BS/Fire?

Pretty much what the title says, I was thinking of rolling a BS/Fire.
I liked my BS/Regen, and I was think they may be similar, but with MOAR DAMAGE with /Fire.

I'm just a tad worried it might be rather squishy. With Parry it will help, but can it hold up to casual play 1-50, and do some high level things?

I'll get a build up on Mids and post it tomorrow.

I'm off to bed

"This is your broadsword." *imposing warrior*
"This is your broadsword... on FIRE." *screaming death, enemies fleeing willy nilly*

... yes, the combo is fine. BU FE HS is scary.

Oh this sounds like it could be a fun build.

Sounds deadly and end draining. But that's what consume is for. Go and hack and slice in a fire aura of glory!

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Parry/Divine Avalanche is enough mitigation from 1-50.

I have one, he is lvl 41, he is awesome, I did a ITF sked at 50 and at once point he did over 1600 damage on a guy with headsplitter crit. Most damage I have ever seen in the game with a single hit, 816 damage, 816 crit damage. And parry more than makes up for /fires defensive holes.

Nice to hear that guys!

A couple of questions, is burn worth it? I might take it for defensive purposes, or for an IO mule, but is it useful?

Same thing with Temperature Protection?

Oh a BS/fire.... I'd vote skip it.

But on a Spines/Fire....

The wife and I have a pair of Spines/Fires with burn and caltrops. Double impale and slows, tends to keep bosses in it.

And it does make a nice O-S power.... in the sense; "O-S!, the tank is in trouble..... burn baby, burn." And the tank gets a breather.

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Nice to hear that guys!

A couple of questions, is burn worth it? I might take it for defensive purposes, or for an IO mule, but is it useful?

Same thing with Temperature Protection?

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I use temp protection as one of my KB protection mules. I did this build pre BotZ but still would keep the power since it has -slow/-rech protection. As far as burn, that's a playstyle choice, imo. If you have a way to lock the mob down, you will get more use out of it. As far as an IO mule, you have 3 pbaoe powers in your prime. I would see about other powers first then go back to it. That is if using it as a mule is the only reason you would get it.

I might skip burn, as you said, I already have enough PbAoE powers, but saving the tankers butt sounds funny.

How would you slot BA? I was think of 6 slotting, 3 end red, 2 acc, and I damage.

Also, what IO bonuses shoul i be going for? recharge? Defense? Both?

Thanks guys

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How would you slot BA? I was think of 6 slotting, 3 end red, 2 acc, and I damage.

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For me with just SO I slot 2 end(the 3rd doesn't add that much) 1 acc and 3 damage. That is me if you are going to be fighting higher lvls like reds and purples 2 acc and 2 damage.

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Also, what IO bonuses shoul i be going for? recharge? Defense? Both?

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Now for IO bonuses it can get tough. It all depends on what you want to do with this toon. I would aim for Recharge becuase it will help out both BS and FA. Recharge will hlep you get your 2 big attacks up more and help get Healing Flames up more and Fiery Embrace so more damage

Defense is always good to work for but at first I would work on Range and AoE then Melee becuase parry will give you good Melee defense.

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Parry/Divine Avalanche is enough mitigation from 1-50.

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How do you get Parry at level 1, you h4xxx0r :P

I have a BS/Fire Scrapper in the mid-40s. It's a real damage powerhouse, though I hear it doesn't outdamage a fire/fire scrapper. In Melee, it's pretty much untouchable once you stack Parry, and stacking Build up and Fiery Embrace makes for great damage.

What REALLY makes it is the look, though. He's a guy on fire swinging a sword around, with Lieutenants dropping in one hit, and minions immolating in Blazing Aura.

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Parry/Divine Avalanche is enough mitigation from 1-50.

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How do you get Parry at level 1, you h4xxx0r :P

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by being awsum.

I thought about making a fire/fire, but it doesn't have the crunchy feeling that BS has. And you can't customize the swords. And no Parry. AND a HS fueled by Bu and FE and hitting 4 people sounds really juicy.

Parry is certainly nice, but I also get a lot of use out of Healing Flames.

I'll admit, though, that I'm starting to take a lot more damage on teams now than I used to in the lower levels, but that change came with a corresponding boost to my damage as I finished slotting my attacks.

I made this BS/fire toon to 50, it was fun every step of the way. Parry adds the defense that fire lacks, and you have the heal and other stuff. I mainly made it because it was not a FoTM, its really a fun set. Good luck on yours I have mine completely IO's out, good luck on your build to the OP.

I also made a kat/fire, both play the same but the Kat drains less end.

I know what you mean its not FotM. Even before I made this toon, I only saw, maybe 2 BS/fire scrappers. This is on Freedom too.

A lot of MA/Fire scrappers though it seems.

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I know what you mean its not FotM. Even before I made this toon, I only saw, maybe 2 BS/fire scrappers. This is on Freedom too.

A lot of MA/Fire scrappers though it seems.

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Yeah lots of spine/fire and fire/fire too LOL The set is fun, and I like being different. Sure I have other builds that at some point are FoTM (like my Mind/nrg dom I made in i9 is now a FoTM in i15 lol) BS/fire and KAt/Fire are both fun Now if we can only get some other epic power choices.....