Burning arrow added fire damage bricks a large portion of users

Even though ele equil is not as strong as it was before, this change to burning arrow means that it renders anyone who was using lightning ignite (tempest etc) or cold ignite (nuro's harp) useless.

There were many fun and interesting ways to scale your ignite with this interaction but it seems like it's all but dead with this small change.

Perhaps changing the damage bonus to something more generic would be more applicable?

Thanks!

More specifically, there were builds such as nuro's harp cold ignite and tempest lightning ignite.

These builds relied on doing zero fire damage.

How do those neat ignite builds work, and why does adding fire damage ruin them?

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IllustrativeCapital wrote:

How do those neat ignite builds work, and why does adding fire damage ruin them?

By focusing on a single non-fire element, you can benefit from old and new elemental equilibirum since you never hit the enemy with fire damage.

Ignite is always fire, but it is not a hit so you can always trigger -50 or the new fire exposure by hitting with pure NON-fire hits.

Because of the new gem, you can no longer benefit from scaling cold or lightning only because there is now in built added fire damage that was never there before. With this inbuilt added fire damage, you automatically strip your own elemental equilibrium which is really dumb.

I'd agree with this complaint, if they hadn't just made EE worthless anyway for everything except... uhhh... voidforge and ele hit, I guess? Scorching Ray now does the same thing as EE for ignite builds and let's you use combustion etc to boost your damage.

So... tentative +1, assuming they ever make EE worth using again.

Guess ggg never saw this. RIP