In attempt to get this issue a bit more visibility...
Fire creates several unintended issues in the game.
Spells are great, look powerful, its fun affecting envrionment wiht it and all that.
But, it creates some issues.
Because it is too powerful and have too big effects on enemies and our characters.
It should be balanced a bit. Adjusted.
As it is now enemies and our character burn too much - too fast. It doesnt matter which kind of creature we are talking about, (except the charred soldiers) what kind of resistances it has - nothing.
You touch fire and - Wooosh! - youre gone. My characters burn as if they are made out of gasoline.
It creates the additional problem with characters accidentally walking into a burning surface - dying so fast you cant even click onto anything and resurrecting characters who died in it - only to see them die again.
Resurrecting in such situations will be handled by removing that part of burning or otherwise deadly surface - as "lar" said on chat yesterday. And thats fine. Ok.
BUT... that still leaves the previous issues with fire the same. My characters will step into fire and go Woosh!
I had a character just go close to a normal torch once and then literally bursting into flames because he caught one of the sparks or "touched" the torch. Its not that big of a problem because we have resurrect spells and all that but, its just annoying. And frustrating - without any real need to be like that. Having resurrect spells shouldn't be an excuse for unbalanced features.
Solution:
The amount of damage and how fast it is applied - can be reduced a bit. A bit. Which would result in us having some time to react to such accidents with our companions.
It would still be dangerous - only not in such, almost ridiculous manner as it functions now.
It would still cause damage to us and enemies - but not with such crazy speed.
It would still be a excellent weapon but not so overpowering it looks like a cheat or a bug. It is very unbalanced now.
Ive heard from one player that if you raise the fire resistance to 100% - it begins to heal you. As if you were one of the burning legion.
Thats great.
How about if level of resistance to it lowers the speed at which you gain damage from it?
