Yep, like I said. I’ve been telling people about beam without lingering since the closed beta. Everyone was just so focused on Lingering flames they never noticed it. I think it’s the highest damage output in the game. I don’t think even spamming hagbane into a boss kills that fast.
The lingering flames build is just a more passive safer play style. But you will blow it away with a normal build.
Yeah but outside of boss killing, bw is cheese fest with lingering flames, just do one circle of dot doom and spam dodge with block. Its heaven for skillless players
imo searing and lingering should be on the same tier, so you cant take both
Beam staff has only 2 different dots as it builds up. And unfortunately you get the weaker dot as it applies before the stronger last dot.
I have tested this personally.
Does Beam staff still buildup? I have never known this, some here say it does not. I am confused 
not if you’re using lingering. if not then it has 2 dots: a very weak one, then builds up to a strong one
Famished + beam staff is to my knowledge untouched, is still excellent, and as already commented yes there is dot buildup without lingering, using lingering stops this since you can’t overwrite the weaker burn dot that is applied first.