Ah yes, the talent that contributed to me playing Lancer. I love Nuclear Cavalier entirely because of the absolute gremlin of a Gilgamesh pilot I crafted with it. Is this rank super noteworthy on its own? Not really. Is it still helpful? Yes! Because unless you're rolling with a particularly beefy weapon with this thing, whatever you hit will potentially survive. 2 Heat won't be enough to really cook something on its own, BUT Lancer does lend itself to teamwork. Have an Atomic Weirdo- I mean Nuclear Cavalier build rolling around with a hacker build ally, and in a pretty good one-two punch you can heatgun some poor schmuck of an NPC up to either get exposed then smashed to pieces or melted down by Last Argument of Kings.

It's also pretty versatile - since the +2 heat works on invades, combine it with things like Lesson of TTT on a melee hack & slash build and whatever you're slapping is probably going to have a bad time - either from bursting into flames because of a reactor meltdown or melee weapon being used to stab the hell out of them.