Chain reaction only staggers enemies without damaging them. This talent was simply forgotten and needs a buff.
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When I first tried Unchained, I thought wow, a chain reaction that keeps spreading fire and exploding, that sounds awesome! And then was disappointed to find its name is irrelevant, there’s no chain reaction at all. Wish it ignited nearby enemies as well as knocked back.
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Agree. Sounds like it would be cool when you first see it, then you try it… and it’s just lame 
I have a build made for this with the flame sword and coruscation, even after coruscation nerf, I find it works pretty good, but it’s also pretty niche having a weakness to gun rats and flame rats in the open, and I can’t tell whether it’s good because unchained in general is good, or if Chain Reaction is doing much.
I think having a sound effect or feedback for that talent so you can hear and see the little flame explosions would be nice. Super fun talent idea, too bad it’s not so great.
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There is a small smoke FX visual when Chain Reaction procs, im not sure if there’s any unique audio for it. One of the problems with the talent is that Unchained already has incredible stagger just with her base kit, Chain Reaction is gilding the lily a bit. The +15% attack speed option on that row on the other hand addresses something she lacks, so it’s always the superior choice at the moment.
I do enjoy a caster playstyle on her, you can get away with some crazy recklessness with flaming sword’s thp generation and the Abandon talent 