Burning Retreat (Lava Axe skill)

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

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

Burning Retreat

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Parent skill

  Conjure Flame Axe

Bundle

Conjured Flame

Movement

Retreat

Game link

API

5717

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15  

Burning Retreat

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

 Damage: 84 (0.2)^?

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Fired Up! (4s): After using a Lava Axe ability, your next Lava Axe attack fires twice.

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Combo Field: Fire

 Evade: 1 second

— 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.
• 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

Bug:

When equipping  Persisting Flames, the tooltip of this skill loses the combo field skill fact and lists two separate duration skill facts.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Conjure Flame Axe: This conjure weapon now enhances the autoattack by unlocking Double Lava Axe when any other skill on the conjure weapon is used. This skill can now only damage an enemy once per second. The damage of this skill has been increased by 100%. Burning duration has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused this skill to not apply burning in some situations.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
September 30, 2014	Added a Combo Field skill fact.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to only last for 5 seconds instead of 6 when Persisting Flames was traited. Updated skill facts to indicate duration when traited.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Burning Retreat has been added to the game.