Fire/Fire/Fire

[WuTang]

OK firstly, I have to bring in the @Snarky since it's his build, but he's not the only one that knows this....

 

Fire Blasters are OP AF.

 

Don't get me wrong, not screaming for a nerf, but I mean, let's give some love to the others. I actually thought maybe it was just a bit up there, nope it's next level. I'm not even fully slotted, in fact, the ITF I was in last night, I started out at level 45 and was annihilating groups of 52s, I was level shifted to 49 ATT, but still that's 3 levels up. I've never had that with any other toon.

 

How do you roll one so powerful then play anything else??

 

I did die more than a few times...but never did Rise of the Phoenix let me down.

 

Now I'm wondering if Fire Blast is as strong when paired with other secondaries.

 

I rolled a Mando themed blaster (AR/Devices) at the same time, the look is so good I will play him, but it'll be with a Fire Blaster sitting on my shoulder whispering, *not quite as good though, is he?*

[Snarky]

8 minutes ago, WuTang said:

OK firstly, I have to bring in the @Snarky since it's his build, but he's not the only one that knows this....

 

Fire Blasters are OP AF.

 

Don't get me wrong, not screaming for a nerf, but I mean, let's give some love to the others. I actually thought maybe it was just a bit up there, nope it's next level. I'm not even fully slotted, in fact, the ITF I was in last night, I started out at level 45 and was annihilating groups of 52s, I was level shifted to 49 ATT, but still that's 3 levels up. I've never had that with any other toon.

 

How do you roll one so powerful then play anything else??

 

I did die more than a few times...but never did Rise of the Phoenix let me down.

 

Now I'm wondering if Fire Blast is as strong when paired with other secondaries.

 

I rolled a Mando themed blaster (AR/Devices) at the same time, the look is so good I will play him, but it'll be with a Fire Blaster sitting on my shoulder whispering, *not quite as good though, is he?*

i regularly charge out ahead of the team on 4/8 with a fire/fire/fire   fresh spawns waiting to be melted!

[WuTang]

1 hour ago, Snarky said:

i regularly charge out ahead of the team on 4/8 with a fire/fire/fire   fresh spawns waiting to be melted!

I'll get him decked out by this weekend and see how badass the build really is.

 

Question....Your Alpha selection was Agility Core? Would Intuition Rad be a tad better? Or do you find the recharge/endurance mod to be the best option?

[Snarky]

5 minutes ago, WuTang said:

I'll get him decked out by this weekend and see how badass the build really is.

 

Question....Your Alpha selection was Agility Core? Would Intuition Rad be a tad better? Or do you find the recharge/endurance mod to be the best option?

I never put my incarnates in the build. If that us in there it is random.  Without opening game (i am working) i can tell you that Alpha was max DPS +45% damage.   Because….  Damage.  MiDs is screwy, and i rarely touch the incarnate in there except when fine tuning an armor set.  

[Ukase]

No doubt fire is very good for blasters. As for fire/ice? Not as good until the later levels, but a lot depends on how you slot and how you play. 
I've teamed with folks who would make a fire blaster look comparatively like a kinetic melee scrapper - just not that good. So much depends on you as a player. Some folks can make any build look magical. And some folks can take a magical build and make it look sad and weak. 

 

Me, I like ice/fire a bit better than fire/fire, even though it doesn't have a snipe. Blizzard is better for me than inferno due to the reduced risk. But the ice secondary...cauterize and frigid protection are practically interchangeable as far as a sustain goes. 

But your question was about the secondary. I like Atomic Manipulation because of the sustain being one of the better ones (for me). Sure, I get held, but only for a very short time. By the time I move to click on the inspiration, I'm generally no longer held. It's got a hold with a decently quick activation time to help mitigate some of the NPCs trying to clobber you. And Beta Decay boosts your recharge, and decreases their toHit. For me, it's one of the better blaster secondary sets. Opinions can and do vary. 

We get a ton of slots, why not try 'em all out, and tell us? 

[WuTang]

This guy is fully slotted now and I ran a +4 ITF last night and half a TinPex, both proved to me the build is solid, thank you @Snarky, and that the power combo just obliterates the enemies. No incarnates yet so it's just pure build, and it does not disappoint. Can't wait to get it full incarnates and see how badass it is then, finish that up today...hopefully.

[Snarky]

3 hours ago, WuTang said:

This guy is fully slotted now and I ran a +4 ITF last night and half a TinPex, both proved to me the build is solid, thank you @Snarky, and that the power combo just obliterates the enemies. No incarnates yet so it's just pure build, and it does not disappoint. Can't wait to get it full incarnates and see how badass it is then, finish that up today...hopefully.

It is a dragster.  It just goes fast as hell and wants to keep going forward.  Glad you are having fun

[Ukase]

I feel I should add...Martial Combat is an incredible secondary because of burst of speed, and inner will. I have inner will on auto-fire. I can't tell you how many times I'll look down at my power bar and see it fired, and I didn't even notice. That means I was mezzed (cuz my health didn't go down in that case) and didn't even realize it. 

Between inner will and sheer will, I only carry one break free now, in case of emergencies. I was able to proc out inferno and the snipe and still build for s/l resist cap and 25% melee defense. So, yeah, I like Martial Combat. I'd like it more if I could auto-fire hasten as well, but I've just bound it to the h key. 

[Blammo]

My search fu is weak, cannot find @Snarky fire/fire/fire build (even though I recall seeing/reading it some days ago). Please repost or share link? I wanna try it out!

 

Please and thanks.

 

/edited @Snarky name for emphasis

 

 

Edited Friday at 11:14 PM by Blammo

[Snarky]

36 minutes ago, Blammo said:

My search fu is weak, cannot find @Snarky fire/fire/fire build (even though I recall seeing/reading it some days ago). Please repost or share link? I wanna try it out!

 

Please and thanks.

 

/edited @Snarky name for emphasis

 

 

 

Blaster (Fire Blast - Fire Manipulation) 2024 v 2.01.mbd

[Blammo]

3 hours ago, Snarky said:

 

Blaster (Fire Blast - Fire Manipulation) 2024 v 2.01.mbd 43.23 kB · 1 download

 

Thank you good sir!

[Plutonix]

How much skill do you need to use this powerset? I'm used to ranged or bruting/tanking so just trying to to think of I should attempt this. I guess to bullet point my questions:

 

- how hard is jousting?

 

- do I just zerg or is there strategy involved?

 

- what's the learning curve like?

[WuTang]

On 8/16/2025 at 8:35 AM, Plutonix said:

How much skill do you need to use this powerset? I'm used to ranged or bruting/tanking so just trying to to think of I should attempt this. I guess to bullet point my questions:

 

- how hard is jousting?

 

- do I just zerg or is there strategy involved?

 

- what's the learning curve like?

I don't joust with it...the dead don't fight back

 

Just zerg... Seriously pop Aim or Build Up on your way in, Inferno them all, ease back out to the next group. Between Infernos just ST everything.

 

If you die, Rise of the Phoenix

 

I was in a Yin the other week with a buddy of mine and we went up the elevator in the police station. I hit Build Up on exit (with Gaussian) floated to the mob hit Inferno and then clicked the Exit button. My friend never made it to them...

 

[Nemu]

Jousting depends on playstyle and how you want to leverage your toolkit. If you take hotfeet then chances are you don't want to joust too much, as you want mobs running around distracted in hotfeet and taking incidental damage. There are complexities playing a blaster but if you want to zerg then just make sure you have a steady supply of lucks and breakfrees to softcap your defense and fight through mezzes. If you are not on a steady diet of luck inspirations then you have to learn the other blaster survival tricks and learn to play a little more tactical. See the below post on survival tips:

 

 

Inferno solves a LOT of problems and even with fire/fire it does most of the work. Case and point the example in the above post. What part of /fire contributed to that story? I can get build up from a number of other secondaries.

 

A lot of the accolades I see about fire/fire involves build up + inferno, followed up by whatever else in /fire, but inferno did all the work. Yes I'm aware you can use fireball/fsc/burn during downtime but you could just as well do Fire breath + Fireball and toss in rain of fire and achieve similar results at range while covering a larger area, and you get that chain by level 8. Given the number of hover blasters that post their builds here on the forums I'd advocate that latter chain for a blaster newbie and recommend something like fire/energy where you can skip the melee stuff if that's your cup of tea, pick up boost range and extend the cone of fire breath to make positioning a lot easier.

 

The one place where the the claim that fire/fire does stupid damage is justified is for hard mode content where you are encouraged to stick together as a team. You spend a lot of time fighting at point blank range so fire breath is not as useful. In addition, for hardmode content, those blasters can also benefit from fulcrum shift reliably because mobs don't die to a sneeze, and a /fire blaster can actually get some mileage out of cauterizing aura and hotfeet's otherwise pitiful damage. When was the last time you waited for fulcrum shift on a blaster for regular content?