Debuff

Burn

Burn is a damage over time debuff in Oaken Tower. It ticks twice a second for its stack count and loses a stack every tick, so N stacks last N ticks and the damage lands early.

How it works

Ticks every 0.5 seconds, twice a second.
Damage per tick equals the current Burn stacks, and Burn loses 1 stack per tick, so N stacks last exactly N ticks. That puts most of the damage up front.
Blocked by shield.
Sudden Death runs on the same 0.5s cadence.
The tick rate can be sped up without changing per tick damage. See the Staff of Zeus timing below.

Modifiers

Staff of ZeusBurn ticks faster by star: 25% / 50% / 75% / 150% higher tick frequency.

Staff of Zeus · burn tick rate

Bonus	Frequency	Interval	Interval (2× speed)
Default (0%)	2.0/s	0.5s	0.25s
0 star (25%)	2.5/s	0.4s	0.2s
1 star (50%)	3.0/s	0.333s	0.166s
2 star (75%)	3.5/s	0.285s	0.142s
3 star (150%)	5.0/s	0.2s	0.1s

"Burn ticks X% faster" raises the tick frequency and does not cut a flat amount of time. The new interval is 1 / (2 × (1 + modifier)). Per tick damage and the 1 stack decay are unchanged. Faster ticks just spend the stack pool sooner, loading the damage even further up front.

Items that apply Burn

neutral