Guild Wars 2

Seriously. Am I the only person that thinks that is kind of ridiculous? I mean you can be at the bottom of the water at bay and still have burning applied…Just a thought.

It boils the water around you.

Well, maybe it would if your pants were on fire. Try it with lama pants and see what happens.

lol that’s a pretty good question, +1

Fire needs only 3 things : heat (magic from the caster), fuel (your body), and an oxidizing agent (not oxygen in that case, too hard to find under water). So basically, you just have to find the right oxidizing agent.
I’m not a chemist, but I think chlorate or perchlorate can do it…

And what about golems who can bleed ? Ice elementals who can be chilled ?

Kinda like how ranger’s pet birds take falling damage :/

kinda like the flame legion not being immune to burning, or sons of svanir and icebrood not being immune to chill. or even the shades/ghosts that can bleed, don’t tell me magic explains all this

Steel burns under water.

Offair.2563:

Steel burns under water.

Explain the lighter “armor” classes burning underwater then. Seeing as lighter armor is clearly fabric as opposed to metal.

My guardian uses potassium with her magic. Water only makes it worse. >:)

Yeah, Science, kittens!

My clothes are 80% potassium perchlorate!

Brutal Augus.5917:

Offair.2563:

Steel burns under water.

Explain the lighter “armor” classes burning underwater then. Seeing as lighter armor is clearly fabric as opposed to metal.

Hmm maybe zip on the pants.

If you want to nitpick, you can play a talking cat in this game.

It’s a video game.

Although the first word in the original post was “seriously” I still took this as more of a joke, but if some of you really need to make sense of it, then here – it is called “burning” damage, not “on-fire” damage.
Let’s try (not really) an experiment. Go to your kitchen. Turn on your range to “high” until it starts glowing red. Now, firmly apply your hand to said range. Was your hand ever on fire? Is it still “burning” and taking “burning damage”?
Now stick your hand in a glass of water. Is it still taking damage from having been burned?
I can’t believe I actually just explained that.

CboStL.4965:

Although the first word in the original post was “seriously” I still took this as more of a joke, but if some of you really need to make sense of it, then here – it is called “burning” damage, not “on-fire” damage.
Let’s try (not really) an experiment. Go to your kitchen. Turn on your range to “high” until it starts glowing red. Now, firmly apply your hand to said range. Was your hand ever on fire? Is it still “burning” and taking “burning damage”?
Now stick your hand in a glass of water. Is it still taking damage from having been burned?
I can’t believe I actually just explained that.

You could also simply say: Its a fantasy game, ever used a waypoint in real life. ;p

As someone pointed out… it could simply be magical fire.

This is one of those what-the-hell questions that needed to be asked by someone.

Roe.3679:

If you want to nitpick, you can play a talking cat in this game.

It’s a video game.

So op should roll a new CHARRacter?

The burning on you is derived from napalm which even with water is difficult to extinguish. Nothing like the smell of napalm in the morning!

This is a video game in which magic exists.

It’s a mystery.

CboStL.4965:

Although the first word in the original post was “seriously” I still took this as more of a joke, but if some of you really need to make sense of it, then here – it is called “burning” damage, not “on-fire” damage.
Let’s try (not really) an experiment. Go to your kitchen. Turn on your range to “high” until it starts glowing red. Now, firmly apply your hand to said range. Was your hand ever on fire? Is it still “burning” and taking “burning damage”?
Now stick your hand in a glass of water. Is it still taking damage from having been burned?
I can’t believe I actually just explained that.

me neither, considering the fact that when you have burning applied you’re character is engulfed in flames -_- and it only does dmg every second the flames are up.
Have you never had burning applied to you?

Roe.3679:

If you want to nitpick, you can play a talking cat in this game.

It’s a video game.

…what does that even mean?

DeeSystm.1256:

This is a video game in which magic exists.

But we have riffles and pistols? Why dont we have AK-47s in the game? :P

Jeknar.6184:

Jumping in the water doesn’t remove burning… But it does remove your sigil stacks.

Working as intended.

/s

JusticarArkiel.1564:

kinda like the flame legion not being immune to burning, or sons of svanir and icebrood not being immune to chill. or even the shades/ghosts that can bleed, don’t tell me magic explains all this

Magic explains all this

TyPin.9860:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

kinda like the flame legion not being immune to burning, or sons of svanir and icebrood not being immune to chill. or even the shades/ghosts that can bleed, don’t tell me magic explains all this

Magic explains all this

knew i shouldn’t have handed a straight line like that to somebody XD

Magic.

JusticarArkiel.1564:

TyPin.9860:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

kinda like the flame legion not being immune to burning, or sons of svanir and icebrood not being immune to chill. or even the shades/ghosts that can bleed, don’t tell me magic explains all this

Magic explains all this

knew i shouldn’t have handed a straight line like that to somebody XD

xD

If magic doesn’t explain it for you, think of it this way… this is an alien world to our own. We don’t even know the composition of the “air” or “water”. On this world, fire clearly can burn underwater.

This could even be in an entirely different universe with different laws of physics.

i took burning damage for a full minute. why haven’t my clothes been burned off and destroyed, anet?

these are the questions they need to answer.

Personally I think frolicking in flowers should cure torment.

Straegen.2938:

If magic doesn’t explain it for you, think of it this way… this is an alien world to our own. We don’t even know the composition of the “air” or “water”. On this world, fire clearly can burn underwater.

This could even be in an entirely different universe with different laws of physics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-JzPBJalA

If water doesn’t stop fire, why do we have all those pve events where we throw water from buckets to put out fires? A little consistency would be nice, Anet….

Don’t forget underwater water fields.

a warrior can create a fire pool with a longbow and you ask yourself that?
don’t say “magic” about this pls.

Okay, first I think there are other issues Anet should focus on in GW2. However, for the sake of argument I still would like to discuss it.

Most skill that cause burning (in the form of a condition) are magical skills. If the fire would then burn “hot” enough that it would break water into oxygen and hydrogen (assuming that water in Tyria consists of those components), then it could burn on under water. And assuming the fire is magical, it might just do that. Now the non magical skills could use an additional “trick”, to achieve the power of magical fire. They probably add to their projectiles, who cause the burning, an additional element that works as a supplier for oxygen or they combine them with substances who work similarly to magnesium. If that is so, and the projectiles would cover their target also with this material (best it would also stick to the target^^), then it could create a fire hot enough to also break down water, thus, supplying the oxygen. Or the material itself provides the oxygen under water. In both cases the fire could for some seconds burn on even there.

It can now easily be explained, why simple water buckets can extinguish fire (in buidlings for example). If you set smth on fire, either magically or conventionally, the magic/ burning component will quickly “run out”. That is when usually the fire condition would stop, but in some scenarios, where wood catches on fire, it keeps burning. The wood would supply enough fuel (along with the oxygen in the air) after the magic/ burning component is gone. But having no magic/ burning component any more means the fire can now be extinguished with simple water.

I have yet not come up with an idea, why clothes don’t catch on fire… but well, that requires additional research^^ A quick idea would be that clothes are in general fire resiliently produced…

Brutal Augus.5917:

Roe.3679:

If you want to nitpick, you can play a talking cat in this game.

It’s a video game.

…what does that even mean?

It means it is fantasy and it doesn’t require an explanation. Why can I swing a scepter and create a ball of light? Why can I raise the dead? Why can I turn into a tornado? Why can I disappear or teleport? Why can I get hit with a greatsword over and over and not die?

And now you can actually play as a talking cat with super saiyan hair. It’s a game, you can’t expect that amount of realism and take things so literally.

Kaos.9162:

If water doesn’t stop fire, why do we have all those pve events where we throw water from buckets to put out fires? A little consistency would be nice, Anet….

Different kinds of fire. Structural fires have a different oxidizer. Clearly people in the GW2 universe are combustible and contain a strong oxidizer allowing fire to continue to burn underwater. Water in the GW2 universe may also be a much poorer heat sink allowing fire to burn more easily underwater.