Burning Retreat

This article is about the elementalist staff skill. For the Conjured Flame skill, see Burning Retreat (Lava Axe skill).

Quickly roll backward, leaving behind a line of fire that burns. — In-game description

Burning Retreat

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Fire

Movement

Retreat

Game link

API

5680

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Burning Retreat

Quickly roll backward, leaving behind a line of fire that burns.

 Damage: 81 (0.2)^?

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Duration: 6 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Evade: 1 second

 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, 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.

Water

• Flow like Water — Deal increased strike damage, which is further increased while your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you.

Catalyst

• Evasive Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and vigor while evading an attack.

Notes

• The rollback's maximum range is roughly 650 units.
• Hitting obstacles like walls won't cancel the skill.
• The skill damages an enemy only once per second.
• There are 6 "lines" that are created by the entire Burning Retreat.
• Fire fields will not generate if the character's position does not change significantly (for example, running against a wall).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 18 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill can now only damage an enemy once per second. Damage has been increased by 100%, and burning duration has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds per tick.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
September 09, 2014	This skill no longer generates fire fields if the character's position does not change significantly (for example, rolling against a wall).
October 15, 2013	Increased the retreat distance by 200.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Burning Retreat has been added to the game.