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. — In-game description

Persisting Flames

Specialization

Fire (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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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.

 Persisting Flames (15s): +2% Damage

 Maximum Stacks: 5

 Duration Increase: 2 seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Drake's Breath — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Burning Speed — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Ring of Fire — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Elemental Explosion — Pistol
•   Scorching Shot — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Raging Ricochet — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Searing Salvo — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Flamestrike — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Dragon's Tooth — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Phoenix — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Flamewall — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Fire Shield — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Transmute Fire — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Fireball — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Font — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Burst — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Burning Retreat — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Blazing Barrage — Spear, when attuned to fire
•   Etching: Volcano — Spear, when attuned to fire
•   Magma Orb — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Boil — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Chains — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Heat Wave — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Wildfire — Warhorn, when attuned to fire
•   Plasma Burst — Dagger, when attuned to fire and air
•   Ashen Blast — Dagger, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Frostfire Flurry — Pistol, when attuned to fire and water
•   Purblinding Plasma — Pistol, when attuned to fire and air
•   Molten Meteor — Pistol, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Fiery Frost — Scepter, when attuned to fire and water
•   Fracturing Strike — Scepter, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Searing Slash — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Uprising — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Cauterizing Strike — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Twin Strike — Sword, when attuned to fire and water
•   Pyro Vortex — Sword, when attuned to fire and air
•   Lava Skin — Sword, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Water — Hammer, when attuned to fire and water
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Air — Hammer, when attuned to fire and air
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Earth — Hammer, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Pyroclastic Blast — Staff, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Fiery Impact — Spear, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Hydrothermal Vent — Trident, when attuned to fire and water
•   Molten Burst — Trident, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Grand Finale — Hammer
•   Singeing Strike — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Surging Flames — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Wheel — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Triple Sear — Hammer, when attuned to fire

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Burning Retreat — Conjured Flame
•   Ring of Fire — Conjured Flame
•   Flame Leap — Conjured Flame
•   Fiery Eruption — Fiery Greatsword

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Cleansing Fire — Cantrip
•   Glyph of Elemental Power — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Firestorm — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Signet of Fire — Signet
•   "Feel the Burn!" — Shout
•   Primordial Stance — Stance
•   Fox's Fury — Meditation

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Conjure Fiery Greatsword — Conjure
•   Flame Barrage

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Overload Fire — Overload, when attuned to fire
•   Ignite — Familiar
•   Conflagration — Familiar

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Flame Burst — Evasive Arcana, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Expulsion — Pyromancer's Puissance
•   Lesser Cleansing Fire — Burning Fire

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Burning Rage — Sunspot inflicts burning, and its radius is increased. Your condition damage is increased.

Arcane

• Arcane Precision — Your critical strikes have a chance to inflict a condition based on your attunement.

Evoker

• Galvanic Enchantment — After you use a familiar skill, your next strike creates an arc of chain lightning. Chain lightnings created by evoker skills inflict burning.

Notes

	Skill	Duration	Traited duration
Staff	Lava Font	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Pyroclastic Blast	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Burning Retreat	6 Seconds	8 Seconds
Dagger	Burning Speed	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Ring of Fire	5 Seconds	7 Seconds
Focus	Flamewall	8 Seconds	10 Seconds
Warhorn (Tempest)	Wildfire	8 Seconds	10 Seconds
Sword (Weaver)	Flame Uprising	2 Seconds	4 Seconds
Trident	Boil	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
Bundle Skills	Burning Retreat	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Ring of Fire	5 Seconds	7 Seconds

• Tempest's Overload Fire and Catalyst's Deploy Jade Sphere are not weapon skills and therefore don't get increased duration.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	This trait now also triggers when inflicting burning on an enemy. Increased the bonus damage per stack from 1% to 2%. Reduced the maximum number of stacks from 10 to 5.
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
May 11, 2021	Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
July 07, 2020	This trait no longer grants fury when using a blast finisher with a fire combo field. Instead, this trait will now grant the elementalist an additional 1% damage for 15 seconds for each target struck with a fire field. This effect stacks up to 10 times.
July 10, 2018	The lava font cast by this trait has been renamed Lesser Lava Font.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Updated the description of this trait to indicate that it affects weapon-skill abilities only. No functionality has changed.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Lava Tomb has been merged into this trait. Create a lava font at your position when you go down.
October 15, 2013	The duration increase for fire fields is now consistent.
June 25, 2013	Updated this trait to also allow blast finishers to give fury (10 seconds) as well as might.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Persisting Flames has been added to the game.