Tome
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Tome is a profession mechanic of guardians specialized as the Firebrand. Their passive effects are identical to virtues, but using a tome replaces your weapon skills with tome skills. Each tome skill costs a certain amount of pages to cast, and the available page count is shared by all tomes. By default, firebrands have a maximum of 5 tome pages and it takes 8 seconds to generate a tome page.
List of tome skills[edit]
| # | Skill | 
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Description |
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| F1 | Tome of Justice | Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks. Activate: Pull forth a magical tome on the dangers of the blazing heat in Kourna. | ||
| F2 | Tome of Resolve | Virtue: Regenerate health. Activate: Draw forth an enchanted tome that recounts the trials undergone by the people of Vabbi. | ||
| F3 | Tome of Courage | Virtue: Gain aegis periodically. Activate: Conjure a mystic tome containing stories about the heroes of Istan. |
Tome of Justice[edit]
| # | Skill |
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| 1 | Chapter 1: Searing Spell | ½ | 1 | Tome. Fueled by tales of the desolation in Istan, incite a great swelling of heat before you. | |
| 2 | Chapter 2: Igniting Burst | ½ | 1 | 8 | Tome. Ignite the air around you in an expanding burst. |
| 3 | Chapter 3: Heated Rebuke | ¾ | 1 | 10 | Tome. Call forth a heated vortex to collapse your enemies together. |
| 4 | Chapter 4: Scorched Aftermath | ½ | 1 | 15 | Tome. Detail the suffering in fire and blood inflicted during Vabbi's occupation. |
| 5 | Epilogue: Ashes of the Just | ¾ | 1 | 20 | Tome. Recall the memory of fallen heroes, granting allies the searing blades of justice. |
Tome of Resolve[edit]
| # | Skill |
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Description |
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| 1 | Chapter 1: Desert Bloom | ½ | 1 | Tome. Tales of desert blooms create a wave of healing for your allies. | |
| 2 | Chapter 2: Radiant Recovery | ¾ | 1 | 4 | Tome. Release magic from pages detailing the rebuilding of Vabbi, cleansing conditions on nearby allies. Allies are healed for each condition removed. |
| 3 | Chapter 3: Azure Sun | ¾ | 1 | 8 | Tome. Inspired by countless poems describing the comforting powers of the water-reflected sun, grant boons to allies. |
| 4 | Chapter 4: Shining River | ½ | 1 | 10 | Tome. Release a torrent of pages describing the water cycle of the Elon River. Heal allies and grant them swiftness. |
| 5 | Epilogue: Eternal Oasis | ¾ | 2 | 20 | Tome. Purify your allies with the waters of Amnoon and increase the healing they receive. |
Tome of Courage[edit]
| # | Skill |
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Description |
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| 1 | Chapter 1: Unflinching Charge | ½ | 1 | Tome. Roused by tales of mythical Sunspear charges, ground and motivate allies before you. | |
| 2 | Chapter 2: Daring Challenge | ¼ | 1 | 4 | Tome. As the tales recount of Turai, taunt your enemies by issuing an insightfully inciting challenge. |
| 3 | Chapter 3: Valiant Bulwark | ¾ | 1 | 15 | Tome. Manifest the shimmering purity of the desert sun, reflecting enemy missiles. |
| 4 | Chapter 4: Stalwart Stand | ¼ | 2 | 20 | Tome. Recount the stand of Elonian loyalists against Palawa Joko, granting resistance to your allies. |
| 5 | Epilogue: Unbroken Lines | ¾ | 2 | 25 | Tome. Recalling the memory of heroes past, enchant nearby allies with formidable defenses. |
Related traits[edit]
- See also: Virtue#Related traits
Purity of Word — Gain knowledge of Elonian lore, igniting a fierce drive to purge corruption and manifesting your Virtues as mystic tomes. Gain access to Mantras. Using Tome skills consumes pages. You regenerate pages every interval.
Archivist of Whispers — Your Virtues gain additional pages.
Swift Scholar — Equipping a Virtue grants you quickness. Every third Tome skill grants you pages. Stacks reset when exiting a tome. Quickness can only be gained once per interval
Weighty Terms — The final charge of your Mantra skills will slow nearby foes and grant you pages.
Legendary Lore — Tome skills gain bonuses from scribbling in the margins by ancient bards.
Loremaster — Retain Resolve passive while it is on cooldown. You generate pages more quickly.
Notes[edit]
- Swapping in and out of tomes triggers weapon swap effects.
- Equipping a tome will cause its respective passive virtue effect to go into a dormant state (on cooldown).
- The cooldowns are different for each tome, and are shown on each tome's respective wiki page.
- Stowing and re-equipping the same tome while its virtue is dormant will not cause the cooldown to restart; it will only go on full cooldown again when you equip the tome while the virtue passive effect is not dormant (not on cooldown).
- Active effects from traits like Inspired Virtue will only apply when the respective Tome's passive is not dormant.
- Tomes can be stowed while you are casting one of their skills, and the skill will still finish casting.
- You can swap from tome to tome; you don't have to un-equip a tome or re-equip a weapon before equipping a new tome.
- When drawing a tome, the firebrand will occasionally shout one the following lines:
- History is mine!
- Knowledge is power!
- I wield great wisdom!
Trivia[edit]
- Prior to the November 29, 2022 game update, each tome had a cooldown and its own page counter which refilled upon tome usage. Furthermore, each tome skill cost exactly one page.
- Tomes used to be available as elite skills to guardians before the June 23, 2015 game update. These tomes removed access to slot skills while active and had a set duration of 20 seconds. There were two tomes available: Tome of Courage and Tome of Wrath.
