Persisting Flames

Fire fields created by weapon skills last longer. Whenever your fire fields hit a foe, gain increased strike damage for a duration. — In-game description

Persisting Flames

Specialization

Fire (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Persisting Flames

Fire fields created by weapon skills last longer. Whenever your fire fields hit a foe, gain increased strike damage for a duration.

 Persisting Flames (15s): +1% Damage

 Maximum Stacks: 10

 Duration Increase: 2 seconds

— In-game description

Notes

	Skill	Duration	Traited duration
Staff	Lava Font	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Pyroclastic Blast	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Burning Retreat	6 Seconds	8 Seconds
Dagger	Burning Speed	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Ring of Fire	5 Seconds	7 Seconds
Focus	Flamewall	8 Seconds	10 Seconds
Warhorn (Tempest)	Wildfire	8 Seconds	10 Seconds
Sword (Weaver)	Flame Uprising	2 Seconds	4 Seconds
Trident	Boil	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
Bundle Skills	Burning Retreat	4 Seconds	6 Seconds
	Ring of Fire	5 Seconds	7 Seconds

• Tempest's Overload Fire and Catalyst's Deploy Jade Sphere are not weapon skills and therefore don't get increased duration.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
May 11, 2021	Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
July 07, 2020	This trait no longer grants fury when using a blast finisher with a fire combo field. Instead, this trait will now grant the elementalist an additional 1% damage for 15 seconds for each target struck with a fire field. This effect stacks up to 10 times.
July 10, 2018	The lava font cast by this trait has been renamed Lesser Lava Font.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Updated the description of this trait to indicate that it affects weapon-skill abilities only. No functionality has changed.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Lava Tomb has been merged into this trait. Create a lava font at your position when you go down.
October 15, 2013	The duration increase for fire fields is now consistent.
June 25, 2013	Updated this trait to also allow blast finishers to give fury (10 seconds) as well as might.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Persisting Flames has been added to the game.