Burning Ground - Path of Exile

Burning ground deals burning damage (fire damage over time). It is a detrimental ground effect.

The amount of damage per second inflicted by burning ground depends on its source. Low tier map mod deal 800 fire damage per second, while it is 1200 in mid tier and 1600 in top tier. These value are base damage and does not take into account for other scaling effect such as Atlas awakening objective completion when in map, or the player character’s fire resistance.

Icon Name Type Stats
Burning Ground Icon Burning Ground Debuff You are taking burning damage while standing on burning ground.
Burning Ground Debuff Icon Burning Ground Debuff You are taking burning damage while standing on burning ground.

1. Burning Ground Gems

Name Category Requires Stats
Flame Dash Flame Dash Active skill gem Level 10 Causes the player to teleport to a target location, damaging enemies and leaving a trail of burning ground.
Fire Trap Fire Trap Active skill gem Level 12 Explodes when triggered, leaving an area of burning ground that damages enemies who walk through it.

Skill duration passives and the Increased Duration Support Increased Duration Support gem will increase the duration of the burning ground effect, but not the duration before the trap expires.

2. Burning Ground Unique Items

Item Category Lvl. Stats
Watcher’s Eye Watcher’s Eye jewel 1 Unaffected by Burning Ground while affected by Purity of Fire Purity of Fire
Siegebreaker Replica Siegebreaker belt 44 Your Minions spread Burning Ground on Death, dealing 20% of their maximum Life as Fire Damage per second
Redblade Tramplers Redblade Tramplers boots 46 Unaffected by Burning Ground
Garukhan’s Flight Garukhan’s Flight boots 62 Immune to Burning Ground, Shocked Ground and Chilled Ground
Steppan Eard Steppan Eard boots 67 20% increased Movement Speed on Shocked Ground
50% increased Damage on Burning Ground
Regenerate 2% of Life per second on Chilled Ground
Unaffected by Desecrated Ground

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3. Burning Ground Mods

Name Lvl. Stats Type Spawn Weighting
The Shaper's 68 Unaffected by Burning Ground Item mods boots_shaper 800
default 0
Warlord's 68 Unaffected by Burning Ground Item mods boots_adjudicator 500
default 0
SynthesisImplicitUnaffectedByBurningGround1 65 Unaffected by Burning Ground Synthesis implicit  
Enchantment Fire Trap Burning Ground Duration 1 66 30% increased Fire Trap Burning Ground Duration Enchantments helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Fire Trap Burning Ground Duration 2 75 45% increased Fire Trap Burning Ground Duration Enchantments helmet 100
default 0
of Flames 1 10% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
6% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
+4% Monster pack size
Area has patches of Burning Ground
20 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 14 (Hidden)
Map mods low_tier_map 250
default 0
of Flames 1 10% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
6% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
+4% Monster pack size
Area has patches of Burning Ground
24 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 16 (Hidden)
Map mods mid_tier_map 250
default 0
of Flames 1 10% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
6% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
+4% Monster pack size
Area has patches of Burning Ground
28 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 18 (Hidden)
Map mods top_tier_map 250
default 0
of Flames 1 11% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
Area has patches of Burning Ground
20 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 14 (Hidden)
Legacy map mods secret_area 0
old_map 0
default 0
of Flames 1 12% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
6% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
Area has patches of Burning Ground
20 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 14 (Hidden)
Legacy map mods low_tier_map 0
default 0
of Flames 1 12% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
6% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
Area has patches of Burning Ground
24 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 16 (Hidden)
Legacy map mods mid_tier_map 0
default 0
of Flames 1 12% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
6% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
Area has patches of Burning Ground
28 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 18 (Hidden)
Legacy map mods top_tier_map 0
default 0
MapBurningGroundDelve 1 (5-10)% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
(3-6)% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
+(3-6)% Monster pack size
Area has patches of Burning Ground
20 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 14 (Hidden)
Delve area mods default 0
MapBurningGroundDelve2 52 (5-10)% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
(3-6)% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
+(3-6)% Monster pack size
Area has patches of Burning Ground
24 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 16 (Hidden)
Delve area mods default 250
MapBurningGroundDelve3 173 (5-10)% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area
(3-6)% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area
+(3-6)% Monster pack size
Area has patches of Burning Ground
28 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 18 (Hidden)
Delve area mods default 250
MapBurningGroundSynthesis 50 Area has patches of Burning Ground
20 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 14 (Hidden)
Synthesis area mods default 250
MapBurningGroundSynthesis2 68 Area has patches of Burning Ground
24 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 16 (Hidden)
Synthesis area mods default 250
MapBurningGroundSynthesis3 79 Area has patches of Burning Ground
28 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 18 (Hidden)
Synthesis area mods default 250
of Flames 46 Area has patches of Burning Ground
16 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 12 (Hidden)
Heist area mods default 250
of Flames 68 Area has patches of Burning Ground
20 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 14 (Hidden)
Heist area mods default 250
of Flames 73 Area has patches of Burning Ground
24 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 16 (Hidden)
Heist area mods default 250
of Flames 78 Area has patches of Burning Ground
28 patches with Ground Effect per 100 tiles (Hidden)
Ground Effect has a radius of 18 (Hidden)
Heist area mods default 250

4. List of Ground Buff & Debuff

A ground effect is the general term for a patch of terrain that has some consequence on characters or monsters positioned on it. Detrimental ground effects do not affect allies of the character that created them, while those ground effects created by monsters or the environment will not affect other monsters. The inverse is true for beneficial ground effects.

Characters and monsters can be affected simultaneously by different types of overlapping ground effects. Those of the same type do not cumulatively stack their effects. For ground effects that inflict damage, only one of each type with the highest damage per second will cause damage at any given moment.

Icon Name Type Stats
Burning Ground Icon Burning Ground Debuff You are taking burning damage while standing on burning ground.
Burning Ground Debuff Icon Burning Ground Debuff You are taking burning damage while standing on burning ground.
Chilled Ground Icon Chilled Ground Debuff Your actions are slowed while standing on chilled ground
Frozen Ground Icon Frozen Ground Debuff You are taking Cold Damage over Time.
Shocked Ground Icon Shocked Ground Debuff You take increased damage while standing on shocked ground.
Consecrated Ground Icon Consecrated Ground Buff Grants Life Regeneration
Consecrated Ground Debuff Icon Consecrated Ground Debuff You are on an enemy's Consecrated Ground, increasing your chance to be critically hit.
Desecrated Ground Icon Desecrated Ground Debuff You are taking Chaos Damage while standing on Desecrated Ground
Caustic Ground Icon Caustic Ground Debuff You are taking Chaos Damage from standing in Caustic Ground.
Profane Ground Icon Profane Ground Debuff You are on an enemy's Profane Ground, lowering your resistances and making you easier to critically hit.
Smoke Cloud Icon Smoke Cloud Debuff You are significantly less accurate while standing in smoke.
Tarred Ground Icon Tarred Ground Debuff Your movement speed is reduced while standing in tar.
Fungal Ground Icon Fungal Ground Debuff You deal less Damage due to enemy Fungal Ground.
Eldritch Decay Icon Eldritch Decay Debuff You are taking Physical Damage while standing in Eldritch Decay
Mana Rune Icon Mana Rune Debuff You are taking Lightning Damage and losing Mana.
Net Throw Icon Net Throw Debuff Your movement speed is reduced while standing in a net.
Slipstream Icon Slipstream Buff You have increased Action Speed from the Slipstream.
Blood Ritual Icon Blood Ritual Debuff Your are taking physical damage over time from a Blood Ritual

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