ATO Fiery Orb

[Snarky]

I play ranged 80-90% time.  I do a drive by pbaoe chain once every minute or so.  Other than that i am ranged. (4 cones) and doing ST and ranged aoe hold/debuffs.  
 

the Orb is a pet.  But i cant find details on it.  Is it a melee pet?  Is it strong?  Is it just a fiery special effect and about as useful as the brute + fury ato proc?   ( not at all…).  I have it in fearsome stare, a cone.  It does not proc often in there at all.  

[Maelwys]

It summons a little orange flame (a bit like the Animus Arcana "fireballs") and it typically spawns on top of you, not on your foes; and if it's close enough to an enemy then it'll run up and hug them; dealing a bit of AoE damage in the process. Its stats are here.

It's only 1-2 PPM so won't spawn hugely often in a fast-recharging attack.
The actual damage output is a tiny bit better than a regular damage proc if it only gets a tick or two off before dying to enemy fire. It can last for up to 20 seconds though, and you can have multiple copies of it out simultaneously if you're lucky enough with the RNG.
It's markedly better in AoEs; and I've found that the Superior ATO version procs almost every time in a lot of the Arsenal Control powers like Sleep Grenade.
 

Edited May 26 by Maelwys

[BZRKR]

It's a pet that shows up in the pet window. It moves into melee range of a target and burns them with a 16 target blazing aura. It ignites the oil slick from oil slick arrow. I use the Proc IO along with 4 Basilisk's Gaze on many of my AoE Holds.

 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/entity.html?entity=pets_dominating_grasp_pet

 

[Frosticus]

I like it a decent amount in PSW on my earth/psi. I typically have 1-2 out with occasionally 3 making an appearance while mowing down full groups.

The damage adds up, but it also has a low mag stun which again, stacks with the stun of PSW making it a heck of a control power on top of doing solid damage.

 

I find it only useful for melee centric doms as they take too long to fly over to the group otherwise. 

[Onlyasandwich]

We had a fun and detailed exploration of it in this thread:

 

[Snarky]

yeah, i respeccd out of it and added 10% global rech in doing so.  that proc and the set bonuses (i had it split 3/3) are not worth the investment on this toon.  thanks everyone.

[MoonSheep]

i recently respecced into it on my mind/fire dom and it is terrible

 

i’d rather be kicked in the shins

[Snokle]

As others have mentioned it is very bland or not great. It can be abusable in the right storm but overall nothing impressive. I usually ran it in my Immob attack it was able to proc it a bit, but it did not help my too much. Tried it in AA and felt lackluster. I do not think I run it in my Earth dom, or Ill dom as I was never impressed by it.

[mistagoat]

I just pulled the Orb from my Ars/Psi Dom. I was (lvl 33) facing Sky Raiders and the orb would follow teleporters into other mobs, despawn and bring all that aggro right back to me!

I've used it before on other Doms and not had any problems and actually quite liked it but it got me killed twice last night. Maybe I'll re-evaluate once I'm 50 but for now it's banned from my build!