1) Make Infernalist' Pyromantic Pact downside more clear, and 2) improve the node

If it literally means you take a hit of flat fire damage equal to your current max life and ES numbers, then the 1st part of the feedback can be ignored.


1) For a node with so much text, there's vanishingly scant detail about the downside.

It could range from... "marginal downside" flat fire damage hit... to "bricks your character" long-duration fire damage over time.

I can't risk taking the node without seeking out-of-game information. It could also brick my 3rd Ascendancy trial if i'm stuck doing Sanctum and just taking damage to honor all the time when I could just be using mana.


2) This brings up the other point, PP doesn't have enough (any) net upside anyway. When mana does the job just fine, why would you ever risk taking PP until you have enough points for an ascendancy node behind it? There's nothing at all to gain and everything to lose.

The nodes behind need to be far better than average for such a weak node leading up to them, and I doubt they are anything but average. I have no reason to take PP when mana does the job, until I get another ascendancy node past that.

Yeah a lot of the ascendancys are absolute garbage and nearly worthless. It's crazy.

I already did an entire Infernalist topic myself.

The node itself is good in theory. It gives you infinite mana and the expense of damage intake however the other nodes make building such a character entirely pointless.

Ignite is terrible as a damage source and more easily attained without needing to go down that path. The 20% fire damage while high Pact doesn't work since IMO when you have infinite mana. You use it. You don't ride high pact. You keep spamming at the cost of damage intake.

Grinning Immolation is the node that will utterly brick your character. Pact can just suck. Grinning Immolation means you can never have ES which given how strong it is. Very bad.

The entire class fantasy (least how I see it) doesn't work. It's why everyone is just going minions on what I feel is a Fire pain caster or Fire + Minion hybrid. Just take the dog and you're good.