Talk:Ignis/@comment-19122954-20131025222802/@comment-175.156.197.215-20131026074743

It starts of fairly meh due to the relative crappiness of fire damage, with it's only benefit being the AOE within the cone of fire, but if you take like ~15 seconds to down a lvl30 corpus, that's pretty bad right?

Then you realize that you take ~15 seconds to down every corpus crewmember(normal ones) in a corridor... Then you mod it as it levels up and watch  as entire swarms are cleared in seconds. Slap a potato and forma on and cackle as 20+ enemies are killed in a second of barely aimed fire...

So yeah, it will slaughter swarms of normal enemies, the problem comes when facing tough enemies like heavies/ancients/bosses, then It'll suck.

At this point in time, the ignis is pretty unique due to it's Crowd Control capabilities. The Ogris needs to charge and risks killing yourself, the Torid has very small AOE from slow single projectiles, good for clogging up pathways on the defence but not much else (And used to hurt yourself, but I heard that's been removed). The Ignis lays down a stream of death in the direction you're aiming instantly with no risk to yourself.

One thing to note though, the actual cone is much bigger than the flame's animation, meaning wider and longer. And it is a cone, so more effective at medium range than short-melee range.