Burning

The visual effect on a burning character : body engulfed in flames

Condition. While suffering from this Condition, you lose Health over time.

Concise description: You have -7 Health degeneration.

— In-game description

Related skills

Skills that cause burning

• Burning Arrow (elite)
• Flame Trap
• Incendiary Arrows (elite)
• Ray of Judgment (elite)
• Bed of Coals — when foes inside are knocked down.
• Burning Speed — on yourself. Inflicts adjacent foes on end effect.
• Double Dragon (elite) - whenever a skill targets a foe
• Elemental Flame/Elemental Flame (PvP) — whenever an elementalist hex is applied to a foe.
• Glyph of Immolation — next spell(s) that target a foe.
• Immolate
• Incendiary Bonds
• Mark of Rodgort — whenever target takes fire damage.
• Mind Burn (elite) — if your energy is greater than target's energy.
• Rodgort's Invocation
• Searing Flames (elite) — if target is not burning.
• Searing Heat
• Star Burst (elite) — also to other foes in the area
• Spirit Burn — if within earshot of a spirit.
• Anthem of Flame
• Blazing Finale — whenever shout or chant ends on ally.
• Blazing Spear
• Burning Refrain — if target ally hits a foe with more health.
• Burning Shield — blocks the next attack skill and causes burning if it was a melee attack.
• Cautery Signet (elite) — on yourself if conditions are removed from party.
• Holy Spear — if target is a summoned creature.
• Avatar of Balthazar — whenever a Dervish enchantment ends.
• Balthazar's Rage
• Heart of Holy Flame — end effect.
• Burning (flame jet)
• Fire Dart
• Fire Jet
• Fire Spout

Skills that benefit from burning

• Extinguish — on party members
• Ash Blast
• Glowing Gaze
• Searing Flames (elite)
• Steam
• Teinai's Wind

Skills with burning-dependent effects

• "They're on Fire!"
• Glowing Signet

Skills that prevent burning

• Frigid Armor

Skills that remove burning

See also: List of condition removal skills

• Breath of the Great Dwarf (PvE-only)

Notes

The Guild Wars 2 Wiki also has an article on Burning.

• A character suffering from Burning is engulfed in flames.
  • Almost every skill that mentions this condition uses the term on fire, rather than burning.
  • Despite this language and imagery, burning causes 7 pips of Health degeneration without any fire damage. Consequently, skills that affect fire damage (e.g. Winter) have no effect on this condition.
  • Burning does not change the color of the health bar (unlike other conditions that cause degeneration).
• It is the only condition that affects spirits.
• It is one of the few conditions without any weapon or armor upgrades that alter its duration.
• Only a few creatures are immune to burning: Burning Spirits, Flowstone Elementals, Magma Blisters, and all Destroyers (except for the The Great Destroyer).

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