Symbol of Blades

Symbol of Blades

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Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

 

Type

Symbol

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

  Damage: 220 (0.6)^?

  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.
•  Binding Jeopardy — Immobilizing or blinding a foe also applies vulnerability to them.
•  Symbolic Power — Symbols deal increased damage and charge your Justice 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 gain increased duration and radius, and heal allies.

Notes

• The initial hit of this skill does one symbol pulse, followed by an additional 4 at a rate of one per second. The total power coefficient of all six 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
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.