Wildfire

This article is about the Elementalist skill. For the Icebrood Saga story step, see Wildfire (story).

Release a fiery torrent that burns enemies. — In-game description

Wildfire

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Weapon

Warhorn

Attunement

Fire

Game link

API

29533

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0.75¾  30  

Wildfire

Release a fiery torrent that burns enemies.

 Damage: 145 (0.44)^?

 Damage: 165 (0.5)^?

 Burning (3s): 393 Damage

 Duration: 8 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 180

 Distance: 600

 Combo Field: Fire

— 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

Bug:

The skill Hurl from Rock Barrier does not successfully interact with the field and inflict Burning.

• Drops a 150-distance field every second; a total of 4 pieces.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 26, 2023	Reduced power coefficient from 0.66 to 0.44 in PvE only.
May 02, 2023	Fixed an issue that prevented projectiles from interacting properly with the combo field created by this skill.
May 11, 2021	Burning duration increased from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per hit from 0.66 to 0.5.
August 14, 2017	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to inflict lower duration burning than expected.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill can now only damage an enemy once per second. Burning duration has been increased from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Wildfire has been added to the game.