Ring of Fire (elementalist skill)

This article is about the elementalist dagger skill. For the Conjured Flame skill of the same name, see Ring of Fire (Lava Axe skill). For the location, see Ring of Fire.

Damage nearby foes with a ring of fire, burning foes that pass through it. — In-game description

Ring of Fire

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand dagger

Attunement

Fire

Game link

API

5691

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0.25¼  15  

Ring of Fire

Damage nearby foes with a ring of fire, burning foes that pass through it.

 Damage: 734 (2.0)^?

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

₂ Initial Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage

 Pass-Through Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Ring of Fire Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Fire

— 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, 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.
• Blinding Ashes — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Increased the power coefficient from 1.2 to 2.0 in PvE only.
March 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.6 to 1.2 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.2 to 0.6.
September 29, 2015	This skill now applies 2 stacks of burning for 4 seconds when foes are initially hit. Decreased the burning when foes pass through the fire wall from 3 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 2 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 3 stacks of burning for 5 seconds when a foe crosses the threshold.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the effect from this skill to last for an incorrect duration when traited with Persisting Flames.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ring of Fire has been added to the game.

Notes

• The Initial Burning is the only part of this skill that actually affects enemies who are within the Fire Field the entire time.
  • This Initial Burning procs Persisting Flames only once per enemy hit.

Trivia

• Ring of Fire was previously called Flame Prison earlier in development.