Is Fire-Earth a good option for currently?

[GrayScioto]

Hey folks,

Back when we had the free experience stone I rolled up a Sorcerer just to see what it was like. To my surprise I found that I really enjoyed playing him as an earth savant but I understand that if I want to take him into EE content that may not be the best choice.

He is Drow with 460ish HP ( I have not even finished GS HP item ) and pushing 4K sp. I really couldn't tell you more about the build and I cannot log on to game now.

So question is:

With the current state of the game would a Fire based savant with earth back-up be able to be built into a good ( not best ) member of an EE raid party?

Given my playstyle and love of DoTs I really like the earth spells in sub-EE content and I just don't seem to be able to get the hang of playing an air savant.

Thanks for your advice.

[Clatterfist]

I'd be interested to know whether Burning Blood and Meteor Swarm get stacking bonuses when you use Earth and Fire together, and particularly if casting one of those spells can proc benefits from both trees at once. Could be a pretty sweet deal if they can, as Meteor Swarm is an excellent spell that a Fire Savant will want to be casting anyway.

[Havok.cry]

I'd be interested to know whether Burning Blood and Meteor Swarm get stacking bonuses when you use Earth and Fire together, and particularly if casting one of those spells can proc benefits from both trees at once. Could be a pretty sweet deal if they can, as Meteor Swarm is an excellent spell that a Fire Savant will want to be casting anyway.

This never even occurred to me. Filing away for future use. Thanks.

[Exiledtyrant]

they do in fact proc the fire dot and acid armor/fortitude shred all at once. they also get spell power from their respective spell power enhancement and gain caster levels with their savant cores. one problem however is the 25 spell power stack only procs for acid when using burning blood. if you have the fire spell power stacking enhancements and the acid one the acid will take over on the dual spell damage but you can stack them separately by using other spells from the same school.

this is all from burning blood btw i don;t know about meteor swarm I have my doubts since wiki says the damage is listed as untyped and not earth anymore. It gains spell power from kinetic supposedly