Flame Ram

This article is about a siege weapon. For the animal, see Ram.

Flame Ram

Location

World versus World

Type

Siege weapon

Interact

Yes

Destructible

Yes

A flame ram is a siege weapon that is used to break down gates. The low monetary and supply costs and high damage to gates make them the obvious choice for attacking fortifications, but their close proximity to the gate makes them vulnerable to attacks from enemy players, and also from fortification defenses such as the gate's Burning Oil.

Rams only work on gates; they are ineffective on walls. They have a range of 360 units and an AoE target cap of 50.

The three second fear caused by Flame Blast also makes some defensive uses possible, for instance placing the ram at choke points to temporarily disable enemies that try to run through.

Usage

See also: Blueprint

• Building a flame ram requires an Flame Ram Blueprint or an Infinite Flame Ram Blueprint and consumes 40  to complete.

Skills

#	Skill			Description
1	Ram		5	Ram target with a forceful attack. Does extra damage to gates, knocks back foes.
1	Accelerated Ram		30.25¼	Ram target with a forceful attack. Does extra damage to gates, knocks back foes. (Replaces Ram for players with at least rank 3 in Flame Ram Mastery)
2	Flame Blast		15	Vent fire all around the ram, burning foes.
2	Weakening Flame Blast		15	Vent fire all around the ram, burning foes applying Structural Vulnerability to gates. (Replaces Flame Blast for players with rank 2 in Flame Ram Mastery)
2	Intense Flame Blast		110.25¼	Vent fire all around the ram, burning foes applying Structural Vulnerability to gates. (Replaces Flame Blast for players with at least rank 3 in Flame Ram Mastery)
3	Impact Slam		20	Ram target with a forceful attack. Does extra damage to gates and launches foes on the other side of the gate. (Available to players with at least rank 4 in Flame Ram Mastery)
4	Iron Will		60	Apply Iron Hide (50% damage reduction) to allies in an area. (Available to players with rank 5 in Flame Ram Mastery)

Related world abilities

Upgrade	Rank	Ability	Cost
Flame Ram Mastery Total Cost: 60  Improve flame ram skills	1	Gain Iron Hide while interacting with the flame ram	3
	2	Flame Blast now applies Structural Vulnerability to gates	7
	3	Reduce recharge of flame ram skills	10
	4	Skill: Slam Impact — Launch enemies on the other side of the door	15
	5	Skill: Iron Will — Support skill that applies Iron Hide to nearby allies	25

• Rank 1 gives the Flame Ram user Iron Hide which reduces incoming damage by 50%.
• Rank 2 enhances Flame Blast such that each of the 4 pulses applies Structural Vulnerability for 20 seconds to gates. Structural Vulnerability increases the damaged dealt to gates by 1% and stacks at a maximum of 10.
• Rank 3 reduces the recharge of Flame Ram skills by 33%.
• Rank 4 adds the skill: Impact Slam which applies damage to the gate and launches any enemy trying to repair the door.
• Rank 5 adds the skill: Iron Will which applies Iron Hide on up to 50 allies in a 360 radius.

See also: Siege weapon#Related world abilities

Gallery

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  Superior Flame Ram (retired)

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  Flame Ram during Lunar New Year.

Version history

Patch	Changes
November 19, 2024	The siege equipment blueprint system has been simplified. Guild siege blueprints have been renamed to siege blueprints. Basic and superior siege blueprints are no longer usable. Guild flame rams became flame rams; Basic flame rams and Superior flame rams have been retired.
July 16, 2024	Alacrity can no longer be applied to players using siege equipment and will be removed from players when activating siege equipment. Flame ram health has been lowered by 50%. Iron Hide will be applied to flame rams when they are operated.
April 16, 2024	Flame rams' Iron Will skill now shares a cooldown between players.
January 31, 2023	Increased the health pool of all flame ram variants by 25%. Increased the duration of the Iron Hide boon applied by the rank 5 Flame Ram Mastery from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
June 28, 2016	Flame Blast: Increased the number of stacks of burning applied from 1 to 3.
November 17, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused keep lords to really hate flame rams.
May 28, 2013	Flame Rams now destroy after 15 minutes if not being used. All other placed siege weapons now wait for 1 hour of no use before destroying.
September 17, 2013	Flame Ram Mastery has been added to the Rank and Abilities tab.

Notes

• The speed with which a flame ram destroys a target depends on the type of target, use of the flame blast skill to apply Structural Vulnerability, and the proficiency of the operator.
• Flame Ram damage is improved by siege might, but not character attributes (power, might, etc.)
• Damage per hit increases by 1% for each stack of Structural Vulnerability (maximum 10) placed on the gate.

Trivia

• Historical information up to the November 19, 2024 update:
  • Basic Regular flame rams were built with Flame Ram Blueprints, which can be bought from a Siege Master for either 6  or 6 , the build site required 40 .
  • Superior Flame Rams deal 50% more damage than basic flame rams. They were built with Superior Flame Ram Blueprints, which were made in the mystic forge or obtained from certain containers (e.g. Boxes of WvW Supplies), the build site required 50 .
  • Guild flame rams were functionally the same as Superior Flame Rams, but they also display the emblem of the owner's guild. They were built with Guild Flame Ram Blueprints, which are fabricated by a Scribe, the build site required 40 .

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