Heat Beam Runes Buff Ideas

[Micbran]

As we all know, heat beam runes are a little lackluster when comparing them physical wilds. You can have a piddiling burn damage... or a nice all resist boost. So, me and bpat thought of a couple of potential buffs:

1. Simply reduce the cooldown so that it is up more often. This coupled with bpat's changes to how undead handle runic saturation would be a pretty nice buff to the already buffed undead.
2. Additionally burn a beneficial physical effect from whomever you hit with it.
3. Apply a "powers burn" debuff that reduces powers (phys, spell, mind) on enemies hit.

[Davion Fuxa]

Not sure how useful it would be to make it burn a physical effect, but that could be useful for when you have a blocking enemy or what not. Reducing enemy power though sounds like it could be useful.

[Sheila]

I'm more of a fan of bpat's previous idea, making it a flameshock stun instead.
Cooldown is an issue that needs to be addressed either way since most runes have no reason to have higher cd than wilds.

[Number43]

What about biting gale and acid wave runes vs mental and magical wilds?

[Micbran]

Freeze is pretty solid as a status effect and acid wave at least disarms (besides magical effects are so rare that acid runes become more of a situational pick anyways), meanwhile heat beam just... applies a weak burn effect.

[Davion Fuxa]

Not to mention, Biting Gale applies a Wet effect - which is useful when you are trying to apply a Stun Debuff on enemies.