Eternal Armory

Spirit Weapons gain additional casts, improved count recharge, and burn foes with their first strike. — In-game description

Eternal Armory

Specialization

Zeal (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Spirit Weapons gain additional casts, improved count recharge, and burn foes with their first strike.

  Burning (8s): 1,048 Damage

  Burning (5s): 655 Damage

  Burning (4s): 524 Damage

  Recharge Reduced: 20%

  Additional Casts: 1

— In-game description

Related skills

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Bow of Truth — Spirit Weapon
•   Hammer of Wisdom — Spirit Weapon
•   Shield of the Avenger — Spirit Weapon
•   Sword of Justice — Spirit Weapon

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Zeal

• Fiery Wrath — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.

Radiance

• Inner Fire — Gain fury when you strike a foe that has burning stacks over the threshold.
• Radiant Fire — Gain Zealot's Flame when you critically hit an enemy. Burning you inflict has increased duration, and your torch skills gain reduced recharge.
• Amplified Wrath — Burning you inflict deals increased damage. Burning duration applied by the passive effect of Virtue skill 1 is increased.

Notes

Bug:

When traited, Sword of Justice's tooltip does not indicate its range.

• Since it does not attack foes, Bow of Truth does not benefit from the burning provided from this trait.
• The cooldown after casting a skill is not altered.

Traited count recharge

	Skill	Traited recharge
Utility	Bow of Truth	25	→	20
	Hammer of Wisdom (PvE)	25	→	20
	Hammer of Wisdom (WvW, PvP)	30	→	24
	Shield of the Avenger	25	→	20
	Sword of Justice (PvE)	15	→	12
	Sword of Justice (WvW, PvP)	20	→	16

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 11, 2021	Spirit weapons now only apply burning on their first strike per cast. Increased burn duration from 4 seconds to 8 seconds in PvE, from 2.5 seconds to 5 seconds in WvW, and from 2 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP. This is a reduction to total burning from Sword of Justice and an increase in total burning to Hammer of Wisdom and Shield of the Avenger when used with this trait.
March 23, 2021	Reduced burning duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
July 07, 2020	Reduced the burning duration from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds in WvW only.
October 01, 2019	Changed burning from 2 stacks for 2 seconds to 1 stack for 4 seconds.
July 16, 2019	Increased burning stacks from 1 to 2.
August 09, 2017	Fixed an issue with this trait that was preventing it from applying burning to enemies.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait has been reworked and renamed Eternal Armory. Eternal Armory increases the maximum ammo count of Spirit Weapon skills while reducing their recharge and causes strikes from Spirit Weapons to inflict burning.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier. Added: Spirit weapons burn foes for 3 seconds when they strike. Added: Spirit weapon summon skills have a 20% reduced recharge.
September 09, 2014	This trait has been renamed to Expeditious Spirit and now reduces recharge of spirit command skills.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Eternal Spirit has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This trait replaced Expeditious Spirit in August 2017 Path of Fire pre-patch.