(12-29-2022, 02:02 AM)Kiha Wrote: The trail of flame-related auras is an identity present in every fire aura except holyflame, and no, it's 65; I included metaphysical attunement; it's 115 RPP for holyflame aura and timeskip, which then leaves 85 RPP to play around with for crafts, classes, stances, or spells within the trees attuned to
If you want to try a heal heavy build, you have 75 after picking up mend and 5 for a stance, if you want any of the fire mastery spells, you have 25 without including flameslide or gbw, the bread and butter of that tree, of which scorch is a joke and lfb is fairly good 80% of the time, or judgement beam, and further discussion could be had on how fire and holy don't synergize well.
If you do go the judgment beam route, you have to drop a minimum of an additional 10 points, leaving 65. It's probably smart to get sanctified flash as well, leaving 55 to obtain one of the intermediates of the fire tree, but still, this is not my point.
Holyflame feels a lot like a reskinned harmonic attunement, with, I'm pretty sure, a worse heal rate and trees that fit together clunkily; it feels like it was meant to be used with a corresponding tree, which it was at one point. I also do not want to use Surtyr for any examples, as there is much more to Surtyr's viability than the holyflame aura. I could use a different one and it would be arguably superior for PVP, my point is that it is lacking an aspect that would complete it's picture well in it's place among the cream of the crop high level abilities. I think even losing 10 power and gaining the same trail status as shadowflame that has half the damage value would bring it up to the same rung.
You know I keep forgetting advanced trees are 40 for intermediate now
As towards LFB hard countered by pets[Vines/Clone/ect] sadly but it creates some interesting means those that use it take vs such things.
But all in all I don't fully disagree with your statement, like personally I love the fire intermediates but its masters/basics are really lack luster and in my opinion barely worth using, overheat can be okay at times but a lot of other spells does its ploy better. As towards synergy with holy I can see it? but at the same time I assume fire/holy is a zone/kite built type which in theory works well but often times its just better to use other things sadly.
That said whats the tick heal rate on holyfire 5 seconds? If so yeah I think Harmonic procs every 3?[not fully sure] 1:1 heal power is pretty nice tho if you've the flat power to support it