Welcome, Exiles! Today, I'm excited to share with you a beginner-friendly build guide for the Righteous Fire Juggernaut, a classic and durable choice for league starters. While my webcam is currently giving me some trouble, I'm committed to delivering informative content to help you succeed in Path of Exile. So, let's dive right into the details of this build!

 

• The Righteous Fire Juggernaut Overview
• Why Choose Righteous Fire Juggernaut
• PoB Link
• Ascendancy Choices
• Leveling Process
• Skill Gems and Links
• Passive Skill Tree
• Pantheon and Bandits
• Map Clearing and Sustain

 

↖ The Righteous Fire Juggernaut Overview

The Righteous Fire Juggernaut is a strong choice for a league starter due to its exceptional durability and straightforward gameplay. The Juggernaut ascendancy offers incredible survivability, making it a reliable choice for players who want to focus on progression without constantly worrying about survivability.

 

↖ Why Choose Righteous Fire Juggernaut

• Durability: Juggernaut is one of the most robust ascendancy classes in the game, providing excellent physical damage reduction, high life regen, and the ability to gain endurance charges.
• Ease of Play: Righteous Fire is a relatively simple skill that doesn't require constant activation. You can simply walk around and let the skill do the work for you, making it an ideal choice for those who prefer a less intensive playstyle.
• Leveling Ease: Righteous Fire becomes viable around level 20, and it synergizes well with early skill tree nodes that provide life regeneration to counter its degen effect.

 

↖ PoB Link

https://pobb.in/r_1KQ7TNkNY2

 

↖ Ascendancy Choices

• Untiring: This node boosts your life regeneration, helping you sustain Righteous Fire's degen effect early on.
• Unflinching: Grants endurance charges, elemental resistances, and physical damage reduction, further enhancing your tankiness.
• Unyielding/Unbreakable: Choose based on your preference. Unyielding offers more damage and area effect, while Unbreakable provides increased armor and more durability.

 

↖ Leveling Process

• Start as a Marauder and choose the Marauder route. Acquire the skill gem "Rolling Magma" by creating a Witch character and completing a quest.
• Use Rolling Magma along with Arcane Surge for easier leveling.
• Pick up Clarity or Vitality to sustain life or mana, and use them along with your leveling skills.

 

↖ Skill Gems and Links

Main Skill: Righteous Fire

• Righteous Fire
• Efficacy
• Elemental Focus
• Burning Damage
• Swift Affliction (when possible)

 

Secondary Skill: Fire Trap

• Fire Trap
• Combustion
• Trap and Mine Damage
• Swift Affliction (when possible)

 

Utility Skills: Shield Charge, Purity of Elements, Malevolence, Vitality, Determination

 

↖ Passive Skill Tree

• Start with Juggernaut's "Heart of the Warrior" and "Prismatic Skin" nodes.
• Progress towards "Arsonist" and "Fire Mastery" for increased fire damage and life regeneration.
• Path towards "Soul of Steel" for additional elemental resistances.
• Allocate nodes that grant dexterity, intelligence, life, armor, and elemental resistances.
• Invest in "Spiritual Aid" for increased damage due to minion damage nodes affecting you.
• Consider "Sanctity" for extra damage, and "Deep Thoughts" for reservation efficiency.

 

↖ Pantheon and Bandits

Pantheon: Soul of Lunaris and Soul of Shakari for more physical damage reduction and poison immunity.

Kill all Bandits to gain two additional skill points.

 

↖ Map Clearing and Sustain

• Use increased area of effect supports for Righteous Fire to clear maps efficiently.
• Utilize flasks to manage regeneration and elemental resistances.
• Respec points for increased map drop chance when you transition into endgame content.

 

Remember that this build guide serves as a starting point, and you can customize it based on your playstyle and available gear. Be sure to adapt the build as you progress through the game and acquire better equipment.