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Purification

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Purification.png

Purification

Not available underwater  
Profession
Guardian icon small.png Guardian (skill list)
Specialization
Dragonhunter icon small.png Dragonhunter
Slot
Healing
Type
Trap
Training cost
15 Hero points
Game link
API
30025
Gallery
Purification render.png

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0.75¾ Activation time  24 Recharge time  
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.png Damage: 50 (0.1875)?
Healing.png Initial Heal: 1,608 (0.333)?
Healing.png Trap Heal: 6,480 (1.0)?
Healing.png Trap Heal: 4,380 (0.667)?
Regeneration.png Boon on Trap Trigger (10s): 1,300 Heal
Blinded.png Blindness (6s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Radius.png Trigger Radius: 180
Radius.png Attack Radius: 240

— In-game description

Mechanics[edit]

  • The initial healing amount is equal to (40 + Level^2 * 0.245 + Healing Power * 0.333).
  • The triggered trap's healing amount is equal to (80 + Level^2 * 1.0 + Healing Power * 1.0).

Related traits[edit]

Radiance Radiance

Valor Valor

Honor Honor

Virtues Virtues

Dragonhunter Dragonhunter

Version history[edit]

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.