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magicrectangle wrote:
Burning will never be even remotely close to as good as shock
Burning doesn't have the utility of shock, of course but that doesn't mean it's bad. It can do loads of damage, but you need to know how to optimize around it.
dudiobugtron: shock definitely isn't just for the next hit. It has a duration which depends on the amount of damage you've dealt, and can stack up to 3x.
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magicrectangle wrote:
Burning will never be even remotely close to as good as shock, unless they enable burning debuffs to stack. Only the strongest burn on a target does damage. Of course it is easy to get 40%+ chance to ignite - since the ignite effects don't stack they could make it 100% and it would barely be more powerful anyway.
Sorry, burn isn't even close to shock. It only buffs your damage, and it does so in a very limited, non-synergistic way. There's a good reason why there are dozens of builds out there that aren't specifically lightning builds, but try to get shock stacks anyway - and precisely none that do the same for ignite.
My Endurance charge Discharge templar disagrees with you completely. I do 16k dps, roughly, and 90% of my damage is through burning the enemy. Don't get me wrong, Shock is insane in its own way, and it has an easier to achieve damage cap, but technically ignite can do so much more damage.
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Posted bycaptainpl4n8#2354on Apr 11, 2013, 8:20:09 PM
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magicrectangle wrote:
Burning will never be even remotely close to as good as shock, unless they enable burning debuffs to stack. Only the strongest burn on a target does damage. Of course it is easy to get 40%+ chance to ignite - since the ignite effects don't stack they could make it 100% and it would barely be more powerful anyway.
Sorry, burn isn't even close to shock. It only buffs your damage, and it does so in a very limited, non-synergistic way. There's a good reason why there are dozens of builds out there that aren't specifically lightning builds, but try to get shock stacks anyway - and precisely none that do the same for ignite.
Well burn might not be as good as shock agains single big enemies, but on the other hand shock only boosts you followings attacks, whereass burn might quite easily make that first attack kill the enemy it wouldn't have othwerwise killed and with liberal seasoning of elemental profilation can make that first attack kill the rest of the enemy pack too.
"An it harm none, do what you will"
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Posted byTorguemada#3020on Apr 11, 2013, 8:23:27 PM
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