Idea For The Ignis

[Mad5cout]

I know you all are considering a complete overhaul of the damage system but I wanted to throw this out there for the Ignis as a basic principle for rebalancing the weapon no matter what happens.

 

Most people complain about the base damage of the weapon, but IMO that is not the problem.

 

This gun needs to do AoE.  That is the whole reason to have a flame thrower.  Not that we are talking real life here but the flame thrower in WWII was used as a bunker clearer.  When you shoot this thing it should have an AoE cone that is more similar to the shot guns. but that does full damage within its radius rather than the pellet effect of the shotties.  If you did this, there would be no need to buff it's damage except to maybe 150.  People screaming for 200 base damage don't realize this is a Mastery 4 weapon.  But scaling aside, common sense dictates that flames spewing forth from a weapon such as this would not be confined to laser precision....

[GIMO]

 

The DE's have said they are in the process of working on this.

[Valafor]

Don't remember where I saw this, but DE said they are looking into Ignis and making it more flamethrower-y.

 

 

EDIT: Damn, got ninja'd.

Edited September 10, 2013 by KaPow_Best_Demolitions

[EclipsedHusky]

Don't remember where I saw this, but DE said they are looking into Ignis and making it more flamethrower-y.

 

 

EDIT: Damn, got ninja'd.

Was a council vote on what primary needed a rework, Ignis won with Grakata on its tail~

[TheSeannachaidh]

They also mentioned it on one of the Livestreams. Essentially it currently works like a beam-type weapon because DE likes to recycle, but they are going to make the beam endpoint wider so that it behaves more like a flamethower (like KaPow said).