Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Myon88]

The thing though, is that Wildfire damage is just one component of the more important thing which is total damage done. For example, would you rather have a Wildfire that hits for 100 extra damage, or an extra turret shot for 300 damage?

It's a lose the battle, win the war thing. The boss doesn't care where your damage is coming from.

If you're just comparing Wildfire damage numbers you will certainly get larger numbers with an opener optimized to produce that, but that's not the whole picture.

A better way to compare them would be to compare total damage done by each opener in ACT after the same set period of time (say, 25 seconds each to allow for a full opener to conclude). Ideally you'd run this thousands of times in a simulator to smooth out RNG, but you get the idea.