Honestly with friendly u don’t have to invest as much into chilies. But u loose the survivability from banner

@@SmojoWasTaken It's not about not investing into chillies it's about heat. You invest into them anyway. Heat scales exponentially so if you run item that steals heat you want heat generation even more than usuall. Actually the best Staff build apart from Omega :P is Staff+Egg+Flame Whip which is insanely hard to put together because of mana and is basically the best Egg setup + Staff on top. It goes ballistic if it works because with exponential heat scaling unless you have Mega/HammerShaman with stun runes/Omega you die with everything. And yeah if you don't put it in the right way or fall short it fails miserably but we are talking about how to make it as strong as possible not as viable as possible :D Banner never matters if you have enough heat as you will outscale everything if you aren't bursted down due to exponential nature of scaling. The question is how to make enough heat with an item that steals 2 heat per attack :D And yeah it's full yolo with Heat Egg setup or multiple Chilli Goobs. So yeah to play responsibly you probably pick Banner but if your aim is some sort of nuts you have to pick Friendly and make it work :P And that's basically the rule with every Pyro build: you want nuts version you need to make exponential heat scaling. If there is no options left you always have Omega as the backup. Simply think in a really large picture xd We don't see failed missions anyway :P Oh you could also try out Staff with Chonkers =D I did it once and felt really good. You could maybe even do it from Reapers side with Struggles inbetween for +120% speed burst. 1 or 2 Giraffes can help with heat as well. I did it from Pyro side but if tripple Chonkers on Struggles are super good (3 to use effectively fanny packs/gloves, with 2 you can't due to Struggles positioning) than double with Staff will be also definitely good ;p Sky is the limit as they say.