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Firebird Infinite Archon Speed Guide & Gameplay Tips
Combining the reworked Firebird's set and Archon seems to be the latest flavor of the month for many players, and today we would like to highlight two useful guides for those.
Both videos were put together by Mamba Shane, with the first explaining how to optimize a speed farming setup for maximum efficiency, and the second giving some very useful gameplay tips on how to play with the spec at higher Greater Rifts. Check them out!
Tips on How to play with Firebird Archon
- Understand two very important mechanics that allow the build to work:
- (1) Ancient Parthan Defenders - greatly reduces damage when enemies are stunned around you.
- (2) Halo of Arlyse + Ice Armor / Cristallize - automatically casts a Frost Nova which will trigger your Ancient Parthan Defenders.
- Should I Left Click or Right Click as Archon? Left Click does slightly more damage (11%), but Right Click covers a lot more ground. Prefer the latter.
- Jump around trying to stay alive and into your Oculus Ring damage bonus area.
- Don't die - if you do, you'll lose all your stacks and need to start from the beginning.
- Use two spell rotations to kill one Elite Pack - make sure you're stacking your Firebird's set bonus.
- Outside of Archon - move from one pack of enemies to another to keep procc'ing your APD and Halo Ring.
- Also spam Explosive Blasts always to gain the damage mitigation bonus.
- This is when you're most vulnerable, so be extra careful.
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Thanx for build!
I must say i am still very new to Archon FB build and have a lot of questions myself. I am dying a lot right now in 75. It's incredibly hard to survive, like in AW meteor days. Need to get used to the build.
I did a few tests and looks like Archon Blast is NOT same as Explosive blast, so it gives no damage reduction. Really sad.
So if i understand correctly
while not in archon form i need
1) to move on feet and not teleport
2) go inside a pack of mobs and cast explosive blast / arcane torrent to proc APDs.
3) try to maintain 4 stacks of orb of infinite depth and stay alive
3) get 20 stacks on chantodo
4) go to archon form
5) ignore WHITES and try to ignite at least 1 elite.
6) use arcane blast / arcane strike and disintergration wave for ranged elites
7) then i can kill whites as well
By killing mobs in archon form i get archon stacks
when i get out of archon form, the stacks still remain and start to expire.
so i need to get back to archon form again BEFORE these stacks expire, so i can ANOTHER stacks. So this is double stacking. And this is where most damage comes from
question is. Should i ever use LEFT MOUSE BUTTON and cast arcane strike? Or should i just spam arcane blast and do disintegrate ?
On video he says arcane strike has 11% more damage, but radius is too low.
If only firebirds had a gg standalone build...but its another hybrid it seems
tried the[2.4.1] Infinite Archon Wiz- T10 Speeds... i looveee ittt !!! thanks !!
I feel like there are better firebird archon T10 speed builds in the Builds section than this one. Why would you pick a not-archon spell that isn't fire giving you no way to stack FB when stuck out of Archon (which does happen because maps are garbage) and worry about a survivability setup over simply using Goldwrap?