Burning

This article is about the condition. For other uses, see Burning (disambiguation).

Deals damage every second; stacks intensity. — In-game description

Burning

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Intensity

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Deals damage every second; stacks intensity.

— In-game description

Burning is a condition that inflicts damage over time and stacks in intensity. Like all damaging conditions it can stack up to 1500 stacks. Characters suffering from burning will have flames emanating from them. Damage is determined by the following formula:

(0.155 * Condition Damage) + (1.55 * Level) + 7 damage per stack per second,

(0.155 * Condition Damage) + 131 damage per stack per second at Level 80.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that burn

Weapon skills that burn

•   Jurisdiction — Pistol
•   Peacekeeper — Pistol
•   Symbol of Ignition — Pistol
•   Cleansing Flame — Torch
•   Zealot's Fire — Torch
•   Zealot's Flame — Torch
•   Wrathful Grasp — Spear
•   Purify — Trident
•   Purifying Blast — Trident
•   Symbol of Energy — Longbow
•   Blazing Edge — Axe
•   Searing Slash — Axe
•   Searing Fissure — Mace
•   Abyssal Force — Spear
•   Igniting Brand — Spear
•   Mistsfire — Trident
•   Portal Fire — Trident
•   Reckoning Blast — Trident
•   Torrential Mists — Trident
•   Scorchrazor — Short bow
•   Spiritcrush — Short bow
•   Arcing Arrow — Longbow
•   Fan of Fire — Longbow
•   Blaze Breaker — Torch
•   Flames of War — Torch
•   Blowtorch — Pistol
•   Conduit Surge — Spear
•   Devastator — Spear
•   Electric Artillery — Spear
•   Focused Devastation — Spear
•   Homing Torpedo — Harpoon gun
•   Timed Charge — Harpoon gun
•   Rocket Fist Prototype — Mace
•   Bonfire — Torch
•   Throw Torch — Torch
•   Burning Speed — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Drake's Breath — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Ring of Fire — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Elemental Explosion — Pistol
•   Raging Ricochet — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Scorching Shot — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Searing Salvo — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Dragon's Tooth — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Flamestrike — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Phoenix — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Fire Shield — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Flamewall — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Transmute Fire — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Burning Retreat — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Fireball — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Burst — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Font — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Blazing Barrage — Spear, when attuned to fire
•   Boil — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Heat Wave — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Chains — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Magma Orb — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Wildfire — Warhorn, when attuned to fire
•   Ashen Blast — Dagger, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Plasma Burst — Dagger, when attuned to fire and air
•   Frostfire Flurry — Pistol, when attuned to fire and water
•   Molten Meteor — Pistol, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Purblinding Plasma — Pistol, when attuned to fire and air
•   Fiery Frost — Scepter, when attuned to fire and water
•   Fracturing Strike — Scepter, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Cauterizing Strike — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Uprising — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Skin — Sword, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Pyro Vortex — Sword, when attuned to fire and air
•   Searing Slash — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Twin Strike — Sword, 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
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Water — Hammer, when attuned to fire and water
•   Pyroclastic Blast — Staff, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Hydrothermal Vent — Trident, when attuned to fire and water
•   Molten Burst — Trident, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Flame Wheel — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Grand Finale — Hammer
•   Singeing Strike — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Surging Flames — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Triple Sear — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Phantasmal Mage — Torch
•   The Prestige — Torch
•   Harrowing Wave — Torch

Bundle skills that burn

•   Chapter 1: Searing Spell — Tome of Justice
•   Chapter 2: Igniting Burst — Tome of Justice
•   Chapter 4: Scorched Aftermath — Tome of Justice
•   Epilogue: Ashes of the Just — Tome of Justice
•   Fire Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Air Blast — Flamethrower
•   Flame Blast — Flamethrower
•   Flame Jet — Flamethrower
•   Napalm — Flamethrower
•   Burning Retreat — Conjured Flame
•   Flame Leap — Conjured Flame
•   Ring of Fire — Conjured Flame
•   Fiery Eruption — Fiery Greatsword

Transform skills that burn

•   Corona Burst — Engage Photon Forge
•   Photon Blitz — Engage Photon Forge

Utility skills that burn

•   Purging Flames — Consecration
•   Judge's Intervention — Meditation
•   Signet of Judgment — Signet
•   Flame Rush
•   Flame Surge — Final Charge
•   Whirling Light — Physical
•   Elemental Blast — Legendary Dragon Stance, Consume
•   Scavenger Burst — Legendary Alliance Stance, Luxon
•   Flame Turret — Turret
•   Superconducting Signet — Signet
•   Solar Flare — Spirit
•   Flame Trap — Trap
•   Cleansing Fire — Cantrip
•   Firestorm — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Glyph of Elemental Power — Glyph
•   Glyph of Elemental Power — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Signet of Fire — Signet
•   "Feel the Burn!" — Shout
•   Primordial Stance — Stance
•   Trail of Anguish — Punishment

Elite skills that burn

•   Prime Light Beam — Exceed
•   Conjure Fiery Greatsword — Conjure
•   Flame Barrage
•   Plaguelands — Corruption
•   Ghastly Breach — Punishment
•   Elixir of Ambition — Elixir

Profession mechanic skills that burn

•   Virtue of Justice — Virtue
•   Spear of Justice — Virtue
•   Tome of Justice — Virtue
•   Rushing Justice — Virtue
•   Citadel Bombardment — Citadel Order
•   Combustive Shot — Burst, Longbow
•   Burning Shackles — Primal Burst, Harpoon gun
•   Flaming Flurry — Primal Burst, Sword
•   Gun Flame — Primal Burst, Rifle
•   Scorched Earth — Primal Burst, Longbow
•   Wild Whirl — Primal Burst, Spear
•   Incendiary Ammo — Tool belt, Flamethrower
•   Rocket Kick — Tool belt, Rocket Boots
•   Throw Napalm — Tool belt, Flame Turret
•   Cauterize — Tool belt, Coolant Blast
•   Discharge Array — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Jade Buster Cannon — Overclock Signet
•   Jade Mortar — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Sky Circus — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Throw Cursed Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Lava Rock — Stolen skill
•   Use Scepter — Stolen skill
•   Use Staff — Stolen skill
•   Overload Fire — Overload, when attuned to fire

Pet skills that burn

•   Consuming Flame — Juvenile Fire Wyvern
•   Fire Breath — Juvenile Salamander Drake

Drowning skills that burn

•   Steam Vent

Skills that convert aegis into burning

Primary article: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Combos that apply burning

•  Combo Field: Fire ×  Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
•  Combo Field: Fire ×  Combo Finisher: Whirl

Racial skills that burn

•   Fire Rocket — Charrzooka
•   Fire Rocket Barrage — Charrzooka
•   Heat Seeker — Charrzooka
•   Bite
•   Fiery Leap

Common skills that burn

•   Activate Jump Jets — Siege Turtle
•   Air Blast — Flamethrower (bundle)
•   Balthazar's Breath — Avatar of Balthazar
•   Balthazar's Mercy — Avatar of Balthazar
•   Blast — Skyscale
•   Blazing Spear
•   Blinding Flash — Spirit Axe
•   Blood Flame — Unsheathe Flamesaw
•   Bonfire — Torch (Dry Top)
•   Bonfire — Torch (Obsidian Sanctum)
•   Burning Tide — Unsheathe Flamesaw
•   Burst of Speed — Dune Roller
•   Burst of Speed — Unoccupied Dune Roller
•   Charring Barrier
•   Crashing Flame — Unsheathe Flamesaw
•   Detonate Remote Charge 2.0
•   Detonate Remote Charge
•   Dragon's Breath — Dragon Banner
•   Eat — Ember Apple
•   Enflame — Koda's Flame, Flamebearer
•   Engulfing Burning Oil — Burning Oil
•   Explosive Disengagement
•   Fire Impact Incendiary Shells — Mortar (siege weapon)
•   Fire Incendiary Shells — Mortar (Silverwastes)
•   Fire Incendiary Shells — Mortar (siege weapon), Pact Mortar
•   Fire Lightweight Incendiary Shells — Mortar (siege weapon)
•   Fire Napalm Shells — Mortar (siege weapon)
•   Fire Nova
•   Fire Packed Incendiary Shells — Mortar (siege weapon)
•   Fire Rocket — Charrzooka (Crusader Boomshaker), Charrzooka (bundle), Charrzooka (Freed Merchant), Charrzooka (Keelan Bladestorm)
•   Fire Rocket — Charrzooka (Drizzlewood Coast)
•   Fire Rocket — Charrzooka (Dragon Response Mission)
•   Fire Rocket — Toolbox (Drizzlewood Coast)
•   Fire Spin — Power Suit (Dragon Response Mission)
•   Fire Storm — Ascalon Tome, Ancient Ascalonian Tome, Ancient Orrian Tome
•   Fireball — Skyscale
•   Flame Blast — Flame Ram
•   Flame Grenade — Lyan's Grenade Kit, Experimental Grenade Kit
•   Flame Jet — Experimental Flamethrower
•   Flame Jet — Flamethrower (bundle)
•   Flame Jet — Flamethrower (bundle)
•   Flame Wall — Experimental Flamethrower
•   Flickering Flame
•   Grenade Shot — Charr Harpoon Tank
•   Grenade Shot — TT6-B Devourer
•   Ignite
•   Improved Burning Oil — Burning Oil
•   Incendiary Mine — Charr Mine, Mine (consumable), Land Mine, Mine (Whispers Agent), Mine (bundle)
•   Incendiary Rocket Barrage — Unoccupied Dune Roller
•   Incendiary Rocket Barrage — Dune Roller, Charr Harpoon Tank
•   Intense Flame Blast — Flame Ram
•   Koda's Breath — Koda's Flame, Flamebearer
•   Koda's Reach — Koda's Flame, Flamebearer
•   Might Missile 2.0 — Rocket Jump\Parachute 2.0
•   Might Missile — Rocket Jump\Parachute
•   Napalm — Experimental Flamethrower
•   Napalm — Experimental Flamethrower
•   Overcharge — Experimental Hammer
•   Place Dragonsblood Shrapnel Mine
•   Plasma Ball — Flamethrower (bundle), Iron Legion Flamethrowers
•   Potent Flame Jet — Flamethrower (bundle), Iron Legion Flamethrowers
•   Pour Oil — Oil Pot
•   Pour Oil — Burning Oil, Burning Oil (Accusation)
•   Release Fire Bomb
•   Remote Charge
•   Remote Charge 2.0
•   Return Fire
•   Rifle Shot — TT6-B Devourer
•   Rocket Jump — Charrzooka (Dragon Response Mission)
•   Rocket Jump/Parachute 2.0
•   Rocket Jump/Parachute
•   Spray and Pray
•   Stab — Torch (Forsaken Fortune), Torch (Obsidian Sanctum)
•   Stab — Rusty Torch
•   Stab — Torch (Dry Top)
•   Team Fire
•   Throw — Ball of Ooze, Ball of Ooze (Researcher Tramma)
•   Throw Bomb Concoction
•   Throw Charges — Live Explosive
•   Throw EMP Mine
•   Throw Explosive Boulder — Explosive Boulder
•   Throw Gunk — Gunk (consumable), Ettin Gunk, Ball of Gunk, Gunk, Swamp Gunk
•   Throw Jack-o'-Lantern — Jack-O'-Lantern
•   Throw Lava Rock — Lava Rock
•   Throw Mine — Seaweed Bomb, Mine Strongbox, Seaweed Bomb (bundle)
•   Throw Mine — Old Mine
•   Throw Torch — Torch (campfire)
•   Throw Torch — Torch (Dry Top)
•   Throw Torch — Flaming Effigy Piece, Effigy Fragment, Torch (bundle), Brazier
•   Throw Torch — Torch (Obsidian Sanctum)
•   Throw Torch — Sacred Torch
•   Throw Torch — Torch (Thunderhead Peaks)
•   Throw Unstable Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
•   Torch Strike
•   Torch Strike — Torch (campfire)
•   Torch Strike — Signal Torch
•   Torch Strike — Torch of Divine Fire
•   Torch Strike — Flaming Effigy Piece, Effigy Fragment, Torch (bundle), Brazier
•   Turtle Siege — Siege Turtle
•   Turtle Siege — Siege Turtle
•   Unstable Magic Volley — Gliding
•   Use Scepter — Scepter (bundle)
•   Use Staff — Staff (bundle)
•   Volatile Catalyst — Solvent Sprayer
•   Weakening Flame Blast — Flame Ram
•   Whirling Inferno — DERV (transformation)
•   Whirling Inferno — Rata Novus Golem (suit)
•   Whirling Inferno — Siege Golem

Skills that remove burning

See also: Boon#Skills that convert conditions into boons, Condition#Skills that remove conditions

Healing skills that remove burning

•   A.E.D. — Gadget
•   Hide in Shadows — Deception

Profession mechanic skills that remove burning

•   Leafy Bandage — Tool belt, Healing Seed

Racial skills that remove burning

•   Leafy Bandage — Tool belt, Healing Seed

Other skills

Skills that benefit from burning on foes

•   Fire Grab — Dagger, when attuned to fire, increased damage
•   Air Blast — Flamethrower, burning foes that are already on fire
•   Flame Jet — Flamethrower, 10% bonus damage to burning targets

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that grant burning

• Eternal Armory (Zeal) — Spirit Weapons gain additional casts and burn foes with their first strike.
• Permeating Wrath (Virtues) — The passive effect of Virtue skill 1 triggers more quickly and now burns in an area.
• Quickfire (Firebrand) — Retain Justice passive while it is on cooldown. Granting quickness to an ally also grants Ashes of the Just.
• Searing Pact (Willbender) — Gain condition damage. Willbender Flames now inflict burning on foes they strike.
• Diabolic Inferno (Corruption) — Invoke Torment applies poison and burning.
• Crack Shot (Discipline) — Your longbow, rifle, and harpoon gun weapon skill 1 attacks are enhanced.
• Last Blaze (Berserker) — When you use a rage skill, inflict burning on nearby enemies.
• King of Fires (Berserker) — Increase the duration of burning you apply. Gain fire aura when you critically hit an enemy. Berserker skills detonate fire aura, damaging and burning nearby foes.
• Incendiary Powder (Firearms) — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.
• Solar Focusing Lens (Holosmith) — Your first few attacks after entering or exiting Photon Forge inflict burning and deal increased strike damage. This bonus is also granted if you overheat.
• Photonic Blasting Module (Holosmith) — Overheat now blasts damage to nearby foes and no longer deals its initial damage to you. The tool belt recharge penalty for Overheat is reduced. Heat can only be lost after overheating. Damage over time from Overheat is still applied.
• Eclipse (Druid) — Your Celestial Avatar skills are offensively augmented.
• Burning Precision (Fire) — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Burning Rage (Fire) — Sunspot inflicts burning, and its radius is increased. Your condition damage is increased.
• Arcane Precision (Arcane) — Your critical strikes have a chance to inflict a condition based on your attunement.
• The Pledge (Illusions) — Flame bursts from torch skills inflict additional burning.
• Dhuumfire (Soul Reaping) — Shroud skill 1 inflicts burning on your target.
• Sadistic Searing (Scourge) — Nefarious Favor now burns nearby enemy targets.
• Demonic Lore (Scourge) — Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn. This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds.

Trait skills that grant burning

•   Call of the Dragon (Song of the Mists) — Strike enemies around you, inflicting multiple conditions.
•   Drop Gunk (Streamlined Kits) — Drop gunk at your location to inflict a random condition.
•   Fire Shield (Streamlined Kits) — Activate a fire shield that burns enemies who strike you, granting might for each burn applied.
•   Vent Exhaust (Thermal Release Valve) — Damage nearby foes and apply conditions to them. Lose heat. This attack activates Heat Therapy if you have not overheated.
•   Rocket Punch (Mech Fighter) — Your mech launches an explosive fist that detonates on hit, dealing defiance damage to enemies with active defiance bars. This skill is only used when you activate Skill 3 on your weapon.
•   Flame Burst (Evasive Arcana, when attuned to fire) — Burn nearby foes.
•   Flame Expulsion (Pyromancer's Puissance) — After a short delay, consume might on yourself and release a torrent of flame. Allies are granted might, while damage and burning is increased based on might consumed.
•   Lesser Cleansing Fire (Burning Fire) — Cantrip. Cure conditions and burn foes. Gain might for each condition removed.
•   Dhuumfire (Dhuumfire) — Blast your foe with life force, setting them alight.
•   Dhuumfire (Dhuumfire) — Blast a foe with a plague that transfers one condition to them.

Traits that improve burning

• Fiery Wrath (Zeal) — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Inner Fire (Radiance) — Gain fury when you strike a foe that has burning stacks over the threshold.
• Radiant Fire (Radiance) — Zealot's Flame is improved. Burning you inflict has increased duration, and your torch skills gain reduced recharge.
• Amplified Wrath (Radiance) — Burning you inflict deals increased damage. Burning duration applied by the passive effect of Virtue skill 1 is increased.
• Yearning Empowerment (Corruption) — Damaging conditions you apply last longer.
• King of Fires (Berserker) — Increase the duration of burning you apply. Gain fire aura when you critically hit an enemy. Berserker skills detonate fire aura, damaging and burning nearby foes.
• Incendiary Powder (Firearms) — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.
• Burning Precision (Fire) — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Pyromancer's Training (Fire) — Your fire-weapon skills gain reduced recharge. Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Blinding Ashes (Fire) — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.
• Jagged Mind (Virtuoso) — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Parasitic Contagion (Curses) — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Fell Beacon (Scourge) — Burning you inflict does more damage. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
• Nourishing Ashes (Scourge) — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.

Traits that remove burning

• Shadow's Embrace (Shadow Arts) — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Stop, Drop, and Roll (Water) — Dodging removes burning and chilled from nearby allies.

Traits that benefit from burning on self

• Oakheart Salve (Wilderness Survival) — Gain regeneration when you are inflicted with bleeding, poison, or burning. While you have regeneration, you take reduced strike damage.

Traits that convert aegis into burning

Primary article: Condition#Traits that convert boons into conditions

Related effects

Effects that apply burning when struck

•   Fire Aura — Enveloped in a fiery shield that burns foes, grants might each time you are struck (1-second cooldown per attacker).

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that apply burning

• Relic of the Fractal — When you inflict bleeding on an enemy with 6 or more stacks of bleeding, also inflict burning and torment.

Upgrade components that affect burning on foes

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Baelfire (rank 2 & 6 - increases duration)
• Superior Rune of Balthazar (rank 2, 4 & 6 - increases duration)
• Superior Rune of the Fire (rank 6 - increases duration)
• Superior Rune of the Flame Legion (rank 2, 4, & 6 - increases duration)
• Superior Rune of the Forgeman (rank 2, 4, & 6 - increases duration)
• Superior Rune of the Weaver (rank 2 - increases duration)

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Smoldering (increases duration)

Related consumables

See also: Food#Burning

• Bowl of Simple Meat Chili - +3% burning duration.
• Bowl of Meat and Bean Chili - +5% burning duration.
• Bowl of Chili and Avocado - +7% burning duration.
• Bowl of Spiced Meat Chili - +10% burning duration.
• Bowl of Spicy Meat Chili - +12% burning duration.
• Can of Spicy Meat Chili - +12% burning duration.
• Bowl of Fire Meat Chili - +15% burning duration.
• Fishy Rice Bowl - +15% burning duration.

Player chatter

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Burning.

• When burning is applied to a character they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	I've been immolated!	Burning, burning, burning!
Charr	It burns!	I'm burning!
Human	It burns!	I'm on fire!
Norn	Fire burns!	Fire! Fire!
Sylvari	It's burning me!	It burns!

Version history

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All damage conditions will now stack up to 1500 times. This condition will now stack in intensity. The formula for this condition has been rescaled to account for the new behavior of damaging conditions and to put more focus on the condition damage stat. New damage over time: 7.5 + (1.55 * Level) + (0.155 * Condition Damage)
March 19, 2015	Updated condition damage. Previously, a condition that had a fractional remainder of time after it dealt damage would not inflict the rest of its damage. For example, a 1.5-second burn would deal 1 second of burning damage, then fail to inflict the remaining 0.5 seconds of burning. Conditions will now deal this fractional damage either at the beginning or end of their duration, depending on when the next damage pulse would occur and their remaining duration.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Burning has been added to the game.

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