Signet

A Signet is a type of a slot skill that grants a passive effect while equipped and additional benefits when activated. During recharge, the character loses the benefits of the passive effects.

All professions except the engineer have access to at least four signets.

List of signet skills

Skill	Description
Guardian
Bane Signet	Passive: Improved power.Active: Knock down and damage your foe.
Signet of Judgment	Passive: Reduces incoming damage.Active: Grant retaliation to nearby allies and weakness to nearby foes.
Signet of Mercy	Passive: Improves healing.Active: Revive a nearby ally.
Signet of Resolve	Passive: Cures a condition every ten seconds.Active: Heal yourself.
Signet of Wrath	Passive: Grants you increased condition damage.Active: Immobilize your target.
Warrior
Dolyak Signet	Passive: Reduces incoming damage.Active: Gain stability.
Healing Signet	Signet Passive: Grants regeneration.Signet Active: Heal yourself.
Signet of Fury	Passive: Improves precision.Active: Gain adrenaline.
Signet of Might	Passive: Improves power.Active: Your attacks are unblockable.
Signet of Stamina	Passive: Grants faster endurance regeneration.Active: Cure all conditions.
Signet of Rage	Passive: Grants adrenaline.Active: Gain fury, might, and swiftness.
Ranger
Signet of Renewal	Passive: Cures a condition every ten seconds.Active: Your pet pulls all conditions from nearby allies to itself.
Signet of Stone	Passive: Improves toughness for you and your pet. Active: Your pet takes no damage from attacks.
Signet of the Hunt	Passive: Grants 25% increased movement speed to you and your pet.Active: Your pet's next attack deals more damage.
Signet of the Wild	Passive: Grants health regeneration to you and your pet.Active: Your pet grows larger, dealing more damage and gaining stability.
Thief
Assassin's Signet	Passive: Grants increased power.Active: Deal 15% more damage on your next five attacks.
Infiltrator's Signet	Passive: Regenerates one extra initiative every ten seconds.Active: Shadowstep to your foe.
Signet of Agility	Passive: Grants increased precision.Active: Refill endurance and cure a condition for each nearby ally.
Signet of Malice	Passive: Heals when you attack.Active: Gain health.
Signet of Shadows	Passive: Grants a 25% increase in movement speed.Active: Blind foes near your target.
Elementalist
Signet of Air	Passive: Grants a 25% increase in movement speed.Active: Blind your target and nearby foes.
Signet of Earth	Passive: Improves toughness.Active: Immobilize your foe.
Signet of Fire	Passive: Improves critical chance.Active: Burn your foe.
Signet of Restoration	Passive: Grants health every time you cast a spell.Active: Heal yourself.
Signet of Water	Passive: Cures a condition every ten seconds.Active: Chill your foe.
Mesmer
Signet of Domination	Signet Passive: Improved condition damage.Signet Active: Stun your foe.
Signet of Illusions	Passive: Grants more health to your illusions.Active: Recharge your shatter skills.
Signet of Inspiration	Signet Passive: Grants a random boon every ten seconds.Signet Active: Copy all of your boons to nearby allies.
Signet of Midnight	Signet Passive: Improves boon duration.Signet Active: Blind nearby foes.
Necromancer
Plague Signet	Passive: Transfers conditions from nearby allies to yourself.Active: Send your conditions to a foe.
Signet of Spite	Passive: Improves power.Active: Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness on your foe.
Signet of the Locust	Passive: You run faster.Active: Steal health from nearby foes.
Signet of Undeath	Passive: Generates life force while in combat.Active: Revive up to three downed allies in a target area.

Related traits

Guardian

Radiance

• Inscribed Removal - Using a signet cures a condition on you.
• Perfect Inscriptions - Signet passive effects are improved.
• Signet Mastery - Signets recharge 20% faster.

Warrior

Arms

• Deep Strike - Gain +40 precision for each unused signet you have equipped.

Discipline

• Signet Mastery - Signets recharge 20% faster.

Ranger

Marksmanship

• Beastmaster's Might - Activating a signet grants might.
• Signet Mastery - Signets recharge 20% faster.
• Signet of the Beastmaster - Active effects of signets also affect you.

Thief

Critical Strikes

• Signet Use - Gain 2 initiative when activating a signet. Reduces signet recharge by 20%.
• Signets of Power - When activating a signet, gain 5 stacks of might that last 5 seconds.

Deadly Arts

• Improvisation - Stealing recharges all skills of one type (venoms, signets, traps, tricks, or deceptions). Deal 10% more damage while wielding a bundle.

Elementalist

Fire Magic

• Burning Fire - Cleansing Flame [sic], Signet of Fire, Conjure Flame [sic], and Conjure Fiery Greatsword inflict 3 seconds of burning.
• Fire's Embrace - When you activate a signet, you gain a fire shield for 3 seconds.

Earth Magic

• Signet Mastery - Signets recharge 20% faster.
• Written in Stone - Maintain the passive effects of signets when you activate them.

Water Magic

• Shard of Ice - Arcane and signet skills cause vulnerability when activated.
• Soothing Wave - Mist Form, Frost Bow, and Signet of Water grant 6 seconds of regeneration. Damage and inflict chill and vulnerability to nearby foes while in mist or vapor form.

Arcane Power

• Arcane Energy - Arcane and signet skills restore 25% endurance when used.

Mesmer

Domination

• Signet Mastery - Signets recharge 20% faster.

Dueling

• Blurred Inscriptions - Activating a signet grants you 1 second of distortion.

Chaos

• Cleansing Inscriptions - Activating a signet removes a condition.

Necromancer

Spite

• Signet Mastery - Signets recharge 20% faster.
• Signet Power - Activating a signet gives you three stacks of might for 10 seconds.

Trivia

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Signet.

• The engineer is the only profession that does not have any signets.

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Skill types