Symbol of Blades

Symbol. Teleport to your target, and blind nearby foes. Create a symbol at your feet that damages nearby enemies and benefits allies. — In-game description

Symbol of Blades

10  

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Type

Symbol

Movement

Teleport

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Symbol. Teleport to your target, and blind nearby foes. Create a symbol at your feet that damages nearby enemies and benefits allies.

  Damage: 220 (0.6)^?

  Damage: 165 (0.45)^?

  Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

  Fury (10.5½s): 20% Critical Chance

  Number of Targets: 5

  Symbol Duration: 4 seconds

  Blind Radius: 120

  Symbol Radius: 180

  Combo Field: Light

  Range: 600

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Zeal

• Symbolic Exposure — Symbols inflict vulnerability on foes. Damage to vulnerable foes is increased.
• Furious Focus — While you have fury, your attacks inflict vulnerability.
• Symbolic Power — Symbols deal increased damage and charge your Virtue skill 1 passive effect twice as fast.
• Symbolic Avenger — Your damage is increased whenever your Symbols hit a foe.

Radiance

• Right-Hand Strength — Your precision is increased. Gain increased power while wielding a one-handed weapon. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.

Valor

• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Honor

• Writ of Persistence — Symbols are improved and heal allies.

Virtues

• Power of the Virtuous — Deal increased damage for each boon on you. Virtues gain reduced recharge.

Notes

• The total power coefficient of all five hits is 3.0.
• Can be used when out of range, it then acts as just a blink forward.
• Even if the target is out of range, Symbol of Blades deals damage and Blindness around the player after blinking forward.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.6 to 0.45.
October 01, 2019	Removed the double strike that occurs when the symbol is first created. Increased damage of each strike by 20% to compensate. Overall damage is unchanged.
July 26, 2016	This skill has been renamed Symbol of Blades and now drops a symbol at the guardian's feet, applying fury to nearby allies for 1.5 seconds. Initial impact damage has been increased to normal symbol values.
March 31, 2015	This ability is no longer able to be used in midair.
March 16, 2015	This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target cannot be found.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Flashing Blade has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This skill's functionality was changed with the July 26, 2016 game update. Prior to the update, this skill was called Flashing Blade.