Purging Flames

Consecration. Create a ring of fire. With each pulse, burn foes while removing conditions from allies inside the area of effect. — In-game description

Purging Flames

 

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Consecration

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

9187

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0.5½  

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Purging Flames

Consecration. Create a ring of fire. With each pulse, burn foes while removing conditions from allies inside the area of effect.

 Damage (6x): 318 (1.2)^?

₆ Burning (4s): 3,144 Damage

 Conditions Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 6

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Combo Field: Fire

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill is counteracted with blocking.

Related traits

Zeal

• Fiery Wrath — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.

Radiance

• Inner Fire — Gain fury when you strike a foe that has burning stacks over the threshold.
• Radiant Fire — Zealot's Flame is improved. Burning you inflict has increased duration, and your torch skills gain reduced recharge.
• Amplified Wrath — Burning you inflict deals increased damage. Burning duration applied by the passive effect of Virtue skill 1 is increased.

Virtues

• Master of Consecrations — Consecrations gain increased duration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Master of Consecrations trait no longer reduces the cooldown of consecration skills. Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and from 35 seconds to 28 seconds in PvP and WvW.
May 12, 2021	Fixed an issue in which the cooldown of this skill was lower than intended in PvP and WvW.
May 11, 2021	Reduced radius from 240 to 180. This skill no longer burns foes that cross the outside of the field. Instead, it now applies one stack of burning with a 4-second duration on foes inside the radius when cast and again on each pulse for the duration of the effect. Cooldown reduced from 35 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only.
October 01, 2019	This skill no longer reduces the duration of incoming conditions. Instead of removing 3 conditions from allies when cast, it now removes 1 condition from allies and 1 additional condition every second the skill persists. Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from being properly extended when Master of Consecrations was equipped.
July 30, 2019	This skill now uses different effects depending on whether the caster is an enemy or an ally.
December 12, 2017	Burning has been adjusted from 3 stacks for 5 seconds to 2 stacks for 8 seconds.
August 25, 2015	Updated the underwater version of this skill to be self-targeted instead of ground targeted.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 3 stacks of burning for 5 seconds. Consecrated Ground is now baseline. Consecration skills use ground targeting.
September 09, 2014	Added a Number of Targets: 5 skill fact.
November 26, 2013	Updated the skill fact to show the correct condition duration reduction (33%).
October 29, 2013	Updated the skill fact to indicate the correct condition duration reduction.
October 15, 2013	Base functionality has been reworked. This skill now removes three conditions from allies in an area effect around the guardian while burning enemies (enemies that enter or exit the flames are still burned). This skill now reduces the condition duration for allies who remain in the consecration areas.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Purging Flames has been added to the game.