Conjure Flame Axe - Useless?
So can anyone tell me a situation where this spell is actual usefull? Cause from what I’ve seen it’s just a nerfed version of FGS.
Stacking might. Give one to the poor mesmer when they forget or don’t know how to use torch.
- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids
It’s got mobility (Burning Retreat), two fire fields (Burning Retreat, Ring of Fire), great burning, ranged (and personal might stacking) AA, very short cooldown on a blast finisher, and a leap finisher.
It’s a conjure that actually provides a lot of utility - I quite enjoy running it in some Staff builds (with auramancy traits) since both finishers can grant auras and having two copies of Burning Retreat is great fun.
Then there’s the might stacking, as Iris Ng says! :P
One thing that is a bit bothersome: the fire fields aren’t affected by Persisting Flames. I’m not sure how the tooltip should be changed if they’re not meant to be - maybe "equipped weapons’ fire fields last longer", since a conjure is a held environmental weapon rather than an equipped one?
It has its uses but frankly it doesnt do anything that you cant do without it, ie firefields, blasts, burning retreat. I will admit that its fun to use when doing map completion at 80 and going into starting zones, where theres not much you can do and not kill things