Sienna's Flaming Flail

[Velthorn]

So, i gathered from the new update that the Flail's first heavy attack has been changed, and it now deals direct explosion damage. But it still doesn't do damage beyond the target it actually hits, right? Did they just do that to remove the visual burning effect on the enemies that were hit by the aoe effect of the "explosion"?

I'm confused.

And does the dot on the target thats hit with Heavy 1 count as burning? (For Chain reaction)

[Moschusbock]

it counts as burning, but its a terrible weapon for burnbuilds because it only lights up 1 enemy per (slow) swing.

flaiming flail is great tho. i currently enjoy playing BW with volcanic fireball staff and flaming flail with opportunist. flaming flail heavy1 with opportunist staggers CWs out of overheads, its pretty nuts.

[Malacar]

Before the latest patch:

Direct hit does strong damage and applies burning DOT. Nearby enemies get knocked around and look like they are burning, but they don't take any damage (no direct damage and no DOT).

After the latest patch:

Direct hit does strong damage and applies burning DOT. Nearby enemies get knocked around and take small damage that diminishes with distance from the epicenter. They don't look like they are burning and they don't take damage over time.

[Velthorn]

Originally posted by Moschusbock:

it counts as burning, but its a terrible weapon for burnbuilds because it only lights up 1 enemy per (slow) swing.

flaiming flail is great tho. i currently enjoy playing BW with volcanic fireball staff and flaming flail with opportunist. flaming flail heavy1 with opportunist staggers CWs out of overheads, its pretty nuts.

Hm, yea I like the Fire Flail, and I am trying to make a burnbuild, but it seems that the only really usefull melee weapon for for burnbuilds would be the fire sword... Kind of a bummer :P
Your build sounds fun too, though! The flail really is amazing at staggering.

[Velthorn]

Thanks for clearing that up guys!

[Deja Vu]

Dagger can be good for burn builds too, but the dots are not quite as strong and you're going to rely a certain amount on the direct damage as well.

[Velthorn]

Originally posted by Deja Vu:

Dagger can be good for burn builds too, but the dots are not quite as strong and you're going to rely a certain amount on the direct damage as well.

I always thought the dagger did bleed damage, but it actually burns enemies with the heavies, you are totally right! The push attacks deal bleed damage, though, but thats fine.
Nice though, thanks for the info, will try my build with the dagger:)