Bitter Freeze Ray, Nowadays


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Greetings, blasters! Looking for some advice here.

I haven't played with my lv 50 Ice/Ele/Ele blaster in quite some time, maybe more than a year, and I noticed she's really melee heavy. She doesn't have BFR because she has Freeze Ray & Shocking Bolt instead, and no Frost Breath, either. I remember BFR having a super long animation time, which is why I went with Shocking Bolt from Elec Ancil instead.

She's currently slotted for as much +rech & +dam as I could get without purples. I think the +rech bonus is around 60 or 70%. I typically hover above, stealthed, and launch single target attacks as fast as humanly possible. Whenever I see a big herd I drop Blizzard, pop a blue, rush in, use Power Sink, and then Thunder Strike.

What's BFR like nowadays? Is it totally stupid to not be using it? Thanks!


 

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It still has a insanely long animation time. 2.5 seconds to be exact.


 

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My ice blaster has the two holds plus the munitions pool hold. I only use bitter freeze ray in AV fights, due to the before mentioned long animation. Have a full set of Lockdown on it.


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Ah, so my original thinking of "shocking bolt is the same thing but faster" still works. Well, except for the extra slow effect. Thanks, folks!


 

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If you have the slots, you could potentially 4 slot basilisk gaze in each hold, as well as a devastation and lockdown proc (both are 15% chances for 8 second mag 2 hold). Those procs can really add up quickly, and you get a 15% recharge bonus from the basilisk set (7.5 each for 4 slots)

BFR, meh. you *could* get it and do the same thing, but I doubt you'll ever need all 3 holds.


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I had my slots really tied up elsewhere, so I put two Lockdowns & two HOs in for max Acc & Hold while getting a 3% damage boost. That's a very interesting idea, though.


 

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I have a 50 ice/elec/elec as well. I have Freeze Ray, Bitter Freeze Ray, Shocking Bolt and Shocking Grasp. I am a blapper, so I use all of them regularly. Bitter Freeze Ray is what I open with, so the animation time is not a problem when used this way. I hold everything and then blap, reapplying holds as needed.

Bitter Freeze Ray is useful I think. YMMV of course.


 

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Originally Posted by HeroJunkie View Post
I have a 50 ice/elec/elec as well. I have Freeze Ray, Bitter Freeze Ray, Shocking Bolt and Shocking Grasp. I am a blapper, so I use all of them regularly. Bitter Freeze Ray is what I open with, so the animation time is not a problem when used this way. I hold everything and then blap, reapplying holds as needed.

Bitter Freeze Ray is useful I think. YMMV of course.
This is what I did with my Ice/elec/elec as well. All 4 holds were used regularly, granted I haven't played my ice/elec/elec in ages, if I did, I would still play this same way.


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