Sanctuary

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

Consecration. Form a protective healing shelter for allies. Block foes and their missiles from entering. — In-game description

Sanctuary

 

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Consecration

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

9128

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Sanctuary

Consecration. Form a protective healing shelter for allies. Block foes and their missiles from entering.

 Healing: 522 (0.1375)^?

 Number of Impacts: 10

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blocks Missiles

 Pulses: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Combo Field: Light

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Foes trying to enter or within the bubble will suffer a small knockback effect (negated by stability or defiance). The bubble will pulse knockback to enemies inside.
• The knockback effect causes 150 defiance bar damage per pulse, totaling up to 750 defiance bar damage with 5 pulses, or 1050 defiance bar damage with 7 pulses when traited with Master of Consecrations.
• The skill does not block unblockable siege projectiles in the WvW game mode.
• The healing amount is equal to (10 + Level^2 * 0.08 + Healing Power * 0.1375).

Related traits

Honor

• Force of Will — Gain increased vitality. Healing others is improved based on a percentage of your vitality.

Virtues

• Master of Consecrations — Consecrations gain increased duration.
• Glacial Heart — Mighty Blow becomes Glacial Blow. Heal when you disable, immobilize, or chill a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Dragonhunter

• Dulled Senses — Cripple enemies that you disable. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Heavy Light — Gain stability when disabling an enemy. Deal increased strike damage to disabled or defiant foes. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Firebrand

• Stoic Demeanor — Retain Courage passive while it is on cooldown. Grant boons to nearby allies when you disable, immobilize, or slow an enemy. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 19, 2024	Increased the cooldown from 40 seconds to 50 seconds in PvP only.
June 27, 2023	Master of Consecrations trait no longer reduces the cooldown of consecration skills. Reduced cooldown from 50 seconds to 40 seconds. Reduced the number of impacts from 20 to 10.
May 11, 2021	Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 50 seconds.
October 01, 2019	Increased number of enemies that can be knocked back by this skill before it expires from 10 to 20. Decreased duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds. Decreased recharge from 75 seconds to 60 seconds.
April 23, 2019	Skills that destroy missiles will now block missiles instead.
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.