So I’ve got a decently hot take here. Incandescent is mid as h3ll and a near waste of a perk slot on most weapons unless you specifically build for Scorch on Solar. Ever since Enhanced Incandescent was nerfed to not change the number of defeated enemies needed to cause an ignition, this perk has very limited use. It’s ad clear is poor. 30 stacks of burn barely do any damage over the moderate duration. Requiring multikills near a single target to obtain even respectable damage compared to other AoE perks like Chain Reaction, Voltshot, Dragonfly, etc. So in order to do any real damage with the perk, you need to cause an ignition. That means you need 4 enemies all near each other (which is a rarity with how small the detonation size is) and you need to kill 3 of them within the 2 second window before the scorch stacks start to decay. Now let’s talk ability regen. This is where the perk functions the best, but for most builds it has easy substitutes. The generalized effects center around 2 fragments: [spoiler]Searing - defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and generates a fire sprite. This gives 8-15% energy when defeating minors and majors. This is great, but most Solar builds have either infinite melees (Titan throwing hammer or Hunter knives w Knock Em down) or have a way of quickly regenerating energy (Heat Rises or Sunspots). Singing - 400% class ability regen for 3s after a scorching an enemy. This is great too, providing one of the fastest cooldown reductions for doing something you already do. But that’s the key. In most Solar builds, you’re focusing on scorching targets and killing scorched targets anyways. Basically every Solar ability scorches. So does spec-ing into yet another way of scorching enemies provide that much of a benefit compared over the very easy to use gameplay loops you can find in the subclasses themselves. This isn’t like Jolt which relies on outside forces to make the ability cooldowns function and actually does good damage and add clear. [/spoiler] Solar has scorch built into almost every facet of its kit with easy ways to have very high uptime with minimal investment. And the effects can be largely replicated with a Pugilist or Specialist weapon without taking up a key-right column perk on your weapon. This all to say that it’s just mid. It annoys me how every YouTuber makes a video about a solar weapon and immediately hyper-fixates on Incandescent. There are times when it is a solid pick. Ad-clear special/heavy weapons like Wave GLs, Trace Rifles, Rocket Sidearms, or MGs have the AoE and/or damage to somewhat reliably ignite enemies in the activities where Bungie actually groups enemies tightly enough. Weapons like Zaouli’s Bane, Nullify, or Tyranny of Heaven that have strong complementary perks to either increase their damage to fill a similar ignition role or allow the perk to function as a utility perk. Or when using builds like Sol Invictus to spawn sunspots (which actually do damage and heal you), GPG for guaranteed Ignitions, or Dawn Chorus to make the scorch damage actually do good ad-clear. So yeah, rant over. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. TLDR; Scorch doesn’t do enough damage and ignitions aren’t reliable enough to work as an ad-clear perk. It needs build support or specific weapons in order to be viable. Otherwise, you’re better off with a different perk.