Flame Burst

This article is about the elementalist skill. For other uses, see Flame Burst (disambiguation).

Burn foes at the target location. — In-game description

Flame Burst

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Fire

Damage type

Fire

Game link

API

5679

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0.5½  10  

Flame Burst

Burn foes at the target location.

 Damage: 40 (0.1)^?

 Damage: 404 (1.0)^?

₂ Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

₃ Burning (6s): 2,358 Damage

 Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	This skill now inflicts blind in addition to burning.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 0.01[sic] to 1.0. Burning stacks applied increased from 2 to 3.
August 28, 2018	This skill will now report "Out of Range" when players target foes outside of the skill's maximum range.
July 10, 2018	This skill will now be placed on an interrupt cooldown if elementalists attempt to cast it on an enemy behind them.
February 23, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to go on interrupt recharge if it was attempted on an enemy outside the max range of the skill.
November 17, 2015	This skill can no longer be activated without a target.
October 29, 2015	Fixed an issue so that this skill will no longer interrupt your target when used while facing away from them.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 2 stacks of burning for 6 seconds.
October 01, 2012	This skill will no longer fire if the target is behind the player.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Flame Burst has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.