blitzkrieg Wrote:maybe you should actually try it before making a statement like that. takebacker is saying that using fire burner + cooling effect during fourth job is a good idea. I tried using it at jr. newties to see how it works, and you can't dodge a magic attack from them obviously. the second you use fire burner, the newtie will attack you. you can't just backstep away. and if you're trying to jump back and forth while using the combo, you'll just get hit even more because you won't freeze them as quickly as you would with a macro while standing still.
how about losing the sass when you have no idea what you're talking about next time?
What business do you have using Fire Burner at Newties? Mob skills, short of fullscreen ultimates, are almost never useful at Newties. I use Inferno maybe once every 5 minutes, and Arrow Rain almost never at Newties. Use it at a place where mob skills actually have more relevance. Himes, Kentauri, and Wolf Spiders are good examples. If you can prove to me that Fire Burner sucks at those places, then you've convinced me not to max it.
If you're going to tell me off like that, at least know what you're talking about.
KaidaTan Wrote:Lets not forget that Fire Burner has around half the range of Avenger, hmm?You're missing the point of getting it. It's the same deal as Inferno. Inferno is an amazing skill to have from around level 90 to 120. No, you don't need it at Newties, but it's an amazing general purpose mob skill and you're missing out if you think it's useless in third job. I wince every time someone tells me Inferno is a worthless skill and they're level 160+. No pomegranate, you trained at Newties and then Skelegons to that level. After 120, you run out of places where you'll be mobbing often, and it falls back in usefulness. And after 140, your Hurricane mows everything in front of you down faster than any mob skill save on 5 or 6 targets, and there aren't any mobby places to train anyway, so Inferno becomes almost useless.
As far as I'm concerned, Fire Burner is just as worthless as Inferno. Especially since if you really really wanted to mob anything (fire-weak or otherwise) lategame, you'd just use Torpedo anyway. It has more range, does double the damage, and doesn't require capsules to use.
In the case of FB, it is also a great mob skill until endgame, when you get Torpedo to replace it. The useful level ranges are different, and I have no idea what they are at the moment.
In both cases, you're getting the skill for the sake of having an upper hand in mobbing power until endgame levels. I don't see the process of levelling from 120 to 150 or 160 as a trifling matter.
If you don't get it, that's fine. You're not training with your mob skills.
Edit @ below: yeah, someone called it flamesplitter and I got confused for a second.