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Fire/em blaster build, been gone for awhile

DaveMebs

By DaveMebs,
Posted on: 2011-11-22 19:54 in Everything about PvP

 

Posted

hey there, i just came back about a month ago and have been farming my *** of to build up some money, now its time to get back to the good stuff. i ran in the pvp ladder's on test and left shortly after that collapsed so i have a general knowledge of IO's. I've looked around and noticed that blasters are building for health now, which is far from my recharge build i currently have. so i came up with this build, i plan on using it in RV and kickball, possibly joining a team again after finals and what not. so here it is, all criticism is welcomed. thanks in advance.

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Level 50 Natural Blaster
Primary Power Set: Fire Blast
Secondary Power Set: Energy Manipulation
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Concealment
Ancillary Pool: Cold Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Fire Blast

  • (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (3) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
  • (3) Decimation - Damage/Endurance
  • (5) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
  • (5) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Power Thrust
  • (A) Hecatomb - Damage
  • (25) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge
  • (29) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (34) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (46) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance
Level 2: Flares
  • (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
  • (7) Decimation - Damage/Endurance
  • (7) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
  • (9) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
  • (9) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 4: Build Up
  • (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
  • (11) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
  • (11) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
  • (13) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
  • (13) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
Level 6: Hasten
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (15) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (15) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 8: Super Speed
  • (A) Run Speed IO
  • (17) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
  • (31) Run Speed IO
Level 10: Combat Jumping
  • (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
  • (19) Karma - Knockback Protection
  • (25) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 12: Super Jump
  • (A) Jumping IO
  • (23) Jumping IO
  • (23) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
Level 14: Aim
  • (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
  • (17) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
  • (19) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
  • (21) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
Level 16: Maneuvers
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 18: Acrobatics
  • (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 20: Blaze
  • (A) Apocalypse - Damage
  • (31) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
  • (31) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (33) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (33) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance
  • (33) Gladiator's Javelin - Chance of Damage(Toxic)
Level 22: Conserve Power
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 24: Stealth
  • (A) Gift of the Ancients - Run Speed +7.5%
  • (34) Karma - Knockback Protection
  • (34) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
  • (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  • (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  • (36) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 26: Invisibility
  • (A) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
  • (37) Karma - Knockback Protection
  • (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  • (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge
  • (39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  • (39) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 28: Tactics
  • (A) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception
  • (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance
Level 30: Phase Shift
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (40) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (40) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 32: Blazing Bolt
  • (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
  • (43) Decimation - Damage/Endurance
  • (43) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
  • (43) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
  • (46) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 35: Boost Range
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 38: Fire Ball
  • (A) Ragnarok - Damage/Endurance
  • (40) Ragnarok - Damage
  • (42) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge
  • (42) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (42) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 41: Snow Storm
  • (A) Pacing of the Turtle - Endurance/Recharge/Slow
Level 44: Frozen Armor
  • (A) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
  • (45) Impervious Skin - Status Resistance
  • (45) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
  • (45) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
  • (46) Karma - Knockback Protection
  • (50) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 47: Hoarfrost
  • (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
  • (48) Doctored Wounds - Heal
  • (48) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
  • (48) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
  • (50) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 49: Hibernate
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (50) Recharge Reduction IO
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Level 2: Swift
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Health
  • (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  • (21) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration
  • (29) Miracle - +Recovery
Level 2: Hurdle
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Stamina
  • (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  • (27) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod
  • (27) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
Level 1: Brawl
  • (A) Empty
Level 1: Defiance
Level 1: Sprint
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Rest
  • (A) Empty
Level 4: Ninja Run
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Set Bonus Totals:
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Smashing)
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Lethal)
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Fire)
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Cold)
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Energy)
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Negative)
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Toxic)
  • 6.5% DamageBuff(Psionic)
  • 6.75% Max End
  • 4% Enhancement(Heal)
  • 91.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
  • 48% Enhancement(Accuracy)
  • 10% FlySpeed
  • 149.1 HP (12.37%) HitPoints
  • 10% JumpHeight
  • 10% JumpSpeed
  • Knockback (Mag -32)
  • Knockup (Mag -32)
  • MezResist(Confused) 7.5%
  • MezResist(Held) 7.5%
  • MezResist(Immobilize) 15.75%
  • MezResist(Sleep) 7.5%
  • MezResist(Stun) 7.5%
  • MezResist(Terrorized) 9.7%
  • 20% Perception
  • 13% (0.22 End/sec) Recovery
  • 36% (1.81 HP/sec) Regeneration
  • 6.3% Resistance(Fire)
  • 6.3% Resistance(Cold)
  • 6% Resistance(Psionic)
  • 17.5% RunSpeed



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Posted

First off, Welcome back

Secondly
Good "budget" build overall, but from what Ive seen recently out of the Fire/Em's... Most arent using ice mastery anymore....Take a look at Fire mastery?
Not speaking from experience here, strictly off what ive seen on others.

Just a few suggestions:

The reg tissue proc isnt worth slotting anymore really... miracle and numina are enough IMO.
Your over cap HP....
theres a few other things I personally would change too, but most is all personal taste I guess.


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There's a lot of Masteries that have a dangerous heavy hitter attack in them that you cooouulllllldddd take, but hibernate is still a useful power to have. The debuff in munitions mastery has an amazing recharge, making powers like the blaster version of melt armor look like trash by comparison, but you'd have to take Tough if you went munitions in order to still have decent resists... noone really wants to do that. There's always KO Blow if you wanna invest some time and unlock patron pools.

As for the rest of the build, make sure you add in whatever hp accolades you have/will be getting, and don't overmax your hp, wasted set bonuses are icky. You can never have too much accuracy in incarnate pvp, everyone has barrier yknow.

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Force Mastery can be better then ice builds for survivability if you are good at using PFF (not difficult). Temp Invuln is also the best res shield a Blaster can get, which does make a noticeable difference in some cases. Other then the res shield and PFF, Force has a lot of other useless powers.

Fire/EM can benefit from Fire Mastery because of Char's fairly decent damage for a Blaster ranged attack, and it's guaranteed mez, since no Fire attacks have a built in mez.

Rise of the Phoenix is also a funny power.

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Sadly no one really uses Fire/EM's anymore. I think if more people start running earth/fires you'd see a possible place for (maybe) one, once the ATIO's come out and you can double proc Flares + Blaze

This is what mine looks like, but I never really get to play it.

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Damage procs are definitely the way to go now, they are expensive but the difference they make is huge.

 

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Hoarfrost >