Guild Wars 2

During the stream they mentioned multiple times burning will stack and that it will hit a lot less hard. In one of the tooltips it says burn does 1s/120 damage so it might be a third as powerful potentially. The burn stacking might cause a lot of issues for the ele.

The fire aura was already the weakest aura and I see this getting even weaker, I think that is why they made the fire aura from signet/conjure usage 5 seconds instead of 3 to make up for this potential nerf. If burn does a third of the damage the 1s burn attached to it suddenly becomes almost a non factor. They could make the baseline burn 2 seconds to make up for this decrease, the problem with increasing durations of auras is simple : aura durations don’t stack!

The active on fire signet could easily be overlooked as well. If the damage is cut in third im hoping fire signet does 3 stacks of burn instead of just 1. If the active remains 1 stack of burn after the burn change the entire signet becomes total trash.

Hopefully they don’t kitten these skills up when changing how burning works.

If what you say is true, then burning will become garbage period and not just for Elementalists.