Magma Orb

Shoot a blob of molten rock that explodes after a delay. — In-game description

Magma Orb

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Attunement

Fire

Damage type

Fire

Game link

API

5598

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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0.5½  

Magma Orb

Shoot a blob of molten rock that explodes after a delay.

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Explosion Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Burning (1s): 131 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Explosion Radius: 120

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• 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.
• Inferno — Burning you inflict scales off of your power instead of your condition damage.

Evoker

• Fiery Might — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.

Notes

• The orb travels slowly (for a projectile) in the target's direction, hits the target (doing the indicated damage) and stops, then explodes 3 seconds later (doing the indicated damage again) in a small AoE sphere.
• It can miss if the target or your character are moving/turning. In that case the orb will travel to the maximum range, stop, and explode after 3 sec.
• Rate of fire is approximately 1 orb per second.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	Now also applies 1 second of burning on explosion.
May 20, 2014	Added an explosion damage skill fact.
June 25, 2013	Increased the damage by 33%.
December 14, 2012	Damage is now split equally between the projectile and the explosion, instead of 2/3 explosion and 1/3 projectile. The total damage remains unchanged.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Magma Orb has been added to the game.