Why is Flameblast even in the game?

From testing both Flameblast and Divine Ire, I'm pretty sure Divine Ire is strictly better

Divine Ire costs less mana, deals more damage at max charges, Can charge faster, Deals damage while charging, Has more range as well as dealing the beam the damage in a ring around the caster that is almost the size of Flameblast itself. Divine Ire is also easier to aim, if you're charging flameblast and a mob moves out of it you're going to wiff completely and do no damage.

I don't think there's any reason for Flameblast to be in the game as shitty as it is compared to divine ire. It needs to deal burning damage while channeling or something to be even comparable to Divine Ire.

I'm doing a 100% fire damage build and divine ire still does way more damage when converting lightning to fire, it's sad.

I agree 100%

There are some skill gems that are almost entirely neglected by the devs. They are practically inferior to almost every other alternative gem in the game, and flame blast is a perfect example.

Flameblast was meta for leagues and dominated especially in hardcore. This game is 6+ years old, of course the meta changes and skills get worse as new ones are introduced.

From time to time they change old skills or completely rework them so just be patient if you really like Flameblast. It might change later... And if you dont like it, just dont play it ;)

But what if someone doesn't want to play divine ire.
I haven't seen any changes to flameblast so I don't see why it wouldn't work just fine, at least with totems.
The only downside is a bit heavier investment in cast speed.

That's powercreep at its finest there. At release was so good even melee builds would lvl with it. As even naked on a 4 link was your best option for 28 till maps

Flameblast is for trolling players hahahaha

But seriously, GGG, if you don't buff such skills, why do you even keep them in the game?

Why do you even need buffed abilities if the difficulty of the game content has not changed for several years?

Played both Flame Blast and Divine Ire chars I wholly agree Divine Ire is superior in all ways and forms.

Divine ire is like a giant middle finger to the other channeling spells not just flameblast its definitely just better.

Not sure that is actually a pizza blast problem though divine ire is pretty overtuned but some of the skills just don't work within the way we are expected to play the game, pizza, incinerate, tendies etc all suffer from it.

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Letmeliveeee wrote:

Flameblast is for trolling players hahahaha

But seriously, GGG, if you don't buff such skills, why do you even keep them in the game?

So.... Flameblast can't do all content easily all of a sudden and should be removed?
Flameblast is still 100% viable.