Inferno

Burning you inflict scales off of your power instead of your condition damage. — In-game description

Inferno

Specialization

Fire (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Inferno

Burning you inflict scales off of your power instead of your condition damage.

Power Converted to Burning Damage: 7.5%

Power Converted to Burning Damage: 6%

 Burning: 131 Damage

— In-game description

Mechanics

Damage calculations

This trait replaces the normal damage coefficient for burning damage. Normally, burning damage is calculated using the character's condition damage stat, using the following formula:

(0.155 * Condition Damage) + (1.55 * Level) + 7 per second

However, Inferno changes this formula to scale with power instead:

(0.075 * Power) + (1.55 * Level) + 7 per second (in PvE)

(0.06 * Power) + (1.55 * Level) + 7 per second (in PvP and WvW)

Burning modified by Inferno is calculated with 7.5% scaling in PvE and 6% in PvP and WvW. For example, in PvE, a Power value of 2000 at level 80 would cause burning to do an extra 150 damage, totaling 274 damage (124 base + 150 from Power).

Additional notes

• Burning damage modified by Inferno is not affected by the condition damage stat at all.
• All other behaviors of burning remain the same, including expertise, and effects that change burning / condition duration or damage interval.
• Since the damage coefficient of burning is set to 0.075, compared to the 0.155 of regular unmodified burning, the attribute scaling of burning modified by Inferno is thus approximately 48% of regular burning.
• Inferno will also affect external sources of burning, including Relics (like Relic of the Fractal and Relic of the Steamshrieker) and   Fire Aura.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Drake's Breath — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Burning Speed — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Ring of Fire — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Elemental Explosion — Pistol
•   Scorching Shot — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Raging Ricochet — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Searing Salvo — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Flamestrike — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Dragon's Tooth — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Phoenix — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Flamewall — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Fire Shield — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Transmute Fire — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Fireball — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Font — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Burst — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Burning Retreat — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Blazing Barrage — Spear, when attuned to fire
•   Magma Orb — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Boil — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Lava Chains — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Heat Wave — Trident, when attuned to fire
•   Wildfire — Warhorn, when attuned to fire
•   Plasma Burst — Dagger, when attuned to air and fire
•   Frostfire Flurry — Pistol, when attuned to fire and water
•   Purblinding Plasma — Pistol, when attuned to air and fire
•   Molten Meteor — Pistol, when attuned to earth and fire
•   Fiery Frost — Scepter, when attuned to fire and water
•   Fracturing Strike — Scepter, when attuned to earth and fire
•   Searing Slash — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Uprising — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Cauterizing Strike — Sword, when attuned to fire
•   Twin Strike — Sword, when attuned to fire and water
•   Pyro Vortex — Sword, when attuned to air and fire
•   Lava Skin — Sword, when attuned to earth and fire
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Water — Hammer, when attuned to fire and water
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Air — Hammer, when attuned to air and fire
•   Dual Orbits: Fire and Earth — Hammer, when attuned to earth and fire
•   Pyroclastic Blast — Staff, when attuned to earth and fire
•   Fiery Impact — Spear, when attuned to earth and fire
•   Hydrothermal Vent — Trident, when attuned to fire and water
•   Molten Burst — Trident, when attuned to earth and fire
•   Grand Finale — Hammer
•   Singeing Strike — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Surging Flames — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Wheel — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Triple Sear — Hammer, when attuned to fire

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Burning Retreat — Conjured Flame
•   Ring of Fire — Conjured Flame
•   Flame Leap — Conjured Flame
•   Fiery Eruption — Fiery Greatsword

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Cleansing Fire — Cantrip
•   Glyph of Elemental Power — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Firestorm — Glyph, when attuned to fire
•   Signet of Fire — Signet
•   "Feel the Burn!" — Shout
•   Primordial Stance — Stance
•   Fox's Fury — Meditation

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Conjure Fiery Greatsword — Conjure
•   Flame Barrage

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Overload Fire — Overload, when attuned to fire
•   Ignite — Familiar
•   Conflagration — Familiar

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Flame Burst — Evasive Arcana, when attuned to fire
•   Flame Expulsion — Pyromancer's Puissance
•   Lesser Cleansing Fire — Burning Fire

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Burning Rage — Sunspot inflicts burning, and its radius is increased. Your condition damage is increased.

Arcane

• Arcane Precision — Your critical strikes have a chance to inflict a condition based on your attunement.

Evoker

• Galvanic Enchantment — After you use a familiar skill, your next strike creates an arc of chain lightning. Chain lightnings created by evoker skills inflict burning.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the power scaling from 10% to 7.5% in PvE only.
June 24, 2025	Blinding Ashes: This trait has been reworked and renamed Inferno. Burning now scales with power instead of condition damage, but at a reduced rate.
December 03, 2019	The cooldown on this trait is now determined on a per-target basis.
September 29, 2015	Increased the recharge of this trait from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
September 09, 2014	This trait now properly blinds all affected targets when used with skills that inflict burning in an area. Fixed a bug that allowed players to blind themselves in a scenario where they also apply burning to themselves.
April 15, 2014	Blinding Ashes has been added to the game.