OneDumbG0
Find Your Own Fire
A linear directed blast is more taxing as opposed to an omnidirectional blast? I guess it makes sense, if you look at it a certain way,... consciously its more difficult to direct a blast... but I always thought his costume helped him out with that issue. Especially the new one which has mechanical looking arm bands... And if his costume helps him out in directing blasts, then wouldn't it be logical to assume that a directed blast is less taxing than an omnidirectional blast in terms of pure energy output? Or does all that extra energy in an omnidirectional blast go directly towards his conscious controlling of a directed blast? Well, in my X-Factor comics and X-Men comics, Havok seems to direct his plasma blasts without too much effort. In fact, I have a comic where he goes omnidirectional and it takes a lot out of him, nearly killing him. I promise, scans this weekend. Maybe you have a comic that demonstrates your premise that I haven't read.
Even so, just in terms of energy, for Havok to go omnidirectional with enough force to incinerate Wolvie, should take a decent amount out of him. Even if he goes all out the first time with constant energy release, again, the shockwave will just carry Wolvie away further and further as long as Wolvie is smart enough to take the ride so that no potent incineration takes place. Unless Wolvie stepped through the shockwave or the blast was directed straight at him (so no shockwave occurs), I don't see how the plasma could effectively incinerate him. And it takes quite a bit to incinerate the lil runt.
I'm not saying Wolvie takes this more often than not... I think Havok and him would split in favor of Havok, because I think he could direct his blasts and corner Wolvie or just get him into the air and shoot him. But I think the last thing he would do is omniforceblast him away. It would give Wolvie the chance to regroup or hide or sneak up on Havok. I have a comic where Havok unleashes a considerable blast, partly directed, partly omnidirectional, but he loses track of where the enemies are afterwards. Again, scans this weekend...