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Should Righteous Fire Jugg Use Brass Dome, The Fourth Vow Or Something Else In POE 3.21?

Apr 21, 2023

Should you be using Brass Dome on your Righteous Fire build or is it a massive bait now? It’s often hard to pick a chest piece, especially since there’s so many good options these days. Maybe you’re going to consider that new Fourth Vow and what about the old trusty something maybe like Lightning Coil or if you’re getting really fancy Craiceann’s Carapace?

I started with a rare item, then I upgraded to Brass Dome because I felt like I needed a max resistance. Now more recently, I upgraded to a +2 max shield and decided if I’m going to test stuff, I should probably try a few different options and run at least one map with each.

So, I grabbed a chest piece that was admittedly pretty cheap and just a 10 chaos item (Rune Hide Gladiator Plate) to test out that went. I definitely noticed the lack of protection died immediately after clicking an auto crit Expedition on a map. That was probably on me. But ultimately, it went to prove that my gut assumption was right. Protection on Brass Dome is amazing.

Should RF Jugg Use Brass Dome, The Fourth Vow or Something Else in POE 3.21

That said, a rare item also offers some things Brass Dome can’t. First of which is a lot more life. Second of all, if I hadn’t just grabbed the first discount 10 chaos chest piece, I could have gotten +2 max threads, which would put it defensively very close to Brass Dome, especially if I had something like a Fizz taken as prefix and an armor prefix. And then, maybe if I’m really lucky, I could have either chaos resistance is the suffix or use Essence of Loathing for reduced Mana Reservation (AKA, Mana Reservation Efficiency).

Out of all the trust options, a rare item is by far the most flexible even if it doesn’t offer the most raw power and you will have to watch out for crits, a theme that you’ll be seeing quite a lot of now.

Next up, Brass Dome, in comparison to Craiceann’s Carapace, Lightning Coil and Doppelgänger Guise, is just for fun. I mean, it’s probably a terrible idea to not use an armor chest on the armor ascendancy, but Doppelgänger Guise is really good. So, how did it all turn out?

POE Brass Dome

If I’m taking one big Fizz hit, occasionally Craiceann’s Carapace is amazing. Unfortunately, it’s really bad at defending against Elemental Damage and Chaos Damage, so this isn’t a very well-balanced option. Similarly, Lighting Coil is really good against Fizz but doesn’t offer anything against Elemental Damage and Chaos Damage, so it’s not a great choice, either. And what about Doppelgänger? This is the chest that wasn’t supposed to be that good but performed surprisingly well, actually.

Due to having no armor, my defenses were certainly a little lower than I would have been comfortable with, but it gave a massive amount of recovery and would probably feel pretty decent to play with given the reliability of taking 40% less Fizz and Chaos Damage. At that point, you don’t really need to apply your armor to chaos and could instead go with Fizz taken as thus splitting up the damage you take even more.

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If you happen to pick one up that has 50% reduced extra damage taken from crits, I could absolutely see it being a good option and I’m also considering it for my next build.

If you’re on a budget, the Fourth Vow isn’t terrible. It’s a lot cheaper than a Brass Dome, which lesser checked was about seven Divine Orbs for a good 6-Link. But on the other hand, it does very little to mitigate your Fizz damage taken.

POE Fourth Vow

Brass Dome offers a massive amount of armor, and Fourth Vow offers a very small amount of armor. It’s extremely good against both Elemental and Chaos Damage taken. In fact, against chaos damage taken, it’s far better than Brass Dome and you can use things like for 10 of Fizz taking his Chaos Mastery in combination with Taste of Hate to lessen the impact of Fizz damage.

But I was still worried about the Fizz damage, so I decided to purchase one and try it out. Spend the rather sizable amount of money for a double corrupted one. You don’t have to do this like me. And I have to say on paper, it looked really good. I would even say it looked better than the Brass Dome. But in practice, it felt bad. I can’t really explain it because it wasn’t like I was squishy all of the time. I wasn’t squishy at all until I was done. That wasn’t something I was used to having played with Brass Dome for so long.

Now, when I wasn’t in serious danger or when I was up against purely Elemental or Chaos damage, it did feel amazing so much so that I’m going to keep it around and swap into it when I fight bosses and don’t have to worry as much about random Fizz damage. I think it feeling bad was purely a side effect of the way. I’m mapping doing extremely dangerous Rippy content where often enemies have a lot of Fizz and can also auto crit, especially in the case of Expedition. It’s just not the best fit there. Instead, I want something really big and beefy with massive amounts of armor.

POE Craiceann's Carapace

So, are any of these chests a bait? Yes. I would say that Craiceann’s Carapace is absolutely a bait. It’s not up all the time. The immune to bleeding is nice, but not really irreplaceable, and it leaves you completely vulnerable to Elemental and Chaos Damage. They’re all good options and you should pick it based on your own needs.

For example, if you’re doing Uber bossing, that has really high amounts of Elemental and cast image. Remember, AoE is being split 50 and 50 due to Divine Flesh. Then, I’d absolutely use Fourth Vow. If you’re mapping and want to run any map, click any crit mod and not have to worry, stick to Brass Dome. If your life pool feels just a little too low, then maybe swap to a rare and if you’re lacking on regeneration or recovery, surprisingly Doppelgänger Guise wasn’t a terrible option.

POE Doppelgänger Guise

Just remember: to pick things that synergize well with what you’re doing. So, in Brass Dome, you want 10% of armor is applied to chaos damage. On Fourth Vow, you want Fizz has taken this chaos. Whereas on Lightning Coil, you might want the armors applied again and then going back to the Doppelgänger Guise. Then, you probably want to go back to the Fizz taken. As for a rare item, it gets much more complicated and kind of depends on the rest of your gear.

A quick note: if you aren’t crit immune, do consider taking Sanctum of Thought for 30% reduced extra damage taken from crit strikes and of course a lot of what I said doesn’t apply if you just choose to avoid running crit maps in the first place. That’s necessarily true because enemies have base crit, but bass crit isn’t that deadly. It’s usually when you give enemies auto crit plus crit damage that those crits get really scary.

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