Hello!
I've read fire resist tests, but they were old or didnt answer everything which I wanted know.
I wanna make a snarbolax coat with fire resist, (because I'm flaming like the hell), but fire max is too expensive for me.
How much time is the flaming with these uv?
fire med cap + fire med coat = ???
fire med cap + fire high coat = ???
fire high cap + fire high coat = ???
fire high cap + fire max coat = ???
fire max cap + fire max coat = ???
I hope somebody will answer. :$
Thanks for your reply. :)
I wanna be able to solo vanaduke with only swords.
I don't have any problem with the levels before vanaduke, just with the last stage of vana. I usually die from the flames on the floor.
I hope I answered depth and source of fire.
I use snarbolax set because with trinkets and uvs, I can have max dmg next to max ctr. In this way I don't have free trinket places, but ctr vh swords aren't my budget. :\
I don't use vog, because in that way he has more time for killing me, which makes everything much harder.
I know that vanaduke is defeatable without gun (and fire resist), because if I go down with my boyfriend, who has shivermist, I can kill him without complications. In that way I have more time for putting waters and pay attention for the floor. I'm not a millionarie, and if a high + med resist has the same flaming time like high + high in that situation, maybe I don't need to buy 2 high uv. :$
I only see that high uv is much more expensive than med, and I even dunno it is really much more better or not.
next time I do FSC i'll test my setup at Vana. My guildmates won't mind me killing myself on fire cause I don't really do much during phase 5 since blitz kills Vana so freaking fast (and I don't have one). I've actually devolved into charging my FoV, weaving through the fire orbs (all of them) and then unleashing my attack and getting hit by a fire orb on the way out.
Also, if fire is giving you a problem switching one piece to Vog will be extremely beneficial. Fire generally also deals elemental damage when you first get hit. I believe the only source of fire that doesn't deal initial elemental damage is zombie breath. So switching out one piece of armor will save you both in burn time and initial damage.
I typically run Damage Max, ASI Med, CTR Ultra with Vog cap + Snarbolax coat + BTS + sword damage trinket + sword CTR Trinket + a CTR Low UV on my sword.
Another thing, is that the only source of shadow damage during the boss fight is the 8 (or so) zombies that spawn. Everything else does normal or elemental damage (also fire and stun). So full Vog Cub would be the best to reduce damage due to fire at vana, but I would rather have more damage than ASI.
If you don't find your shield bursting a lot you could try bringing a barbarous thorn shield - then you would still have damage max with one vog piece. (I'm assuming you have CTR med UV's on your swords and are using a CTR trinket and a damage trinket) This would help in two ways. First the free fire resist plus elemental defense will help with initial damage those blocks do. Second is that you'll get ASI med as well - which will help you dodge.
If you're already using a BTS then ignore this.
ok, with Vog + Snarby Fire High at Vana
Running into a fire orb or shadow fire does ~11 damage to me. ~5 of that is purely from the elemental portion of the damage. I burn for ~4 seconds and each burn tick is ~1.5 damage. If I were to replace my Vog Cub with Snarby for a full snarby set with the same fire resist (so max + high), I would probably get ~9 damage for the initial elemental hit and 4-seconds of fire burn for ~6 more damage (total ~15).
None of these numbers are super accurate, just what I checked when running into things while my guildmates killed vana. Like I said, at D29 going to 8 points of fire resist (max + max) only cuts down like 1 damage that I take while using FoV, so I don't really think Max + Max is really all that important that it is worth spending 20kce just for the UVs.
I believe it depends on the depth and the source of fire.
For example, I have Fire Max (built into vog cub) + Fire High (UV on snarbolax). If memory serves me right, at D29 (with Fang of Vog) it'll burn longer than at D19 (with Fang of Vog). I have some fire resist trinkets, and at D29 the difference between Max+High and Max+Max is like 1.5 pip's of damage, so it really isn't worth the cost if you are using UVs.
I find that Fire Max + Fire High is sufficient for me to spam my FoV to no end. Granted I have guildmates that love the amount of damage I deal and will quickly revive me if I don't pay close enough attention to my health.
I don't have any numbers recorded, just trying to remember my previous tests that I did to determine if brinigng a 5* fire resist trinket was better than just bringing a Tetra-Heart Pendant.