The design expert who made the new Vuln/Despair seems to have forgotten about burning damage

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suszterpatt wrote:

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Shppy wrote:

Maybe because burn is generally aligned with str/int, not pure strength

SR - pure int
RF - int/str
Searing Bond - str/int
ignite and burn passives in general - typically in the int areas of the tree.


Or maybe it's because there's already TWO other curses for helping burn. Could technically argue three for timed debuff burns.

And yet we have a Marauder ascendancy class designed entirely around STR and burning. And while I'm prepared to grant you Flammability, Ele Weakness is also pure INT.

How did they forget Burn? I mean Vulnerability was pure Int, so nothing actually changed for Burn, and most skills that make things Burn are either Aligned with Int, like Righteous Fire or Scorching Ray or hybrids like Searing Bond.

So a burning build required 159 Int for Vulnerability and they still require 159 Int for Despair. And since all the skills require some investment in Int anyway, it would be a much worse choice making it Strength. It could have turned into a hybrid skill but then again Chaos on the other hand is more aligned with Dex next to Int than Strength.