Also started a trapper. My new favourite skill in the world is Fire Blast. Not only is it the coolest spell in the game to use, makes you feel like a proper grenadier. Almost get the urge to yell "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" before chucking them away en masse.
But the really cool thing is that this spell really has damage potential. The damage scales very quickly when you get to slvl 16+, it does only get to about 130 dmg at slvl 20, but it's still scaling very rapidly beyond that. Shop yourself two claws with +3 Fire Blast and +3 Trap skills and get a +3 Trap skill circlet and amulet, netting you +18 Fire Blast, and I have no doubt that the base damage for this skill can rocket up to 300-400. The really beauty is the synergestic bonuses though, 6 out of 10 skills in this tree gives a +9% dmg bonus per slvl, so you can both have synergestic bonuses and other useful skills (unlike Lightning Res + HS, urk). Max three other skills and you'll get +540% Dmg, netting you approximately 2300 average damage. Not only is this very respectable damage, Fire blast also has a pretty impressive blast radius (3.3 yards, not much smaller than Meteor!) and is spammable! All this makes for a in my opinion very impressive spell with lots of potential.
But the really cool thing is that this spell really has damage potential. The damage scales very quickly when you get to slvl 16+, it does only get to about 130 dmg at slvl 20, but it's still scaling very rapidly beyond that. Shop yourself two claws with +3 Fire Blast and +3 Trap skills and get a +3 Trap skill circlet and amulet, netting you +18 Fire Blast, and I have no doubt that the base damage for this skill can rocket up to 300-400. The really beauty is the synergestic bonuses though, 6 out of 10 skills in this tree gives a +9% dmg bonus per slvl, so you can both have synergestic bonuses and other useful skills (unlike Lightning Res + HS, urk). Max three other skills and you'll get +540% Dmg, netting you approximately 2300 average damage. Not only is this very respectable damage, Fire blast also has a pretty impressive blast radius (3.3 yards, not much smaller than Meteor!) and is spammable! All this makes for a in my opinion very impressive spell with lots of potential.
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