Guild Wars 2

I understand there is some confusion surrounding the new KoF mechanic. Anet describes it as… “King of Fires: This trait’s functionalty has changed. It now gives fire shield on a critical hit (15-second internal cooldown). Using berserker skills detonates any fire shield currently applied, inflicting 3 stacks of burning for 3 seconds to nearby foes. Increases outgoing burning duration by 33%.”

If you (like myself) thought that berserk burst skills would detonate fire auras, you’re wrong! Berserk bursts do NOT detonate fire auras.

I’m not sure if this is bugged or working as intended. The good news that rage skills WILL detonate fire auras. When coupled with last blaze, that’s instant 4 stacks of burn. When you take into account the spammability of rage skills, this new mechanic is quite strong!

Armed with this knowledge, go forth with and craft a burnzerker that easily reaches 400k+ condi damage dealt per pvp match (like mine below), and feel the bern.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRAsf3enMdA1kitkCmkCElilqATpHE7iBIFgGQA4t0uajtA-TJhAwAw2fgcZALnEAAPBAA

Edit: I think my mmr was in the toilet after taking a break from gw2 for season 1. I am now averaging ~275k condition damage dealt. The new KoF mechanic is fun, but burnzerker remains overshadowed by viper rev in pvp.

FYI torch skills also detonate fire auras.

They do! Cheers m8

Entering berserk mode also detonates the aura.

Funny thing is I can’t see the fire shield so

Azure.8670:

Funny thing is I can’t see the fire shield so

Yeah it’s a bit hard to see but don’t go by that visual, you need to keep an eye on your bar for the fire shield indicator.

So you could savage leap, AA until you crit proc fire shield, flames of war (detonates), savage leap, blaze breaker (detonates).

Think I would prefer mace/sword over axe/shield though. And take Arms with Berserker’s Fury, Blademaster, Furious, instead of Discipline.

Here’s a question though: Does sundering leap both create, and immediately therafter detonate a fire field when leaping through your flames of war?

Yes, sundering leap will create and immediately detonate a fire aura when used in a fire field.

This may have more potential than I’m giving credit. I. Going to run some tests for both pvp and pve

Spurrlock.3219:

I understand there is some confusion surrounding the new KoF mechanic. Anet describes it as... "King of Fires: This trait’s functionalty has changed. It now gives fire shield on a critical hit (15-second internal cooldown). Using berserker skills detonates any fire shield currently applied, inflicting 3 stacks of burning for 3 seconds to nearby foes. Increases outgoing burning duration by 33%."

If you (like myself) thought that berserk burst skills would detonate fire auras, you’re wrong! *Berserk bursts do NOT detonate fire auras.*

I’m not sure if this is bugged or working as intended. The good news that *rage skills WILL detonate fire auras*. When coupled with last blaze, that’s instant 4 stacks of burn. When you take into account the spammability of rage skills, this new mechanic is quite strong!

Armed with this knowledge, go forth with and craft a burnzerker that easily reaches 400k+ condi damage dealt per pvp match (like mine below), and feel the bern.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRAsf3enMdA1kitkCmkCElilqATpHE7iBIFgGQA4t0uajtA-TJhAwAw2fgcZALnEAAPBAA

Edit: I think my mmr was in the toilet after taking a break from gw2 for season 1. I am now averaging ~275k condition damage dealt. The new KoF mechanic is fun, but burnzerker remains overshadowed by viper rev in pvp.

Actually to detonate the aura, however the f1 bow is broken and only the 3stacks to burn even hitting the 2 squares of skill, ANET transforms build on garbage, the more it is custome them always makes kitten when creating something and then kittens who made the contents broken

idk the point of the new trait function, like why would you keep track of the fire shield if almost any move you do will trigger it, like..it’s cool on paper and all…but..

berserk burst skills do detonate the fire shield don’t listen to this guy. tested 100 times. maybe the weapon he wanted to use has a bug. But all the weapons I use work.

Warlord.9074:

berserk burst skills do detonate the fire shield don’t listen to this guy. tested 100 times. maybe the weapon he wanted to use has a bug. But all the weapons I use work.

That wasn’t the case when I wrote this post two weeks ago.

like I said maybe the skill you were using like scorched earth or something was bugged.

I have had decent luck using fire fields and keeping fire shields up with a sword/torch/rifle build using the new sage amulet with runes of balthazar