Guild Wars 2

Posting this here because it needs addressing before the feature patch or a potentially strong build may be damaged.

I’ve found that when using this skill in fire attunement and triggering the burning I am sometimes burnt instead of the golem. Please fix this.

Works the same on air/earth attunement, and procs from a bug with Phoenix.

If you’re theorycrafting for the patch however I suggest you try burning precision (or whatever it’s called) adept trait in fire. You’ll get the same effect and the 10% fire damage loss can be avoided by swapping to air mid cast of Phoenix.

Phaeton.9582:

Works the same on air/earth attunement, and procs from a bug with Phoenix.

If you’re theorycrafting for the patch however I suggest you try burning precision (or whatever it’s called) adept trait in fire. You’ll get the same effect and the 10% fire damage loss can be avoided by swapping to air mid cast of Phoenix.

I’m using both tbh. Burning precision is too infrequent to take full advantage of the 5 second blind cd but combined it triggers often enough. The burning duration from burning precision is also too low and I’m testing out a scepter/dagger build to take full advantage of an almost 100% burn uptime on focussed target.

For example if I throw a phoenix through a target there’s a high probability that it will burn before the explosion and movement back. Plus a great possiblity when switching to air and hitting 2 whilst casting fire grab. It’s a strong build I won’t lie.

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Take reduced fire skill cds as they really benefit a lot from this build.

Also a funny tip, when a thief stealths you can use fire 4 and stand inside it to blind him.