What is a Flamebearer?????

Fighting groups of them can be very annoying for a melee, regardless of what some people have said. A one-off example of being perfectly suited to fight them and gain health is just that, one-off. Most will not be able to do this, just as most can't kill Map Piety in 2 seconds as some people claim.

Let's see what they do before the minority get into an uproar, shall we?

so many people saying they're difficult for melee, nobody thinks about knockback? if you're using, for example, heavy strike with melee splash, you can safely bash on an entire pack of voidbearers because knockback will cancel their channeling repeatedly.

Never had any real problems with them, regardless of melee or ranged char.