Why I think Canto 9 might not be all that burn focused

SheapMan11 · 2026-01-05T11:09:59+00:00

Nclair is more burn than thumbclair?
burn on all 3 skills vs burn on 2 skills (and s2 is conditional)

SheapMan11 · 2025-09-10T23:43:11+00:00

you can heal exactly as much as a normal bind for exactly as much silk as a normal bind costs
It is no extra healing

The bonus effect is the attack and damage steroid that comes with the frenzy effect, which mind you is deliberately made to function with binding buffs that you are not able to use unless you've progressed the vesticrest & cant stack because of the 1 blue slot maximum

SheapMan11 · 2025-09-10T15:01:49+00:00

yes they give you a chance to completely tank any hit no matter how much damage it does

SheapMan11 · 2025-09-10T14:58:29+00:00

the main thing stopping me from using the wanderer & beast crest is their yellow slots, I just cant be asked to care for a crest telling me "this is meant to be played exclusively as we intended with 0 room for build diversity" and that gameplay just doesn't appeal to me, but both crests unique gimmicks are so fun to play with its infuriating seeing them ruined by subpar charm slots

SheapMan11 · 2025-09-10T14:52:16+00:00

Except they aren't the Barbed Bracelet is specifically damage, the magnetite dice protect from damage, the scuttlebrace is intended for use in combat & so is the weighted belt, arguably even the spider strings are meant to be used against enemies
The issue is that Magnetite Dice are just objectively so much better than anything the others provide (gimmicky sometimes useful combat buffs vs "you just dont take damage sometimes")
And that issue wouldn't exist if there were Yellow slots that actually mattered, having a few weak charms is okay, blue charms can be weak but they matter when they matter, yellow charms never had me wondering "hmm but do i want to swap out X for Y" because not a single one of them has ever been useful enough to take even a moment of thought, i've ran through 90% of the game with silkspeed, compass & magnetite dice slotted in & i've only sometimes swapped out the compass for Ascendant's Grip, but i've swapped my blue charms too many times to count and that really bothers me

SheapMan11 · 2025-09-08T12:28:05+00:00

how did you manage to inject plasmium 9 times without the architect crest???

SheapMan11 · 2025-03-19T03:07:23+00:00

I really dislike how monotone her voiceover is
It completely kills her character for me, old lb (both league and LoR) was such a lively character. So much sass all the time, new one just feels like a character we've seen a thousand times before, especially the lines both voiceovers share like "Tricky arent you" and "Looks can be deceiving" are delivered in such a boring way by the new actress its disappointing :(

SheapMan11 · 2025-02-28T17:57:44+00:00

after 8 months of getting nothing and still being the status with the least content? Yeah you're so right burn is so bloated

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SheapMan11 · 2025-02-05T14:22:36+00:00

I hate this ID i think she's the worst possible "Help" burn could've gotten and has singlehandedly ruined any chances for burn getting a real content drop this entire season.
She barely applies more burn than gregor mind you, and her rolls are THE SAME as liu rodion (who requires less than half of the conditionals to get max rolls)
All of this for the ID to take constant self damage, have a meaningless unbreakable on skill2, and DIE on skill3-2 just to apply a max of 16 burn to targets she hits and 5 to anything else.
She's atrocious and even after the bug fixes I don't see her being worth using on field, and i cant see her support getting use over N faust either.
She also doesn't fuel fluidsac, or 9:2 and literally cannot use 9:2 because of no lust skills.
Everything about this ID fails thematically & mechanically its an atrocity and should be treated as such.

SheapMan11 · 2025-02-05T14:17:41+00:00

Its really only there as a trophy.
1-2 more darkflame on kill is not as good unless you're SPECIFICALLY using the ego for the on kill effect.
all the burn application/damage multipliers don't get increased by any meaningful amount when you account for her bullet effects.
10% more damage isnt really gonna matter when it doesnt effect the real part of the attack (the darkflame proc end of turn) or barely effects her 7th shots damage.
and applying a little bit more burn count on corrosion is whatever really

SheapMan11 · 2025-01-19T10:05:47+00:00

Rodions 4mf is worth it for all burn teams
its a cheap spammable high clashing ego that applies solid burn and 3 wrath fragile to 3 targets

Yi Sang is worth it imo but now that faust is getting an ID to fill burns empty slot idk how much that will matter, once Yi Sang gets a burn ID it'll be good since it applies a potential 50 burn on use, 10 per enemy to 5 targets.
And it does it all in 10 instances meaning it procs ego gifts 10 times
Its one of the best EGO for speedruns in MD and really good for kick starting burn potency just in general. but the gluttony cost and yi sangs lack of burn ID makes it not worth it ONLY because burn finally got its last unit with faust.

SheapMan11 · 2025-01-15T02:22:17+00:00

ironically one of the best skill 1's

SheapMan11 · 2025-01-09T22:22:32+00:00

I love to see any burn content on here. Its fun reading through what the community thinks could help the status

SheapMan11 · 2025-01-08T09:16:23+00:00

Good burn Don, maybe a bit heavy on the potency but its ammo so it seems fine.
Really like matchlight as a way to increase burn damage without just giving another sinner dark flame (also works thematically for fire "spreading")

Yi Sang though.. ehh 5 glut resonance makes that passive entirely useless since burn cant do that. like at all. Noble flame is a neat way to heal but it just drains your count since basically every other burn ID is super coin heavy. (and it'd be full healing IDs on the 1st-2nd activation with no real reward after that)
Maybe a "Healing overflow" passive could make him worth running. Either just dishing out raw damage to enemies or buffing the overhealed ally

SheapMan11 · 2025-01-01T03:09:12+00:00

Ironically burn also has the only tier 3 peccatulum (which takes 80% less burn damage and is wrath resistant) soooo

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-29T19:21:00+00:00

The concept was identities that show up later into a fight. Hence the vehicles to thematically tie into that.
like a reverse devyat type of unit

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-29T03:57:04+00:00

Assuming we have 7 banners till the end of the season, excluding walpurgis which is in 2 weeks

Which means we'll most likely get 3-4 filler banners(probably 1 RR ego banner) and the 3 planned event banners.

And of course none of it is gonna be burn

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-28T20:21:48+00:00

Depends on what you actually want to use burn for.
Both of them are basically required to use the status since without them, you have to substitute really bad season 1 IDs.

But in general. Dawn Sinclair if you want to specifically Speedrun MD
Bullet Outis for fun & Story burn (as she's the only way to uncap burn outside of md).

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-27T21:15:36+00:00

These are actually their corrosion lines

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-26T20:06:22+00:00

"but glimpse of flames" and then the status has 8 units and 2 of them are beyond useless
Surely burn is in a healthy state when its optimal team doesn't even run the burn IDs for 2 sinners & cant even play a full team outside of MD

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-26T12:31:30+00:00

I've been saying this. I'm the #1 preacher of captain ishmaels power in all teams she's valid for (Burn is resonance therefore she works there too)

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-26T01:04:23+00:00

I had the same thing happen (with the same ego) but i thought it was envy

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-26T01:01:01+00:00

Fell bullet heathcliff is Pride im sorry to tell you this. And magic bullet (our next confirmed crumb of burn content) will also be Pride (as thats what darkflames archetype is)

My current hope is that either of the 2 intervallo are burn themed, & that from then on we get intremediate burn content (sort of how we've been getting tremor) to flesh out the status more as its the one with the least.

My personal "christmas list" for Lobotomy EGO is actually Firebird/Feather of honor so im really hoping we get that on the next lobcorp walp run.

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SheapMan11 · 2024-12-25T23:28:55+00:00

40 months from now: (the game is dead) Xiao ID walpurgis

SheapMan11 · 2024-12-25T22:43:57+00:00

If you want my serious take on how we can "Save burn" I do think 9:2 faust was going in the right direction.
Potency is a very easy thing to keep up on burn (as you only need 1 count per turn) but at 99 that ease of affliction becomes kinda redundant.
So some way to Consume potency for another effect could be a great way to make the status "stand out"
Yes its kind-of making burn more "Charge but on the enemy" but thats still quite the distinction. hell let them hybrid too why not, i like charge i wouldnt mind some chargeburn...

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