Scorched Earth

This article is about the warrior skill. For the book, see Scorched Earth (book).

Primal Burst. Fire a burning shot into the ground that creates a trail of flaming destruction. — In-game description

Scorched Earth

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Berserker

Slot

Profession mechanic

Weapon

Longbow

Type

Primal Burst

Game link

API

29923

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0.5½  5  

Scorched Earth

Primal Burst. Fire a burning shot into the ground that creates a trail of flaming destruction.

 Damage (3x): 579 (1.5)^?

 Damage (3x): 486 (1.26)^?

₃ Burning (20.5½s): 983 Damage

₃ Burning (4s): 1,572 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Targets: 3

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 120

 Pierces

 Combo Field: Fire

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• Building Momentum — Burst skills restore endurance on hit.
• Berserker's Power — Gain increased strike damage when you use a burst skill; this damage increase is based on your adrenaline.

Arms

• Sundering Burst — Burst skills inflict vulnerability if they hit and inflict additional vulnerability if the attack is a critical hit. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Burst Precision — Burst skills have an increased critical chance. Gain bonus critical-hit chance and ferocity for a duration when you hit with a burst skill. Duration is based on adrenaline spent.

Defense

• Cull the Weak — Deal increased strike damage to weakened foes. Burst skills inflict weakness. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Adrenal Health — Gain health based on adrenaline spent.
• Cleansing Ire — Gain adrenaline when hit. Remove a condition when you hit with a burst skill, then remove an additional condition for every bar of adrenaline spent.

Tactics

• Marching Orders — Periodically gain Soldier's Focus. Hitting with a burst skill expends Soldier's Focus to grant might to nearby allies.

Discipline

• Versatile Power — Gain might on weapon swap. Burst skills gain reduced recharge.
• Heightened Focus — Gain quickness and recharge your Burst skills when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold. Gain increased outgoing healing when you strike with a Burst skill, based on adrenaline spent.
• Burst Mastery — Burst skills deal more damage, grant swiftness, and restore a portion of adrenaline spent.

Berserker

• Primal Rage — Gain access to berserk mode and primal bursts.
• Smash Brawler — When you hit with a Primal Burst skill, extend the duration of your berserk. Critical-hit chance is increased while berserk.
• Heat the Soul — Grant boons to nearby allies when you use a Burst skill.
• 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

• Enemies are able to be struck by this skill only once every 0.5 seconds.
• Can hit 5 enemies per burning section for a total of 25 targets.
  • Number of enemies hit is reduced to 3 per section in WvW, totaling 15 targets.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 16, 2024	Reduced the number of targets from 5 to 3 in WvW only.
September 26, 2023	Reduced burning duration from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.35 to 0.42 in WvW only.
June 28, 2022	Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.5 to 0.35 in WvW only.
December 11, 2018	The burning duration of this skill has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
July 10, 2018	Increased the travel speed of the projectile fired by this skill by 200%.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to fail to hit some gates in WvW.
June 01, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused Cleansing Ire to activate more than once.
February 09, 2016	Fixed an issue that prevented multiple players from being able to hit the same target simultaneously when using this skill.
January 26, 2016	Enemies are now able to be struck by this skill only once every 0.5 seconds.
November 04, 2015	Updated skill facts to show the correct number of hits.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Scorched Earth has been added to the game.