Burning

Burning refers to any fire damage over time effect. Burning damage is a synonym for fire damage over time; all burning damage is fire damage over time, and vice versa.

Mechanics

There are several sources of burning, for example:

• Ignite
• Burning ground (Fire TrapFire TrapTrap, Spell, Duration, AoE, Fire
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (8-20) Mana
  Cast Time: 1.00 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 260%
  AoE Radius: 15Requires Level 12Throws a trap that explodes when triggered, dealing fire damage to surrounding enemies and leaving an area of burning ground that damages enemies who walk through it.Trap lasts 4 seconds
  Deals (32.5-3018.8) Base Fire Damage per second
  Base duration is 1.75 seconds
  Deals (10-915) to (15-1373) Fire Damage
  Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
  +(0-0.8) metres to radius
  (3-286) to (5-429) added Fire Damage against Burning Enemies
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (4-80)% increased Trap Trigger Area of EffectPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., Flame DashFlame DashSpell, Movement, Duration, Fire, Travel, Blink
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (8-23) Mana
  Cooldown Time: 3.50 sec
  Can Store 3 Use(s)
  Cast Time: 0.80 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 140%Requires Level 10Teleport to a location, damaging enemies and leaving a trail of burning ground. Shares a cooldown with other Blink skills.Deals (19.7-1738.6) Base Fire Damage per second
  Base duration is 4.00 seconds
  Deals (7-659) to (11-988) Fire Damage
  Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
  (0-19)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (0.5-10)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., etc.)
• Herald of AshHerald of AshSpell, AoE, Fire, Herald, Duration
  Level: (1-20)
  Reservation: 25% Mana
  Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)
  Cast Time: Instant
  AoE Radius: 10Requires Level 16Grants a buff providing fire damage based on your physical damage. While you have this buff, if you kill an enemy, other enemies near them will be burned based on the overkill damage. The burn inflicted by this skill can only be affected by modifiers to damage over time (burning damage is damage over time).Base duration is 4.00 seconds
  (0-38)% more Burning Damage
  Buff grants 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage
  Buff grants (9-12)% more Spell Fire Damage
  Base Burning Damage is 25% of Overkill Damage
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Base burning damage is an additional (0.25-5)% of Overkill DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Different sources of burning damage stack cumulatively, but multiple applications from the same source do not. For example, two linked with will not double the burn damage, however a linked with together with a totem will stack with each other.
Stacking rules for buffs, debuffs or other effects are defined in terms of that specific buff, debuff or effect interacting with other applications of the same effect, not with other ones that are similar.

All burning effects will remain present on the target until they have run their course, but for each source, only the one with the highest damage per second will cause damage at any given moment. Humanoids, Monkeys and Snakes will flee while burning.

As a damage over time effect, burning damage itself is not a hit and cannot benefit from effects that require a hit, such as Fire Penetration SupportFire Penetration SupportFire, Support
Icon: V
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.Supported Skills Penetrate (20-34)% Fire Resistance

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Fire DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. (but not reduced elemental resistances), added damage, leech, and so forth.

Burning damage can be increased by the Burning Damage SupportBurning Damage SupportFire, Support
Icon: b
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.Supported Skills deal (20-34)% more Burning Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Burning DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. support gem, and the following types of modifiers:

• Damage
• Damage over Time
• Elemental Damage
• Fire Damage
• Burning Damage

It is important to note that Burning and Ignite are not directly synonymous. Ignite is an elemental ailment which deals fire damage over time and is applied from hits with fire damage. All fire DoT effects are burning damage, but not all of them are ignite. This is a key point when considering buffs and supports such as Elemental Focus SupportElemental Focus SupportSupport
Icon: F
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.Supported Skills deal (20-34)% more Elemental Damage
Supported Skills cannot inflict Elemental Ailments

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Elemental DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., which prohibits any elemental status ailment with the linked skill. However since burning damage itself is not an ailment, this support can be used to increase the damage of burning damage for skills that deal burns without igniting, such as , , and .

Related items

Certain unique items interact with burning. Effects specific to Ignite are listed in that page.

Burning damage

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Conditional burning damage

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Burning ground interactions

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Other interactions with burning

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Passives

Base passives

Name	Stats
Faster Ignite	Ignites you inflict deal Damage 5% faster [1]
Searing Heat	Ignites you inflict deal Damage 15% faster [1]

Ascendancy passives

Ascendancy Class	Name	Stats
Champion	First to Strike, Last to Fall	Your Hits permanently Intimidate Enemies that are on Full Life Gain Adrenaline for 20 seconds when you reach Low Life Remove all Ailments and Burning when you gain Adrenaline Recover 25% of Life when you gain Adrenaline [1]
Saboteur	Explosives Expert	Damage Penetrates 10% Elemental Resistances against Chilled Enemies +40% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Burning Enemies 80% increased Critical Strike Chance against Shocked Enemies [1]