If it scaled with ego, you'd have no reason to pick it over Concentration/Chilled Form, as they're easy to stack up for any ranged builld, unless you use clicks at melee range, or uncharged Mind Breaks.
Except now, nobody really has any reason to use it for anything. If it scaled with a better stat, or if the Recovery tree was given some kind of revamp to make it an acceptable PSS with more incentive to stack it high, then there would be a legitimate reason to take it over Concentration||Chilled Form. Currently, its stacking mechanic is friendly to use, but being shackled to Recovery is really dragging it down. Thermal Reverb being based on Endurance makes it even worse.
Personally, I think basing forms on energy stats is a bad idea, as a better standardization across all frameworks would be forms:performance stat (str/dex/int?/ego/pre) and EUs:energy stat (int?/end/rec). That gives players one stat to choose, usually con for surviving all those cheap aoe 1-shots.
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Isn't the point to make the Rec tree as viable for a PSS as most of the rest are?
Eventually yeah, but not right now. Doing a major overhaul of the specializations in the middle of the power update sweep would be a bad idea since it would complicate the baseline that they're achieving now. Specialization update will likely happen after all the power updates are done. And no, that's not a problem for any player since there's nothing motivating you to take Rec as a PSS atm - the problem is its own solution
Also no, the point of the new Fire form is not to make Rec PSS viable. That's also not something that has to happen right now since, like I pointed out, Ego primary makes stacking just about anything viable. Hell for all we know after the specializations update, stacking Recovery might not even be the optimal way to build around Rec PSS.
The AT didn't get a choice before either, so what's changed in that regard?
1.Take DEX primary on a range DPS
2.Pick Fiery Will
3.Stack the hell out of your secondary stats and REC
4. ???
5.See DPS output with DEX primary spec skyrocket
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Personally, I think basing forms on energy stats is a bad idea, as a better standardization across all frameworks would be forms:performance stat (str/dex/int?/ego/pre) and EUs:energy stat (int?/end/rec). That gives players one stat to choose, usually con for surviving all those cheap aoe 1-shots.
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Also no, the point of the new Fire form is not to make Rec PSS viable. That's also not something that has to happen right now since, like I pointed out, Ego primary makes stacking just about anything viable. Hell for all we know after the specializations update, stacking Recovery might not even be the optimal way to build around Rec PSS.
The AT didn't get a choice before either, so what's changed in that regard?
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
2.Pick Fiery Will
3.Stack the hell out of your secondary stats and REC
4. ???
5.See DPS output with DEX primary spec skyrocket