Tiefling Ash and Sorceror Scorch SLA

[harmlesslarry]

Can someone tell me why these share a cooldown? It seems I can only use one of them. Kind of doesn't make sense to me

[Carpone]

The racial SLA is there for builds that don't have native access to Scorch. If you are playing a class like Sorcerer that has access to Scorch, then you don't need to spend the AP in the racial tree for it.

[ElweSulk]

racial SLA has at best 10 sec cooldown, while fire savant tree has 5 sec cooldown. They share cooldown also.

So when you come to the point where you can have both "(race) tier 4: Improved Scorch" and "(fire savant) tier 4: Scorch", you should make sure to take 3 ranks in the fire savant version, and 1 rank in "tier 3: ash" (not 3 ranks in Ash) + of course take "Improved Scorch" so fire can affect allmost everything.

[Reesi]

Some people buy 1 rank of Ash and then Scorch above it, its kind of handy if you aren't a Fire Savant even with the SLA as Scorch is far reaching and cheap - or if you are but don't want to use your elemental form for some reason. It also gives a 5% fire vulnerability if you are an "every bit helps" type. I think your concern is valid in that context, I don't think you should need to buy Ash for Improved Scorch as the Enhancement works on both SLAs and the spell in general.

[SpartanKiller13]

Can someone tell me why these share a cooldown? It seems I can only use one of them. Kind of doesn't make sense to me

Most (if not all) identical SLA's share cooldowns. It kinda makes sense from a "well, I can innately use this spell" being a checkbox style standpoint? But it's rather annoying. Killed my idea of a Dragonborn Air Domain Sorc build right from my first test, TBH. Worse yet is Sun Domain's Searing Light SLA, it literally shares a cooldown with another Cleric SLA (in DD).