Primalist could do with some Fire/Ignite support

[Llama8]

@Knocks

These convey my thoughts pretty well. If the devs have added fire conversions for some skills, they clearly WANT ‘Fire Shaman’ to be a playstyle in some form. As such, it should have some extra support to make it a more viable playstyle. I am NOT arguing that Fire should become a ‘main’ direction for that class. I merely want a handful of passive nodes and/or other fire conversions that make the build 1) more effective and 2) more fun.

Currently I am using (Fire) Earthquake, Swipe, Leap, Ice Thorns and Summon Wolf. It’s essential a random mix of skills that are ok by themselves and then Fire EQ. The damage is also fairly underwhelming in late game areas. Oh, and I mentioned this already but I am a Beastmaster primarily using a Shaman skill because the Shaman passives don’t offer a single option for this build.

I think there are two different ways of looking at this. One is “you’ve given me one (or two) skills that can be converted to element X without any passives to support that element”, the other (which I think is the devs view) is “here’s this one conversion which looks cool but other than that we’re not supporting it”. Not every possible build needs full support from passives, and that’s ignoring that you can still support a fire Earthquake build with generic +% melee, +% spell (if you take the Storm Rift node) or +% elemental passives & affixes. From a quick look, most of the Shaman passives seem to support either Totems, flat added damage or secondary effects (cast lightning on hit, stun, freeze). So if you’re going for an Earthquake build, you’ll probably be putting quite a lot of points into Beastmaster.

Have you ever played a build before where you feel like none of the passive trees are actually useful so you just settle for the one that sucks the least? It sort of ruins the fun of character building. If you don’t want me to play Fire Shaman… don’t give it fire skills.

Let me introduce you to my 2-h Rogue build (a favourite of @KissingAiur) …

Some extra support would go a long way in making this niche build feel more exciting and viable to play. And it would still be a niche build - again, I am NOT arguing that a whole passive tree should be dedicated towards Fire. Just give me a Leap node that leaves a burning patch on the ground and a passive node that gives me some extra fire damage/ignite chance. That’s all I’m suggesting.

IMO, Shaman could do with some more passives that buff % melee/spell damage.