Guild Wars 2

These are both Utility skills. Purging Flames is for guardian, Cleansing Fire is for elementalist.

The twitch preview buffed Purging Flame, so let’s now compare these 2 skills.

Purging Flames:
Remove 3 conditions
5.5sec Burning
Combo Field: Fire
Reduce Condition Duration on allies for 6 seconds
Cooldown: 35sec

Cleansing Fire:
Remove 3 conditions
3s Burning
Cooldown 40s

Discuss.

Looks fine to me.

considering neither of those are used, not really a problem

I only use purging flame for camp solo

I used cleansing fire all the time when it was a stun breaker…. But no, I don’t think I’d use it again unless it got its stun break back…
Though I do not find it at all surprising that the ele skill < e guardian skill. Look at our new line of warding. Lol

Guardian version is good.

Ele version is worse in comparison.

Sounds about right to me.

You know how Rangers have a nasty negative damage coefficient because of their pets?

I’m guessing Elementalists have something similar for having 4-modes of attunement on their left-hand bar instead of the 2-modes weapon-swapping most classes use.

Purging Flames has a cast time where Cleansing Fire has no cast time.

One is a guardian which was made to have skills like Purging flames. One is an ele who was not.

Nike.2631:

You know how Rangers have a nasty negative damage coefficient because of their pets?

I’m guessing Elementalists have something similar for having 4-modes of attunement on their left-hand bar instead of the 2-modes weapon-swapping most classes use.

This is true. Rangers weapon damage gets balanced because of that. The way ele skills are balanced for having 20 weapon kills is that they are all much weaker most of the 3,4,5 skills have 30-45 second cooldowns.

Comparable utilities between different classes should be equal. It doesn’t have anything to do with weapon damage, and all classes have the same number of utility slots, so they should not be weaker.