Fire Doms: Bonfire questions

[Idiotfool]

Hello, all.

 

I have a Fire/Ice Dominator that I'm leveling up and I finally got Bonfire the other day. So far, the power is great, and I think I'll love it more when I can slot in Sudden Acceleration to change knockback to knockdown. I am curious about how this power is affected by other boost powers, though.

 

• Does Domination have any affect, at all, on the magnitude of knock effects?
• How about /Ice's Power Boost?
• When I have permadom and permahasten, I'll be able to cast this 3 times. Will this affect AVs? Do Knock powers stack, like holds/disorient/confusion do?

 

I don't want to be greedy, but I'd like to know - how can I make this power even more effective, aside from Sudden Acceleration slotting?

 

Thanks!

[tidge]

Full disclosure: My Bonfire is frankenslotted with Procs (including +Recharge and (Overwhelming Force? or Sudden Acceleration?) KB->KD). Mileage may improve with actual KB sets.

 

As near as I can tell (and I haven't checked logs) the Knockback(Down) in Bonfire doesn't behave like a Control power. I would be happy to be wrong, but I haven't seen it stack and it doesn't appear to contribute to extra WAYLAY! incarnate damage.

Edited March 6, 2020 by tidge

[Idiotfool]

I intend to have the +Recharge, as well. From what I read, it's a pseudo-pet, so I don't expect that I'll be able to influence its power, but I thought I'd ask.

[Coyote]

The +Recharge affects the caster only... well, it probably affects the pet, but pet powers are flagged to ignore +Recharge bonuses, so that makes no difference.

Knockback does stack if they trigger at the same time, but it's pretty irrelevant. You don't want a higher value of knockback since knockdown is preferred, and I believe that AVs have both resistance to and protection from KB effects, which will mean that you can't stack it high enough to break their protection. I have seen them get knocked down, but I think it's only when the purple triangles are down.

 

[tidge]

The +Recharge is for the Dom, not the Bonfire. I think my Dom has permadom with Hasten, but IIRC is a fraction of a cast time short of permahasten. The timing of Bonfire is such that every proc fires, so the recharge there closes the gap for permahasten.

[Idiotfool]

That's pretty much my build, tidge. I have permahasten, but only by half a second in my planned build. Getting that +Recharge would help ensure that I don't lose out on continuous quickness.

[Tugzug]

Power Boost and other +Special effects do not increase or interact with knockback at all, though a few of those powers might have outdated descriptions that say they do.