DCUO: Fire Tank Guide - Everything You Need to Know!

This video will provide the foundation of everything you need to know about an Fire Tank. It will go into detail highlight all the aspects of the powerset with regards to tanking so that you can be successful in regular or elite content. Enjoy.
0:00 Start
2:11 Skill Point Spec
6:13 Gear Mods
9:21 Artifacts
11:34 Consumables
12:00 Augments
13:45 Where to Find Breakout Trinket
15:11 Affinity Mods
16:25 Generator Mods
17:16 Loadout
24:01 Rotation
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0:00 Start 2:11 Skill Point Spec 6:13 Gear Mods 9:21 Artifacts 11:34 Consumables 12:00 Augments 13:45 Where to Find Breakout Trinket 15:11 Affinty Mods 16:25 Generator Mods 17:16 Loadout 24:01 Rotation

[@soobok13]

Hey obsidian, does all this information still apply today in 2024?

[@DeidaraMishima]

Obsidian you are doing the DCUO Community a great service. As new people join the game these guides are so helpful! Really, truly, thanks for all your hard work!

[@kingades1013]

1:13 I've been blocking this whole time as a fire tank...even thought immolation was a shield. Got it all wrong haha

[@bruceleroy98]

We are trained to rely on block as a fire tank in group instances i.e. fortified blocking neck mod; "If he doesn't have his neck mod, kick him from the raid!". But all the while, realizing that most of us fire tanks need to READ and act accordingly. Thanks for the perspective. Engulf is way faster than Enflame and some other burn starters. I used it for the 1st time in a battle rotation last night. Been a fire tank since release.

[@cakegood6]

I agree. I've been watching for years. And yes 🔥 is my 1st love. So because of your great tutelage, I've switched over to fire tanking again. Your insight proves to be unparalleled for those who just make videos for, lack of the better word, "clout." To truly understand MMOs, you to understand the fundamentals. Wise beyond your years my good man...😆

[@asleep-tadpole545]

Thank you so much for this video, use the same load out and it's really helpful. Only thing I messed up with was the stat points

[@AeshwaryeAggarwal]

I don't know if this kind of series existed in the past but looking at this for the first time I must this was one of the most informative and useful videos I've seen on this channel. Felt a great wave of excitement towards my fire tank character as I thought about the next time I tank a raid, Thank you for your effort!

[@ObsidianChill]

not specifically existed, they were just apart of the larger individual powerset guides but I feel its better to separate them and leave the powerset guides themselves to DPS and have separate support videos like these that go into all the details you wouldn't think you need but some players will. My vision for these videos is that a player that has never been Fire for example ever could switch and watch this video and be a good fire tank.

[@Terrencify]

Nice been waiting on these

[@GameTubeDC]

Great video bro !!

[@Andrito3000]

2 Breakout trinkets used to drop in Themy divided alert. A blue one that looks like a diamond and a green one. You can probably still get them there as a loot instead of buying them for any marks. That alert has nice weapon styles too. Just as a note.

[@Redbird-iq6qp]

Dude you are killing me with these great guides. Lol Watch your Atomic and was all set then I saw this one. Dang now I am confused on which to use for my first toon. Lol Seriously though keep up the fantastic job. For a noob like me they are very helpful. Guess i need to stop researching things and just play the game. Lol

[@immjaded-2676]

Im a year late but this helped allot when I remade the build from scratch 💯just tweaked a few things diff from the video to fit my style more and now Im damn near impossible to kill

[@MrLano2000]

Getting this sudden urge to go Tank now...hmmm. Great vids!

[@darkcreator14]

It's a 3 sec cooldown and does great numbers for healing and dps

[@diamondep]

I switched over to Fire from Earth. I love fire, but I'm finding I'm getting stunned/controlled more. I'm using my breakout trinket and PP more often than I did with earth and have the innates as well.. Is there something I'm missing?

[@donald5674]

Great video! Could you please tell me in your opinion which Ally’s I should use for fire tank. Thank you.

[@62907582844900]

Hi, great video. Where can I find the Hardened Bestial Token?

[@ThatsGoneHurt]

So I was watching again just to see the tank buffs for fire, and I’m sure you remember how fire tank in SM back in the day was just hold block and eat the damage because of high health pool, but technically wouldn’t you have the highest defense in game at current stage by blocking and using fortified blocking so 115% total, I know the turtle tank is outdated tbh and you lose the 50% heal received but I feel in terms of solely eating damage that isn’t a scripted 1 shot, fire with that health pool, the 30% mitigation from immolation, and blocking has the best survival (not saying without blocking is worse I am just speaking on stats). I don’t know I’m just making an opinion on it, when tanking, besides avoiding unnecessary damage by having good spacing etc, I’m just feeling the damage you can’t avoid you should just block it as fire and take get that extra 40 plus % defense . I’ll have to mess around with it, I was only considering due to the defense you gain from fire is considerably lower compared to the other powersets and you also have to keep hit counter above 5 to even receive the defense which isn’t hard but considering you have to eat alot of damage anyway to gain the buff you better off making a decision on do you want a potential of 60-75% defense with the neck mod and fire soul up 24/7 or do you want 115% defense while blocking with neck mod and lose the 50% heal, what are your thoughts on it ?

[@templergun6689]

Can i play fire tank with Hand Blasters? i really don't like the look of wielding a weapon. especially 1 handed

[@jmg4208]

Good vid! But why i feel I'm the only one rocking transformation card in end content. As a FTP to low spender, it's hard to find a sustainable arti that can be beneficial in both rôle. Since I'm returning player from 2017, i end doing a 50/50 built. To catch time & saving as a work around. Loadout consiste of 2 shields & 4 heals (no absord heat).. manacles, mystic, transformation. This may not be The best out there, but at 45% crit 135% mag it's fun none the less.

[@nauvis]

Circes mask doesnt just proc on a shield breaking, it also procs when the shield times out.

[@ObsidianChill]

I could have clarified better, shield breaking means the same thing, breaking due to duration or breaking due to damage. If immolation was how it worked previously, would be a great artifact.

[@nauvis]

@@ObsidianChill amazon deflect will also proc it on self cancelling

[@xzavierking1406]

Miss Being Able To Play Dc, Now I’m Driving Trucks OTR .

[@ObsidianChill]

safe travels

[@Fae2705]

Does the weapon style matter, because I chose martial arts with fire. Seemed like a well rounded choice.

[@bernardgray792]

One other question. You mentioned using all natural sodas, but you have in the bottle city one. Do you swap them in and out? Thanks.

[@ObsidianChill]

If you take a all natural the buff stays for 30min unless you die so you can put the bottled and it won’t override that buff

[@karatevaldi]

How is absorb heat exploitable? Is it just too strong or something?

[@dragonwren1893]

And just like that I'm encouraged to make a fire tank

[@magusxxx]

Ah, I remember the good ole days when some of us DPS would run Eternal Flame. Healer would go down and someone would hit it while waiting for the pick-up. Here's an old video that's fun to watch. - kzbin.info/www/bejne/lX-rnmyjoK2plc0

[@user-fp7to2hp3x]

What art set up would you use for E+? I got every tank art 200 but not sure what combo to run and im new to fire tanking

[@ObsidianChill]

if there are adds I use mystic-eog-laz pit if its just a boss I use manacles-eog-laz

[@gamehound6348]

Maybe a dumb question but what allies do you recommend

[@bundy9463]

Hey bro. Just wanted to say I’m a big fan. I watch all your videos for loadouts and how each power set mechanics works. I’m recently coming back from a year or two break, I just want to know because I see some of these updated videos are coming on a year old. Is it still valuable in today came. I don’t how much the game changed since you made these videos

[@ObsidianChill]

The powersets in this game haven't changed for around 2+ years so all these are still completely valid. The only changes that come out now are new artifacts and allies which then are more how much money you want to invest

[@gianikamaru6955]

Hey I found this video a little late and chose Acrobatics which skills should I go for in that tree if any? Thanks for the vid it's awesome

[@ObsidianChill]

you want to take enough SP in the tree to pick up Perfect Poise as a shield and you can then choose the movement recovery innates if you have enough SP. Perfect Poise is one of my favorite shields its very useful in combat.

[@gianikamaru6955]

@@ObsidianChill Thanks a bunch

[@bruceleroy98]

@Gianikamaru I'm a fire tank acrobat as well and I'm sure I have perfect poise plugged in from years ago. Maybe we can trade notes in game. Hit me - toon name Golden Assasin.

[@Shadow497]

I find putting 100 sp in health is good enough not necessarily worth the extra sp to max it out better off putting it into resto and Dom. Than you can put the rest into health or whatever.

[@RonJon2012]

Is this class still good for tanking in 2024?

[@bernardgray792]

I know hearty increases the health pool, however would Quick Healing also be a beneficial chest mod? If I'm running an Eog loadout to spam Perfect Poise, which Art should I swap out?

[@ObsidianChill]

Hearty will still be best due to fires buffs working off health pool, the healing in increase isn’t as noticeable, for arts it would be manacles-mystic-EoG

[@zeehero7280]

I have a hard time finding a good time to use amazonium deflection, it locks you in place for too long and you can't attack during it, seems rather situational compared to the hardlight shield. For now I removed it from my loadout in favor of a damaging supercharge or the group breakfree.

[@ObsidianChill]

amazon deflection is more for when you are in a situation where your other abilities are on cooldown and you can sit in AD to buy yourself a few seconds to then go back into your normal rotation. Or to block boss abilities that would normally deal heavy damage to you, as long as the attack doesn't stun you out of it. You are right is it situational and comes down to preference

[@CurvyBobbie]

For a new tank fire or rage? I’m coming from a munition

[@healiosbc]

Hey Obsidian! I was wondering how do you feel about Dilustel Refractor. Idk how to feel abt it cuz, yes you use two pulls with this build but fire tank doesnt spec Dominance so... Would Dilustel Refractor be viable for any tank?

[@ObsidianChill]

It can be viable but its not better than Everyman Prototype or Eye of Gemini. Every tank will have Manacles/Mystic as #1 and #2. If you have refractor you can use it for something like speed runs to help buff trolls but its not worth it if you don't already have it leveled

[@christytilley4334]

I was happy to have that as my 3rd artifact as I leveled my manacles & mystic7 but everyone weren't to impressed i dunno or maybe they're all just sheep lol

[@R3DD_TTV]

Been having trouble understanding what I’m doing wrong when I tank Proma in TSWE. Any pointers on how to stop her staff ability from pretty much one shotting me? Some days I can cake walk proma and others it can be hassling. Is there a lunge or interruption that I’m missing? Thanks in advance.

[@djteq9]

I think there is a lunge

[@StormingSurgeKnight]

Not sure if you found out yet, but you can lunge her in order to stop her arctic gust staff combo and you won’t die. If that’s wut you were referring to.

[@GoldenNamekianGlenn]

What's a good tank for pulling multiple adds and keeping them there and focused on You?

[@memorylane3457]

Rage

[@Niokka]

Yo obsidian I need to ask you something is manacles really useful for pve or should I just run gem scrap and Symbol it 7 I run manacles and it doesn’t really do nothing

[@ObsidianChill]

manacles is useful for elite tanking, for regular or anything else manacles will be overkill

[@jonathanross8321]

Would the defense buff from NVB be worth investing in? (For normal content.)

[@ObsidianChill]

Nah, you would be better off running Eternal Flame at that point. NVB isn't that bad as a tank supercharge but for Fire there are better choices.

[@jasongotclips227]

I have 150 skill points how can I get more

[@illfixyourhonda3230]

Im just starting a new toon with fire, how possible is it to tank with low SP, around 100 ?

[@ObsidianChill]

in the content you would be running as a new character those SP would be fine

[@odellconner3773]

How you get almost a ban skill points you must been playing for wile

[@a1f188]

Is fire tank the meta now? I see more fire tanks in end game content. How should you spec for this dlc?

[@ObsidianChill]

Fire and Rage are meta and will continue to be for awhile. Speccing wise it would be the same as this video

[@mrCmoney145]

Can you help me get skill points I really need the help

[@tyriqueguzman8643]

How do u have 957 sp

[@arosonomy]

But *why* is fireball taunt worse than lasso. Genuinely curious as you've convinced me to use Amazonian Deflection instead of an "ult" lol

[@ObsidianChill]

since fireball is a projectile it can miss and get line of sighted and it has no real effect except to apply burning.

[@briandarnell1195]

Hrmmm.. can't decide between changing my power to Rage and Fire tank. Any advice?

[@ObsidianChill]

fire will be the better dps side of the power if that counts in your decision. Rage tanking will be better with lower artifacts as well.

[@briandarnell1195]

@@ObsidianChill thanks for the reply. I really need to work on "Tanking" and therefore that side of things. I have always been pretty medium with the countering system, but after controlling for a good while I want to try a different experience.

[@nicknickdaenvy1980]

Are you going to update this for the Clarion artifact?

[@ObsidianChill]

Clarion is an optional artifact for tanking and I’ve seen more success with healers running it. Clarion isn’t good enough to drop manacles/mystic/EoG/Everyman/refractor for fire.

[@Stizzfoshizz]

Does Amazon deflection count as a block or is it coded like a shield? Will you lose your fire soul using it?

[@ObsidianChill]

no, amazon deflection is coded as a shield so you are ok.

[@Alex-jw3tr]

It's also coded as a block

[@bernardgray792]

Would AD absorb Brianiacs charge or do we still need to block or roll away?

[@Alex-jw3tr]

@@bernardgray792 not sure if it'll block Braniacs charge but you can be block broken by the adds which usually everyone rolls away from the hit as a tank

[@dark_assassinfgc8947]

Is flight movement hood for fire tank?

[@christytilley4334]

Acrobatics should be called spiderman or something because you just annoyingly stick to everything and the camera's and directional controls are a nightmare

[@morphieGaming]

Laso with art. burning determination inferno back draft hard light Amazon shield or pheromone

[@sgarrison251]

If resto is +30% and dom is +25% for healing, why wouldn't you put all your skill points in resto (after health) and get all your dom from augments? Thanks!

[@ObsidianChill]

Fire’s benefit revolves around health pool, similar to rage. You want your health pool as high as possible which is why your sp is placed there first. While resto is important it doesn’t have that much of an impact overall for fire. Same concept where dom isn’t needed to be spec’d heavily for a healer.

[@nathancombs5358]

@@ObsidianChill I was actually partially confused on the stat part as well but for a different reason. I was surprised that you put more into restoration over dominance due to dominance and restoration being added together to determine what your being healed. Dominance is helpful for defensives and overcoming enemies will power (taunting, dragging,) I’m a pretty decent fire tank in game but I usually put one 4th of my sp into restoration and the rest into dominance. Is this the wrong tactic?

[@lepnin]

Since you do not use a group brake out. Does that mean superman ally is not useful as a fire tank?

[@KrispyChurro]

Yes. Superman requires you to use a group breakout ability in order for the support ability to activate

[@Joe-oy9yh]

Hey Obsidian is this fire tank build still viable now ?

[@ObsidianChill]

yes, nothing has changed

[@bernardgray792]

Regarding the damage to the burning enemies for the additional defense. I've heard you have to hit 15 on the hit counter to get the full benefit. Is that still correct? In the rotation video you didn't get the hit count high, is that something that is also situational?

[@ObsidianChill]

It changed at GU103 so the Fire Soul stack count have been reduced to requiring 5 (down from 20) to get max defense bonus.

[@bernardgray792]

@@ObsidianChill in the video I've noticed you don't hit the 5 hit count often. Is that situational or something to focus on having up at all times?

[@ObsidianChill]

@@bernardgray792 in actual raid or alert content it will be easy to maintain the 5 counter, in open world nothing poses that much of a risk to you anyways as a tank

[@me________]

Thinking about making a new character so i can have 2 very high cr characters because one of is 320 so im getting ready to work on another and im gonna be a fire tank because i dont really want ice and i dont have earth, rage, or atomic 😂

[@ObsidianChill]

Nice! Good luck :)

[@me________]

@@ObsidianChill thank you

[@dcplay1836]

13:10 this is Batman mentor not Sups) Sups mentor have DNA not microchips

[@Jmoneyy-sr8pc]

Ice or fire?

[@moayadariff1210]

I’m confused like u

[@lamarhuncho2777]

😁😁😁😁

[@kuja5809]

Havent played in over 2 years im level 30 power rank 98 i think. Anyone want to play with me to give me a refresher

[@ademmeta7097]

Obsidian whats U Favorit Tank Power and dps Power

[@ObsidianChill]

favorite tank is Fire and dps I'd have to say Mental

[@ademmeta7097]

OK nice choose fire Tank is very good i Like very much earth Tank but i think is need to fixed Like rage fire Atom to heal a litel Bit they self golem IS good but Not so good and for dps is Mental amazing i Fell hard light IS very good might Power but i dont Like the Controlle Side i be was 5 years rage now i testet light and was amazing DMG but i need to be a Tank then i choose te BE fire now is very good im sory for Mi Englisch ist Bad 😁

[@vegetaownz1804]

I’ve been watching the fire and atomic guide back to back and idk wich one i wanna go ! 😢 ugh Who can convince me ?

[@ObsidianChill]

fire will be the better of the two, unless you are really a fan of the comboing with atomic.

[@vegetaownz1804]

Okay thank you so much. Love your videos 😊

[@luffypl6754]

Fire look muuuch weaker from atomic. Atomic have alot more heal. Shield from atomic will take whole dmg

[@-LoNova]

Is this still viable?

[@ObsidianChill]

correct, nothing has changed with fire tanking

[@VitalDcuo]

@@ObsidianChill fire or ice tanking ? Which do u think is better overall and best used in elite/elite + and regular content

[@echopryme]

Here's the simple truth (from a guy with a Fire Tank). Pull. Shield. Block. BACKDRAFT. Block. Repeat. Its that simple. Because THAT is what Tanks are supposed to do.

[@moseslift]

Earth tank is the best

[@unclenephew2376]

@Alpha - Prophetic yoo you trynna show me h the ways ? Lol

[@realkingofoldschool]

This kinda useless bro you aint show no rotation, all you doin is playing with the healing, whats the rotation man