Chapter 2: Igniting Burst

Tome. Ignite the air around you in an expanding burst. — In-game description

Chapter 2: Igniting Burst

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Firebrand

Parent skill

  Tome of Justice

Bundle

Tome of Justice

Type

Tome

Game link

API

40635

“

0.5½  8  

Chapter 2: Igniting Burst

Tome. Ignite the air around you in an expanding burst.

 Damage: 195 (0.55)^?

 Burning (10s): 1,310 Damage

 Burning (5s): 655 Damage

 Weakness (4s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Weakness (2s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Weakness (3s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Page Cost: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— In-game description

Related traits

Zeal

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

Radiance

• Inner Fire — Gain fury when you strike a foe that has burning stacks over the threshold.
• Radiant Fire — Zealot's Flame is improved. Burning you inflict has increased duration, and your torch skills gain reduced recharge.
• Amplified Wrath — Burning you inflict deals increased damage. Burning duration applied by the passive effect of Virtue skill 1 is increased.

Firebrand

• Legendary Lore — Tome skills gain bonuses from scribbling in the margins by ancient bards.
• Loremaster — Retain Resolve passive while it is on cooldown. You generate pages more quickly.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 30, 2024	This skill is now a blast finisher. Reduced the casting time from 0.86 seconds to 0.68 seconds.
February 14, 2023	Increased weakness duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
November 29, 2022	The page mechanic for firebrand tomes has been reworked. Pages are now shared across all tomes and refill at a set interval instead of when summoning a tome. Page cost and cooldown has been adjusted to the following: 1 page, 8 seconds.
May 11, 2021	Reduced burning stacks applied from 2 to 1 in PvE only. This matches the current stack count in PvP and WvW. Increased base duration of burning from 5 seconds to 10 seconds in PvE only.
July 07, 2020	Reduced the duration of burning inflicted from 6 seconds to 5 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced weakness duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
March 05, 2019	Fixed a bug that could cause this skill to fail to hit foes at the center of its radius.
December 12, 2017	Burning has been adjusted from 3 stacks for 4 seconds to 2 stacks for 6 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Chapter 2: Igniting Burst has been added to the game.