# \[investigating\] Astral Spire - Volcano (Gold) applies Burn to hero team **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [September 30, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233 "2026-09-30T05:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Namour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/namour/32/2957_2.png) [@Namour](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Namour)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/1 "2026-09-30T05:03:25Z")
I can confirm that the new Volcano Astral Aspire node applies the 5 burn damage effect to your own troops. Easier to program of course, but just lazy when these nodes are supposed to give the player an advantage. ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 5:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/3 "2026-09-30T05:11:27Z")
Do you happen to have a video? As I just tested with my live account and didn’t have anyone on my team get the Burn condition ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/0/8/08db0eef61f714422ebc9b6cf4ca15e5fe636e9e.jpeg) (this was posted before you specified the Wildfire node) I also tried after unlocking both of the Gold nodes, which are related to burn. The capstone is not related to burn. ---
**Author:** ![Namour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/namour/32/2957_2.png) [@Namour](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Namour)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/4 "2026-09-30T05:20:35Z")
**Platform:** IOS **What you were expecting to happen** I was expecting the opponent to be set alight at the start of the battle on 15% of occasions. I just did more than 50 explore battles, and it didn’t occur. Not once. **Steps to make it happen again** Unlock the node, hope that it works, and notice that it never does. **How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?** Always. Since the spire board was released earlier today. ---
**Author:** ![Namour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/namour/32/2957_2.png) [@Namour](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Namour)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 5:26am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/5 "2026-09-30T05:26:01Z")
Since posting this, I’ve noticed it happen (but not sure if I exploded a burning gem). Will keep a closer eye out. ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 5:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/6 "2026-09-30T05:35:03Z")
Moved you back into here, as I mentioned, I haven’t been able to repro this on my live account so far - Just had a battle as well where the Wildfire node triggered and none of my troops were affected ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/d/d/dd4050774cc3b7351917b91b6306cb7373051feb.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Namour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/namour/32/2957_2.png) [@Namour](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Namour)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 5:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/7 "2026-09-30T05:48:38Z")
I just did another 50 explore battles and I had the burn effect 3 times. What I did notice was that curse (from the Bat spire) applied much more regularly. I also noticed that never did curse and burn both apply at the same time. So a hypothesis could be that these nodes have NOT been programmed as independent stacking events, and if curse applies, then burn cannot be also applied. This could explain why I’m not seeing burn apply (on average) every seventh battle. ---
**Author:** ![Namour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/namour/32/2957_2.png) [@Namour](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Namour)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 6:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/8 "2026-09-30T06:02:47Z")
No video, but here are two screen shots, 1 move apart, where you can see all 3 of my burning troops lose 5 armour points. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/a/d/ad7c610e3cee0003c653e95751d09cacf5279707.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/5/4/54f734222cfc765ef99e63d7e9c04e4be2573fc9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 6:39am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/investigating-astral-spire-volcano-gold-applies-burn-to-hero-team/90233/9 "2026-09-30T06:39:39Z")
can definitely confirm the extra burn damage (intense heat) is also applying to players. kinda lame honestly. Not much of a bonus if its harming players and we can’t get our star stones back/turn the node off either.