The newly introduced Corrupting Fever Champion is the best build you will experience in many ways. It provides significant mapping speed, blasting mob ability, and many other perks for end-game content.
This article will give you a quick overview of Corrupting Fever and its skills and ascendancy nodes that are essential to this build, plus how it can help you gain PoE currency fast.
Corrupting Fever Champion Overview
Corrupting Fever Champion is the best build this season, as it got it all, and it does it all. With this build, you will love blasting all the mobs on even the hardest of Red maps and will be able to kill most Uber bosses. You will get all in one with this build; that's how fun it is.
Corrupting Fever Champion has many perks according to your playstyle if you like what you read. It got speed, defense, evasion, mitigation recovery, etc. Moreover, it'll scale to be enough damage the longer you are in battle. If you want to avoid dying in every map at least once, like in other builds, this is the build for you.
Gameplay Overview & Perks
If you want to relax on league start, this will be an easy build to play. With this build, it is a map blaster as you dive into mobs on different maps. It got Kinetic Blast, so you don't need Hemophilia or Poet's Pen as you have Kinetic Blast and Corrupting Fever. With this fantastic combo, you are just reaping the boss once you get some unique gems.
Using other builds will not give you much high-speed mapping, but if you go for the Corrupting Fever, you can do mapping way faster than the other builds.
If fighting a solo boss or monster, this build will not give you much damage. So, to inflict more damage on the enemies, you will need to level up and use related skills and gems.
Strengths And Weaknesses
Here are the strength and weaknesses of the newly released champion in patch 3.20
Difficulty: The difficulty level is considered moderate
Budget: The budget required for the Fever Champion is average
Mapping: Mapping of Fever Champion is excellent
Bossing: The Boss killing is below average
Defense: The defense of the Fever champion is great
Skill Breakdown of Corrupting Fever Champion
Here is the required skill breakdown for Corrupting Fever Champion
Corrupting Fever
To activate Corrupting Fever, you must sacrifice some of your HP each time. Hitting the enemies by applying the stacking Corrupting Blood will cause the physical damage to increase the more you use it.
Although you will deal significant damage, using the skill will also cost your health. Using the gem will drain your life 50% or more, but it will also give you extra adrenaline at the same time.
After every 20 seconds or so, it will grant you a handsome amount of adrenaline. Moreover, you will deal physical damage will be increased by 25%.
When you are below your average health, Your movement speed will be increased by 10%, and you will take less damage from the opponent.
Kinetic Blast
To enhance your map's clear speed, you will need Kinetic Blast and apply Corrupting Fever's Corrupting Blood during the mapping phase. Each time you attack, a blast will automatically be created during combat.
To create a blasting effect, you must attack your enemy while your gem is active. The explosion created during the hit will not be massive; it will be small.
Utility And Auras
Auras and utility play an essential role in PoE, no matter what build you use. Auras and utility have their perks and can enhance your attributes and help you survive in some cases while enhancing the damage in others. In Corrupting Fever, it plays a vital role by allowing you to move faster and increasing the speed so you can quickly progress through the maps.
If enemies surround you, you can easily escape them, but you will need to use the Frostblink skill gem. This will help you to teleport from the enemy zones in the blink of an eye. You can also use Blood Rage with the active skill for extra speed and damage.
The build will boost your character during clearing maps by giving you Frenzy charges whenever you kill an enemy. To get an extra hand, you must keep your Aura activated. Even if you die, you have to re-activate it.
Reap
Reap helps deal more damage to the enemies, and with time it increases the damage rate with Reap. You will have to turn your Life force into a defense and add Bloody Scythe with Reap
to get additional damage.
Most enemies will die with the first strike if weaker than you. However, you will also encounter fearsome enemies that will be stronger than you. They will not die in your first strike but lose at least 50% of their health.
The enemy that survives your attack will gain more damage by your Blood Charge due to Reap additional damage.
Vulnerability
Vulnerability will prevent you from taking extra physical damage from your enemies. When you use the vulnerability skill, it provides you additional damage and a great chance of getting a critical hit as well.
If you face any enemy higher than your current level, you will have a chance of 20% of critical hit and inflict bleeding damage to your enemy. If any cursed enemy bleed with your attack will have a 100% chance of exploding with Hemophilia.
Ascendancy Breakdown
Corrupting Fever will be the best build as it offers more defenses and an enhanced strike rate. It also provides you with powerful auras and utility. Here is the breakdown of ascendancy.
You get 100% of your adrenaline if you combine Frist to Strike and Last to Fall with the Corrupting Fever. But combing it will cost life as well.
Your attack speed and damage are also increased, and your immunity to Stuns is all while Fortified.
You can increase your Evasion rating and health by Unstoppable Hero, which will endow 500 flat armor.
Using Inspirational, you will get 30% more effect of non-curse auras and cost banners.
Conclusion
Here is the beginner's guide to the newly released build Corrupting Fever Champion for the latest expansion, the Forbidden Sanctum. In this guide, we have discussed all the weaknesses and strengths and why this build is better for new players or best to play the early game. Learn more about other builds and enhancements in the game from our PoE page.
