Fire melee attack chain

I'm currntly running the chain incinerate-scorch-cremate-scorch but looking to respec to top of the line can anyone help me, what is the best DPS attack chain for fire melee and how much recharge is necessary for each of the attacks?

Sweet thanks Werner for those numbers.

As always, I recomend the Cremate -> Fire Sword -> Incinerate attack chain. In that order, for benefits that may not seem obvious at first.

Better management of interruptions such as BU, Hasten, Conserve Power, click mez protection, etc.

When you use these powers that interrupt your DPS, you want to replace them for the lowest DPA attack (FS), and you also want to keep your highest DPA attack (Inc) in a permanent state of recharge, not wasting a fraction of a second of its recharge time.

I believe it's this:

Incinerate (3.30, +204%) -> Cremate (3.43, +134%) -> Fire Sword (3.56, +69%)
Incinerate (4.22, +137%) -> Cremate (4.35, +84%) -> Greater Fire Sword (3.56, +237%)

Though I haven't poked my head into the recharge thread recently where Arcanaville was reviewing recharge requirements, and seeing something a little different than our standard calculations. I'd shoot for better than the above to be safe.

You can do slightly more DPS with Greater Fire Sword -> Incinerate -> Fire Sword, but that's a silly chain since it takes MORE recharge than the top chain to do less damage. I also have Incinerate -> Cremate -> Fire Sword -> Greater Fire Sword doing about the same DPS at much lower recharge (+134% in GFS), but that takes four attacks, so is inefficient in a different sense.

I'm not convinced I have the right damage info for Fire. Some things aren't quite making sense to me. I need to review it, but I'm not feeling up for it tonight.

Just popping back in. Can anyone explain why it is better to replace fire sword in its chain than scorch in its chain?

I run GFS>INCIN>FS how's that in comparison?

Just jumping back in, Still haven't gotten an answer on why the Chain silverado recommends is better than incinerate-scorch-cremate-scorch.

How does it matter what you swap out for build up?

also, why swap out? I just kind-of insert rather than swap. is that a really bad thing? Do you restart the chain or estimate timing (I think I did two attacks worth so now I'm on cremate)?

Well, it's better DPS if you have an extra +59% recharge to throw at your build, but don't want to throw an extra +92% recharge at it for the top DPS chain. Call it the halfway between chain, I guess.

As for swapping out vs. inserting, and what you swap out, Fire Sword does enough lower DPS than the other two attacks that swapping is likely the better choice in that chain. The same is probably true of Scorch, which has even lower DPS. Haven't run any math to prove it in either case, though. Not sure what you mean by estimating timing. You see it's now recharged, so the next time you would have hit Fire Sword, hit Build Up instead. Or a heal. Or whatever you need to hit.

I'm not sure how it gives better management of the interrupts. Build Up is slightly slower than Scorch, so that's a nice swap. Build Up is slightly faster than Fire Sword, which would be a tiny DPS hit if you don't have enough recharge for the swap, possibly leading to wanting to insert Build Up instead of swap out.

But if you have sufficient recharge, and maybe even if you don't, you swap out the lowest DPS attack, Fire Sword. If you just insert the Build Up, then you're spending more time at lower DPS than you need to. Won't make much difference, but it'll make some difference.

If you're inserting a much longer click, again, just replace your low DPS power. You're not trying to estimate when your other attacks will become available; you're just taking out the low DPS power. If it's a long click, the good attacks WILL be recharged when it's through.

You might go with an order other than best attack to worst attack if some other order made better use of Build Up. I don't know if any of these chains are in that category.

And while it wasn't a specific question, one advantage of Incinerate -> Cremate -> Fire Sword over Incinerate -> Cremate -> Greater Fire Sword is that it saves a power pick. That's probably less valuable in I19, but still valuable. No advantage over Incinerate -> Scorch -> Cremate -> Scorch in that regard, though.

Thank you!

Any idea why the difference in placement of incinerate in the two chains? Just preference?