Blaze Talents

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Adrenaline Stimpack is a strong Talent that passively increases your Attack Speed and Movement Speed by a small amount when having high Health and by a big amount when you decided to use its active component.

The possibility to double your Attack Speed on demand helps you to take down enemy Heroes. If combined with Incinerator Gauntlets at Level 4, Adrenaline Stimpack greatly boosts your ability to clear Mercenaries.

Endurance Stimpack is a good Talent that gives you access to a Shield that can be either used on-demand or that will automatically go off when low on Health.

You can pick this Talent to further increase your survivability, something which comes in handy especially when the enemy team features Heroes who can deal percent-based damage.

Neural Stimpack is a good Talent that allows Blaze to reduce the cooldown of his Basic Abilities by an additional 5 seconds over 5 seconds.

In practice, this effect lets him cast a second round of Abilities when most other Heroes would only have one. If there is no need to pick New Habits, this short-term power increase to his damage, survivability, and disruptiveness is invaluable in team fights.

New Habits is a good Quest-based Talent that, once completed, helps Blaze to deal with crowd control by becoming Unstoppable for 2 seconds when using Pyromania. Before completing it, you still get some value from Regeneration Globes as they will reduce the cooldown of your Trait when picked up.

After completing it, New Habits can be used right before using Combustion to ensure that it gets channeled for about 2 seconds.

Oil Dispersal is a good Talent that improves the reliability and power of Oil Spill by modestly increasing its area of effect, making it easier to use Oil Spill as a setup for Jet Propulsion. In addition to that, each enemy Hero hit with Flame Stream will reduce the cooldown of Oil Spill by a small amount and give you some Mana.

Meltdown is a situational Talent that provides you with a respectable damage reduction debuff, which can be useful to not only make yourself harder to kill but also to peel for your teammates.

The easiest way to get value from this Talent is to activate Pyromania when surrounded by one or more enemy Heroes that have no mobility or when an enemy Hero is standing still to channel a powerful Ability (for example Lightning Breath by Diablo).

Unfortunately, this Talent is gated behind Pyromania's long cooldown, making it difficult to justify if not picked in conjunction with New Habits at Level 1.

Incinerator Gauntlets is a strong Talent that increases your Attack Area by a modest amount and your Attack damage against Minions, Mercenaries, and Monsters by a solid amount.

Pick this Talent when you want to boost your waveclear or when you want to clear Mercenary Camps faster, especially if paired with Adrenaline Stimpack at Level 1.

Suppressive Fire is a strong Talent that reduces the Spell Damage of enemy Heroes hit with Flame Stream by 20% per stream, up to 40% damage reduction.

You can use this Talent to reduce the healing and/or damage done by enemy Heroes with their Abilities. If those Heroes can heal based on damage done with Abilities, then their healing done will be reduced as a consequence.

Nanomachine Coating is a good Talent that offers a lot of value against enemy Heroes that rely on Basic Attacks to deal damage, especially if they lack mobility (such as The Butcher).

Oil Dispersal at Level 4 makes it easier to hit enemy Heroes with Oil Spill and therefore to debuff them with this Talent. That said, the synergy is not mandatory.

Fuel Leak is a weak Talent that makes Jet Propulsion leave a trail of Oil Spill right behind Blaze and creates a stain of Oil Spill right below enemy Heroes hit.

Other than occasionally increasing your self-sustain while out of team fights, the additional Oil Spill also increases your survivability during long team fights as you will be able to heal for longer. The trail will also act as a defensive tool in a given area because enemy Heroes walking on it will be Slowed or, when Ignited, take damage from it.

It is important to mention that the Oil Spill created by this Talent will be Ignited when using Flame Stream to deal damage. That fire will then spread to other Oil Spills that you do not want to Ignite because they apply a higher Slow when not Ignited. To play around this, wait for the Ignited Oil Spill to expire, cast Flame Stream, and then cast Oil Spill.

We do not recommend picking this Talent because it cannot compete with the other options in the same Tier, especially considering that we are not going to spend more than one Talent to empower Oil Spill.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work in detail and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check them out on the Abilities and Strategy page.

Bunker Drop is Blaze's defensive Heroic Ability choice. Its main purpose is to allow allied Heroes to temporarily disable themselves in exchange for a large shared defensive effect and the ability to deal some damage through a new Flame Stream-like Ability.

Combustion is Blaze's damage-oriented Heroic Ability choice. If you are running a double Tank or double Healer team composition, feel like your team may lack damage, or have a proper way of setting up for the Ability (such as Void Prison), Combustion is an appropriate choice.

New Habits at Level 1 allows you to channel Combustion without fearing interrupting effects. You just need to use Pyromania right before casting Combustion.

Grill and Kill is a weak Talent that increases both Blaze's damage output against enemies who are standing in Ignited Oil Spill and, once its Quest has been completed, also makes Ignited Oil Spill last longer.

While it provides a fair amount of damage, we do not recommend picking this Talent because it cannot compete with the high amount of burst damage provided by Collision Course, which is more useful when trying to secure kills.

Adhesive Petroleum is a weak Talent that increases your Attack damage on enemy Heroes standing on Ignited Oil Spill and makes your Basic Attacks automatically Ignite them. To make up for the auto-Ignite feature, Ignited Oil Spill will still Slow enemies, albeit for a slightly lower amount compared to non-Ignited ones.

While it provides a fair amount of damage, we do not recommend picking this Talent because it cannot compete with the high amount of burst damage provided by Collision Course, which is more useful when trying to secure kills.

Collision Course is a strong Talent which greatly increases the damage done by Jet Propulsion to the first enemy Hero hit, making your engage quite powerful at taking down whoever is being focused by your team.

Thermal Protection provides Blaze with a large amount of Armor when you need it most, which is to say, after initiating with Jet Propulsion.

The cooldown reduction provided by this Talent also synergizes well with Fuel Leak at Level 7. Thermal Protection may be more powerful than its Heat Treatment alternative if your team composition features two Healers, as Armor's potency increases as more healing becomes available.

Heat Treatment turns Pyromania into an extremely potent self-heal that heals him for approximately 12% of his total Health pool per target hit over Pyromania's 4-second duration, including Minions and Structures. Combined with his Armor and Oil Spill's healing, Heat Treatment can situationally make Blaze very difficult to kill.

Juggernaut Plating is a situational Talent that, once every 30 seconds, can be activated to increase your Spell Armor by a lot for a few seconds. Upon expiration, 125% of the Spell Damage and percent-based damage during that time window will be converted into a Shield.

Consider picking this Talent against team compositions which feature at least one Mage (such as Alarak), so that you will be able to negate a good portion of their damage on you.

Fortified Bunker is a strong Talent which empowers the Armor bonus provided by Bunker Drop: the Armor is increased to 50 and the duration is increased to 3 seconds. Furthermore, whoever enters in the Bunker can cast Oil Spill and Blaze can light it up with Flame Stream as usual.

We find this Talent particularly strong in coordinated play, when your teammates will have an easier time to enter in the Bunker as you will probably alert them in voice chat while casting Bunker Drop. Outside of coordinated play, the value you will get from this Talent will vary a lot from game to game.

Flash Fire allows Combustion to instantly generate value by granting it an impressive Slowing effect that can often force opponents to use gap closers to escape. Flash Fire also removes the Slowing penalty from Blaze himself, which helps him keep up with potential targets.

Burn Notice is a weak Talent that provides Blaze with modest damage increase and constant Slow effect, stacking up to 5 times on the same target. Because of that, if you have Adrenaline Stimpack at Level 1, damage and Slow provided by this Talent will ramp up faster.

We do not recommend this Talent because its bonus is too small to make a difference when compared to the alternatives in the same Tier. Using it when going Core is not great either because it will rarely make a difference and, if the enemy team manages to defend, then you will end up having a bad Talent for the rest of the game.