Heat Dura neg only goes so far afaik
I feel like we should probably set a standard on how much durability can heat negate.
It should negate any gap (Ignoring anything infinite or beyond) if someone lacks heat resistance going by
our standards. But in reality there would be a hard limit to this. Since a Tier 7 character would produce so much heat with their movement that fire, magma, and even the surface of the Sun would be nothing to them.
But obviously we can't give everyone heat manipulation/resistance based on them being a high tier. You'd only need to be Wall level to tank touching lava. That's why I said
our standards, since we don't give these people heat manipulation/resistance for being a certain tier. Meaning they just have normal resistance.
Scaling heat is extremely iffy. Since heat "damage" comes from temperatures. And heat energy comes from multiple factors and not just temperature.
Example: Take a fire that has high energy (7-C) and covers a large area. But this fire cannot melt steel as it's temperature is too low, as such the damage it can inflict is limited. If an object is heated it usually doesn't get hotter than the source of the heat. This 7-C fire would do less damage than a Tier 8 fire that only covers a small area. Because it can instantly vaporize tungsten or something, despite the fact the Tier 7-C has more energy.
Is a fire that burns a Tier 7 character, but is noted as being unable to melt steel, inferior to a fire produced by a Tier 8 character that can melt tungsten? If we only cared about temperature that means a Tier 8 character can vaporize a Tier 5 character with passive heat aura. Which I don't think is right or should be allowed.
But if we don't care about temperature at all and focus on the type of person it burns, what about the above? Character A's flames can't melt something Character B's flames can easily melt. But Character A's flames can hurt higher Tier characters than Character B. Who's flames are superior in a versus thread in this case?
It's a tricky thing to nail down. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with some satisfactory answer that doesn't introduce problems but I've had no luck.
In case you couldn't tell, I have lots of thoughts about this subject.