Signet of Judgment

Signet Passive: Reduces all incoming damage. Signet Active: Grant resolution and protection to nearby allies while debilitating nearby enemies. — In-game description

Signet of Judgment

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

9150, 9242

Gallery
Overhead activation icon

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Signet of Judgment

Signet Passive: Reduces all incoming damage.
Signet Active: Grant resolution and protection to nearby allies while debilitating nearby enemies.

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Signet Passive: -10% Incoming Damage, -10% Incoming Condition Damage

 Resolution (3s): Incoming condition damage decreased by 33%.

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Weakness (4s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Blindness (4s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Related traits

Radiance

• Retribution — Strike damage dealt is increased while you have resolution.
• Perfect Inscriptions — Signets gain improved passive effects and continue to grant their passive bonuses while recharging.
• Righteous Instincts — Resolution increases your chances to critically strike and grants might each interval.

Valor

• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.
• Virtue of Resolution — Gain resolution when you activate a Virtue. Resolution you grant has increased duration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This skill no longer inflicts burning and now inflicts blind and weakness on nearby enemies.
October 08, 2024	This skill now applies protection in addition to its previous effects.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
October 26, 2021	Multiplicative damage reduction enhancements have been updated to display how much damage was reduced by rather than displaying how much the damage is multiplied by. For example, protection now displays "-33% Damage" instead of "67% damage." This is not a change to functionality; it is only a change to display the bonus in a more intuitively understandable way.
October 05, 2021	All effects that provide a percentage reduction to incoming damage have been standardized to stack multiplicatively.
May 11, 2021	The Retaliation boon has been renamed Resolution. Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
December 12, 2017	Burning has been adjusted from 2 stacks for 3 seconds to 1 stack for 6 seconds.
May 16, 2017	Passive now also reduces condition damage by 10%. Reduced radius from 600 to 300. Active no longer inflicts weakness and instead applies 2 stacks of burning for 3 seconds.
January 26, 2016	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
August 20, 2013	Added a passive skill fact that is also updated when traited with Perfect Inscriptions.
June 25, 2013	This ability now breaks stuns. Increased the cooldown to 30 seconds.
October 07, 2012	Updated Signet of Judgment to apply three seconds of retaliation upon activation with or without traits. Decreased the activation time of Signet of Judgment.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signet of Judgment has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.