Guild Wars 2

There are a number of issues related to this utility skill and it’s interaction with traits and other abilities. I wouldn’t be surprised if I only found some of them, but these are the ones I’ve found thus far:

• Burning Retreat does not list itself as a fire field. (it is)
• Ring of Fire only lasts for 5 seconds rather than the listed 6. Confirmed with a stop watch and casting arcane wave just as it passes 5s, no might gained.
• Burning Fire (Adept fire) does not work with the axe. Tooltips are also unaffected.
• Pyromancer’s Alacrity (Master fire) does not affect any of the skills with the axe.
• Pyromancer’s Puissance (GM fire) does not work with any of the abilities on the axe.
• Persisting Flames trait (GM fire) does not increase the duration of the fire fields created by Burning Retreat nor Ring of Fire. The fury gain works fine since it’s related to gaining Might and not the particular fire field.

Depending on the developers intent, the interaction with the skill and the regular fire traits may not be bugs but rather the intended behavior. It would however go a long way of improving the usefulness of the utility, which frankly, I’ve never seen used, anywhere.
Also I’d suggest making the default attack be a physical projectile.