Lava Font

This article is about the Elementalist staff skill. For the trait skill that formerly had the same name, see Lesser Lava Font.

Make lava erupt from the target area. — In-game description

Lava Font

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Fire

Game link

API

5548

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6  

Lava Font

Make lava erupt from the target area.

 Damage: 212 (0.525)^?

 Damage: 183 (0.454)^?

 Burning (1s): 131 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 180

 Combo Field: Fire

 Range: 1,200

— 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 or you inflict burning, 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.

Notes

• This skill has a very short activation time, despite not displaying one on the tooltip. It cannot be cast while activating other skills.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Now inflicts 1 stack of burning with a 1-second duration on each strike.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.525 to 0.454.
August 28, 2018	The damage of this skill has been increased by approximately 10%.
July 10, 2018	This skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower recharge time of 6 seconds in all game modes. The damage of this skill has been reduced by 40%.
July 26, 2016	Increased the cooldown of this skill from 6 seconds to 8 seconds in all game modes except PvP.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Blasting Staff: The effects of this trait have been added to all staff-skill area attacks by default.
September 09, 2014	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to function incorrectly with Persisting Flames.
June 03, 2014	Updated the skill fact to show the number of hits.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for radius: 120.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the cast time from .36 seconds to .2 seconds. Reduced the aftercast from .34 seconds to .2 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lava Font has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.