The Fix for the Fire

Nerf Fire bomb and flare’s duration to like 8 seconds.

Right now the amount of damage someone can soak up from a flare or a firebomb was same if not greater than when people were frosted.

 

How are you supposed to break shields? If duration is nerfed then damage should go up by 5 times atleast.

 

That's what I said..
My flares duration is 20 sec reducing it to 8 sec means 40% duration nerf.
My flare does 53 per tick so damage should go up by 40% that is around 73 or 74.

 

uh that is a 60% duration nerf by the way.
Check ur maths.

 

To counter the 15s (with perks 23+ seconds) duration of the firebomb, why not make duration perks for the repair pulse?

 

Or just buff frost again

 

Or just make a new yellow item: anti mortar projectile

 

Fire Bomb is fine at it is as the duration fluctuates a lot to either matching a flare to just tickling, it just needs the AoE zone fixing. The Flare is a nuisance as there's no counter to the damage increase (i.e. damage debuff / healing buff effects) however the overall damage probably is in line with your higher end weapons. As a fixer having to heal against it, to reduce the duration but increase the damage would be challenging as it's more burst but at least the damage increase benefit gained wouldn't last as long so a silver lining.

I certainly wouldn't have a complaint of a +duration perk as per @Bradley Thorinsson

 

I think it's pretty well balanced right now. And I say that as frost-torp speeder main who uses a T1 rare frost blaster at 1.5k infamy where at least 50% of ships are mk5 shooters with T4 rares or T3 epics.

 

Reduction to 8 seconds would be a duration reduction nerf of 60%. Your flare damage would need to go up by 250% for same amount of damage:
Current - 53*20 = 1060
Future - 53*2.5*8 = 1060
You would need 132.5 damage per tic.

 

No and never , flare gum is already OP(in my opinion )

Lvl 50 epic with all epic perks deal 1.7k damage in maybe 20s ,so now it will deal 1.7k in 12s that will be too much , you don't think ,now i know you don't have a t5 epic ,do you? But a lot of players are using t5 epic setup in my infamy range

 

Wouldn’t you want to frost those guys?

 

So if I gotta flare doing 20 damage for 20 seconds, that’s 400 damage total. Bring it down to 8 seconds and Increase the damage by 25%, you’ll get a flare that does 200 damage, that’s fine for me.

I just hate that 2/3 of my health goes due to the stupid flare combo and my epic frost blaster is sitting like trash in my garage.

 

Sorry to say that nerfing flare isn’t the solution to fixing a useless frost blaster

 

And then what are we gonna use huh?

Burn perks would be useless because nobody would want to use flare gun anymore. It would become an unused item like carronade and tritorp.

 

Just scrap the frost launcher.

 

It at least does something, flare too op.