Originally Posted by Damar Stiehl
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Nobody willingly sets themselves on fire unless they are staging a self-immolation protest.

I get the upsides/downsides to status effects, such as chilled making you resist fire but slow and vulnerable to frost. Skills that do damage to both the user, his party AND the enemies are utter nonsense, unless they are last-ditch heroic efforts that produce a massive, appreciable impact that makes the sacrifice worthwhile. I don't think Phoenix Dive qualifies.

Here's to hoping it gets patched out or modded out eventually.


Thing is, there are already spells that do this. Literally, there is a mage spell that creates an area of fire around themselves. That's all it does. It's even called "Self Immolation".

The concept of an ability which hurts you, but gives you something valuable in return, is not really novel. I can see this particular issue being a bug or working as intended, but either way I don't think it makes a very big difference (seriously my warrior being set on fire is not a big deal, they are already tanky as hell) and either way Larian intended it wouldn't surprise me.

I really don't know why people are losing their minds over it.