Zealot's Defense

Block ranged attacks while casting magical projectiles. — In-game description

Animation

Zealot's Defense

0.5½  15  

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Activ. type

Channeled

Game link

External links

API

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Block ranged attacks while casting magical projectiles.

  Damage (8x): 1,760 (4.8)^?

  Damage (8x): 648 (1.76)^?

  Blocks Missiles

  Block Duration: 3 seconds

  Range: 600

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Radiance

• Right-Hand Strength — Your precision is increased. Gain increased power while wielding a one-handed weapon. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.

Notes

• Movement interrupts channeling.
• The destroyed projectiles count as block.
• The projectile(s) from this skill keeps to the ground, meaning that it can be aimed only horizontally; its path vertically is always along the ground. It also means that targets cannot be hit if there is a gap or large elevation in the ground between the target and the caster (eg. the harpies in the Uncategorized Fractal).
• A Basilisk's gaze attack ignores this skill.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.33 to 0.22.
October 15, 2019	Increased PvE damage by 20%.
April 23, 2019	Damage has been increased by 50% in PvE only. Fixed a bug that caused some visual effects to display on the player when enemies were hit. Skills that destroy missiles will now block missiles instead.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to continue blocking even if the skill was canceled.
July 26, 2016	The missile velocity of this skill's projectiles has been increased by 33%. Reduced the variability of the angle that projectiles are launched at by 50%, which enhances their overall accuracy.
May 20, 2014	Updated the description of this skill to clarify that it doesn't block projectiles, but rather destroys them.
May 28, 2013	No longer destroys unblockable projectiles.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Zealot's Defense has been added to the game.