Purification

Trap. Heal yourself and imbue your light into a trap. Enemies that trigger this trap are damaged and blinded as the light returns to you for a second heal. — In-game description

Purification

 

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Dragonhunter

Slot

Healing

Type

Trap

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

30025

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Purification

Trap. Heal yourself and imbue your light into a trap. Enemies that trigger this trap are damaged and blinded as the light returns to you for a second heal.

 Damage: 50 (0.1875)^?

 Initial Heal: 1,608 (0.333)^?

 Trap Heal: 6,480 (1.0)^?

 Trap Heal: 4,380 (0.667)^?

 Boon on Trap Trigger (10s): 1,300 Heal

 Blindness (6s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Trigger Radius: 180

 Attack Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Radiance

• Healer's Resolution — Gain resolution when using a heal skill.

Valor

• Smiter's Boon — Cast Lesser Smite Condition when you use a healing skill.
• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Honor

• Protector's Restoration — Cast Lesser Symbol of Protection when you use a healing skill.
• Force of Will — Gain increased vitality. Healing others is improved based on a percentage of your vitality.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Dragonhunter

• Hunter's Premonition — Traps skills grant aegis when used.

Notes

• The initial heal is equal to (40 + Level^2 * 0.245 + Healing Power * 0.333).
• The trap heal is equal to (80 + Level^2 * 1.0 + Healing Power * 1.0).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced trap heal coefficient from 1.0 to 0.667. Reduced trap base heal from 5,475 to 4,380.
January 14, 2020	Traps now disappear without activating if their skill is unequipped.
February 22, 2017	The trap heal on this skill has been reduced by approximately 16% in PvP only.
October 18, 2016	The cast time of this ability has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds. The initial heal's base healing value has been reduced from 80 to 40, with level scaling also reduced by 6%. The initial heal has had its healing-power contribution increased by about 33%.
November 17, 2015	Reduced the visual noise on the effects associated with this skill.
October 29, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused this trap to last for 60 seconds instead of the full 5 minutes.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Purification has been added to the game.