Sir Herpaderpus

I'm glad you like it!

The basic play-style of this dom is throw down a flashfire then fire cages, rain of fire, fireball (all the minions should now be dead soon, and the LTs. will take one or so more fireball), and then start knocking out bosses with blaze-blast-char.

Cinders is useful in an emergency or just an extra hold.

The single target chain is amazing, IMO. Embrace of fire, musculature T4, Dominator ATO proc, and assault is just delicious paired with the most broken ST target blast out there (Blaze).

If you want a bit extra AoE, you could drop Blazing Bolt (which I don't use obviously- just as a set mule for Sting of the Manticore), take fire breath and put in a positron. You'll lose a bit of range defense though, but get a decent ranged cone that hits HARD but has a slow activation.

And make sure to keep the imps up! Along with a huge damage boost they also soak up damage for you, and recharge so fast you don't have to worry about them dying.

Just a word of caution, on teams its tempting to become a blaster and start throwing fireballs, but in general make sure things are mezzed and not making your defenders faceplant first before you start blasting!

Ah well, I agree that losing hot feet does cut out a valuable source of AoE, especially paired with fire cages. But let's face it, being ranged softcap and hover-blasting is far more survivable than S/L softcap and blapping, whether you have mezz protection or not.

While a good amount of attacks are S/L, a LOT are also some other kind of damage type without a S/L vector. Given a fire doms low HP and low resistance, each unmezzed enemy that has a energy or fire attack will put you through a lot of pain. Ranged defense doesn't run into this problem, since anything that is thrown at you is inherently "ranged".

Plus, defense debuffs (which can and will leave you defenseless once the defense crash cascade happens) almost always take the range vector, so S/L defenses won't do anything to prevent debuffs. Which will then take away all your S/L defense too.

And while hot feet is good damage- it's also the ultimate endurance hog. You're basically forced into Ageless and maybe even a Cardiac if you want to run a lot of other toggles, limiting your options. And since I assume you're using it for damage, its other effects are useless since fear or slow don't matter with fire cages.

And combustion... I wouldn't use it even if I was blapping (I was originally S/L cap with hot feet, and I still respecced out combustion). Combustion is just... BAD. A 3 second cast time for minimal damage, most of which is done in ticks over an extended duration? You can do a lot of other things in 3 seconds. Even fire breath would be better, it at least does a lot more damage.