Non Tank Fire Melee combustion to replace breath of fire

[WindDemon21]

So since the patch busted live without fixing fire melee's MAIN issue, suggestion to hopefully quickly fix the  set to swap combustion for breath of fire. Breath of fire has always been crap due to it's cast time and super narrow radius and short range. The set constantly feels anemic, cause basically it's only aoe is fire sword circle.

 

Please swap combustion for fire sword circle. If someone wants to complain about "thematic purposes" this never had to be in fire MELEE. Put breath of fire in the epic, or roll a ranged toon...

[WindDemon21]

Also, scorch to fire punch .83s please. Always also been dumb. Sure, I can't imagine a SINGLE person picking scorch now that you can skip it, but case in point, would be better to actually make it valuable at the .83 or even .67 brawl cast time to fit in between stuff, especially on scrappers.

[Rudra]

What is wrong with having a ranged power in the fiery melee set? Almost every melee set has a single ranged attack for dealing with enemies that won't close.

[WindDemon21]

6 minutes ago, Rudra said:

What is wrong with having a ranged power in the fiery melee set? Almost every melee set has a single ranged attack for dealing with enemies that won't close.

15ft isn't "ranged" lol. And having one, nothing at all, but this isn't it. And the issue is fire melee's aoe, it really needs combustion to replace it already, always has. If the set WERE to get a ranged attack, it would replace something else, but not combustion/fsc which it desparately needs.

[kelika2]

a wider cone was not too much to ask for

[WindDemon21]

4 minutes ago, kelika2 said:

a wider cone was not too much to ask for

Right, but if keeping it too it easily needs a faster animation too. But still combustion is already there and would fit perfectly. For a set whose main focus has always been on damage it's atrociously low on aoe.

[Rudra]

I'm against replacing powers in an already active power set. Improving? Sure, depending on the improvement.

[Vanden]

1 hour ago, Rudra said:

I'm against replacing powers in an already active power set. Improving? Sure, depending on the improvement.

 

Technically changing BoF's 15 degree arc into a 360 degree arc isn't replacing it

[WindDemon21]

Exactly, change the arc, to 360 and speed up the animation under 2 seconds 😛

[PoptartsNinja]

Combine it with Whirlwind's animation so you spin in a circle like a fiery sprinkler.

 

No joke though, all the breath attacks really need their animation times looked at. Starting with the fire breaths would be fair.