Fire Breath

Beast. Breathe a cone of fire that burns foes. — In-game description

Fire Breath

 

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Pet

Salamander Drake

Slot

Pet (skill list)

Type

Beast

Game link

API

12670

This skill has an underwater replacement: Boil (salamander drake)

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10.5½  

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Fire Breath

Beast. Breathe a cone of fire that burns foes.

 Damage (5x): 2,585 (1.25)^?

₅ Burning (3s): 1,965 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 250

— In-game description

Related traits

Skirmishing

• Fang and Claw — Feline, avian, and drake pets gain additional precision and ferocity. Beast skills grant fury around the ranger.

Wilderness Survival

• Carnivore — Steal health from enemies when you or your pet disable them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

• Rejuvenation — Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
• Invigorating Bond — Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.

Beastmastery

• Pack Alpha — Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
• Go for the Eyes — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
• Wilting Strike — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
• Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes. Ursine and porcine pets deal increased damage and have increased health.

Soulbeast

• Live Fast — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Notes

• After this skill's initial cast time, the attack itself is channeled over 1.5 seconds.
• Pulses 5 times over the full duration of the channel, dealing damage and burning foes with each pulse.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in WvW and PvP. Increased the burning duration from 1 second to 3 seconds.
September 13, 2022	Fixed an issue that caused the breath effect to display incorrectly.
April 30, 2013	Reduced cast time from 2.7 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Fire Breath has been added to the game.