IMO PvE, in particular, weekly nightfall is the only place fireborn (self res) should be used. If someone is playing PvP with anything but radiant skin they are doing it wrong. I can't count how many times I have killed a warlock, hear and see him starting to res and kill him again before the animation has ended. Not sure why people use it honestly its not as if it erases your death or anything. Maybe in 3 v 3 it could be useful but not the other modes. When I use it in nightfall I don't use it completely passively and wait to die, but I do wait until my fire team has generated orbs before I use my super. Then once I use it I can get another immediately by picking up their orbs, then I will wait until they generate more use my super again for maximum dps You don't have to die to use your super when equipped with fire born. In nightfall I just want to make sure I have a super ready the majority of the time to avoid a wipe. PvE outside of nightfall if I run sun singer I use radiant skin.