Fire Shield

Envelop yourself in a fiery shield that burns foes and grants might each time you are struck (cooldown of 1 second per attacker). — In-game description

Fire Shield

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Focus

Attunement

Fire

Sequence

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Game link

API

5678

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Fire Shield

Envelop yourself in a fiery shield that burns foes and grants might each time you are struck (cooldown of 1 second per attacker).

  Fire Aura (4s): Enveloped in a fiery shield that burns foes, grants might each time you are struck (1-second cooldown per attacker).

  Might (10s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

  Burning (1s): 131 Damage

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Smothering Auras — Fire auras have increased duration. Applying auras to allies removes conditions, and transmuting auras removes conditions from nearby allies.
• 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.
• Blinding Ashes — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

Air

• Zephyr's Boon — Grant boons to allies you grant auras to.

Earth

• Elemental Shielding — Auras you grant to allies also grant protection.

Water

• Powerful Aura — Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

Arcane

• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Invigorating Torrents — Auras you grant also grant regeneration and vigor.
• Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

Catalyst

• Hardened Auras — Damage reduction is increased when you grant yourself an aura. When this triggers, the duration of all stacks are refreshed.
• Empowering Auras — Gain increased outgoing damage when you grant yourself an aura. When this triggers, the duration of all stacks are refreshed.
• Elemental Epitome — Gain an aura based on your current attunement when you combo. Gain Elemental Empowerment when you grant yourself an aura. Auras can be gained this way once per attunement per interval.
• Staunch Auras — Gain stability when you grant yourself an aura.

Notes

• This skill can be activated while in the air.
• This skill does not grant extra might or separately cause the burning that are listed below the Fire Aura description in the tool-tip. These skill facts provide information about what occurs when struck by foes.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 26, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 25 seconds.
December 01, 2015	The following skills have had their effects replaced with a new version to reduce visual noise: Frost Aura, Magnetic Aura, Shocking Aura, and Fire Aura.
September 29, 2015	Removed an erroneous skill fact for condition-duration reduction.
September 09, 2014	Added a unique skill fact icon for this skill.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to apply the fire aura in a smaller radius than expected when traited with Powerful Aura.
November 26, 2013	The aura of this skill now applies to 5 targets when traited with Powerful Aura, up from 4.
February 26, 2013	This skill now lasts 5 seconds instead of 3.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Fire Shield has been added to the game.