Hot_Edd

I'm not sure why everyone is concerned about the price of these recipes. You have 3 respec trials, free respecs, and vet respecs to use before you would ever need these recipes. Therefore the price of the recipes will drop, just like the costume recipes did, fairly quick. The only reason costume recipes stayed high as long as they did, were because more people wanted them. They demand for these recipes will not be that high in my opinion.

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Will it require new salvage to create? If so will we be getting a personal salvage storage increase from the max of 62 which we have currently for the characters, 50 for the vault. Not including an increase to the auction house storage like I mentioned above. This of course would be in addition to that.

Well there it is inquiring minds want to know.

American Valor

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Max personal storage is 80 not 62. One of my toons has 80 personal storage slots with the invention accolade and the RWZ storage sack.

With IO sets...I can do fine soloing without using blues. I only use Consume after using Inferno or during AV & EB fights. But that is with Hot Feet off, if I run Hot Feet, then my end really starts taking a hit. I can still manage just have to watch my end is all.

This is my first guide so please bare with me. I decided to make this guide due to the numerous (OMG!!! You are Awesome!!! and Hey, can we kill some please!!!) comments I get in game. This guide comes from about a year of playing with this character and he is by far my favorite! I actually have two separate builds for this character, but the Fire/Fire/Fire I have chose to stick with just because of the Rise of Pheonix! I actually lasted longer and was much more of a killing machine with the Fire/Fire/Force build, so many may choose that route. I'm not going to show numbers, give my ratings on the powers, or anything close to that. I will however give you a guide on building an AoE killing machine. And so here it is:

Fire Blast

Fire Blast: I chose this because Flares activation time is far to long. We AoE machines have to be fast or we die!

Fire Ball: Aww, finally some AoE love and my second power in my attack chain.

Fire Breath: Woot, our bread and butter attack! A good position+Aim+BU=Mob wipe, toss in a Fire Ball and Lts are dead, now Fire Sword that boss and jump back for a Fire Blast. Wash, Rinse, Repeat please!

Aim: Gotta have it, it boost Accuracy and Damage and we need all we can get!

Blaze: Now this is your bread and butter single target attack. Slotted well and you can almost match its damage with your snipe!

Blazing Bolt: I very seldom use this power, mainly have it for the IO bonuses and runners. I occasionally use it to soften up a boss before my attack chain.

Inferno: Don't need to say much about this power, it is named appropriately. By far the best nuke in the game too.

Fire Manipulation

Fire Sword: Need this to take out those that survive your attack chain. Pesky bosses!

Fire Sword Circle: I took this because its damage is immediate, I have enough DoT, didn't need another with Combustion.

Build Up: Damage and Accuracy boost...need I say more?

Consume: Need this for sure, we sure do wear ourselves out on our attack chain! Although, I usually only need it after nuking.

Hot Feet: I took this power purely for some ability to keep that mob from running! I also use it as a surprise power in PVP.

Flame Mastery

Char: Very handy when fighting bosses. Toss a couple of these on him and he'll be choking while you burn him down.

Fire Shield: Finally some resistance!

Rise of the Pheonix: Sometimes, we die....this lets us get some revenge!

Force Mastery

Personal Force Field: I used this to keep me alive so I could come back for revenge!

Temp Invulnerability: One of the better resistance powers in the game for blasters!

Force of Nature: This allowed me to Rambo mission, running around burning everthing in sight...that is until it crashed...keep watch!!!

I left slotting out on purpose, everyone slots different based on how they play. Also with IO's and HO's you can really fine tune your build like I have. With IO's and HO's I really don't have end issues at all.

Here are a couple of sample builds:

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Name: Hot Edd Rough Draft
Level: 50
Archetype: Blaster
Primary: Fire Blast
Secondary: Fire Manipulation
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01 => Ring of Fire ==> Acc(1)
01 => Fire Blast ==> Acc(1),Acc(3),Dam(5),Dam(23),Dam(40),EndCost(48)
02 => Fire Sword ==> Acc(2),Acc(3),Dam(11),Dam(23),Dam(40),EndCost(48)
04 => Fire Ball ==> Acc(4),Acc(5),Dam(11),Dam(13),Dam(15),EndCost(42)
06 => Hasten ==> Rech(6),Rech(7),Rech(7)
08 => Fire Breath ==> Acc(8),Acc(9),Dam(9),Dam(13),Dam(15),Range(40)
10 => Hurdle ==> Jump(10)
12 => Combat Jumping ==> DefBuff(12),DefBuff(46),DefBuff(46),Jump(46)
14 => Super Jump ==> Jump(14)
16 => Build Up ==> Rech(16),Rech(17),Rech(17)
18 => Health ==> Heal(18),Heal(19),Heal(19)
20 => Stamina ==> EndMod(20),EndMod(21),EndMod(21)
22 => Acrobatics ==> EndCost(22)
24 => Aim ==> Rech(24),Rech(25),Rech(25)
26 => Blaze ==> Acc(26),Acc(27),Dam(27),Dam(31),Dam(31),Range(42)
28 => Fire Sword Circle ==> Acc(28),Acc(29),Dam(29),Dam(34),Dam(37),EndCost(45)
30 => Consume ==> Acc(30),Acc(31),Rech(31),Rech(31),EndMod(50)
32 => Inferno ==> Dam(32),Dam(33),Dam(33),Rech(33),Rech(34),Rech(34)
35 => Blazing Bolt ==> Acc(35),Acc(36),Dam(36),Dam(36),Dam(37),Interrupt(37)
38 => Hot Feet ==> Acc(38),Acc(39),EndCost(39),EndCost(39),EndCost(50)
41 => Char ==> Acc(41),Acc(42),Hold(43),Hold(43),Hold(43)
44 => Fire Shield ==> DamRes(44),DamRes(45),DamRes(45)
47 => Rise of the Phoenix ==> Heal(47),Heal(48),EndMod(50)
49 => Swift ==> RunSpd(49)
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01 => Sprint ==> Empty(1)
01 => Brawl ==> Empty(1)
02 => Rest ==> Empty(1)


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Name: Hot Edd Rough Draft
Level: 50
Archetype: Blaster
Primary: Fire Blast
Secondary: Fire Manipulation
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01 => Ring of Fire ==> Acc(1)
01 => Fire Blast ==> Acc(1),Acc(3),Dam(5),Dam(23),Dam(40)
02 => Fire Sword ==> Acc(2),Acc(3),Dam(11),Dam(23),Dam(40)
04 => Fire Ball ==> Acc(4),Acc(5),Dam(11),Dam(13),Dam(15),EndCost(42)
06 => Hasten ==> Rech(6),Rech(7),Rech(7)
08 => Fire Breath ==> Acc(8),Acc(9),Dam(9),Dam(13),Dam(15),Range(40)
10 => Hurdle ==> Jump(10)
12 => Combat Jumping ==> DefBuff(12)
14 => Super Jump ==> Jump(14)
16 => Build Up ==> Rech(16),Rech(17),Rech(17)
18 => Health ==> Heal(18),Heal(19),Heal(19)
20 => Stamina ==> EndMod(20),EndMod(21),EndMod(21)
22 => Acrobatics ==> EndCost(22)
24 => Aim ==> Rech(24),Rech(25),Rech(25)
26 => Blaze ==> Acc(26),Acc(27),Dam(27),Dam(31),Dam(31),Range(42)
28 => Fire Sword Circle ==> Acc(28),Acc(29),Dam(29),Dam(34),Dam(37),EndCost(46)
30 => Consume ==> Acc(30),Acc(31),Rech(31),Rech(31),EndMod(45),EndMod(46)
32 => Inferno ==> Dam(32),Dam(33),Dam(33),Rech(33),Rech(34),Rech(34)
35 => Blazing Bolt ==> Acc(35),Acc(36),Dam(36),Dam(36),Dam(37),Interrupt(37)
38 => Hot Feet ==> Acc(38),Acc(39),EndCost(39),EndCost(39),EndCost(43),Slow(46)
41 => Personal Force Field ==> EndCost(41),DefBuff(43),DefBuff(43),DefBuff(48)
44 => Temp Invulnerability ==> DamRes(44),DamRes(45),DamRes(45)
47 => Force of Nature ==> DamRes(47),DamRes(48),DamRes(48),Rech(50),Rech(50),Rech(50)
49 => Swift ==> RunSpd(49)
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01 => Sprint ==> Empty(1)
01 => Brawl ==> Empty(1)
02 => Rest ==> Empty(1)


Hope this helps someone!

Thank you for the guide! My lvl 34 has been shelved ever sense I got back, mainly because I knew I wanted to respec him back into a Tri-form, but after being shelved for so long and procrastination I just haven't done it. With this guide it will make the respec much painless and come sooner. Once my D3 hits 50, another 3 months hopefully..., my WS will rain his power once again!

My Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+
ASUS K8V Deluxe MB
2G OCZ Performance RAM
2 36G Raptors in RAID 0
EVGA Nvidia Geforce 6800 Ultra AGP 256
Windows XP Pro SP2

My Experience in I8:

All combats are huge performance hits, the more on the team the worse it is.

I have had 3 instances so far when changing zones via tram or tunnel, when I enter the new zone my windows on the screen are just blocks, green, grey, pink, red blocks, and the powers, like Super Speed, have blocky effects. More importantly, I couldn't see messages of any kind. I couldn't log off if I wanted to. I was able to fix it luckily all 3 times by entering a tunnel to another zone or just blind clicking a zone at the tram.

On 2 occasions I have crashed to desktop for no appahrent reason. The first time I clicked on a fellow D3 to see their info. On the second I had just logged in with my 50 and I mean just logged in and crashed to desktop for no reason. Both crashes occured while nothing was going on, meaning not in any CPU intensive task like battles and such.

Hope this helps the devs.