Flames of War (warrior skill)

This article is about the warrior skill. For the legendary weapon, see Flames of War.

Cleanse conditions and become a mobile fire field that burns nearby foes. When the field expires, it explodes, damaging foes and burning them again. — In-game description

Flames of War

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Berserker

Weapon

Torch

Game link

API

29940

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0.5½  

20

25

 

Flames of War

Cleanse conditions and become a mobile fire field that burns nearby foes. When the field expires, it explodes, damaging foes and burning them again.

 Damage: 330 (1.0)^?

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

₂ Final Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

 Conditions Removed: 2

 Conditions Removed: 3

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Combo Field: Fire

— In-game description

Related traits

Tactics

• Shrug It Off — Use "Shake It Off!" when you use a healing skill. Removing a damaging condition from an ally heals them.

Berserker

• King of Fires — Increase the duration of burning you apply. Gain fire aura when you critically hit an enemy. Berserker skills detonate fire aura, damaging and burning nearby foes.

Notes

• The Fire field granted by this skill stays active even after swapping weapons.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 26, 2023	Fixed an issue that caused this skill's pulses to inflict an additional stack of burning for 1 second in PvE.
June 27, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only.
October 04, 2022	Increased the number of conditions removed from 2 to 3 in PvP and WvW.
December 12, 2017	Burning has been adjusted from 4 stacks for 3 seconds to 2 stacks for 6 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill has been unsplit from PvP and now uses the higher burn duration and burning stack values in all game modes.
June 20, 2017	The burning duration applied each pulse has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds, in PvP only. The number of burn stacks applied by the final explosion have been increased from 2 to 4, in PvP only.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Flames of War has been added to the game.