Persistent flames, in fact, fire in general, is not worth using 90% of the time because of the recent nerfs.You don't have the mobility or armor to survive in fire and without Lesser Lava Font, when you go down you are totally ducked.I have really lost all interest in playing my Elementalist because it's just such a pain in the ass to keep him alive now knowing that if he dies I have to run back to where ever I am. The nerf to PF pretty much made the class not worth playing. It's just not worth the effort. Getting set back and having to travel over and over and over because you get gang banged by mobs is just lame.Even engineers are better than elementalists now, IMHO. It's a sad state.