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Today we’re diving deep into one of my most powerful and fun builds in Path of Exile 2: the Incinerate Ignite Speed Demon. This one’s all about stacking accuracy, snapshotting huge ignite burns, and zooming through maps like a pyromaniac on turbo. I’ll break down the mechanics, the gear, the skill setup, and some next-level tips to help you cook everything in your path-bosses, rares, and packs alike.
Build Overview: Heat on Heat
Before we get into the actual numbers, let me drop some quick context. This build isn’t even fully optimized yet-I’m in the process of corrupting Fire Flowers to hit a +6 level boost, which could mean a 50% increase in damage. Add that to some passive tree tweaking and another jewel socket or two, and we’re cooking with serious firepower.
This build’s core revolves around Incinerate as the ignition point-pun intended. But what makes it stand out is how we snapshot the burn using our spell staff, then switch to our melee weapon for speed and sustain.
How It Works: Snapshotting Burn
Let’s walk through the main mechanic.
Weapon Swapping: You start by switching to your spell staff, which is loaded with bonuses-spell damage, fire damage, +fire skill levels. Then you cast Incinerate. Since it’s a duration skill, it snapshots all your stats at the time of casting.
Burning Ground Snapshot: This burning ground sticks around with the original stats even after you switch weapons, meaning all that juicy damage stays active.
Rolling Slash to Sustain: You then swap back to your melee spear with high attack speed and use Rolling Slash to absorb and maintain the burning ground under enemies. This not only keeps the ignite going, it also keeps you moving at lightning speed.
This mechanic allows you to burst bosses with high-powered ignites and cruise through maps like a rocket.
Skill Setup
Here’s a breakdown of the skills and supports:
Main Ignite Setup – Incinerate:
Supports: Concentrated Effect, Controlled Destruction, Searing Flame, and more.
These all maximize damage. Since you only cast once per map or encounter, cooldowns don’t matter-just raw power.
Movement & Maintenance – Rolling Slash:
Supports: Marshal Tempo (attack speed), Reach (area), Bullseye (accuracy), Magnified Effect (more AoE).
With 38k+ accuracy, you’re hitting 5.6+ attacks per second. The faster you slash, the faster you zoom-and maintain the burn.
Curse Setup:
Despair becomes chaos damage thanks to your ring, synergizing with bosses’ typically low chaos resistance.
Focus Curse, Heightened Curse, Persistence-maximize duration and power.
Mapping Utility – Detonate Dead:
Mostly a backup. It’s physical damage based on corpse life, and with Spell Echo, Brutality, and Inspiration, it gives a bit of burst when clearing rares in packs. Not mandatory, but nice to have.
Bossing Support – Shock Gorilla:
Lasting Shock, Overcharge, Last Gasp, Well-Tamed: These amplify shock effects, making bosses take significantly more damage.
Extra energy shield helps with survivability. You can even sneak in Culling Strike for finishers.
Defensive Layers:
Ghost Dance: With 7k evasion, each hit you take recovers energy shield.
Fast Forward and Mysticism add extra spell damage at full shield-perfect when snapshotting.
Wind Dancer: More evasion and mitigation for the few hits that land.
Withering Presence + Precision: Adds wither stacks for even more DPS.
Gems & Gear
Weapon:
Mapping Spear: Max attack speed, accuracy.
Bossing Weapon: Doubles ignite damage.
Look to corrupt for two open cores and bonus attack speed if possible.
Helmet:
Prioritize accuracy and energy shield. Fill out resistances or intelligence as needed.
Ring (Blackflame Variant):
Converts fire to chaos damage.
Boosts ignite magnitude and ignores enemy fire resistance.
A 28% damage corruption on top makes this insanely strong.
Chest:
Just stack energy shield and evasion. Spirit (Detonate Dead) is optional-skip if you don’t need the mapping burst.
Shield:
Huge for two reasons: Block chance (~67%) and double accuracy.
Combined with evasion and 3k+ ES, this makes the build deceptively tanky.
Boots, Gloves, Belt:
Load up on life, resistances, accuracy, and attributes (especially dexterity, which also boosts attack speed).
Nothing too fancy-just stack the right stats.
Jewels:
+3 to Incinerate: The most important one.
From Nothing: Gives us area of effect, strength, and 25% ignite magnitude.
Others: Focus on Magnitude, Area of Effect, Damage Over Time Multiplier, Damage from Elemental Sources. Those three stats are king.
Weapon Switch Staff:
Fire damage, spell damage, +levels to fire skills.
Ideally with Sigil of Power-massive multiplier. But if you’re broke, Wound + Focus can suffice until you get rich.
Passive Tree & Ascendancy
Attack Speed + Accuracy: These fuel both your movement and ignite uptime.
Attributes: More dex = more speed. Simple.
Energy Shield + Evasion: Keeps you alive in endgame content.
Ascendancy: Juggernaut (Jumbling)
+2 to Incinerate: Huge for ignite scaling.
60% more Accuracy: More speed, more hits, more uptime on ignite.
Alternate Picks:
Witch Hunter: Good for mapping-extra weapon set points and possible explosions.
Ritualist: Boosts accuracy, gives another ring slot-nice synergy.
Infernalist: Could potentially scale better with Tempest variants (like Mana Tempest) for even more elemental layering-but needs PoB testing.
Pro Tip: Snapshot Like a Pro
When you’re running pinnacle maps or bosses, try this trick:
Equip your +6 Fire Flower.
Enter the map and cast Sigil of Power (or equivalent boost).
Wait until you see four stacks of Sigil.
Then cast Incinerate in one direction.
Turn and pick up the burn from the opposite side using Rolling Slash.
Why? Because the burning ground on the opposite side of your Sigil cast will always have the maximum stack snapshot. This ensures your ignite is hitting with max damage buffs. Just a little trick that adds a ton of DPS reliability.
Final Thoughts
This build has insane potential-not just in damage, but in sheer fun factor. You fly through maps, one-shot bosses, and actually feel like a blazing elemental force. And it’s only going to get better once I finish optimizing it with more corruptions and levels.
Whether you’re chasing ladder pushes, farming currency, or just want to burn the world down in style-this build delivers.
TL;DR
Main Skill: Incinerate snapshot for ignite.
Movement: Rolling Slash to sustain burning ground.
Gear: Stack accuracy, energy shield, and fire damage.
Utility: Curse with Despair, Wither stacking, Shock Gorilla.
Ascendancy: Jumbling (Juggernaut) for levels and accuracy.
DPS Tip: Snapshot with 4-stack Sigil of Power for bossing.
Future Upgrades: +6 Fire Flower, extra jewel sockets = 50%+ damage increase.
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