"Receive the Light!"

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Shout. Heal yourself and allies in a cone in front of you. — In-game description

"Receive the Light!"

 20.25¼  30  2   

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Shout

Activ. type

Channeled

Game link

External links

API

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Shout. Heal yourself and allies in a cone in front of you.

  Initial Self Heal: 2,600 (0.8)^?

  Initial Self Heal: 2,600 (0.4)^?

  Self Heal per Pulse: 650 (0.16)^?

  Allied Heal per Pulse: 1,044 (0.6)^?

  Allied Heal per Pulse: 1,044 (0.2)^?

  Number of Allied Targets: 4

  Pulses: 5

  Range: 600

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Radiance

•  Healer's Retribution - Gain retaliation when using a heal skill.

Valor

•  Smiter's Boon - Cast Lesser Smite Condition when you use a healing skill.

Honor

•  Force of Will - You have increased vitality. Healing effectiveness to other allies is increased based on a percentage of your vitality.
•  Invigorated Bulwark - Increase your outgoing healing each time you block an attack. Mace skills gain reduced recharge and their boons gain increased duration.
•  Pure of Voice - Shout skills gain reduced recharge and convert conditions to boons on allies.

Notes

• The initial is equal to (50 + Level^2 * 0.4 + Healing Power * 0.8).
• The self heal per pulse is equal to (10 + Level^2 * 0.08 + Healing Power * 0.16).
• The ally heal per pulse is equal to (25 + Level^2 * 0.16 + Healing Power * 0.6).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced initial self-heal coefficient from 0.8 to 0.4. Reduced allied pulse heal coefficient from 0.6 to 0.2.
May 08, 2018	Fixed a bug in which the tooltip numbers for the self-healing pulse did not display properly, and fixed a bug that prevented this skill from healing more than 4 allies. Reduced the base heal by 20% and increased the healing-power contribution by 300%; reduced the base heal value to allies by 20% and increased the healing-power contribution by 200%.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This ability is now a shout and has been renamed "Receive the Light!" It maintains the same cast time and radial effects, but it will now be affected by shout-modifying traits and items.
May 20, 2014	Added a skill fact to display the amount that it heals per pulse to allies.
April 15, 2014	This skill has been rescaled so that the guardian receives 50% of the heal up front, and the remaining healing is distributed over 5 ticks to the caster and up to 5 allies in the cone's radius.
October 15, 2013	Doubled the base heal when healing allies. Scaling from healing power has been increased from 20% to 40% when healing allies.
February 26, 2013	Angle of this ability has been increased so that allies are easier to hit.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Healing Breeze has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This skill was previously named Healing Breeze, but was changed to a shout with the June 23, 2015 game update.