Blinding Ashes

Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval. — In-game description

Blinding Ashes

8  

Specialization

Fire (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

External links

API

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Inflict blindness on foes you burn.
This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

  Blindness (4s): Next outgoing attack misses.

  Interval: 8 seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Drake's Breath — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Burning Speed — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Ring of Fire — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Flamestrike — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Dragon's Tooth — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Phoenix — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Flamewall — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Fire Shield — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Transmute Fire — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Burst — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Burning Retreat — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Chains — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Heat Wave — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Wildfire — Warhorn, when attuned to fire
•   Plasma Burst — Dagger, when attuned to fire and air
•   Ashen Blast — Dagger, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Fiery Frost — Scepter, when attuned to fire and water
•   Fracturing Strike — Scepter, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Searing Slash — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Uprising — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Cauterizing Strike — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Twin Strike — Sword, when attuned to fire and water
•   Pyro Vortex — Sword, when attuned to fire and air
•   Lava Skin — Sword, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Pyroclastic Blast — Staff, when attuned to fire and earth
•   Hydrothermal Vent — Trident, when attuned to fire and water
•   Molten Burst — Trident, when attuned to fire and earth

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Burning Retreat — Conjured Flame
•   Ring of Fire — Conjured Flame
•   Flame Leap — Conjured Flame
•   Fiery Eruption — Fiery Greatsword

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Cleansing Fire — Cantrip
•   Glyph of Elemental Power — Glyph
•   Glyph of Elemental Power — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Firestorm — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Signet of Fire — Signet
•   "Feel the Burn!" — Shout
•   Primordial Stance — Stance

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Conjure Fiery Greatsword — Conjure
•   Flame Barrage

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Overload Fire — Overload, when attuned to fire

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Steam Vent

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Flame Burst — Evasive Arcana, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Expulsion — Pyromancer's Puissance
•   Lesser Cleansing Fire — Burning Fire

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Burning Rage — Sunspot inflicts burning, and its radius is increased. Your condition damage is increased.

Arcane

• Arcane Precision — Your critical strikes have a chance to inflict a condition based on your attunement.
• Elemental Surge — Arcane skills gain reduced recharge, grant increased ferocity, and inflict a condition based on your attunement.

Notes

• The duration of the blind is multiplied by the stacks of burning inflicted at once. Such as Flame Burst.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 03, 2019	The cooldown on this trait is now determined on a per-target basis.
September 29, 2015	Increased the recharge of this trait from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
September 09, 2014	This trait now properly blinds all affected targets when used with skills that inflict burning in an area. Fixed a bug that allowed players to blind themselves in a scenario where they also apply burning to themselves.
April 15, 2014	Blinding Ashes has been added to the game.