PoE Explosive Concoction, Fire builds

If EC was a well designed skill then the interesting aspect (flask usage) would be extremely beneficial to the skill. As it is, this is not the case. &x200B; This isn't going to be a math heavy post, but long story short, you can only regenerate so many flask charges, and that number is way lower than what you need to constantly use sapphire/topaz flasks outside pure mapping. The new sapphire/topaz flasks are quite good, but really only modestly better than just slapping on a diamond flask and require massive investment to sustain. The recent 3.21 change to EC which makes you use massive am

I've done my best to improve this explosive concoction build and I can one tap pretty much all an rares and bosses in maps but 13 mil dps isn't really good enough for uber pinnacle bosses. Am I missing something? &x200B; edited, forgot point blank

When Frostferno was in the game, EC had a 5.5 link with +8 gems that was highly possible to use. You would take Avatar of Fire, get a double corrupted Frostferno and now you had a cool non traditional setup. It was reasonable to use sapphire at least due to cold to fire on Frostferno. Frostferno is gone now though. After a lot of PoB work, I am of the strong opinion that EC is better off without Sapphire/Topaz flasks. This, imho, basically makes it a broken gem. 1) It takes solid investment to get the flasks to be useable over a longer period. If you go pathfinder, you have very little sy

I started EC following Velyna's guide, then figured to dump all my currency into an secrets of suffering variant. It is a bit meme, but figured I would share this since I couldn't find many good posts for inspiration outside the typical EO/PT versions. This isn't really a build one would follow, but might be a different look to a scion build for ideas. I found this skill to be really fun, you are pretty much melee since you want to be on top of the enemy, but have a projectile when you want it. Is any form of my variant worth

Current POB: Showcase: 3.18 MEME build: Not a explosive concoction PF Central concept: Inextricable fate, this boots gives you all damage inflict poison as long as enemies have at least 3 grasping vine on them, meaning that they have to stand still at least 1.5 sec to proc. This is really good when fighting most of bosses since they dont move frequently.Other than that, only thing to scale dmg is to find a gem with massive added dmg. So here comes the explo

Hello all, I was heavily inspired by Velyna and Mathil's build guides for EConc and decided to give it a try. I tinkered with some of the tree and gear and took what I thought were the best parts of both guides. Major differences include the use of impossible escape to save ~7 points and herald of ice for better clear POB: Build highlights: Burst DPS: 14.4m (assuming all 5 projectiles hit, melee range, berserk + focus on) Average DPS: 6m (no proj distance specified, 0 rage, no focus, no berserk) 4.3k life, 23k armour (with flask up, no MS/VMS), spell s