Quote:Anyway, what you don't realize is that 3.3 yards is horrible! It used to be 4.7!! I loved the huge range, it was nearly the range of a targetable Nova (6 yards).Oh my... Almost quarter of a 800x600 screen that! Well I guess that nerf was necessary considering how much the damage potential increased. Imagine a spammable skill you can place anywhere on the screen from anywhere that costs 6 mana, does 3000 fire dmg per blast and covers a quarter of the screen :o
Quote:You can't shop for +6 Fire Blast claws because by the time claws can get +skills, and by the time claws can get +3 Traps, you've long since passed the time that low-level skills can show up on claws . By imbuing any of the last three elite claws with a clvl 8 character, you could get +5 Fire Blast in theory. Or crafting or cubing (6pskull) one of those elites with a clvl 1 could also get the +5. Of course, 1.10 could have changed some of this.Bugger. Well I suppose it doesn't matter much, considering I so gravely miscalculated the base damage. :D What is the best claw I could actually buy? Are the bonuses to Fire blast gone by the time you can get +2 Trap skills? How about +1 trap skills?
Quote:One thing that every Fire Blaster should be very aware of is that weapon speed determines your Fire Blast speed. With just slvl 1 BoS and a 'Steel' (Tir El) Scimitar you barely reach the fastest framerate at 9 frames per cast.I noticed this too, it became particularly noticeable when I was chilled and my spamming ability all but vanished :angry: I don't know how I'm going to cope with Duriel. If it's true that he now also ignores minions and mercs, then I'm in real trouble.
Quote:Personally, I'm going to have Charged Bolt Sentry be my secondary skill to go along with Fire Blast because it is the only Lightning trap that gets a damage bonus from my 20 points in Fire Blast. So it gives a second element for fire immunes, and you can lay down 5 of them in just 2 seconds and go right back to spamming Fire Blast. So you can get good use out of both skills at once.I was thinking of getting Death Sentry since it's Corpse Explosion also deals physical damage (right?), and I figured dual immunities, such as Fire/Lightning, would be more common. But then again, this might not apply to normal monsters, and I doubt the CE is useful against Bosses :(
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