"Survival is Optional" - Fire/fire build.

So the story behind this is I was tired of my dark armor tank that wouldn't die but couldn't kill much of anything else either. I wanted more offense, but I didn't want to go all the way to a blaster. I still wanted to stand toe-to-toe... at least for a little while.

The tanker already had fire melee, so the theme could be kept by making a scrapper with fire melee and fiery aura. Two build ups, burn, and a nuke of a self rez. Looks good to me.

It came up in conversation in another thread, but here was Bill Z's take on it.

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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba Dechs, your attitude is interesting. Fire/Fire/Weapon. With a battle cry, "STOP, or I'll DIE at you!" Run in, drop caltrops, burn, fireball, die, RotP, repeat. Hmmmm.

Anyway, with that in mind, I set out making the build. I end up with 25% in damage bonuses and 46% recharge before hasten. It doesn't seem like much, so I'm coming to you guys for suggestions.

I don't like to go above level 40 on the IO if I care about the set bonuses. That said, I think I maximized slotting on the attacks. I have hover and fly as the last two spots because I really don't have anything better to add. I'm ok with anything but Dark Mastery. Combat Jumping I want to keep because of the immob protection (it'll be nice to have constant protection, in addition to burn).

So, how's this look?

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Can you post that long form. No mids for Mac users.

I've toyed with this concept a lot. I'd caution you about the use of hasten. You'll lose it when you die. So if you're counting on it ot help recharge your RoTF (and use it in an attack chain) then you need to die just before recasting it. That was too messy for my tastes so I went without hasten on the build.

Well, he looks like his attack chain is incinerate-scorch-firesword-scorch. And I don't think he needs haste to pull that off.

Why go with 5 gaussians in buildup over adjusted targetting?

On healing flames doesn't that last recharge IO add essentially nothing to your recharge time?

Since you've got a couple slots and you've said hover/fly were only there because you didn't have anything else you wanted, I would suggest dropping hover and fly for webnade and exploding shuriken.

Webnade requires no slotting and is occasionally useful for pesky running bosses, and exploding shuriken, while not that spectacularly impressive of one, is still another AoE. To slot it up, I'd steal those two resistance slots from healing flames as well as one from temperature protection (the steadfast 3% is not doing you any good on this build). 4 slots should be enough with level 50 IOs.

On a related note, there doesn't seem to me to be much reason to slot reactive armor in the shields since you don't really have much else in the way of defense bonuses to stack with them. 7% S/L defense isn't going to save you from anything, so I'd not even bother and instead slot them with some titanium coating for the HP.

Also, I'd swap out two of the heal/end/rech in healing flames for plain heal/rech. It doesn't cost *that* much end, and I'd rather get the higher healing numbers. It would also allow you to get the miracle and numina's 2 slot bonuses of some regen and recovery.

Finally, if you ever plan to use scorch I'd get at least one more slot in there, just to max out the damage. Even if you don't plan on using it, it'd be useful if you exemplar down to where you lose GFS or incinerate.

I prefer //fire on my fire/fire mostly for Melt Armor.

Otherwise, just keep setting stuff on fire and use burn in caves