Fire Attunement

Attune to fire, gaining heavy damage and burning abilities. — In-game description

Fire Attunement

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Attunement

Game link

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API

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Attune to fire, gaining heavy damage and burning abilities.

— In-game description ^[?]

Hand aura of an elementalist attuned to fire

Fire Attunement is an elementalist attunement skill that attunes the elementalist to fire. While attuned to fire the elementalist's weapon skills are fire magic skills.

Skills by weapon

#	Skill			Description
Staff
1	Fireball	1		Cast a fireball that explodes on impact and hits multiple foes.
2	Lava Font		6	Make lava erupt from the target area.
3	Flame Burst	0.5½	10	Burn foes at the target location.
4	Burning Retreat		20	Quickly roll backward, leaving behind a line of fire that burns.
5	Meteor Shower	30.75¾	30	Call down a meteor shower onto the target area. Damage is reduced per target each time they are struck by this ability.
Dagger
1	Dragon's Claw	0.5½		Fling fire in a claw-shaped spread at your foe.
2	Drake's Breath	20.25¼	5	Spray a cone of fire at foes while on the move.
3	Burning Speed	0.75¾	12	Slide forward and blast the area, leaving behind a line of fire that burns foes.
4	Ring of Fire	0.25¼	15	Damage nearby foes with a ring of fire, burning foes that pass through it.
5	Fire Grab	0.75¾	25	Damage foes in a cone in front of you. Deal more damage to burning foes.
Scepter
1	Flamestrike	1		Strike your foe with flame, and create an area that delivers a lesser attack a short time later.
2	Dragon's Tooth	0.75¾	6	Drop an explosive dragon's tooth on your foe.
3	Phoenix	0.25¼	20	Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor.
Focus
4	Flamewall	0.75¾	20	Create a wall of flame at the target area that burns foes.
5	Fire Shield		25	Envelop yourself in a fiery shield that burns foes and grants might each time you are struck (cooldown of 1 second per attacker).
Warhorn (requires Tempest)
4	Heat Sync	0.75¾	30	Give stacks of might to yourself, then spread boons you have to allies.
5	Wildfire	0.75¾	30	Release a fiery torrent that burns enemies.
Sword (requires Weaver)
1	Fire Strike	0.5½		Build elemental flames into your sword and strike your enemies.
1	Fire Swipe	0.5½		Heat your sword a second time and strike your enemies for increased damage.
1	Searing Slash	0.75¾		Heat your sword a final time and use the full power of your flames to sear enemies and ignite them.
2	Flame Uprising	0.75¾	8	Jump forward and deliver a fiery blast to the area.
3	Cauterizing Strike	0.75¾	15	Stab your foe with full force, dealing bonus damage against burning enemies.
Trident
1	Magma Orb	0.5½		Shoot a blob of molten rock that explodes after a delay.
2	Boil	0.5½	8	Boil the water around your foe.
3	Steam	0.5½	15	Blind your foe with superheated water.
4	Lava Chains	0.5½	20	Cripple multiple foes with lava chains.
5	Heat Wave	1	20	Launch three waves of heat. Each burns foes and grants vigor to allies.

Related traits

See also: Attunement#Related traits

•  Empowering Flame — Gain power while in fire attunement.
•  Sunspot — Gain a fire aura, and damage nearby foes when you attune to fire. Also triggers on overload skills.
•  Pyromancer's Training — Your fire-weapon skills gain reduced recharge. Deal more 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.

Notes

• This skill has an instant cast time and may be cast during other actions.
• This skill can be activated while in the air.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Reduced base attunement recharge from 13 seconds to 10 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Fire Attunement has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• When attuning to fire, the character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	Spark to flame! I have ignition! Turn up the heat!	Spark to flame! Observe the power of fire! Fired up!
Charr	Fire! Bring the flames! Immolate!	Fire! Feel the flame! Burn them!
Human	Fire! Here come the flames! Getting hotter!	Feel the fires of Balthazar! Feeling hot!
Norn	Bringing the fire! They'll burn! Flames are my friend!	Fire! Heat! Flames! Fire, do my bidding!
Sylvari	I am the flames! Consuming fire! Element of fire, obey me!	I channel the flame! Ferocious fire! Fire consumes at my whim!