Rockstar frame, better pyromaniac than Ember, best sentient guitar - Temple!
Passive: Temple tracks their rhythmic mayhem by keeping in sync with the Backbeat metronome, shown below their aiming reticle. Casting abilities on the beat provides 50% efficiency and varying bonuses depending on ability used.
Pyrotechnics - Blast targeted enemies with pillars of Heat Damage.
Overdrive - Drive loudspeakers into epic distortion to create a damaging wave of Heat Damage while also increasing vulnerability to Critical Chance.
Ripper’s Wail - Rip on the guitar to make Temple briefly invulnerable while healing them. Ally’s weapons in Affinity Range are lit-up with extra Heat Damage each time an ability is used on the Backbeat and successfully hits enemies.
Exalted Solo - Once a charge has been built up on the Backbeat metronome, set Lizzie aflame and torch enemies with Heat. While aimed, Lizzie blasts enemies with thunderous elemental sound waves, use ability controls to change the Elemental Damage type.
Acquisition: Main and component blueprints can be obtained from the Stage Defense at Solstice Square in Höllvania. Alternatively blueprints can be purchased from Flare of The Hex with the Beating Heartstrings awarded from Stage Defense.
Not really sure how I feel about Temple yet. I love the design (glam rocker with a flamethrower guitar probably would’ve been my hyperfixation like 15 years ago), but it really feels like Arcane Hot Shot was designed specifically for this frame, and I’m not too happy about Temporal Archimedea’s timegated progression.
To expand on the metronomic clunkiness of the Backbeat mechanic that other people have mentioned already, it introduces an extra latency in the gameplay loop. Normally it goes something like: see enemy > aim > cast. With Backbeat, now it’s: see enemy > aim > delay until next Backbeat window > cast. So optimal gameplay essentially forces you to quantize your casts to the hard-coded Backbeat frequency. The most obvious brute-force solution to this is to simply Always Be Casting on the Backbeat, but that feels profoundly dumb.