Judge's Intervention

Meditation. Teleport to your target and burn nearby foes. — In-game description

Judge's Intervention

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Meditation

Movement

Shadowstep

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

9247

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Judge's Intervention

Meditation. Teleport to your target and burn nearby foes.

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

 Burning (8s): 1,048 Damage

 Burning (3s): 393 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Breaks Stun

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill can only target and teleport to hostile or neutral NPCs.
• Can be used to traverse vertically. In some situations, it can teleport through walls and floors.
• Using this skill while channeling another does not interrupt channeling, making it useful in combination with a variety of skills.

Related traits

Zeal

• Fiery Wrath — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.

Radiance

• Inner Fire — Gain fury when you strike a foe that has burning stacks over the threshold.
• Radiant Fire — Zealot's Flame is improved. Burning you inflict has increased duration, and your torch skills gain reduced recharge.
• Amplified Wrath — Burning you inflict deals increased damage. Burning duration applied by the passive effect of Virtue skill 1 is increased.

Valor

• Monk's Focus — Meditation skills heal you and grant fury to nearby allies.

Willbender

• Vanguard Tactics — Activating Courage grants resistance. Shadowstepping grants resolution and protection.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 32 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 40 seconds to 32 seconds.
July 07, 2020	Reduced cooldown from 45 seconds to 40 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.1. Reduced burning duration from 8 seconds to 3 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Burning stacks inflicted have been adjusted from 3 stacks for 3 seconds to 1 stack for 8 seconds.
September 29, 2015	Updated this skill to prevent it from being used in midair.
July 28, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused this skill's recharge to be reduced by Smiter's Boon.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 3 stacks of burning for 3 seconds.
March 16, 2015	This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target cannot be found, except when acting as a stun break.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Judge's Intervention has been added to the game.

Trivia

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