1000 hours, and just learned about 'Heat Inherit'

[LarvaLounge]

This bizarre nonsensical mechanic has been absolutely tanking the damage of Heat procs on my main build, and I didn't even know it existed... until I happened to see it mentioned on the wiki and decided to find out what it was.

If you don't know what 'Heat Inherit' is, you should look it up.

The very short version is: If you stack Heat procs from multiple sources, it very much matters which source applies the first stack. If the first stack is applied by an ability, it's probably the worst case, and it will ruin the damage of any stacks subsequently applied by your weapons.

Thus is the case with my Null Star Nova build. It bums me out.

[Zahkriin]

Since you mention nova.. do you also know about nova inherit?

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

It's sixes.

It's one of those things that would really be noticeable in simulacrum and a period of trying to reach level cap. That's why you hear about it less than other weird mechanical stuff like Melee Influence's crazy damage in huge areas and slash procs being really good at killing armored enemies.

Are you using a primer like Nukor or Epitaph?