Flame Expulsion

After a short delay, release a torrent of flame. Allies are granted might, while damage and burning is increased based on might on you. — In-game description

Flame Expulsion

Profession

Elementalist (trait skill list)

Trait

 Pyromancer's Puissance

Game link

API

13334

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Flame Expulsion

After a short delay, release a torrent of flame. Allies are granted might, while damage and burning is increased based on might on you.

 Minimum Strike Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Maximum Strike Damage: 532 (2.0)^?

 Maximum Strike Damage: 399 (1.5)^?

 Minimum Burning Applied (2s): 262 Damage

 Might Granted per Stack (15s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Maximum Might Threshold: 10

 Burning Increase per Might: 0.5½ seconds

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Evoker: This trait has a 5-second cooldown when specialized in fire attunement.
• Despite stating "allies" this skill does not grant the might to the caster, unlike similar skills and traits. For example, Rock Solid gives  Stability to both allies and the caster.
• This always applies one stack of  Burning, even if no  Might is present. The Burning Increase per Might (max. 5 seconds) is added to the 2 seconds base Burning duration from this effect.

Related traits

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• 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.
• Persisting Flames — Fire fields created by weapon skills last longer. Whenever your fire fields hit a foe or you inflict burning, gain increased strike damage for a duration.
• 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.

Evoker

• Fiery Might — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Enhanced Potency — Improve a boon based on your familiar.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 09, 2025	This trait now has a 5-second cooldown when specialized in fire attunement.
June 24, 2025	Pyromancer's Puissance: This trait no longer removes might when triggering Flame Expulsion. Reduced the might stacks from 2 to 1 and increased the might duration from 6 to 10 seconds in WvW and PvP. Reduced Flame Expulsion's maximum power coefficient from 2.0 to 1.5 in PvP only.
July 07, 2020	Flame Expulsion has been added to the game. In addition to granting might for each ability used while in fire attunement, this trait will now trigger Flame Expulsion when leaving fire attunement or finishing a fire overload. After a brief delay, the elementalist releases a fiery explosion at their location that removes up to 10 stacks of might from them. Allies are granted might for 15 seconds based on the amount of might that was removed, while the damage of the explosion is increased by 10% per stack removed.