Guild Wars 2

The description for Symbol of Wrath states that it pierces the ground with a mystic symbol that damages and burns foes while granting retaliation to allies. My question is, does SoW really cause burning, or is it a proc of some kind, or just a misprint in the skill description?

As far as I can tell, the symbol of wrath damage is based on power and not condition damage. At least I know it does not apply a burning condition by itself the last time I tested it.

There are some less than obvious effects that don’t get shown in tooltips though, so I don’t know if targets in symbol of wrath will take extra damage from “burning” if you have something like fiery wrath traited.

It doesn’t cause burning or anything. Either the skill is supposed to cause burning and doesn’t or the skill isn’t supposed to cause burning and the tooltip is very inaccurate.

Just tested the extra damage if burning trait and it does not appear to help symbol of wrath.

thanks all. appreciate you all looking into this. need to figure out another build.