Heat Wave

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

Launch three waves of heat. Each burns foes and grants vigor to allies. — In-game description

Heat Wave

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Attunement

Fire

Damage type

Fire

Game link

API

5600

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

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Heat Wave

Launch three waves of heat. Each burns foes and grants vigor to allies.

 Damage: 275 (0.75)^?

₃ Vigor (5s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

₃ Burning (4s): 1,572 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 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.

Tempest

• Latent Stamina — Grant vigor to nearby allies when attuning to water. Restore endurance to allies you grant vigor.

Evoker

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

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 20 seconds. This skill now applies strike damage and inflicts 3 stacks of burning for 4 seconds each.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the burning duration from 3 seconds to 6 seconds.
June 03, 2014	Updated the burning skill fact to list the correct duration (9 seconds). Updated the might and vigor skill facts to indicate that the boons are applied multiple times.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Heat Wave has been added to the game.