Do /fire attacks cause fear/runaway?

I tried to research this in mids and elsewhere but I can't find any info on whether /fire attacks cause runaway, which is obviously counter-productive to grabbing aggro.

Anyone know how it works or can point me to a link?

Thanks!

Thanks for the fast reply - that helps a lot.

Burn is like Caltrops without the slow.

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Reading this, it is a lot more than you were asking about, but since you are considering fire, maybe it will be useful.

Fiery Melee has good AOE attacks, and good single target attacks. They all have a DOT component, even the ones that don't specifically mention it. They do not have any mez type effects at all (no sleep, stun, hold, knockback, endurance drain, or to-hit debuff). The attacks generally do more damage because they have no secondary effects.
The extra PBAOE attack gives a bit more punchvoke-type aggro management than most sets as well.

The fiery aura primary is unlike most tank primaries. The heal is relatively quick and strong, and can be used without requiring a target. Fiery embrace is an excellent boost power, but it is slower than build up. (Although with build up in the secondary, you can get a really powerful short term boost by using both at once, or more boosted attacks by alternating them). Blazing aura also is the highest base damage tank aura, but the survivability is quite a bit lower than most.

The set has no inate defence and no knockback protection, and the resistances are not impressive compared to any other set, with the exception of having capped fire resistance. It also has no psionic resistance at all, toxic resistance comes only from the self-heal, and immobilization protection comes from burn, which does have the 'afraid' component, making them run away (they do come back to the tank eventually, because the taunt effects remain... but they are out of range of your damage capabilities for a little while). So... without IO sets, you pretty much have to take combat jumping/super jump/acrobatics and ?/tough/weave. (With the immobilization protection of combat jumping, you don't need burn. Some people like it, others don't. At one time it was rediculously powerful... no afraid effect, and fast enough recharge to stack multiple times. )

My oldest character, and my first 50, is a fire/fire tank. He is a lot of fun to play. You do have to use the heal regularly because of the weaker defence/resistances, but he is enormously better at damaging targets than any of my other tanks. The general idea is that if you kill them fast enough, you don't have to survive as long. You just have to play them differently.

Thanks for the excellent information.

I'm actually looking at Stone for the primary. I know Granite reduces the offense but at least I didn't want to be helping to scatter the bad guys.

The Fire primary does sound like more fun though and it's on my project list.

If you do go Fire for a primary, using Tough can get around 70% resist to s/l and cap fire resistance without having to use Temperature Protection. Adding in Weave helps a bit more as well. There are Fire/ builds that have soft capped defense, but they are fairly expensive to do so from what I recall.

I did look at Mid's but I managed to confuse myself lol.

From what I remember of playing a fire blaster, things like Rain Of Fire caused runaway but nothing is listed in Mid's under effects. Maybe I have it wrong for RoF and that's why I thought some info was missing.

After chasing requiem through the whole map on my fire/sr i´m not sure.

Fire is great for aggro due to the fact half of its powers are AoE lol. Area of Effect powers are the best for grabbing aggro because you are effecting the whole group instead of just one enemy. Fire is also renowned for it's impressive damage, even when it has been nerf'd it still is one of the most powerful AoE powers for tanks out there.

It is true Burn causes fear, it always has, but it has always been one of my favorite attacks. You can use it so many different ways. You can use it if you are finding yourself hurting in a battle, by using it you are attacked less meaning less damage is being taken in. You can also use it to hold aggro, yes it may cause fear but they still are pretty pissed off at you when you use it. They will keep on coming back to take a hit at you but they run away because they are afraid of the burn patch.

The best way I prefer to use it is to; throw off your build ups and if you have FE, then have someone in the group with an AoE hold(like tentacles from a D3) hold down the group, you throw down that burn patch and you are doing some amazing damage.

Burn really is the only fire power that causes fear and when you have burn, you also have fire aura that causes damage and aggro. That usually counteracts any fear problems you may have with burn.

Burn will always cause your enemies to run away(unless held) but they will come back.

If you don't want burn and just interested in the fire melee power set, feel happy to know that there is no fear in any of the powers.

Damage over time attacks do seem to cause mobs to occassionally flip out. With /fire you will see things pull away from you and snap back due to your tank inherent/aggro aura.

The effect is more pronounced in conjunction with slows and -recharge but does occur with plain old fire attacks as well.

I don't have any hard evidence or numbers to support my statements--just a lot of time paying attention to mob AI in game.

Yeah, Burn aside, Fire doesn't cause fear/runaway -- it causes falling down and coughing up exp.