand base matter here
Other wands have less attack speed or crit chance
Minion wands keep their minion affinity so crafting those will be difficult
Things I did differently + Things I'm working on
I personally like Animate Guardian so I got one with Meat Shield Imbue
Items are in the AG items section
AG is completely unnecessary, but it gives me 10 fortification, cull, and 50% crit multi (Remove all of this on your calcs if you're not using AG)
Now that I also have AG I can remove my crit damage immunity from my watcher's and shield and get other stats for more tankiness
Probably %PDR or socketed gems reservation so I can use Flesh and Stone or Petrified Blood
I want to get the +1 minimum endurance charge back on my dusk ring, so I can grab the endurance charge by duelist back
Will remove Sanctity by templar when I get the endurance charge back
Need to re-craft both my rings and get rid of the intelligence on my dusk ring, and the lightning res on my helical so I can swap both to all attributes + Crit multi/+1 min endurance charge
Make sure you're using the KF calculator to min/max your damage output
https://nemrod10.github.io/KF/
Str Stack Aspirational -- ONLY IF YOU'RE SWIMMING IN CURRENCY
Item upgrades go a long way when you put budget into str stack
First is getting a double annointed Wilma's
Double anoint cowls --> Corrupt hope for rare --> Tainted Mythic hope for Wilma's
The second are 3p/1p voices for more str jewels
Third is getting mirrored Str/All attributes Helical/Dusk Riing
Can also get % str corrupted mageblood and volatile vaal corrupted boots
+2 proj +2duration +1 all gems are good corrupts for the iron fortress
Make sure to harvest enchant for strenght first
%attributes elder everything bound by destiny is turbo aspirational and difficult to get to as well
My actual gameplay set-up
Progenesis and Returning proj imbued KF when mapping
Life flask and Conc effect when uber bossing (no need to swap to this for standard bosses)
List of imbues
KF with conc effect and KF with return proj
Sniper's Mark with Mark on Hit
Frenzy with Withering Touch (We kill things fast, but this is for fun/just in case)
Animate Gurdian with Meat Shield <-- This is optional, I just like AG