Living with Fiery Aura/TW

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This is with Single Origin Enhancements only although the IO for kb is mentioned but I use other methods

My fiery aura is a resistant based set that I play with a more offensive strategy than other armors. Most critters in the game are not very fire resistant if at all and take a good amount of damage from blazing aura and burn without even using a power from the secondary.
There is a knockback knockdown hole and an immob hole. The immob hole is one that I barely notice during gameplay but in later levels, the fiery aura tank do find itself being bounced like a basketball at times. There is an IO for this and acrobatics also fills this hole. In the case of taking acrobatics, combat jump fills the immob hole too although I rarely use combat jump. On one set that I took fly on, a little spin in the air didn’t bother me so I skipped any of the other kb/kd resist/protection powers.

My fiery aura is specialized in fire resistance of course but also have good resistance to smash/lethal especially with tough and some and enough for me resistance to cold, energy and negative energy.

Titan Weapons when coupled with fiery aura is not much of an endurance issue but I slotted one end reduction in each power to make it even less of an issue, especially when fighting freaks and their Super Stunners. It not much of endurance hog as any other set that I played when coupled with fiery aura and slotted with one endurance reduction per attack.

Blazing aura is the largest of the endurance using toggles in the set. Usually I put two endurance reductions in this power for good measure and don’t bother taking and or using it until after its slotted and after consume.

Consume and Healing Flames- Two powers I never skip. Healing flames is up in relatively short order in less than thirty seconds. I slot with recharge and heal and not for the resistance. Not many hard hitting toxic damage mobs to come across and that slot I use for heal and recharge.
Consume is good when battling mobs with end drain especially freaks and or Malta. Low on end or they sap the endurance, hit consume and it's good as new. It's up at about every two minutes or so, which is enough for me for to be there when I need it.

Titan Weapon- Powerful set, good cone attacks and an aoe. Arc of destruction is awesome when slotted. There is no power I skip from this set besides taunt as I just couldn’t fit it in for my purposes between the primary powers and the other more useful for my purposes, Keywords-MY PURPOSES, of the secondary powers.

Fiery Aura/TW shines when there is a large amount of mob available to defeat as it dispatches them in short order. In cases where mobs are scarce, some of the powers seemed wasted.

I found this combo to be a fun set to play and good for teaming and solo with a good damage aura, endurance control, and resistance. It's a good break from the WP and electric armor stable although my fiery armor feels like a sort of alternative electric armor. Instead of specializing in energy resistance, it specializes in fire resistance. Electric armor has quicker recharging endurance recovery but a slower recharging heal. The tactics is nearly the same but the fiery aura tank tends to defeat mobs more swiftly than my electric armor but both are equally good for me.

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Originally Posted by mauk2 Evil_Legacy became one of my favorite posters with two words. "Kick Rocks." I laffed so hard. Never change, E_L!

Pretty much all of your experience seems similar to mine with both TW and Fire. There are just a few things I want to ask:

1) Hover. I'm under the impression that you can't use Burn while flying. Is this true, and if it is, do you detoggle Hover when you want to use Burn or do you just skip using it altogether?

2) How did you find Build Momentum? I thought it always messed up how Momentum worked and in the end just screwed with my attack chains so I dropped it.

3) How do you deal with ranged enemies without taunt? Did you pick a ranged attack from an APP or do you just run over to them and hit the in the face?


P.S. I think you could drop the disclaimer here. It is about as long as the part of the post that is actually about these sets, and it distracts people from the actual topic.

I for one refuse to read your threads with disclaimers on them. The dang thing is longer than the post itself in some cases.

I only look to see if any interesting responses exist in the thread. I mean, at least for those, I don't need to spend a full minute scrolling. (Yes, that is exaggeration.)

How did you find the redraw issue on a Fire/TW Tanker? With Healing Flames, Consume, Fiery Embrace, and Burn, I would think that you'd be constantly switching back and forth between primary and secondary abilities. I would think that this would really mess with the momentum mechanic.

I can only assume that your purposes are near enough soloing once again and the build is inclined towards that.

I basically ran Blazing aura at level 2 and took taunt at level 4 which shows how far back in time we are going. I then went and led teams filling them to 8 and tanked the game. I felt the immob early, it all depends on what mobs you come up against, I also felt the knockback, again depending on what mobs you come up against. Not as easy as tanking with other tankers back then but the firetank has undergone some changes since then. I am still for having a aura if you are going to tank for teams.

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