Explodilicious gear for Firestorm Citadel?
Vie, 07/01/2011 - 15:38
decibel
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I'm leaning toward being a designated bomber, so I've got my Heavy Demo Helm and Suit all together and am now acquiring bombs (Shivermist, Nitronome and Graviton to begin with). I've played around in T3 but nothing past the Terminal yet; eventually I'm going to be raiding Firestorm Citadel and I want to suit up accordingly.
The most obvious choice to me was the Volcanic Demo set. Good defenses, Fire resist, looks cool, etc... but the Volcanic Demo Suit only has Bomb CTR Low. wat.
A full set gives you Fire resist equal to the ever-popular Vog Cub set, but the resulting Bomb CTR is only High (I think). A bomb with Heat level 10 has CTR Medium, so the combination of the two results in overall Bomb CTR Ultra, right? bomb y u no max ctr
On the other hand, I could suit up with full Mad Bomber gear and enjoy Max CTR on my bombs as well as Very High Bonus Damage to bombs. The only thing is, as well as marginally less Elemental defense I'd be stacking a Fire weakness (as well as Poison, Shock and Freeze) which would spell murder in FSC unless (I hoard Remedies).
The only intermediate I could think of was Volcanic Demo Helm combined with Mad Bomber Suit. I'd get Max CTR on bombs as well as Medium Bonus Damage, some Fire resist, and a weakness to Poison/Shock/Freeze. So now I'm asking, is that all the Fire resist necessary? Will the other weaknesses be a problem? Is it worth getting a Fire resist Trinket? Can some FSC bomber help me out?
Vie, 07/01/2011 - 23:36
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Matuse
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Just recognize that a "point"
Just recognize that a "point" of bomb CTR only represents .2 seconds of charge time.
It's extremely unlikely that you'll even notice a fifth of a second difference between ultra and max.
Sáb, 07/02/2011 - 01:04
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Pupu
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Eh
The demo mad combo is the winner.
I have a low fire uv on both, so I get max fire resist despite the bars saying otherwise.
Since you don't seem to be in such luck, just be careful with getting burnt. (Or get a fire mid uv on another suit I guess)
I have found the fire res trinkets to be useless during my testing.
Yes... the Volcanic Demo Suit hates us :( You are correct about the CTR, you'll max out at Ultra. Couple ways to fix that:
When I first started FSC I was scared to pieces of the Fire damage, so I wore full Volcanic Demo Set. I just had to contend with having CTR Ultra instead of Max, it really isn't as terrible as it sounds :)
Eventually I tried what you thought of too - Volcanic Demo Helm with Mad Bomber Suit. It actually worked great, got me to max. The only statuses you'll need to worry about in FSC is Fire and Stun, so all those negative resists don't matter. Only problem is that every time I caught on fire and couldn't put it out I'd burn through 1/3 of my health... as opposed to about 1/6th with full Volcanic Demo. Now though I have some nice UV CTR Medium bombs, so I can just go Volcanic Demo Helm and be good.