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Elder RF Helmet — Righteous Fire crafting guide

Elder RF Helmet

Preferred Outcomes

  • Burning Damage
  • Socketed Gems deal 30% more Elemental Damage
  • At least +70 to maximum Life

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  • Concentrated Effect

This modifier is a large multiplier to your RF damage, but it also makes its radius much smaller. I'd only use this if you also have Burning Damage, and if you're willing to lose a ton of RF radius.

Crafting Steps

NOTE: This is a helmet which should have Righteous Fire socketed in it, which is usually not what you want to do in the standard RF + FT variant. You should only use this helmet with Righteous Fire socketed in it, usually in a life-stacking or SRI totem variant.
The budget helm from the example images is something I'd suggest buying if you're just making the initial swap from something like RF+FT into life-stacking or RF+SRI totem, and you're on a relatively low budget. It's not quite as good as the helm crafted with the following steps, but it can be incredibly cheap to buy.

  1. 1
    Purchase an ilvl82+ Elder-influenced pure armour helmet.
  1. 2
    Use Essence of HorrorEssence of HorrorA corrupted essence. Adds one modifier from a small pool of powerful effects, varying by item slot. until you get any tier of Burning Damage.
    • Since Essence of HorrorEssence of HorrorA corrupted essence. Adds one modifier from a small pool of powerful effects, varying by item slot. is so expensive, you should be bench crafting a prefix and slamming Exalted OrbExalted Orb2cAdds a new random modifier to a rare item. any time you use an essence and have open suffixes left to maximize your efficiency.
  1. 3
    If you don't alerady have a decent tier of maximum life, fill suffixes if necessary with a Farric Lynx AlphaFarric Lynx Alpha2cBeastcraft that removes a random prefix and adds a random suffix.. Then, use a Wild Bristle MatronWild Bristle Matron215cBeastcraft that adds a random crafted meta-modifier. Fill all suffixes and leave a prefix open to force “Suffixes Cannot Be Changed”. to add "suffixes cannot be changed" and Harvest Reforge Life.
    • You can repeat this step until you're satisfied with your life roll, but there's a small ~3.3% chance to brick each time you do. I'd suggest settling for anything >70.
  1. 4
    Craft +1 AoE Gems. This doesn't increase the damage of Righteous Fire, but it can help you hit a breakpoint on base AoE (every 4 levels) and the #% increased Area of Effect mod does work for RF.