Burning should not happen in water environments, end of story, though Anet hasn’t addressed this inconsistency since game launch. Removing burning while in water would also increase the “enjoyment” of pvp maps as high condition damage (which relies mostly on burning as of right now due to its massive health ticks per second) would be mitigated by going into the mini rivers that are in those pvp maps.
Unless it’s mystic magic fire that comes from Mordor.
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