Fire Strike Gunslinger Purifier

Your main attack. Adds both physical and fire damage on top of your gunfire and acts as the trigger for every proc packed onto gear and devotions (full conversion to fire depends on conversion stats from gear, not the skill itself). The real damage comes from the procs it sets off, not from Fire Strike's own hit.

A modifier that upgrades Fire Strike (not a full transmuter). Adds area coverage and extra damage, becoming the main tool against trash mobs.

An Inquisitor weapon-pool skill (WPS) that competes with Storm Spread and other WPS for the same trigger roll; whichever one fires still carries Fire Strike's and Explosive Strike's effects on top.

The defensive centerpiece you fight from. Standing inside it grants damage absorption, boosted health regeneration, and extra elemental resistance.

Called "the best circuit breaker in the game" by the guide's author. Returns taper off past 10 points, so stop there.

A defensive buff. Investing 7 points in the Ulzuin's Wrath transmuter gives a 69% chance to knock down attackers on being hit (or take it to 10 points for a flat 20% reduction to incoming damage instead).

The exclusive aura. One of the few sources of both resistance reduction and passive damage that needs no activation.

A second source of resistance reduction; just dropping it raises your overall damage.

Your healing skill, paired with Vigor and Steel Resolve for survivability. Keep feeding it spare points on the way to level 100.

• ▸Start with 2x Francis' Gun (drops from a Rotting Corpse in Lower Crossing). From level 15, pick Duncan as your Blacksmith and switch to the crafted Double-Barrel Pistol (choosing Angrim locks you out of this recipe).
• ▸Upgrade to Hand Mortar at level 37, then Shrapnel Pistol at 62 (the best targetable fire pistol all the way to 100) — both blueprints come from the vendor-reset trick.
• ▸Infernal (a fire damage proc prefix) is the ideal affix; fill resistance gaps with components until one drops.

• ▸Amulet: Ulraprax's Sting (+1 Inquisitor skills; drops from Ulraprax, a hive queen near Twin Falls).
• ▸Rings: 2x Gollus' Ring (health, regen, +3 Vindictive Flame; drops from Gollus the Deepdweller in a hidden cave near Homestead).
• ▸Medal: Martin's Crest (+3 Thermite Mine; drops from 'Moneybags' Martin in Cronley's Hideout).
• ▸Helmet: Incendiary Casque (+3 skills, fire damage; drops from Cronley's Gang Arsonists).
• ▸Chest: Elite Malmouth Aetherblaze Vestments (the non-elite version is wearable from level 65).
• ▸Shoulders: Incendiary Shoulderplates (converts chaos to fire damage; same Arsonist drop source as the helmet).
• ▸Belt: Ugdenbog Waistguard (+1 Inquisitor skills; drops from Naxen Shade at the bottom of the Barrowholm mine).
• ▸Gloves/boots: Rhowari faction reputation gear, or any rare with good resistances, is fine here.
• ▸Relic: Bane once you're level 60+ and have its blueprint; use Vendetta (purchasable from the Malmouth Resistance once reputation allows) until then.

• ▸Stand inside Inquisitor's Seal and keep shooting, letting gear and devotion procs chain off each other.
• ▸Ulzuin's Wrath's knockdown reliably stalls regular enemies, but bosses carry very high (often stacking) knockdown resistance at higher difficulty, so the 10-point variant's flat 20% reduced target damage is the more dependable boss option.
• ▸Strip resistances with Thermite Mine and Aura of Censure before committing to the kill.
• ▸Save Blast Shield for the truly dangerous hits.

Cap your own resistances at 80% with gear and components, while Aura of Censure and Thermite Mine strip enemy resistances. Physical resistance is nearly impossible to stack in this setup, so Blast Shield's circuit breaker is what actually absorbs the damage spikes.

Direct pistol damage is close to nonexistent, so the build feels weak before its procs start landing. Fire-immune enemies, which start appearing around Burrwitch, blunt most of the build's fire-based proc damage. Starting as Demolitionist lets you lean on Demon Fire's chaos damage there, but Demon Fire is not part of this build's final skill layout, so routing around those enemies (or temporarily picking it up) is the simplest answer.

Target Ulraprax at the hive near Twin Falls for the amulet, Gollus the Deepdweller in the hidden cave near Homestead for the rings, 'Moneybags' Martin and the Arsonists in Cronley's Hideout for the medal/helmet/shoulders, and Naxen Shade at the bottom of the Barrowholm mine for the belt. Each has a fixed kill target (though the specific affix roll is still random like any MI). The Bane relic is the one piece still gated by a random blueprint drop.