Dragon's Tooth

Drop an explosive dragon's tooth on your foe. — In-game description

Dragon's Tooth

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Attunement

Fire

Game link

API

5692

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0.75¾  

6

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8

 

Dragon's Tooth

Drop an explosive dragon's tooth on your foe.

 Damage: 825 (2.25)^?

 Damage: 488 (1.33)^?

 Burning (10s): 1,310 Damage

 Burning (5s): 655 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 900

— 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.
• 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

• Casting this skill without a target will cast it right on top of yourself.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 19, 2023	Reduced burning duration from 10 seconds to 5 seconds in PvP only.
May 02, 2023	Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.33 in WvW only.
March 14, 2023	Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.33 in PvP only.
February 14, 2023	Reduced power coefficient from 2.0 to 1.5 in PvP and WvW.
November 29, 2022	This skill now attaches to the target instead of being ground targeted. Using this skill with no target will cast a stationary spell at the user's location. Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 2.25 to 2.0.
December 11, 2018	The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1.25 seconds to a little over 0.75 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Burning has been adjusted from 3 stacks for 3 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug in which the animation became unsynchronized when this skill was used under the effects of quickness or slow.
September 29, 2015	Changed to a ground-targeted skill.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 3 stacks of burning for 3 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed the spell effects to continue even if the skill was canceled early.
December 03, 2012	This skill's blast finisher now triggers at spell location, instead of character's location.
November 15, 2012	The blast finisher for this skill now triggers at the spell location rather than the character's location.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Dragon's Tooth has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to a November 2012 game update, this skill applied the combo finisher in the position of the caster, and was later updated to correctly apply the finisher on targeted location in December 3rd update.
• Prior to 29 September, 2015, this skill used to be able to hit objects and enemies through walls as long as they were targeted and within a specific range.