Phoenix

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

Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor. Inflict additional burning against foes that are already burning. — In-game description

Animation

Phoenix

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Attunement

Fire

Damage type

Fire

Game link

API

5675

“

0.25¼  

10

20

 

Phoenix

Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor. Inflict additional burning against foes that are already burning.

 Damage: 275 (0.75)^?

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Explosion Damage: 624 (1.7)^?

 Explosion Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Burning (6s): 786 Damage

 Additional Burning (6s): 786 Damage

 Vigor (5s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Conditions Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 900

 Unblockable

— 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.

Earth

• Diamond Skin — Remove conditions from yourself when you successfully combo a field with a leap finisher. Remove conditions from nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast finisher.

Tempest

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

Catalyst

• Elemental Epitome — Gain an aura based on your current attunement when you combo. Gain Elemental Empowerment when you grant yourself an aura. Auras can be gained this way once per attunement per interval.
• Elemental Synergy — Gain a bonus effect when you finish a combo. Bonuses can trigger once per attunement per interval.

Evoker

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

Notes

• The phoenix projectile will pierce any enemies on its path, and create the blast finisher effect at its targeted location upon reaching it.
• When returning to the user, the phoenix can travel up to approximately 1500 units distance from its target location, removing one condition and granting vigor on successful return.
• The phoenix cannot travel up obstacles, but can travel down them.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	This skill now inflicts an additional stack of burning against enemies that are already burning. Reduced burning stacks from 2 to 1 in PvE only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds. Burning stack count increased from 1 to 2.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced pass-through power coefficient from 0.75 to 0.4. Reduced explosion power coefficient from 1.7 to 1.5.
December 11, 2018	This skill now applies 1 stack of burning for 6 seconds to enemies struck by its area attack.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to hit more frequently than intended.
November 17, 2015	Fixed a bug in which this skill would not execute a blast finisher when used on the fire field produced by Wildfire.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from granting vigor and removing a condition in some situations.
June 03, 2014	Updated the description and added a skill fact to show that this skill only removes 1 condition.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to occasionally hit a target multiple times when a large group of enemies were stacked together.
June 25, 2013	Doubled the velocity. Added an unblockable skill fact.
November 15, 2012	This skill's tooltip now states the correct duration of 5 seconds of vigor that this skill applies.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Phoenix has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• According to The Making of Guild Wars 2, the returning function of this skill was born out of design of an axe skill created for the ranger profession.