The Extinguisher: The Final Discharger

*****This build is somewhat complicated and very expensive *****

The Extinguisher: Cold Discharge
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Build Score 4/5
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Hello

Here is a new build! Known as the Extinguisher, that utilizes blood rage and frenzy charge for an intense burst of cold damage with discharge

» This is an endgame CI build not meant for new players this build requires thought and attention to stay alive along with constant focus on keeping the right combos going.


Passive Tree



Build Basic Actions/Tactics



GEAR

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Skill Gems In-Depth



Video PVE Play of The Build




IGN: Frodzaan if you have any more questions or suggestions and would rather message me in game, also sorry if it was a bit unorganized just wanted to get everything together to share so I threw it together pretty quick I will do my best to update this guide!

BUT WHY?

Burning Damage, do you even realize the absolutely absurd damage a burning discharger does through proliferating from weak mobs onto strong mobs like bosses?
Let me paint you a picture; My buddy kills a 73 Map boss in a single Discharge just through the immense amount of proliferated burning damage which by the way neatly stays on the ground for a considerable amount of time, killing anything that walks into it's ridiculous range. We're talking WAY Offscreen for damage that has no consequences (doesn't reflect).
More often than not there is absolutely no chance to even Cull the boss because of this ridiculous burn damage.
We haven't done higher maps yet but it won't be much difference because I play a 2-3 Curser, EE & Shocker. Even without me I know for a fact he does this to 70 bosses on his own, again he hasn't done higher than that solo.

No Endurance Charges, seriously? a CI build without shield and a fairly low amount of armour that has to run into large packs of mobs that do things? You WILL take at least a couple of hits in order to be effective and you will get absolutely annihilated without the up to 7 Endurance Charges - let alone taking hits from a physical damage based boss.

Bosses, how would this spec even manhandle any boss ever? Even as a Burning Discharger this is very awkward if you don't kill them within 1 or 2 Proliferated Burns.
This build only has freeze to proliferate, what's the plan? (Inb4 swapping back and forth to get charges and discharge, oh lord.)

Stacking up your Frenzy Charges by swapping weapons and shooting things? I'm sorry but that's even more awkward than my having to cull bosses that burn for 10-20% life every second using CYCLONE. (Yes I actually do that, because yolo)
Maintaining Charges is also a huge problem if you don't oneshot things, even in your video you're often struggling to kill mobs and keep them up.
Keep in mind a Burning Discharger has both Frenzy AND Endurance Charges and there is a huge difference in continuity, a Lightning Discharger can basically B2B Discharge without needing to re-stack but of course that one doesn't really work for HC due to the low base of Voll's.

SWAG is what I think of when I see this spec, it tries very hard to be different, new and exciting but the core of it is very poorly thought through and in the end it's just absolutely ridiculous with no purpose or substantiality.


I do apologize that I must bash on your build like this but I am in fact infuriated by the ridiculousness of suggesting anyone should try this.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with a Burning Discharger, it's current state is in fact very overpowered and in every conceivable way better than this Experiment. And no, 5-6 Linked Searing Touch is not a requirement, nor would it magically cost a ton more than a 5-6L Taryn's Shiver.
Freezing Stuff is kind of fun and extremely safe indeed, but for that you could simply play any range based or even totem based build and actually have sustainable dps one way or another.

In light of all this considered, here's my

I've only played a day or so its not the complete and polished build everyone thought it was and I'm sorry and I apologize whole heartedly I finally got this character to 68 after much procrastination and was excited about it and wanted to share. There are still several things to be worked out but I have no doubt it will work. I will re-post again when I'm in higher maps and I will post a detailed video with commentary and actual footage rather than a forum post. I do appreciate the bash though will help me focus on the downsides of my "swag" build

Hating on a build for being original and not using a cookiecutter build from someone else is not what Path of Exile is about.

Good effort on the build, let us know how it turns out around 80+ Flore1nr

@Fite:
Ok wow, on the one hand you have a lot of valid points as to why this build can be better. Unfortunately you fail to follow through by giving some constructive criticism to go with the bashing.

@Flore1nr:
I like the idea behind the build. First there was the lightning discharger, which was mighty. Then we saw the burning discharger, able to slaughter with burn damage. Now we have the third and final discharger, the frost based discharge. Thing is the build is focused around blood rage to generate charges, which is brilliant. That skill is also used by lightning and burning discharges if they use chaos inoculation.

If there is a weakness to the idea behind this build, it's that the build tries too hard to only use cold damage. Combine this with the circuitous path through the skill tree and it's not as effective as it could be.

My first thought on watching the video is why not use cold to fire and elemental proliferation. You have tons of cold damage. With a bit of crit chance you could be proliferating burns which would finish off many of those monsters you don't quite kill.

The suggestion to use enduring cry is a good one. You have 6-7 frenzy charges, the fire part won't show so much. And it would help the initial charge generation without destroying your flavor. The strength of discharge is being able to use as many charges as you can. Focus on frenzy charges, but don't just ignore the others. Every bit helps your damage.

I feel that you had quite a bit of trouble one or two shotting monsters in Lunaris 3. It may help to focus on critical damage. You have vaal pact so with capped resists you should be able to do quite a bit of damage without one shotting yourself. I did the math a while back and you should be able to survive 20-25k damage with 75% resists and a high level life leech gem. Don't be afraid to push for crits. Look at what ghudda did when he focused on crit. You don't have to go that far, but it is a good example.

Running all the way down to unwavering stance and iron reflexes burn quite a few points. You head down there anyway for the frenzy charge, but I feel there must be a better way to do it.

And what the hell is wrong with switching to a bow to generate frenzy charges? It's not like you can link 'frenzy charge on crit' to a spell or something.

A cold based discharger is the most difficult one to make. Almost any ci discharger is going to run blood rage anyway. So what is it that differentiates this build? What makes it stand out beyond just being focused on cold?

Overall I like it. I just think it needs a lot of fine tuning.

you cant use conc effect on discharge no matter what element of it you're doing as it'll up the dmg by so much that any -max reflect pack is gonna kill you.

Tons of questions, sorry!

Can you post your gear? Also, would this be possible without CI and with Shavs? You see, I got pretty good gear already (here, scroll down a bit) and this build sounds interesting, kind of going in the same direction as the elemental hit one. Perm freeze is probably the best way to deal with Temple Piety and other endgame bosses that just hit like a truck.

bowing out

Fite is right. It won't work. He's not bashing he's saving you the time and currency investment that you're gonna throw into a character that won't work out well.