Help me build a hellfire rogue
The ruptured tendons and bleeding fire combo is hilarious and surprisingly effective. I decided to make an entire build around it and I’m trying to figure out the best way to do it. For that combo to consistently work, you need ways to break magic armor, and physical armor is less relevant. This means my focus will be built mostly around pyro damage since the scoundrel skills that deal magic are too few and far between to depend on constantly.
Attributes:
- Finesse: enough to wear gear but most likely not worth significant investment to scale gag order and chloroform.
- intelligence: primary damage scaling, max
- wits: enough to go first and then extra points here for savage sortilege crits
Skill points:
- pyro: max for damage scaling
- aero/huntsman/warfare/poly: dip for skills (traps, sparks, bleed fire, teleport, etc)
- scoundrel: increase crit damage
Talents (most likely in order):
- torturer
- pawn
- elemental affinity
- five star diner
- savage sortilege
- anything else
I feel like the build might either function as a physical rogue who takes an elemental dip and is worse off for it or a bad Pyro mage with daggers but I am inclined to combat the ladder since it’s at least more consistent with the combo. I’m a bit torn between scaling intelligence over finesse since I feel like prioritizing the scoundrel skills makes it much more thematic. But I feel like scaling intelligence makes it much more practical and I don’t want to make it anymore convoluted than it already is. It also feels a bit bad to be leveling scoundrel so early since criticals will be inconsistent until later in the game. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like there are many helpful alternatives without seriously impacting the concept of the character.
Act one is easy enough that it shouldn’t be much of an issue playing a bit of a clunky build. Act 2 you get terrorbite which can actually be a pretty serious buff with potential terror triggers and can be converted to pure magical damage with the God stealing exploit. By act three and four The full kit will be online that it should do relatively well aside from fire immunities/resistances.
The goal would be to streamline it enough to try a solo honor without LW that is good enough that it doesn’t have to rely on too much cheese. Any input is much appreciated!