Singeing Strike

Singe your foes by unleashing a burst of flame from your hammer. — In-game description

Singeing Strike

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Catalyst

Weapon

Hammer

Attunement

Fire

Damage type

Fire

Game link

API

62925

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0.5½  

Singeing Strike

Singe your foes by unleashing a burst of flame from your hammer.

 Damage: 278 (0.69)^?

 Damage: 202 (0.50)^?

 Burning (10.5½s): 197 Damage

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Range: 600

— 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.

Notes

• Attack speed is 1 attack per 0.6 seconds, or 1.66 attacks per second.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Increased the power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.69 in PvE only.
January 30, 2024	Reduced the burning duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvE only.
June 28, 2022	Damage coefficient reduced from 0.9 to 0.6 in PvE only. Aftercast animation delay before repeating Singeing Strike has been reduced by 0.5 seconds.
March 29, 2022	Damage coefficient increased from 0.67 to 0.9 in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Singeing Strike has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Singeing Strike was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4.
September 21, 2021	Singeing Strike was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 2.