Glacial Heart (trait skill)

Unleash a blast of ice that chills foes. — In-game description

Glacial Heart

Profession

Guardian (trait skill list)

Trait

 Glacial Heart

Game link

API

21795

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Glacial Heart

Unleash a blast of ice that chills foes.

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

 Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Cannot Critical Hit

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Virtues

• Glacial Heart — Mighty Blow becomes Glacial Blow. Heal when you disable, immobilize, or chill a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Notes

• While the Glacial Heart effect cannot critically hit, skill that activated it can.
• This will activate even on downed targets regardless of the type of crowd-control.
• A blocked disable will not trigger Glacial Heart, but an unblockable disable will, because Glacial Heart is also unblockable.
  • Unblockable Guardian disables include:
    •   Line of Warding
    •   Pull (pull effect from   Binding Blade)
    •   Ring of Warding
    •   Sanctuary
    •   Hunter's Verdict (pull effect from   Spear of Justice)
    •   Deflecting Shot
    •   Hunter's Ward
    •   Dragon's Maw

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient of the skill that fires when controlling a foe from 0.5 to 0.1.
December 11, 2018	This trait has been reworked. (It now triggers when disabling another and it no longer has a recharge.)
July 26, 2016	The recharge of this trait has been reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds. The damage of this trait has been increased by 33%.
September 09, 2014	The cooldown of this trait has been reduced to 15 seconds. Chill duration has been reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
October 15, 2013	This trait now delivers an area strike on the target it activates on, damaging and chilling up to five enemies in a 180 radius.