Fire mage, need tips

I haven't played PoE in a while so I'm still catching up on all the changes. Looking to rebuild my fire mage, but I need some tips as far as the skill tree goes.

I plan to use Fireball and Firestorm for damage and Elemental Weakness or Temporal chains for debuffs. Was also looking at Flame totem possibly and Discipline. For support gems I was thinking of Concentrate AOE, Faster casting, Increased AOE, Increased Crit Damage and Increased Crit Strike.

Which of these would work best together in a build? Also suggestions on possible paths to take in the skill tree?

this would be a good start for a fire based build. level 60 build with faster casting, extra damage, inc crit and inc crit damage with plenty of added ES and ES cooldown.



good fireball supports would be LMP before level43 then GMP after lvl 43 and also ICC,ICD, and also faster casting, faster projectiles and maybe chance to ignite.

for firestorm, i'd go with IAoE, faster casting, inc duration (allows more damage stacking), ICC and of course ICD. of course you wont be able to use both with 5 supports. depends on which you want to be your main damage spell.

The only worrying thing for me is the Chaos Inoculation keystone. What do you think about taking ghost reaver and a life leech gem with it? I would imagine with the increased aoe and damage you could probably sustain ES for a while. Or do you think just going straight ES recharge is better?

Edit: Also what's GMP and LMP? Sorry, I'm really behind in this game. >_>

GMP = Greater Multiple Projectiles
http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Greater_Multiple_Projectiles

LMP = Lesser Multiple Projectiles
http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Lesser_Multiple_Projectiles

i haven't tried Ghost Reaver yet. it may work well with spells. i'll look into some possibilities with it at a later time.

Thanks for the tips! Maybe if I can drag myself away from GW2, T2 and FTL I can play tonight. >_>

Really games industry, why you release so many good games at once?

im personally not a fan of igniting. i think that when it comes to fire dmg you should focus more on dmg rather than crit chance but im still prrety new to the game so i might be wrong