Weak to fire.
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Posted on: 2010-01-08 07:41 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Zombies (Banished pantheon)
Redcaps
Shivans
All good for fire.
As far as I understood, Fire is one of the least resisted types of damage you can dish out.
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its one of the least common for +res, but as you can see from the list above you, -res isnt a particularly common thing on any damage type.
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Originally Posted by magikwand
As far as I understood, Fire is one of the least resisted types of damage you can dish out.
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Very little actually RESISTS fire, but there's only a few mobs who are truly vulnerable to it. Early levels Vahz are quite weak to it and in mid-levels the Banished Pantheon are also weak to fire. I hadn't known about the Redcaps, but they're bordering on overpowered already so I'm not sure they're the best choice for a solo blaster.
I'd say just find groups that you don't find actively annoying to fight and you'll be fine; after all doing 10% more damage to a specific group doesn't matter much if said group tends to send you to the floor quickly anyway. Ban Pan could fall into that category with all the mez they throw around.
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Blasters are a bit better suited to handle this than other archetypes because of Defiance. They can still keep blasting away despite being mezzed.
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Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
Very little actually RESISTS fire, but there's only a few mobs who are truly vulnerable to it. Early levels Vahz are quite weak to it and in mid-levels the Banished Pantheon are also weak to fire. I hadn't known about the Redcaps, but they're bordering on overpowered already so I'm not sure they're the best choice for a solo blaster.
I'd say just find groups that you don't find actively annoying to fight and you'll be fine; after all doing 10% more damage to a specific group doesn't matter much if said group tends to send you to the floor quickly anyway. Ban Pan could fall into that category with all the mez they throw around. |
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True, but it does limit you to fire blast & flares as well as your tier 1 secondary; it'll drastically cut down you damage output making it much more difficult to kill them before they kill you... the blaster's main defense.
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Originally Posted by Nova Knight
Blasters are a bit better suited to handle this than other archetypes because of Defiance. They can still keep blasting away despite being mezzed.
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Agreed. Defiance doesn't make you invulnerable to mezzes, just less vulnerable.
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Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
True, but it does limit you to fire blast & flares as well as your tier 1 secondary; it'll drastically cut down you damage output making it much more difficult to kill them before they kill you... the blaster's main defense.
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The Winter Horde is also vulnerable to fire 
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What are other groups vunerable to?
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DEFIANCE SUCKS!
ITS WORTHLESS!
POINTLESS!
SERVES NO REAL PURPOSE!
.......YEH!
That is all..... 
Defiance is far from worthless or pointless. I suppose you would rather just stand there and not be able to do anything while mezzed.
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Originally Posted by Fire_Minded
DEFIANCE SUCKS!
ITS WORTHLESS! POINTLESS! SERVES NO REAL PURPOSE! .......YEH! That is all..... |
Let us once again recap on Defiance and Defiance 2.0
Defiance: As the blasters health lessened (took damage), his damage output (and acc, i think?) increased. In actual practice...this inherent sucked major eggs. You had to be somewhere in the range of LESS than 1/4 health before you saw ANY advantages in this, meaning you had to skirt the edges of death and debt to reap the rewards of your inherent. Frankly...the only ones that really ever saw this "advantage" were defenders because they were getting good endurance discounts off of you cuz you were getting your butt kicked. If the damage increase were proportional to your health loss...woulda been fine. But sadly....was not to be.
Defiance 2.0: Practically every power in your primary and secondary powersets comes with a short lived damage bonus when it connects with your target. With a bit of rapid fire, which is pretty much the norm, it's not difficult at all to keep a pretty steady +25% to +50% damage buff going on average. In addition to that, blasters became the only AT in the game that can still attack, even to a limited degree, whist mezzed, something that has served well for many, i'm sure.
Defiance: WAS WORTHLESS! POINTLESS! SERVED NO REAL PURPOSE OTHER THAN WANTING TO KEEP YOU NEAR DEATH!
Defiance 2.0: VERY useful in MULTIPLE aspects, consistant in it's effects, and makes a noticable difference. FAR from anything that the original one was.
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My fire/fire blaster blitzed thru the late 20s in DA street sweeping, BP are perfectly killable for a solo blaster provided you practise on -1/-2s until you work out what you're doing and move up to 0/+1s. The other key thing is if you don't like your inspiration selection, kill an easy group to restock it and use insps in large quantities. You will earn some nice mid range arcane salvage too.
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Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
Very little actually RESISTS fire, but there's only a few mobs who are truly vulnerable to it. Early levels Vahz are quite weak to it and in mid-levels the Banished Pantheon are also weak to fire. I hadn't known about the Redcaps, but they're bordering on overpowered already so I'm not sure they're the best choice for a solo blaster.
I'd say just find groups that you don't find actively annoying to fight and you'll be fine; after all doing 10% more damage to a specific group doesn't matter much if said group tends to send you to the floor quickly anyway. Ban Pan could fall into that category with all the mez they throw around. |
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Fire Blasters and Tankers can pretty much live in Dark Astoria during the 20s. The zombies are weak to fire damage and don't have much in the way of special abilities (especially if you have a -KB IO or Acrobatics), and the shamans aren't really that bad if you make sure to burn them down first. I'd avoid bosses on a Blaster though.
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whats a good vil group for a fire blaster, so I can keep my eyes out for ezxp on the scanner.