Wizard Firebird Flame Blades Build (Patch 2.7.7 / Season 31) (2024)

The Firebird set playstylerevolves around incinerating your enemies, ensuring their fiery demise with acombination of burning spells that feed into a singular, buffed up flame. Thisguide will cover all of its available playstyles. The base one presented onthis page is the Greater Rift Solo Pushing Variation, but this buildalso has a Nephalem Rift Farming Variation, and a Greater Rift Speed Farming Variation.

The basic skill setup of the Firebird Flame Blades Wizard is displayedbelow. Read the dedicated Skills page fordetailed information on choices, alternatives and build customization.

Active Skills
Spectral Blade Flame BladesDisintegrate Chaos Nexus1Explosive Blast Chain Reaction2Frost Nova Bone Chill3Teleport Safe Passage4Black Hole Spellsteal
Passive Skills
AudacityElemental ExposureGalvanizing WardUnwavering Will

The required gear setup for the Firebird Flame Blades Wizard is listedbelow. Check the Gear page for detailedinformation on the required stat rolls on gear, itemization alternatives,gemming, Kanai's Cube and Paragon distribution.

• Head: Firebird's Plume
• Shoulders: Firebird's Pinions
• Torso: Firebird's Breast
• Wrists: Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer
• Hands: Firebird's Talons
• Waist: The Shame of Delsere
• Legs: Firebird's Down
• Feet: Firebird's Tarsi
• Amulet: Squirt's Necklace
• Ring #1: Focus
• Ring #2: Restraint
• Weapon: Fragment of Destiny
• Off-hand: Orb of Infinite Depth

The former Season 28 theme, the Altar of Rites, has been revised andre-added to Diablo 3 as a permanent character progression mechanic. — Forvirtually all builds and players of all skill levels — from casual toadvanced — we recommend progressing through the Altar tree using the pathoutlined below. The suggested path is geared towards maximum quality of lifefirst, then amplifying damage, and then mopping up the tree with defensive andedge case utility nodes.

Note that while they require reaching them with a Seal, Legendary PotionPowers are not part of the Seal cost system; Potions unlock with a separateresource called Primordial Ashes, obtained from salvaging Legendary or Setitems of Primal (red bordered) quality. Upgrade them as soon as possible, andin the order shown below (courtesy of Caleko's Altar of Rites planner).

You can read more on the Altar of Rites, Seals and Legendary Potion Powersin our dedicated Altar of Rites Mechanics guide.

• Legendary Gem 1: Bane of the Trapped
• Legendary Gem 2: Gogok of Swiftness
• Legendary Gem 3: Bane of the Stricken

The seasonal theme for Season 31 will be completely flexible slots forKanai's Cube, which means you can use anypiece of gear in any slot of the Cube.

This is one of the builds where we don't recommend making any changes, sincethe options presented in the default build already make up the strongestKanai's Cube composition possible for the setup.

• Weapon Slot: The Furnace
• Armor Slot: Aquila Cuirass
• Jewelry Slot: Convention of Elements

In this section, we will briefly go over how to kickstart this build intoreality; which items you should aim for with priority when farming andgambling, and what is their relative priority for the functioning of thisspec. Note that these suggestions are exclusively aimed at getting you up andrunning into endgame farming, and might not reflect the gear you need to wearfor high-end Greater Rift solo or group pushing. This section also assumes afresh Season's start, which usually is the point where most players work onassembling their first build with a particular set.

If the Firebird set is part of the Haedrig's Gift for the Season,your simplest and most straightforward path to assembling the build is tocomplete the Seasonal Journey chapters up to Chapter IV. The Seasonal Journeychapters will gradually give you a complete class-specific set, giving 2-3pieces for Chapters II, III and IV.

From the pre-game menu, choose and do this week's Challenge Rift.When successfully completed, this weekly event will grant you 5,1 millionGold, 475 Blood Shards, 370 Reusable Parts, 350 Arcane Dust, 125 Veiled Crystals, 35 Death's Breaths, and15 of each Bounty cache material: Khanduran Rune, Caldeum Nightshade, Arreat War Tapestry, Corrupted Angel Flesh, and Westmarch Holy Water. This will allowyou some early Seasonal leeway to extract and reforge items in Kanai's Cube,speeding up the assembly of this build with the items recommended below.

Having some materials at your disposal, either from farming or theChallenge Rift, is particularly important when you get duplicate pieces ofyour desired set. When you do, you can use Kanai's Cube Skill of Nilfurrecipe (10x Forgotten Souls, 10x Death's Breaths, 1x Setitem) to convert into another item from the same set. You should neversalvage duplicate pieces of a desired set before you have it assembled.

In order to assemble a Firebird's Flame Blades Wizard, you should:

• Gather the full 6-piece Firebird's Finery set using the advice above, orby spending Blood Shards at Kadala. In order of gamble chance, youshould spend for: Shoulders, Boots, Pants, Gloves, Off-hand, Chest, and Helm.A trick you can also use is to gamble for duplicate pieces with an easiergamble chance (i.e., Shoulders) and convert them into another piece from thesame set using the Skill of Nilfur recipe in Kanai's Cube.
• Gamble Off-hands or upgrade rare (Hope of Cain recipe in Kanai's Cube)Wizard Sources for Orb of Infinite Depth. This will be a massive damagereduction boost to the build, while simultaneously adding to DPS.
• Gamble or upgrade rare Belts for The Shame of Delsere; attack speedis a major source of damage in the build, while resource stability will helpyou maintain skill spam and possible buffs like Aquila Cuirass.
• Gamble or upgrade rare Bracers for Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer, a solidprotective piece for the build. Gambling/upgrading rares in the Bracer slotcan also net you other valuable pieces like Nemesis Bracers or Ranslor's Folly.
• Craft level 70 Wands at the Blacksmith and use the "upgrade rare" recipeto obtain Fragment of Destiny, one of the biggest damage pieces in theFlame Blades build. Gambling is also possible, but undesirable due to the highBlood Shard costs of weapons.
• Do Act I bounties to attain the act-specific Ring of Royal Grandeurfrom Bounty caches. This will be helpful either in completing the basic setbonus, or mixing other helpful sets in (Cpt. Crimson, Aughild...) as describedin the Gear page. Bounties will net you thecraftable set recipes to begin with, so you will be killing two birds with onestone. Bounties will also net you Avarice Band (Act III), anotherfarming-oriented staple for most builds and classes, this one included.
• While largely undesirable due to high costs, gambling or upgrading rareJewelry is also possible; Convention of Elements, Focus and Restraint, and Squirt's Necklace will all bring massive damagebumps to the build, with other standout pieces that can also substitute or betemporarily helpful in the face of Unity, or Oculus Ringand The Flavor of Time for your Follower.