| Patch Link | Date | Patch Name | Patch Notes |
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| Version 21.000.1 | 21 November 2022 | Beyond the Veil Update | Pyroblast was somewhat unpopular since its rework, because though it had high potential damage it was difficult to always hit. To increase effectiveness, its maximum channel time is reduced and projectile range increased.
- Pyroblast (One-handed Staff):
- Projectile Range: 20m → 24m
- Max Channel time: 2s → 1.2s
- Minimum / Maximum Damage remain unchanged
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| Version 20.070.1 | 5 October 2022 | Into the Fray Patch 7 | Fire Bolt had recently been dealing damage too quickly in 2v2 Hellgates. To make it less oppressive its cast time has been increased, while to make it more attractive in other content its cast range has also been increased. Additionally, Flame Pillar’s damage has been reduced slightly, though it still has very high burst damage potential on a potentially very low cooldown.
- Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs):
- Cast time: 0.7s → 0.8s
- Cast Range: 11m → 12m
- Flame Pillar (Great Fire Staff):
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| Version 20.010.1 | 20 June 2022 | Into the Fray Patch 1 |
Pyroblast (one-handed Fire Staffs):
- Adjusted the aiming mechanic:
- Significantly increased rotation speed
- The aiming area is no longer displayed to other players
Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs):
- Instant Damage: 70 → 62
- DoT Damage per Tick: 5.5 → 5
Flame Blast (all Fire Staffs):
- Cooldown: 8s → 12s
- Explosion Damage: 150 → 140
- Instant Damage: 45 → 40
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| Version 20.000.1 | 8 June 2022 | Into the Fray Update | Pyroblast is now a channeled skillshot that rewards positioning and timing. Ignite has been replaced with a new ability: Flame Blast. And Infernal Staff's Contagious Fire has been replaced with Combustion, which ignites an enemy, leaving behind a flaming trail that silences. The Burn effect of Fire Bolt now triggers sooner, increasing the damage output if the same target is hit multiple times. Flame Pillar now deals significantly more damage on a higher cooldown (15s). If at least one enemy is hit, however, the cooldown is reduced back to 10s. Various other improvements and adjustments have also been made to make these staffs feel more polished.
- Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs):
- Burn Damage over Time Delay: 1s → 0.3s
- Hit Delay: 0.2s → 0.12s
- Burning Field (all Fire Staffs):
- Removed the ability Ignite (all Fire Staffs)
- Added a new W-Slot ability, Flame Blast (all Fire Staffs):
- Select a target (Ally, Enemy, Self) - after 1.6s an explosion occurs around the target, dealing 150 magical damage to all enemies in a 5m radius.
- If the main target is an enemy they also take an additional 45 magical damage immediately.
- Wall of Flames (all Fire Staffs):
- Fire Wave (all Fire Staffs):
- Fire Wave area Duration: 0.8s → 1s
- Fire Ball (all Fire Staffs):
- Renamed the ability to Raging Flare
- Cast Range: 18m → 22m
- Instant Damage: 124.63 → 135
- Projectile Speed increased by 10%
- Fire Artillery (all Fire Staffs):
- Hit Delay: 0.1s → 0s
- Projectile Hit Delay: 0.5s → 0.2s
- Pyroblast (One-handed Fire Staff) has been completely reworked:
- Pyroblast is charged while channeling for up to 2s (can aim while channeling)
- Deals magical damage in a 4m radius upon impact with an enemy, dependent upon the length of the channel
- Charge Up: 0.5s / 1s / 1.5s / 2s - Damage: 240 / 280 / 320 / 360
- (Previous Pyroblast instant Damage: 300)
- If channeled for the full duration, the Pyroblast also knocks targets back 2.5m
- Flame Pillar (Great Fire Staff):
- Damage: 184 → 218
- Cooldown: 10s → 15s
- If at least one enemy is hit the cooldown is reduced to 10s
- Energy Cost: 13 → 9
- Hit Delay: 1s → 0.8s
- Removed the ability Contagious Fire (Infernal Staff)
- Added a new E-slot Ability, Combustion (Infernal Staff):
- Ignite the targeted enemy, dealing 143 magical damage over 5s
- After a short delay, the burning enemy leaves a continuous fiery trail that lasts 4.6s
- Deals 28 magical damage vs. players / 26 magical damage vs. mobs every 0.5s
- Enemy players on the trail are silenced
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| Version 20.000.1 | 8 June 2022 | Into the Fray Update |
Fire Staffs:
- Pyroblast is now a channeled skillshot that rewards positioning and timing; Ignite replaced with a new ability, Flame Blast; Infernal Staff's Contagious Fire replaced with Combustion which ignites an enemy leaving a flaming trail that silences
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| Version 19.040.1 | 26 January 2022 | Lands Awakened Patch 4 | Wildfire Staff remains strong across multiple content types. Its burst damage remains high, and its low cast time makes it hard for enemies to avoid. The cast time has thus been reverted to 0.6s, allowing enemies to react if Magma Sphere is cast directly at them. Additionally, base damage of its first impact was reduced. The true damage DoT retains its strong impact against tanks and high HP builds, but no longer harms cloth users as quickly.
The range of Searing Flame was reduced, since it was too high for a low-cooldown, high-damage Q-ability.
Since Dawnsong is more likely to hit enemy frontlines, it was difficult to utilize the Healing Cast debuff, as enemy Healers are usually in the backline. To make this debuff more dependable, it now reduces Healing Received instead. Additionally, its cooldown was adjusted to 30s to make it easier to sync with other ZvZ forces.
- Searing Flame (all Fire Staffs):
- Range: 20m → 18m
- Projectile Speed: 25m/s → 21.6m/s
- Magma Sphere (Wildfire Staff):
- Cast Time: 0.4s → 0.6s
- Instant Damage: 296 → 240
- Flaming Phoenix (Dawnsong):
- Debuff now reduces Healing Received (previously Healing Cast)
- Cooldown: 40s → 30s
- Cast Time: 1s → 0.6s
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| Version 18.110.1 | 13 October 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 11 | Wildfire Staff has struggled to find a valuable spot in group compositions. Its core mechanic meant it was not well-suited to small-scale fights, while other DPS options outshone it in large-scale combat. To give it a specific DPS sub-role specifically suited to punishing enemy frontlines, the burning effect now ignores armor and deals 3.75% of the player's max health per tick as damage. This makes it more desirable against tanks and heavily-armored players. This fits the ability design better, as the rolling Magma Sphere is quite difficult to land on the enemy’s backline but much better suited to punishing overextended frontlines.
- Searing Flame (all Fire Staffs):
- Fixed an issue where its collision detection was unreliable at max range - this means its effective range is now increased
- Magma Sphere (Wildfire Staff):
- Projectile Speed: 7.67m/s → 11.5m/s
- Cast Speed: 0.6s → 0.4s
- Instant Damage: 267.43 → 296
- Ignite Damage per tick: 20.06 → 3.75% of the target's Max Health
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| Version 18.090.1 | 28 July 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 9 | Fire Staffs
Fire Staffs are currently underrepresented in many types of PvP content and are often outclassed by Frost Staffs in group PvP. To make Fire Staffs more attractive in group fights, a new Q-ability, Searing Flame, has been added. This ability is a Q-slot skillshot which allows users to deal constant damage from the backline. The damage of each individual hit is moderate, but if the caster lands 3 hits in a row, the next projectile becomes Furious Flame and deals far greater damage.
- Added a new Q-slot Ability, Searing Flame:
- Fire a Searing Flame in the target direction. The first enemy hit receives 94 magical damage and starts burning. Each time you hit an enemy with Searing Flame you get a charge. If you have 3 Searing Flame Charges, your next Searing Flame cast will be a Furious Flame instead, dealing 182 magical damage on impact. Burning enemies take 11 magical damage every second for 4 seconds.
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| Version 18.040.1 | 6 May 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 4 (Balance Patch) | Fire Staffs
Fire Wave is now easier to hit with and deals more damage. Fire Wall, with its lasting area, still has more utility, but Fire Wave is an alternative (with more damage plus knockback) in smaller or 1v1 fights.
- Fire Wave (all Fire Staffs):
- Cone area now quickly swipes from left to right, covering more horizontal space
- Enemies hit now receive an additional 75 magic damage if any Q-slot DoT is active on them
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| Version 1.17.403.172369 | 12 August 2020 | Rise of Avalon Update and Hotfix 1, 2 |
Ignite (all Fire Staffs):
- Enemy Health Threshold for the buff: 20% → 40%
Pyroblast (One-Handed Fire Staff):
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| Version 1.16.396.166567 | 19 May 2020 | Queen Patch 12 (Season 9 Balance Patch) and Hotfix 12.1 | Fire Staffs
- Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs):
- Cast Time: 1s → 0.7s
- Impact Damage: 87.52 → 70.00
- DoT Damage: 5.72 → 5.50
- Energy Cost: 4 → 3
- Ignite (all Fire Staffs):
- Hit Delay: 0.3s → 0s
- Standtime: 0.4s → 0.2s
- Instant Damage: 96.23 → 140.00
- Removed Damage Over Time effect - instead, hitting a target below 20% Health now gives the caster a 40% Move- and Cast Speed buff for 3 seconds
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| Version 1.15.387.150212 | 18 September 2019 | Percival Patch 5 (Midseason Patch) | Fire Staffs
- Added a new W-Spell, Fire Artillery:
- After 1.5s, become stationary for up to 6s and fire a projectile on target enemy every 2s. The projectile deals 55 magical impact damage and leaves a burning area on the ground for 6s. Every second this applies an Ignite Stack on enemies inside of it that lasts 3s. (Stacks up to 4 times)
- Pyroblast (One-Handed Fire Staff):
- Range: 12m → 13m
- Instant Damage: 284.31 → 300.00
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| Version 1.15.382.145855 | 10 July 2019 | Percival Update | Fire Staffs
- Magma Sphere (Wildfire Staff):
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| Version 1.14.381.141987 | 9 May 2019 | Oberon Patch 5 (Midseason Patch) | Fire Staffs
- Flame Tornado (Blazing Staff):
- Tick Damage vs Players: 51.00 → 60.00
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| Version 1.14.381.140241 | 10 April 2019 | Oberon Patch 2 / Free-to-Play Launch | Fire Staffs
- Contagious Fire (Infernal Staff):
- Damage per tick: 34.68 → 32.00
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| Version 1.13.369.136513 | 20 February 2019 | Nimue Balance Patch (Patch #7) | Fire Staffs
- Replaced the spell Fire Bomb (Q-Slot)
- Added new spell Burning Field (Q-Slot)
- Sets the ground in a 3m radius for 4s on Fire. Dealing magic damage on ignition and additional damage for enemies inside the area. This is a ranged spell, which you can cast on the ground.
- Cooldown: 0s → 4s
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| Version 1.12.365.126590 | 26 September 2018 | Merlyn Preseason Balance Patch | Fire Staffs:
- Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs)
- Fire Bomb (all Fire Staffs)
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| Version 1.12.365.123101 | 31 July 2018 | Merlyn Update | Fire Staffs:
- Flame Pillar (Great Fire Staff)
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| Version 1.11.362.119971 | 20 June 2018 | Lancelot Patch #9 | Fire Staffs
- Flame Tornado (Blazing Staff)
- Damage vs Mobs: 47.23 → 43.45
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| Version 1.11.362.116876 | 2 May 2018 | Lancelot Midseason Patch | Fire Staffs
- Flame Pillar:
- Contagious Fire:
- Cast Time: 1.5s -> 1.2s
- Damage per tick: 27.75 -> 34.68
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| Version 1.11.358.115635 | 11 April 2018 | Lancelot Patch #4 |
Fire Staffs:
- Wall of Flames:
- Fear Duration: 1s -> 0.5s
- Targets will no longer bounce back into the wall of flames multiple times.
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| Version 1.11.357.113848 | 16 March 2018 | Lancelot Hotfix #2 | Wall of Flames:
- Fear duration reduced to 1 second fixed duration, regardless of item power and crowd control resistance
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| Version 1.11.357.113403 | 12 March 2018 | Lancelot Update | Fire Staffs:
- Fire Bolt:
- Burn Tick: 5 -> 4
- First Burn tick after: 0s -> 1s
- Wall of Flames
- Flame Tornado:
- Damage per Tick: 71.41 -> 51.00
- Damage per Tick vs mobs: 71.41 -> 47.23
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| Version 1.0.332.98217 | 27 September 2017 | Joseph Update |
Fire Bolt:
- Instant Damage: 107.41 -> 120.83
- Damage per Tick: 15.44 -> 10.29
Fire Wall:
- Damage per tick: 41.68 -> 36.34
Fire Wave:
- Cooldown: 10s -> 15s
- Damage per Tick: 31.49 -> 34.60
- Number of Ticks: 2 -> 5
- Knockback Distance: 6.63 -> 2.05
- Energycost: 10 -> 12
Contagious Fire:
Meteor:
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