Fire Damage

Fire damage is one of the five Damage TypesDamage TypesThe damage types are Physical, Fire, Cold, Lightning and Chaos.. It is reduced by Fire ResistanceResistancesResistances reduce damage taken of the corresponding damage type — Fire, Cold, Lightning or Chaos — up to a Maximum. Fire, Cold and Lightning Resistances are Elemental Resistances. Resistances can be improved with Equipment, Passives & Quest items. Your Elemental Resistances are lowered as you progress through the game. Elemental Resistances are a vital defensive tool, and should be one of the first things to check if you're having difficulty surviving.. Fire HitsHit DamageAny damage that isn't damage over time is Hit damage. Damaging Ailments which result from a Hit will calculate their damage from that Hit, and will not subsequently have Damage modifiers applied directly to them. As a result of this, raising Hit Damage will result in more powerful Damaging Ailments innately. inflict FlammabilityFlammabilityFlammability is a Debuff that provides the chance for Hits to Ignite the target. It is not itself an Ailment, but is closely associated with Ignite, which is. Fire damage from Hits Contributes to the Magnitude of Flammability, so Hits that deal more Fire damage will Ignite more often. The base Magnitude of Flammability is 1% chance to Ignite the target for every 5% of the target's Ailment Threshold dealt as Fire damage. Flammability from a Hit is applied before that hit checks whether it should Ignite the target, and so will affect that chance for that Hit to Ignite. Since chance for Hits to Ignite comes from Flammability on the target, modifiers which increase the chance to inflict Ailments will increase the Magnitude of Flammability inflicted. Effects which do not Hit targets, but Ignite as if they had, such as Ignited Ground, also inflict Flammability, but do not roll a random chance to Ignite. Such effects will only Ignite once the total Flammability on the target reaches 50%. Multiple instances of Flammability stack, raising the chance for Hits to Ignite the target up to 100%. Each instance of Flammability has its own independent duration, lasting 8 seconds by default. based on how much Fire damage is dealt, which provides a chance to IgniteIgniteIgnite is an Ailment that deals Fire damage over time, and lasts for 4 seconds by default. The chance for a Hit to Ignite a target is determined by the total Magnitude of Flammability on the target, including the amount added by that Hit. Fire damage from Hits Contributes to the Magnitude of Ignite, so Hits dealing more Fire damage inflict stronger Ignites. The base Magnitude of Ignite is Fire damage per second equal to 20% of the Fire damage dealt by the Hit that inflicted it. This is calculated using the final damage dealt by the Hit, but not any modifiers on the target that affect how much damage they will take from the Hit. This Magnitude is not further affected by any modifiers to the damage you deal. Modifiers and Debuffs that affect the enemy's ability to mitigate damage (such as Shock) can affect the damage the enemy takes from Ignite, but any such modifiers that specifically apply to Hit damage (such as Penetration) do not affect Ignite damage..