Sanctuary

This article is about the skill. For the kodan city, see Sanctuary (city).

Sanctuary

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Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Consecration

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Form a protective healing shelter for allies. Foes and projectiles cannot enter.

  Healing: 522 (0.1375)^?

  Number of Impacts: 10

  Number of Targets: 5

  Pulses: 6

  Duration: 6s

  Radius: 180

  Combo Field: Light

  Range: 900

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Virtues

•  Master of Consecrations - Consecrations gain reduced recharge and increased duration.
•  Virtuous Solace — Drop a protective area at your location when you're struck while below the health threshold.

Notes

• This skill destroys projectiles which does not count as block or reflect.
• The skill does not block unblockable siege projectiles in WvW.
• Foes trying to enter or within the bubble will suffer a small knockback effect in the opposite direction of their movement (negated by stability or defiance).
• The healing is equal to (10 + Level^2 * 0.08 + Healing Power * 0.1375).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 26, 2016	Increased the radius of this skill from 120 to 180. Increased the base healing per pulse by 60%. Increased the healing attribute contribution by 275%. The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 90 seconds to 75 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused Sanctuary to last longer than intended when not affected by traits. The number of enemies that can be knocked back by this skill has been reduced to 10; Sanctuary will disappear after the tenth enemy is knocked back.
January 26, 2016	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 120 seconds to 90 seconds.
August 25, 2015	Updated the underwater version of this skill to be self-targeted instead of ground targeted.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Consecrated Ground is now baseline. Consecration skills use ground targeting.
January 13, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused the Master of Consecrations trait to create a duplicate skill fact.
July 29, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the Master of Consecrations trait to create a duplicate skill fact.
April 15, 2014	Updated the skill fact to display the correct healing amount.
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue where Consecrated Ground was also reducing the cast time of this skill.
April 30, 2013	No longer destroys unblockable missiles.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Sanctuary has been added to the game.