Overload Fire

Overload. Unleash your flames, granting might to allies and burning enemies. Finishing the cast creates a tornado that continues to grant might and burn foes. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge. — In-game description

Overload Fire

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Slot

Profession mechanic

Attunement

Fire

Type

Overload

Activ. type

Channeled

Sequence

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Game link

API

29706

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Overload Fire

Overload. Unleash your flames, granting might to allies and burning enemies. Finishing the cast creates a tornado that continues to grant might and burn foes. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.

 Pulse Damage: 239 (0.9)^?

 Pulse Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Pulse Burning (3s): 393 Damage

₂ Pulse Might (16s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

 Pulse Might (6s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Breaks Stun

 Combo Field: Fire

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

 Range: 180[sic]

— In-game description

Related traits

Appearance.

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Sunspot — Gain a fire aura, and damage nearby foes when you attune to fire. Also triggers on overload skills.
• Power Overwhelming — While at or above the might threshold, gain increased power. Power bonuses are doubled while attuned to fire.
• 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, 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.

Arcane

• Elemental Enchantment — Gain concentration and your attunements gain reduced recharge.
• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Singularity — Attain elemental singularity by remaining in an attunement for a period of time. Upon attaining singularity, you may overload the attunement to your vicinity. Gain access to Shouts.
• Unstable Conduit — Overloads grant an aura based on your attunement.
• Harmonious Conduit — Gain stability and swiftness when starting an overload.
• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.
• Transcendent Tempest — Time to attain singularity is reduced. Upon successfully completing an overload, gain increased damage.
• Lucid Singularity — Apply boons to nearby allies while channeling and when successfully completing a channel.

Notes

• Pulses 10 times; 5 during the skill's channel, and another 5 from the fire tornado the skill creates when the channel finishes.
• Combos for a total of 7 burning bolts.
• Direct damage scales with the equipped (main-hand) weapon. Default damage in PvE for exotic Dagger or Scepter is 330, for Staff 363, without weapon 239.
• The number of affected targets is not listed on the tooltip. Overload Fire can damage up to 5 enemies while giving boons to up to 5 allies (counting the tempest).
• The cast time of this skill is ~4.5s, although the tooltip says 4s.
• Casts Sunspot at the beginning of the channel during combat only while using Fire specialization. Starting combat with Overload Fire will not trigger Sunspot.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from creating Combo Finisher: Whirl the correct number of times.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Increased the might granted per pulse from 1 stack to 2 stacks in PvE. Clarified the description of this skill. (Competitive split) Reduced might duration from 12 seconds to 6 seconds.
July 16, 2019	Casting this skills now triggers the trait Sunspot.
December 11, 2018	Fixed a bug in which this skill hit fewer times than intended when the elementalist was affected by quickness.
October 02, 2018	The duration of might has been increased from 12 seconds to 16 seconds per pulse in PvE only.
September 23, 2017	Fixed a bug that occurred when One with Fire was equipped without Unstable Conduit.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: The physical damage has been reduced by 10% in PvE only.
December 01, 2015	Fixed an issue that caused the effects of this ability to scale with the character's size.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Overload Fire has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on the status of Overload Fire.

Ready to channel	Starting to channel	Finished channeling
Fired up!	Inferno!	Cooling down!