Fiery Embrace +Smashing Only?!


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I am still investigating which secondary to take with Claws, and in researching Fiery Aura, saw that Fiery Embrace increases Fire attacks by +100%. Now, does that apply to any patron pool fire attacks as well? I would assume so.

Question #2. The power description says it increases "all other damage" as well, but the description in Redtomax says +80% Smashing. If I took Claws, which does exclusively Lethal, does that mean I don't get an increase in Claws damage? The descriptions seem to contradict each other.

Thank you for your help.


 

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Easiest way to find out is to go into the character creator, use show info on the left side, highlight FE on the right and you should see all the buff notes back on the left.

I haven't seen FE on scrappers, so can't verify at this time for ya.


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Thank you. I was asking about Brutes, now that we have CLAWS!!! Can't wait.


 

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I was totally in the wrong forum. But the answer kinda still works!


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Originally Posted by GreenBone View Post
I am still investigating which secondary to take with Claws, and in researching Fiery Aura, saw that Fiery Embrace increases Fire attacks by +100%. Now, does that apply to any patron pool fire attacks as well? I would assume so.
That's a buff to any fire damage you do, regardless of where it comes from, so yes, Patron fire attacks would be buffed. Except... What Patron gives you attacks that do fire damage?

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Question #2. The power description says it increases "all other damage" as well, but the description in Redtomax says +80% Smashing. If I took Claws, which does exclusively Lethal, does that mean I don't get an increase in Claws damage? The descriptions seem to contradict each other.
Fiery Embrace gives you a 30-second, 100% damage buff to Fire damage, and a 10-second, 80% damage buff to all other types of damage, with the possible exception of Toxic (they had to add it when porting the power to Scrappers). This includes Smashing. It's pretty much a copy of Build Up on a longer recharge, without a to-hit buff, but with a much stronger and longer buff to fire damage.


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