Holy Strike

Mark an area for judgment, rapidly healing allies and then blasting foes in the area. — In-game description

Holy Strike

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Game link

API

9140

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0.5½  8  

Holy Strike

Mark an area for judgment, rapidly healing allies and then blasting foes in the area.

 Damage: 726 (1.8)^?

 Damage: 504 (1.25)^?

 Damage: 295 (0.73)^?

 Healing: 221 (0.25)^?

 Healing: 177 (0.1)^?

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 4

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Radius: 240

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Honor

• Honorable Staff — Gain concentration. Empower now grants endurance to allies in addition to its effects. Staff skills recharge time is reduced.
• Force of Will — Gain increased vitality. Healing others is improved based on a percentage of your vitality.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 1.25 to 1.8.
March 29, 2022	Reduced power coefficient from 0.91 to 0.73 in WvW only.
December 01, 2020	Reduced power coefficient from 1.25 to 0.91 in WvW only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced pulse base heal from 221 to 177. Reduced pulse heal coefficient from 0.25 to 0.1.
August 29, 2018	Fixed a bug in which the tooltip was missing the blast finisher skill fact.
August 28, 2018	This skill has been reworked into a ground-targeted ranged attack and has been renamed Holy Strike. Holy Strike marks an area for judgment, rapidly healing allies and then blasting foes in the area. This skill has a radius of 240 and an 8-second cooldown.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Orb of Light: Reduced the extended recharge time of this skill when detonating the orb of light from 400% to 300%. Detonating the orb of light now grants light aura to allies, in addition to its previous effects. This skill has been unsplit from PvP and will use the 20% higher heal scaling in all game types.
February 26, 2013	This ability now heals allies it passes through.
November 15, 2012	This skill's velocity has been increased by 50%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Orb of Light has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.