Fire damage

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Fire Damage is an elemental damage type that is usually caused by fire, flames, lava, or other related sources. The majority of fire damage sources are found in the Elementalist's Fire Magic line, though fire damage is also plentiful in the Ranger's Wilderness Survival skills. Fire magic is also inflicted by all Fire Magic Wands and Staves, all Divine Favor Wands and Staves except for Stormray and any martial weapon with a Fiery upgrade component.

Unlike in some games, fire damage has no inherent effects such as burning on hit. However, fire damage is often used to trigger (or triggered off of) burning.

Fire damage is particularly effective against plant-type monsters and many cold damage-based foes. Using fire damage against an Ice Golem will substantially increase damage one would otherwise do. Contrarily, fire damage is less effective against stony or fire-based enemies such as Burning Titans.

Since fire damage is fairly common, it is in a player's best interest to determine when to protect oneself against it, and when to wield it. Studying the makeup of PvE enemies in an explorable area or mission, or tweaking a PvP build to counter the metagame will likely involve the consideration of fire damage at some point.

Contents 1 Equipment which protects against fire damage 2 Skills which protect against fire damage 3 Skills that are involved with fire damage 4 Skills which trigger on fire damage 5 Skills which causes fire damage

[edit] Equipment which protects against fire damage

• Armor
  • Pyromancer Insignia
  • Pyrebound Insignia

• Inscriptions
  • Focus item or shield inscriptions
    • "Sleep Now in the Fire"

[edit] Skills which protect against fire damage

• Stances
  • Mantra of Flame - also provides energy whenever fire damage is taken
• Wards
  • Ward Against Harm (Elite) - also provides a lower armor bonus against non-fire damage

[edit] Skills that are involved with fire damage

• Nature Rituals
  • Conflagration - causes arrows to deal fire damage
  • Greater Conflagration (Elite) - converts physical damage into fire damage

• Hex Spells
  • Ice Prison - ends if foe is struck

• Enchantment Spells
  • Conjure Flame - increases fire damage of a fiery weapon

[edit] Skills which trigger on fire damage

• Hex Spells
  • Mark of Rodgort - causes burning whenever hexed foe is struck

[edit] Skills which causes fire damage

• Enchantment Spells
  • Flame Djinn's Haste
• Hex Spells
  • Incendiary Bonds
  • Smoldering Embers
• Skills
  • Burning Breath
  • Devourer Siege
• Spells
  • Summon Ruby Djinn
  • Bed of Coals
  • Breath of Fire
  • Double Dragon (Elite)
  • Fire Storm
  • Fireball
  • Flame Burst
  • Glowing Gaze
  • Immolate
  • Inferno
  • Lava Arrows
  • Lava Font
  • Liquid Flame
  • Meteor
  • Meteor Shower
  • Mind Blast (Elite)
  • Mind Burn (Elite)
  • Phoenix
  • Rodgort's Invocation
  • Savannah Heat (Elite)
  • Searing Flames (Elite)
  • Searing Heat
  • Star Burst (Elite)
  • Teinai's Heat
• Traps
  • Flame Trap

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Damage types
Elemental damage	Cold damage • Earth damage • Fire damage • Lightning damage
Physical damage	Blunt damage • Piercing damage • Slashing damage
Miscellaneous	Chaos damage • Dark damage • Holy damage • Shadow damage