Inflammable Oil

Inflammable oil is a throwable alchemy potion. Instead of exploding on impact, the bottle shatters and spreads puddles of oil across the ground. The oil itself is harmless — until something sets it on fire. Then the whole spill goes up in a chain of flames that burn anything standing in them. A favorite tool for controlling monster packs in PvM.

The two versions

	Potion	Alchemy skill	Materials	Recipe needed	Flame damage
	Inflammable Oil	45–95	5 sulfurous ash, 5 spiders' silk, 1 bottle	no	3 per second
	Greater Inflammable Oil	75–120	8 sulfurous ash, 8 spiders' silk, 1 bottle	yes	6 per second

Both are crafted with Alchemy. They are not sold by NPC vendors.

How to use it

1. Double-click the bottle and target a spot up to 10 tiles away (you need line of sight).
2. The bottle shatters and creates a puddle at the impact point plus up to 6 more puddles in a 2-tile radius.
3. Puddles last 45 seconds, then dry up.
4. Ignite the oil: throw an explosion potion into the spill, or let it touch an existing flame. Once one puddle catches fire, the flames spread to every adjacent puddle in a chain reaction.
5. Anything standing in a burning puddle takes the flame damage every second, and again each time it steps into one.

There is a 5 second cooldown between throws.

Good to know

• Each flame burns out after dealing a limited total amount of damage (15 ticks' worth), or when the puddle's 45 seconds are up.
• Fire creatures (fire elementals and their kin) are immune to the flames.
• The thrower is not immune — don't stand in your own fire.
• With the Alchemy skill mastery, the Fire Starter perk increases the flame damage against monsters.
• Throwing oil is an aggressive act and will reveal you if you are hidden.