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Fire Damage
May 8, 2026 at 08:49 AM
Removed redundant H1 heading from article body
Fire Damage is a damage-over-time status effect applied by fire-element weapons in Windrose. In the Early Access launch build the clearest source is the Dragon's Breath blunderbuss, a Rare (ascendable to Epic) firearm whose Rare effect has a 60% chance to apply bonus fire damage on every hit. The effect shows a visible flame indicator on the target and ticks for a short duration before burning out. Fire Damage is one of several elemental damage profiles in the game, alongside Distortion, Bleeding, and the Plague family.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Type | Damage-over-time (DoT) status |
Category | Elemental (Fire) |
Primary source | Dragon's Breath (Rare / Epic blunderbuss) |
Target | Enemies; does not apply to the player from this source |
Stack behavior | Reapplies the duration on subsequent hits; does not stack bigger tick values externally verified |
Visible indicator | Burning particle effect and flame VFX on the target model |
Dragon's Breath (Rare) hits have a 60% chance to apply a bonus Fire Damage tick on the affected target. The blunderbuss fires a cone of shot, so several pellets from a single trigger pull can each roll the 60% check independently.
Dragon's Breath (Epic) keeps the Rare behavior and adds a 60% chance to trigger a fire explosion around the target. That secondary AoE applies a separate burst rather than extending the Fire Damage duration on the original target.
Other elemental or upgraded firearms may share the Fire Damage profile through future content patches. The launch-build roster centers on Dragon's Breath as the headline source.
The display of Fire Damage numbers was initially inconsistent on Dragon's Breath at launch. Hotfix 0.10.0.2.54 on April 17, 2026 corrected the blunderbuss's fire-damage numbers so they display correctly and trigger the intended flame VFX on hit. Fire Damage tested before April 17 should be treated as cosmetically unreliable, although the underlying damage calculations were also clarified in the same patch.
Dragon's Breath shines at point-blank against packs of pirate-camp enemies and in Jungle Cave corridors where multiple enemies line up.
The Fire Damage DoT is not the headline damage source of the weapon; the cone damage does most of the work. The DoT is a bonus against targets that survive the first volley.
For a Blunderbuss build, pairing Overpenetration does not benefit the weapon because blunderbusses fire a pellet cone rather than single-target piercing shots. Marksman talents that benefit blunderbusses more are Bulletstorm (stack damage with consecutive hits) and Muzzle Reach (close-range bonus).
Fire Damage from Dragon's Breath is target-bound and short-duration, so kiting around line-of-sight breakers reduces exposure. The effect does not persist through death (defeated targets lose the DoT), and no in-game cleanse interaction has been documented in the live build because the effect is player-applied against NPC enemies rather than the other way around.
Dragon's Breath the primary source weapon
Status Effects the full status roster
Distortion sister elemental DoT from Swamp Creature's Tooth
Bleeding physical DoT from the Rapier of a Thousand Cuts
Plague Marks the Plague-family stacking debuff
