PoE Righteous Fire

Righteous Fire, the swirling inferno that consumes enemies and fuels your righteous fury, is a powerful skill in Path of Exile. Let's explore its fiery depths:

Burning Bright: Righteous Fire engulfs you in an aura of righteous flames, continuously damaging nearby enemies and regenerating your life based on the damage dealt. It's a skill that thrives on chaos, demanding constant movement and positioning to maximize its burn.

Fueling the Fury: Every enemy you incinerate adds fuel to your fire, increasing the burn damage and life regeneration. This creates a thrilling feedback loop, where aggressive play rewards you with even greater fiery wrath.

Sculpting the Flames: Righteous Fire can be customized in various ways. Support gems can enhance its damage, spread its inferno wider, or even ignite enemies for additional burning. Ascendancy classes like Juggernaut or Elementalist offer unique ways to shape the flames to your will.

Dancing with Danger: While potent, Righteous Fire demands mindful play. The constant self-inflicted burning damage can be fatal if not carefully managed. Balancing offense and defense, strategically using life flasks, and utilizing movement skills are crucial for mastering this fiery art.

A Beacon of Righteousness: More than just a skill, Righteous Fire is a playstyle. It's about embracing the flames, dancing on the edge of oblivion, and burning with unwavering conviction. It's a spectacle, a test of skill, and a testament to the power of righteous fury.

So, are you ready to unleash the inferno within? Remember, with great power comes great responsibility, and wielding Righteous Fire demands both courage and cunning. May your flames burn bright and your enemies crumble to ash!

Note: I have avoided mentioning specific item builds or min-maxing strategies, as those can quickly become complex and overwhelming. My goal is to provide a general overview of Righteous Fire and its essence as a skill and playstyle. If you're interested in delving deeper, I recommend consulting Path of Exile's extensive community resources and experimenting to find what works best for you.

Happy burning, Exile!

Righteous Fire Righteous Fire is an active skill gem.

Engulfs you in magical fire that rapidly burns you and nearby enemies. Your spell damage is substantially increased while under this effect. The effect ends when you have 1 life remaining.You take burning damage, deal burning damage to those around you, and have increased spell damage.You are taking burning damage from being near an enemy using Righteous FireYou take burning damage, deal burning damage to those around you, and have increased spell damage.You are taking burning damage from being near an enemy using Righteous Fire

Spell, AoE, Fire. Level: 1–20. Cooldown Time: 0.30 sec. Cast Time: Instant. Radius: 14. Requires Level 16.

  • Deals (39.1–2447.9) Base Fire Damage per second
  • +(0–5) to radius
  • Deals 35% of your Maximum Life as Base Fire Damage per second
  • Deals 35% of your Maximum Energy Shield as Base Fire Damage per second
  • You Burn for 90% of your Maximum Life per second as Fire Damage
  • You Burn for 70% of your Maximum Energy Shield per second as Fire Damage
  • Grants (20–39)% more Spell Damage

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Righteous Fire(0–20)% increased Burning Damage50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelStrengthIntelligenceDeals 39.1 Base Fire Damage per secondGrants 20% more Spell Damage# to radiusExperience
116182639.120049,725
220223156.421095,714
324253779.9220169,595
4282942111.7231199,345
5313246142.5241285,815
6343550180.8251401,344
7373754228.3261554,379
8404058287.1272755,049
9434362359.82821,016,533
10464666449.42921,898,602
11494870559.73021,964,019
12525174695.33132,573,731
13555478861.83234,676,439
145857821065.73333,017,327
156059841226.53437,823,001
166260871410.435415,264,208
176462901620.536426,272,845
186664921860.737462,872,274
196866952134.9384212,023,122
207068982447.9395
21722805.1405
22743212.5415
23763676.9425
24784206.2436
25804809.1446
26825495.8456
27846277.5466
28867167.2477
29888179.4487
30909330.6497
31919964.1497
329210639.5508
339311359.7508
349412127.5518
359512945.9518
369613818.4529
379714748.3529
389815739.4539
399916795.6539
4010017921.25410

Righteous Fire is a spell that applies a buff on the player, rapidly burning the player and nearby enemies. The damage it deals scales with your Life and Energy Shield amount. It also grants more spell damage to the user while active.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Life Degeneration Effect: While this skill is active, the player and surrounding enemies will take fire degeneration damage (damage over time).This damage can be mitigated with fire resistance for both the player and surrounding enemies. Righteous Fire will damage energy shield and keep it from recharging while the skill is active, but it can still regenerate if the player has life regeneration and the Zealot's Oath keystone or any other sources of energy shield regeneration.
  • Spell block and spell dodge: Keystones, passives, and item mods meant to avoid or block spell damage will not work on Righteous Fire's degeneration damage.
  • Elemental Reflect only reacts on hits. Because of this, the RF degeneration does not trigger reflect.
  • Chaos Inoculation: Characters with only 1 life due to Chaos Inoculation cannot inflict damage with Righteous Fire's degeneration because Righteous Fire will stop instantly upon activation.
  • Mind Over Matter: Mind Over Matter does interact with Righteous Fire degeneration and will drain mana.
  • Stopping Righteous Fire: Righteous Fire will continue to drain the player's HP until there is only 1 HP left, at which point it will turn off. The effect can be ended prematurely by any effect which removes burning, such as flasks with the "dousing" suffix. Taking the gem out of its socket will remove the skill effect, but will not stop the degen effect.
  • More Spell Damage Affix: Righteous Fire provides a large bonus to spell damage during its effect. Note that this is more damage stat, meaning it is a multiplier to overall damage.
  • Damage stats:
    • The following stats apply to the damage Righteous Fire deals to enemies: Fire damage, burning damage, damage over time, area damage and generic "increased damage" or "more damage". These stats do not apply to the self-inflicted damage from Righteous Fire.
    • Increased and decreased spell damage does not affect the degeneration damage because spell damage and damage over time are two distinct and mutually exclusive damage sources.
    • Aura modifiers don't affect Righteous Fire because it's not an aura.
  • Duration Component: Linking with the support gem Lifetap Support, Arcane Surge Support or Spell Totem Support adds a duration component to the skill which allows the use of Swift Affliction Support and Less Duration Support.
  • Spell Totem Support: When linked with the support gem Spell Totem Support, burning damage is based on the totem's life/energy shield pool rather than the caster. Burning Damage is inflicted instead upon the totem as well.
  • Efficacy Support: As of patch 3.0.2 Efficacy Support now works with Righteous Fire without needing a duration component.
  • Inspiration Support: When Righteous Fire is linked with Inspiration Support, if the player gains Inspiration charge from another source (such as movement skill linked to another Inspiration Support), then Righteous Fire will benefit from the damage bonus from Inspiration charges.
  • Lifetap Support: When Righteous Fire is linked with Lifetap Support, if the player gains Lifetap from another source (such as movement skill linked to another Lifetap Support), then Righteous Fire will benefit from the damage bonus from Lifetap.
  • Ancestral Bond: It is possible to use Righteous Fire with the Ancestral Bond keystone. Both player and nearby monsters will burn, but only the player will take damage. Monsters will burn for 0 damage.
  • Vaal Discipline: Righteous Fire interacts with Vaal Discipline the same way as any other damage source.
  • Conditional Modifiers: Damage Over Time does not interact with modifiers that rely on the status of an enemy. A notable example of this is the "increased Damage against Hindered Enemies" mod from Singularity.
  • Gluttony of Elements: If Gluttony of Elements is used with Righteous Fire the damage over time will heal instead.
  • Damage stacking: Multiple sources of Righteous Fire (such as from multiple players) do not stack. Instead, the source with the highest damage will take effect on the enemy.

Sustaining Righteous Fire

To sustain the degeneration damage Fire Resistance and Life Regeneration are needed. Depending on the player's resistance, less regeneration is needed to break even. The base formula is:

burnDegen = (life*burnLife + ES*BurnES) * (1 - fireRes) * (1 + dmgTaken)

where life, ES and fireRes is the characters maximum life, maximum energy shield and fire resistance. burnLife and burnES is the percent of life and energy shield that Righteous fire burns for and dmgTaken is the sum of all Damage taken stats, for example Despair, #% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time Locus of Corruption recipe, or the Assassin's Toxic Delivery node which grants 10% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time.

Damage taken per Second

Fire Resistance Life per Second CollapseES per Second
75% 22.5% 17.5%
76% 21.6% 16.8%
77% 20.7% 16.1%
78% 19.8% 15.4%
79% 18.9% 14.7%
80% 18.0% 14.0%
81% 17.1% 13.3%
82% 16.2% 12.6%
83% 15.3% 11.9%
84% 14.4% 11.2%
85% 13.5% 10.5%
86% 12.6% 9.8%
87% 11.7% 9.1%
88% 10.8% 8.4%
89% 9.9% 7.7%
90% 9.0% 7.0%

The maximum Fire resistance can be increased by allocating passive skills such as Barbarism, Purity of Fire and unique items such as Rise of the Phoenix up to 90%.

Much like Blood Rage, the damage from this skill does not count as a hit so does not trigger Cast when Damage Taken Support.

Item acquisition

Righteous Fire can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Righteous Fire can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
13 The Cataclysm Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
Intruders in Black
Act 2
Yeena		 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Righteous Fire.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Righteous Fire Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Righteous Fire Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Righteous Fire Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Righteous Fire Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Righteous Fire Area Of Effect 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 16% increased Righteous Fire Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Righteous Fire Area Of Effect 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 24% increased Righteous Fire Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Righteous Fire Spell Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Righteous Fire grants 20% increased Spell Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Righteous Fire Spell Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Righteous Fire grants 30% increased Spell Damage helmet 100
default 0

Alternate skill effects

Righteous Fire has the following alternate skill effects:

Item Effect(s)
Celestial Righteous Fire Effect Your Righteous Fire becomes a celestial effect.
Divine Righteous Fire Effect Your Righteous Fire becomes divine white flames.
Harbinger Righteous Fire Effect Your Righteous Fire becomes a blue harbinger effect.
Lightbringer Righteous Fire Effect Your Righteous Fire becomes a Lightbringer Effect.

Monster version

Monster use their own version of Righteous Fire, most notably Unrighteous Fire, which has a few internal ids.

The following monsters use Righteous Fire (or similar) skills:

Monster names skill ids
<<hbgm01>> HarbingerSummonMonsters • RighteousFireSacrifice • Teleport • AvatarConvocation • AvatarSkyBeam • AvatarFlameDash • AvatarUpheaval • TriggerCascadeMinionOne • TriggerCascadeMinionThree • TriggerCascadeMinionFive • TriggerCascadeMinionEight
<<HRB10>> HarbingerSummonMonsters • AvatarConvocation • RighteousFireSacrifice • AttachedAvatarSkyBeam • TriggerCascadeMinionFive • AvatarFireMortar
<<HRB15>> HarbingerSummonMonsters • AvatarConvocation • AvatarHatred • RighteousFireSacrifice • AvatarFireMortar
<<HRB15>> HarbingerSummonMonstersNoDrops • AvatarConvocation • AvatarHatred • RighteousFireSacrifice • AvatarFireMortar
<<HRB15>> HarbingerSummonMonstersNoDrops • AvatarConvocation • AvatarHatred • RighteousFireSacrifice • AvatarFireMortar
<<HRB1>> HarbingerSummonMonsters • AvatarConvocation • RighteousFireSacrifice • AvatarFireMortar
<<HRB20>> HarbingerSummonMonsters2 • AvatarConvocation • AvatarHatred • RighteousFireSacrifice • AvatarFireMortar • AttachedAvatarSkyBeam • TriggerCascadeMinionFive
<<HRB25>> HarbingerSummonMonsters2 • AvatarConvocation • RighteousFireSacrifice • AvatarFireMortar • AvatarAnger • EmptyActionSpellHarbingerBuffStrong
Atziri's Pride MeleeAtAnimationSpeedUnique • MonsterRighteousFireDemonBoss • MonsterLightningWarpDemonBoss • MonsterIceShieldDemonBoss
Atziri's Pride MeleeAtAnimationSpeedUnique • MonsterRighteousFireDemonBoss • MonsterLightningWarpDemonBoss • MonsterIceShieldDemonBoss
Blighted Assemblage Melee • WickerManRighteousFireBlight • WickerManMoltenStrike
Burned Miscreation MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • MonsterRighteousFire • MonsterRighteousFireWhileSpectred • ModularDemonFireSuicideExplosion
Burned Miscreation MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • MonsterRighteousFire • MonsterRighteousFireWhileSpectred • ModularDemonFireSuicideExplosion
Burned Miscreation MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • MonsterAsylumRighteousFire • MonsterRighteousFireWhileSpectred
Creeping Fire InvisibleFireRighteousFire
Creeping Fire InvisibleFireRighteousFireDivine
Creeping Fire InvisibleFireRighteousFireMetamorphosis
Creeping Fire InvisibleFireRighteousFireMetamorphosis
Daemon DaemonHolyRighteousFire
Dario, the Living Void ClockworkGolemRighteousFire • MaelstromCellBossCelestialFlameblast • MaelstromCellBossFrostbolt
Dario, the Living Void ClockworkGolemRighteousFire • MaelstromCellBossCelestialFlameblast • MaelstromCellBossOrbOfStorms • MaelstromCellBossBallLightning • ClockworkGolemFrostBomb • MaelstromCellBossFrostbolt • MaelstromCellBossVortex • MaelstromCellSummonClockworkGolems • MaelstromCellSummonClockworkGolems2 • MaelstromCellSummonClockworkGolems3 • MaelstromCellSummonOrbOfStormsDaemon
Entity of the Void MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • ShaperQuestWeaponThrow • CelestialRighteousFireShaperInfluence • CelestialFlameblastShaperInfluence • CelestialFirestormMeteors
Eye of Tzteosh MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • MonsterRighteousFire • BeyondDemonFlameWhip
Eye of Tzteosh MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • MonsterRighteousFire • BeyondDemonFlameWhip
Fated Miscreation MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • MonsterRighteousFire
Igna Phoenix Melee • ExileDiscipline • ExileFireball • ExileFirestorm • ExileRighteousFire • ExileVitality • ExileVaalFireball
Igna Phoenix Melee • ExileDiscipline • ExileFireball • ExileFirestorm • ExileRighteousFire • ExileVitality • ExileVaalFireball
Igna Phoenix Melee • ExileDiscipline • ExileFireball • ExileFirestorm • ExileRighteousFire • ExileVitality • ExileVaalFireball
Levioc, the Volcano MonsterFirestormLegends • MonsterFlameRedLegends • MonsterRighteousFireLegends • MonsterProximityShieldLegends
Messenger of the Hollows MinerThrowFire • LanternBossRighteousFire • MinerLanternHeal • MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DeathExplodeMinerHammerBoss • MinerThrowFireMapBoss
Messenger of the Hollows MinerThrowFire • LanternBossRighteousFire • MinerLanternHeal • MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DeathExplodeMinerHammerBoss • MinerThrowFireMapBoss
Rania Skyborne Melee • ProphecyFlameDash • ProphecyFlameNovaTotem • ProphecyMoltenStrike • ProphecyRighteousFire • ProphecyEnchantmentOfInfernoOnHit
Rania Skyborne Melee • ProphecyFlameDash • ProphecyFlameNovaTotem • ProphecyMoltenStrike • ProphecyRighteousFire • ProphecyEnchantmentOfInfernoOnHit
Rania Skyborne Melee • ProphecyFlameDash • ProphecyFlameNovaTotem • ProphecySkeletonRighteousFire • ProphecyFireUpheaval • ProphecyEnchantmentOfInfernoOnHit
Redblade Warmonger WbFireResistAura • WbRighteousFire • WbFlameWhipFireElite • WbFlameDash • WbSummonRagingSpirit • WbSmokeMine • WbSummonRagingSpiritFireElite
Shade of a Witch DarkExileLightningWarp • DarkExileBallLightning • DarkExileSpark • DarkExileFlameWhip • DarkExileRighteousFire • DarkExileFlammability • DarkExileConductivity
The Burning Man MinerThrowFire • LanternBossRighteousFire • MinerLanternHeal • MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DeathExplodeMinerHammerBoss
Void Construct Melee • ClockworkGolemRighteousFire
Wicker Man Melee • WickerManRighteousFire • WickerManMoltenStrike • MonsterRighteousFireWhileSpectred