Burning Speed

Slide forward and blast the area, leaving behind a line of fire that burns foes. — In-game description

Burning Speed

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Fire

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

5644

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0.75¾  12  

Burning Speed

Slide forward and blast the area, leaving behind a line of fire that burns foes.

 Blast Damage: 734 (2.0)^?

 Fire Wall Damage: 73 (0.2)^?

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Fire Wall Duration: 4 seconds

 Blast Radius: 240

 Evade: 0.75¾ seconds

 Combo Field: Fire

 Range: 600

— 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, 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.
• Blinding Ashes — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

Water

• Flow like Water — Deal increased strike damage, which is further increased while your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you.

Catalyst

• Evasive Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and vigor while evading an attack.

Notes

• The firewall is created over a range of 400 units, ending with a blast reaching approximately 640 range.
  • However, the caster stops moving upon reaching their target, often causing the firewall to be shorter than the full 400 units.
  • Due to stopping before their target, the firewall will not hit the caster's selected target if they are stationary unless the caster is inside their target's hitbox when casting or de-selects their target to slide through their hitbox.
• The firewall inflicts damage and burning each second.
• The blast at the end affects up to 5 foes.
• Fire fields will not generate if the character's position does not change significantly (for example, running against a wall).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 14, 2023	This skill will now stop moving when it reaches the targeted enemy if one exists.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill can now only damage an enemy once per second. Fire-wall damage has been increased by 100%, and burning duration has been increased from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds per tick.
October 18, 2016	The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the burning duration from 1 second to 1.5 seconds per pulse. Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
September 09, 2014	No longer generates fire fields if the character's position does not change significantly (for example, rolling against a wall).
April 15, 2014	This skill now evades attacks.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Burning Speed has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• Originally, this skill would cause the user to leave burning trail behind them wherever they went. This kind of effect probably influenced the unique effects of many legendary weapons.