Guild Wars 2

We all know that burning stacks in duration. However, certain skills like the engi’s pistol #4, fiery greatsword # 2, and guardian torch skill # 4 all state that they initially hit with a stack burning for some insane amount of damage. Was this removed because the stacks of burning were to OP or is this a mistake?

I’m pretty sure those “stacks” just refer to how many separate applications of burn are applied by that skill, usually 1 per second.

So fiery greatsword #2 says 6 stacks of burning for 3 seconds, this means for 6 seconds it applies a 3 second burn to the target every second(which of course stacks duration wise to 18 seconds of burn total)

Though apparently the guardian torch one is slightly bugged in only giving 3 hits of the burning rather than the 4 it states