About Scorching Burst

mychemromancforu

Hello everyone..

Just a little question about Scorching Burst.

It says on the description that ranking it gives "+5% action points"..
So it this additive or multiplicative? Or a bug? since when I use it (fully charged), it seems to give the same amount as a non-ranked one which is 3%..

Thanks~

letojarred1

Not to burst your bubble but I find using Scorching Burst a waste (I'm a renegade so yeah) magic missile gives 3 random buffs and gives me 1 arcane stack after the 3rd strike, the time I'm charging an SB should have gone to one of my encounters and ticks their cooldown if they're on their cooldowns then magic missiles is my preference and stack life steal if my melee mates are half their health or stacking power or mitigation. I'm sorry if I couldn't answer the latter part of your post anyone who can help our brethren here?

spacejew

letojarred1 wrote: »

Not to burst your bubble but I find using Scorching Burst a waste (I'm a renegade so yeah) magic missile gives 3 random buffs and gives me 1 arcane stack after the 3rd strike, the time I'm charging an SB should have gone to one of my encounters and ticks their cooldown if they're on their cooldowns then magic missiles is my preference and stack life steal if my melee mates are half their health or stacking power or mitigation. I'm sorry if I couldn't answer the latter part of your post anyone who can help our brethren here?

You know, if you fire a Magic Missile while your Scorching Burst is fully charged it fire's both at the same time. That might help you actually pick which Chaos Magic buff you want active instead of getting a random one on MM's 3rd hit.

As for the OP, it's pretty difficult to really know exactly how it changes AP generation. If you're going to actually use it, I'd say it's worth the 3 points personally but it depends. If you're Thaum you might get more bang out of Chilling Cloud. For Renegade I'd say Scorching Burst is slightly better; even more so if you're using Arcane Burst (Paragon Feat) or Combustive Action (class skill).

silverquick

Yeah you' need to use the Parce utility to find that out and I never use Scortching Burst other than a quick hit.

I don't generally use it repeatedly either.

ghoulz66

Eh, I just use it to light up weak mobs during solo play. A shard on a group of redcaps is rather overkill....