Drake's Breath

Spray a cone of fire at foes while on the move. — In-game description

Drake's Breath

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Fire

Activ. type

Channeled

Game link

API

5496

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10.5½  

5

6

 

Drake's Breath

Spray a cone of fire at foes while on the move.

 Damage (4x): 1,172 (3.2)^?

 Damage (4x): 644 (1.76)^?

₄ Burning (4s): 2,096 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 400

— In-game description

Players breathe fire while channeling the skill.

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.
• 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the casting time from 2.2 seconds to 1.6 seconds. Increased the power coefficient per strike from 0.4 to 0.44 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.7 to 0.4. Increased cooldown from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
May 08, 2018	The burning duration is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 4-second duration in all modes.
May 16, 2017	Increased burn duration to 4 seconds and increased damage by 14% in PvE only.
October 18, 2016	The damage of this ability has been increased by 40%.
September 29, 2015	Decreased the burning duration from 3 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the burning duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
January 27, 2015	Burning applied from this skill has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds per pulse.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented the damage from Drake's Breath from counting as a multihit attack.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Drake's Breath has been added to the game.