Ultimately, maximizing damage isn’t the hard part, it’s making sure nothing is immune to that damage.įorce damage is usually a good starting point, since force is very rarely resisted.

Specifically, the goal is to have an extremely reliable nuke, that happens to deal enough damage to kill anything. The basis for optimized blasting in 3.5 is the mailman. The one non-negotiable factor is that the suggestions or build must be competitive with relatively unoptimized spellcasters who are not blasters in terms of effectiveness. Have some degree of 'flair' or 'theme' in their designīoth complete builds and simple suggestions or lists of usable/competitive elements for a 'blaster' spellcaster are both acceptable as answers.Are playable from as low level as possible.Directly do damage with spells, aimed at taking enemies out of combat as fast as possible, as many times per day as possible.Maintain a degree of utility and aren't 'one trick ponies'.Overcome the weaknesses inherent to blasting (low damage, resistances, immunities, SR, touch AC).I'd like to know what some builds, combinations of feats, classes, spells and magic items are that make blasting competitive with other spellcasters focused on things other than damage. I know why this is, and that isn't the focus of this question. 'Blasting' in 3.5e, dealing damage using spells, is seen as inferior to battlefield control, buffing, and debuffing - in that it uses up more spell slots for less effect, takes longer to work, and is resisted by more types of monsters and enemies.

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