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Overheat - The Root Of Every Ember Topic


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Or add the damage reduction effect from Overheat to World on Fire itself (with a cap of 50%-70% of course). Now you basically have old Overheat + WoF combo back and you only have to press one button this time.

And give also at fireblast the same effect as he fire eximus has were they make a ring and everythuing it hits causes a knocks back at it

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I'd honestly bring Overheat into Fire Blast. Make it so that as long as Ember is inside a Fire Blast, she has old Overheat DR. It would give a purpose to Fire Blast, since that skill is crap.

Thats not a bad idea but making her limited in mobility will hurt

 

Its a decent saving skill i guess...

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There's been a multitude of Ember buff topics lately, and at their very core, all of them are about one thing.

 

Overheat.

 

Now, I'm not going to deny that Ember could use a buff (Fireblast, ugh), but almost every topic I find is more or less about how Ember is now bad because she doesn't have Overheat anymore, and everything requires her to be at close range, etc. etc. While Overheat had some potential, it was horribly broken (90% damage reduction or higher, as well as constant nearby damage, is kinda nuts), and I personally think the game is better off without it -- however, I'm saying this as someone who never got to experience it first-hand. I picked up my Ember after Overheat had been replaced by Accelerant (which I do enjoy).

 

So, I'm asking those of you who did get to use Overheat: What's the deal with Overheat, and why do you want it back so badly?

It allowed me to actually use melee when I was playing with Ember. 

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your guns do higher DPS than all three of them...

Valkyr with a gun?

 

Only the best guns can outdamage the best melee if you know how to mod melee properly

 

Im not sure about guns VS WoF in terms of raw DPS

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different stuff

 

first was valkyr hysteria

2nd was ember accelerant

3rd was a suggestion for an ember fireblast change

and the 4th..was for Nyx psybolts

 

Oh so you're just saying that Vargras is just not supposed to be posting in threads? Because you're making special note of it. So clearly there's a reason why. Right?

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I haven't even posted in half of those.

 

He's probably stalking you. Fun.

 

Overheat brought her kit together. Way too well. She will probably be updated. But not so immediately, before poor Oberon, who suffers many more issues. I've been playing Ember to level her through a couple Forma, and I haven't struggled at all, the only issue I run into is feeling like I need to reload after firing off several Fireballs.

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Fire damage is pretty much useless, so Accelerate is completely unnecessary, I don't think i've seen anyone use it ever (except for when they cast WoF). Fireblast is just so bad and unfitting, why have a defensive skill for an offensive caster. Fireball doesn't scale well at all.  

With accelerant you can deal massive amounts of damage by doing nothing and just having WoF on.

More. if you mod your weapon let's say ....Viral or Corrosive and Heat.... that Heat part is so strong with Accelerant so that the DPS of that weapon surpasses any other loadout by far.

 

Remember that on rifles and shotguns  we have 3 fire mods now.

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In short, because Overheat made Ember a pretty freaking amazing CQC tanky-mage, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who liked the idea of her NOT being tailored to the stereotype of a squishy glass cannon. 90% dr gave you ability to use her as a DPS frame rather than burst, with her ultimate whittling down enemies around while Overheat allowed you to survive.

 

It wasn't really OP because you could still be stagger-locked and CC'd, and you would get whittled down over time. Well, at least until corrupted mods came along and allowed it to surpass the 91% cap it had previously with only Foc... I mean Intensify. And instead of just adding a 90% hardcap onto it, and maybe some other limiters, like, say, lowered shield regen while under it, or affecting range/damage of other abilities while it's active, Scott decided to trash it alltogether and give us Accelerant.

 

Which was kind of a spit in the face of everyone who already got Ember, because the playstyle she had got thrown out of the window pretty much, to be replaced with a S#&$ty glass cannon that needs to hug her enemies gameplay.

 

So it's not really about Accelerant being that bad, it's about Overheat being a chance for something unique, that got thrown away because Scott felt like it.

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90% dr gave you ability to use her as a DPS frame rather than burst, with her ultimate whittling down enemies around while Overheat allowed you to survive.

 

It wasn't really OP because you could still be stagger-locked and CC'd, and you would get whittled down over time.

So 90% DR with constant AOE damage "wasn't really OP"?

 

Uh huh.

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So 90% DR with constant AOE damage "wasn't really OP"?

 

Uh huh.

 

Well that constant AoE damage of WoF was quite low if you got out of Kappa. Barely noticeable on T3, even, dare I say.

 

Sure, you could run around and cut out lvl 10 enemies like they weren't even there with WoF, but that doesn't really make it OP, not more OP than bringing pimped out frames with best mods to kill lvl 20 now - they might as well not be there.

 

That, and Overheat's own AoE was barely there at all. If you hugged enemies enough to get it to do damage, you got stunlocked, shredded with "weak claw attacks" and whatnot, it was there mostly for slight stagger it provided.

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It wasn't even good. Without overheat she's nigh unplayable. Unless you've come up with a build for T4 void, if so pray tell us. I'd say return overheat and buff overheat. She has abilities of a tank caster, like Saryn.

 

I'm afraid there already are people out there who run T4 with ember and look at everyone in surprise. I imagine it involves pressing "2" a lot to stunlock enemies, or getting the 500% modifier.

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I see this thread has entered the "I never bothered to try to make new Ember work so she's useless for everyone" stage of its life. 

Like I said, every Ember topic is basically "Ember needs Overheat or she's garbage". Nevermind the fact that Accelerant is better.

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