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I need to make a general content build on one of my fiery gals and take it for a spin. 6 fiery aura characters maxed out across the board and not one has ever been built for non-fire damage. Not one even has Healing Flames. Will do it on Fire/Rad tank. Much prefer tanks to brutes in general play.

Best I could find quickly, not official. I could’ve sworn I’ve seen Captain Powerhouse say the same though? “Balance pass” accompanying Nerf-like bug fix sounds like buffs to me. But what do I know and more importantly what does @macskull know? And yes Fiery Aura is supposed to be weaker defense but, if the bug fix really does obliterate Burn, it wouldn’t be much more offensive than Rad Armor at that point. But Rad Armor could easily be considered overtuned too. Who knows.

Touche, avatar nemesis

Poisonous Ray is dope against AV’s on Controllers. I think Mastermind’s Mace Mastery is where you get Power Boost?

I would be completely fine with the minor tweaks I think they will actually make. I don’t want them to nerf anything “into the ground” overall, but I don’t think they will, because I think they understand severe power creep addiction more than anyone. I don’t believe they will allow Burn’s damage to change so radically without also revamping the set and buffing other powers to compensate. Which wouldn’t be nerfing the set into the ground, just a rebalance - fine. I don’t believe they’d have anything radical in mind for the other sets that aren’t currently defined by a broken glitch. Shield - maybe they reduce the DDR potential. Bio - something similarly reasonable. In other words, I trust them to nerf whatever the hell they want because I don’t believe for a second that they’ll ruin anything. The closest we got to the nerf apocalypse here in recent times was when they reduced the uptime of Rune of Protection. If that minuscule tweak is the worst they will do? Do your worst. To answer your question more directly as it relates to Burn? Yes I want them to fix bugs.

The people just want their power creep. End of story. Preferably injected directly into their veins.

Maybe, I haven’t seen the effects - my info is heresay from testers. I don’t care if they buff it but i thought that was the plan. Let me see if I can find a dev source...

Maybe in a vacuum but a whole lot has changed besides IO’s since IO’s came out, including Fiery Aura.

Fixed 😢

Human form builds are fine.

I thought they found the impact of the Burn bug to be so enormous that they admitted it would have to get a balance pass when they finally fix it.

It’s not as high as Fire, but it’s pretty obscenely powerful for a much tougher set. I doubt my Rad/Savage/Fire tanker is all that much slower than your average fire brute. Radiation Therapy is insane.

You’re triggering me with this request

I’ve seen zero evidence Fire or Dark are hurting against anyone but Lord Recluse so far. And as I said Fire will be buffed as soon as the Burn bug is fixed. You’ve definitely helped me come to realize that Rad Armor is overtuned though, but likely that will be fixed with PPM changes as you said.

Yeah I’m also thinking of some other posters’ reporting here. Like I remember one guy testing several Bio scrappers and finding Claws to be as fast as all the other top tier names except for EM (TW, WM, Katana, Ice...). I think it’s fine though. I find Claws very tedious, mainly because I was never an attack chain type player until a year ago or less. As in, I mash buttons and usually that means spamming AoE’s and throwing heavy hitters at bosses. Well Claws doesn’t really have heavy hitters, just amazing DPA tiny hitters. Spin is definitely pretty exceptional too.

Well this certainly doesn’t line up with attitudes in the pylon thread, what builds are meta, etc. I’m not saying it needs nerfs but other posts on this forum make “perfectly in the middle” sound like bullshit, sorry. Middle of the pack would make it, what, twelfth-ish? I don’t believe that you believe that. If you do believe that, it’s an anomaly amongst your min-max posting history to love such a powerset so much.

You should definitely be able to manage both if you intend to use IO’s. I’ll screenshot my Invuln/Claws and also an example of a proc monster tanker build this weekend if you like. The Invuln/Claws isn’t currently a real proc monster (I don’t consider 5 slotted purple set plus one extra proc to be a real proc monster. 4+ procs on most attacks or gtfo 🙂 ). If you do want to try proc style, I for one am a giant fan of Vigor Core for the Acc/End support even though I think most will still direct you towards Musculature. Though Cardiac is still awesome for Invuln. My most proccy builds don’t have enough room for many Accuracy bonuses when they’ve got 6 attacks procced to the teeth.

I already said I don’t see why every armor set necessarily has to trivialize one of the hardest enemies in the game. Lord Recluse is the most extreme example possible here. Who cares if he’s hard to tank. He’s supposed to be. Pop Break Frees on that one fight if it’s so important.

But could it be triple stacked?

Eh, they get Dark Regeneration. They’re fine.

Oh well, I got excited for a second. Yeah Tanker Storm Kick is quite fire.

yeah itf is dope ngl

Addressed already, stfu 🙂

I meant what is legitimately attempted, not how reality works out.

It does seem a little unfair that everyone else gets pure immunity. Mag 20 protection would be sound more fair and still yield 99.99% same results. But w/e