Flame Wheel

Summon a projectile of fire that circles around you, damaging foes. While this projectile is active, it grants you increased outgoing damage. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles. — In-game description

Flame Wheel

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Catalyst

Weapon

Hammer

Attunement

Fire

Sequence

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Game link

API

62758

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Flame Wheel

Summon a projectile of fire that circles around you, damaging foes. While this projectile is active, it grants you increased outgoing damage. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.

 Damage: 1 (0.001)^?

 Damage: 61 (0.15)^?

 Flame Wheel (15s): +15% Damage, +15% Condition Damage

 Flame Wheel (8s): +10% Damage, +10% Condition Damage

 Burning (0.75¾s): 98 Damage

 Burning (10.5½s): 197 Damage

 Number of Targets: 2

 Range: 130

— 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.
• 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.

Notes

• This skill doesn't count as a projectile anymore but as a spell area effect and isn't affected by blocking, invulnerability, Aegis, or skills that block projectiles.
  • If the projectile vanishes, the bonus still lingers but no longer sends a projectile out for   Grand Finale. This is relevant only during the final fight in Bastion of the Penitent against Deimos, where being teleported to or from the Demonic Realm makes the projectiles disappear.
• The recharge begins immediately upon use, rather than after expiry or use of Grand Finale.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Increased the damage and condition damage bonus from 10% to 15% in PvE only.
December 13, 2022	Reduced power coefficient from 0.1 to 0.001 in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	This skill now strikes enemies once per second instead of using a projectile. Increased power coefficient from 0.001 to 0.1 in PvE only.
March 29, 2022	Damage coefficient reduced from 0.1 to 0.001 in PvE only. Duration increased from 5 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE only. Damage and condition damage bonus while active increased from 5% to 10%. Increased projectile duration from 5 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP and WvW. Increased damage bonus from 5% to 10%.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Flame Wheel has been added to the game. (Undocumented) Burning duration reduced from 1.75 seconds to 0.75 seconds in PvE. Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.25 to 0.1 in PvE.
November 30, 2021	Flame Wheel was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. These skills now activate instantly. Reduced circle radius from 200 to 130 to better align with melee spacing. Reduced power coefficient from 0.35 to 0.25 to compensate for a faster orbit. Fixed a bug where these projectiles would last much longer than expected when becoming downed or defeated.
September 21, 2021	Flame Wheel was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 2.

See also

•   Icy Coil
•   Crescent Wind
•   Rocky Loop