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Inquisition

flaming blade purge fire-and-steel

Witch Hunter Inquisition purges evil with a flaming blade: a melee onslaught that layers Fire burns over raw Physical damage. Eleven abilities carry the Fire school — the spec lives on a brand-then-execute rhythm, marking the target and cutting it down while it burns.

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Dungeon

Raid

Arena

BG & Open World

Signature Spell

Flames of Sin

Using Dawn Blade grants Flames of Sin for 3 seconds, causing auto-attacks to deal an additional 30% of the damage dealt as Fire damage. Triggering it again while already active extends the current duration by 3 seconds.

Retail Feel

A build-and-spend fire/shadow melee: Dawn/Dusk stacks and Purity & Wickedness accumulate like combo points, then convert through Flames of Sin — a grind-it-out sustain profile carried by Dusk Blade's self-heal, rather than a burst-window finisher.

Role, tiers & resource

Dungeon

Runs the Purity & Wickedness build-and-spend loop fed by Flames of Sin, keeps Dusk Blade in the rotation for its self-heal, and leans on Darkslayer's Lantern and Trap spells for control — with Monster Hunting adding a party-wide haste aura on top.

Raid

Brings raid haste via Monster Hunting and a high damage ceiling once the build-and-spend loop is mastered.

Arena

Small-scale duels & skirmishes

World Battlegrounds

Large-scale open-world PvP

RoleMelee DPS

Primary statAgility / Intellect

ResourceRAGE

ComplexityNormal

Gap-closers are Hunt and Burrow Bolt, the only real control comes from Darkslayer's Lantern and Trap spells, and self-heal leans on Dusk Blade's siphon topped up by Pyro Tonic — with Vampiric Tonic in reserve for extra lifesteal. The real edge is the anti-heal Vampire Hunt, which cuts the target's healing taken and makes every heal they receive sting with Shadow damage, pressuring a healer even without hard lockdown.

Normal complexity but a demanding engine: tracking two stacking systems (Purity & Wickedness, Dawn/Dusk stacks) alongside Flames of Sin, while juggling trap and tonic cooldowns.

Leveling Guide

How to Level

A dual-wield melee DPS that layers Fire damage-over-time (Flames of Sin, Torchlight) over Holy/Physical burst (Dusk Blade, Fiery Judgement, Stake's execute), self-healing off Dusk Blade while leveling solo through a straightforward single-target rotation and Smite Evil/Flourish for packs. In groups it's a sustained melee DPS with a party-wide haste buff from Monster Hunting and bonus damage vs Undead/Demons.

Keystone

Fiery Judgement

Fiery Judgement hits hard as an AoE Fire/Holy nuke and refreshes Flames of Sin, tying together the two stat lines the whole spec scales off — Malice turns Agility into Fire spellpower and Intellect into attack power.

Talents to Skip

Flexible Fighter Duskwood Renegade Brushin' Off The Dusk Scarlet Inquisitor Sin Eater Sinner Lightbringer Torch the Wicked! Burned Alive Purity & Wickedness Refined Combatant

Rotation

Core Loop

Core loop — Weapon Swapping.
Signature (Flames of Sin): using Dawn Blade grants Flames of Sin for 3 seconds, causing auto-attacks to deal an additional 30% of the damage dealt as Fire damage. Triggering it again while already active extends the current duration by 3 seconds.

Priorities

MaintainKeep Flourish and Searing Blade applied — refresh before they drop.

CooldownsLine up Pyro Tonic, Stoicism, and Surging Tonic with your burst window.

RefinePoint allocation & optimal order aren't settled yet — confirm in the official Vol'jin builder and adjust on live.

Effects to Maintain

Flourish Searing Blade

Stat Priority

PvE

Hit (both the melee special-attack hit cap and the spell hit cap both matter – Smite Evil/Flourish are Physical while Fiery Judgment, Dawn Blade, Searing Blade, Burning Light, and Interrogate are Fire/Shadow casts) Expertise (until your attacks stop being dodged/parried) Spell Power (Fiery Judgment, Dawn Blade, Searing Blade, Burning Light and Interrogate all carry an SP coefficient equal to or larger than their AP coefficient) Agility (weapon damage, crit, dodge) Critical Strike Haste (extra swings plus faster Flourish/Searing Blade bleed ticks)

PvP

Resilience/Stamina (squishy melee) Hit Spell Power Expertise Agility Critical Strike

Recommended Weapon

StyleMelee

Main handOne-handed weapon (dual-wield)

Off handOne-handed off-hand weapon

Dual-wields one-handed weapons — Dusk Blade and Purifier's Edge both strike with both weapons, and Brooding Hatred boosts off-hand damage.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

Genuine self-sustain without a healer — Dusk Blade siphons a share of its own damage as healing, and Pyro Tonic's fire-damage window lets you out-trade in a prolonged fight on your own resources.
Real stack-based ramp — Purity & Wickedness plus Dawn/Dusk build into big Torchlight, Purifier's Edge and Flourish payoffs through Flames of Sin, rewarding an uninterrupted uptime window.
Sticky engage with a hard-CC beat — Hunt (two charges) and Burrow Bolt let you close on and stay on a kiter, and Darkslayer's Lantern gives an AoE stun to lock down a pack.

Weaknesses

Thin answers to CC aimed at you — your in-spec control is all offensive (Darkslayer's Lantern's AoE stun and Trap spells), and your one true out is the class kit's Witching Shroud (magic-immune stealth usable even while stunned or feared), which only opens in a brief window after a magical critical strike hits you — outside that, stuns, silences, and roots stick.
Hard melee-range dependency with slow-cadence tools — every core damage ability (Smite Evil, Fiery Judgement, Purifier's Edge, Flourish, Dusk Blade) requires one-handed melee weapons in range, and your only answers to a kiter (Hunt, Burrow Bolt) sit on real cooldowns, not spammable.
Sustain-weighted rather than burst-weighted — the payoff comes from ramping stacks and grinding a fight out with Dusk Blade's siphon rather than ending it fast, so you can lose straight damage races against dedicated burst specs even while surviving longer.

Skill Floor & Ceiling

Skill Floor

High

Demanding to play well — tracking several DoTs at once.

Skill Ceiling

Very High

Enormous mastery ceiling — perfect multi-DoT uptime changes everything.

Build Abilities

Class Tree

Tonic Supply Inquisitor's Trap Witchblood Tonic Combat Training Brimming Hatred Death Trap Burrow Bolt Witching Shroud Evil Never Sleeps Strategist Three Sevens Dark Souls Vault Trap Card Vampiric Tonic Shadow Trap Night Stalker Dark Intuition Alchemical Research Regenerative Elixirs Alertness Brand of the Unworthy Vengeful Intent

Specialization

The Hunt Continues Holy Frenzy Pyro Tonic Flames of the Sinned Torch the Wicked! Cinder and Ashes Torchlight Dusk Blade Protector of Darkshire Cycle of Despair Stake Hunt Fiery Judgement Purifier's Edge Darkslayer's Lantern Brooding Hatred Smite Evil Sermon of Flame Dawn Searing Hilt Flourish Dusk Brushin' Off The Dusk

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