

Area Damage is useless in this build (and actively avoided in groups including in Paragon Points).

You want to stack damage stats wherever possible, especially Critical Hit Chance and Damage as well as Fire Damage. While the build is quite strong overall, it has to compete with the Firebird Flame Blades build on the leaderboards. To get as many (6 ) Bonus Ignite procs as possible, this iteration utilizes Deathwish in conjunction with Explosive Blast (see Mechanics). This, however, comes at the price of not being able to benefit from the best way to scale our damage in density: Area Damage (AD) does not work with the Ignite DoT! As a result, we stack Cooldown Reduction with Explosive Blast to maximize our hit count and the resulting Ignite DoT ticks.

On Console, the Energy Twister setup seen here stays the setup of choice. Season 25 however completely changed the landscape by removing the ability for Mirror Image s to proc the Ignite, essentially destroying the build which now focuses on Explosive Blast to deal damage. In Season 24, Ethereals comforted Firebird in its position of strongest build in Diablo III, especially with Mang Song's Lesson allowing the build to annihilate everything as showcased here. These stacks are then used to buff our Ignite DoT when hitting monsters with another Fire ability, on top of reducing our Teleport Cooldown. This new rework created a specific playstyle based around channeling Disintegrate to Ignite monsters and build Combustion stacks with the (4 ) Bonus. Firebird's Finery always had a strong fantasy around the Phoenix theme with the (2 ) Bonus "rising from the ashes" cheat death and the Fire element with an Ignite DoT. Season 23 however brought us a complete rework of this set. Comically enough, the strongest Firebird build iterations have been using non- Fire abilities! Yet, Firebird's Finery had its glory days of dominating the META as a Trash Killer from Season 12 to 15 using Meteor Star Pact alongside channeling multipliers like Deathwish. Firebird's Finery has been one of the weakest and most clunky sets in the game for quite some time, having to juggle between three Fire abilities to benefit from its set bonuses.
