I’ve said this before, but I feel like Ignite is one of the main things holding Fire back from meaningful talent choices / improved upfront ST damage. As long as it cleaves passively, our ST can’t be that great. Part of me wonders if Controlled Destruction (or any talent really) could be reworked as follows: (1) significantly increase Pyroblast damage; (2) reduce the number of ignite spread targets by 2-3 (so, effectively no spread unless you take Master of Flame). This would allow for:
- The ability to take the Living Bomb talents without tanking boss damage. Living Bomb could potentially then thrive as an AoE alternative without constituting a second/duplicate source of completely passive spread cleave.
- The ability to opt out of any spread cleave for pure ST encounters.
- Still-functional council/2-3 target cleave damage via Master of Flame
I dunno, might be a terrible take, but seems to me like this would give a bit more build flexibility depending on the encounter.