Incinerate Sorc Can't Proc Crit

[Wowitsmekool-1573]

I am always trying to build unique builds on games. I have mostly BIS gear for my level and am extremely glass cannon build. I have a level 12 incinerate. However, I ran into a huge problem with incinerate sorc not procing any sort of crit while channeling.

It seems like it may proc when you first click it, but not while channeling. This makes incinerate completely useless skill. I can barely do 10+ levels on her and it’s extremely slow compared to my other chars and my only damage comes from vulnerability which is still crap because i can’t crit on top of it.

I understand crit does not effect burning damage but that makes incinerate completely useless as a core skill without some sort of base damage.

Below is a video link showing that it does not proc crit at all. Any crits are from my hydras.

Just switched to meteor and am doing 40k crits now ><

Epic Fail Incinerate Sorceress | Diablo 4

[Belzack-6110]

u are not shooting flamethrower, u are shooting bubbles.

[Xelqypla-1579]

@Xelqypla-1579

People confuse Incinerate with Disintegrate. The only similarity they have is being a channel. Incinerate is a burn multiplier, not a skill you just channel on everything until you run out of mana.

Aspect of Conflagration is important. The codex version is the same as if the Capstone was working and everything had 5 unique burns. 20% to all your burning damage while channeling, including incinerate damage itself, regardless of whether Incinerate is hitting it or not.

Since incinerate is a burn itself, so it also procs the Fire Wall enchant. Incinerate is also far larger and easier to direct against groups of enemies, so proccing even more fire walls is easy.

Incinerate, and burns builds in general, require more tanky characters because they just don’t have the burst of Crit. It’s why Fire has the warmth passive as well as Incinerate having a passive that debuffs enemy damage.

[SCmilitia-1120]

Will you stop defending skills that no one uses because they are literal trash?! Sorc is trash. Seriously.

Edit-I’m talking end game

[Wowitsmekool-1573]

Im noticing fire builds are not great from what i can tell. Fireball is working the best so far. only because i have the unique staff. I haven’t tried firewall though.

[Xelqypla-1579]

@SCmilitia-1120

Will you stop defending skills that no one uses because they are literal trash?! Sorc is trash. Seriously.

Edit-I’m talking end game

TC has a video of him trying Tier 27 Nightmare using Incinerate without major support burns.

Better understanding of how the skill works will let him either be more interested in min/maxing it, or switch altogether.

Can you guys let a single topic go without whining about “Endgame”?

[SCmilitia-1120]

I understand. I had fun leveling sorc. I just want it to get the much love it needs

[Xelqypla-1579]

We all do.

However, by the Devs own mouths, it’s going to take a while. Resistance won’t see a revamp until Season 2.

I think it’s best to find enjoyable builds to play with than to focus completely on what will push Nightmare Tiers. Earliest we could possibly be even competitive is the Season 1 balance patch, but more likely it will wait until Season 2.

[Wowitsmekool-1573]

Firewall doesn’t crit either which sucks and the enchantment doesn’t proc enough to help. However i changed to fireball and meteor enchantments have each to level 5 and doing much more damage. Fairly inline with other non meta classes. Still a tad slower though but the enchantment replacements helps alot. Im not sure how its going to scale though. But comparing to my ww barb its still embarrassing.

[Xelqypla-1579]

@Wowitsmekool-1573

Firewall doesn’t crit either which sucks and the enchantment doesn’t proc enough to help.

Burn damage isn’t supposed to crit. It’s (when the bugs get fixed) getting progressive damage boosts.

Fire Wall enchantment is 5% per burn damage. The more things you have burning, the more it will proc, which also causes more burning… The entire screen is filled with flames when I play. Which is a problem, because Fire Wall covers all the ground damage indicators.

Builds won’t be brought up to current Barbarian level. Barbarians will be nerfed.

[Wowitsmekool-1573]

I know burn dmg doesnt crit but fireball and meteor can crit because they have a base damage. Works better then firewall with incinerate. Firewall is too slow and proc is weak. Most things are dead before firewall enchant becomes useful.

[Xelqypla-1579]

It’s a different style of play. Fire Ball and Meteor are burst damage. Fire Wall and Incinerate are not.

Fire Wall and Incinerate deal their damage over a much larger area. Like I said, not hard to fill the screen with fire. The actual damage numbers will not be as big as Fire Ball crits, but they will be consistent and hitting everything on the screen.