Talk:Ember (Warframe)/@comment-184.174.132.112-20130729044856/@comment-184.174.132.112-20130729200114

No, I'm not stupid.

It is, indeed, useless for what I used to use it for. Now, the ring allows people to get touched once and come right in where, before, I could sit in the center and swing a melee weapon while the people that were attacking me got hit with fresh fire damage every second. This made defending the point in front of the pod on Xini and other Corpus-ship Defense maps extremely easy. As it stands now, those same mobs that used to die to one ring require 2-3 in order to force them to run through enough fire to down them, or bring them close enough to it that my Hek or Hate could finish the job easily.

You have to remember that, unless you're keeping Overheat up constantly and have a Focus to make it more effective, Ember is no more tanky than Banshee. She can't deal with 15 people slamming her from all sides, even with a good melee weapon. That's why having the ring in close was helpful, it kept her from getting overwhelmed.