Fire Blast Assa

[TGApple]

Fire Blast Assa

Is this actually plausable - does this skill do enough damage in hell? I know other builds are just plain better, but I have a friend who is doing an iron barb (lots of defence, and concentrate), and I want to make a partner for him. As he is unlikely to be doing much damage, I'd quite like to be able to!

I don't want to do something boring and normal, and while I considered doing a BFury 'sin, I decided against it (want some elemental for those physical immunes, and venom poison ain't quite enough).

Will it work it hell? Also - how much will faster cast rate help me?

 

[Indemaijinj]

Look in the Assassin build guide sticky. There is a Bombasin guide by DOC.
Though it is a PvP guide I can see no reason why it shouldn't work in PvM. Maybe you want to tweak it to include some of the crowd control skills though.

 

[zapotek]

Is this actually plausable - does this skill do enough damage in hell?

With many synergies the answer is yes. I can take my own trapper as an example, with lvl18 shock web, 13 charge bolt, max on both sentry traps and only +9 to trap skills(I use her for mf) the damage is around 2200 max which works very well on lightning immunes in conjunction with corpse explosions and merc.
But you will not have enough points with this kind of build to pump your shadow. I only have one point in it but I don't think anything more is really necesairy to eb honest. Takes just a fraction of a second to recast her and with some +skill from gear she actually can tank pretty good supported by the occasional mindblasts.

 

[BatTheMan]

With many synergies the answer is yes. I can take my own trapper as an example, with lvl18 shock web, 13 charge bolt, max on both sentry traps and only +9 to trap skills(I use her for mf) the damage is around 2200 max which works very well on lightning immunes in conjunction with corpse explosions and merc.
But you will not have enough points with this kind of build to pump your shadow. I only have one point in it but I don't think anything more is really necesairy to eb honest. Takes just a fraction of a second to recast her and with some +skill from gear she actually can tank pretty good supported by the occasional mindblasts.

IMO I can be as effective as the sork's fireball at 7 frames (60ias without bos). The sork's needs to pump synergie with mastery for it to be effective whereas 20 points in fireblast and it gets synergized by all your other traps(except the blades). Here's what the Sitckied Lightning build by JRichard suggests:

LS/CBS/FB build

20 Fire Blast (FB)
18 Shock Web (Sweb)
20 CBS
20 LS
9 Shadow Master (SM), the target here is to cast her at level 17
1 point into DS, Fade, Weapon Block (WB), Cloak of Shadows (CoS), Mind Blast (MB)

Total skill points needed: 96
Character level needed to complete (all skill quests done): 85
Place to put points once build is complete: DS

Damage counting +8 to trap skills
FB 1385-1700
CBS shoots 10 times, 11 bolts per shot, 3-477 damage per bolt
LS 5-3214 per shot, 10 shots

I assure you FB is not boring at all you wont be just laying traps and waiting around. You'll Laying traps Fireblasting Cloak of Shadowing Laying 1 death sentry for the first corpse. 7 FRame attack is a must easily attainable with the armor treachery(+2 *** skills +45 ias and some other goodies).

 

[FenrirKnight]

The problem with FB to my experience is that it has so little area of effect that you have a hard time dealing with large groups who are not bunched together and with monsters who don't stand still.

However, on the whole, for me, it is a useful skill in dealing with the couple immunes that pop up here and there.