fire aura changes ftw!

burn now has an initial hit and still does ticks, also no fear component anymore. Overall damage is less, but considering the fear component is no longer there the actual damage will be much improved.

Also Fiery Embrace now adds ~45% extra fire damage to all attacks for 20 seconds and this value can be improved by damage buffs.

uhhh am I dreaming?

Please link me to where you saw this.

Hmm.. Sounds to me like someone breaking the closed beta NDA.

This is true. Won't see it really until the patch notes from I18 hits. As well as the fact that consume got a buff thought i don't think a recharge buff.

The NDA has been lifted, it's somewhere in the community boards.

I also believe Consume now adds a resistance to -end.

OMG

Im Tarding out

Ive been waiting since I6 for them to bring back burn.*back to its epic level of awesome*

FIRE TANKERS UNITE!!!!!!! LETS PREPARE THE FARM OWNAGE!

Here's Zombie Man's list of stuff changed for GR. Fiery Aura stuff is further below.

Overall, I think this is fantastic. Burn actually adds to your damage all the time (I'll have to see if I want this as well as other Combustion and FSC, or to remove Combustion in my builds), and Fiery Embrace is more unique and helpful. Now it's not a choice between Build Up and FE. Ugh, my build just got more complicated. Consume's changes are nice, but not much.

Still no KB protection.

Here are the changes to Fiery Aura I could find in Zombie's list:

• Burn – changed power substantially:
• Added initial hit damage
• removed Fear effect
• reduced tick damage by half (to scale 0.03)
• decrease tick rate by 4 (now ticks every 0.8 seconds, instead of 0.2 seconds) (1/8th total damage from DOT, replaced by initial hit)
• Burn – further adjustments
  • Increased Initial Damage from scale 0.84 to scale 1.6
  • Increased Damage per tick from scale 0.3 to scale 0.6
  • Added To Hit check for Initial Damage
  • Fixed the issue with Fire Manipulation Burn not having an Initial Hit portion.
• Burn – further adjustments
  • Fixed an issue which could result in Invalid Target messages appearing when attempting to activate this power.
  • Fixed an issue with Burn spamming the Combat log with Immobilize Buff messages when multiple targets were hit.
  • Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the Initial Hit damage to affect the caster as well as the targets.
• Burn - Reduced Damage to 20s equivalent (Scale 1.6 reduced to Scale 1.44)

• Here’s your chance to give feedback on a possible change to this power.
• The Tanker Fiery Embrace power now adds bonus fire damage for all Secondary Powerset attacks instead of being a normal damage Buff. All Secondary powerset attacks made for 20 seconds after activating Fiery Embrace will do bonus damage based on that attack’s damage. This bonus damage IS affected by enhancements and outside buff/debuff effects. At low levels, this means Fiery Embrace will have lower impact than the old implementation, while at high levels or on teams with lots of +Damage effects, you will see increased damage output. THIS IS STRICTLY AN EXPERIMENT FOR BETA AND IS ONLY SET UP ON TANKERS.
• Update: In order to allow for more accurate testing results, the new Fiery Embrace buff will now affect Ancillary and Patron Power Pools in addition to all Secondary attacks. Please keep testing and giving your feedback on this experimental change. This change still only affects Tankers at this time.
• Corrected Fiery Embrace bonus for several Dual Blades attacks
• Fixed damage values for Dark Melee powerset,
• Fixed damage values for Electric Melee Chain Induction and Lightning Rod
• Fixed damage values for Stone Melee Hurl and Fault,
• Fixed damage value for Kinetic Melee Repulsing Torrent.
• Update: Added Fiery Embrace test support to Damaging Tanker Primary powers, such as Burn
• Fixed issues with Fiery embrace buff to Lightning Rod, Shadow Maul and Midnight Grasp.
• Fixed the Fiery Embrace bonus damage for Tanker Pyre Mastery/Fire Ball
• Added Fiery Embrace support to the new Tanker Patron Power Pools after the recent change.
• Update: The Experiment is over! We didn't find any egregious problems, so it is time to spread the love.
  • Extended Fiery Embrace changes to Brutes
  • Extended Fiery Embrace changes to Scrappers
    • Critical damage is not affected by the new Fiery Embrace
    • Spines Toxic Damage Over Time effect is not affected by the new Fiery Embrace
  • In PvP, Fiery Embrace uses the previous Damage Buff version.
  • Fixed Thunder Strike Fiery Embrace bonus -- it was not properly applying the split radius effect.

Ah the NDA lifting took me by surprise I had a whole guide of melee changes ready to post that I thought wouldn't see the light of day prior to release.

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so lemme ask this...does fe and bu still buff burn then for a higher ticking damage then without?

When Rage is up on my Fire/SS tank, the damage done by Burn is higher then without Rage.

With Rage the damage done by FE is higher on Burn's up front damage then without Rage.

FE doesn't add to Burn's DoT.

when I was FINALLY happy with my Fire/SS/Fire Tanker...now I gotta find a way to fit Burn in...rassa frassin rousy rackin...

I have to figure out how to squeeze Burn back into my Fire/Fire. I kept it on my Fire/SS and used the Fear for mitigation. I do like the changes so far.

BURRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
Where are the FREAKS!

I respec'd bac into burn weeks ago.. had to drop Consume though.. but I never use it.

Hmmm...looks like my Tanker in GR will be a Fire/KM. Should be all sorts of colorful.

Is Burn still limited to 5 targets max?

ok one more question.has burn changed and need acc now or is it still the same as it was?