This change that we currently have on PTR will make this (already mediocre) ability obsolete. Please reconsider this change.
The empower stacks you gain for the last Incinerate perk make no sense. This is an “all in” ability, why on earth would anyone need empower stacks AFTER you cast it? Where is the logic in that? Help me understand.
If you want Incinerate to be this low damage noodle then at least give it some cc on the last perk or just keep the version we have on live but with faster animation.
PTR Incinerate just sucks.
I understand you wanted to somehow compensate for the Burn out explosion, but quite frankly I don’t think anyone asked for that to be implemented either.
I’d any day trade for incinerate to hit twice again over keeping the burnout explosion, or whatever else. AGS, in what scenario currently, can Incinerate do something better than any other ability on the Fire Staff currently? Something to always think about when balancing… Fireball on PTR is facing the same issue but as a result of the Pillar of Fire buffs, just no reason to have fireball on anymore.
Ability is dead. Probably worse than meteor shower. Second can be used as support skill in some scenarios. But there is no scenario where you would want to have incinerate.
I was looking forward to finally being able to run a incinerate build with the rework but after seeing what they did to FS i was very unhappy. Maybe people who never played firestaff like those changes. I just gave up on fire staff after a year of playing it and im going to bow.