PvP on a Fire/Energy Blaster

Hi all,

I have a level 50 Fire/Energy blaster (By chance) and heard that they are ok (Good?) in PvP so thought I would come here for some advice before making my first real attempt at pvp.

The first thing I did is find the below build buried a few pages back:

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Which is cheap thankfully and apparently pretty standard (And ironically very similar to my old PvE build ...), so I will work off that.

My questions are as follows:

• Why no phase shift? I thought that was pretty standard, have I heard wrong?
• Are Maneuvers and Frozen Armor slotted for the set bonus' or actually worth using? Similarly will I be able to hit stuff without Tactics or not?
• Is anything else taken purely as a set mule that I shouldn't really ever use? Stun for example?
• Is there anything else particularly missing from this build that I might benefit from?

Also is it worth PvPing on Defiant (Where this toon is) or shall I pay for the transfer to Union?

Lastly: Sorry to ask such newbish questions, I don't really understand anything about pvp, though I will be reading up what I can in the nest few days. So if there is anything worth reading feel free to say "Look there newb!" and of course worse

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis PrincessDarkstar: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE IS *WRONG* ON THE INTERNET!"

phase shift is replaced by hibernoob(same thing but with a regen/recov). and it's easier to take since you get hiber as well as HF which is a nice heal and allows you to free up the 4th pool set for, in this case, leadership.

frozen armor and maneuvers are ok to run since the DR'd defense they give will provide you *some* protection (not much) but they're nice set mules as well.

stun is a meh mez. i'd also take flash freeze instead of snow storm for another easy purp set/set mule.

as far as that build, id slot for more HP so you can hit the cap only 75 away anyway shouldn't be too hard and SS and SJ are abit overslotted.

as far as where you should pvp, i honestly have no clue for EU servers but i'd assume low populations since all the other servers are dead 85% of the time anyway (short of freedumb and virtue obviously).

let the veteran pvpers tell you about your build, all i can say is goto freedom for 24/7 zone pvp.

Frozen Armour has fire resist. Useful versus FOTM Mind/Fire Doms.

First the questions :

Phase shift - Phase shift/PFF is a Viable option if you will regularly have a source of perception. Otherwise you'll likely find yourself loosing target a lot. Plus you'll have no outside heals (Hiber/Hoarfrost) For a Zone build, really you just have to be careful of your positioning, don't stay in hiber long, and accept as a blaster you'll likely have a few deaths here and there.

Maneuvers is a set bonus mule. Frozen Armor can actually cause some misses though to unbuffed toons. A lot of stalkers who don't run tactics will miss some sharks here and there with it running so it doesn't hurt. Mostly though LoTG and KB mule.

I don't know how the PvP is on the EU servers, but If I was running a Fire/EM with no PvP IO procs it'd probably be closer to this.

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I like that last build, thank you very much MrLiberty

I had to swap out the Armageddon set, cos I just can't justify spending that kind of cash just yet (Depends how much I actually like pvp) but the rest of the build is cheap enough.

I swapped a Karma KB for the Kismet 6% too, the last build has less KB protection so I assume 44 is still enough?

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis PrincessDarkstar: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE IS *WRONG* ON THE INTERNET!"

Tweaked Lib's build a bit.
-Has 48 KB res and the Kismet proc.
-Same budget.
-Snipe is faster and has more range.
-5 less Hp.
-5% less rech (DR makes it pointless anyway)
-Got rid of assault.
-Hoarfrost is slotted more.
-Hurdle is huge.
-More hold procs.
-Also, it has Total Focus, lol.

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Since I got my psi/em speced for PvP I made my fire/em PvE spec again. That said you can still kill n00bs jumping around spamming flares.

Got my build started and am only missing the LoTG's/Numina unique at the moment. I am actually enjoying it so far after spending 3 hours in RV today (Though 5 mins on SO's last night saw me die twice ...). Not many people were about and I fear I may have chased off more badge hunters than pvpers, but still.

Just wanted to say thank you again for your help, I like what this build does

Also I dropped a Ragnarok, is the purple drop rate from NPC's higher in pvp zones? Or am I just lucky?

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis PrincessDarkstar: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE IS *WRONG* ON THE INTERNET!"

u just got lucky

Thought as much, but I have seen a fair few posts about purples in PvP zones so wasn't sure, not that I would expect the drop rates to be any higher, but its worth asking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aggelakis PrincessDarkstar: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE IS *WRONG* ON THE INTERNET!"