FIRE WEAPONS? USELESS??

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I can Understand, Ice,Heart,Gush,Masters,Shadow and all those kinds of Weapons, But what do Fire weapons do?

[rena-ko]

fire damage... for 0 TP costs.
good for... hm... falz' last form for example.

[Break]

Hmm,

Really?

Because to me it seems Weak.

[rena-ko]

its weak for androids since they dont have MST.
anyway... i usually collect weapons for hit percents and rather useful specials...
i'm not the casual special user anyway.

[Stalfos333]

I've never understood the thinking of ST. The one way a droid has to do elemental damage is useless for droids, but strong tech users get a boost to a special they don't need to be using.

[Dragon_Knight]

Yea currently Lightning (outside of BM) and Fire are fairly useless. The elemental specials should do a set amount of damage, or damaged based on character level, then be applied to standard resistance

[heyf00L]

Yeah, I use a Twin Blaze on my RAcast and I only do 6 damage with the Gifoie. But when my HUney who is 40 levels lower uses it she does like 200 damage with the Gifoie. That's not right.

[Soukosa]

I agree that it does suck a fair amount that droids don't get boosts to the elemental special attacks like humans and newmans. But, I have noticed that they get stronger as a droid levels up, but not by much.

[Mixfortune]

On 2003-10-31 07:25, rena-ko wrote:
fire damage... for 0 TP costs.
good for... hm... falz' last form for example.



Gush is also a popular element against final form Falz.

[Malkavian]

They are useful when you start the game. That special does more damage than physical attack.
And like rena-ko said there are some utilities for it. Falz's last form, dark gunners, and why not? just for the looks.

[PABLOparavida]

The fire is useless I sell them as soon as i get them.

[Dragon_Knight]

Malkavian- I suppose so, thats provioded you actually GET your hands on one and have a very high ATA so the special hits. Which is unlikly if your just starting the game.

[Malkavian]

On 2003-11-01 09:09, Dragon_Knight wrote:
Malkavian- I suppose so, thats provioded you actually GET your hands on one and have a very high ATA so the special hits. Which is unlikly if your just starting the game.


Just use it in the 3rd hit of the combo. Is very strange if it still misses.

[GuerillaPimp]

usually i stay away from "elements" on weapons, unless it is the highest element (burning, blizzard, tempest..etc) AND it has hit percent greater than 35%

Also, the enemy has to be weak to the element being used. Like using fire on Boomas, lightining on Goboomas, and ice on Gigoboomas

[Zarana]

It's not just fire, all the elements are equally useless. We've got fire, a niche element that comes in handy maybe twice in the game. We've got lightning, which is superb in Challenge but nowhere else. Finally, we've got got ice, an element so severely overwhelmed by freeze traps, the Frozen Shooter and Rabarta that I seriously question who would really use it.

These things are really just there because the weapons they exist on can have sideaffects, not because they should.