Talk:Damage/Heat Damage/@comment-79.184.93.143-20150316203347/@comment-4830769-20160404215748

Fire Status does not stack. Fire Status only overrides if the Fire Status (Damage) you attempt to apply to an Enemy exceeds the one an Enemy already has. if you are just shooting the same Weapon at the Enemy though, your Fire Status will not refresh because you're not applying Fire Status greater than already present.

what that means, is if you wait for the Panic to finish, and reapply the Panic, the DoT will still end in the same amount of time.

seems the Article has sketchy information here - as the Panic Stun from Fire Status can only be reapplied after they have stopped the Panic the first time.

tl;dr Fire Status is awful.