What's a good Rad/Fire 50 build?

[Nightfallen]

I've been doing a mix of ae farms and regular content both, and was looking for a good way to either build for out or a paired set of builds both powers/slots and crafted enhancements for the both since I did keep making redundant enhancement bonuses while I was leveling.

[SeraphimKensai]

It's a little difficult to understand what you're after given the sentence fragment paired with another thought.

 

Fire farming you want 90% fire resistance and a minimum of 45% fire defense.

 

In general content fire is probably around the 5th or so most common damage type, while smashing, lethal, energy are easily the top three. Depending on what content you run though the results can vary.

 

Fire armor was designed originally to be a resistance based tank with a quick heal and more damage to help mitigate incoming damage by killing faster. Given that I like to ensure that you have substantial slow resistance (luckily this is accomplished by slotting winter IOs that you likely slot for the added fire defense they provide), and have a decent amount of recharge to ensure maximal usage of healing flame and consume.

 

If you're able to have a decent positional defense as well that can be useful, but be advised that fire armor doesn't have native DDR so your defense is extremely susceptible to defense debuffs. Also you'll want to include IOs to provide KB protection given that fire armor only gets 1 mag protection with temperature protection.

 

As far as builds go, I'd suggest trying to make one yourself. Otherwise there's quite a few rad/fire brute builds available on the forums if you search for them that you can compare what you get. You can post your build here along with the goals you have, what kind of content you plan to run and at what difficulty and we can provide you with some tips as necessary.

[Without_Pause]

In the Guides section there are threads dedicated to farming. I think I might have also found a non-farming build there as well, but any build I have is before the change to procs and FA. They do well enough though. 

[H3LLP0P]

What were the changes to procs and FA, if you don't mind me asking? I've been having a lot of fun with my R/F brute and have been experimenting with a lot of enhancement sets to get the most out of him. I run solo most of the time and I have missions set to +4 lvl and +5 team. 

[Without_Pause]

I think the biggest knock to FA is fixing Burn.

 

Burn

• This power should no longer summon multiple burn patches.
• This power should now hit 5 enemies instead of 4.
• Procs should no longer trigger multiple times per target when using this power.
• Burn Flames should now inherit the power Accuracy enhancements.
• Burn Flames now inherit AT classes, caps, and modifiers.
• Upfront damage now match all other versions.

In terms of procs, (damage)procs will proc less in at least PBAoEs. People were 5/6-slotting Irradiated Ground with damage procs before the change, and that fixed it. It was one of the issues which came along with a negative impact on farming. Note, they also lessened rewards for AE. Before the change I could duo box a character from 1-21 from a single tunnel run using a 2X XP booster. Post change it is 1-17. Want to see disappointment? Try leveling in AE on a non-farm.

 

Note: My older school Rad/fire solos farms just fine post change even if it is slightly slower. I'm too lazy to change the build. In a pinch, I have duo boxed farms, but I vastly prefer duo boxing story content at +3/x8 for the sake of variety and speed. It also helps I can do so many builds which can pull off being the main in that situation. Case in point, my current duo is a Claws/ea Scrapper as lead and Ice/stone Brute as the backup with currently doing RWZ. I find it a bit funny/ironic how farms have been targeted while Unai and his fat maps and DA dailies at +4/x8 still exists.