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Edited by GeorgetheWarlock:
6/24/2016 5:50:52 PM
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How to buff Sunsinger
Sunsinger has become extremely under powered ever since the last patch for many reasons. Viking funeral gives enemies armor and our default burn damage is just as weak as a thorn bullet (Burn damage wise not impact). Not only that but fire-bolt isn't as useful as it used to be before.
I have 3 main ideas how to fix sunsingers while making it more of a support class.
The first step is to undo the nerfs made to sunsinger. These nerfs has made sunsinger not only useless in PvP but also in PvE. The only real reason to use it now is to selfress.
For the second part, I only want to change radiance. What could happen is that now radiance comes with song of flame by default and enemies damaged by any ability takes more damage from any source (without needing to ignite them. Stacks up to 4 times and last for 5 seconds). You could replace the song of flame perk with a perk that further decreases the cool-down of nearby allies even more and further increases the damage dealt from other resources (now stacks up to 8 times rather than 4 and lasts for 8 seconds). You could also replace viking funeral with what it used to be.
The final buff I would like to see would be in regard to selfress. I know that when you selfress radiance doesn't last long but I think that should only apply when you actually selfress. If you activate radiance while you're still alive, it should be just a normal radiance.
TL;DR: Remove nerfs, Radiance now has song of flame and the new viking funeral (Without igniting) by default, song of flame now further decreases cooldowns for allies and stacks more damage from abilities, and using radiance while on the selfress perk only decreases the duration of selfress if you comeback from the dead.
-George
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The problem I find with the change is that the new debuff effect of Viking Funeral isn't useful in its current state. It needs to be at least 10% per stack, last 5-7 seconds, and activate regardless of the burn from Touch of Flame or Scorch. A 5% defense debuff per stack that only lasts 2-3 seconds doesn't help anyone. It's useless. Good idea, but very poor execution on their part. And its interaction with Solar Grenade is rather odd. It only activates on the initial impact of the grenade when tossed, and doesn't apply at all after that, even if an enemy that wasn't hit by it previously walks through the solar flare. The continuous damage from the Grenade isn't affected at all by the defense debuff either. Only the initial impact is affected. Sometimes it doesn't apply the debuff effect or burn at all. Very inconsistent. They really need to fix that. On that note, the damage of Solar Grenades have been widely inconsistent, even by itself, since the update. It seems much weaker than it was initially. Sometimes it does little to no damage at all. Likely another bug from the update. On another note, there is yet another bug, this one is with Viking Funeral's new debuff effect, which is doing the opposite of what is supposed to do, and instead granting enemies a defense buff.
