Aoe Mob Melting Tanker - Primary or Secondary Powerset?

[PuckMulligan]

I never played tanker back in the day but I always admired those fire-based ones who would just melt giant swarms of mobs in an AoE DoT ring around them. I wanna play something like this but I have trouble working out weather this was a result of the fire primary or secondary. Can anyone help me out?

[Hjarki]

It's Fire secondary, which has both a damage aura and an ability called 'Burn' which drops a short DoT damage patch. Farming Brutes would normally use Fire Armor combined with Spines or Radiation for primary if they want maximize continuous AE dps.

 

Note: I mean Fire primary for Tankers. I was thinking Brutes.

Edited August 31, 2019 by Hjarki

[TungstenShark]

Depending on how far "back in the day" you mean, Burn was also nerfed pretty substantially.

[Heraclea]

Fire/Spines is popular for a reason, though Bio/Spines is IMO more fun to play.