Phoenix

This article is about the elementalist scepter skill. For other uses, see Phoenix (disambiguation).

Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor. Inflict additional burning against foes that are already burning. — In-game description

Animation

Phoenix

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Attunement

Fire

Game link

API

5675

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0.25¼  

10

20

 

Phoenix

Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor. Inflict additional burning against foes that are already burning.

 Damage: 275 (0.75)^?

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Explosion Damage: 624 (1.7)^?

 Explosion Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Burning (6s): 786 Damage

 Additional Burning (6s): 786 Damage

 Vigor (5s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Conditions Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 900

 Unblockable

— 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.

Arcane

• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Latent Stamina — Grant vigor to nearby allies when attuning to water. Restore endurance to allies you grant vigor.

Notes

• The phoenix projectile will pierce any enemies on its path, and create the blast finisher effect at its targeted location upon reaching it.
• When returning to the user, the phoenix can travel up to approximately 1500 units distance from its target location, removing one condition and granting vigor on successful return.
• The phoenix cannot travel up obstacles, but can travel down them.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	This skill now inflicts an additional stack of burning against enemies that are already burning. Reduced burning stacks from 2 to 1 in PvE only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds. Burning stack count increased from 1 to 2.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced pass-through power coefficient from 0.75 to 0.4. Reduced explosion power coefficient from 1.7 to 1.5.
December 11, 2018	This skill now applies 1 stack of burning for 6 seconds to enemies struck by its area attack.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to hit more frequently than intended.
November 17, 2015	Fixed a bug in which this skill would not execute a blast finisher when used on the fire field produced by Wildfire.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from granting vigor and removing a condition in some situations.
June 03, 2014	Updated the description and added a skill fact to show that this skill only removes 1 condition.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to occasionally hit a target multiple times when a large group of enemies were stacked together.
June 25, 2013	Doubled the velocity. Added an unblockable skill fact.
November 15, 2012	This skill's tooltip now states the correct duration of 5 seconds of vigor that this skill applies.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Phoenix has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• According to The Making of Guild Wars 2, the returning function of this skill was born out of design of an axe skill created for the ranger profession.