What class can kill it with fire, even through Fire immunity ?

[Grifthin]

Is there a prestige class that focusses on using fire to kill things very dead ? I mean even if the enemy has fire resistance or Fire immunity. Cut right through it and burn you to a crisp ? If not fire some other element ?

[Prodan]

Hellfire Warlock

Sorcerer with Searing Spell

Sanctified One of Kord.

[AstralFire]

Any spellcaster with Searing Spell or that feat from BoED that turns half damage to sacred damage. Combine both of them with Arcane Thesis. Exalted Arcanist with a Searing Spell Sudden Maximized Phoenix Fire would hurt like hell - 240 fire damage, all of it non-resistable. Of course, you lose a level for it...

Homebrew feat for Swordsages here: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5052525#post5052525

[AmberVael]

Frost Mage can deal half damage to cold immune creatures, and ignore cold resistance.

Searing Spell metamagic allows you to do the same with Fire damage spells, and Piercing Cold does the same with ice damage spells.

[Optimystik]

Pyrokineticists (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/prestigeClasses/pyrokineticist.htm) can literally Kill It With Fire (via Heat Death.) You don't even need a psionic class to get in - the right race or feat will do the trick.

By RAW, the death ability ignores fire immunity (though they would take no damage if they make the save.)

[Mastikator]

Flame strike doesn't even need any metamagic, it's 50% divine fire as is. So any cleric level 9 or more.

[AslanCross]

Silver Pyromancer, Eberron Five Nations. You lose a total of two caster levels since you need Turn Undead to get in (one level of cleric) and the first level doesn't give CL increase. However, its pyromancer class feature makes your caster level for fire spells = your HD, so you can still burninate stuff as effectively as a similarly-leveled wizard. Besides, you're still an arcane caster.

At 2nd level, it basically turns all of your spells into flame strikes---everything deals half fire, half sacred damage. Its mid-level ability allows you to deal +50% more damage against evil creatures, and this stacks with Empower.
Silver Pyro's 5th-level capstone allows you to turn all of your fire damage into sacred damage!

Bonus: You can also pick paladin spells for your level up spells. Holy Sword at lv 8? Yes please.

Drawbacks: You must be lawful good and are bound by a looser version of the paladin code of conduct (Ceasing to be lawful good and willfully committing an evil act make you fall and you need to atone. You lose access to your paladin spells, but you can still use your arcane spells.)

[PId6]

Silver Pyromancer, Eberron Five Nations. You lose a total of two caster levels since you need Turn Undead to get in
One level of Sacred Exorcist gets you Turn Undead without losing CL. It even fits the flavor quite well, though it takes a bit longer to get in Silver Pyromancer.

[AslanCross]

One level of Sacred Exorcist gets you Turn Undead without losing CL. It even fits the flavor quite well, though it takes a bit longer to get in Silver Pyromancer.

Good call. On the flip side, a cleric dip gets you Domains.

[Heliomance]

Also Sanctified One of Kord (Complete Champion)

[Hawriel]

Flame strike doesn't even need any metamagic, it's 50% divine fire as is. So any cleric level 9 or more.

First thing that jumped in my mind.

[Wings of Peace]

Personally I'd take Sanctified One of Kord before Silver Pyromancer if all I wanted was the Fire Kills All power. It seems more straight to the point and costs less CL

[DragoonWraith]

Personally I'd take Sanctified One of Kord before Silver Pyromancer if all I wanted was the Fire Kills All power. It seems more straight to the point and costs less CL
Silver Flame Pyromancer does have a number of other quite nice bennies though.

And, if your DM rules that Turn Undead and Rebuke Undead are the same for requirements and class features, and you either mess with your alignment or the DM waives it, it can do stupid things with Dread Necromancer. Like Rebuking Undead as a 39th level Cleric pre-Epic.

[Optimystik]

Adding to Pyrokineticist - did I mention Heat Death is at-will, unlimited use? They will fail their save eventually...

[Darrin]

Good call. On the flip side, a cleric dip gets you Domains.

So does the Planar Touchstone feat linked to the Catalogs of Enlightenment. Costs a feat, but keeps your caster level intact.

[NEO|Phyte]

Adding to Pyrokineticist - did I mention Heat Death is at-will, unlimited use? They will fail their save eventually...

Not ENTIRELY at-will, it does require you to expend your psionic focus.

[SaintRidley]

A Shameless self-plug for the Infernal Pyromancer. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7965439)

[Hendel]

Is there a prestige class that focusses on using fire to kill things very dead ? I mean even if the enemy has fire resistance or Fire immunity. Cut right through it and burn you to a crisp ? If not fire some other element ?

I really love the high level Sorcerer with Searing Spell and Orb of Fire.

If you can combine this with Arcane Thesis, Empower Spell, Maximize Spell, Twin Spell, Enhance Spell (Epic), Improved Metamagic (Epic) and then start getting funky with Greater Arcane Focus, you can lay down some massive heat with no SR, no save, and half damage to those with immunity to fire and all you need is a ranged touch attack. Powerful stuff here!

[Hida Reju]

I really love the high level Sorcerer with Searing Spell and Orb of Fire.

If you can combine this with Arcane Thesis, Empower Spell, Maximize Spell, Twin Spell, Enhance Spell (Epic), Improved Metamagic (Epic) and then start getting funky with Greater Arcane Focus, you can lay down some massive heat with no SR, no save, and half damage to those with immunity to fire and all you need is a ranged touch attack. Powerful stuff here!

I like Channeled Pyrobolt from PHBII it lets me scale with casting time. Need a swift blast you have one, need a standard action you have one, got time for setting an ambush full round or greater then its all good. Maxes at 10D10 I believe before metamagic.

[Optimystik]

Not ENTIRELY at-will, it does require you to expend your psionic focus.

So find a way to take a Move action and a Full-attack action repeatedly. Or alternate rounds. :smallsmile:

[Volthawk]

So find a way to take a Move action and a Full-attack action repeatedly. Or alternate rounds. :smallsmile:

Sounds like Marshall has a use now :smallbiggrin:.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I really love the high level Sorcerer with Searing Spell and Orb of Fire.

If you can combine this with Arcane Thesis, Empower Spell, Maximize Spell, Twin Spell, Enhance Spell (Epic), Improved Metamagic (Epic) and then start getting funky with Greater Arcane Focus, you can lay down some massive heat with no SR, no save, and half damage to those with immunity to fire and all you need is a ranged touch attack. Powerful stuff here!

I think a Hellfire Glaivelock would still end up doing more damage, at least against normally immune critters. At least if you used progression cheese.

[Fizban]

Planar Sorcerer Substitution level (Planar Handbook) is also great. For the low low cost of one low level spell known, you can replace half the energy damage of any spell you cast with force damage (not that force is actually a damage type, but that's not the point). You can't use it on your highest level spells, but your highest level spells shouldn't be blasting anyway, that's what metamagic is for.

Combine with Searing Spell, Piercing Cold, or Consecrate Spell to guarantee 3/4 of your damage ignoring energy resistance. Sure there are spells that deal untyped damage, energy damage looks cooler and lots of energy spells have extra effects you might want.

The prestige class that focuses on one energy type is Elemental Savant (Complete Arcane). Unfortunately the one thing that it needs to do, ignore energy resistance, is completely absent. It turns all your energy spells into your chosen energy, which makes you completely useless against anything that is resistant, but that also means you can use any energy spell you want with Searing Spell/Piercing Cold, and with Planar Sorcerer you can still get 3/4 max in. The other problem is that you lose 2 caster levels in return for some measly static bonuses and elemental type. The only energies worth picking are air and earth for the 100' perfect fly speed or earth glide capstone, but what a surprise, there's no "piercing" feat for lightning or earth. That doesn't stop you from using Consecrate or Desecrate Spell, but even though they work just fine against any alignment they still imply more dedication than you might want to something other than fire.

Another prestige class than can alter energy damage into something else is Daggerspell Mage. It gets the ability to change half the energy into slashing damage (still from a spell source so it ignores DR), but it's a rogue/wizard hybrid class so it looses focus, and most importantly, is not dedicated to fire.

[GoodbyeSoberDay]

I really love the high level Sorcerer with Searing Spell and Orb of Fire.

If you can combine this with Arcane Thesis, Empower Spell, Maximize Spell, Twin Spell, Enhance Spell (Epic), Improved Metamagic (Epic) and then start getting funky with Greater Arcane Focus, you can lay down some massive heat with no SR, no save, and half damage to those with immunity to fire and all you need is a ranged touch attack. Powerful stuff here!It gets better with Incantatrix. Pick up Ocular Spell and Split Ray on top of your other damage-enhancing metamagic feats (empower, twin, max, searing, et cetera), get a custom item of Spellcraft, and all of a sudden you're firing off 8 high powered eye lasers of doom all at once. Pick up invisible spell (for -1 metamagic with AT) and you're basically blowing people up by glaring at them. Since you're a sorcerer, you can be firin' your lasers and then chargin' your lasers every battle. Look up the Mailman.