The usefulness of ignite
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So with all the changes to DOT, how useful is ignite really?
Bleeding does a much higher percentage of damage (70/210 vs 40) even though physical scaling is slightly worse than elemental, you will pretty much do a lot more damage. It's also very easy to get a high bleeding chance and duration through passives alone. Poison does half the damage (20 vs 40) but can be stacked as much as you want, so can be a huge damage booster. Am I missing something important about ignite? I really try to play a ignite based char at the moment, but I feel ignite will always be only a little helper instead of a source of damage like posion (and to a lesser extent bleeding) can be. Last bumped on Aug 29, 2017, 2:12:48 AM
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Immolate skill gem.
"Never argue with an idiot. They will take you down to their level and beat you trough experience."
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Immolate doesn't need ignite though. Every source of burning would be sufficient.
And again, Ignite wouldn't be the source of damage, just a helper. Last edited by Cauterna#4159 on Aug 13, 2017, 2:09:20 PM
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Making builds dependent on ailments is a pretty bad idea anyway as there are ailment-immune bosses in the game.
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" pretty sure they removed those? |
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" Holy shit you are right! They only retain the Cannot be Frozen and Cannot be knocked back tags. Well, that's great news. |
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So while this is good news, it still seems ignite is not meant to be a primary means of damage.
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Ignite has the best scaling through Resistance negation, jacking up Damage by pulling enemies into the negatives. Assuming 40% Inc Curse Effect against 60% Less (act/map bosses), Flamm + EW totals -46%, which is enough to bring any Map boss into negative Fire Resistance, usually -16 or -11%. Elemental Equilibrium then drags it down to -61/66%, and Scorching Ray can pull another 24% off as well.
(EE is the biggest factor, being an unmitigated -50% Resist; EW and Ray are the less-important ones) Poison would be looking at 15-20% Chaos Resist in those situations. Last edited by Vipermagi#0984 on Aug 14, 2017, 4:40:08 PM
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But unlike Ignite, you can stack poison.
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