The version of Melt Armor that Brutes get is a pale shadow of the Thermal version. There are at least occasionally situations where it's nice to have a ranged attack, but a high-cost, low-uptime weak debuff is less useful.
Agreed. Most skip it because Melt Armor is terrible for us - it's decent in archetypes that can use Thermal.
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I see a lot of people taking Fire Blast in their builds that use Pyre and am curious why Melt Armor wouldn't be more effective as its an AoE that lowers DEF and RES of targets vs a single target damage attack. Is it purely for slotting sets?