Symbol of Vengeance

Symbol. Cleave your axe into the ground, reducing enemy movement and carving a razor-sharp symbol of vengeance. — In-game description

Symbol of Vengeance

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Firebrand

Weapon

Main hand axe

Type

Symbol

Game link

API

40624

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Symbol of Vengeance

Symbol. Cleave your axe into the ground, reducing enemy movement and carving a razor-sharp symbol of vengeance.

 Damage (5x): 1,100 (3.0)^?

 Damage (5x): 825 (2.25)^?

 Fury (10.5½s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (10.5½s): +20% Critical Chance

 Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

₅ Bleeding (3s): 330 Damage

 Number of Targets: 3[sic]

 Symbol Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Combo Field: Light

— In-game description

Related traits

Inscription on the Symbol of Vengeance (translated).

Zeal

• Symbolic Exposure — Symbols inflict vulnerability on foes. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes.
• Furious Focus — While you have fury, your attacks inflict vulnerability.
• Symbolic Power — Symbols deal increased strike damage.
• Symbolic Avenger — Your strike damage is increased whenever your Symbols hit a foe.

Valor

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

Honor

• Writ of Persistence — Symbols are improved and heal allies.

Virtues

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

Firebrand

• Unrelenting Criticism — Axe skills gain a chance to inflict bleeding. Symbol of Vengeance now dazes on its initial strike.

Notes

Bug:

The damage and boons are applied to 5 targets rather than the 3 stated in the tooltip.

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Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 12 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP only.
May 02, 2023	Fixed an issue that prevented players from using skills after casting this skill and swapping weapons.
June 28, 2022	Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only.
July 07, 2020	Reduced the duration of cripple inflicted from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
March 04, 2020	Increased cooldown from 8 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.6 to 0.45.
March 05, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to function improperly with the Symbolic Avenger and Symbolic Power traits.
January 22, 2019	Fixed a bug that applied fury around the firebrand instead of at the symbol's location.
December 11, 2018	This symbol now applies fury for 1.5 seconds on each pulse in addition to its other effects. The number of targets (both enemies and allies) this skill can affect has been increased from 3 to 5.
December 12, 2017	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from displaying the increased damage dealt when equipped with Symbolic Power.
September 29, 2017	Fixed a bug in which this skill caused less damage than expected.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Symbol of Vengeance has been added to the game.