OK, I have a fire purifier build that uses guns. But my luck getting fire weapons to drop is awful. Can I use other damage types with my build? I seem to get everything but fire-focused guns all the time.
You can, but as your other gear, your skills an devotions should support fire damage - only changing the weapon / damage type of the weapon would not be enough - you would have to adjust your entire build.
Ranged fire weapons are a bit rare, you can however buy faction fire guns (1h), if you have the blueprints - craft one - or farm the 2 handed fire monster infrequents guns. Relying only on normal items (means base weapon is white) and certain affixes to support fire damage can be a bit … - but you can also try to powershop a acceptable gun.
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if you refer to base dmg being phys then that’s fine
just get %fire dmg or %elemental dmg on your guns and it’s going to be fine for levelling
I was just wondering about weapons that have a base damage of poison, lightning, or aether damage on a fire build.
It’s not great at lower levels and you are better to find an actual fire base. But you could somewhat benefit if you can find some items with conversion, that could allow these to fit in.
Eg: for a lightning damage base something like this (
converting item example 1
converting item example 2
The goal is to find gear that together would add up as close as possible to 100% conversion.
However…it’s pretty hard to find these that would work for a lower-level character. You can search through this GD database for possibilities. Note that in the example one is lvl 40 and the other is level 75 and together they only add up to ~55% conversion…which is only 1/2 way towards the goal.
it doesn’t really matter at lower levels
it’s not ideal but wont really hinder you either, it actually becomes more significant the higher level you become since then you start to maybe have more and more only %fire bonuses that get wasted