Burning Arrow

Burning Arrow is a bow attack that fires an arrow dealing fire damage to a target with an increased chance of igniting it. When the arrow ignites a target, it will also apply a damage over time debuff that deals burning damage based on the ignite damage, stacking up to 5 times.

Skill Functions and Interactions

 * Area supports: When augmented by Burning Arrow gains an area component, allowing it to be supported by area support gems. It does not however gain the area gem tag.

Gem level progression
In addition, Burning Arrow is the starting skill gem for Ranger. It drops after killing the first monster of the game, Hungry Corpse.

Version history

 * Now converts 100% of Physical Damage to Fire Damage (from 50%).
 * Now has 50% chance to Ignite Enemies at all gem levels (previously 30% at gem level 1, up to 49% at gem level 20).
 * Now deals 50% more damage with Ignite at gem level 1 (from 30%), up to 88% at gem level 20 (From 68%).
 * Now applies an additional debuff when you Ignite, dealing extra burning damage based on the magnitude of the Ignite.
 * Now gains +1% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier per 2% gem quality (from 3% increased Ignite duration per 1% gem quality).
 * Burning Arrow's threshold jewels, and, no longer drops and cannot be obtained outside of trading with other players.


 * Now has 30% chance to ignite at gem level 1, up to 49% at gem level 20 (up from 20% at all levels)
 * Now deals 30% more damage with ignite at gem level 1, up to 68% more damage with ignite at gem level 20.
 * No longer has increased burning damage.


 * The amount of burning damage dealt by the burning ground created by a on a character with the  threshold jewel is now determined by the level of the Burning Arrow skill gem.


 * Burning Arrow's base damage has been increased from 130% to 150% at level 1 and 160.4% to 184.2% at level 20.


 * Burning Arrow: This skill now deals 130% of base damage, has 50% converted to fire, and has a fixed ignite chance. It gains increased burning damage and physical damage per level.


 * The ignite chance on levels over 20 continues to progress linearly, rather than slowing the progression as it previously did.


 * Burning Arrow is now properly affected by the Point Blank keystone passive and the Chin Sol unique item.


 * Increased mana cost at higher levels.


 * Burning Arrow has been added to the game.
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