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

API

5492

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Fire Attunement

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
Dagger
1	Dragon's Claw	0.5½		Fling fire in a claw-shaped spread at your foe.
2	Drake's Breath	10.5½	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	20	Damage foes in a cone in front of you. Deal more damage to burning foes.
Pistol
1	Scorching Shot	0.5½		Burn your foe with a blazing bullet.
2	Raging Ricochet	0.5½	6	Fire a bullet that bounces to nearby enemies. Gain might for each target struck. If you have a fire bullet, consume it to increase your outgoing condition damage for a duration. If not, create a fire bullet.
3	Searing Salvo	0.5½	12	Fire a shot that explodes into fragments of fire when it hits the ground. If you have a fire bullet, consume it to gain a fire aura. If not, create a fire bullet.
Scepter
1	Flamestrike	0.75¾		Strike your foe with flame.
2	Dragon's Tooth	0.75¾	6	Drop an explosive dragon's tooth on your foe.
3	Phoenix	0.25¼	10	Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor. Inflict additional burning against foes that are already burning.
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).
5	Transmute Fire	0.5½	10	Use the energy of the fire aura to cause an explosion, damaging enemies and benefiting allies.
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		18	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.
Spear
1	Flame Spear	0.75¾		Throw a spear of flame at your foe.
2	Blazing Barrage	0.5½	6	Unleash a volley of blazing spears, damaging foes in the area.
3	Seethe	0.5½	15	Gain boons. Your next spear skill deals increased damage.
4	Meteor	0.75¾	20	Conjure a meteor at the target location, damaging enemies. Enemies at the center of the impact take increased damage.
5	Etching: Volcano	0.25¼	25	Etch a spell into the ground that creates a violent eruption. Using a number of other skills within this etching completes the spell, unlocking its full potential.
5	Lesser Volcano	0.75¾		Create a violent eruption that damages foes.
5	Volcano	0.75¾		Create a violent eruption that damages foes.
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	10	Blind your foe with superheated water.
4	Lava Chains	0.5½	16	Cripple multiple foes with lava chains.
5	Heat Wave	1	20	Launch three waves of heat. Each burns foes and grants vigor to allies.
Warhorn (requires Tempest)
4	Heat Sync	0.75¾	30	Give might and fury 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.
Hammer (requires Catalyst)
1	Singeing Strike	0.5½		Singe your foes by unleashing a burst of flame from your hammer.
2	Surging Flames	0.75¾	8	Sweep your hammer forward to send flames rushing at your enemies.
3	Flame Wheel		18	Summon a projectile of fire that circles around you, damaging foes. While this projectile is active, it grants you increased outgoing damage. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
4	Triple Sear	0.75¾	20	Sear a path to burn your enemies.
5	Molten End	1	25	Slam your hammer into the ground, damaging nearby enemies. If this strikes a burning enemy, gain offensive boons.

Related traits

See also: Attunement#Related traits

Fire

• 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.
• Power Overwhelming — While at or above the might threshold, gain increased power. Power bonuses are doubled while attuned to fire.
• 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.

Arcane

• Arcane Prowess — Gain boons when you switch attunements.
• Arcane Restoration — Swapping attunements restores health.
• Elemental Attunement — Grant a boon to nearby allies when changing attunements. Note: This effect will not trigger when attuning to the same element.
• Elemental Enchantment — Gain concentration and your attunements gain reduced recharge.

Weaver

• Weaver — Your active attunement is now applied to your main hand, with the old attunement moving to your off hand. Attunement recharges are reduced. Gain access to Dual Attack and the Stance utility types.
• Weaver's Prowess — Gain increased condition damage and duration for a period of time after attuning to a different element.
• Elemental Polyphony — Gain attributes based on your current attunement. When dual attuned, gain both benefits.
• Elements of Rage — Gain a bonus to all damage dealt for a period of time when attuned to a single element. Gain precision based on a percentage of your vitality.

Catalyst

• Energized Elements — Gain energy and fury when you switch attunements. Energy can only be gained while in combat.

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.
• Before the release of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, human female elementalists could say "Feel the fires of Balthazar!" when attuning to fire. That shout was changed to "Now burn!" with the release of the expansion.
• 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	Fire! I have ignition! Turn up the heat!	Fire! Observe the power of fire! Spark to flame!
Charr	Bring the flames! Fire! Immolate!	Burn them! Feel the flame! Fire!
Human	Fire! Here come the flames! Getting hotter!	Feeling hot! Fire! Now burn!
Norn	Bringing the fire! Flames are my friend. They'll burn.	Fire, do my bidding! Flames! Fire! Heat!
Sylvari	Consuming fire! Element of fire, obey me! I am the flames!	Ferocious fire! Fire consumes at my whim! I channel the flames!

See also

•   Water Attunement — Attune to water, gaining superior support and healing abilities.
•   Air Attunement — Attune to air, gaining heavy damage and control abilities.
•   Earth Attunement — Attune to earth, gaining superior damage-over-time and defensive abilities.