How do you increase your fire damage in Dragonfire?

Fire damage 🔥 is raised by the attacker's Intelligence and reduced by the defender's Initiative. Confirmed on every Order.

Two levers to burn hotter:

1. Raise your Intelligence (the Wisdom of Valyria research, the Hunter breed, auras that grant Intelligence).
2. Lower the enemy's Initiative — that lifts ALL the team's fire. The Initiative debuffers in game: Jagadrix and Crimson, which cut both Instinct and Initiative.

A typical fire army: Seasmoke or Syrax at the Center — Syrax grants First-Strike, and Caraxes hits ×1.5 when it has First-Strike — with Caraxes / Shadowsong / Tashix on the flanks and Jagadrix or Crimson cutting Initiative.

Bonus: the Burn effect adds +20% fire damage per round, and several fire dragons hit ×1.5 on a panicking target.