PoE 3.23 Affliction SSF, Fire builds

Hello Everyone, I do not normally create my own builds and only tend to follow build guides. However, this last league proved that I can be in a situation where I don't enjoy any of the build guides being created (i.e. they are focused on what I consider to be a boring meta strategy - MF on Abyss - or they are just not interesting skills to me). As such, I started playing around with Path of Building (duh!) and put together a few General's Cry builds - Gladiator, Chieftain, Juggernaut. The one that I am presenting here is the Chieftain build. The idea behind this build is to be a league s

If you like the detached mirage archer playstyle, take Occupying Force instead of Farshot in your 2nd lab and grab point blank while you're at it. The playstyle will be different but the damage will be similar. Do not take ricochet until you have enough power coming from your gear. Make sure you don't have any source of pierce when you go for ricochet. Flasks are really strong on this build and they are cheap to roll with alterations. We invest multiple points in the passive tree to improve their uptime and effectiveness; Do not let those points be wasted on some crappy rolled flasks. Rol

PLAYSTYLE < Clear < For clear you just place down ballistas and run. Bossing < You can start a fight by having all your totems up and ready, then as soon as the boss is targetable use your infernal cry and press focus. During the fight you want to keep to your totem limit all the time. You also want to use your frenzy setup to keep frenzy charges up. Only when you have time for it you want to cast your Arcanist Brand, this is the lowest priority since it's a little unreliable on bosses that move anyway. LEVELING < Be warned that the leveling experience on this is not as smoot

The Build The endgame setup should look like this: You max out on your Scorching Ray totems and then add as much Searing bond bois as you can alongside them without replacing the Scorching ray totems. The reason for this is because every additional totem active adds 5% mroe damage to everything and since searing bond comes with +3 to additional totems and we can add multiple totems on top of it they are the perfect choice in a build that relies on DoT damage which simultaneously buffs them. You need to hit an enemy with Flame dash or cast it twice to apply Arcane Surge. Additionall