Hellhound alternate bomber playstyle tweaks/suggestions

well i disagree, for example in this build I wear entire panetti set + panetti mi and 66 skillpoints in panetti and still pets are ~permanent up to SR30

panetti replicating pets

its still meme of course compared to a player build, but changing that would require a fundamental redesign of the game which i’m not even interested in and certainly you wont get there by changing just hellfire in such a way.

I think you can actually make your request much simpler by asking only for this.
But so far we ignored hellfire also improves DA and retal, which is not really synergistic with suicide tactic, so I think this is the wrong skill to focus on when balancing blazing death.