Boil

Boil the water around your foe. — In-game description

Boil

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Attunement

Fire

Damage type

Fire

Game link

API

5597

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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0.5½  8  

Boil

Boil the water around your foe.

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Burning (1s): 131 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Fire

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Pyromancer's Training — Your fire-weapon skills gain reduced recharge. Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Persisting Flames — Fire fields created by weapon skills last longer. Whenever your fire fields hit a foe or you inflict burning, gain increased strike damage for a duration.
• Pyromancer's Puissance — Gain might for using any skill while attuned to fire. When leaving fire attunement or successfully completing a fire overload, unleash a Flame Expulsion.
• Inferno — Burning you inflict scales off of your power instead of your condition damage.

Evoker

• Fiery Might — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.

Notes

Bug:

Tooltip damage displays ~4.5% higher than actual damage dealt.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	Now also applies 1 second of burning on hit.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
September 30, 2014	Added a line-of-sight check for this skill.
December 14, 2012	This skill is now a fire field.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Boil has been added to the game.