Arcane Shield/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 skill that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this skill, see Arcane Shield. |
June 25, 2024
- Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only.
Arcane Shield
- Profession
Elementalist (skill list)- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Arcane
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“2535Arcane ShieldArcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes for critical damage.
Damage: 399 (1.5)?
3 Arcane Shield (5s): Blocks attacks. Explodes after blocking three attacks.
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 360
Breaks Stun
— In-game description
November 28, 2023
- Arcane Shield: Reduced the cooldown to 35 seconds in all game modes.
Arcane Shield
- Profession
- Elementalist (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Arcane
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“35
Arcane ShieldArcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes for critical damage.
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Arcane Shield: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 40 seconds to 45 seconds.
Arcane Shield
- Profession
- Elementalist (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Arcane
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“4045Arcane ShieldArcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes for critical damage.
— In-game description
February 22, 2017
- Arcane Shield: This skill has been unsplit from PvP and will now use the lower recharge (40 seconds) in all areas of the game.
Arcane Shield
- Profession
- Elementalist (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Arcane
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“40Arcane ShieldArcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes for critical damage.
— In-game description
December 13, 2016
- Arcane Shield: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 60 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
Arcane Shield
- Profession
- Elementalist (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Arcane
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“6040Arcane ShieldArcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes for critical damage.
— In-game description
July 26, 2016
- Arcane Shield: The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 75 seconds to 60 seconds. This change is not carried through to Final Shielding.
Arcane Shield
- Profession
- Elementalist (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Arcane
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“60Arcane ShieldArcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes for critical damage.
— In-game description
June 03, 2014
- Arcane Shield: Updated the skill description to indicate that this skill always critically hits.
May 20, 2014
- Arcane Shield Added a skill fact for number of targets: 5.
- Changed the radius skill fact to an explosion radius skill fact.
- The explosion portion of this skill is now referred to as Arcane Shield, rather than Arcane Wave.
April 15, 2014
- Arcane Shield: Reduced the maximum number of targets on the blast to 5. Fixed a bug that caused the skill to not deal damage when underwater.
Arcane Shield
- Profession
- Elementalist (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Arcane
- Training cost
- 1 Hero points
- Game link
“75Arcane ShieldArcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes.
— In-game description
August 06, 2013
- Arcane Shield: Added the buff to the skill fact. The buff provided when this skill is activated will now properly display the remaining number of charges.
January 28, 2013
- Fixed a bug that caused several spells, including Tornado, Arcane Shield, and most frequently Whirlpool, to sometimes fail to display any graphics.
