Quote Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI View Post
You're using the best heat management tools within a single cycle, and all to prevent a 10% increase from Overheating (to avoid the -5% penalty after). I agree the overheat penalty is a bit too long, but I utilize Flamethrower to quickly regain 50 heat (
Heating with FT from a reset to 0 is, among a few things 10 seconds of -5% potency, a loss of 30-40 potency per step in your combo, and a 380 potency loss in the time you use your flamethrower to reheat. It's never going to be worth it to overheat without Barrel Stabilizer. This isn't an opinion, it's hard math.


Quote Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI View Post
(as opposed to using it to push to 90 after stopping the shots from doing so with Reload earlier - that seems redundant)
You've used reload at this point to setup your wildfire. You get two cleans,a slug, two overloads, ricc, and GR. It's necessary. Any other order of operations wastes DPS