Guild Wars 2

I dont really mean in terms of damage, but in how it stacks. I play a guardian and i spec into condition damage, so my burns are for around 600-700 but i havnt maxed out condition gear yet. The problem is with the way burning stacks, as i understand it, if other people apply a weaker burn on the same target, it clogs up the duration with a weak burn? And when i use my Virture of Justice, allies can burn people, but the burn is based on THEIR condition damage? Its MY fire! And if they hit my target, they are WEAKENING my damage , its counter productive! I see my blue flames wash away into regular flames..

Same goes for combo fields, if i throw down a fire field, and they shoot through it, its THEIR burn damage, not mine? ITS MY FIRE! I spec into fire to help spread it, and share it with my allies and ESPECIALLY with my enemies, but fire doesnt stack that way.

Ideally, the strongest burn on the target stays, any further burns added only increase the duration of the strongest burn.

I’d like other peoples opinions on the damage itself though, as far as scaling goes burn only does 2-3x more damage than someone with 0 condition damage, i was thinking fire should scale differently than confusion or bleed, and instead of just +x dmg for x condition, it scales up the higher it goes so your rewarded for focusing entirely on condition. Or since that might be OP for some builds, make it a guardian trait since Burn is the only condition they can realistically apply that deals damage, while engy/necro/warrior/ranger/ele can sufficiently apply bleed/burn and often confuse/poison too.

I agree with that burn needs buff or just like the bleeding one or like that guy suggest so by new burning effects the old one will being refreshed

Even if no one agrees that burning needs a ‘buff’, i think everyone can agree that speccing into condition damage and having your combo fields/Virture of Justice share the casters condition damage, not the finishers. Its our fire!

I think they need to change it so that each person’s burning stacks in duration for themselves, but everybody’s burn ticks at the same time. As it stands, having more than one person with a strong focus on burning is a detriment in a group. I haven’t actually tried it myself, but I’m fairly certain that my guardian could maintain close to 100% uptime on burning just by himself if I chose that route.

Yes, this would be an overall increase to damage for groups that make even moderate use of burning, and I would have no problem with enemies having their health buffed slightly to compensate.

I think the damage itself is fine, and I like that they differentiated burning from bleeding via the different stacking mechanics, I just think it’s a shame that having more than one person heavily using burning is a waste.

If you had everyones fire burn at the same time, fire would kill people in seconds, you cant combo Bleed like you can combo Fire so that wouldnt work ! But its true that having more than one person apply burning just makes burning worse, especially for game mechanics that are designed to have this happen.