Bane Flare

General Information

Class: Lore-master

Trait Tree: The Ancient Master

Rank Needed: 0 (trait Bane Flare)

Effects

Using this skill applies Dazed to all enemy targets for 15 seconds. This effect is broken by damage after 2 seconds.

Trait Interactions

The trait Bane Flare in the Ancient Master trait tree reduces the cooldown of this skill by up to 1 minute.
The trait Firm Grasp in the Ancient Master trait tree increases the Dazed grace period of this skill by up to 3 seconds.
Specializing in the Ancient Master trait tree makes this skill apply Insult to Injury: Lightning to the Lore-master, which increases the damage of the next Lightning skill.

Tracery Interactions

Target Resistance: Debuffing Skills reduces the chance for this skill to be resisted by up to 11%.

Tactical Information

Bane Flare is an interesting hybrid of a stun and a daze. At the start, it is unbreakable by damage and so essentially a stun. As opposed to the single-target daze Blinding Flash, the duration of Bane Flare is fifteen seconds while the cooldown is longer, meaning that you are not able to keep the targets dazed permanently. An advantage of Bane Flare though is that you are able to daze up to 5 targets at once (even more with the Word of Power tracery Area Effect Target Count), thus being able to lock down a whole group of enemies while they can quickly be taken down by AoE DPS. This skill is especially strong when a group of enemies spawns, allowing Tanks extra time to generate aggro.

Lore

This skill may be inspired by George Romero's movie Land of the Dead (2005), in which the protagonists use fireworks referred to as "Sky Flowers" to mesmerize the masses of enemy zombies. Before the Riders of Rohan expansion, Bane Flare worked only on the Dead.