by F1ameBlade — last updated 3 years ago
Ember Prime offers the same potential for wanton destruction as Ember but provides unique mod polarities, allowing for greater customization.
ITEM RANK
3060 / 60
APPLY CONDITIONALS
Ember Gameplay Guide[Ember] utilizes Immolation's thermometer to give her abilities various offensive and defensive properties. This grants her damage reduction, armor stripping, and powerful heat procs to deal with various levels of difficult content. She struggles against enemies immune to heat but a balanced loadout can deal with that issue.
📝 Build Overview 📝 This build is a nuke variant that attempts to utilize the minimal interaction between Duration and [Ember]'s abilities to save mod slots. This allows Inferno to push more damage without sacrificing anything on the build itself.
🔢 Helminth Options 🔢 Fireball is usually replaced as it's the weakest ability in her kit without the augment. Inferno fills the role of generating heat for Immolation and Fire Blast is necessary for controlling your heat generation.
Pull synergizes with the low Duration on the build and allows you to get more energy orbs from enemies. [Greedy Pull] can also be used to pull items from farther away but requires a mod slot.
Empower isn't hindered by low Duration and boosts your Strength even higher. It may have a negative impact on your energy economy if used before every single ability cast.
Other abilities are hard to fit into the build due to the low Duration. Your energy and action economy will be too heavily impacted by constantly recasting buffs and most quality of life or defensive ability are unnecessary. Choose these abilities with caution.
📊 Ability Stats 📊 Strength is the main focus of this build with a decent investment into Range and Efficiency. Duration is almost useless due to interactions that are listed in the sections below.
Helminth Invigorations, Arbitration Buffs, Ally Abilities, Arcanes, and other external stat boosts can save you multiple mod slots but may rely on specific team compositions, loadouts, or sheer luck. Plan around these situations and modify your loadout to hit desired ability stat breakpoints.
⏲️ Duration ⏲️ Duration is intentionally neglected as it doesn't have positive effects for any of our abilities other than Inferno. The damage over time effect from Inferno is limited to a single instance and take several seconds to expand out to the maximum range of 5 meters. This effect is limited in damage after subsequent casts and can't be improved from a Range standpoint. This makes low duration builds do nearly the same exact damage as high duration builds without even accounting for the opportunity cost of using mods to boost Duration. It isn't suggested to increase this stat any more than the baseline.
⛽ Efficiency ⛽ Efficiency is increased by [Fleeting Expertise] because it has no downsides. Streamline can also be added but it's probably overkill in most scenarios due tot he energy cost cap on Inferno.
📏 Range 📏 Range is increased to give Inferno the ability to hit enemies in large rooms. Augur Reach and Stretch are flex mods on smaller tilesets.
💪 Strength 💪 Strength is increased to benefit Inferno and Immolation but anything higher than the baseline is good enough for her kit to work properly. Immolation has maximum damage reduction even when the thermometer is at the minimum with this Strength setup. Blind Rage can be swapped in over a flex mod if you're confident in your energy economy.
↔️ Alternate Playstyles ↔️ Most builds utilize tools that can be swapped out to serve the same purpose albeit in a different manner. The following suggestions are an outline and aren't exhaustive.
🔧 Mods 🔧⚙️ Arcanes ⚙️ Arcane Energize synergizes with [Primed Flow] and keeps your energy topped off. It can be replaced if you have other strong forms of energy recovery either through abilities or other energy support frames. Offensive arcanes like Arcane Avenger or Arcane Strike are usually the call.
Arcane Eruption give more survivability to builds that focus on energy orb generation rather than health. It can be replaced when fighting low level enemies. Tertiary offensive arcanes like Arcane Rage or Arcane Fury are usually the call.
📋 Final Notes 📋 Immolation's heat thermometer requires diligent maintenance for maximum efficiency. Inferno gives free heat generation when used with no targets on the screen but this can cause the meter to build too quickly and force you to spam Fire Blast. On setups that favor spamming Inferno you may need to reset Immolation periodically as the heat generation is higher than your Fire Blast casting speed.
Fire Blast and Immolation don't require more than the baseline Strength to properly do their maximum effects. However this requires you to spend more time generating heat which can have counter intuitive synergy with builds that completely focus on weapons rather than abilities. Her passive can get free Strength from nearby enemies taking Ignite damage but this becomes inconsistent if they die before you cast an ability.
In a cruel sense of irony, [Ember] can actually lower the damage from heat procs (Ignite) done by your allies. Ignite damage is scaled by the faction damage and heat mods from both the original heat proc and additional heat procs that add to the duration. [Ember] can't natively use Heat or faction mods on her abilities so this will cause all further heat procs from meta weapons to do a fraction of their Ignite damage. Roar partially alleviates this problem but be mindful of this issue when using Ember against high level enemies that are weak to Heat as you can become a massive detriment to your allies.
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