Piercing Light

Traps gain reduced recharge and slow enemies. — In-game description

Piercing Light

Specialization

Dragonhunter (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

“

Traps gain reduced recharge and slow enemies.

  Slow (10.5½s): Skills and actions are slower.

  Number of Targets: 5

  Recharge Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

Notes

	Skill	Traited recharge
Healing	Purification	30	→	24
Utility	Fragments of Faith	45	→	36
	Light's Judgment	20	→	16
	Procession of Blades (PvE, PvP)	20	→	16
	Procession of Blades (WvW)	25	→	20
	Test of Faith	30	→	24
Elite	Dragon's Maw	50	→	40

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 13, 2016	This trait no longer causes traps to daze enemies and will instead inflict slow on enemies for 1.5 seconds on the initial trigger of a trap.
October 18, 2016	Daze duration from this trait has been reduced from 0.5 seconds to 0.25 seconds.
January 26, 2016	The daze duration of this trait has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds. The daze from this trait is no longer unblockable when used with Test of Faith.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Piercing Light has been added to the game.