Incendiary Powder

Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning. — In-game description

Incendiary Powder

Specialization

Firearms (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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10

Incendiary Powder

Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.

 Burning (8s): 1,048 Damage

 Burning (4s): 524 Damage

 Duration Increase: 33%

 Duration Increase: 10%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blowtorch — Pistol
•   Homing Torpedo — Harpoon gun
•   Timed Charge — Harpoon gun
•   Rocket Fist Prototype — Mace

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Fire Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Flame Jet — Flamethrower
•   Flame Blast — Flamethrower
•   Air Blast — Flamethrower
•   Napalm — Flamethrower

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Corona Burst — Engage Photon Forge
•   Photon Blitz — Engage Photon Forge

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Flame Turret — Turret
•   Superconducting Signet — Signet

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Prime Light Beam — Exceed

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Incendiary Ammo — Tool belt
•   Rocket Kick — Tool belt
•   Throw Napalm — Tool belt
•   Cauterize — Tool belt
•   Discharge Array — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Jade Mortar — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Sky Circus — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Jade Buster Cannon

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Drop Gunk — Streamlined Kits
•   Fire Shield — Streamlined Kits
•   Vent Exhaust — Thermal Release Valve
•   Rocket Punch — Mech Fighter

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Firearms

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Holosmith

• Solar Focusing Lens — Your first few attacks after entering or exiting Photon Forge inflict burning and deal increased strike damage. This bonus is also granted if you overheat.
• Photonic Blasting Module — Overheat now blasts damage to nearby foes and no longer deals its initial damage to you. The tool belt recharge penalty for Overheat is reduced. Heat can only be lost after overheating. Damage over time from Overheat is still applied.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	This trait now functions with the mech while it is active. Trait cooldowns for the mech are separate from the engineer.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced bonus burning duration from 33% to 10%. Reduced burning duration from 8 seconds to 4 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Burning stacks reduced from 2 to 1. Burning duration increased from 4 to 8.
October 18, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to display longer than the attainable burning duration on skills.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Firearms Grandmaster tier. Increased burning stacks to 2. Added: Burning you apply lasts 33% longer.
December 10, 2013	Moved to the Master tier.
April 30, 2013	Increased burning duration from 2 seconds to 4 seconds. Increased internal cooldown from 3 seconds to 10 seconds. Increased activation chance from 33% to 100%.
November 15, 2012	This trait now states that it can only trigger once every 3 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Incendiary Powder has been added to the game.