Glacial Heart

Mighty Blow becomes Glacial Blow. Heal when you disable, immobilize, or chill a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. — In-game description

Glacial Heart

Specialization

Virtues (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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0.5½

Glacial Heart

Mighty Blow becomes Glacial Blow. Heal when you disable, immobilize, or chill a foe.
Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

 Healing: 647 (0.2)^?

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Jurisdiction — Pistol
•   Chains of Light — Scepter
•   Shield of Absorption — Shield
•   Pull — Greatsword
•   Glacial Blow — Hammer
•   Mighty Blow — Hammer
•   Zealot's Embrace — Hammer
•   Banish — Hammer
•   Ring of Warding — Hammer
•   Line of Warding — Staff
•   Wrathful Grasp — Spear
•   Symbol of Luminance — Spear
•   Weight of Justice — Trident
•   Deflecting Shot — Longbow
•   Blazing Edge — Axe
•   Advancing Strike — Sword

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Chapter 3: Heated Rebuke — Tome of Justice
•   Chapter 2: Daring Challenge — Tome of Courage

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sanctuary — Consecration
•   Bane Signet — Signet
•   Signet of Wrath — Signet
•   Hammer of Wisdom — Spirit Weapon
•   Light's Judgment — Trap
•   Voice of Truth — Final Charge
•   Heel Crack — Physical
•   Quick Retribution — Physical

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dragon's Maw — Trap
•   Heaven's Palm — Physical

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Hunter's Verdict

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Wave of Light

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Shield of Absorption — Protective Reviver
•   Lesser Signet of Wrath — Wrath of Justice

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Glacial Heart (PvE)			Unleash a blast of ice that chills foes.
Glacial Heart (WvW, PvP)			Unleash a blast of ice that chills foes.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	This trait no longer chills and damages enemies that you disable and instead heals the user when disabling, immobilizing, or chilling an enemy.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient of the skill that fires when controlling a foe from 0.5 to 0.1.
December 11, 2018	This trait has been reworked and no longer reduces the hammer recharge times. It now deals single hits upon disabling enemies. This trait now changes the skill Mighty Blow to Glacial Blow.
July 26, 2016	The recharge of this trait has been reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds. The damage of this trait has been increased by 33%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Virtues Master tier. Added: Hammer abilities have 20% reduced recharge. Added a skill fact for reduced recharge. Fixed a bug so that this will correctly apply the reduced recharge to hammer skills.
September 09, 2014	The cooldown of this trait has been reduced to 15 seconds. Chill duration has been reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
October 15, 2013	This trait now delivers an area strike on the target it activates on, damaging and chilling up to five enemies in a 180 radius.
June 25, 2013	This trait now applies 5 seconds of chill on a critical hit with a 100% activation rate (up from 4 seconds on a 50% rate). This effect's recharge has been reduced from 45 seconds to 30 seconds.
September 14, 2012	Glacial Heart has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Upon introduction, this trait replaced Defender's Shield which was merged into Honorable Shield.